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I'm not going to complain about a movie with Tom Holland... This movie is entertaining as a stand alone thing. I've only played the game a little bit, so I'm not as married to the source material. That said, it is a rip-off of Lara Croft's Tomb Raider which is itself a rip off of Indiana Jones. I'm sure there is a deeper dive there too. To be fair, I like all the franchises and pretty much most things that fit in this sort of genre. (Don't get me started on National Treasure ) Enjoyable flick. Don't think too hard on the physics.

My buddy and and I both comment to each other about such things even in movies we really like.

Moonfall is another movie from groaner disaster movie guru Roland Emmerich. This movie is one of those -turn your brain off completely sort of movies. If you are familair with physics, turn that off. the laws of physics are even more optional in this movie than in 2012, which features a limo doing jumps under a subway train... the groan are more than that. The special effects are pretty good though. Interesting sci-fi story but we're not talking Arthur C. Clarke here either... If you like non-serious disaster movies where the actors earnestly try... this is one of those.

I've got so many books, that I need to keep them organized or I'd never find them when I need them. That is the closest book storage location to my usual writing spot...

They do a little. One of the shelves in my home office...

Just remember that having them on the shelf just makes them available to use when you need them. To get results, they need to be more than colorful decoration

The Positive Trait Thesaurus: a Writer's Guide to Character Attributes by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi. As you might guess, Positive Traits is the opposite of yesterday's Negative Traits. Like yesterday's book, this should be in your library too. Also with yesterday, this helps you fill out your character and make them more well-rounded.

The Negative Trait Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Flaws by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another great book in the Thesaurus series. As the subtitle tells you, this book focuses on character flaws. Like the other books in the series, the book gives a lot of details around different flaws and common interactions and conflicts that result from those flaws. This book is very helpful for adding depth to characters you are writing. Another one to have in your library if you are interested in growing your writing skills.

The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: a Writer's Guide to Psychological Trauma by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another book in the Thesaurus series that helps writers round out their writing. This one is focused on traumatizing your characters and giving you all the dirt on what that causes. This gives you plenty of drama related to the trauma, what results from it, how to overcome it and the traits and behaviors a character would have when they suffer from it. Strongly recommended for authors that want to add depth to their characters.

The Occupation Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Jobs, Vocations, and Careers by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi is another book in the Thesaurus series of writing support books that gives you details on various occupations. Common traits, common skills, common conflicts they are involved in. A great resource for making a more well-rounded, less cliche characters. Definitely another one a writer should be keeping in their library.

This is a very addicting game. You play as long as you can survive, die and start over. What keeps you going is finding out the story, which is really quite interesting. The music is cool and the voice acting is top notch. Excellent game. I sunk a LOT of hours into it as a way to unwind after a long day of work. Pretty inexpensive too. And it's on all platforms, I think. worth checking out!

I figured I'd wrap up the current 3 movie timeline. (For the record, the money-losing disaster that was the start of the Hollywood crap show of the last few years "Ghostbusters 2016" is not part of canon at idiot director Paul Fool's insistence) This movie is kind of an apology from Sony for the above mentioned crap show. It has plenty of little fan thank yous. And the main plotline is actually a pretty touching tribute. Also of interesting note, they forced Bill Murray to appear in the 2016 crapshow by threatening to sue him... he appeared in this one because he wanted to. I think this movie is also the bookend of the 2016-2021 run of the "destroy and subvert everything that came before" with the 2016 crapshow Ghostbusters. I have no idea why huge companies by these popular franchises and they set up to piss off the fans and expect that attract more new ones? Good movie. A good example of how to not lecture your audience...

Ghostbusters II was not quite as good as Ghostbusters, but it was still an enjoyable movie. Well worth watching nonetheless. Funny. I love the ghost train and ghost titanic.

Truly a comedy/horror classic. I, of course, have the 4k movie. Definitely worth the entertainment factor.

This is one heck of a tome. Guy Sclanders has a wonderful YouTube Channel that goes into a lot of topics beyond his books as well. Aside from being a professional artist, game master and author, he's also on our team as a fellow gay creator. There are some really nice techniques described in this book about giving the bad guy goals and motivations. I think this can help us as writers as well, writing it down and when the muse causes us to deviate, the villain will have to adjust his plans too. Not to dissimilar to when Players deviate from a planned story from a game/dungeon master. Even if you aren't a gamer and are just writing a story, the ideas, concepts, motivations etc, help fill in the world and give the sense of purpose to those characters that would otherwise just be milling about.