Posts made by Thenomain

@Tinuviel said in Cyberrun:

"Death has all but been eradicated while bioengineering and cyber-augmentations mean running into an 85 year old in a 12 year old body..."

Um.

Never read Gravity’s Rainbow, have you.

It’s a good read.

No, it’s a brilliant read.

Read it.

READ IT NOW.

@Lisse24 said in Good or New Movies Review:

a Little Women TV series

What, like this one?

@Chet

What platform? Mux, Penn, Rhost, Evennia, Ares?

@JinShei said in Good TV:

Manifest. Flight vanishes and reappears years later. People on flight didn't miss time...

Twilight Zone. People get back on plane to try to return to own time.

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@insomniac7809 said in RL Anger:

@Tyche said in RL Anger:

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Good news everyone!

This July was the hottest month in recorded history.

No wait, that's not good news.

I could have sworn it was July 1936. For the US that is. But they keep changing the data though.

The 1936 heat wave lost its spot (highest average monthly temperature across the continental USA) in July 2012. Your information appears to be seven years out of date.

I wish they would make up their mind

I don't think this is trolling. I mean, I think it's trying to be because, y'know, @Tyche, but in this case it's just ignorance on how modeling works.

I'm far less concerned about "is this the hottest month on record" than I am "why is it that no matter how much I shake and push out my pee, I always manage to dribble a little down my leg when I'm done".

If you want a model to concern yourself with, here:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

In the long term, who the fuck cares if this is the hottest July on record?

Enjoy your existential terror.

@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

I might actually Roleplay again

You and I lie with exactly the same words.

@Wretched said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

Progressives are weird

Congratulations, you are now an old man.

@saosmash said in Dead Celebrities 2019:

Toni Morrison.

I know she wasn't young but just...

Just Toni Fucking Morrison.

She has left the world a better place for her being in it.

"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is good. It feels like what would happen if a student film was re-visited by a director 30 years in the industry. There's nothing special about it, except that it's just...good.

@Bad-at-Lurking said in Interest in a Discworld game?:

@Wretched

Dang it, Pratchett pro-chronistically took my idea then.

He premembered it.

I haven't actually read The Truth yet.

It is a very, very good book. Wretched is kind of right, but as is usual for Pratchett he does the idea a whole lot deeper and tells about three jokes at once.

So I've modernized my mother, which took a long time but I think she's a lot happier now. She can use a computer without "technical" (read: user) errors 90% of the time, she has a smart TV and a subscription to Netflix, and one day we cut the cord, got her on DirectTV Now.

Well, AT&T has been jerking around the subscribers, so I spent some time looking for a good replacement with her channel list requirements: Animal Planet, Discovery, MSNBC, etc. And you know what the cheapest solution was?

Spectrum.

Yes, that Spectrum. Getting her back on cable television was the cheapest option for what she wanted. Even after tax and other "broadcast fees" and nonsense.

I was honestly surprised. Yes, it's a hair cheaper because they're also her ISP, but ISPs are raking people over the coals almost to the level of, well, AT&T. And because Spectrum has joined the 21st century, she doesn't need a cable box. It's all streamed now, baby!

And she didn't blink. The idea of uprooting her current subscription for another would have scared the crap out of her five, ten years ago. I did the difficult thing of finding out how to cancel DirectTV Now, but it was 10 minutes between "sign up for Spectrum again", "bye AT&T", and "How do I find the channels?" Bam, done, wallop!

I'm so proud of my mother.

If she would only stop texting me the weather.

@Rinel said in RL things I love:

@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:

@Thenomain Should just copy and paste Sebastian enemies and level design into every few DA2 images plot points you can find. Since that's what Bioware did.

Fixed.

I'm still fucking bitter.

I didn’t get any of the DLCs for Dragon Age 2 because it, you know, sucked.

So instead, here is Modern Day Cassandra. This is the kind of Mush I want to play in.

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@Thenomain

You are such a nerd.

(because of course Anders wears socks with sandals)

I cannot tell you how many tabs I have open for Dragon Age Pintrest posts, but I can show you my favorite.

Also, I have at least 30 other images open right now.

@Derp said in RL Anger:

@Ghost said in RL Anger:

...when the person in front of you in line at the coffee house orders 9 different drinks during morning rush.

That person is almost assuredly an intern or a secretary.

I am learning the love of online ordering for pickup.

@Lotherio

City of Heroes managed it.

So I finished Far Cry 5.

43 hours. What can I say? I like me some side-quest'n.

There was a game-breaking bug at the end that has no place being there, considering how long the game's been out.

I have to say that I liked it. I can't imagine playing it again, and there was one section...let's call it the Red Nightmares...that was un-fun for me as someone who normally doesn't play FPSes, but after putting the game down on "easy" it could be tolerated for as brief as they were.

But I never had a question what I was supposed to do, even in the boss fights. I wasn't bored otherwise; it felt fairly tight. The unique companions always had me engaged and often laughing, even when they got far too repetitive.

I'm not sure what I felt about the overall portrayal of themes, but I don't think they ever betrayed the idea of Country Folk vs. Cultists, the question of what is family and what is community.

Yeah, I liked it. Solid "A" grade.

So the US Naval Observatory's API (which I've been using for astronomical data, specifically moonrise/moonset and moon phase) is being moved (or has been moved—the navy's site structure is in disarray right now) and therefore is no longer accessible.

@Ashen-Shugar has pointed me towards moon rise/set code (in Python, woo!), and Dark Sky has "lunar age" and with a bit of help from science-math nerd @Tributary I should easily get this translated to illumination...

...but I really want to flip a table right now. Playing data whack-a-mole with data sources is frustrating.

@Macha

I'll be blunt here: I hope you contacted your prescribing doctor. Mine has a "drop a message and he'll respond in a few days" which I appreciate for is-this-normal type of questions.

Hope you're feeling better.

@Cupcake

How many block-circles before the police can call it premeditated?