Posts made by Ganymede

@Derp said in Good or New Movies Review:

We've known that the force can heal people and stave off death for like a decade now. Wtf do you think Anakin was even trying to learn?

How to kill children?

@Ghost

You think Lundquist is the worst? Try Price or Rinne.

NHL '18 isn't my favorite, but it's not that much different than '17. I find a great deal of success moving up the boards and cycling on Overload behind the net. Sticking two people in front of the net has the effect of also screening the goaltender, so I usually combat this by sliding my defenseman into the slot and wristing it up into one corner or the other.

Assuming he was setting up a traditional defense, this will force the forwards from the blue line down. You can outlet pass to the strong side, and have a forward slide up behind your piercing defenseman while the defending forward pinches down and one of the two "blockers" moves up to check your piercing defenseman. With the goalie in the butterfly, you can then pass to the opposite defenseman or across the high slot to another forward.

Bam, one-timer.

I like to confuse human opponents by sliding up the boards and around the back of the net. On Overload, your other forwards will trail behind, so you can pass backwards to them (don't drop pass, ever). If the defending forwards are chasing, poke checks are more likely to create tripping penalties (which is very much the case in NHL '19). Once your opponent is a man-down, you have the advantage.

@Ghost

We should play online.

I don't always brag, but I usually run up the score to about 20-0 before letting the AI take over and re-enter the franchise mode.

Tips:

• Learn to cycle the puck.
• One-timing is more effective than attempting to deke the goalie.
• Keep your defense back.
• Check the puck carrier at the blue line.

If there's one thing I love, it's EA's NHL series.

Partner: Did you have a good Christmas?
Me: Yes.
Partner: Even if I didn’t get you anything?
Me: You’ve given me two children. That’s all I need.
Partner: That’s sweet.
Me: Thank you.

(Dramatic pause.)

Me: Toil and pain make me stronger.
Partner: I hate you.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

@surreality

I don’t really need to ask. I’m a partner. I do what I want.

But I am beholden to a partner in life, and she demands that I spend some time with our brood.

I do love my brood and my partner, but the former need discipline and the latter disappointment.

I get to go to work tomorrow, though, so not all is lost.

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Because sometimes parents are bullshit.

This from the generation that has the audacity to say:

I prefer to say it this way:

@Ninjakitten

I don’t really have a point other than some people with families and friends would rather be at work during the holidays.

Don’t mind me, honestly. I dislike the holiday season immensely. All of this cheer and time off makes my blood boil.

@Ninjakitten

When I was younger, I honestly preferred to work than spend time with family. And my friends spent time with theirs.

This year, I watched my kids all day. With two trials coming up in two weeks, I would have preferred work.

@Ghost said in Good or New Movies Review:

Those content creators, the actors chased off of social media, and the people who play wanted to be a part of Star Wars to keep it going even though the prequels were horrible? I respect them. They're keeping the candle lit. We are all on the same team, and Disney is working to keep it going, too.

And this is why I find so much wisdom in Ratatouille.

I’m going to interject to suggest that franchise directors are more hamstrung creatively than cinema directors.

Knives Out was fantastic, but it was all Johnson. I like Abrams just fine, but he’s working within the confines of a franchise. Nolan had an aberration to work with because Batman is fucking Batman, and I doubt his skills would have worked with Green Lantern.

So I think material is very important. And yes you need the right tool for the material.

@TheOnceler said in Good or New Movies Review:

People should go see Knives Out. It's Rian Johnson finally recovering from the stumble of making a critically acclaimed billion dollar movie.

Stolen.

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

ETA: Also a lot of 'it's all right to not know' and 'it's all right to grieve'. These things are sometimes most important for someone to hear, even if it is less immediately comforting than something like 'Jesus wanted another angel' and similar.

It’s my first Christmas without my cat. It’s my kids’ first Christmas without our cat. They still ask when he’s coming back, and it is all I can do not to cry about it.

Those fucking garbage children, I love them.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good or New Movies Review:

Anyway, it was an interesting discussion. Now it's just devolved into typical MUSB BS. A shame.

If you say so. I haven’t seen the movie yet. I can’t intelligently engage in the discussion, even if you can.

And you still can. No one is stopping you but you.

@ZombieGenesis

Everyone is welcome to have their opinion. I’m good with that.

That opinion can also be a negative one. That’s cool too. We can’t all like everything. That would defeat the purpose of entrepreneurship.

But in my old age, I have come to embrace the old Southern lady in me that has come to believe with much introspection that little comes from voicing a negative opinion. What’s the point? Do you seek to discourage someone from spending their money on what they might enjoy? Do you feel a surge of joy crapping on someone else’s work?

I will concede there is something amusing in squelching what others enjoy. There is a delight in ridiculing or shaming another for enjoying what you find puerile, tasteless, or, Heaven forbid, Republican. And if that’s what it is about, go for it.

Let’s not pretend it is somehow noble or sacrosanct, this desire to crush what others have probably taken a great deal of time and pain to construct. As someone else wiser than me taught me: let people enjoy what they want.

Sometimes that requires us to withhold our opinion, no matter how correct we may think it to be.

@Auspice

I am reminded of the oft-maligned suggestion that if one thinks they can run a game better they should make one of their own.

@TNP said in Good TV:

It is very, very obvious that he's played the games because he nails Geralt exactly. You can't get that kind of characterization just from reading a script or a book. They better pay him whatever he wants because he is now the defining Geralt.

Gonna post up this sick and simple shortbread recipe.

1 cup of softened butter.
1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
2 3/4 cups of flour.
1 tsp of ground cinnamon.
1/2 tsp of peppermint extract.

Everything except the flour into the stand mixer. Mix until creamed nicely. Add equal amounts of flour in three portions. Stir with stand mixer.

Put into 13” x 9” baking pan. Mash and flatten into flat dough. Jab with fork several times. Bake for 35 minutes at 300 degrees F.

Cut into squares after out of the oven. Cool for 20 minutes.

You’ll thank me. This takes about an hour to bake.

@Rinel

@Rinel

In the context outside of a courtroom, the listener has to determine if there is an intent or not. That determination has to be made from available facts.

Going back to my story, it’s really not about a lie, intent, or deception. It is about whether one should be gracious and accept an undesired product from a loved one rather than point out that you told them what you actually wanted. Because doing the latter is a very quick way for that loved one to stop doing you favors.