Midway into December already....

[rogueslayer452]

++ We are on lockdown again because cases have risen significantly. Seriously, what is so difficult with abiding by the rules, staying at home, wearing a mask and social distancing? I'm so tired.....

++ The Last Of Us: Part II basically swept The Game Awards, including best performance by Laura Bailey as Abby Anderson and Game of the Year, and honestly I am so incredibly happy, especially when you consider what happened earlier in the year with the leaks and people bashing the game before even playing it and people who cannot separate fiction and reality harassing and sending death threats to Laura for the character she played, these wins are absolutely well-deserved. I know that there are genuine criticisms going into this though, mostly when it comes to awarding crunch culture and the mistreatment of employees, a massive problem within the gaming industry as a whole and that shouldn't be ignored. And yeah, award shows in general are often popularity contests, but I'm not going to lie and say that I don't feel somewhat vindicated that something I love won and felt was well-deserved (and it sucks that there are these other behind-the-scenes factors that go against it, aka crunch culture). The Last Of Us franchise, while not entirely perfect, is a masterpiece of gameplay and storytelling, and The Last Of Us: Part II delivered more of that in a brutal and heartbreaking way.

++ With all the announcements made of upcoming Disney/Marvel/Star Wars/etc content, my overall feeling is just....meh. There may be couple of things that I'm curious about, but otherwise I'm just so exhausted. Between the constant reboots/remakes and large continuing franchises being announced every five minutes it seems, I'm just so burnt out. We've known for a long time that the entertainment industry lacks in originality, but seeing these announcements back-to-back really drives it home.

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[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

The pandemic has exposed a deep current of selfishness and short-sightedness within America, and that the Republican Party will politicize *anything*, even something as simple as health and safety regulations that everyone should be following as a matter of course regardless of their political affiliations because it's just what one does. No other country seems to be quite this fucked up about it.

It used to be that having a live-action Star Wars TV series was a pipe dream, and now we're getting seven at once! I'm so excited! I couldn't be happier about how the Star Wars universe has expanded from the classic trilogy into this whole thing!

And I'm also very happy that we're exploring so many corners of the Marvel Universe! Just think of all the people and places from the comics that will now be canon in the MCU! I'd rather have all the previous Marvel Television projects back at the same time as these others, but they're all good in and of themselves, too.

(Sheesh, am I really the only one here who gets more excited the more stuff there is to look forward to and not less? I have Autism, and we're supposed to be the ones who suffer from sensory overload.)

Also way looking forward to Matt Murdock and the characters from the prior Spider-Man movies appearing in Spider-Man 3! I was really disappointed when there was no sequel to the second Amazing.
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[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

It really has, especially with the politicizing something as important as healthcare. Like, you have people outright denying that COVID isn't real and it's a "political ploy" by the left and it's like...???? Are you serious right now? You'd think something like this would bring people together to help stop the spreading of something deadly, and while that does exist we're seeing more and more cases of people just...not caring, not bothering to care. It's really scary.

I'm happy that you're excited about those announcements! I guess, for me anyway, I'm just kind of exhausted of just seeing these franchises dominating everything.

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Even people who are dying of it in the hospital while denying it. It's really scary, or sad, that they couldn't see how untrustworthy Trump and the other purveyors of misinformation were. Following health and safety guideline should not be a political statement. Neither should acknowledging that Biden won the election. My father and others of his generation have written about the contrast between this attitude and how everyone accepted rationing and gas masks during World War II.

I haven't felt oversaturated with Marvel and Star Wars, especially the latter since we've only gotten one Star Wars movie per year or every two years (and the next will be December 2023, apparently). And I like both franchises enough that it would be hard to have too much of them, as long as they don't squeeze out potential other things, which they don't seem to be.