Posts made by Derp

So, is Fallcoast the only place that currently offers this? I really want to play Mage again. It's my go-to game in the World of Darkness. But I haven't been able to find many places that have it available, besides Fallcoast. So, help me out here. You know of a place that has it? Preferably the vanilla version and not too much in the way of 'kind of resembles the books but with so much homebrew you'd hardly notice they were the same'?

Are there any games in the works for this? I thought I heard something about @EmmahSue maybe coding up one of these bad boys?

@Thenomain said:

@Coin said:

@Thenomain said:

@Coin, look up Clone High.

I don't need to. The tagline of the original game was "It's like Clone High on opium!"

Then I am insanely disappointed that I never played this game, and would love to see someone do it again.

+1

I could get behind a game like this.

So, recently saw The Witch. I have to admit, it was better than I expected. Just enough in-your-face mixed with oh-god-what-next tension moments, plus a cool story. Really good movie all around.

Deadpool was the tits, of course.

Hateful Eight was another good movie. I enjoyed that flick so much, even if it starts off at a slow burn, like most QT flicks.

What else did I see recently...

The Fifth Wave. Meh. The eye candy was nice, but it was definitely another one of 'those movies'. You know the kind. Definitely aimed at teen girls while they try and desperately cram a romance plot into pretty much anything that isn't a romance movie.

I think that about sums it up for my recent moviegoing adventures.

Alright, so I'll add a few things that I like in here. I've been meaning to post here since this went up but, you know. School. It does bad things to my brainmeats. @Coin can feel free to make fun of me or whatever.

Note: I have diverse musical tastes, so I'll try and put these in some semblance of genre, but it'll be loose at best. I make no promises of accuracy.

Edit: I can't figure out how to force line breaks for cleanliness of reads, so.

Rock-ish:

AIRBAG - Noches de Insomnio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMiRB_abpvE

Second - Nivel Inexperto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vh5nT1WASg

Miss Caffeina - Mira Cómo Vuelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP2mvrGY94g

Second - Rodamos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMjSZnxWfg

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Pop-ish Dancy Stuff

Nicky Jam - El Perdón (the original, better one, before Enrique ruined it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU_FFtbCcLc

Jesse & Joy - No Soy Una de Esas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrAXmzuGgek

Carlos Rivera - Quedarme Aquí
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf22iOwT_78

Dasoul - Si Me Porto Mal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv3wno0M7Ng

Vetusta Morla - La Grieta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGyU3QLjQus

Romeo Santos - Cancioncitas de Amor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk4HYngf65w

Romeo Santos - Propuesta Indecente
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFs3PIZb3js
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Rappish:or Hip-Hoppy, Something

Los Aldeanos - A Veces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlZbGfy4_Lg

Ocer y Rade - Por Nosotros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7IPTovEnNM

Arce - Lucifer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKg8Q2eEqEs

Arce - Luzbel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pjOAYShAE
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...Neo-Oldies? (I don't know, you tell me)

Ana Mena - No Soy Como Tú Crees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TveMmc6Bfuo
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Chill Stuff

Bely Basarte - Matemática de la Carne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8PCWtSFE7s

I feel like this should get some peer review that I don't have time to give it right this second, and then made sticky. And flashing. And possibly mandatory to read. Potentially with a quiz at the end.

@mietze said:

I too have tried spawns. For whatever reason, my brain just cannot seem to attend to them. I'm not sure why. (This may be why I also struggle with/rarely try to multiscene unless one person truly doesn't mind prompting me and/or wants a very very very slooooooooooooooooooow scene. I do have some favorite people who due to work/otherstuff pose in the 30-40+ minute range). Someone was very super sweet and walked me through setting up spawns on potato and it was a disaster because I totally lost channels and ooc communication for the night.

Maybe this is an acquired taste thing though, and if I trained myself to "see" it better it would be helpful. In theory I love the idea. In practice I think my brain is scattered enough that separating things out futher just isn't helpful to me. I do however really love and make use of name/phrase highlighting.

This is also the reason that I don't use them. For some reason, I just work better with a thousand different things in front of me all sort of cluttered into one monstrous pile that my brain somehow parses into something elegant and beautiful. I didn't even use spawns when staffing, but I think the two-windows thing helped to at least keep that somewhat organized.

For instance, when researching, I will never have just one book open at a time. I will have like, eighteen, all stacked on the desk (probably open), working my way through the threads of the thing I'm following. I couldn't do it one book at a time, like some of my friends. They like, have all their shit on the shelf and just go to it when they need it.

How does that even work?

Edit because Mietze is not Ganymede, and for some reason I thought I quoted Gany.

Totally worth it. You will likely catch in-jokes that you didn't notice the first time.

I will second this.

There are very few movies that I've been looking forward to for over a year that I don't walk out disappointed in some way. Deadpool was not one of those. I was thoroughly satisfied with this movie. (I saw it three times, so.)

I've been trolling Spotify's Top 100 and Viral 100 charts for Hispanophone countries so I can get some actual listening practice, since I live in the most Whitebread town in the USA. Argentina's list never seems to have much rock-rock on it, but it has some nice alt rock and pop stuff that is very entertaining.

I will look at these, too. I may hit you up for some suggestions.

I really hope they don't fuck it up.

@Warma-Sheen said:

I've never had a night where I said to myself 'man, I really wish I would have told that extremely attractive woman that I like to play D&D'. Never. Not a single time in over a decade.

But like... it works for Vin Diesel. Why not for everyone else?

@Coin said:

I always thought it was more of a you-sekh, with the kh having a hard g or j sound, a la Russian.

Same, 'cept I go with more of an 'ooh' sound instead of a 'you' sound.

Was told about this place by a friend. Wanted to comment on something. It was like, 4am and I'd been up for two days trying to hammer out a term paper from scratch since my original idea turned out to be unworkable, and it was a 400-level class. Literally everything I tried, failed, so finally when I had run out of ideas I sort of jokingly typed 'Derp' into the thing and amazingly, it took it. Since it was easy to remember I stuck with it.

@Ganymede said:

I mean, I got a PS4 for Christmas. I haven't even hooked it up yet. The thought of sticking it onto my entertainment center just made me start up ME3 and The Last of Us again.

I bought a PS4 forever ago, and every time I think of buying a new game for it I remember that I have The Last of Us.

And I just re-played all of the Mass Effect games.

So +1 to this. (Also, does this mean we're getting old?)

@ThatGuyThere said:

They barely mentioned the Federalists, a party that while brief did a large part of shaping the form of the government let alone anything that is out of the US.

They also almost never mention the Antifederalists, technically the losers in that particular battle but a faction whose concerns about the power of a federal government are turning out to be quite prescient.

@Ganymede said:

I'm not sure if your gamble will be a good one. Most noted law professors have some degree of practical experience. The best ones do, that's for sure. Knowing how to argue a civil rights case is an excellent skill to have, but knowing how to get the information you need to make that case is an art form that you will never learn in a classroom.

Oh, I'm aware of that. I'll still go through fellowships and practicums and whatnot. But by far the biggest predictor of whether you get a professor's spot or not is your amount of serious publications, and less how much experience you have. I've done tons of research on it already and spoken to a couple of law school deans. I don't need to be famous, just doing something that I love.

But it wouldn't be a gamble if there weren't some degree of risk.

@Luna said:

I highly recommend Lynda. I get access for free with my school. Maybe your school offers that too. It's nice.

Lynda is seriously boss. If you haven't checked it out, you should.

@Cobaltasaurus

Really, I don't think anyone should go to college right out of high school. It's a terrible idea. You need some real world experience before you have an idea what you want to do/what your passions are in that real world. High school is not the place to learn that, while they're busy cramming knowledge down your throat that most of us will never use.

The lies my teachers told me still boggle the mind, and had I gone to college right out of high school, no way would I have ever picked Political Science, or Law, and I wouldn't be pursuing minors in Legal Philosophy and Spanish. Those are decisions that young adults just should not be making until they see what the world is like.

@WTFE

Yeah. It'll tell you that you have followers, but not tell you who those followers are. Lovely isn't it?

Mietze's advice is great, especially the part about doing your gen-ed work at a community college. It's cheaper and more reliable, and frankly, only the classes you need for your major really need to come from your main university, and only then because they have residency requirements most of the time which require you to take X number of your major classes there in order for them to award you the degree.

Me, I decided to take a riskier route. I've always had a passion for law, and wanted to be an attorney, but the kind of attorney I want to be (Civil Rights/Civil Liberties) is absolutely not where any sort of realistic money is at. But about halfway through my polisci degree, I had a realization. As much as I'd love to practice that sort of law in any meaningful way, what I'd really like to do more than that is teach.

Except, law professors are some of the most competitive fields in the nation, especially given that lawyers are now less in demand than they were.

So now I have to take a gamble. Get my BA in PoliSci, and apply to law school at one of the satellite universities that I'm attending, wherein I will pursue a joint J.D/Ph.D program in Law and Political Science, and then spend the next two years in a Civil Rights/Civil Liberties LL.M. program followed by a Jurisprudence LL.M.

Why? Because it'll distinguish me from other candidates, and give me a fuckton of publications under my belt that show I'm a serious academic as well as a competent attorney. Which is what law schools are looking for when they go to hire professors, who make a surprisingly decent salary. But that's assuming that I stay on top of my shit the whole way (much easier, admittedly, since i'm not 18 and I know damn good and well what lies down this road).

But with the Ph.D in my pocket, if all else fails, I can fall back to teaching PoliSci, which is the next best thing, or possibly go into politics myself.

So really, anything you wanna do that's less risky than -that-? I'd say go for. Especially if you find something you're really passionate about.