Weeknotes 90

It was a quiet week.

There are always things happening at work and with friends & family but none of that seems like obvious weeknote fodder. I did watch some telly and get annoyed at a video game. Let’s run with that for now.

I forgot to mention last week that the PS5 system update came out and so I installed a 1TB SSD as planned. It was a nice easy upgrade that only took a few minutes and gave me some much-needed breathing space. I’ve downloaded a couple of games since and it was nice to not have to faff around deleting stuff first.

One of those games was of course Deathloop, which is so far a piece of shit. Perhaps I’m still in the tutorial section but there’s nothing interesting happening and I cannot believe how often the game continues to pause to explain some meaningless aspect of its menu system in tiny unreadable text. I don’t think I’ll ever understand the minds of people who design games like this, much less people who review them and say they’re great.

Surely it’ll finally get good if I keep slogging through this dismal, carelessly constructed opening act. Surely.

Claiming my six free months of Apple TV+ was a nail-biting experience because I have multiple Apple IDs and came very close to using the wrong one, but managed to get it right in the end. Mild peril!

So, yeah, we’ve dipped back into Apple TV+.

Ted Lasso is watchable, and not visibly worse than the previous season in any obvious way, but I’m not feeling it any more and it still hasn’t made me laugh.

The Morning Show is as slick and trashy and compelling as before. Billy Crudup is so fun to watch, and the dramatic irony of looking back on the early days of the pandemic has some novelty. I fear it’s going to get a bit “what’s the deal with cancel culture?” but that hasn’t happened so far.

Foundation is clearly expensive and looks beautiful. Unfortunately the dialogue is all so hushed and portentous that it’s hard to get emotionally invested in any of it; the writing is a bit clunky and it’s certainly not yet as interesting as it thinks it is. But it has a decent ensemble cast — Lane Pryce! Julian Bashir! erm… Benjamin Denton! — and Lou Llobell is great so far, so I’m going to stick with it and see if it warms up.

One (1) gym visit this week. I chickened out after half an hour because it was too busy for comfort, so really I’m rounding up.

I’ve written a tiny bit of my RubyConf talk but nowhere near enough. I hate this feeling.