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  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    How far in are you at time of writing? Because... it kinda goes places.

    How far in are you at time of writing? Because... it kinda goes places.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Whaaaat? Cilvaringz made a documentary? I suppose it had to happen, he's got a good understanding of how uniquely positioned he is (was?) and evidently tries to make the best of it. I'd say he...

    Whaaaat? Cilvaringz made a documentary? I suppose it had to happen, he's got a good understanding of how uniquely positioned he is (was?) and evidently tries to make the best of it. I'd say he doesn't deserve most of the hate he gets from the fandom.

    I'm a serious Wu head, so from what you say I just may have seen/heard it all in real time when this was unfolding, but I'll still give it a go. Thanks!

    3 votes

  4. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Ooh, amazing! I love to see the "first draft" vs. the final vision. Makes me wonder if there's any kind of junior animator showcase like the anime industry does with the Young Animator Training...

    Ooh, amazing! I love to see the "first draft" vs. the final vision. Makes me wonder if there's any kind of junior animator showcase like the anime industry does with the Young Animator Training Project.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Well, look at this. You previously recommended me Undone about 3 years ago, and I did like it! When I posted after finally having watched it, you mentioned Scavengers Reign, and I'm absolutely...

    Well, look at this. You previously recommended me Undone about 3 years ago, and I did like it! When I posted after finally having watched it, you mentioned Scavengers Reign, and I'm absolutely sure I would have looked that up to see what it was you were referencing, but... maybe it just didn't catch my eye back then? So weird.

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  6. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    After watching Common Side Effects a couple weeks back, I looked up the creators' other work and found a rabid cult following for Scavengers Reign. I'm five episodes in, and I like it so far, it's...

    After watching Common Side Effects a couple weeks back, I looked up the creators' other work and found a rabid cult following for Scavengers Reign. I'm five episodes in, and I like it so far, it's quite intriguing. The creative team has clearly put effort into conceptualizing alien flora and fauna, with phenomena that aren't explained, just demonstrated and have to be taken at face value. My quibble is that they don't go radical enough IMO, as most designs have some parallel to an existing animal or plant here on Earth. It's a critique I have of most sci-fi I come across (which is not a huge amount, to be fair). I don't see very many instances of things that seem dangerously incomprehensible in shows or movies, but I imagine there must be some famous example or three in literature that is yet to be adapted. I suppose it's a tough tightrope to walk and not lose your audience.

    With that said, I'm pretty much hooked and I'm surely going to finish the series within the next week or so.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Finally watched Common Side Effects last week, after first seeing the pilot a year ago. Really good show, with quality character writing and some stellar voice acting performances. I saw the...

    Finally watched Common Side Effects last week, after first seeing the pilot a year ago. Really good show, with quality character writing and some stellar voice acting performances. I saw the influence of Hayao Miyazaki, Satoshi Kon, and Masaaki Yuasa in certain parts - three of my favorite animators. Also, whoever the music coordinator was did not miss once with the featured songs!

    I was not expecting it to span multiple seasons when I started, so it'll be interesting to see where they go from here... I've seen mention of plans for 20 seasons, and despite the quality I don't know if this will garner enough viewership to support a quarter of that.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life

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    That would make the American usage the exception then =P

    Seems to be a British English difference (and thus often the English learned in many countries where it's a second language)

    That would make the American usage the exception then =P

  9. Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life

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    I didn't grow up with that terminology, so I didn't know the difference either until I sat down and thought about it fairly recently, but it seems I still got it wrong! My rationale was that a...

    Well I don't know the difference between a button down shirt and button up shirt either.

    I didn't grow up with that terminology, so I didn't know the difference either until I sat down and thought about it fairly recently, but it seems I still got it wrong! My rationale was that a button-down would be a shirt that typically got buttoned from top to bottom, and a button-up would be one that got buttoned from bottom to top (AKA a polo shirt)... but they apparently both refer to types of dress shirts differentiated by the collar.

    When you say "most places" what do you mean?

    AFAIK, "shirt" in most of the English speaking world refers to a dress shirt or a casual shirt with buttons all along the front, not a t-shirt or A-shirt or anything else.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life

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    The stuff that needs to be ironed, yes. Dress shirts, slacks, etc. If I have a t-shirt or sweater that has wrinkles from the way it was stored, I'd do a quick pass on those too, but that's not a...

    The stuff that needs to be ironed, yes. Dress shirts, slacks, etc. If I have a t-shirt or sweater that has wrinkles from the way it was stored, I'd do a quick pass on those too, but that's not a matter of course. The objective is to avoid looking like I took my clothes out of a bottle, as my mom would say.

    I can't imagine anyone doing this regularly

    I'm guessing this is a generational thing since clothing styles and dress codes have grown more casual over time, but I don't get how/why anyone wearing formal or business attire daily would NOT be ironing their clothes with some regularity. When I worked in a business casual setting with a younger crowd (or at least younger than me), the staff marveled at the fact that my khakis had a crease everyday and they could tell I ironed my pants. I myself was aghast when I hired an assistant manager in his early to mid 30s, and for his first week, all his shirts had the crease lines from the folds from the store. I guess he didn't even wash them after buying them.

    (The staff also marveled at the fact that my clothes always matched, color-wise... I had never previously paid much attention to how other men dressed but that made me realize how many people here don't actually coordinate their colors in some sensible way when they put together their outfits, and how often their colors clashed or their shoes didn't match. Women too!)

    4 votes

  11. Comment on Do you iron your clothes? in ~life

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    I'm guessing shirt here means a button-down (shirt), as opposed to a button-up (shirt) or a t-shirt. That's what it specifically refers to in most places, I think.

    I'm guessing shirt here means a button-down (shirt), as opposed to a button-up (shirt) or a t-shirt. That's what it specifically refers to in most places, I think.

  12. Comment on What is your "when I found out about 9/11" story? in ~talk

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    Controversially (in large sections of the US, anyway) expressed the next day as "Some People Push Back" - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. That was essentially my reaction while watching the...

    on a fairly lefty university campus on the other side of the world there was an undercurrent not quite of the US deserving the attacks but a significant feeling of we could see something coming and a lack of surprise

    Controversially (in large sections of the US, anyway) expressed the next day as "Some People Push Back" - On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. That was essentially my reaction while watching the news reports come in on morning TV after the first tower was hit, and even while seeing the second tower get hit in in real time as well.

  13. Comment on 'The Ghost in the Shell' just ended, what are your thoughts? in ~anime

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    Sidebar - having not watched it myself (yet), how highly does anyone recommend it?

    Sidebar - having not watched it myself (yet), how highly does anyone recommend it?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I'm about 8 hours into Outer Wilds. I kinda like it so far - mostly I like the commitment to creating a whole solar system and a physics system to go along with it - but I don't think I've gotten...

    I'm about 8 hours into Outer Wilds. I kinda like it so far - mostly I like the commitment to creating a whole solar system and a physics system to go along with it - but I don't think I've gotten hooked by the story quite yet. I've explored more by following my own curiosity at stuff I see than by following clues, so I've found a bunch of stuff that is probably too far ahead of the breadcrumbs I've gathered for me to properly appreciate. I'll keep at it but this seems like it might be a slow burn.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    You can say that again. Not to discourage you, but I've got just over 600 hours in Enter the Gungeon and I still have one or two things left on the to-do list. I haven't played it in a few years...

    Now I can get there fairly consistently. I know there is more to the game.

    You can say that again. Not to discourage you, but I've got just over 600 hours in Enter the Gungeon and I still have one or two things left on the to-do list. I haven't played it in a few years at this point, so I doubt I'll ever properly finish the Ammonomicon, but it was still great fun for me. I think the mix of charm and humor in the game kept pulling me back in to play, even beyond the actual gameplay mechanics being super solid. It's a shame that it doesn't seem to sing to you in the same way. I've experienced a similar situation of my own recently after playing Revita for a few weeks though, and as much as I find it interesting, I'm not having enough fun to see how far the rabbit hole goes.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on [SOLVED] Hunting for a movie in ~movies

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    @vord I've become unreasonably invested in this mystery and have convinced myself that this is the answer you're looking for. Don't leave me hanging

    @vord I've become unreasonably invested in this mystery and have convinced myself that this is the answer you're looking for. Don't leave me hanging

    13 votes

  17. What's a show you love that's from before your time?

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    Before your time = you weren't old enough to otherwise follow the zeitgeist at the time the show was made. If you grew up watching reruns of The Honeymooners with your grandparents or something,...

    Before your time = you weren't old enough to otherwise follow the zeitgeist at the time the show was made. If you grew up watching reruns of The Honeymooners with your grandparents or something, that still counts.

    27 votes

  18. Comment on Mononoke The Movie: Chapter III - The Curse of the Serpent | Official trailer in ~anime

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    I would pay big money to somehow get a 4K release of the original Mononoke series. I maintain that it belongs in some sort of animation hall of fame.

    I would pay big money to somehow get a 4K release of the original Mononoke series. I maintain that it belongs in some sort of animation hall of fame.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What game are you terrible at? in ~games

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    Playing a bunch of Sonic 1 and especially 2 was a core part of my formative gaming experiences. Beat them both multiple times with my neighbor. I tried playing Sonic Mania last year and I SUCKED....

    Playing a bunch of Sonic 1 and especially 2 was a core part of my formative gaming experiences. Beat them both multiple times with my neighbor.

    I tried playing Sonic Mania last year and I SUCKED. It looks and feels exactly like the games I remember, but I was absolutely hopeless. Granted, I only gave it about three hours, but it was embarrassing enough that I just let it be.

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    In the past month I've put close to 40 hours into Revita, which I received through @cheep_cheep's generosity in a recent key giveaway. I wouldn't have guessed I've spent damn near a full work week...

    In the past month I've put close to 40 hours into Revita, which I received through @cheep_cheep's generosity in a recent key giveaway.

    In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!

    I wouldn't have guessed I've spent damn near a full work week playing this just since July, because I'm not sure that I'm enjoying it that much. I'm very intrigued by the premise and themes (the bosses you fight are the five stages of grief, there's allusions to you possibly being in some sort of underworld or purgatory), and the mechanic of swapping health for power-ups keeps an interesting tension throughout, but the feeling I'd walk away with at this point is grind rather than fun. I feel like I've been on a treadmill, slowly unlocking items that all seem kinda cool and probably would make for crazy runs once they're all available, but in the meantime I constantly feel underpowered unless I get a combo of relics that more or less carries me. It's a shame, because there seems to be a TON of content in here - eight different weapons, hundreds of relics that affect gameplay and synergize in various ways, over 100+ secrets/achievements, etc. and it has a bunch of reviews calling it super underrated.

    The only other twin-stick roguelike/lite I've played is Enter The Gungeon, and while I have more than 600 hours sunk into that, it never felt anywhere near this grindy, even before the updates/rebalances that made the game much easier. I feel like I'm seeing some clear influence from EtG in the design (others have compared it more to the Binding of Isaac, so maybe it's just roguelike tropes in general, I dunno) so I'm not sure why this one is missing the mark for me. I'll keep giving it a go for a bit, as I'd really like to see the endings, get the full story, etc. but I don't think I'd enjoy putting in the time to get good enough to unlock everything myself.

    Aside from that, I'm still also playing V-Rally 4, which has kept me entertained for the past year and more. It has the perfect simcade balance to scratch my racing itch and enough variety in the track layouts and race types to keep things interesting. I really like that it rewards practice and mastery of the mechanics without needing to go full Dirt Rally 2.0 sim rig.

    2 votes