This… is BGNN

Things you might want to know, for Feb 19, 2023:

• Raquel Welch: A life in pictures
• Former US President Jimmy Carter to receive hospice care — The first presidential election I could understand was Jimmy’s… I have no idea why, but I felt very strongly that he should beat Ford. Of course, I also felt that Howard the Duck should win as a write-in, so my pre-teen politics weren’t finely honed.
• Age of Empires 4 is getting a dash of Age of Mythology-style magic in tomorrow’s big update — We played a lot of AoE and AoM around here twenty years ago. There was a lot of Warcraft 2 & 3 along the way, but it was Age of Empires that drew me back.
• Meet the actual therapist using Dragon Age to teach relationship skills — I really enjoyed Origins and how it played. I still haven’t made it past the opening of Inquisition… by that point, it was feeling way too much like an action game.
• The best games for PlayStation VR 2 — They’re mostly retreads of SteamVR and Oculus titles at launch, but I’m confident Sony will do better over time.
• Olivia Colman makes the perfect Miss Havisham in the new Great Expectations trailer — I’ll enjoy anything Olivia does. She even made Broadchurch watchable.
• Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey is a movie-length gross-out gag — There’s an actual movie about a bear doing cocaine. That exists. So I feel like anyone wanting to defile the Winnie the Pooh brand needs to set their sights higher than Blood and Honey… or lower, depending on perspective.
• The first big Shadow and Bone season 2 trailer ushers in the darkness — About damned time. I was surprised at how good this show turned out to be, and I’ve been wanting more of it while that third season of The Witcher remains just over the horizon.
• Who Destroyed Live? Alt-Rock Band Torn Apart By Drama, Crime, Lawsuits — …I had no idea Live was an ongoing concern as late as 2019. Wow.
• Roald Dahl’s Children’s Books Republished to Remove Offensive Language — I can’t say I approve of this sort of thing, but I’m relaxed about it. The unedited versions still exist, so I choose to view this as a translation into “modern English”.