2020-21 CoVid-19 SiP Activities

Binge watched (with my kids)

• Black Widow (Disney+)

• The Winning Season (Amazon Prime)

  • Another loser turned girls basketball coach who fixes his relationship with his daughter and becomes a better person

• The Rocker (Amazon Prime)

  • Kind of C-movie version of McFarland. Football guy gets hurt, runs XC instead. Team wins state at the end.

• Farewell, My Dear Cramer (Crunchyroll)

  • Girls Soccer anime based on a manga series that is just now coming out in English

• Loki (Disney Plus)

• The Falcon and Winter Soldier (Disney Plus)

• Big Shot (Disney Plus)

  • John Stamos as a D-1 basketball coach who was suspended (a la Hoosiers) and coaches high school girls basketball.

• Justice League (cartoon) (HBO Max)

  • Another classic.

• Young Justice (HBO Max)

  • Watched with Kara. Good early teen series

• Kuroko no Basket (Kuroko's Basketball) - Crunchyroll

  • Basketball anime. Not as realistic as Ahiru no Sora, not as fun as Slam Dunk. Still pretty good

• Run with the Wind (Crunchyroll)

  • Running anime. Surprisingly good. Enjoyable since my son is a runner.

• Days (Crunchyroll)

  • Soccer anime. Centered around a kid who just starts soccer in high school.

• Haikyu (NetFlix, Crunchyroll)

  • Volleyball anime. Best sports anime since Slam Dunk.

• Ahiru no Sora (NetFlix)

  • Basketball anime. Best basketball anime since Slam Dunk. Do kids in Japanese basketball still wear baggy shorts?

• Picard (CBS All Access)

  • Not a bad serial. TNG cast looks old in this one. I'm getting the same feeling as with "The Expanse" started well, but tailed off.

• The King's Avatar (NetFlix)

  • Chinese serial based on a Chinese anime series about pro gamers. Enjoyable. Much like the CW's DC series, they are as much TV / young adult drama as they are about the gaming aspect.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender (NetFlix)

  • A classic. Maybe the definitive American animation series. Watched with my kids and it's definitely timeless.

• Avatar: The Legend of Korra (CBS All Access)

  • My kids are now 16 and 13, and they got this series. They wouldn't have been able to get it a few years ago. It's a nice growing up series.

Watched on my own

• Rerun movies (Amazon Prime)

  • Hoosiers

  • Blue Chips

  • The Program

  • Robot Jox

  • League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

• The Winning Season

• Expanse (Amazon Prime) Season 4 and 5

• The History of Time Travel (Amazon Prime)

  • Primer is better, but this one was entertaining

• This is Football (Amazon Prime)

• The Tick (Amazon Prime) Seasons 1 and 2

• Invincible (Amazon Prime)

• Love Robots + Death Season 2 (Netflix)

• Castlevania (Netflix) Season 3

• Pacific Rim: The Black (Netflix)

  • Not that Pacific Rim already didn't start in jump the shark territory, but this one kind of just pushes it a little further.

• Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS All Access)

  • Thought this would be funnier...

• Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 (CBS All Access)

  • Time Travel! It's Discovery, which is better space opera than the other series.

• Start-Up (Netflix)

  • K-drama. Watched this while on the my new treadmill. Typical drama stuff but with some fun start-uppy language.

• Wandavision (Disney+)

  • Started slow.... picked up after Ep 3. Agent Woo should get his own series.

Video Games:

• Paranoia (Epic Game Store)

  • Had high hopes. Very generic template RPG.

• Civilization VI (Epic Game Store)

  • Best Civ since Civ III.

• Into the Breach (Steam)

  • From the makers of FTL (great game), is a kaiju fighting turn-based simulator.

  • Had higher hopes for this one.

• Star Crawlers (Epic Game Store)

  • Better than I expected.

  • Wizardry-ish, sci-fi RPG crawler. Pre-fabbed characters (which was disappointing), but a decent story and some free play.

• Oculus Quest

  • In May, I got an Oculus Quest...

  • Google Earth is maybe the best application for it.

  • I tried using it with Oculus Desktop and Steam VR. I have some weird performance issue with SteamVR, so I'm holding off on HL:Alyx for a bit.

• Elite Dangerous (Steam)

  • I'm actually thinking about going back to No Man's Sky after playing this

  • Super open. Difficult to control. I'm trying like hell to not get into combat while playing.

  • Could really use a story line.

• Rebel Galaxy Outlaw (Epic Game Store)

  • Space shooter. Easier to control than Elite Dangerous

• The Last of Us Part II (PS4) - Finished

  • I enjoyed it. I understand why people are upset. It was a good sequel.

• Battletech (Steam)

  • I played the first couple of missions

• EverSpace (Steam)

• Ghost of Tsushima (PS4)

  • Platinumed this. Great Game

  • Finished this

• Baldur's Gate 3 - Early Access (Steam)

  • I really want to like this... I mean really want to like this... I hate early access games

• Wasteland 3 (GOG)

  • Enjoyable. RPG-style game. Seems a little unbalanced.

• Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS5)

  • Finished this one. Also a very good game.

• No Man's Sky

  • After launch went back to this. Much more enjoyable now. So many different resource / play styles

• Days Gone

  • Plays much better on PS5. After the first few hours of grinding, the story actually becomes pretty good.

  • Finished this one.

• Star Wars - Fallen Order

  • Plays much better on PS5. Not as fulfilling as I would have hoped

  • Finished

• Cyberpunk 2077

  • Played on PS5. Ok game. Middle of the road first person RPG.

  • Finished this.

• Returnal

  • On PS5. Surprisingly fun.

• Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

  • On PS5. Some of the cut scenes are amazingly good quality - like animation cinematic. More fun that I was expecting.

• Mass Effect Remastered on PS5

  • Started ME1... again... forgot how bad the controls were, but the game without spending minutes per session in an elevator is awesome.

• A Plague Tale

  • On the list of things to play.

Games:

Other things:

• Crammed all my photos into a single library

  • Organized them

• Created all this stuff in Google Sites from my old site

• Started to figure out how to do video for my kids stuff