@tragedyjones said in Alternatives to TinyMUX for a small game:
I am looking to try and do a small, niche style game that I am certain doesn't have code support, being brand new. (Trinity Continuum: Æon). My current thought is something like Ares and use google drive to save sheets, but that feels clumsy.
You could always start with external sheet saving and eventually code a plugin for the system.
@Wizz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@Auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Thankfully, with the weighted blanket, I'm taking ambien even less frequently.
I really ought to try one, but I get so hot when I sleep that it usually wakes me up just with a regular one. Kinda worry I would be a sweaty restless mess, haha.
I do wake up usually at some point to kick it off, but initially settling in? Ohhhh man.
Just get a fan!
I have to keep an ambien script myself. The other drug they had me try wouldn't help me sleep at all, but I'd spend the following day feeling drugged and out of it.
Thankfully, with the weighted blanket, I'm taking ambien even less frequently.
@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:
@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Jaded I agree. Like it or not TLJ happened. By ignoring it you're not going to appease the people who did not like TLJ because of how you're going to have to drag out your new story with exposition and you're also going to ostracize the people who did like TLJ. It's a lose/lose. I think it would have been best to just springboard off of TLJ and tell the best story you can from there.
What is there even in TLJ to springboard off? TLJ basically neutered/killed all the villains and all the plot threads from The Force Awakens.
just think RoS could've been 2.5 hours of casino planet
Coworker: "Auspice, Auspice, you have to try this, it's so good. It's the best thing I've put in my mouth all week."
Me: <trying so hard not to say anything>
Coworker: "...and you know how much I put in my mouth."
(it was homemade fudge, btw, and it was delicious)
I'm in the camp of 'ain't got shit to do' for Christmas. I've decided to work Christmas Eve (so much I gotta do ;.;), but I'll be home all day Christmas Day. Probably packing, but up for distractions.
If we play on the same game(s) and you would like some RP on the 25th, feel free to gimme a nudge.
@Selerik said in How To Fix MU Soapbox:
A while back, I switched to infinite scrolling on a lark to see what it would be like. Since I did that (and quickly switched back, it was awful hard to keep track of anything) the game has consistently been dumping me at the wrong spot of ongoing threads I return to.
I don't mean the start, I don't mean the end, I mean somewhere in 2017 (on average).
...Halp.
I wonder if it's related to the fact that since a recent update, if I click on a notification (soandso liked your...), it just dumps me on a random post in that thread... not the one actually liked.
I just chalk a lot of it up to 'nodebb is garbage.'
@Roz said in Good or New Movies Review:
Haven't seen the latest movie yet, but it's absolutely nuts that there wasn't an outline and narrative arc planned out for the trilogy as a whole. Like, the fact that one writer could start it off, then another picked up with apparently no real idea of where the first writer was going with stuff/what the plan was -- it's just, like. Man. This is a billion dollar franchise. They couldn't plan out the arc of three movies?
I don't think it's proven there wasn't. I think people just want to use that as an excuse.
The fact that they had footage for Carrie for RoS planned and completed before TLJ says to me they absolutely knew where it was going.
I've seen a lot of people point to the MCU but remember: that's Marvel. Marvel began that narrative path before Disney bought them.
Now it could be said that Disney should have learned from Marvel, but saying 'they already did this....' No. Marvel did. Not Disney.
The model for movies within the Lucasfilm wing may be wildly different than in Marvel.
I, on the other hand, enjoyed Rise of Skywalker.
It wasn't perfect. The pacing dragged a couple times and I think they should have tightened it up into 2 hours.
There were a few dropped plot threads I'd have liked more of.
But I went in as the person who grew up with Star Wars. The person who has terribly fond memories of watching it on VHS every chance I got. Who had an Empire poster that was an original theater poster. Whose first midnight movie release was one of the prequels because even disliking them, I still give each one a chance.
And in that vein....it worked. My inner child was happy. It continued the Hero's Journey vein that began all the way back with New Hope. Would I change things if it were me? Sure. Little more of this or little less of that.
But overall... I enjoyed myself. I dunno that I'm in a rush to see it again (my 'would watch again' movie rn is 1917), but I liked it more than TLJ. I'll say that for sure.
I just want something that works for chronic pain. That's all.
My legs are getting worse. Maybe it's the weather. I'm just tired of struggling just to walk in the mornings.
@Rinel said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
lol I wish. My clonazepam gets me to "unhappy and functioning."
I was prescribed this once. I stopped taking it after a month because I noticed no difference at all. It led me to assume, for a long time, that it was one of those drugs that doesn't actually do anything and doctors prescribe it just to shut people up.
I know now it's def. otherwise (based on friend's experiences with it) and I figure it's just yet another thing I'm weirdly immune to.
Tramadol was the same way. I never understood why I had friends who would literally buy it off of people to take for fun. It was like 'I was once prescribed this and it did nothing??????' to which I got some horrified 'BUT WE WOULD'VE BOUGHT IT FROM YOU' looks.
I am KIND OF JEALOUS of people for whom pain drugs work. It'd be nice to take something now and then. Instead I'll just keep fighting for weed to be legalized countrywide since it actually works.
@reimesu said in Good or New Movies Review:
I am REALLY tired of hipster douchebags droning on and thinking it's a critical review, when all it is, truly, is yet another douchebag thinking he's an edgelord.
Shhhh. Let people like things.
This is why a review is supposed to cover more raw specifics. Who wrote the movie. Who directed the movie. Which actors are in it and what else have they been in that a reader might recognize.
Then you can go into some specifics. Use of tropes. Cinematography. Soundtrack choices. Pacing. But it should all be presented in a way that still allows a reader to make up their own mind. It's a very hard balance to strike (informative without being biased), but it is doable.
Too many reviewers now want to force readers to think like they do and have the same preferences they do.
@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:
@tek Good choice for needles, too. Chiaogoo are
Least crazymaking cables ever.
I haven't tried them yet. I do really want my Addi Turbos again. I had a pair that were PERFECT for knitting hats and they disappeared so long ago. I've just never pulled the trigger on buying a new set.
And @tek it is a lovely stitch marker. I have a set of Star Wars markers and a set of Firefly-themed ones that are tiny dinos and strawberries.
@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
here's a review from some shit at eFilmCritic. Go ahead and read it.
tl;dr
Actually, more like: I know how to write film reviews (we had to do it a few times in school) and I didn't get past a couple paragraphs because that's just a shit review.
Any reviewer who puts more of themselves into the review ('This happened to me yesterday' 'In my childhood' 'So then my buddy Bob was telling me...') just likes to hear themselves talk. That shit is fine for a casual Mommy Blog, but not for a professional.
Also, looking at his review record, it appears that unless it's one of those 'WE KNOW THIS FILM WILL WIN AWARDS' (The Irishman for example) cases, he consistently rates lower than average.
Meaning: this guy is the professor that refuses to ever give out an A 'because I want the students to have something to aspire to.'
@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
Critics had nothing good to say, but audiences clearly enjoyed it.
To be fair, Gerard Butler was a terrible choice for the Phantom.
But so pleasing to look at.
@Derp said in Wildly Out of Context:
@Auspice said in Wildly Out of Context:
"...it absorbs all the bad energy and reduces radio waves"
WAT.
Let me guess. It's also all natural and fat free.
considering I work at Whole Foods? Probably.
Part of why I can 'see' the shift is that I used to do some small theater performing and my audition piece was 'Someone Like You' from Jekyll and Hide. Other theater people recommended it to me because a) it's an alto-soprano piece so I'd show my range, b) it's known without being one of the 'big' songs out there, so it'd be a spark of 'oh! this is different!'
This was 15 years ago. And I think now critics (as @Lotherio was saying) feel a need to prove how 'cool' they are. Cats? YAWN.
And this happens to p much every musical-turned-film. I give you the Rotten Tomatoes scoring for 2005's Phantom of the Opera:
Critics had nothing good to say, but audiences clearly enjoyed it.
