Two things have happened this week that have seriously hampered my ability to get shit done.
1. Ironside Games released their new game Kingdom Rush: Vengeance.
I complained last year about how I didn't have enough dumb games to play and part of that was because it had been SOOO long since there was a new Kingdom Rush. Kingdom Rush is my favourite iPad tower defence game. There are three of them already - Original, Frontiers and Origins and they are all super gorgeous to look at, super fun to play and full of clever little pop culture references. Vengeance is the fourth Kingdom Rush and it came out TODAY OMG SEE YA
2. The Last Kingdom Season 3 just showed up on Netflix.
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm a little heterosexual for Uhtred of Bebbanburg.
This show is set in the 800s and it's about Saxons vs. Vikings, or "The Danes" as they're called in The Last Kingdom (is there a difference between the Vikings and the Danes? I don't care enough to look it up, if you're passionate about it, let me have it in the comments).
Uhtred was born a Saxon, was raised a Dane and now forms a bit of a bridge between the two, plus he is trying to reclaim his birthright, the throne of Bebbanburg, which his uncle stole from him when he was a child.
I don't know if I'd recommend this show to anyone I know, honestly, because it's violent and has a lot of dudes in it. I don't even know why I like it so much but I REALLY DO and also, in one season, one of Uhtred's sidekicks is a kick-ass warrior nun named Hild OH HERE SHE IS NOW HELLO
The Last Kingdom is less rape-y than Game of Thrones (or it has been, up to now, I can't speak for Season 3) and also, while bad things happen to the good guys, bad things happen to the bad guys with equal frequency, so you don't feel like Uhtred just spends every episode getting kicked in the knards. Fun!
(As a side note, I watched part of the first season of the show Vikings and I got all excited when they were about to land in England for the first time. But I suddenly realized "Wait - this isn't Star Trek: TNG - these guys aren't excited to learn about new cultures or open diplomatic channels. They're just going to fucking kill everybody and take their shit." And they did! I didn't watch much more of it. Good times.)
What will I do first??? Play Kingdom Rush? WATCH The Last Kingdom? HISTORY WILL DECIDE.
