It's been a while

[trinityvixen]

I go through cycles of playing no video games to doing very little else. I had a lazy weekend, and I finally let myself play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. I love it, of course. The story remains engaging, though I do wish we could move on from the character that the games have become about. I like the character, but he'll cease to be interesting if we stay exclusively with him. It's time to move on to someone else, another time period, maybe even deal with the present where our hero is. It's completely addictive, though. It is, in game form, what the XBOX is with its achievements: you just feel like, as you're playing, that, hey, what's one more item/quest/viewpoint? I can play another half hour. Maybe just one more...

Friends, I was up until 5 this morning. I'd been playing, almost without stopping, since 5 pm the day before. I'm actually not tired yet (that will probably come later), but my wrist is killing me. Part of the problem is that you have to hold one of the trigger buttons pretty much always. I think I have carpal tunnel. I didn't even do very much to advance the story. I just gleefully went around pointing at people I wanted to have die and having my baby assassins kill the shit out of those people. (My babies! I'm so proud!) I will get achievements or something for that, but it's really just fun to point and have death rain down from above.

Despite my twelve hours of gaming, I did manage to read, like, four hundred pages of A Game of Thrones so that I can eventually watch the TV show. It's very good--obviously I think so, seeing as I covered half of it's not inconsiderable length in a day (you know, the one I didn't spend gaming) and that I was able to keep reading even while being in the same room as moonlightalice  while she was playing Assassin's Creed. I don't know if I can sustain that pace, though. It's all very exciting to get into a book that much again, but it's exhausting to realize you can read THAT MUCH and still only be halfway through a book. I think I have worked something out about the structure, though, that gives away some of the game (no pun intended). I won't say what because a) it might spoil some of you and b) if I do say, some of you might spoil me by telling me whether it's true or not. Since I couldn't help but be spoiled for a major plot development as a result of its happening on the show and driving everyone watching that bonkers, I'm trying to avoid spoilers where I can.

Also, I can has a museum for this? Look at that catalogue, people. It is TO DIE FOR. I'm so sorry for Debbie Reynolds that she never got a museum for these pieces together. The thought of some of these festering in private collections away from the public is a goddamned shame. I love seeing movie costumes in person. I nearly died that time I went to the "Superhero Fashion" exhibit at the Met.

Comments

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think just the next book should be sufficient. I don't even know that I'll be done with the first one by the time I see you anyway. It's really long. I had a great time reading it, and it's been simply ages that I took a book out for such a spin. I think it helped that I was dependent on a book for entertainment for so much of the weekend, but, clearly, the book is engaging. It's only after the fact that I'm feeling so exhausted about it. Because...four hundred pages...still four hundred to go...

Yes, the Big Spoiler. It does change the way I read the book, as the chapters involving stuff related to that make me incredibly sad. Not because I was spoiled but because of [SPOILER], you know? On the other hand, I should have guessed based on the show's cast that that would happen. I cannot believe they got [SPOILER] for the role of [SPOILER] much less that they should keep [him/her].

[fairest.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've ever seen you do this 400-pages-at-a-go thing with a book before. I am so tickled. :D

I got myself into trouble when I started re-reading the series midway through neuro. I kept trying to read "just until SPOILER" because it was a natural stopping point, and as a result I ended up studying around reading time instead of reading around study time because I forgot how much happened between my page and SPOLIER. :P

Your timing is good for getting into the series, too -- the next book has an actual publication date. Who are your favorite characters?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I have devoured books whole in weekends. I got through almost all of The Hunger Games series in about a week. I finished Matt Taibbi's book about the financial crisis in twelve hours. I just don't do it often because I usually have other things distracting me, or too much to do to devote that much time to reading.

My favorite character is probably the person at the center of the SPOILER, which may be in part due to the spoiler, in part due to the casting for that character in the TV series, and in part because he reminds me of my Dad. Otherwise, I can't say as I particularly like, well, anybody. They're all incredibly venal and stupid a lot of the time.

As for publication stuff, I'm going to have to read this book and the next one before the end of the year because the next season starts shooting next month already. If I don't want to run into another story-ruining SPOILER, I'm going to have to work at it.