I'm not traditionally a huge movie guy, but I'm starting to come around.

Over the past few days, my daughter and I watched the first two "Sonic the Hedgehog" films, then we went as a larger family to see the third one in theaters last night. The first movie was a dud I thought, but the second one was very entertaining-- and the third one was excellent: I was smiling throughout the whole thing. Without giving any spoilers, the end credits of the third film will have you super pumped to see the fourth one.

Before watching the movies though, my daughter watched me play through Sonic 1, 2, CD, and part of 3 & Knuckles via the "Sonic Origins" collection on PS5. That wound up being a smart decision, because she picked up on tons of references in the films, to the games.

In other news, I've been working on my HaxeFlixel game a bit over the past two days. I'm pretty nervous for all of the lectoring I need to do for upcoming Masses, so this has been a nice distraction. So far I've just been implementing a dynamic menu system, which I will be able to use in the game proper for both character dialog, and for the settings menu I'm creating. The people on the Haxe Discord server have been super helpful when I've had questions.

In any event, Lazio play Lecce soon. After that huge "back down to Earth" Inter loss, I'm curious to see how the team responds.