I didn't miss them. This wasn't a story about Jedi, so they would have been very out of place. I'm not saying it didn't have it's problems, but I wasn't angry that I watched it.I finally got around to seeing the Han Solo movie. I thought it was pretty good. Not as good as Rogue One, but a decent flick.It wasn't bad but it didn't really do anything for me either. I kind of miss all the awesome light saber fights personally.
Yeah that's fair and my complaint is generally more for all the Disney era star wars movies.
Why would you be angry after you watch movies? Don't you watch movies to entertain yourself?Yeah, but sometimes they are so bad that I'm pissed off that I wasted my time/money.
Read the reviews first before you watch movies? I think that should help some?
Why would you be angry after you watch movies? Don't you watch movies to entertain yourself?
i don't know that I have ever gotten angry at a movie but annoyed and disgusted occasionally. I think some of the worst ones I can think of are movies like wolf creek or open waters also that Ryan Reynolds one where he is locked in a coffin under ground.
Yeah I don't trust critics,I almost always disagree with them.
Also Mort I don't think your getting what he is saying. He was saying he does quit watching them if they bother him.
Good morning!
I think your over analyzing it.
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So I made a 40 garlic clove chicken in a white wine sauce yesterday for dinner. (yes it was delicious) I usually run by the grocery on my way home from work but apparently I can't buy wine before 8AM I don't know if that is a state or county law but it was the first I had heard about it. So dumb. not like I was gonna buy it run over to city hall and stagger around throwing out slurs at random passerbys. Literally just using it for cooking. It amazes me that the states that are supposedly down for less government involvement make up the dumbest laws to involve them self with your every day life.
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Yeah I'm still upset on the no drinking of alcohol in a public place after 10.30 pm after the Little India riots
Honestly compared to some other riots I don't think that one was THAT bad. only 400 arrested would be a small one for the states.
I feel like a lot of these things are stuff just left on the books that never get erased.
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party hardI'm at what can best be termed a "baby rave". One of Hermione's 2nd grade classmates is having a dance party for her birthday.
One of the other moms asked me if I knew (random dance). How do I explain that I haven't been in a dance club since 1995, when it was all about Haddaway and Zima? I feel like the android from Dark Matter, standing at parade rest and awkwardly observing.
Merciful heavens, my eyes!
That's... wow. So awful.You know, I don't remember saying that I actually *liked* Haddaway.
Just that, the last time I actually went to clubs, it seemed like that was all they played. Okay, Haddaway and Ace of Base. And occasionally "Vogue".
And thanks to Freehold and Drejk, I truly don't need to hear them again for another 23 years.
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So I made a 40 garlic clove chicken in a white wine sauce yesterday for dinner. (yes it was delicious) I usually run by the grocery on my way home from work but apparently I can't buy wine before 8AM I don't know if that is a state or county law but it was the first I had heard about it. So dumb. not like I was gonna buy it run over to city hall and stagger around throwing out slurs at random passerbys. Literally just using it for cooking. It amazes me that the states that are supposedly down for less government involvement make up the dumbest laws to involve them self with your every day life.
In Kentucky, it used to be illegal for a woman to walk along the side of the road in a bathing suit unless she was carrying a club.
I don't know if it still is or not; it was the 1980's when I heard it was still a law.Texas has some very strange blue laws.
It used to be you couldn't buy a car on Sunday in this state. It was a very big deal when that one finally changed. Now dealerships can be open EITHER Saturday or Sunday, but not both.
There are different types of bottle shops, most sell only beer and wine, and there are no shops that sell liquor open after 9 pm, and not at all on Sunday. And you can't buy beer or wine before noon on Sunday.
Oh, and in the city of Houston, you can't buy Limburger cheese on Sunday.
You can't buy the Encyclopedia Britannica at all, because it contains a formula for home-brewing beer.
BUT, you don't have to wear a helmet to ride a motorcycle here, as long as you have proof of insurance. And you can drive a car with a dog in your lap. (A LOT of people do.)
Dumpster diving is illegal. Feather dusters in public buildings are illegal. In one town, taking three or more sips while standing is illegal. Milking a cow that does not belong to you is illegal. Shooting a buffalo from a second-story window in a hotel is illegal.
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This is why I shouldn't be allowed to post before coffee.
I'm gonna go do that now.
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I approve of all the posting that just happened.
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Weirdest UK laws:
The top ten weirdest laws in Britain today
1. All beached whales and sturgeons must be offered to the Reigning Monarch
2. No person shall, in the course of a business, import into England, potatoes which he knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, are from Poland
3. It is Illegal to be drunk in the pub
4. It is illegal to carry a plank along a pavement (as well as any ladder, wheel, pole, cask, placard, showboard, or hoop) in the Metropolitan Police District
5. MPs are not allowed to wear armour in Parliament
6. It is an offence to be drunk and in charge of cattle in England and Wales
7. It is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances
8. It is an offence to beat or shake any carpet, rug, or mat (except door mats before 8am) in a thoroughfare in the Metropolitan Police District
9. It is illegal to jump the queue in the Tube ticket hall
10. It is illegal to activate your burglar alarm without first nominating a ‘Key-Holder’ who can switch it off in your absence
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Okay, I got the character sheet for Sam Vimes finished this morning, big thanks to the Vagrant Erudite for his build suggestions for him.
I ended up starting Angua at 2nd level ranger with lycanthropy, Carrot at 3rd level fighter, and Vimes at 5th level Cavalier/Ranger (Order of the Shield). I gave WW the printout for his morning bathroom reading when he woke up.
I was hoping to run the opening session tonight, but it would probably be better to wait until next Sunday so I can take more time to write out my story prep in greater detail and just do a board game tonight. (Sunday is our only possible game night. WW works Tues/Sat, Monday is his dojo night, Wednesday is choir, Thursday night the kids have dinner with Grandma, and Friday is movie night.)
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Mort, some people like to critique things. Complaining is fun to them.
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I think that the manufacturers of "trust" games are either psychotic sociopaths or they just don't understand human nature. Get 6 people together in a room and have them play a game wherein they're expected to tell the truth, but they get a distinct game advantage if they lie, and you're just asking for conflict.
So last night marked the biggest blow-up among the Impii's friends in memory, and got so heated I was worried I was going to have to go in and break up a physical fight. Why? Because they were playing a "trust game" (JackBox TV's "Fakin' It"), and one of the players who was doing poorly (and who is rather infamous for being a poor loser) accused one of the other players of lying, and demanded that that player immediately pull out his wallet and prove that he wasn't. (The question was, "How much money do you have in your wallet right now?")
Needless to say, the accused player got offended, especially since this pretty much defeated the entire purpose of the game, the argument got more heated, the original accuser started calling the (innocent) player a "baby" and a "cheater", and it was just ugly.
It got so bad that as I was driving her home, the accuser's girlfriend said, "Yeah, I'm kind of embarrassed to be his girlfriend right now."
(She is awesome, by the way, at 14 the single-most-mature person in the room outside of Impus Major. Who exists in a plane by himself. Rightly so. Because we all fear that plane.)
I swear, I have never seen one of those games played where one player didn't accuse another of cheating, and things go downhill from there.
Trust games. Don't play 'em.
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For me, the Star Wars franchise died the moment Jar Jar Binks appeared on the screen. Or Anakin Skywalker. One of those two from the Phantom Menace.
I have been dragged against my will to most of the franchise movies that have come out since then. I have not enjoyed a single one.
Rogue One tops out the lot at "tolerable, but I wouldn't watch it a second time, even for free."
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So I made a 40 garlic clove chicken in a white wine sauce yesterday for dinner. (yes it was delicious) I usually run by the grocery on my way home from work but apparently I can't buy wine before 8AM I don't know if that is a state or county law but it was the first I had heard about it. So dumb. not like I was gonna buy it run over to city hall and stagger around throwing out slurs at random passerbys. Literally just using it for cooking. It amazes me that the states that are supposedly down for less government involvement make up the dumbest laws to involve them self with your every day life.In Kentucky, it used to be illegal for a woman to walk along the side of the road in a bathing suit unless she was carrying a club.
I don't know if it still is or not; it was the 1980's when I heard it was still a law.Texas has some very strange blue laws.
It used to be you couldn't buy a car on Sunday in this state. It was a very big deal when that one finally changed. Now dealerships can be open EITHER Saturday or Sunday, but not both.
There are different types of bottle shops, most sell only beer and wine, and there are no shops that sell liquor open after 9 pm, and not at all on Sunday. And you can't buy beer or wine before noon on Sunday.
Oh, and in the city of Houston, you can't buy Limburger cheese on Sunday.
You can't buy the Encyclopedia Britannica at all, because it contains a formula for home-brewing beer.
BUT, you don't have to wear a helmet to ride a motorcycle here, as long as you have proof of insurance. And you can drive a car with a dog in your lap. (A LOT of people do.)
Dumpster diving is illegal. Feather dusters in public buildings are illegal. In one town, taking three or more sips while standing is illegal. Milking a cow that does not belong to you is illegal. Shooting a buffalo from a second-story window in a hotel is illegal.
this is why I am team chaos.
For me, the Star Wars franchise died the moment Jar Jar Binks appeared on the screen. Or Anakin Skywalker. One of those two from the Phantom Menace.
I have been dragged against my will to most of the franchise movies that have come out since then. I have not enjoyed a single one.
Rogue One tops out the lot at "tolerable, but I wouldn't watch it a second time, even for free."
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But... but... DONNIE YEN!
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this is why I am team chaos.So I made a 40 garlic clove chicken in a white wine sauce yesterday for dinner. (yes it was delicious) I usually run by the grocery on my way home from work but apparently I can't buy wine before 8AM I don't know if that is a state or county law but it was the first I had heard about it. So dumb. not like I was gonna buy it run over to city hall and stagger around throwing out slurs at random passerbys. Literally just using it for cooking. It amazes me that the states that are supposedly down for less government involvement make up the dumbest laws to involve them self with your every day life.In Kentucky, it used to be illegal for a woman to walk along the side of the road in a bathing suit unless she was carrying a club.
I don't know if it still is or not; it was the 1980's when I heard it was still a law.Texas has some very strange blue laws.
It used to be you couldn't buy a car on Sunday in this state. It was a very big deal when that one finally changed. Now dealerships can be open EITHER Saturday or Sunday, but not both.
There are different types of bottle shops, most sell only beer and wine, and there are no shops that sell liquor open after 9 pm, and not at all on Sunday. And you can't buy beer or wine before noon on Sunday.
Oh, and in the city of Houston, you can't buy Limburger cheese on Sunday.
You can't buy the Encyclopedia Britannica at all, because it contains a formula for home-brewing beer.
BUT, you don't have to wear a helmet to ride a motorcycle here, as long as you have proof of insurance. And you can drive a car with a dog in your lap. (A LOT of people do.)
Dumpster diving is illegal. Feather dusters in public buildings are illegal. In one town, taking three or more sips while standing is illegal. Milking a cow that does not belong to you is illegal. Shooting a buffalo from a second-story window in a hotel is illegal.
I have many, many "tenets of poor governance" (dozens, I'm sure), but "reactive legislation" is definitely in my top 5.
Many of the laws LM lists fall into that category:
(1) Something happens.
(2) People cry out, "There oughta be a law!"
(3) Without any thought as to whether or not the activity was already illegal under existing laws, and without thinking about how much the new law might impact innocent citizens, nor how stupid it would be to have such a specific law on the books in 100 years, eager-to-please legislators pass a law to appease the masses
(4) 100 years later, we make fun of them for having stupid laws on the books.
Don't pass laws reactively. It always ends poorly.
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But... but... DONNIE YEN!
I'm sure I could watch that one scene as often as I wanted to on YouTube or whatnot. No reason to have to sit through the rest of the movie for it.
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But... but... DONNIE YEN!I'm sure I could watch that one scene as often as I wanted to on YouTube or whatnot. No reason to have to sit through the rest of the movie for it.
For me, the Star Wars franchise died the moment Jar Jar Binks appeared on the screen. Or Anakin Skywalker. One of those two from the Phantom Menace.
I have been dragged against my will to most of the franchise movies that have come out since then. I have not enjoyed a single one.
Rogue One tops out the lot at "tolerable, but I wouldn't watch it a second time, even for free."
I still haven't seen a Star Wars movie in the theater since Phantom Menace, people even offer to pay for it, doesn't matter.
I watched a half hour of Rogue One on Netflix then shut it off.
I watched a half hour of Rogue One on Netflix then shut it off.
you WHAT
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I'll wait for Seth McFarlane to do it better.
I'll give the Solo movie a try though, as Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando were the best characters in the original trilogy.
That and Donald Glover.
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I'll wait for Seth McFarlane to do it better.
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Speaking of random shows people may love or hate, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is amazing as a technical achievement: It's a good old, "Choose your own adventure" show done on Netflix.
But of course it's NetFlix and Black Mirror, so it's dark and gritty, with drug use, suicide, and all kinds of other "triggering" themes. I really didn't care for the plot at all, but the technical achievement is so impressive I'll likely watch it again just to try to get a better result.
It's not a spoiler to say that you're a young game author trying to put out a game, and you get from 0 to 5 stars. You almost automatically get 0 stars and a do-over your first time through, but after several murders and suicide hiccups (it is the game industry) I got up to 2.5 stars.
Shiro, of course, spent 4 hours fooling around with it and got the 5-star ending, but he still loves watching other people "play" so he can see scenes he might not have.
I'll wait for Seth McFarlane to do it better.
The only people that send me Christmas cards is Paizo.
And our current "show of the month" is Black Butler, because who but the Japanese could turn a series about a young boy selling his soul to the Devil to avenge his parents' deaths into a light-hearted comedy?
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Hearth trolls, small, cunning, urban trolls.
Impus Major: It's like Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh had a baby and he didn't dress funny and he wasn't a hipster...
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Weirdest UK laws:
The top ten weirdest laws in Britain today
1. All beached whales and sturgeons must be offered to the Reigning Monarch
2. No person shall, in the course of a business, import into England, potatoes which he knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, are from Poland
3. It is Illegal to be drunk in the pub
4. It is illegal to carry a plank along a pavement (as well as any ladder, wheel, pole, cask, placard, showboard, or hoop) in the Metropolitan Police District
5. MPs are not allowed to wear armour in Parliament
6. It is an offence to be drunk and in charge of cattle in England and Wales
7. It is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances
8. It is an offence to beat or shake any carpet, rug, or mat (except door mats before 8am) in a thoroughfare in the Metropolitan Police District
9. It is illegal to jump the queue in the Tube ticket hall
10. It is illegal to activate your burglar alarm without first nominating a ‘Key-Holder’ who can switch it off in your absence
Coincidentally, these were all my 2019 New Year's resolutions.
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It would make a fantastic stag night scavenger hunt!
Item one: wear armour in Parliament. Chug a pint.
Item two: offer a beached sturgeon to the reigning monarch. Chug a pint.
Item three: beat a carpet in a thoroughfare. Chug a pint.
Item four: carry a plank along a pavement. Chug a pint.
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I'll wait for Seth McFarlane to do it better.
I'll wait for Seth Green to do it even better than that.
I'll wait for Seth McFarlane to do it better.I'll wait for Seth Green to do it even better than that.
I'd say they're about equal.