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One of the new cat's kittens appears to have fucking died. Don't know how. There were only four of the adorable little fuckers to begin with and the mother cat's been getting shitloads of food. Actually, for all I know more than one is dead - I couldn't bear to check. One of them came out of the cat carrier/box-thing to look at me and I gave him/her a pat, so at least one of them is alive, but I just shoved the mama cat in there to do her fucking job and care for the survivors before coming upstairs to, I don't know, get drunk probably.   
I just wanna scream at everyone who isn't me for not doing the slightest thing to look after them. My stupid fucking brother is visiting, this is probably his fault somehow. Nobody had even been checking on them apart from me, and I don't think I've been down there since he turned up, necessitating my going out of my to avoid interactions with him. I'm this close to taking out the cat's presumable parenting failures on myself. Why, gods?! Why Nameless Kitten #3? TAKE ME INSTEAD YOU CELESTIAL SHITHEADS.   

There is a third season of Cobra Kai in the works and I cannot fucking wait. Just finished the second one.   
The show achieves this perfect mix of (sometimes probably unintentional) amusement and HOLY CRAP THAT'S AWESOME. I feel like they forced the '80s worship a bit much in season two (mini-golf is one thing, but sixteen-year-olds unironically hitting up a roller disco in 2018? Bruh) but honestly, I think this show is truer to that era than is immediately apparent. Not sure how to explain it, but it hits the same spot that the best kind of cheesy '80s goodness tended to hit, just with a few very different, modern-day ingredients.   

The rest of my Abe Books order arrived today. Now just how TF am I gonna decide WTF to read next?   

I remember playing Smash Bros with close friends and family back in the day and thinking I was hot shit 'cause I could beat them all.   
Then I moved to this new town, befriended a new bunch of nerds, and at some point a bunch of us wound up playing Melee and I was quickly knocked off my perch by all these crazy pro strats they were using. Pretty wild. Who knew the dodge/shield button was actually good for anything?   

Bit demoralising, but at least years later in more recent times, at a similar gathering of nerdy types playing a more recent Smash game, I managed to cheese my way to an incredibly satisfying victory over one of these friggin' professional types (after not having even played the current entry in the series) by playing as Yoshi, hahaha.   

So I guess the moral of the story is, practice just enough to find the cheapest strategy and them employ it mercilessly and without shame until you get a win. Or, you know, invest the time to get good, I guess...   

I was trying to hype myself up to finally get some decent exercise done this evening, after a day that was unintentionally lazy despite my managing to have a decent night's sleep, but for some reason (possibly due to a conversation I had on mildly unpleasant topics with someone who can be at least moderately unpleasant at times) I am suddenly feeling real low.   
...This is probably just my brain chemistry conspiring with the lazy flesh of my body to prevent any kind of workout from happening. I know it. <.<   

Special mention for the character of Amanda LaRusso (Daniel's wife), which to my knowledge, is the best depiction of a wife/strong woman in modern media. She is smart, supportive, loving, successful and doesn't take nonsense from anyone (including her husband). And all that without the plague of having to scream "girl power", cause she doesn't have to prove that she is strong. She IS strong.

She is pretty damn great. I'm almost at the end of the first season.   
   

It's a shame to think the second season might not be as good, but I'll make my own judgement when I get there.   
The first one has already been well worth the price of admittance.   

Since it's free on PS+ this month, I've been wasting my time playing the console version of PUBG.   
This sounds pretty crazy, but it (and presumably the PC version) is actually worse than the mobile version. Sure, it kinda looks nicer (though with more pop-up and tearing) and it's cool to have dead bodies lying around rather than people just transforming into crates, but in so many other ways it's inferior. No directional sound, no marking while ADS - well, more importantly there is no ability to customise your control schemes, it seems like there are less challenges to do and less limited-time items in the store, following your squad mates is derpier and there's no option to invite folks to follow, and somehow they've managed to streamline the menu but make it more confusing than the clusterfuck that was the mobile equivalent.   

...I think. Actually, that last one might just be me not being used to it. Probably. The others are all for real, though.   

Was re-watching The Nice Guys last night, with my mother, since it's been probably a year or two since we watched it and I guess it's just easier to pick something you know is entertaining rather than taking a gamble and trying to find something new on Netflix.   

I really, really like this movie. I think the first time I saw it I got kinda hung up on a couple of the later action scenes, plus I read a whole heap of negativity about it online which I think may have got to me, and on top of that my mother was of the opinion that it wasn't very believable as being set in the '70s (though it's more likely she just didn't notice how weird it was that everyone was wearing flares and using pay phones, haha), but me, myself, I love this damn movie.   

The earlier fight scenes are fantastic, the interplay between the three main characters is brilliant, and it kinda feels to me like some tabletop RPG turned into a movie, with the disparate bunch of characters thrown reluctantly together for different reasons and gradually finding a common cause and friendship amongst all the violence and hijinks. Also, one of them in particular tends to roll a lot of crit fails, hahaha...   

Pretty sure one of the goofy action scenes is still to come, but I watched one of them last night and found it a lot more tolerable than I did the first time. Entertaining, even! Of course, the earlier ones were still great and I think I realised that more than I did the first time around. Possibly because just the other night we were watching something with the kind of cringily over-the-top fight scenes that they try so hard to make exciting but it just makes me groan and roll my eyes.   
This has some truly great ones, understated but brutal. Almost as good (without being quite so horrific) as that one movie I remember seeing but have never managed to find again where the guy turns on a stove burner underneath his oversized opponent to give himself an edge.   

This one, the fight scenes are pretty gnarly but not quite so likely to give you nightmares, haha.   
I think I love this movie.