Posts made by Roz

@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

@Lotherio Let's not be too judgy guys.

??? That is like the point of this thread.

@Arkandel @Ganymede halp

@Kestrel FYI I think you might have not closed one of those spoiler tags correctly, there's some CSS bleed happening on this thread

Here is some text for the post previews!! I don't want to spoil anyone!! La la la la la la

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@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Grr. This may work up to RL anger, but right now I'm just super annoyed. Our lease renewal showed up in March. I did not have my name listed as a lease holder, and I did not sign it

This is the even more important part: that you weren't listed on the lease either, not just that you didn't sign it. Obviously all state laws are different, but when I was moving out of an apartment and my roommate was staying, the management company taking my name off the lease renewal document so that it only had my roommate's name was literally how they processed that. So I'm gonna guess they're not gonna have much legal ground here. Is the claim here that you didn't give them notice you didn't want to renew and just went with it when they erroneously didn't include your name?

petition to ban @Rucket

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To a few of the points being discussed:

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Despite all of that, I actually really did enjoy the movie!!

@Roz said in General Video Game Thread:

I started Return of the Obra Dinn which is SO UNIQUE and INTERESTING, it's by the guy who made Papers Please which is similarly unique and fascinating, but I couldn't even make it an hour before getting too motion sick. I am REALLY BUMMED and might give it one more shot after playing with some settings because even just that one hour was fascinating. It's weird because motion sickness is not usually a problem I have with video games!!

I adjusted some controls, took some Bonine before I played, and after that my motion sickness was under control. In the end, I'd say it was a fantastic and unique puzzle/mystery game.

@Arkandel Ugh, that sucks. Two weeks actually sounds short by Twitch standards, though; there's been a lot of compromised accounts lately, and everyone keeps saying 6-8 weeks for a response from Twitch.

ANYWAYS, glad you got it back!

@Dreampipe said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

When I was 19 I fired a text off to my step-dad explaining my rampant suicidal tendencies, my actual attempts at suicide, and essentially saying "I don't want to live like this anymore, please help me". I didn't have the courage to call him on the phone, so, that was probably a very scary afternoon that he got that word salad of a message. Luckily he wasn't born into the carnival that the rest of my family was so, he took me very seriously and set me up with a psychiatrist immediately.

I don't know why this hit me so hard today but god bless your stepdad.

I started Return of the Obra Dinn which is SO UNIQUE and INTERESTING, it's by the guy who made Papers Please which is similarly unique and fascinating, but I couldn't even make it an hour before getting too motion sick. I am REALLY BUMMED and might give it one more shot after playing with some settings because even just that one hour was fascinating. It's weird because motion sickness is not usually a problem I have with video games!!

I'm really enjoying the season but WHY does the show insist on trying to get me to find Tormund's behavior towards Brienne endearing or comedic???

pLZ. It's like the one major core element missing from the web portal.

@Aria said in Good TV:

@Roz said in Good TV:

@Aria said in Good TV:

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Aria Same.

There is a message it sends that I also am really not at all cool with, that I don't think they intend, and it's especially heartbreaking to me, and I just... can't.

Yeah. Yeeeeeeeeeeah. Coupled with the end of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend', which is not at all their responsibility because those shows aren't even the same parent company, let alone the same network....

Aw man, I loved the finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

I did, too. My point was more that with the timing of it ending and the season finale of The Magicians, there seems to be a sudden gap of representation of characters of -- ahhh, a particular type, which is all I think I can say without ZOMG SPOILERS -- who have positive relationships, rich emotional ranges, and are able to create meaning their lives despite the thing as opposed to their usual portrayal. Which is generally depicted as burdensome to others, horrific/a warning, a joke, or villainous. I find this deeply upsetting.

OH! You mean that you're now missing that representation because they're both off the air now. I misread earlier!

@Aria said in Good TV:

@surreality said in Good TV:

@Aria Same.

There is a message it sends that I also am really not at all cool with, that I don't think they intend, and it's especially heartbreaking to me, and I just... can't.

Yeah. Yeeeeeeeeeeah. Coupled with the end of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend', which is not at all their responsibility because those shows aren't even the same parent company, let alone the same network....

Aw man, I loved the finale of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Holy SHIT I cannot even put GRIS into words. It's absolutely stunning. I'm not quite finished, but DAMN.

FOOD

• Petee's Pie Company has, as you might guess, ridiculously good pie.
• Colina Cuervo was a regular brunch spot for me when I lived in the area. If you're just touristing in Manhattan, it might be a bit too out of the way. (It's in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.)
• The fish tacos at Dorado Tacos were an obsession of mine for a bit when I had a class in the area.
• Sugar Sweet Sunshine have some of my favorite cupcakes.
• Ippudo lives up to the hype for me personally if you go for the Akamaru Modern ramen, which is out of this world. HOWEVER, lines here get CRAZY. There are two locations, and one up in Hell's Kitchen (Ippudo Westside) was a bit less crazy when it opened, but I imagine it's caught on since then. If you're solo, you'll have a MUCH easier time of them squeezing you in immediately or with just a few minutes wait. If you wanna try for it, I'd suggest early or late dinner to miss the biggest rush.

THEATRE

• Hadestown is gonna be the show to beat at the Tonys this year, and it's regularly discounted right now at the TKTS Booth. Folky singer-songwriter-esque reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice story.
• My Fair Lady is top tier classic musical theatre done lushly and beautifully.
• Oklahoma! is a stripped down reimagining of the classic that transferred from a very respected Off-Broadway company.
• Be More Chill is a show people tend to either love or hate; you'll probably know fairly quickly if you give a listen to some of the songs. It got to Broadway on the back of a serious and surprise cult following.
• Tootsie is a brand new musical adaptation of the movie starring one of my ABSOLUTE FAVS, Santino Fontana.

A lot of my consumption of FUN in NYC was performing arts, so, uh, I'm a bit biased in that direction.

What kind of food do you like and what kinds of things do you like to do?