@Aria said in Superstitions:
@Ghost You suck. ^_^
(Also, no. I think I caught all of three games this season. The hours at my internship were ass.)
Hey, I suffered, too. They traded Simmonds. 
We had that problem with the coyotes, too. Every time I watched on TV they lost, but every game I went to, they'd win.
Yotes haven't been to the playoffs in 7 years, but the few years prior they were in the playoffs I stopped watching them play in the playoffs altogether so maybe they'd win.
@Aria said in Superstitions:
There was a season where if I watched the hockey game, my team lost
Was that this season, by any chance?
@mietze That's amazing. Like...by virtue of being prepared for it, it's kept you safe from it so far.
Anyone got any good superstitions they actually live by to share?
I'll go first. I work IT. A long time back someone brought in donuts for a code release. The release became a nightmare. No donuts? Release was fine. Bagels? The release was a nightmare.
We now actually have about 30+ people with a solid no circular breakfast food on release day rule. No lie. People will be mad at you for bringing bagels or donuts when it's showtime. Young people, old people, management, atheists, evangelicals, it doesn't matter. This is a thing.
@Aria HAHAHAH or Skid Row doing "Youth Gone Wild"
They called us Problem Child
My knees can't run a mile
I like my salsa mild
WE WERE THE YOUTH GONE WILD
Sidebar...Danzig was in Samhain.
Do you think when people call it "Sam Hain" that Glenn goes "Wait wait wait...it's SOWWW-wenn"?
@Aria Yanno, the song Motherhas an entirely different tone to it when it's sung by a guy in his late 20s covered in muscles. Now it's sung by a guy in his 60s with dadbod.
@Lotherio Yeah, my Rancid, Offspring, Ritual Device show where Eric Melvin showed up was at the Ranch Bowl.
RIP the Ranch Bowl
@Lotherio The Vandals are great. Man, almost all of that Epitaph Records new wave punk pre Blink 182 era stuff is solid. Rancid, Nofx, Bad Religion, Offspring...
That was a good era of music.
Boom.
@Aria I actually passed on GnR despite being a fan (which I think means liking Appetite, Lies, and half of the 2 Illusion albums). The stuff Slash has been up to with Myles Kennedy I think is so much better, and I kinda wished they just hired Myles as GnR's new lead singer.
Everyone that went says it was great, though. So maybe I did miss out.
What We Do in the Shadows is amazing. Amazing.
I love Matt Berry, and I love me some Psychic Vampire.
@Jaded Yes! That's what it was. Indoctrination Theory. Thank you.
@Auspice I went FWC because it got me the most time around Shohreh Aghdashloo's voice acting.
Her voice is magical.
@Arkandel AAAAABSOLUTELY. Duncan or Conner. If it's a girl? Connie or...Duncan.
Because if your name is Duncan Macleod it is literally valid to introduce yourself as Duncan Macleod of the Clan Macleod
I know someone whose name is actually Duncan Macleod.
It's distracting.
Meh, America.
The 2020 campaign season started on Nov 9, 2016
@Ganymede Oh I know, but from a poetic standpoint I really liked this interpretation and it made the ending better for me.
Kinda like the interpretation of Prometheus I read, which turned it from BLAH to WHOA for me.
ETA: I think sometimes games/movies have this artistic point that they fail to deliver, but if you look close enough you'll see what they were trying to do. That maybe the director was shooting for KING LEAR and through bad storytelling they didn't get their artistic points across, but after a closer look/2nd viewing with some insight it makes so much more sense.
ETA2: Prometheus interpretation was one that related the creation of the first xenomorph to the birth of the antichrist, and thus the first day of the eventual end of mankind.
Question: I watched a video on YouTube eons ago that went into detail on their interpretation of the RED, BLUE, GREEN ending of ME3 to actually be a trick question.
It basically said that the intended ending was the one where you deny the reapers, the reaper technology explodes, and the Geth die. The reason being that ever since ME2, Shep had Reaper tech implanted in him/her and by ME3 you saw what the Reaper tech was doing to the Illusive Man. So at RGB ending, it was really the Reapers trying to trick Shep by presenting "saving all life by melding biology+reaper tech."
That "Reapers take control" was never the intended selection, and that "the reapers die but everyone is fucked" was made to sound scary enough to be hesitant to choose, but that melding Reaper+biology was their plan all along...and everyone would basically end up like the Illusive Man (implanted, controlled, taken over like the Borg).
Is this pretty much everyone's interpretation of the ending? I dont know if thats how the general ME community viewed the ending, but ever since I saw this video that's been my take; that the RGB Shep ending is ultimately about Shep fighting internally against the Reapers
