VIDEO GAME: What the Car? (2023)

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What the Car?Year: 2023Rating: ETime Played: ~5 hours By this point, I expect a certain amount of silliness from the What the... series of games. From the highly referential humor of What the Golf? to the awkward control scheme of What the Bat?, I expected something ridiculous with What the Car? As half a racing game and half a platformer, What the Car? has tons of puns (a staple of the series) but lacks a little in the finesse of its controls. The standard set of levels in What the Car? have particular themes that then play off the unique movement style of the car. This was quite similar to some of the gameplay mechanics in What the Golf? There were also levels with greater challenges and, of course, each level had its own collectables and goal times to meet for a bronze, silver, or gold ranking. Casually playing through the whole thing didn't take too long, but I suspect that's why...
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BOOK: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)

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The Man Who Was ThursdayYear: 1908Author: G.K. ChestertonLength: 355 minutes / 5.92 hours On the surface, The Man Who Was Thursday has all the markings of a witty thriller satire. Unfortunately, as the subtitle of this work is “A Nightmare,” things don’t necessarily stay coherent to the end. It’s not that The Man Who Was Thursday is terrible, but rather that it loses focus and becomes absurd the longer it continues. And perhaps that’s the greatest tragedy of this book: that it could have been a solid story if it didn’t devolve into a nightmare at the end. I certainly liked plenty of aspects of the early parts of this book. Infiltrating an anarchist society with day-of-the-week codenames. The revelation that few members of said society were actually who they said they were. The conspiracy and twists as the protagonists and antagonists get flipped on their heads. Of course, this last bit is when things started going downhill. Perhaps it’s that odd...
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