I'm not sure which came first, but it all started when I pretty much simultaneously discovered a couple of previously overlooked prequels to Game of Thrones on HBO Max, and, decided to pick up a game I abandoned a few years back shortly after I'd bought it on sale on Steam because I thought it was too hard, Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
In regards to the game, its a single-player RPG where you assume to guise of some young man named Henry in 1403 Bohemia (roughly present-day Chechia) and try to rise up the ranks in a war-torn medieval society by wit, cunning, hard work and a lot of combat. The combat was the hardest as I play on PC with keyboard and mouse and like so many other first-person perspective games featuring combat, it requires you to have 20 fingers to manipulate all these complex keyboard combos blindly since you really have to keep your eyes on the monitor to see what you and you enemies are doing. And, since I die so much from my ineptitude, I get very frustrated because its save system is very fixed in that you can only save at sparsely-located spots, for the most part. But I'm slowly but surely, after about 20 hours in, getting the hang of it. The lore and graphics are awesome making this a joy to just wander around and talk to NPCs. This is the first game, by the way. They just came out with the second and its on sale, but, since its new, the sale brings it to about $45, a little more than what I want to spend right now. Plus, I'm many months (IRL time) from finishing this first edition, I'd guess, so I'll hold off until I complete this one and maybe the price will come down for like Cyber Monday in November or something.
The HBO shows I watched, were A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and House of the Dragon, in that order even though in the Fire and Ice canon they're chronologically the opposite where Knight happens about 90 years before the start of Game of Thrones and House starts about 200 years before. Knight was charming in that it showed a lesser mucky muck crowd of Westeros near-vagabonds and wenches where even the titular knight is what's known as a "hedge knight" since his level of knight finds lodging wherever he can on the small amount of coin he's got so it can often end up being under a tree, or by a hedge. House, which I'm actually only partially through the first season as of present, is a bit more like the OG Game of Thrones with it's high-brow royals and nobles surrounding the king all plotting and scheming and, of course, killing and whoring around. So far I'm not liking it as much as Knight, but I'll get through it and I may be pleasantly surprised.
Between my computer and my TV, I'm going back and forth from one medieval distraction to another so much, I go to sleep and dream of thieving, jousting and singing hearty bards ballads in the taverns having frothy brews with "me mates." Has me searching for my broadsword first thing when I wake up, screaming to my wench to fetch me a breakfast of gruel. Maybe I'm a bit too immersed?