Posts made by Miss Demeanor

@ganymede No judgment. Just save me a seat and we can sit in silence, enjoying our pho-ital bliss.

There is a hotel restaurant here in MI that I discovered has poutine as a 'secret' appetizer you can order. It will never be found on the menu, but you can ask for it. SO FUCKING GOOD. A bit pricey but goddamn is it worth it.

+1 to @mietze for the Pho

@mietze If you start to turn green or fuzzy all over, you have expired.

@auspice This is true! And would explain a ton

@arkandel Agreed. It almost feels like he was doing the movie against his will or something. He just put zero effort into the character.

@arkandel I will absolutely agree that I would not want to sit through an extra 20 minutes of them explaining stuff in awkward and stilted fashion (as was apparently the only way to share information of any kind in this movie). And yes, IF they are looking to make this a franchise, I can absolutely see leaving people hanging a bit. But man, I will be super disappointed if nothing comes of it. I want to know more!

Also, is it sad that the best relationship portrayed in that movie was between the orc gangster and his kid?

Per Bright:

I felt like the world needed more exposition. I was left with too many questions. Not about the characters, I found I couldn't actually bring myself to care about them... but about the WORLD. There's just so many questions, so much more I want to know about this place! They drop teasers and hints but so much is left up in the air!

I am happy to teach someone... to a point. This is something @aria and I had discussed not all that long ago. And yes, this is using the WoD system again, but whatevs. Back on HM, there had been this girl. She was relatively new to gaming, and MUSHing in particular. No big, lots of people start out that way. She's asked 'do you have any of the books'? Nope. That's okay, she's given links to drivethrurpg so she can buy the WoD mortal book and Changeling book. But, she's poor, you see. So she can't buy the books. Okay. Some of us grab her on Skype, offer to share OUR copies of the books with her. But you see, she's just a girl (teehee) and this technology stuff confuses her. Eyeroll and start to squint. She gets someone to handhold her through cgen. Enter Schoni, the goblin girl. She goes out into public and starts RPing. But, you see, she doesn't know what any of her abilities do, could someone please look up this power and tell her what she has to do and how? This continues for MONTHS. She actively resists all attempts and offers to set her up with the books so she can look this stuff up for herself. Instead she relies on the other players to know this shit FOR her. It was ridiculous. Most of us recognized this in a matter of weeks. Some poor, noble and deluded folks, continued to try to help her. It took about 6 months before people finally stopped helping her and she was forced to learn the game.

@ashen-shugar Okay. That actively made me giggle. XD

I am intrigued but warn that I have strange working hours and may not be as active as the rest of the Krewe.

@lithium said in Good or New Movies Review:

That's exactly it, you have to go into a movie looking at it by itself, not trying to compare it to the books. A book is an entirely different media, much of it filled with your imagination, there are huge gaps and differences in style and flavor. I can enjoy a book for what it is, and a movie for what it is. They are two different things entirely.

In some cases, (The Lost World), only the barest of lip service is paid by the movie to the book. Don't get me wrong, TLW was awful on its own merit... it was additionally awful for only very vaguely resembling the book.

@golgoth No argument there. I went from Florida to Michigan, so I voluntarily moved to a place with actual seasons. Its been weird, but good. XD

The ability to go to the bathroom without missing 5-10 minutes of prime movie action would be a GODSEND.

Pretty good! Life has been a thing. XD Moved out of Florida, got a new job, house, all the fun things. You?

@golgoth Hi! I haven't talked to you in forever! Glad to see you're still about, we kinda lost track not long after Daiden died.

@saosmash I moved to Michigan from Florida. I haven't lived in a region with snow for more than a decade. And apparently my half-remembered skills learned while a teenager are still superior to people who have ostensibly lived in the state for more than three months.

@royal I can't rofl-face at that, so have an upvote!

@golgoth OMG DAIDEN!!!

/start2CENTS!

I think its less of a technology thing and more of a people thing. Some folk just cannot handle multitasking, and especially cannot handle too much 'input' at one time. Me? My job is multitasking. I constantly have multiple things occurring simultaneously and I need to be able to keep track of them all. So for me, having a MU client up, a browser with Facebook and MSB running, a movie playing on VLC... none of that is really any different than I do all day already. Some people couldn't handle having all that distraction and extraneous input coming at them. Its not wrong its just how they're built.

/end2CENTS