My Cultural Experience

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42677356618106744142026-04-17T00:09:02.195+01:00My Cultural ExperienceAll the stuff I've watched, read, listened to, etc.badblokebobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13967113421151794368noreply@blogger.comBlogger12976125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4267735661810674414.post-89195735598449320882026-04-16T23:58:00.005+01:002026-04-17T00:09:02.076+01:00Films

3-D Rarities (2015) Part 2: Hollywood Enters the Third Dimension [#17 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] Concluding yesterday's programme. This half contains a mix of shorts and trailers for 3D features, as well as the only 3D newsreel.

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Monument Valley II

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3-D Rarities (2015) Part 1: The Dawn of Stereoscopic Cinematography [#17 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] A programme of tests, shorts, and the like from the early days of 3D film. I only watched the first half because of my usual poor time management. Part 2 tomorrow, hopefully.

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Chapter 3

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Chapter 2

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Monument Valley II Casually chipping away at this one short level at a time — I may have played it on three occasions, but my total playtime is still under half-an-hour.

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Verity by Colleen Hoover Chapters 23–25 [the end] There's also an epilogue exclusive to a collector's edition, although fans have shared it online. I always assume bonuses like that are going to be inconsequential little something-and-nothings to persuade completist fans to buy a new copy, but this one is actually substantial — longer than most (possibly all) chapters in the book proper, and

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Prologue Chapter 1

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Celebrated (I guess) my return to Skyrim by visiting my seventh city, Morthal, and acquiring a nearby house. It's only a minor one, so not a whole lot to do there, but it's another milestone. Monument Valley II

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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Verity by Colleen Hoover Chapters 16–22

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Unbelievably, it's been two whole weeks since I played Skyrim. Any regular readers* would be forgiven for thinking I'd accidentally given up on it, knowing my MO. Well, I guess if I left it too long I might've, as that is the kind of thing that typically happens to me. But no: hitting 200 hours gave me a little bit of decision paralysis about what

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Saturday Night Live UK 1x04 Jack Whitehall The Wheel 6x05 Episode 5 [Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Nonnas (2025) [#16 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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Verity by Colleen Hoover Chapters 8–15

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week. Not everything I mentioned last week has arrived (the lingering effects of the Easter double Bank Holiday, I guess), but there was still this... Number of titles in collection: 3,680 [up 4] Of which DVDs: 965 [no change] Of which Blu-rays: 2,715 [up 4] — of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 521 [up 3] Number of

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One Battle After Another (2025) [#15 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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Verity by Colleen Hoover Chapters 4–7

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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator Can't really say I "played" this, but I certainly left it running in the background for an hour-and-a-half and collected (and named) a bunch more ducks.

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Verity by Colleen Hoover Chapters 1–3 Not usually my kind of thing, but something inspired me to buy this... only I can't remember what because it was so long ago now. Quite possibly that it's supposed to have an incredible twist — according to its own blurb, at least. It's largely Romance-y so far (even if the very first thing to happen is someone being brutally killed by a car!), so we'll see.

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Inertial Drift As I said, I may have finished 'story mode' (with one character, anyway — I wonder how different the others are...), but there's still a load of options and unlockables. If I had one criticism, it's that the game could be a bit more guided about what I could/should do next. Monument Valley II New 'story' (it barely qualifies as such, but sure, technically there's something), same

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Leverage: Redemption 1x13 The Hurricane Job Richard Osman's House of Games 9x92 Champions Week 2: Tuesday 9x93 Champions Week 2: Wednesday 9x94 Champions Week 2: Thursday [Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

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Beyond the Light Episode 1 Gameplay Episode 2 Cast & Characters Episode 3 Story Quite looking forward to the new James Bond game, so finally caught up with this series of behind-the-scenes promo videos. Not sure if the game will run on my Steam Deck so don't know when I'll actually play it, but someday...!

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How I Met Your Mother 1x22 Come On [season finale; 2nd watch] Richard Osman's House of Games 9x90 Champions Week 1: Friday 9x91 Champions Week 2: Monday [Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.] The Rookie 7x18 The Good, The Bad, and The Oscar [season finale]

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How I Met Your Mother 1x21 Milk [2nd watch] Richard Osman's House of Games 9x87 Champions Week 1: Tuesday 9x88 Champions Week 1: Wednesday 9x89 Champions Week 1: Thursday [Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.] The Rookie 7x16 The Return 7x17 Mutiny and the Bounty

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