Just started episode 2 of Another Life. I like it. I like that there's a nonbinary person on there who, as someone said earlier, just happens to be nonbinary (at least I'm assuming binary on account of the whole beard shadow thing. Maybe gender norms are more flexible in the future HERE IS HOPING). The characters are interesting.
I'm just genuinely enjoying it and wondering where it is going to go, which is a pleasant thing.
I'm enjoying THE BOYS so far. It's completely over the top, but I like the Watchmen-meets-Burn After Reading vibe I get from it.
Things to try out :
Arx
Gray Harbor
Things to avoid at all costs:
MSB
Oh shit what are you doing:
The Hogpit
I keep waking up nauseated and feeling unwell and I don't know what's causing it. I think it's probably dehydration. It sucks.
@silverfox said in Good TV:
I'm ready for some solid nostalgia.I screamed in excitement upon seeing Data in that trailer because I SOBBED for hours after Nemesis.
I didn't cry on account of the movie being pretty terrible, all things considered, but I was highly bummed. I really, really like how they're turning Nemesis and the Star Trek reboots into the catalyst for something great.
(Those were Romulans in the trailer, right? And the thing Picard did that was so extraordinary was rescuing them, right?)
@Thenomain said in Good TV:
I’m getting burnout on a considerable amount of nostalgia bait.
I don't think sequels are nostalgia bait. If every episode is "focus on an old character," then sure--but it doesn't look like that will be the case.
Yeah, if you're a spice afficiando it's worth learning the Thai for spicy. Usually you'll get the real deal.
I, for my part, can enjoy white people spicy, but have no interest in heat past what the humble habanero provides (and usually that is more than sufficient).
AAAA THE SECRET WORLD
Also am I incorrect in sniffing out some SCP vibes?
@saosmash Can't say I agreed with all his decisions, but I can say that I respected his truly independent legal reasoning.
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
I've been having a rough couple weeks and today I woke up with that sick-depression feeling (where you're not sick-sick, but so depressed you feel ill?). It led into a super ADD day that was just... frustrating (frustrated at myself for being so damn unproductive, basically).....
....so I really, really appreciated all the compliments I got on my awesome rainbow socks. They were exactly what I needed.
Two things.
One, I know exactly what you mean. When you're so run-down mentally you start flagging physically. I'm so sorry you feel that way, but you deserve congratulations for getting through the day.
Two: those socks are amazing. I don't go for bright colors, so the muted/autumn take is SO pretty.
Former US Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has died.
I was feeling sort of meh on Rinel/Arx for no reason in particular, so I stopped logging in every day and started playing Gray Harbor.
Less than a week I had dozens of new and exciting ideas and am back to loving playing Rinel. Plus I've found a fun new MUSH.
Take a break. Doesn't have to be official. Just show up less. Your brain is fantastic at working on things while you are away from them. It'll give you something neat.
FWIW, I was a little bummed on Arx when I didn't get a super sekret theology 6 file that was ALL MINE MINE MINE MINE, and I was actually pretty significantly bummed when all the theology/occult gated info became public.
Not, like, temper tantrum angry, but definitely an audible sigh and an "aw, man" whine.
But I'm a dirty knowledge grubber, so take this with several shares in a salt mining company.
@Tempest said in General Video Game Thread:
Good. Down with PC gaming.
Why?
@Sparks said in General Video Game Thread:
FF7 was a Playstation exclusive; so too is the remake.
FF7 was a Playstation exclusive for a limited time. It was released less than a year later for PC (on, like, 8 CDs). I'm not worried about that being the case; I'm worried about there never being a PC release.
@Ghost said in General Video Game Thread:
Squenix just announced they have no plans to release the FFVII remake on any console other than PlayStation.
Suck it, Microsoft.
Wait wait wait wait wait
does that mean PC is off the table?
That's sort of what I mean. Like, anime and manga are media, not genres. Dragon Ball Z is not Violet Evergarden is not Howl's Moving Castle (I know it was a book first). I don't understand how the "feel" of some adult slice of life anime is supposed to be at all similar to the "feel" of the latest shoujo self-insert fantasy.
Does the idea of "[setting] three hundred years down the road" bother you as much, where it's just a sort of silly prediction of what sort of things will have happened or what sort of tech will be present?
Someone please explain to me what an anime/manga RPG means and how it is any different from a "movie rpg" or a "book rpg."
