Media Review: God of War Ragnarök

God of war ragnarok hd game poster

I picked up a used copy at GameStop a couple of months ago and put a LOT of time into it. I remember spending time looking into how to unlock all the different items and story beats in the game.

The game is huge! You can spend hours going through the story and getting to know the characters.

Now, I’m 96% done with the game. I’ve got a couple secret bosses that I can’t seam to beat but I’m pretty satisfied with how the main story has played out.

But than someone asked me “did you like this game more than the first?”

I don’t think I enjoyed this one as much and some of that is my own fault. In an effort to stay on top of all the little collectables, I saw a number of spoilers. In addition, focusing on different items to pick up in the hope that I don’t have to double back made it so I wasn’t fully engaged with the story.

Still, it’s a fun game and excellent conclusion to Kratos’s story… until they bring him back to get more money from the IP.

Cleaning the home office

I’ve been put in charge of all cleaning in the house. I’m not complaining about it. I’m an adult. I’ve done this in the past.

Of course, the house is a mess.

None more so than my office area. The one place that I’m in 100% control of.

Pleasantville, 1998 - ★★★

Saw this with my wife over three days because a certain someone kept falling asleep. It’s got a message somewhere in there and it definitely echoes things that I’m seeing nowadays. I think they had to rush it and didn’t really stick the landing. 

This was definitely a movie that made me think about what 3 stars means.

Pleasantville, 1998 - ★★★

Movie poster for Pleasantville

Saw this with my wife over three days because a certain someone kept falling asleep. It’s got a message somewhere in there and it definitely echoes things that I’m seeing nowadays. I think they had to rush it and didn’t really stick the landing. 

This was definitely a movie that made me think about what 3 stars means.

A 2-Minute Clip From 3 Body Problem

The premiere date for the Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem trilogy by Game of Thrones showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff inches ever closer and, well, I just really want this to be good (because I enjoyed the book series so much).

I feel that D and D are really lucky to be given a second chance on making something. They just got bored at the end of the Game of Thrones and I do not want fans of this new series to suffer the same fate.

All in all, I wish the best for everyone involved. I’m going to skip this one.

Direct link to the clip

Friendsgiving, 2020 - ★★

I like the fact that this film was different from what I would normally watch. It’s light and sometimes thoughtful about relationships. It’s got some dirty jokes in it as well so don’t watch this with the little ones. 

My wife said the movie was stupid but she was the one who recommended it.

Friendsgiving, 2020 - ★★

Movie poster for Friendsgiving

I like the fact that this film was different from what I would normally watch. It’s light and sometimes thoughtful about relationships. It’s got some dirty jokes in it as well so don’t watch this with the little ones. 

My wife said the movie was stupid but she was the one who recommended it.

Juicy Studio Div Mania

More and more web documents are appearing that consist of nothing more than a collection of `div` elements. In most cases, better use of CSS selectors could be used to avoid overusing the `div` element.

This is a site with a lot of great examples of what you can do with CSS and semantic HTML.

Labarum: Ruling the horizon

A screen shot with numbers pointing to various issues with horizontal rules.
Two problems with the horizontal rule

I’m at the point where I’m looking at contrived examples and edge cases where my theme has issues. I don’t write like this but there might be someone who does. In the above picture, I see to problems the first is that the horizontal rule doesn’t really match up with the colors of the site. The second more egregious is that the line is ducking underneath the image.

I used the Inspect feature of the browser to check out what was determining the behavior of the line and saw that the ducking was caused by setting overflow: visible in the normalize.css. This isn’t the first time that I’ve run into an issue with something like this. As the browsers move closer and closer to interoperability, I’ve been questioning whether having normalize.css as part of the theme is important.

Ultimately, I decided to add the following css rule to fix the issues and will have to reevaluate later.

hr {
  color: var(--accent);
  overflow: auto;
} 

Feeding the Robots

I’ve been reevaluating the meta tags I had defined in a previous post. I was happy that it passes the validation tests but I’ve been thinking about how I share my writing.

Original, I truncated the description fields because I read that it’s better for SEO. But why? Search is results are getting worse and worse. It’s ultimately up to whatever social network to take the information and display it. Going forward, I am using the .Summary for the description.

I also added a property that allows you to set your mastodon username if you’re using something other than micro.blog.

I tested putting all the meta comments into one line to reduce repetition as in the following.

<meta property="og:title" itemprop="name" 
  content="MicroPost - &#123;&#123; .Site.Title}}" />

Unfortunately, the W3 validator marks it as invalid. I switch it to having multiple lines that use the same content. I thought about contacting the people who set the criteria for the test, but decided not to at this time.

A Short Test with Obsidian

Things I’m grateful for

  • Having time off to help my family
  • Journaling to help me keep my sanity
  • Being in my particular part of the world
  • Having some time to think this morning
  • The opportunity to make the world around me a little better