Ta-metru_defender

Ah! Hey! Congrats!

Ace books you got there.

(also yes)

We do really need a dope "Where are they now?" segment. Like what did these people do with their lives?

On 12/9/2022 at 9:40 AM, Valendale said:

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Catan is a good game; I've played plenty of it in the past, but now really only bust it out a couple times a year. Always play it at Brickfair though, and things can get a little cut-throat as I'm sure TMD can attest to. 😜

There's a certain point in Catan where it stops being about winning and more about making other people lose.

And also trading.

Oh heck yes board games! I feel like I should check out Firefly sometime since it looks up my alley.

From the rest of your list, I love Coup and I've enjoyed Codenames when I've played it. If you like Coup, you gotta check out Love Letter. It's similar in gameplay and another really quick pick up game.

I also appreciate seeing 7 Wonders listed. I really enjoy that game but I still can't quite grok it (high Complexity, as you'd say).

If you want a game for two people, I do really like Pandemic. It's fun, 'cuz it's cooperative, and pulling off a win feels great. That said, its theming is a little less fun these days.
For medium-big groups, Cosmic Encounter is one of my go-tos. It's so gloriously unbalanced and chaotic that it can be quite fun, especially for strategic people>
One of my recent loves is Blood Rage. It's very competitive but also feels super fair. Probably more cut throat than anything, but it's great.

2 hours ago, xccj said:

Oh hey someone else is doing NaNoWriMo.  Don't see that too often in this community anymore.

What's your username so I can stalk you follow your progress?

 

It's joshuat, because I'm very creative. If it looks like I'm blazing through words it's because this is a rewrite of a project I spent NaNo 18, 19, and 20 working on and then the last six months working on and fixing an outline. Right now I'm in write-like-you're-running-out-of-time mode.

And yeah, I've found NaNo to be a wonderful stressor that helps me stop caring about making everything perfect and focusing instead on just putting words to paper. Which, tbh, is usually the hardest part for me. I'll probably write something about writing soon, I've got some news there and, hey, this is my blog and I can do whatever the karz I want.

13 hours ago, Mushy the Mushroom said:

*my uncontrollable excitement upon blog returns*

 

Yay and welcome back!

My wizened BZP brain is flabbergasted at the size of that gif, but that emoticon brings me all back.

And cheers!

Idk. What's up with you?

I renounce my duties of video editing.

Also, there was A Car pun there the whole time and I'm salty you never used it.
 

What you have there is a utility belt.

missed opportunity to title it "down with the wickness"

matanuidarnit

Everything's not awesome...

I will forever have a soft spot for movies that know they're dumb and go for it. If Jurassic World would just commit already I'd enjoy them more than this semi-serious stuff they churn out.

Para-dinos is exactly the sort of bull I am here for.

Luckily for me, I was able to get advanced tickets for Endgame pretty easily, and the showing hasn't even sold out yet, so at least over here there's not a mad rush to get to the theaters.

In the words of a Taylor Swift song I loathe: Welcome to New York.

Bittersweet! Tragedy can be bittersweet! And I was happy with that being that. I think what I'm saying about KHIII is despite how much I wanna see them again, I was happy to have let Roxas/Namine's arcs be. 

I too wish we had more time with the folks from Rogue One, but that's what makes it so beautiful: that feeling of loss.

Roxas is a fantastic character, and that the book was closed on his chapter (okay, lousy idioms) was beautifully sad. Left me wanting more, but there was none. Traaaagedy.

Ah, I love you both.

JMJ, I'm with Pahrak on this one. KH II does have the best ending of the games, hands down. I loved the tragedy of it, of people nobodies like Axel and Namine giving their lives for Sora and friends; all that. Heck, the melancholy throughout the game (Roxas' end of summer continues to be a gutpunch) is so well done that one of my biggest frustrations is how so much of that is undercut.

That said, the Wayfinder Trio's reunion was actually really sweet and I did like that (even if, again, so much for tragedy). Maybe I was just hoping for more melancholy than I got, and then when it finally happens with Sora it feels weak because, well, look at how everyone came back!

Finally, Spider-Man's fantastic with its storytelling, using phone calls and banter to communicate character as much as cutscenes. I kinda give its QTEs a pass because they seldom happen during cutscenes proper but as a beat during action scenes — and the command prompts are tied to the controls in the game (O = dodge, X = jump, R1/L1 = web).

An unexplained image of a wheel of cheese.

Please tell me the stickers on the Snow Groomer are a callback to the Extreme Team.

Brickeeeeens!!!~

Work's fine. Trying to figure out the starving artist thing without starving and while actually making art. So. That's fun.

That question is why mine's been sitting in its box in the closet for a past year.

I admit with embarrassment that I have not seen a Jackie Chan film aside from Shanghai Noon. Maybe its time I do something about that.

Yes it is.

I love Gosling in Drive. And Nice Guys. But that's about it.

I'm honestly disappointed that this isn't about Tom Petty at all.

 

Fair.

*puts on Free Fallin'*

 

"Her arc culminates in stopping Finn’s suicide run, saying to save what they love instead of fighting what they hate."

 

Except, since no one knew Luke was going to save the day, from the characters' perspective all she did was ruin their one remaining hope (i.e. Finn's kamikaze attack on the ram allowing the Resistance in hiding to survive by giving them more time).

 

I like Kelly Marie Tran and Rose's character, but that final scene with her was dreadful.

 

Obviously this has nothing to do with people being horrid to Tran on the Internet. But that scene in TLJ really bugged me, and I think it should have just been cut entirely.

Not to mention this is a movie that wants you to CELEBRATE one suicide run and then five minutes later get lectured on how it is wrong. Expectations subverted, I guess!

 

I hated the movie and I hate even more all the "you just don't GET it" or "it is GOOD to make a film with no plot or consistency with the prior film as long as it does something DIFFERENT" or whatever posts and articles. But the movie being an absolutely terrible Star Wars film and barely a coherently plotted film isn't the actress' fault. The people harassing ANYONE online for this are showing their internal colours as not angry fans- but as bad PEOPLE. I hate that my dislike for this bad movie is lumped in with their vocal racist and sexist complaints because it gives everyone who wants to pretend this is some high-brow Star Wars film license to ignore all complaints- but I hate those terrible people more than I hate this terrible movie. There is no room for sexism or racism in these films or commentary on them.

 

I vehemently disagree with you on your opinion, but I think there's space for that discussion outside of awful terrible people.

And I think failing to recognize that is part of the problem.