Golden Calf

That video was actually kind of disappointing to me... complete autopilot landing. It seems very low stakes.

just got through the show in time for the rewatch lol. That second season was ........ something.

god damn there's a lot of creepy old dudes in this show

Should I change my display name? I realized recently that it must make absolutely no sense/seem sort of weird/mean for no reason to everyone who didn't know me in high school. As an apostate in a Catholic high school growing up, I would occasionally remark that I had been/was being visited by the ghost of Terri Schiavo as a joke to annoy some of my teachers, and I had heard Christopher Hitchens describe Jeb Bush's involvement in the case as strange/unseemly, so I felt that entitled me to think other peoples' opinions on the matter were stupid. I started using it as a username in high school, and it has kept me from having to think of other ones for a while. But now I think it must just seem like an asshole making a jab at a woman and family in a shitty situation, for a bit of cheap, vaguely controversial frisson. I realize I use slashes much too frequently.

Coming into this, I knew essentially nothing about the show, it having first aired the year of my birth. The only things I knew about it before I watched the pilot tonight were that it was a TV show with horror elements (which seems not really to be true even?). At this point, I'm not sure how to pigeonhole the show into a preconceived category, and that's pretty sweet. Anyway, I may end up skipping out on this thread until I have gotten through a decent number of episodes to preserve the fresh feeling, but here were some things from the pilot I noticed/liked: The recorder is a great conceit to get the FBI agent character to externalize his thoughts during the investigation, the contents of which make me like him a lot so far. They do a remarkable job at little moments of humor that don't feel like they detract from the overall mood. Like some of the FBI agent's commentary and moments of levity that grate against the sheriff's seriousness (also, the Sheriff's fucking name lol), the receptionist at the police station, the deer head on the table at the safe deposit box place "Oh, it fell." These moments feel tossed off (or, not played for laughs or lingered on) in a way that makes the writer/director seem confident to me, which is always nice. I'm excited to keep watching which, given that I have midterms to procrastinate my way away from, I imagine I will be doing quite a bit of in the coming weeks. The murderer better not be that loser boyfriend who gets mad at the diner girl for having different brands of cigarettes in his ashtray.

That dragon sound at the start really makes me excited. edit: ok christ that video is hilarious. The contrast between the dragon intro and the dude's voice, the ridiculously long wait between the start and the piddly payoff of the fans turning on. Dude, I would have believed you if you just said the fans turn on when the thing gets hot.

I think the most impressive thing about the game for me was the density of the grass. Grass almost never looks good. Dense foliage is really hard. They did a pretty good job.

That's how I play Fallout generally. By the end I had a giant (gas-powered I guess?) flaming sword and would tromp around looking for stories in the wilderness. I would complete them, then murder everyone. I think my little character morality moniker thing was "Evil Incarnate" by the end. I am not really sure why, but I think that meta-motivation got me to take interest in keeping up the exploration. Found some real diamonds in the rough that way.

Barf

Upon a second listen, I'm still not exactly sure what it is that Jake and Sean were disagreeing about.

NO! I love it.

Also, the original Digimon, which were just Tamagotchi basically, but you could fight them if you connected two cartridges together at the top. The battles must have been determined the instant they were connected, because you could then separate them and the fights would play out the same on each cartridge. In first grade, a friend and I would take turns getting up in class to "grab a tissue" or something, and surreptitiously connect our Digimon to fight. We thought we were so clever.

Getting the ice key and secret eggs in Banjo Kazooie. I rarely got new games as a kid so I had to squeeze every fucking drop of entertainment out of any game I played. The tiny, entirely irrelevant secrets of that game did so much to make that game feel electric with possibility. It made me feel like, if I just tried hard enough, I could poke through the proscribed path somewhere and discover more of the game world, hidden from regular view. I didn't really think very hard about the plausibility of creating an expansive world, only to hide it from players, but at that age games might as well have been magic anyway. I loved that game so much.

I wish that written smileys weren't auto-replaced with their animated versions. I don't like doing the extra work of writing them in a different order than I'm used to. ): ): )':

Is there some place where you can post pc build components and wizards will tell you if it will all work? Enough power, will all fit the case, heat sink will fit the processor, etc. I've never built one before and I finally have enough of my own money to do it but don't want to end up crying after trying to assemble it because I made some dumb mistake.

No, but I was watching someone play it on Twitch. All of a sudden I have no idea why, how it relates to anything. I immediately closed the stream, knowing I want to play it myself.

Beekeeping is supremely enjoyable.

Growing up I used to live ~30mins from Disneyland. In high school my orchestra played there a few times, so I got to see a bit of the behind-the-scenes section of the park. What I remember: a significant part of the employees-only area had an overpowering smell of bacon. Also, there's a giant warehouse/storage area near where the employees put on their uniforms that has a massive amount of busted or otherwise out of service animatronics/statues/vehicles, which was cool/presumably terrifying at night.

A Buddhist walks up to a hot dog cart. He says, "Make me one with everything." He pays with a $20, but the seller returns nothing. The Buddhist asks, "Aren't you forgetting something?" The seller replies, "Change comes only from within."

I miss datelines.

Ya I actually remembered liking them when I saw them too. To each his own, I guess.

I'm curious how time works in the game.

I'll offer up Tyrannosaur. It includes violence against women. But it's not set dressing. It's not there to make the world seem 'edgy'. It's not a random a random scene thrown in to break up monotony. It doesn't occur and then ignore the victim for the rest of the story. It's there on purpose, to serve a specific role in the story. And the story in turn can be read as in part a commentary on that abuse.

Me too dude :\ I had to leave school for 3 semesters for health reasons, and now my friend group has graduated. It's really difficult to insert myself into existing groups at this point too. It sucks.

Along those lines, why do so many games not have a global volume slider in addition to their music/voice/ambiance/whatever ones? I don't want to have to adjust them all. It's such an easy thing to program!