Posts made by Groth

I didn't dislike the Mandalorian but I also didn't like it enough to follow it week to week.

Do you actual lawyers enjoy watching Legal Eagle?
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpa-Zb0ZcQjTCPP1Dx_1M8Q

@surreality said in Depression Meals:

(This post brought to you by my urge to avoid cooking more today because I already ADD'd the oven timing and burned what I was going to be eating when I fell down a pinterest vortex.)

What helps me tremendously is the fact that both my stove and my oven have built in timers that turn off the heat automatically. That means I haven't burned anything or set something on fire for years. I also absolutely adore my rice cooker.

My strategy is to try to pre-cook a large amount of meals once a week so that whenever I feel like I absolutely can't cook anything, I just have to throw something into the microwave. Things like Lasagna, Chili Con Carne and Chorizo in tomato sauce all work really well.

@Ghost said in Good TV:

@Groth Yea Triss was good stuff in terms of casting. I think the major appearance points of Triss are red hair and freckles. The casting nailed that. I got the sense that they changed her behavior a bit to avoid her being a bit of a Yen clone. It would have been a lot stranger had they made Yen less Yen.

The single wierdest casting choice to me is Fringilla because unlike a lot of other characters she has a lot of family and is supposed to hail from what is basically fantasy france. Does that mean all of Toussaint will now be sub-saharan African or what?

@Ghost

I've seen a fair amount of complaints regarding the Netflix Triss but it seems most people overlook it just because the Netflix Geralt was so extremely on point and Triss isn't particularly central to the book plot. Meanwhile the Anya Chalotra Yennefer looks close enough to the Witcher 3 version that I don't think most viewers thought about it as a diversity thing.

@ZombieGenesis said in Good TV:

RE: Dracula

That really bums me out. I just finished the second episode and now I'm not sure if I even want to watch the 3rd ep. I was iffy on the first ep(many parts came off more like a parody to me than a reimagining) but the second episode was really good, IMO. Bah.

I will echo Arkandel that you'll enjoy the mini series much more if you leave the third episode be and just imagine your own conclusion to the story.

@Darinelle said in Arx Alts:

@Roz said in Arx Alts:

@Darinelle @mail clears out when PCs hit the roster. (Messenger doesn't.)

THEN WHY DID I GET ORAZIO WITH 300 FUCKING @MAILS?! <SOBS>

Because when a character is reserved rather then rostered, the character never goes through the cleanup command.

Dracula 2020 has one of the craziest Van Hellsings I've seen yet. Looking forward to seeing the remaining 2 episodes.

@Selerik
On the upside if your heart explodes you don't have to worry about your cold or allergies anymore.

@Apos said in What is the 'ideal' power range?:

It's not just about protecting new players from dinosaurs, but also protecting dinosaurs from feeling their time investment is completely meaningless, and being unwilling to do that and having no one at all do that.

I think the healthiest way to go is make sure the Dinosaurs have things that they can point at and say 'I did that' rather then having the biggest numbers that ever numbered.

For a long while now I've been a fan of the idea of keeping the power level of PCs relatively level while trying to find ways they can feel they're shaping the game world itself.

@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:

See also the rainbow-colored Mickey Mouse hats they sell during Pride Month. I think I mentioned those already but can't be bothered to check.

That is blatant profiteering merchandising. Not a statement of support. Disney would sell nazi Donald duck plushies at far right rallies if they thought it would make them net profit.

@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:

My position is, I don't think you should say you're an ally if you're not willing to do things an ally would do. Lying is generally a bad thing.

When has Disney ever said they are an ally? Their only political position has ever been profit.

@Rinel said in The Haul:

@Auspice

I'm kind of iffy on Hart. If I want devastatingly literal I can just pick up the NASB (or, frankly, spend a week brushing off my Koine and going to town on it myself).

In general, I'm a fan of the NRSV. The NIV is nightmarish.

What is even the point of a literal translation?

I remember reading Six of Crows and quite enjoying it up until the point I realized that the author set it up to make sure that literally every single one of the main characters got paired up and it started feeling really really weird.

@Apos said in Model Policies?:

. To me they are an artifact of bygone times when the player base was made up of a majority of people with way more time, way less obligations IRL, and way more energy.

I think OOC rooms are more of an artifact of the way the average MUSH grid is designed. I don't believe they were ever intended to be anything but a storage for character bits which were not 'in character' and the fact you could chat in the OOC room is mostly a consequence of the fact the admin never bothered disabling talking in the ooc room.

I made a cake!

@Macha
Madonna - Die Another Day

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Ghost Years ago I got to sit and talk with David Weber (author of the Honorverse novels) at length about writing. What it is to be an author. His experiences. etc.

but then he found out that- oh. Authors within SW were very very very very closely controlled by Lucasfilm. If he'd agreed, he'd have been given a very specific formula, every plot point, etc. It'd basically be ghostwriting in a sense. Other people would decide everything that happened and he'd just connect the dots.

I am surprised he didnt go for it considering his best books by far are the ones where the plot beats are stolen wholesale from CS Forester

I wouldn't make the split between franchise and cinema. Director flavor tends to come down to how they balance storytelling against spectacle.

Directors like Bay and Abrams lean heavily into the spectacle and are happy to introduce any random story element to hit the right emotional notes regardless if the broader context makes sense. This makes Hollywood suits comfortable because good spectacle is almost always guaranteed sold tickets.

Meanwhile the likes of Whedon and Del Toro have a deep love for the story they want to tell and are less willing to twist it for cheap emotional beats and spectacle but their movies still have a lot of spectacle.

Scorsese is then in the far opposite of the spectrum where there is not meant to be any spectacle, just an intense character driven journey. It makes suits uncomfortable because its really hard to estimate how well it will sell ahead of time.