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Videogame Review: Starfield

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This is definitely not like Skyrim. I haven't played many Bethesda games, but I can tell you that I loved playing Skyrim. I played it until there was absolutely nothing else I could do. This was hundreds of hours. And then, instead of getting the next Elder Scrolls game we got: Starfield. My husband was so psyched. So much that he got me a new console and the game so that I could play it at the same time he was playing it. The game is not that  bad, but there are a lot of things that I don't enjoy. 1) The doors. They take so long to open and close 2) The random visiting of NPC to deliver messages or things that makes me run like a crazy person through galaxies. Can't they just send a message? Or a text? Or an email? *sigh* 3) The unlimited items that I can collect that I never use or don't want to use. I don't even know what I should be looking for half the time, and if I'm building something that requires "x" item, do I have time to go looking for it?...

Book Review: Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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  I was truly curious to read this book. I always enjoyed watching Alan Rickman in his movies even before he became professor Snape. And then he passed away and they published his diaries. I must confess I mostly did not enjoy reading them. I feel like I got a better idea of how Alan Rickman was like when he was alive. He was a normal human being with things he enjoyed, and things he disliked. In his short diaries he mostly talks about people he frequented, his movies and his relationships with his wife.  I got the feeling he was a bit disappointed in life most of the time. But this was his diary. The entries were short. And when I write in a diary it's usually to get something out that I don't want to bother other people to know. This may have been the case with this diary transcript. It was interesting, but a bit boring at times. It took me so long to finish. RIP Alan Rickman. Cheers!