tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post7385896441389547231..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: The Siskoid Awards 2018Siskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-37446417701229080342019-01-01T10:04:20.073-04:002019-01-01T10:04:20.073-04:00Thanks for those Toby'c Awards!
I will have s...Thanks for those Toby'c Awards!<br /><br />I will have some gaming highlights of my own tomorrow in the Technical Awards ceremony, but I just don't game enough to warrant a Top 5 in this format.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-86071353483624096942019-01-01T08:30:38.423-04:002019-01-01T08:30:38.423-04:00In books, as usual I mostly just bought a few new ...In books, as usual I mostly just bought a few new books (mostly Lynda LaPlante) and never got around to reading them because I was doing something else.<br /><br />Favourite films in the cinema: Avengers: Infinity War, Incredibles 2, Searching and First Man, all 10/10 for me.<br />Favourite films on DVD (again, all 10/10): Joyeux Noël, The Shootist, The Boys in the Band, On Golden Pond, They Shoot Horses, Don't They, Perfect Strangers, The Enemy Below, The Trial, Wonder, Remains of The Day, Barefoot Gen and The Red Violin.<br />As usual, I also added a bunch of rewatches to my 10/10s, including Double Indemnity, End of Evangelion, Dial M For Murder, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Evil Angels.<br /><br />TV highlights: the long-awaited return of Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures (basically a parody of travel adventure shows like The Crocodile Hunter, presented by an accident-prone idiot - highly recommended); catching up on Stranger Things and Black Mirror; finally finishing The Wire, finally making some progress on Babylon 5, and checking out Sonic Boom (never been a fan of the games, but the series is pretty funny).<br /><br />Gaming highlights: finishing The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (kicking off an ongoing Legend of Zelda phase on several consoles), finishing the first Mass Effect (and getting stuck on the second), finishing my backlog of Telltale games (my favourite being Tales From the Borderlands, another franchise I had pretty much no previous interest in), finally finishing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice (one of my favourites in the series overall, yet strangely it didn't have me as hooked as some of the earlier games), and burning through Grim Fandango, Spec Ops: The Line and Life is Strange.Toby'chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01298458468488781568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-28709433648996642142018-12-31T15:58:04.556-04:002018-12-31T15:58:04.556-04:00I make that mistake (corrected) a lot more often t...I make that mistake (corrected) a lot more often than I want to admit.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-8434585224911249402018-12-31T15:41:17.596-04:002018-12-31T15:41:17.596-04:00It's just a personal opinion, but I have alway...It's just a personal opinion, but I have always found Goldie Hawn to be much more attractive than Ingmar Bergman. (I know it's just a typo, but that would have been some interesting casting.)Scott Tacktillnoreply@blogger.com