My Cultural Experience

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42677356618106744142026-10-08T01:36:05.808+01:00My Cultural ExperienceAll the stuff I've watched, read, listened to, etc.badblokebobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967113421151794368noreply@blogger.comBlogger13301125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4267735661810674414.post-11124911163063048242026-10-07T23:56:00.000+01:002026-10-08T01:35:40.148+01:00Fiction

The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 25–29 [the end] It took me a little while to warm up to this, but I enjoyed it a fair bit in the end. I'm not sure it ever fully transcends certain stereotypes of Fantasy fiction, but it's not a bad tale. Book 2 should be coming in my next delivery from the partwork, so I'll probably dive into it fairly quickly

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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk... Like so many random games I buy nowadays, I can't remember how I came across this; but it has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is only 62p in the sale. Made an effort to play it today (not much of an "effort" — it's a visual novel so mostly just clicking through, and it only took 20 minutes) because its sequel (Milk outside a bag of

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapter 24

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 17–23 End of Part Four.

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) [#67 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] Blindspot 2026 #7

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 14–16 End of Part Three.

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Aperture Desk Job Nearly two weeks after it arrived, I finally actually played something on my Steam Machine. And I started the same way as on my Deck: with Aperture Desk Job. Despite all Valve's talk of the Steam Controller having input parity with the Deck, this shows it's not true: it shows the wrong command for taking a screenshot (it timed out and auto-completed before I could remember the

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who by Russell T Davies (from the Guardian) More details about what went down as RTD2 came to an end, which is interesting.

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Another month has passed us by, and so 100Films.co.uk pops up with a review of my September film viewing... ...as well as some of the things I didn't view... More next month.

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Ratatouille (2007) [2nd watch] [#66 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 12–13

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week. I thought there was going to be a fair bit of stuff this week, but then some release dates were pushed back and some sale purchases didn't arrive as quickly as expected, and so there's only two additions — one of which is a very welcome DVD-to-4K upgrade (because apparently the Blu-ray was poor) for

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Vampire Hunter D (1985) [#65 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 6–11 End of Part Two.

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Nanook of the North (1922) [#64 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Chapters 3–5 End of Part One.

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The Rescuers Down Under (1990) [2nd or so watch] [#63 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1 Homeland by R.A. Salvatore Foreword by Matt Chapman Prelude Chapters 1–2 As if I don't already have more than enough books to read or hobbies to spend my limited income on, I've subscribed to the new Dungeons & Dragons Novel Collection partwork. Rather than just let up to 100 more novels accumulate on my shelves, I decided to actually start

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The Rescuers (1977) [2nd or so watch] [#62 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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How I Met Your Mother 2x17 Arrivederci, Fiero [2nd watch] Richard Osman's House of Games 4x66 Episode 66 [2nd watch] Couldn't remember which episode we needed to jump to next, so just watched the first one we came across that we didn't remember. Still didn't remember it by the end. Turns out we watched it four years ago. Oh well!

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The Set up (1963) [#61 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] That's not a typo — "up" doesn't have a capital U on the title card. Stickler for accuracy, me. Topper (1937) [#60 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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Richard Osman's House of Games 4x49 Week 10: Thursday 4x50 Week 10: Friday

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Suspicion (1941) [#59 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] Blindspot 2026 #6

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