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A fatass bag of Lifesavers wintermints

I am not generally a fan of mint, peppermint in particular can go fuck right off. But wintermint, goddamn do I love it.

Raise your hand if you killed the fuck out of the Cardinal at the end of the rescue mission on Voeld.

I was really hoping to get the action prompt and I wasn't disappointed.

@Sunny Hey sorry. I guess there's no accounting for levity in the midst of serious matters.

@sg Just finished binging on it.

Good stuff. As good as the first season.

@Auspice Or hell, Alien Isolation.

I /still/ have a hard time playing that game because that damn thing can pop out at any given moment and eat my face off.

@admiral Mike was just salty because it was another girl that's not 11 trying to join the group.

Her brother is just a violently damaged jerk with daddy issues.

@Auspice said in Generic sci fi game.:

@Monogram said in Generic sci fi game.:

@Auspice Isn't that just replaying the story of Aliens at that point?

Not that I'm COMPLAINING. I'm not, seriously, I'm not.

You know you would love the fuck out of a game inspired by the Alien franchise, but tweaked to be more compat long-term (I mean, the movies kind of make a thing of 'one or two of us were lucky to get out alive').

Yes, I love it so vigorous and hard, like a one night stand. Considering the events I like to run(and I point to the few horror ones I ran on 5W that I still look fondly on), that'd be right up my alley dark sci fi Lovecraftian horror stuff.

Went back and played through Witcher 3 after not touching it for more than a year. Gave me a chance to play through Blood and Wine which left me extremely satisfied in terms of how DLCs should be. Dare I say it's more an expansion given the size and scope than a DLC itself.

If there was ever anything bad I could say about that game, it's the fact that it ends, and now leaving me with placing that game as the gold standard by which everything else should be judged.

There's just nothing to play right now for me. At least not until Prey comes out. Though I have been picking at a couple of indie Metroidvania type games that seem interesting. Axion Verge for instance.

Hate, bigotry, racism, and sexism has won. It's like waking up from a nightmare that actually ended up being a reality. Now it's okay to be hateful in public because now we have a president that is setting the example.

If you're black, you're fucked.
If you're muslim, you're fucked.
If you're LGBT, you're super fucked with Pence as VP.
If you're hispanic, you're fucked.
If you're a woman, you're probably fucked.

GOP now controls the majority in the house and senate. The country is now being controlled by the ultra super christrian far-right that we can trace it's humble beginnings all the way back to Regan. Anything good the last eight years will be stripped away in an effort to make this more like the 'wholesome and good' of the 50s. It's like watching the beginning of Fallout except the almost laughable idea that it's actually happening.

My fiance was literally looking at Canadian websites today to see if her job field was hiring in Canada. I looked at her, asking her if she's doing so as a joke as a joke or not. She said she had no illusions that being a woman in America is going to suck for at least the next four years. I was surprised by that, mostly because so many people often joke or claim they're moving to Canada, but she was actually looking into it seriously.

The world seems grey today. I don't whether to laugh or be afraid. It's like we just had one-up Britain after Brexit, like a 'hold my beer' moment.

I don't know anymore. The angry person in me would hope for a quick impeachment or retelling of Dallas 1963 but...

I ran out of things to say. I'm just at a loss.

@somasatori I think I made the same joke myself when the idea to make the game first came up, after having watched the first two seasons.

Still, the handful of us that are there, I've enjoyed it. If I had never heard of the show or book, I would just treat it like a sci-fi original theme. And for me, that's completely my thing.

The fact that you were willing to put effort into it says something. I say keep doing it, no matter how much or how little, it's having the drive to keep doing it, even if you don't see progress at first.

Especially if you don't see progress at first. But keep at it. It will show.

I'm against the idea of the playerbase splitting off. If only because I've seen what happened far too many times when that happens. Players and characters get seperated, hardly ever act with each other and the game stagnates because nobody can ICly get along with each other, even if the players are just fine from a OOC standpoint.

When you split a game, it slows everything else down. The story, the progression, just about everything. This, again, is my opinion and my experience, I'm sure there are those with a different experience to say exactly why I'm wrong. If people want to call it 'railroading' because staff don't want to do something that just because some players may want to but would be detrimental to the game overall? Whatever, call it railroading then. As far as I'm concerned, it's keeping a game going.

@surreality It's a monstrosity built of faux wood and bent aluminum. But it's at least better than the damn thing I had from Walmart that I'm pretty sure would fall apart if I so much as sneezed at it.

Besides, I am not putting what will eventually be a $1500 gaming PC on it.

But yes, doing stuff with my hands, there is a certain amount of catharsis to it. I've thought about doing the Bob Ross paint thing, because why the hell not. I've found when I needed a moment to chill the hell out, I'll watch Bob beat the devil out of his brushes and keep wondering why I don't do that myself.

There is one other thing I've noticed that helps me. Is simply asking a friend or two to do a simple RP campaign on Google docs. There's no sense of urgency, I can pose when I feel good about doing so and it's singular story between two people. Not idea that I have to worry about the ramifications or metaplot if I'm running something for someone else. It's rewarding in a way and right now it's comfortable. Because I still like writing, still enjoy writing, it's still hobby no matter how much I believe I'm not as good as I want to be at it.

And that is the greatest fault that I find myself struggling with, something I've talked to a few friends. And it reflects so hard on my life away from the computer. The desire to be 'good enough'. Just as I wonder to myself 'why would this friend want to talk to me when they have others?' is just as equal to 'why would this person want to RP with me when there are better people to do so with?'

My girlfriend applies to the theory of 'fuck them', because she, like @Ganymede is a brickhouse when it comes to that stuff. I don't know whether it's the doubt or the confidence that has me constantly wondering if it's me. Either not creative or interesting enough or bad posers or rife with grammatical errors.

I will never be good enough to be an author, I just want to be good enough for own thing.

Added note: I want to build a gym in my basement. I think lifting weights would be good for me to get back into.

@GirlCalledBlu I love sushi. Don't ask me why that makes it different from fish, but it does. Sushi is exempt from fish tasting like ass.

I've notice for me, that splitting my time from a lot of things help. While I may not be prepared to get heavy into RPing just yet, I have found an outlet in having this new PC.

I started playing Guild Wars 2, at the suggestion of a friend(because she wanted someone to play with). I had never touched an MMO before, a fact that I was always proud of. I played for three hours today, and during that time, had zero interest or desire in doing anything MU-related. I consider this a win for myself. My medication made that desire decrease dramatically, playing something else to occupy my time made me forget about it entirely.

And it's a bit relieving. Knowing and understanding that I have a grip on it. That I control how I feel, rather than opposed to my brain driving and demanding me to log onto a MU because it fuels and feeds me those chemicals in my brain that I don't get normally.

It may of been a $1400 investment, but its the best investment I've made in a long time.

Giving this game a bump for attention. Someone pointed out Beast to me, and while I've never played, after reading a good portion of it, I'm pretty dead set on trying it out.

People seem pretty darn friendly too, so that's plus as well.

I noticed today that my beard had gotten a bit unruly. So because I like to keep my beard neat, short, and trimmed, I decided that before my usual shower in the evenings, I would trim it down, shower, then shave.

I go upstairs, and picked up my clippers without really checking to make sure that the guard was on it, that lets me adjust the levels. Nope, didn't think about it, and just turned it on. I noticed right away after the first stripe, the length of exposed cheek and stood looking in the mirror in mild shock and horror, which only then turned to annoyance, given my lack of awareness.

I mourned the loss of my glorious and beautiful beard, but there was little I could do. So now I've had to go back to the goatee until it grows back in.

Nothing horrible, just really annoying, especially when it could've been easily prevented.

CG wasn't horrible, it was pretty straight forward, I think, beyond the point that I either misread a thing or two and having old habits when it comes to CG.

My only lasting problem is figuring out Lairs with Beast. It's just so abstract that I find myself having a slight problem with trying to wrap my head around it.

When you have barely anything in pantry(and haven't gone for gorceries in over two months) and is able to put something together using ingredients you wouldn't normally combine and it turns out being pretty damn good.