Posts made by Three-Eyed Crow

FF6 is still my fav, both for the soundtrack and the...characters not being wall-to-wall emo teenagers of it all.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

I really enjoyed the soundtrack; its flavor of bittersweet nostalgia just worked for me.

I enjoyed the songs, but I'm very aware the people singing them were cast for things other than their ability to sing awesomely. Gosling in particular. Emma Stone was fine.

@Cupcake said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Arkandel I will say you are doing yourself a disservice by avoiding Hidden Figures. I actually think it's a crime that Taraji Henson wasn't nominated for Best Actress.

HIDDEN FIGURES SO GOOD!!!!!!!

I also loved The Arrival, and it makes me optimistic for the future of brainy sci-fi movies. If either of those won Best Picture, I'd be Very Pleased. I don't think it'll happen, though, so I'm just happy they're getting some love.

La La Land is next on my list (I've heard nothing but good things), even if I was underwhelmed by the soundtrack when I jammed to it on Spotify.

Damn.

The Mary Tyler Moore show is still one of my favorite go-to old sitcoms to watch when I want to unwind. Great lady, pioneering career.

@Coin said in RL things I love:

I'm typically torn because I do not enjoy watching people I cherish and consider my friends end up in such horrendous situations and do not want that for them at all. But at the same time, politically speaking and as a citizen of a country that has had to deal with interventionist policies... yeah, zero sympathy, man.

I've been trying to look at Trump in the larger context, but that just gets scarier. He's just the symptom of something bigger going on in the world, to my mind. Brexit and the rise of people like Le Pen in France feel like part and parcel of something similar, if not exactly the same. I don't have an ounce of sympathy for the people who voted for him. I'm freaked the hell out about where they're taking us (the global 'us').

I will try out this place solely because of the single-planet focus. I was always baffled by how dozens of planets did anything but spread RP thin and cause frustration.

OH GOSH I LOVED KINGS.

I've got it on DVD and still revisit it on occasion. On top of the religious uncanny valley aspect of it, I think the alt-history quality of it took it into speculative fiction territory a lot of NBC viewers weren't comfortable (back when TV shows had massive audiences, it might do better today now that things are more fragmented). It's one of those things I'm just happy exists and got enough episodes to feel like a "story," because it's such a fine little curio piece.

@Cupcake said in MU Things I Love:

...I could probably make an entire playlist based around my characters' romances.

I've totally got a shipping playlist. Much for it.

There was that @Anonymous troll who went on a bender followed by massive comment deletion.

Which was kind of annoying but also kind of hilarious.

@Autumn said in RL things I love:

Five Guys is almost always Perfectly Acceptable, but it never climbs to the level of Burger Nirvana the way In-N-Out is capable of.

This is my experience as well. The thing is, like others have said, In and Out is actually priced as a fast food burger. And even when it's not great, it's still better than I could get paying for the same thing at Whataburger or Burger King or the like. Five Guys is a restaurant-priced burger and I'm always left with the 'Blah, why didn't I drive to Smashburger/Red Robin/etc.?' feeling. Good fries, though.

I finally got a Costco membership this year.

This is not a major signpost for adulthood, but it was one of those little things that made me double-take and go 'Gosh, I am a person in my mid-thirties.'

Super excited to go shopping this weekend, too.

I've met some wonderful people through this hobby that I'm closer to than all but a handful of my friends IRL. I've kept in better 'touch' with these people I met through MU*ing than all but a couple of my college friends.

Those are people I played with for YEARS, though. The idea of giving someone who's scened with me once or twice actual information about myself to Skype/chat offline is really weird to me.

Wouldn't you need an email to use the wiki anyway?

I get to some degree the 'meh' about the need to provide an email, but you need to provide one to edit your wiki page most other places, so I don't find it as unusual as all that.

I've dealt with @Ghost as a player on several games. I find him well-meaning but kinda spazzy with a tendency on occasion to fixate on entirely random things and blow them out of proportion. This thread seems to fit...that, but those are pretty standard MU*er traits on the whole.

More broadly, I feel like sincere apologies should be made in private, because who the f knows if the person you're apologizing to wants it aired publicly. However it's phrased.

@mietze said in RL Anger:

In my case, I am an only child of elderly parents in declining health. So there is a certain level of contact that I need so that I can ensure they're taken care of.

Oy. That's a terrible situation with no easy answers. My grandmother, who I have almost no relationship with because she was emotionally abusive to my mom and is in all ways I value a terrible person, is getting too old to care for herself now. My parents are trying to figure out how to navigate it. I'm trying to help the but I don't know what to do most of the time.

I have all the in the world for Brooklyn 9-9. It's my go-to decompresser show after a long day at the moment. Also, Gina is my spirit animal.

@SG said in Is there a basics of CG out there somewhere?:

I've played around with FS3 and like it quite a bit, but what I'm looking for is a learning experience rather than getting a game up and running quickly.

My own experience with FS3 is that the customizable nature of it makes it a good one to take apart, see how it works, and change. So if you're just looking for a generic chargen to install and poke at as a learning tool, I think it's a good one.

@tragedyjones said in What would you want in a Shadowrun game?:

Double Post: Would people be willing to play on a game that used the Wiki for their character sheet and CG process, rather than the game client itself?

In terms of doing an application process all on-wiki? I'd love it.

In terms of not having an actual sheet on my bit on the game? I would not love that.

My concern with that stuff is always less about what I'm obligated to do (attractions are fleeting and can be RP'd around/downplayed) than what the other player will take it as license do. I've been on the receiving end of 'This flirtation we agreed to' became 'YOU ARE MY ONE TWU WUV NO YOU CAN'T SAY YOU'RE NOT IT IS DESTINY'. And that was with a player I thought I was on the same page with, not just some rando.

I just wanna say that I find the way staff has responded to here - about the tasks system and before that in general - pretty encouraging. You guys seem both open to constructive feedback while also having some core goals you want to pursue even if they aren't exactly what every rando wants. It's cool to see. This is definitely on my radar to play if I ever come up with inspiration for a character.