No Lives Left

  Meow... (purr....) Mmrrrr Mrwoer.... (Purr..Purrr) Hisssss... Mewowowwwowweeow... Score: 7/9 lives ------------------------------   But for real,  Stray  is a fun little game.  It really makes you feel like cat. When this game was first announced, the trailer immediately roped me in. The idea of playing as a cat in a sci-fi setting just seemed had the perfect amount of cuteness and intrigue. I've been around cats all my life and still love to be around them to this day. So it's only natural I'd be inclined to want to play this game and discover its world.  Don't get so used to your friends Stray  is a short game. It doesn't take more than 6 hours to get through the whole story. It would have been shorter if I didn't get intentionally lost in the first area of the game. Your cat is outfitted with surprisingly few mechanics. You can meow and jump and run. Eventually, you can use a flashlight and UV ray but the flashlight is rarely needed and the U...

  "That is why We ordained for the Children of Israel that whoever takes a life—unless as a punishment for murder or mischief in the land—it will be as if they killed all of humanity; and whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity. ˹Although˺ Our messengers already came to them with clear proofs, many of them still transgressed afterwards through the land." (Qu'ran 5:32) One of the last sentences of Ms. Marvel Season 1-paraphrased of course. It felt weird hearing this from Kamala's dad. Especially how it's paraphrased. It's like when in The Amazing Spider-man  when Uncle Ben says, " He believed that if you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to do those things! That's what's at stake here. Not choice. Responsibility." instead of the obvious line, "With great power comes great responsibility."  In the last episode of the season, Kamala Khan comes back to Jersey City and immediately...

I honestly don't know why I am still writing about this.  I've been talking to other people and I've confirmed that the show  somehow isn't for me. Despite it showing the a character with the color of my skin and sharing my religion. At the beginning of the season, I mentioned that Ms. Marvel  is akin to a nickelodeon show or a CW show. The quality of writing is as such and while I was hopeful the writing and pacing would get better, it really didn't. I actually doing enjoy some zany live action Disney channel and Nickelodeon shows, but looking back on it, I never really cared about teen drama shows. So What I do want to get into is the flashback/time travel of trains traveling out of India to Karachi. Being an South Asian American who didn't know much about the partition, it was really cool to see a western take on it that wasn't whitewashed or brown-washed. Somehow it felt kinda... just normally washed to me? To be honest I haven't seen much media abo...

Spoilers for Plot Points of Ms. Marvel Episode 4. But if you've been following this, you know I am planning on spoiling the whole thing.  Episode 4 is in the books. In this episode, Kamala travels to Karachi, Pakistan to visit her Nani. I was originally wondering if she would somehow sneak out with Bruno to go on an international flight, but it seems like there was an offscreen reason for Kamala's mother to visit. In any case, Kamala meets her cousins who don't really do anything throughout the episode (they are just excuses as to why Kamala can do stuff without her mom knowing). She meets new superheroes that fight Djinn called the Red Daggers who immediately fail at fighting Djinn/ClanDestines (they end up escaping to protect Kamala).  We do get to see more of Ms. Marvel's powers and how she controls Noor  (Light), so that was cool. I have warmed up to the powers she has but I do wish she had the powers from the comics. In this show, it feels like she has a limited ve...