I also binged the Witcher over the holiday and really enjoyed it. I'm especially pleased to hear from some friends and family who also enjoyed it without having any background knowledge from the books or video games; it's nice to know it holds up even to an entirely fresh viewer.
@Aria This is all good stuff. It's amazing and heartwrenching how sometimes people struck by horrific tragedies sometimes see their friends disappear -- because those friends "don't know what to say" and so stay away entirely. It didn't happen to me when my brother died, but it did happen to my dad. He lost his son, and then lost some people he thought were good friends. (Fortunately, he also reconnected with some others who stepped up.)
Worrying about the right thing to say is a distraction. The more important thing is showing up.
@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
A friendly co-worker had a tragic loss last night.
I want to be clear that I'm not peeving at her, I'm peeving at myself for not being able to figure out what to say about her... I dunno if it's a full "crisis of faith," but definitely "why would this happen, she was such a good person" anxiety along with the grief.
Cheerfully nihilistic existentialism works for me but is incredibly unhelpful as regards comforting rhetoric.
IME? Just keep it simple. "It's really terrible that X happened to you. I'm so sorry. If you need anything, please let me know." In the end, just feeling like a person is there and sees you in your grief and recognizes it is the important thing. Don't trip over yourself trying to make it perfect; that often ends up with people retreating entirely because they don't know what to say.
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Roz said in Good or New Movies Review:
Haven't seen the latest movie yet, but it's absolutely nuts that there wasn't an outline and narrative arc planned out for the trilogy as a whole.
Like how Darth Vader's arc or even relationship to Luke (or for that matter, Luke's relationship to Leia) was meticulously planned out in the original trilogy?
Lucas was at least a connecting thread through all three films. It wasn't like one director started the project, then another came on who, from reactions from both Johnson and Abrams, disagreed with the first film about where to go, and then the first guy returned and disagreed with the second, it seems. And I'm saying that as someone who really enjoyed both of the first movies of this trilogy. But that's still not a great method for them to build out a trilogy of films without someone steering as a sort of consistent creative voice for the story across all three films.
(Then again, even if it were Abrams through all three, asking mysterious questions and offering no coherent answers is kind of his thing.)
Haven't seen the latest movie yet, but it's absolutely nuts that there wasn't an outline and narrative arc planned out for the trilogy as a whole. Like, the fact that one writer could start it off, then another picked up with apparently no real idea of where the first writer was going with stuff/what the plan was -- it's just, like. Man. This is a billion dollar franchise. They couldn't plan out the arc of three movies?
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
I remember a time when everyone who was into musical theater at all loved Memories because it's such a damn fine song.
Okay I just gotta be that person because I've now seen this numerous times in the past couple days but it's just "Memory"
I made a butterscotch cream pie for Thanksgiving and it was fucking delicious.
@Selira said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice I don't like cream cheese, the tang of it in particular turns me off, sweet cheese is a BIZARRE IDEA, the texture is weird, and the eggs give me issues.
Cheesecake is fucking disgusting on every level.
For me, I like cream cheese in other settings, like on bagels and stuff. But I don't like mixing tang in my desserts. (I don't like fruit in dessert, either.)
Granted, I am actually about to go home and bake a cookie recipe that involves cream cheese, but the end result has NO TANG, so.
Cheesecake is gross. Enjoy your LACK OF DOWNVOTES.
@Pandora In the sense that they'd keep their original land and any newly conquered land would be settled as a new vassal of theirs, yeah.
@Pandora Apparently Pax did think Pravus had a vassal or two on the mainland, so when she wrote the post (Part 1 and Part 2) it was meant to apply to any current mainland Pravus vassals as well. But that's actually moot, since all of Pravus's vassals are on their island chain already.
There has been at least one PC house that chose to stay with a grand-liege upon elevation (Stormbreak left Kennex's chain to stay with Grimhall when Kennex was elevated). I couldn't say if the reason for that was "extraordinarily good" or just cause they felt like it. I kind of just assume players will go where they want to play.
@Pandora said in Arx's Elevation Situation:
@Wizz said in Arx's Elevation Situation:
Their vassals can't hold lands in the mainland Lyceum and the Saffron Chain, it's one or the other
Source?
Staff bbpost. All of Pravus’s vassals are off the mainland, so if any mainland Lyceum houses wanted to become a Pravus vassal, they’d have to get permission from their liege to be released from their oaths of fealty, and then they’d still have to give up their mainland holding and go stake out new land on the Saffron Chain.
I’m really not worried about Velenosa’a lost income. Even if it weren’t being immediately replaced with the new duchy, it wouldn’t be a concern. Velenosa has had lots of work and investment over the years of just the sort @Sunny was suggesting.
Ironically, the income issue might be more of an issue for smaller houses having their vassal elevated, idk.
Orlando Jones talked a bit more in-depth here about the whole thing.
@Auspice said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:
@Roz said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:
@Sunny said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:
I would play literally any system if it meant I could Old Republic it up I don't even care.
Yeah, I don't really know any of the systems. I just always want an Old Republic game.
because old republic is best republic
It just seems really ideal for a MU* setting? Just in terms of, like -- you've got some well-defined factions and it bypasses a thing I've heard a lot with people complaining about super limited Force user slots and whatnot. It's a time when Force users are common on both sides, there's a rich dynamic, etc.
@Sunny said in Old Republic Star Wars Game - FFG System Poll:
I would play literally any system if it meant I could Old Republic it up I don't even care.
Yeah, I don't really know any of the systems. I just always want an Old Republic game.
OLD REPUBLIC OLD REPUBLIC OLD REPUBLIC
Someone mentioned earlier something along the lines of -- "games already have tools for this." But I'm pretty sure it was just in reference to a general culture of "it's okay to request a FTB or a general halt if stuff goes off the deep end and you're really uncomfortable," which I don't think counts as a tool. That's an overall policy. Making code for it would, IMO, count as a tool designed to help enact and engage with policy. It could only work in conjunction with continual effort to build the right game culture to support and complement the tool's usage.
