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Weeknotes 2

I went to go see the Chainsaw Man movie in theaters on monday, suuuuuuper good, I never watched the tv anime but I read the manga, and this movie changed everything I wasn’t into about the anime aesthetically. Tatsuki Fujimoto said he was inspired by the Before trilogy of films for this arc so I guess I should finally get around to watching those! I watched the third one in theaters when it came out knowing literally nothing about any of them, which is funny to me, kinda defeats some of the purpose of the structure lol!!

Conversely, saw Bugonia, didn’t like it as much as I expected, the whole thing just felt deeply cynical and nowhere near as weird as I was lead to believe based on trailers/pre-release discussion

Not a huge star wars fan but their Visions series has been consistently great, and this newest season has a short directed by Shinya Ohira, unbelievably gorgeous, can’t get over it. Clip here, here, and here

curry pan and red bean roll
curry pan and red bean roll
ham and cheese panini and matcha donut
ham and cheese panini and matcha donut

A new japanese bakery opened near me so you know I had to go twice on its opening weekend! It’s gonna be so dangeous having this so close to me

I went to Olivia’s Halloween party on Saturday, which was less party and more interactive theater/puzzle game. I’ve been hearing about the concept for a few months now, but I went in knowing very little other than it being a mixture of social deduction, character roleplay, and puzzle solving. The whole thing was SO impressive, so well written and the puzzles were well-designed, such a clever design trick to preface the whole thing with “you’re competing with the other groups to be elected as the next leader, and you all distrust each other at least a little bit” to then immediately force every group to communicate and work together by giving everyone incomplete pieces of puzzles without telling anyone that they’re incomplete.

It’s always interesting in these things how groups naturally break into two types, the social deduction, getting information for other people, leaning into their role type, and the people that are just there to solve the puzzles. Unsurprisingly I’m 100% the puzzle type, and these were really fun, I think my favorite was near the end where you needed to descipher a paragraph of text (alphabet substitution) with no key, but a few context clues to help you along, and then from there it was just inferring the letters based on what you assume they were. So fun!!!!

Next week I’m doing a charity event at my work which I’m super excited for, I’ve had a much bigger hand in organizing it this year, and I’m bringing in my DDR setup again. I have to assume that’ll be the bulk of my post for next week lol. If anyone wants to donate I’d be very appreciative n_n

Things I’ve been into this week!!!