Nothing hugely exciting, but I do have the day off today so I went to see a movie. The Iron Claw - about a wrestling family. I'm not into wrestling at all, but I rate Jeremy Allen White as an actor after The Bear, and it was on at a convenient time. Plus it was cheap tickets + free popcorn day at my local theatre (Silky Otter), so that was a bonus.

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have to admit I haven't heard of it, but I'm not exactly up to date with the latest movies. Was it good?

[–] Albatr0ss@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It was alright.. I think I just felt like seeing a movie, but for me there's not much on at the moment (until the next Dune movie comes out anyway).

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago

The last movie I saw was Trolls: Band Together. At least the kids liked it 🤷

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same here. Already had my vacation so, I didn't have any leave to spare. Just spent my weekend reading books and playing around with my Arch box, still tweaking stuff (kind of a never ending process really). I switched most of my system packages over to the new x86-64-v4 arch (AVX512) using CachyOS's repos, and everything seems faster (or could be just placebo lol).

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What have you been reading?

[–] d3Xt3r 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Just some Korean and Chinese webcomics, mostly centered around martial arts and reincarnation themes (Descended from Divinity and Battle Through the Heavens).

[–] throws_lemy 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another weeb as I am 👀

[–] d3Xt3r 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are dozens of us... dozens!

[–] throws_lemy 3 points 9 months ago

Sadly there are no c/manhua and c/manhwa communities

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is the first one this webtoon? https://m.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/descended-from-divinity/list?title_no=3450&webtoon-platform-redirect=true

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yep, that's the one!

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nice! Is it good?

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's excellent. I like that the martial arts aspect is only a small part of it - there's also magic, lots of kingdom building stuff, politics, war, relationship dramas etc, very bingeworthy. I'd rate it a solid 8/10.

[–] Dave 2 points 9 months ago

Nice! I'll make a note to read through it some time.