Apple Arcade - Beyond Blue (2020) [/] Beyond Blue is a casual/timeless scuba diving game where you can swim to sea creatures and examine them. Each level you complete a sequence of tasks -- find creature, examine, find buoy, use sensors, find data collector, get data, find non-mobile life, collect specimen -- and there is no time limit or dangers. The underwater simulation is fairly good and it's kind of nice just swimming around and watching the sea life. There is a hint of a plot but I only played two or three levels.

Podcast - First Contact Gamer (2022) [-] There are few table-top wargaming podcasts. First Contact Gamer had its first real episode Jan 2023 and nothing since so maybe it's dead already. The episode showed some promise kind of going for bigger/more serious wargames which is more in my interest. But I can't recommend a podcast with only one episode.

Anime - Revisions (2018) #1.1 to #1.9 [-] When they were kids Daisuke (voice Kōki Uchiyama) was kidnapped and saved by Milo (Mikako Komatsu) and told he has a destiny to fulfill. Seven years later he's that weird survivalist militia teen whose only friends are the four other kids who were with him seven years ago. And then the city of Shibuya is dragged from 2017 to 2338 where giant Revisions -- humans with a deadly disease that use machinery to keep them alive -- are out to enslave the 2017ers. Milo reappears as a representative of the Anti-Revisionists faction (a small minority of this post-apocalyptic world) but she doesn't remember having saved Daisuke. She does have mecha, String Puppets, that only the five teens can use. It's up the five teens to overcome their fears and inexperience and save Shibuya, even though a good number of the citizens think allying with the Revisions wouldn't be so bad... It's 12 half-hour episodes with really good animation and voice acting. But the teens, especially Daisuke, are really annoying. After nine episodes I decided that I wasn't interested enough to watch the remaining three.

Dreyer's Slow Churned Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream [+] I had the butter pecan ice cream and it was bad so I wasn't going into this with any expectations. But it's really good and I think because I love the cookie bits which are more like ice cream sandwich cookie than regular cookies. So it is kind of like taking an ice cream sandwich and mashing it up but with much better ice cream (I find ice cream sandwiches ice cream is not that rich and flavorful).

Movie - Rubikon (2022) [/] Science fiction movie. Aboard a space station three astronauts (played by Julia Franz Richter, George Blagden, Mark Ivanir) witness an apocalypse that wipes out most of the Earth. The astronauts have an algae that might help the survivors but it requires three people (for the CO2) to maintain the space station's habitat so either they all go down in a slim chance of saving the survivors or they all stay. Most of the movie is trying to solve that problem an the arguments as it's one astronaut who wants to stay, one who wants to go, and one who is not sure... I found the story interesting and the ending is foreseeable (though not necessarily predictable) from things set up in the beginning.