@ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
I just watched Into the Spider-Verse, and my mind is blown.
As a huge fan of Miles and Gwen in their respective comics, I really loved their portrayals in this; I'd happily go back and see the film a second time.
@faraday said in Separating UX from Functionality (Design Patterns!):
The complexity of supporting two independent views and making sure everything melds together is just... no.
I never claimed to be sane... <_<
@auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
I want more.
They've apparently already budgeted (and begun scripting) a sequel, which will focus predominantly on Miles and Gwen.
@skew said in Coming Soon: Arx, After the Reckoning:
@Sparks I hear Cardia is super nice and welcoming!
Why can't I downvote this. 
@moth said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
My medical insurance can suck a wet burlap bag full of sea cucumbers. That's all.
Ah, are you a fellow United Healthcare sufferer? 
I still kind of want to see someone build an Expanse game.
Depending on where you diverge from the canon timeline, you could use either Tycho Station or the Ring Station as the main RP hub. (Ring Station in particular would be awesome, since you could have players trying to figure out how everything actually even works.)
People could also have 'ship crews' who would periodically go off and do other things—you have an alt on the RP hub station, and maybe an alt on a freighter like the Rocinante or on an ice hauler like the Canterbury or an MCRN ship like the _Cydonia...
We scheduled an HVAC installation so we'll have air conditioning on the upper floor this summer (since my house has huge windows and gets unreasonably hot there). This was scheduled for Monday through Wednesday of this week.
This meant dismantling my bedroom, my home office, and my housemate's home office. Unplugging everything from computers (and in my case, dismantling a VR rig), removing pictures from the walls, getting desks out of the way, and so on. We did this, with some effort, this past weekend; it left the two home offices temporarily unusable. But hey, it's only three days, no big deal.
Sunday night, the temperature dropped and it started to snow. By Monday morning, we had way more snow than usual for Seattle, and the roads were icy. The HVAC folks called and rescheduled us for Tuesday-Thursday. Fine, that's understandable.
The snow stopped on Monday, but the temperatures dropped still further (17 degrees F is not normal for Seattle). Anywhere that isn't snow is now sheets of ice. So, unsurprisingly, the HVAC folks called and cancelled again, but can't push us Wednesday-Friday since it would run up against another job. This is understandable; I cannot blame them for not wanting to try to work on the exterior parts of this system in this weather, and hopefully the next job will not also have to be pushed.
So they've rescheduled us to Wednesday-Friday of next week when, hopefully, all the snow and ice will be gone.
However, this means either we have to put the various rooms back together, put the desks back, etc., and then dismantle them again later, or we leave the home offices unusable for basically two weeks total (from this past weekend through next Friday).
I would find this less obnoxious if the ice had not meant that my workplace told folks to work from home rather than risking traffic. I mean, normally WFH isn't an inconvenience as I have a home office, but right now...
(Additional irritation: my gaming PC is also in my home office, and so also presently dismantled. Dangit, there's a Division 2 beta starting Thursday, people!)
@Three-Eyed-Crow said in Most active scifi games right now?:
My experience is more...
There's a certain audience for sim space (I'm not in this group).
There's a certain audience who prefer environments where travel is just free-form RP'd or done via GM fiat (I'm in this group).
The VEN diagram overlaps a little bit, but not very much, so if you make one type of game, it won't appeal to the other type of players. Some people will lump simulated space or grudgingly accept the lack of it, but I feel like this is just a different style of play at its core.
I like both, I admit. If travel isn't the point of things, I want to just skip from Point A to Point B.
But I really, really love the idea of an exploration system on a game. Whether that's a game where you search for resources (Mass Effect game set in London during the Reaper War, where you're scavenging for resources to keep your hidden refugee camp alive), a game where you find ancient temples and ruins and caverns, or a game where you're on a ship and can find derelicts or ore-rich asteroids or giant blocks of ice to haul out to Ceres or (god help you) Eros...
I like the idea of an exploration system because it gives people things to do that do not require GMs, and gives an interesting avenue GMs can use to introduce things (throw a GM'd event hook out there into the wilds to be found), etc.
@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
FFS Seattle. I have about 2 feet of snow in parts of my backyard. And still more is coming down.
This weather has been completely bananapants crazy. And it's still snowing at my house (near Northgate) at 6pm.
@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I have been cooped up in this house with this for nearly 2 weeks because of snowed in-ness--and now their mid-winter break begins. It is a safari at my house, and I am ready to run away.
I was stuck mostly in my house for two weeks due to snow, so I sympathize.
What drove me crazy was we were supposed to have work done on the house; we'd made an appointment and dismantled the home offices—including unplugging and moving the computers—and then due to snow they had to reschedule to a week and a half later. So instead of dismantling things for a couple of days, everything's been moved around furniture-wise for two weeks, and I haven't had my desktop computer that whole time.
No one's fault, but man, that was annoying timing!
@Coin I just... augh. AUGH.
(Also, great. Now every time I hear "Take On Me" I'm going to associate it with this.)
@surreality said in Good TV:
@Sparks ^ YES, ALSO THAT. I love that song because I'm an 80s nerd.
All the crying, forever.
Much respect for how beautifully they pulled that scene off (while also pulling my heart out using a peach, so thanks for that), and I can see why they did this from a narrative standpoint. But at the same time I'm also a bit upset that we're dealing with this particular trope on a TV series yet again.
Double-post, whee!
@reimesu said in Game of Thrones:
Ok, here's one for you: I first started reading A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran 33 years ago, via WaRP Graphics. It's been restarted under various presses repeatedly. Someday, I will find out how it ends. (It may actually be finished, but it's out of print and I can't afford the copies on Amazon.)
FWIW, A Distant Soil is not done yet, but I think the final 8 issues of the comic are supposedly coming out from Image sometime this year? And last I checked the whole thing so far was also available in digital comics form, for whatever that's worth.
And speaking of old comics that readers have been waiting to finish for years, I'm so glad that Mark Oakley is slowly getting back to Thieves & Kings again. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Stardrop and Jenny Mysterious too, but T&K will always be far nearer and dearer to my heart than his other comics, and we were left on a cliffhanger for like... 14-ish years of the 25 years the comic has existed, I think? Regardless, also still a longer wait than with GRRM and the latest ASoIaF book so far.
@reimesu said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Aria I was not bored. I came out thoroughly entertained. But lord, it wasn't good, to quote Bloom County.
So, basically the BPRD/Hellboy equivalent of Netflix's The Order, which is a series that is so terribad it results in an underflow on the 'quality' field and wraps around into being somewhat enjoyable again?
@wahoo said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Yelp, I do not know how you got my personal phone number and I do not like it, do not call me, I hate you.
I'll see you Yelp and counter with the automated robocaller that has a computerized voice speaking Chinese.
For the record, my issue with the trope is not quite the same one you're describing.
***=SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SO MANY SPOILERS***
@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Sockmonkey said in Good or New Movies Review:
I know this is 8 days old but FUCK. Suckerpunch had to be the shittiest shit movie ever. It still makes me mad to think about it.
Have you seen Ishtar?
I still remember the reviews that referred to Waterworld as "Fishtar", to provide a measure of how bad they felt the movie was.
Well, that was a hell of a thing.
***=Spoiler (mild)***
