#e3 2008

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A little fun fact

Hello, today, after being hit by a wave of nostalgia, I tried to find any information on ACCF I could get my hands on, and that's when I noticed this!

This E3 footage of ACCF featured on ign shows us a bunch of designs that we as the player would own, do any of them seem familiar?

That's right, the third one on the second row seems to resemble the sample wallpaper design from ACNL!!!

I think it's a fun thing, considering that the design is not present in any form in the final game, and that it wouldn't be another 4 years until ACNL was announced...

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THE PILE PRESENTS: X-Play - Tito Ortiz' Gallian Vacation | 6/25/08

It loves the taste of fanboy tears.

[mockerycrow]

are you good at character analysis? I wanna know what your analysis would be for Gaz, I’m trying to figure out his story since he’s my favorite out of TF 141

KYLE GAZ GARRICK

BASIC OVERVIEW — BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick is a British Black man who enlisted into the British Army around 2008 or 2014 (unfortunately, the developers have inconsistencies). His operator biography states 2008 while the official activision website in a blog post about MW2019 states 2014, however it does make sense for him to enlist in 2008. He would have been at least sixteen years old which is the minimum age requirement to enlist. I would like to quickly throw in that Gaz is indeed older than Soap, as this is a misconception that I surprisingly see a lot! Gaz’s blood type is B- and he currently ranks as sergeant (which according to the official British Army website, it typically takes at least twelve years in the service, however it implies it also depends on the person’s abilities).

Gaz spent four years in the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. During these four years going through a multitude of tests and challenges before passing selection for Special Air Service (SAS). The activision blog says during MW2019, it’s his sixth year serving as a sergeant. However, as Gaz had been selected for TF141, I believe their ranks have paused in time. Gaz has mostly spent his time in anti-terrorism in his military career. He’s an expert in demolitions, VIP escorting, weapons tactics, covert surveillance, and target elimination. He’s been awarded multiple medals, and earned his Parachute Wings whilst spending time at Camp Lejeune in the U.S. whilst collaborating with Navy SEALs. Kyle is a master of evasion and deception, being the only candidate in his entire class to escape capture from the facility and evade detection during resistance training. 

When Gaz first meets Cpt. Price, Gaz is currently assigned to an SAS specific counter-terrorism program in the UK who collaborate with the police, which is another misconception that Gaz was a police sergeant at one point (he was not! I believe some people think this because at E3, Gaz was wearing a police baseball cap).

CHARACTER OVERVIEW

Like true to the original Gaz, he is Price’s protege, being his student. Gaz is overall a serious and hardworking man, loyal and unbreaking. He knows when to joke and he knows when to reload. However, Gaz is not perfect and he does lose his cool (we see subtle development with this later down the road). While being loyal, Gaz does not hesitate to question Price’s choices and actions. We see this multiple times during the series, the most prime example being in MW2019 when Price and Gaz are interrogating The Butcher with Yegor. The Butcher taunts Gaz, causing Gaz to lunge and Price to send him off to fetch.. “The package”. The package being, The Butcher’s family. The reboot games, you have choices, so I’ll give the very basic run down. 

You have the option to opt into the interrogation or to opt out of it. If you opt out, Price bursts out of the room with the information (if you go near the door, you hear The Butcher’s family sobbing). If you opt in, you have so many options. At the end of the day, Gaz is mostly silent and follows orders from Price. In the police cruiser scene, Gaz questions Price in the car—he did not expect to be using women and children as bargaining chips and he makes that clear, and this is a big teaching moment between Gaz and Price. We have to remember that Gaz is young and considering everything, inexperienced to an extent. Price makes up for that inexperience, teaching him along the way. During the interrogation scene, Price makes a remark: “We’ve taken the gloves off.” This is because Gaz lashed out. Later in the car, Price says “When you take the gloves off, you get blood on your hands, Kyle. That’s how it works.” after Gaz questions him.

CONCLUSION

Overall, Gaz is a very complex character and I enjoyed watching his development during these games. I’ve seen people claim Gaz is boring or plain, but I genuinely do not believe that to be the case. Gaz, in my opinion, is also the most relatable character. He’s young, ambitious, and determined. He’s charismatic and efficient. I don’t believe a character has to be extremely traumatized, or look very very unique to be a well-crafted character and Gaz is a great example for this. 

Gaz is just a man who enlisted; someone who is smart and well-rounded (as much as an SAS member can be), he’s quick on his feet and he molds into group work fantastically. He’s extremely versatile and is a quick learner—and wants to learn. He has his flaws that make him human. Gaz develops great self control, is level-minded and is able to think for himself. A great student questions their mentor in everything and you see this with Gaz. 

You see Gaz struggle with morality in the series in a sea of characters who kill and do things without a second thought. We see him question things, we see his emotions and his extreme reluctance. We definitely see some development down the road as Gaz becomes more ruthless, but he never quite forgets his humanity in a way, compared to Price where he can easily disconnect humanity (ex. Calling The Butcher’s wife and son “the package/leverage”). 

Along with this, we see him struggle with the rules in place. I also think this is why Gaz and Price’s dynamic is great. There are rules for a reason, and both Price and Gaz know when to break them—but Gaz learns that breaking some rules doesn’t always happen for the most heroic of actions (again, Price’s quote about bloodying your hands after taking the gloves off). Gaz wants to save people and keep the peace, we see this in Piccadilly during the terrorist attacks and the aftermath scene with Price where Gaz lets the Captain know that he and his unit had actionable intel on the terrorist cell who committed the act. Of course, we see later down the road that taking the gloves off removes all limits, not just some of them. We also see a glimpse of Gaz’s conflicting feelings when 141, Farah & Alex, as well as Laswell learn about Hadir and his plans, as well as when Farah’s forces are deemed a terrorist organization.

I think I rambled on a lot about him, hopefully this is understandable! 

Sources: price & gaz activision blog intros (2019), inconsistency in enlistment date, cod fandom wiki, gaz scenes mwi & mwii, official british army website.

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For those of you who are curious about this, here’s all the data I gathered for the counter I made:

Far Cry was first introduced as a demo at E3 2002, which started on May 22, and was released 671 days later, on March 23, 2004.

Far Cry Instincts was announced only 15 days after the release of Far Cry, on April 7, 2004, and came out 538 days after that, on September 27, 2005.

Far Cry Instincts: Evolution and Far Cry Instincts: Predator were announced and released together, on January 11, 2006, so 106 days after Far Cry Instincts came out, and on March 28, 2006, so 76 days after their announcement.

Far Cry Vengeance was announced 128 days after that, on August 3, 2006, and it took 131 more days for it to come out, on December 12, 2006.

Far Cry 2 was announced on July 19, 2007, 219 days after the release of Vengeance, and came out 460 days later, on October 21, 2008.

Far Cry 3 was announced at E3 2011 during the Ubisoft conference on June 7, so 959 days after the release of its predecessor, which is the longest time so far! Then, it came out 541 days later, on November 29, 2012.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon was announced 123 days later, on April 1st, 2013 (genius move), and released only 29 days after that, on April 30, 2013.

Far Cry 4 was officially revealed on social media on May 15, 2014, 380 days after Blood Dragon became available, and came out on November 18, 2014, 187 days later.

Far Cry Primal was announced 322 days after that with a trailer on October 6, 2015, and it took 140 more days for it to come out, on February 23, 2016.

Far Cry 5 was first introduced with a series of teaser trailers posted on May 22, 2017, so 454 days after Primal, and finally came out 309 days later, on March 27, 2018.

Far Cry New Dawn was revealed via a short video posted on social media on December 5, 2018, 253 days after the release of its predecessor, and was available only 72 days later, on February 15, 2019.

Far Cry 6 was officially introduced on July 10, 2020, shortly before the Ubisoft Forward livestream and 511 days after New Dawn came out. The game was initially scheduled to come out in February but had to be delayed, partly because of the pandemic, and was eventually released on October 7, 2021, 454 days after its announcement.

The last Far Cry 6 expansion, Lost Between World, was made available on December 6, 2022, 425 days after the release of the main game. Since that day, there hasn’t been any official announcement regarding the next Far Cry game.

I was also wondering how many days there were between the release dates of all the main games in the franchise. The answer is:

1,673 days between Far Cry and Far Cry 2

1,502 days between Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 3

719 days between Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4

1,225 days between Far Cry 4 and Far Cry 5

1,290 days between Far Cry 5 and Far Cry 6

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God of War 3 - E3 2008 Reveal Trailer

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So now some world building with Mozenrath:

I like to imagine that Mozenrath and Aladdin are brothers. I know it's a super common idea that they're half brothers but years and years ago I stumbled across a headcanon that their mother was Destane's younger sister. She left the land of the Black Sand, lived in Agrabah, met Cassim, and the two married. Destane eventually found her and stole Mozenrath away. If I could find it, I'd link it here. But this was way way back in like 2008. Maybe even earlier.

But ever since finding that headcanon, that has been canon to me. I picture about a 3 year age gap between Mozenrath and Aladdin with Mozenrath being the elder one of course. I also like to imagine that Mozenrath has always had an affinity for magic. He wasn't doing this type of magic as a super young child before Destane kidnapped him but the potential was there.

The home he lived in while he was a young child and him with Aladdin (albeit a bit older because dalle3 didn't get them the exact ages I imagined).

A slightly updated look to his wardrobe but the ai has a really tough time with him so that's mildly depressing.

Some interior design for his bedroom and throne room:

Some of Sadira in his citadel (because of course I'm going to add her. This is a Sadira x Mozenrath blog):

And since I've already included Sadira in this, I think I'll toss in the oc children I'm kind of playing with for them because why not.

This is their son, Malik. He is the elder by two years and just like his parents, he's gifted in sorcery.

This is their daughter, Sarina, and just like her parents and elder brother she too is gifted in sorcery.

I love the idea of both children getting Sadira's complexion and Mozenrath's hair color. Sarina is almost a carbon copy of her mother but for her hair color which she got straight up from her father.

Will probably post more later but yeah. Once again, this was all made using Bing's Image Creator supported by Dall-E3.

@kissthedragon @descendants-extended

[iwander12]

Sackboy gets bitches

Hello everypony welcome back to another edition of LittleBigPlanet...LORE!!!!!!!

I realized that Sackboy has had quite an amount of romantic brushes. Let's go through them...together🥺😘

I might have miss a few things. My memory on Karting is fuzzy n my goofy ass stopped right before the final level of PSP because I got distracted by the ball mini game. Such is life...

LBP1- Sackgirl

Sackgirl isn't really a character unless your avatar is a girl. Still, prerelease and promotional material promote her as the Sackgirl to Sackboy's Sackboy.

In the Milestone 5 video, Sackboy has a photo of her in his pod.

There's an ad where Sackboy goes to save Sackgirl, but it ends badly. (Not sure if this is actually the E3 2008 trailer there are a lot of uploads of this vid lol )

There were also some promotional renders of them together for valentine's day.

There's probably more to this since LBP1 had a lot of advertising. These are just the ones I remember right now.

Oh yeah, there are the wedding outfits's existence also. Let's hope the marriage didn't go through, considering the murder.

LBP PSP- Jessica Rabbit lookin ass

At the end of Tinsel Town this lady asks you to sign a prenup after being rescued by the giant ape. Hey, at least take us on a date first!

If you don't know what a prenup is... you can look it up! You're already online! But basically it means when they get married and then divorce, Sackboy isn't gonna get any money in compensation. Hey...

LBP2- Sackbot Harem

Well, there's this render of Sackboy being surrounded by enamoured Sackbots and blushing.

In the game itself, there's a level where enamoured Sackbots are attracted by a pretty hologram called Luscious Lucy. (are they all sapphic?) It might be a stretch, but maybe at one point in development they were attracted to you? xD

LBP3- Prototype Newton

I've posted about these lines before. I think they're funny cuz if they were kept this would mean that Newton was explicitly bi/gay. Thank you to whoever at Sumo Digital put these in for nobody to see. I appreciate you.

In an unused level in the final game (sacktown) that can be ported and played on the alpha version, Newton says you can use the Pumpinator on both women and men's skirts. This has nothing to do with Sackboy I just like telling people about it.

In an early version of The Great Escape, Newton says... this

Bro, calm down

SABA- This random cunt

who the fuck is this?

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🏙️ A canceled SimCity game between 2003 and 2007?

In the early 2000s, Maxis was clearly working on several new projects, one of which was believed to be the next installment of the SimCity series. In a November 2003 review of The Sims 2 on The Sims Zone, it was mentioned that at that time, Maxis was already working on the "next SimCity" (possibly SimCity 5), although the game had not been officially announced. At the time, the EA jobs page hinted at an ongoing project. However, the game was never released, and no further information about it was made public.

Maxis is also working on several new projects. These include the next SimCity (SimCity 5?), which is not yet announced, but is being worked on as we can see at the EA Jobs page at the time of writing. Will is also working on a secret project, which I can't really tell anything about. Since there were rumours of his next project at the E3 2002 (read this) and E3 2003 (right here), I think it's quite likely this game will be presented at the next E3 in May 2004. That means it will probably be released late 2004 or early 2005. However, this is pure speculation and nothing has been confirmed about this project whatsoever, and I could be wrong by a year, or the Maxis may even cancel the complete project (which I think is unlikely, but it's happened before with SimsVille and SimMars, to name two never finished projects). Maxis is keeping any details of this new game secret at the moment, and we'll probably have to wait another couple of months before we'll get the first pieces of (confirmed) information. However, it is commonly known that Will is working on something new again, and has been for quite a while already. It's a matter of a lot of patience to get the first information, which The Sims Zone will of course report about.

The secret project by Will Wright, also mentioned in that review, later turned out to be Spore, which was released in 2008. This is confirmed by a tweet from Jake Simpson, where he states that Wright was already focused on Spore and wasn’t actively involved in other projects.

Now, I'm not going to reference Will too much in these stories because while Will is considered The Father of The Sims, he wasn't actually around that much. Will is very much 'been there, done that', and while he was available for consultation, he was already off in Spore Land.

Interestingly, in 2007, SimCity Societies was released, but it wasn’t developed by Maxis. Instead, it was created by Tilted Mill Entertainment, the studio known for Caesar IV. The next proper SimCity installment by Maxis came out only in 2013. A 10-year gap between these games raises questions: was there a canceled version of SimCity during this period?

Maxis has precedents for canceled games, such as SimsVille and SimMars. It’s possible that studio was indeed working on SimCity 5, but the project was shelved before reaching the announcement stage.

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I just donated! Being a procrastinator paid off. I would love a rare pic, but I'd also love to knock on your Tumblr door with a dnp question - especially if I need to know for a piece of fic. No particular question at the moment, though, so pic it is.

Thank you for nudging us! We should be at the 1000 mark now.

thank you so much!!! yes knock away anytime!! in the meantime here's:

some babies at E3 2010

the blurriest photo of 2008 phil of all time

and golf with friends irl

donate to phandom gives and i'll give you content

[foodfightnovelization]

Introduction

So here it is, here's the book we're going to read together. I'm aware this is a Junior Novelization and is basically a book for small children, but it's interesting for SO MANY reasons so please just indulge me on my bullshit for a little while.

First of all, the fact that it's a novelization of the movie Foodfight!. I'm sure if you're reading this blog you've already heard of the movie so I'm not going to spend too much time going over the basics, but to cut a long story short, Foodfight! is a 2012 animated children's movie directed by Lawrence Kasanoff, centering around a supermarket that comes to life at night. Said city is populated by "Ikes", icons of the various brands of grocery store product e.g. Mr Clean, the California Raisins, Charlie Tuna, as well as original characters like Dex Dogtective and Daredevil Dan. In many ways, you could say this movie is like Wreck-It Ralph if it took place in a grocery store instead of an arcade. You could ALSO say this movie is like if a cartoon dog fought Nazis, poorly attempted to recrate the "La Marseillaise" scene from Casablanca, and hung around with a racist caricature played by Wayne Brady who regularly talks about wanting to ejaculate in/on various women. And all of that would be true, because this movie is crazy loco. Because of that, it's hard to imagine what it'd be like in book form, but it's interesting for other reasons too:

The film itself had a long and painful development. Originally intended to release in 2003, the release date shifted to 2006, then 2007, until it FINALLY came out in 2012. Over the years, the animation was redone so many times that it went from looking like this:

To looking like this:

Around 2006 (one of the initial release dates for the movie) various merchandise for the movie was in development, ranging from picture books, to plush toys, to even a videogame that had a playable demo at E3 2006. The game was never released, but the picture books eventually made into stores, and the plush toys were sold off to various arcades, claw machines and carnivals as prizes. However, there's one piece of merchandise I've never seen discussed ANYWHERE online- and that's the novelization.

I found it on eBay a few weeks ago and just HAD to buy it. There were so many questions in my head right away: Why was the novelization was published in 2008, four whole years before the actual movie came out? Okay, it's probably just because the movie was planned to release around that time at one point, but how is there no other information about this anywhere online? If this was published in 2008, is there a chance it's based on an earlier version of the movie and has vast differences from the finished film? (if you can even really call the film "finished"...) The book says it contains 8 pages of color stills from the movie- again, how can that be when this was 4 years before the movie came out?

I just couldn't leave all these questions unanswered, and so here it is in my hand (next to the Daredevil Dan plush I own because I'm NORMAL about this movie), Foodfight!: The Junior Novelization. As far as I can tell, this was the ONLY copy of the book available for purchase anywhere (is it maybe even the only copy in existence? Why is this book so vague and unknowable?) so I'm really at the forefront as far as discussion of this is concerned, on account of being the only person to even know it exists. Once I'm done talking about it though, I'll be uploading the entire book to the Internet Archive so everyone can get a chance to read it themselves. But for those yearning for a page-by-page analysis comparing the novelization to the finished film, I'm your girl! Stick with me and we'll strawberry jam our way through this enigma of a book.

Chapter 1 analysis coming soon!

[filipviewer-dot-exe]

Ik realiseerde me net dat ik mijn gecancelde-game masterpost hier nooit gepost heb. Voor context: ik heb een document met links naar gecancelde games die op de website van de gamemania staan alsof ze ooit zijn uitgekomen, met prijzen voor de tweedehands-versies er gewoon naast. Verderop meer over het belang van deze post.

De Xbox 360 en Playstation 3 ports van Mad Max.

Al waren deze ports wel aangekondigt tijdens de E3 in 2014, de game was te groot in schaal om ze speelbaar te kunnen maken op de last-gen consoles. Erg jammer, ik hou ervan als games net iets te veel in moeten leveren om ze speelbaar te maken op oudere platforms.

The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf

Met het succes van de eerste Witcher game kondigde CDPR eind 2008 een console-port van de game aan, die op de playstation 3 en Xbox 360 zou verschijnen. De game zou andere mechanics dan het origineel hebben, maar hetzelfde verhaal volgen. De game zou door een andere studio gemaakt worden, en doordat deze samenwerking moeizaam verliep is de game uiteindelijk helaas gecanceld

Fable Legends (deze game is sinds ik de post geschreven heb van de site verwijderd)

Deze MMORPG, ontwikkeld door Lionhead (die elke mainline game na de eerste gemaakt heeft), zou free2play zijn en was zelfs al in open beta voordat Microsoft, het moederbedrijf van Lionhead, de studio in 2016 sloot en daarmee ook de ontwikkeling van de game stopzette. 

Dying Light voor de Xbox 360 en Playstation 3

Deze ports zijn ook losgelaten nadat duidelijk werd dat de games te zwaar waren om in de tijd die ze hadden op de oudere consoles uit te brengen. Zoals jullie doorhebben was deze generatie berucht om hun ports: ze hadden een onmogelijk groot marktaandeel, dus ze konden de consoles niet in het verleden laten, maar de Playstation 3 had zo'n bijzondere architectuur dat het haast onmogelijk was 'even' een game naar dat platform over te zetten.

Heist

Van veel gecancelde games die niet in een serie/franchise zitten krijg je nooit te horen dat ze gemaakt waren, vandaar dat dit de eerste game in deze lijst is die niet verbonden is aan een andere serie. Volgens wikipedia is deze game gecancelled doordat de makers van het spel niet wisten waar ze aan begonnen (wat in het bijzonder voor problemen met de ps3 versie zorgde) maar ook omdat de studio te veel van ze vroeg. De game zou een open-world Mafia/GTA clone moeten worden en zich afspelen i nde onderwereld van San Francisco in de jaren '60, maar helaas is daar niks van gekomen

Twin Mirror

Helaas heeft de achtste console-generatie vroegtijdig de dood van fysieke media ingeluid. Vandaar dat deze game op de lijst staat: de game was aangekondigd met een fysieke versie, maar die is nooit uitgekomen (al schijnen we niet veel te missen).

https://www.gamemania.nl/nl/games/xbox-one/142499_twin-mirror/

Mijn punt.

Naast deze obscuurdere titels staan games als Prey 2 ook nog op de Game Mania website, maar ik denk dat jullie wel doorhebben dat het er een flink aantal zijn.

Ik heb deze post niet geschreven om te vragen of deze pagina’s van de site verwijderd worden, integendeel zelfs! Deze tweets zijn bedoeld als pleidooi om deze games op de site te laten staan, juist omdat ze gecanceld zijn.

Op Wikipedia en game gerelateerde nieuwssites is vaak informatie over de game te vinden, maar marketingmateriaal als de flaptekst en foto’s (en verwachte prijs)) zijn waardevolle onderdelen van de geschiedenis van games die niet overal terug te vinden is, laat staan in het Nederlands. Door deze pagina’s op de site te laten zou de website dus ook kunnen fungeren als archief! 

Het is echter verwarrend voor “gewone” klanten om als ze op Shrek games zoeken als eerste resultaat Shrek: Forever After voor de PSP en PS2 krijgen (disclaimer: helaas is deze game sinds het schrijven van mijn post ook van de site verwijderd), een versie van de game waar ik na een uur zoeken online 0 bronnen voor heb kunnen vinden (dus als jullie meer informatie hebben over deze ports, laat het me please weten). Om duidelijk te maken dat het om een gecancelde game gaat is echter niks meer dan een disclaimer nodig, dus dat is dan ook mijn voorstel om aan de pagina’s aan te passen, in plaats van ze te verwijderen.

Want al zijn fysieke games zo belangrijk voor het archiveren van media, weten welke fysieke games we juist niet hebben en waarom niet is net zo waardevol.

[g4zdtechtv]

THE PILE PRESENTS: GameTrailers TV with Geoff Keighley #1-4 | 1/26-2/16/08

This is a big one... Bigger than the blast radius from an ion cannon, even.

It's the First 4 Episodes of GameTrailers TV with post-G4, pre-Dorito Pope/Game Awards/pissing off the Munkshrooms Geoff Keighley!

(4GTV - 24/7. LIVE. WATCH NOW.)

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Russell T. Davies 2005-2010 Era

What is this? Overall Marathon Post

Steven Moffat 2010-2017 Era

Chris Chibnall 2018-2022 Era

Russell T Davies 2023-Present Era

Episode List Below

DW S1:E1: Rose (First episode of new DW)

DW S1:E2: The End of the World (Relationship development; establishes more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E3: The Unquiet Dead (Establishes facts relevant to DW: Boom Town and T)

DW S1:E4-5: Aliens of London; World War Three (Introduces Harriet Jones; introduces the Slitheen; relationship development)

DW S1:E6: Dalek (Introduces Adam Mitchell and the Daleks; reveals more of the Doctor's backstory)

DW S1:E7: The Long Game (Adam Mitchell character development; establishes facts relevant to finale)

DW S1:E8: Father’s Day (Introduces Pete Tyler; major character development; Relationship development)

DW S1:E9-10: The Empty Child; The Doctor Dances (Introduces Jack Harkness)

DW S1:E11: Boom Town (Character development)

DW S1:E12-13: Bad Wolf; The Parting of Ways (Finale; major character development)

DW Children in Need 2005: Born Again Minisode

DW 2005 Christmas Special: The Christmas Invasion (First episode with [spoiler]; Establishes facts relevant to series 2 and 3 finales)

DW S2:E2: Tooth and Claw (Introduces Torchwood Institute)

DW S2:E3: School Reunion ([Re]Introduces Sarah Jane Smith; character development)

DW S2:E4: The Girl in the Fireplace (Just a great episode)

DW S2:E5-6: Rise of the Cybermen; The Age of Steel (Major character development; [spoiler] introduced)

DW S2:E9-10: The Impossible Planet; The Satan Pit (Relationship development; also great episodes)

DW S2:E13-14: Army of Ghosts; Doomsday (Finale; major character development)

DW 2006 Christmas Special: The Runaway Bride (Introduces Donna Noble)

T S1:E1: Everything Changes (First episode)

T S1:E2: Day One (Major character/relationship development)

T S1:E3 Ghost Machine (Major character development)

DW S3:E2 Smith and Jones (Introduces Martha Jones)

T S1:E5 Cyberwoman (Major character development)

DW S3:E4: Gridlock ([spoiler] development; will come up in finale; relationship development)

SJA S1:E0: Invasion of the Bane (First episode)

SJA S1:E1-2: Revenge of the Slitheen (Introduces Clyde Langer)

T S1:E5: Small Worlds (Just a great episode)

DW S3:E5-6: Daleks in Manhattan; Evolution of the Daleks (Plot development; events effect later episodes)

T S1:E6: Countrycide (A great episode; major relationship development)

T S1:E7: Greeks Bearing Gifts (Major character development)

DW S1:E7: The Lazarus Experiment (Relationship development)

T S1:E8: They Keep Killing Suzie (Major character/relationship development)

DW S3:E9-10: Human Nature; The Family of Blood (Major character development; establishes facts used in finale)

SJA S1:E5-6: Warriors of Kudlak (A great episode; minor relationship development)

T S1:E10: Out of Time (Character/relationship development)

SJA S1:E7-8: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Relationship development)

DW S3:E12: Blink (Just a great episode)

T S1:E11 Combat (Relationship development)

SJA S1:E9-10: The Lost Boy (Relationship development)

T S1:E12 Captain Jack Harkness (Reveals more of Jack's backstory; also a great episode)

T S1:E13 End of Days (Finale; major developments)

DW S3:E12: Utopia (Introduces [spoiler]; major character development)

DW S3:E13-14: Sound of Drums; Last of the Time Lords (Finale; major developments)

DW Minisode: Time Crash 2007

DW 2008 Christmas Special: Voyage of the Damned (Just a great episode; Introduces Wilfred Mott)

T S2:E1: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (Introduces John Hart; Major character/relationship developments)

DW S4:E1: Partners in Crime (Major character development)

DW S4:E2: Fires of Pompeii (Establishes facts used in finale)

T S2:E3: To the Last Man (A great episode; character development)

T S2:E4: Meat (Major character/relationship development)

DW S4:E3: Planet of the Ood (Major plot developments)

T S2:E5: Adam (Reveals more of Jack's backstory)

T S2:E6-7: Reset; Dead Man Walking (Major character development)

T S2:E8: A Day in Death (Major character development)

DW S4:E4-5: The Sontaran Stratagem; The Poison Sky (Establishes facts used in the finale)

DW S4:E7: The Doctor's Daughter (Character development)

T S2:E9: Something Borrowed (Major relationship development)

DW S4:E8: The Unicorn and the Wasp (Great episode)

T S2:E11: Adrift (Great episode; minor character development)

DW S4:E9-10: Silence in the Library; Forest of the Dead (Introduces River Song; great episodes)

T S2:E12: Fragments (Major backstories reveal; major plot development)

T S2:E13: Exit Wounds (Major character/relationship/plot development)

DW S4:E11: Midnight (Great episode)

DW S4:12-14: Turn Left; The Stolen Earth; Journey's End (Finale; Major character/relationship development)

SJA S2:E0-1: The Last Sontaran (Major character development)

SJA S2:E2-3: The Day of the Clown (Introduces Rani Chandra)

SJA S2:E7-8: The Mark of the Berserker (Clyde's family appears)

SJA S2:E9-10: The Temptation of Sarah Jane (Major character development; major backstory reveal)

SJA S2:E11-12: Enemy of the Bane (Plot development; Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's only appearance in New Who)

SJA S3:E1-2: Prisoner of the Judoon (Events effect future episodes)

SJA S3:E3-4: The Madwoman in the Attic (Major character development)

SJA S3:E5-6: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith (Major plot development)

DW 2009 Special: The Waters of Mars (Major character development)

T S3:E1-5: Children of Earth (Major character/relationship development)

DW 2009 Specials: The End of Time (Major character development)

[theanimeawarenessproject]

Rating: Yellow Orange

Warning: this review is only comprised of **season one.** That is the first 13 episodes only!

*Natsume's Book of Friends / Natsume Yūjin-chō / Natsume Yuujinchou / 夏目友人帳 -* This beautiful anime full of love and sadness alike will take you on a hell of a fun ride and make you bawl your eyes out for characters you've just met. I went into this knowing absolutely nothing and came out with a new addition to my personal loved anime list, and I hope anyone else who checks it out loves it too!

Genres : Slice of Life, Supernatural, Mythology, Iyashikei

Type : TV Show

Ran From : a Summer release of July 8th 2008, to September 30th 2008.

Length : 13 episodes consisting of a standard 24 minutes per episode.

Intro/Outro: Lizard crawling on someone's face (they're okay with this), some very mild fast moving imagery. Outro completely safe.

Trigger Warnings : child being chased by monsters (yōkai), child neglect and abuse (not often shown, but brought up), treating children as though they're burdens foe being different, extremely wide eyes, minor explosions, closeups on eyes, dead parents, body horror (non-gore), falls from medium to large heights, fainting, child running away from home, young children finding comfort in adult strangers, live fish out of water being shown, mentions of possession, being possessed, very very small amounts of blood, alcoholism being shown in a joking way, cats being fed really shit food, fishing, themes of being trapped into servitude (main character does not use this, but a later character does seem to. The ones working for him seem to be willing, but I can't know that for sure.)

Episode specific triggers:

E1 opens with a chase scene with some shaky cam and heavy blur. Shaky cam isn't used often in this show but it does happen. Damage to shrine grounds.

E2 a character is breifly crushed under the full weight of a larger characters body under their foot. Someone has a sallow face and hollow eyes.

E3 live frog held in an animals mouth (it is unharmed), frog bouncing on someone's face.

The cat makes an incredibly tasteless joke about sexual harassment in this episode. Skip from 9:53 to 10:03 to avoid it. You lose nothing by doing so.

E4 closeups on cicadas, Being watched without knowledge, falling down stairs, trapped in a school

The cat makes an offhanded comment that's pretty gross, this time about slavery. It happens at 10:25 - 10:28.

E6 cicada closeups

E7 themes of parental death, adults beating a child with thick paper, child crying

E8 falling off a cliff

E9 very angry dogs face, scared dog noises, fan girls, imagery of a rope tied around someone's neck, being completely trapped and wrapped up in paper, a character is stabbed in the eye with a stick

E10 cut limbs, very small amounts of blood, falling off a cliff, possession

E11 very young child in a life threatening situation, blurry shaky cam, falling down a cliff, trapped in a hole, visibly and audibly nearly vomiting, feeding a cat chocolate, child crying, fear of replacement, alcohol abuse

12 frog stuck in a spider web, imagery and audio of a humanoid being eaten/chewed whole, electrocution (character is fine, slightly burnt and steaming cartoon style) high pitched bell ringing, potential implied groping? Child visibly sick (emeto safe)

13 reckless crossing of a road, tying up an animal, attempting to hit a fox with a broom, fireworks, festival episode

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (29 Oct-4 Nov 2023)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 A Night In The Lonesome October (Roger Zelazny) - got a bit of a late start, but did the a-chapter-per-day read thing. Such a fun story and it'd probably been 20 years since I last read it.

😊 with all my skin and bone (unicornpoe) - 54K, stucky no-powers, SHIELD agents, enemies-to-lovers, fake marriage AU. a fun reread for stucky bookclub

😍 A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) (Freya Marske, author; David Thorpe, narrator) - reread in prep for final book, loved picking up on all the hints and clues that make sense from book 2 this time around!

😊 Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono (Lily E Hirsch) - Solid read but I found I had to parcel it to a chapter every couple of days bc of the rage.

😊 call me sunshine, send me to space (steddieas_shegoes) - 89K, guidance counselor!steve goes to tattoo artist!eddie for his first tattoo and then INSTALOVE! (I love instalove in fic!)

💖💖 +68K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

this is the road to ruin (ghostinthelibrary) - The Witcher: Geraskier, 31K - great worldbuilding to answer the question 'what would Witchers be like in modern day?'

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Hot Ones - Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Hot Ones - Cardi B

Hot Ones - Flea

QI - series T, e3, 5-8

Shakespeare & Hathaway - s1, e2-4

Whitstable Pearl - s1, e3

D20: Burrow's End - "Protect The Light" (s20, e5)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Big Emotions Are So Fun" (s15, e5)

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Switched on Pop - Rerecording Taylor Swift's 1989s, Dark Side of the Moon, and Demi Lovato

Re: Dracula - October 29: Something is Going Out

You're Dead to Me - Medieval Ghost Stories

Re: Dracula - October 30: Council of War

⭐ The Sporkful - Sohla El-Waylly Went To Culinary School To “Prove Everyone Wrong”

Re: Dracula - October 31: Latest and Truest Thought

Re: Dracula - November 1: Instinct with Resolution

Vibe Check - That Damn Spooky Yoga Class

Today, Explained - Pope friction

Re: Dracula - November 2: Deadly Peril

Outward - Bob the Drag Queen's Gay Barz

Welcome to Night Vale #237 - Frown Night

⭐ Decoder Ring - Mailbag: The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs

Ologies with Alie Ward - Neuroparasitology (NATURE ZOMBIES) with Matt Simon

Re: Dracula - November 3: Go On

Dear Prudence - My Friend Tried to Bring Her Kids to A Winery. Help!

What Next: TBD - Biden Goes After AI

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals - S01E01 The Tale of the Frankenstein

Re: Dracula - November 4: My Jonathan

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Heavy Metal Halloween

DANSE MACABRE [Duran Duran] {2023}

Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) [Various artists] {2006}

Nightmare Revisited [Various artists] {2008}

@door's 'spooky' playlist

Trackula: Psychobilly & Horror Punk

A3/Alabama 3

Yummy Yummy Sugar Sugar

Journey

Presenting The Clash

Presenting David Bowie

Fleetwood Mac

Essential Glam Rock

[bald-heaven]

Mitch Pileggi in Supernatural S4.E3 In the Beginning (2008)