Double post to espouse the merits of Odd Taxi. It's a good mystery and the climax has a good pay-off, while also leaving things on a bit of a cliffhanger. It can be somewhat predictable if you're astute. For instance, I predicted ***Spoiler***
Anyways, good anime. I recommend.
They're being too clever for their own good. Humans love right angles. We surround ourselves with them even though they're unnatural.
Behold the bane of Dracula!
I rather like the idea that it's because crosses present a philosophy so diametrically opposed to their way of being: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2009/09/10/vampires-crosses/
@wizz said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I've thought about it, there's a local bar that honestly isn't awful judging by the few times I went with friends. But I have literally never tried to strike up a conversation or flirt or whatever in that setting, so deliberately going out to do that is kind of intimidating especially with all the pandemic stuff going on. I dunno, haha, maybe I'll work up the courage eventually.
I would hold off on that strategy. When I was in college and grad school, that was still a thing, but it was dying out. Now hitting on people at a bar is considered creepy.
You might still be able to MU*. Ares has the ability to allow for play by post style MU*ing. It's not really my thing, so I don't know much about it, but I know a few people around here are really into it.
@greenflashlight said in RL Anger:
Is that a danger to the firefighters, or just a waste of a drone?
If someone is flying a helicopter over an area monitoring the spread or maybe airlifting equipment, firefighters, or water to a hard reach area, they really don't want to have to also worry about colliding midair with a drone flown by Idiot Human Being #6,578,200,635 trying to fucking rubberneck.
@ganymede said in Random funny:
I have the makes $15 cocktails look. Though, my mustache isn't that glorious.
I also make cocktails at home that would cost $15 at a decent bar.
@wretched said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):
This image is clearly photoshopped. Women don't message first on dating apps.
@arkandel said in Random funny:
Though, I will note that most police are clean-shaven, having grooming regulations similar to the military, but that is slowly changing.
Our Dear Leader is going to be incommunicado for a while? It will be bedlam!
@ganymede said in Leave of Absence:
It helps that Dave Chappelle's outspoken advocacy for the area has led to folks like Tiffany Haddish getting interested in investing in the Dayton, Ohio area.
You live in Yellow Spring? My cousin went to Antoich something like 22 years ago.
MU*s have had their death knell toll. Why play with other boring, creepy, annoying, etc. people by text, when you can satisfy that itch with single-player awesomeness that have this shiny new thing called graphics?
Lords & Ladies your jam? Lakeburg Legacies is a city management sim, where you also have to match the townsfolk and local nobles to get romance to bloom and make babies who will grow up and help the kingdom thrive. (On a more serious note: There's a bit of a eugenics feel here that may put some people off, as you're wanting to match people with certain traits to make babies that have even better versions of those traits so your kingdom can prosper.) As PartyElite put it in his Youtube review of strategy games at this E3, "Is this a new hybrid genre of city builder and dating sim?"
What's that? You prefer your Lords & Ladies IN SPAAAACE (because everything is better IN SPAAACE)? Well, have no fear, for someone has finally, FINALLY made the Crusader Kings IN SPAAACE that we have all been hungering for in Alliance of the Sacred Suns. You are a Space Emperor of Space and you must manage Space Houses with their Space Nobles in a Feudal Society in Space. what more needs to be said?
Maybe you're done with the L&L and you're looking more for some hard sci-fi action, a la Battlestar Galactica or the Expanse. Well, you better Starbuckle up, because Falling Frontier is a space-based RTS game with all of that delicious hard sci-fi flavor (other than the superluminal stuff). Early Access was supposed to be this month, but they've delayed it to later this year.
What? That's not hard enough sci-fi for you? You want something based around earth and set in the near-future? Meet the XCom I personally wanted - Terra Invicta. Play as one of Earth's countries as we discover aliens on the edge of the solar system. Fight the aliens or other countries or both!
Maybe you're a fan of Civilization 6, but always thought it was weird that Cleopatra of Egypt was going to war with Theodore Roosevelt of America in 200 AD. Well, someone finally fixed that with Humankind (probably the game I most excited about). Move through seven eras, picking a new culture for your faction to represent in six of them, slowly building a combination of traits and bonuses that stick with you through the ages. It's being made by the same guys that made Endless Space I & II and Endless Legend, so, if you were a fan of those, then...well, you probably already know about this game.
Wow! That's a whole lot of simulation and strategy games! Yes, that's because that's what I like to play. Did something non sim-y or strategerie oriented get shown at E3 that you want to discuss? Shout your hype here.
Upvote for Aggretsuko. I had forgotten about that show and it is very good and very funny. It also crosses cultural boundaries pretty well, so you don't have to worry about not getting some bit of humor that deals with the nuances of the Japanese workplace.
You're not supposed to give a treat every time they do a trick for just this reason. Sometimes you get the treat and sometimes you don't. You don't know when it will be, so might as well do it every time, in case you miss one of those times.
Double post to say, the opening theme is one of the most uplifting themes out there. I love listening and watching to it, even though it's for a dark show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsNDDwhSJ4
And, once you watch the series, I recommend Nightmare Masterclass' breakdown of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GohPZHWErWY or Super Eyepatch Wolf's "Why You Should Watch Paranoia Agent:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVagWJhvVbM
Uh oh. I am seeing a lot of annoyance at people bringing up how good this anime is, frustration in the lack of viewing options, disappointment in having to pay per episode, and regret for not watching it when it originally aired...
How has this one not come up yet as a classic?
Paranoia Agent
Trigger warnings on this one. Dark, surreal, and, I feel, becoming a more and more accurate representation of the world we live in. It starts as a mystery, moves into psychological thriller, then becomes a supernatural metaphor for modern society and escapism. It has a decent sized cast with interesting characters, a nice mystery, good animation, and a good pay-off at the end. Oh, and it was created by the late Satoshi Kon, who also directed Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika.
It starts off simple enough. The main character is attacked by a boy with roller skates and a golden bat. Soon other people are also getting attacked by this hoodlum. However, he only seems to attack people that are under a lot of pressure and can't cope.
Is the fast pace of society getting a little too fast for you? Are the pressures of living overwhelming you? Is the 24-hour Newscycle driving you mad? Is the other side on the political spectrum making you hate humanity? Are your personal failings weighing you down?
Do you just need to escape?
Lil Slugger wants to help.
@duntada said in RL things I love:
I have been listening to Old Gods of Appalachia a lot lately. Horror podcast that takes place in an alternate Appalachian mountain range.
Obviously being here I have an interest in folklore and folk magic, and there is still stuff that pops up now and then in this that I wasn't familiar with.
Have they talked about Mothman or Bell Witch yet? Or the Peebles Test Operation Facility or Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant?
Some variation of Mirror Universe Spock/Mirror Spock/Evil Spock is the only acceptable name.
I have. I prefer "fuck him/her silly," "fuck him/her stupid," "fuck him/her crazy," or "fuck his/her brains out."
I get similar stuff in my position and other jobs I have had. It's interactions like this that are slowly convincing me that the average person is a complete idiot and democracy is a terrible idea.
