Columns, Past Lives, Z-targeting

I’m sending out that column about Chuck Schumer. Again, I’m trying to reference cellular agriculture in all these broader, anti-fascist pieces. If you’d like to submit your own writing, feel free to use these newspaper email lists: https://slaughterfreeamerica.substack.com/p/how-to-write-letters-to-newspapers-6eb

Anyway, let’s do (Cell) Culture Talk. Here’s what I’ve been watching and playing lately.

Movie — Past Lives. Celine Song’s directorial debut is a wonderful romantic drama. It’s apparently based on her own life experience. Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star as South Korean childhood friends who reunite as adults, after the former’s character immigrates to the United States.

Game — Ocarina of Time Randomizer. Well, I’m no ZFG, but I completed the seed. It was fun! There was a little bit of an issue with Z-targeting, which wasn’t present when I played the vanilla version of the title on the same emulator. However, I was able to work around the problem.

I’ve started another seed. This time, I’ve tried to fiddle with the settings to make it more vegan friendly, by removing the need to ride Epona, fish, and hunt skulltulas. I also eliminated the shooting gallery requirements, as precision aiming with the iPad controls is really difficult.

Sports — Knicks beat Blazers, 114-113. New York narrowly escaped with the win, courtesy of a Mikal Bridges buzzer-beater in overtime. Bridges finished with 33 points. I gather he and coach Tom Thibodeau got in a back and forth through the media about the starters’ minutes load.

Sports — Knicks lose to Warriors, 97-94. Draymond Green is a jerk. He recently accused Karl-Anthony Towns of ducking Golden State, which was forgivable, given he didn’t know the New York star was attending a funeral. But then he continued to antagonize Towns here.

Sports — Knicks beat Heat, 116-95. The match was close in the first half, however New York pulled away in the second. Mitchell Robinson and Towns playing together seems like an interesting combination. The former could cover up the latter’s defensive vulnerabilities.