Twig

Steam name: Twig I like competing.

Saw Gravity. I love Gravity. YEAH! Great movie. The bit with the physics bothered me quite a bit while it was happening, but once it ended, I stopped caring. The Star Trek movies are great dumb action movies. Both of 'em!

I'm quite pleased with it! I had to stop playing earlier (just before finishing, I think!) because I went to see Gravity, but what I did play is great. Man, I love the art style they've employed here. It's fantastic. Looks very much like a comic book (inherent 3D-ness aside), although not a whole lot like the Fables comics themselves, which is okay, 'cause the tone is a whole lot more noir-ish than I remember Fables ever being before, and that's GREAT, because this particular Comic-Book-Style fits that tone like a glove. Hooboy look at that run-on sentence. I'm a wee bit tipsy. 'POLOGIES. EDIT: 'Kay I just finished it up. Still good. Two things... Second thing has a super-spoiler if you haven't read any of the comics, regarding a thing that happens. ... I like the character Mr. Toad.

Innit, though? Every time I try one of the BIG NEW ENTRIES IN THE GENRE I am kind of awestruck at how much they fall on the mediocre-to-bad side of the scale. With such great examples, how do they get it wrong? I'm significantly more forgiving, as long as they're trying new structures, new mechanic ideas, but too often that is not the case.

Yeah, pretty sure that's what he meant. No BS at all.

Oh boy another round of "What should Idle Thumbs talk about?" I vote Everquest.

Yeah I'm planning to go!

Heh. I think my first anime was Cowboy Bebop, and obviously a lot of people love it. Including me! It occurs to me, suddenly, that Faye is similarly dressed. Not QUITE as revealing, but definitely not modest in any way. It's... never bothered me with her, though. Maybe because her character is so well-written as someone who just doesn't give a fuck - or at least puts on a front - about what other people think of her. And also maybe because I watched it long before I became consciously aware that it was even a real problem. HMMM. But well Cowboy Bebop is also a completely different kind of experience from what Kill la Kill is going for. There are plenty of examples of females in anime that aren't clearly designed to be sexually attractive at all times, but it seems so rare. Seirei no Moribito springs to mind, as does Kemono no Souja Erin - both from the same company, if I recall correctly!. (I usually hate using the Japanese names, but I forget the English names. Something of the Spirit... Guardian, maybe?, and Erin the Beastmaster? Bleh, whatever.) ANYWAY. Japan get your shit together. Thanks.

I'm content with what I see there! FPS controls don't look sluggish there like they usually do when using a controller. Just imprecise. Which is most likely just a matter of getting used to it. Only thing I want now is proof the haptic feedback is a godsend.

Yeah, I understand what you're saying. I guess, for me, most of that stuff just kind of stemmed from the narrator's own psychosis, rather than feeding into some greater foreboding.

All of your talking about it made me think it was out in America, too, so I put money on my 3DS and prepared to buy it. ):< Oh well, it's out tomorrow.

Yeah I actually really like her as a character - I mean, as much as I like any character in an anime like this! - which is probably why it hurts so much to see her like that. (Hah, out of context, that last bit sounds weird.) Possibly the worst part is that whenever she GETS SERIOUS, it does a close-up of the uniform tightening up on her naughty bits. Also, I hate to admit it, but I'll probably keep watching despite all this. Stuff like this is the number one reason I often list anime as a guilty pleasure. U:

A computer bug that drives the main character insane! Hah, that sounds interesting. I've definitely wanted to throw things at my computer and my computer at things when trying to solve a particular bug. I actually didn't feel that the book was going to go anywhere dark with the circumstances of the main characters. I did expect more of a confrontation between therapist and narrator, as expressed on the 'cast. (I fully expected patient to stay out of this confrontation, given the first page of the book.) But outside that confrontation, it always felt to me like the characters were all perfectly safe. Despite the Zodiac killer, despite the patient going off to Tel Aviv, despite the narrator's inherent creepiness, it all just felt... safe. I dunno. Also, I want to address all the Holocaust stuff, because I didn't, really, except in an off-the-cuff manner. Jesus, every single time I am reminded of the Holocaust, I start feeling sick. How could this even happen in what many would consider a perfectly civilized world? I can't imagine that's an uncommon reaction. I also can't imagine ever feeling that much hate for an individual who had wronged me in some way, let alone an entire race of people just for being different from me or having been more successful than me or any other reason. I want to believe that something like this would never happen again on such a large scale, but I don't know... A couple generations down the line, when WWII is just a memory, could a new Hitler come along and find himself with a similar amount of power? I should fucking hope not, but I just don't know. And the specifics of Michal's experiences, her whole story. That was, sickeningly, the most believable part of the entire book for me. Reality has a way of slapping me in the face every now and then, and this book was the glove on reality's hand.

Here I am again, finishing a book months after the podcasts was released. (Only Wolf Hall and Evidence of Things Unseen left! The two longest. Uh ho. (EDIT: And, er, Cosmicomics. Forgot about that one. It's short! Yay!)) I'll just once again also again copy my goodreads "review". (I am liking using Goodreads as a bucket for my random just-finished-a-book thoughts.) Now to listen to the 'cast. (And the thread, I guess!)

but what does it mean

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Welp. The opening song of Kill la Kill (which was not present in the first episode) pretty much confirms that that's her battle uniform at least for a long time. I still think there might be something to the threads collected making it bigger later on, but it might be way later on. But then her teacher is doing some crazy shit right now that I love. Blehhhh. But it's so STUPID outside of that uniform thing in the exact way I love DANG DANG. Sucks.

I'm excited!

The +62 hours bug is gone. Now it's +13. 1*3 = 3 !!!

Haha I had the same thing. I was like "what the fuck is happening." Rodi: I know what you mean. I used to use Xfire for that purpose specifically before Steam finally added that capability. Shame it sometimes gets borked. ):

"Charizardnite" man what a dumb name hah. Awesome.

Hahah Chris when they're pointing at their 3DS's: "Oh my god they're everywhere."

I uh went to find a video of the first person SRIV mod, and the first one I found was a guy shooting a bunch of guns (not what I wanted to see, obviously), and then walking into a strip club, and then talking about how the first-person mod is so finely complemented by the nude mod. "...you are now given the function to shift the camera down and have a first-person perspective at your character's exposed breast. This makes for an absolute DIVINE experience..." sorry i just wanted to share my disgust with someone else This video was better though, because it showed a dude jumping, which is what I wanted to see:

Yeah my nerd friends keep telling me to read that series and I am just so not wanting to read any huge-book tons-of-world-building fantasy series again. The closest I think I'll ever get is maybe one day finishing Wheel of Time (haha! hah!) and continuing to read Discworld, which does its world-building over the course of thirty books instead of 700 pages in one book. I'm still interested in reading standalone fantasy books. Or books similar to Discworld, where they take place in the same world, but aren't necessarily connected. But dang.

Hehe. Luigi's Mansion is a great game. It pleases me, at least, to hear you dudes talk about some Nintendos, despite my back-and-forth Nintendo fandom (love 'em, hate 'em, love 'em again).