Media Update: part one
Last week, I ran a session of PDQ Sharp for the Thursday night crew, but I have a post in the works all about that. I will say that my one-shot would have stayed a one-shot and not the start of a campaign were it not for an inspired suggestion from Jeff H.
I think I'm done with Old Attic Comedy for the time being. I finished The Frogs and re-read Lysistrata right after that. The rap battle between Aeschylus and Euripides in The Frogs didn't do it for me, but Heracles advising Dionysus on the quickest road to the land of the dead (hanging, poison, etc.) was priceless.
My parents got me a copy of Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles, in which Napoleon invades the British Isles, Temeraire rouses retired dragons into a militia, and Captain Laurence... has a lot of bad stuff happen to him. It may be my favorite in the series.
I've gone from brand-spakin' new fiction to Sir H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; a mere two years younger than Treasure Island. I'll let you know how that one goes, too.
I pulled out the ol' Gameboy Advance SP after a few months off and beat Gunstar Super Heroes' hard mode with both characters. It's rare to find a hard mode that lives up to its name, but there are big stretches of this gem from Treasure and Sega that require constant vigilance. Despite having to replay some levels a dozen times, I heartily recommend the game. It's got the goofy ("What should be do? Yellow's now a bad guy!"), the twitchy, the variety, the pretty, and 2D charm. I never owned a Genesis, so this isn't nostalgia for the original talking, either. Find yourself a copy of this game before your DS breaks and the stop making DSes with GBA cart slots! Speaking of which, I should probably get a DS sometime...
I think I'm done with Old Attic Comedy for the time being. I finished The Frogs and re-read Lysistrata right after that. The rap battle between Aeschylus and Euripides in The Frogs didn't do it for me, but Heracles advising Dionysus on the quickest road to the land of the dead (hanging, poison, etc.) was priceless.
My parents got me a copy of Naomi Novik's Victory of Eagles, in which Napoleon invades the British Isles, Temeraire rouses retired dragons into a militia, and Captain Laurence... has a lot of bad stuff happen to him. It may be my favorite in the series.
I've gone from brand-spakin' new fiction to Sir H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; a mere two years younger than Treasure Island. I'll let you know how that one goes, too.
I pulled out the ol' Gameboy Advance SP after a few months off and beat Gunstar Super Heroes' hard mode with both characters. It's rare to find a hard mode that lives up to its name, but there are big stretches of this gem from Treasure and Sega that require constant vigilance. Despite having to replay some levels a dozen times, I heartily recommend the game. It's got the goofy ("What should be do? Yellow's now a bad guy!"), the twitchy, the variety, the pretty, and 2D charm. I never owned a Genesis, so this isn't nostalgia for the original talking, either. Find yourself a copy of this game before your DS breaks and the stop making DSes with GBA cart slots! Speaking of which, I should probably get a DS sometime...