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Tacticslion wrote:

Jeanne as she appears most of the game.

Jeanne "Armlet Form" (spoiler? eh).

Jeanne d'Arc Cover

Gameplay footage (from almost the first scenes of in-game graphics)

Picture from an animate cut scene

"He's totally not a villain, we swear." (I actually don't think he is. But still.)

That aught'a make Freehold almost unable to contain himself.

Irritatingly, I can't find all that much art of all the characters.

Also, I am contractually obligated to like La Hire, even if I otherwise wouldn't. You'll likely understand if you ever actually see him.

NICE!


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VERY NICE!


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Freehold DM wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:

08th MS Team Gundam as of Cartoon Network was really good, right up until the last episode decided, “well, we need to end it, now; BIG BOSS/WEAPONS FROM NOWHERE!”

(Kind of typical for anime at times.)

It wouldn't be gundam if zeon didnt attempt to fix all their problems with a mobile armor. It just wouldn't be.

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Still remains my favorite of the various ones I’ve seen because of its much more grounded (by comparison) approach, and its pretty high on the lost of anime I’ve seen that I like.

Apparently there are some episodes missing, though that would both have rounded out the ending story (making it better) and wrecked characterization and/or character growth (and/or contains other elements that aren’t a great conversation topic?), though this is strictly hearsay on my part.

Were you watching it on toonami? Never trust toonami, they have gotten MUCH better in recent years but back in the day they dropped stuff from time to time.

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I liked some of other Gundam stuff. The rest isn’t really high on my list, though; not really knocking it, just not what I want to spend my time watching.

As an aside, strictly in my opinion: Evangeleon, Code Geass, and Death Note are... not great. Not terrible, but not great.

E is just... it’s a mess. They all are, but this one more so. Also I didn’t like the characters much (some were pretty good, but eeeeehhhhh.)

DN is just unpleasant to watch over-all. Everyone was dumb, especially the geniuses.

CG at least I liked the characters, but the final plot/plan was just duuuuuuuumb.

Evangelion is not for everyone. It is one of the first anime I say falls squarely into that category.

Death Note must be read, not watched. I have watched the anime in full thanks to Sharoth and...animated it doesnt work. Even reading it you need a healthy background and love of the stereotypical hard boiled japanese detective story to get the kind of tropes the series is turning on its ear. Otherwise it's going to...

EUREKA SEVEN! THATS THE NAME OF THE SERIES!!!


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Anime Opening Gold

I wish I could find the opening (the animated version; I can find the extended version of just the music) for Season 1, but it doesn't seem to be on YouTube, and that particular video is about half a second short (there are several videos and music that seemingly on purpose, probably to evade YouTube auto-take downs).

Look, all I'm saying is I wanna see a goddess barf rainbows. Sometimes you just want to see that, you know?

(And gnomes doing so, while absolutely worthwhile go-watch-gravity-falls-you-guys-for-real, is not the same thing, I'm afraid.)


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I truly love Konosuba. Truly. This series we can agree on.

Although we may like it for different reasons.

I have never found a series where my attention has been equally divided between all of the female characters before. Ever.


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RIVER CITY GIRLS IS OUT TODAAAAAAY


Freehold DM wrote:
RIVER CITY GIRLS IS OUT TODAAAAAAY

Hah! This looks hilariously delightful!


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Tacticslion wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
RIVER CITY GIRLS IS OUT TODAAAAAAY
Hah! This looks hilariously delightful!

River City Ransom remains one of my all time favorite games. I am liking the game, but as a purist(what, you didn't know I was a purist?) the game loses points for having a level based system instead of a buy-basee system, and I cannot play the game in japanese....yet, at least.


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I used to love River City Ransom on the NES. My friend and I got really good at it. I still have my NES and SNES, maybe I should try plugging them in one day.


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About to go home. Good night, everyone.


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Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Orthos wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Disclaimer: I commuted by bicycle for 12 1/2 years in Albany, Berkeley, and Davis. And I obeyed traffic control devices (in the standard California manner). And yep, it was amazing how many cars would stop, yield the right of way to you, then honk at you and get visibly angry when you refused to take it. Or stopping at a stop sign only to have three bicyclists around you blow right past you and through the intersection.

But in all cases, I wasn't in a "Big City" like New York or San Francisco. I don't even comprehend how bicyclists in such areas can survive, but I'm sure the rules are different.

I nearly had a head-on collision with a cyclist today heading back to work after my appointment because he was in my right-hand lanes coming toward me (therefore, his left lanes). Yet he glared at me in that "how dare you turn onto this road while I'm here" manner as I swerved around him.
Wait a minute. He was in the lane OPPOSITE you(as in going the opposite direction) or driving the wrong way down a one way street? And you were turning onto the street or going straight?

I've seen the same thing, and similarly nearly killed a cyclist because of it: For some reason some cyclists actually believe that they are supposed to ride down the LEFT side of the road on a two-way street.

If cycling is dangerous (and it is, as my two broken helmets can attest), then cycling down the wrong side of the street is suicidal.

if it's a two way street they are supposed to go with the flow of traffic in the direction they are going. That means sometimes they will be on the right side of the road and sometimes on the left, depending on which way they are going.

Full disclosure, I will ride down the street the wrong way if I have been doored. I cannot take another blow to that side.

In this case it was a four lane road, two going each way. He was in, from my perspective, the second lane from the right, coming toward me. Very clearly going the wrong way for the lane in question.


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LordSynos wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

On another note, I think I've mentioned that Re: Zero is definitely in my "Top 10 Anime I've Ever Watched", and I think it flirts with the Top 5. (Trigun and One Punch Man Season 1 being the two solidly there, and then I'd have to sit down and start making lists).

So, The Rising of the Shield Hero has a magnificent flavor for the first four episodes, and really felt like they managed to capture the magic of Re: Zero.

Unfortunately, in Episode 5 they start going off the rails so it's gone from, "Watch it!" to a "Wary Recommendation", though I'm still only 6 episodes in.
** spoiler omitted ** does stuff just for the sake of being "evil", with no possible rational explanation, possibly at great cost to themselves. The antagonist of Shield Hero has plummeted into the latter category.
"I bought a town and I'm going to raise taxes to half a year's...

The Rise of the Shield Hero redeems itself, in my opinion, before the end of the series. I really enjoyed it, it's not quite up there with Re:Zero, but still very good.

Gurren Lagann, Re:Zero, the first half of the original FMA, mixed with the latter half of Brotherhood, Gundam Wing (it was my first anime, leave it alone :P ), No Game: No Life.

** spoiler omitted **

Re:Zero was good, but the first episode was rough.


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Tacticslion wrote:
Sharoth wrote:
Parkinson's disease may originate in the intestines
Watch later, me!

That is going to take some guts.


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Tacticslion wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Tacticslion wrote:


[Death Note] is just unpleasant to watch over-all. Everyone was dumb, especially the geniuses.

That's a frequent complaint from GothBard: Series where someone is supposed to be a "super genius", but the writers aren't, and the character ends up being either:

(a) Dumb as a sack of bricks
(b) A miracle of, "I figured out this impossible thing because smart," with no reasonable explanation.

But yeah, Death Note was similar for us: The first few episodes were a marvelous play on, "What is morality?", then ran out of steam, decided, "This guy is irrevocably evil, this guy is xxx, this guy is yyy," and everything became clear-cut, black-and-white, and boring.

Yeah. And I have no problem with the writer not being as smart as the character, but that just means you have to build clues - a sudden revelation that the audience can not relate to means little and it gets old quickly, if over used (and it often is).

It’s funny - Death Note keeps getting more disappointing the more time I have between me and the show.

IMHO the live action Death Note is better because they cut all the BS out of it. Yes, it still has those failings in the end, but it was enjoyable.


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Tacticslion wrote:

Re:Zero was actually really really good.

I’ve not seen all of FMA (Brotherhood or otherwise) - only snippets.

I’ve not seen Trigun or Shield Hero or My Hero Academia. Or Goblin Slayer. Sorry, world.

I loved That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime; the first teeeen? episodes of Overlord (up to about where he fights the one as if a video game boss - there weren’t more episodes available at the time, so that’s all I’ve seen, though I hear it degrades), and Sword Art Online (the second one nearly ruined things, but forewarned was forearmed and I was able to push through it and enjoy the rest of the series, though it’s not as good as the first, and two borders on unforgivable sins).

Inuyasha was pretty decent for what it was, if plodding at times.

Because <Reasons> I am unable to watch Ruroni Kenshin. I will not share those reasons, as I don’t want to remove the ability to enjoy from others.

Hero =/= Mask is hard to recommend. It’s pretty good if it’s on the background while you do other stuff, but somewhat plodding when you sit to focus on it - at least it was for me! Was not happy about some events, but I can’t say it was poorly done... though that might have been because I wasn’t paying enough attention, so.

Why am I talking about random anime at this point? I’unno. I like anime.

Also Avatar the Last Airbender is anime, don’t care, don’t “@“ me. Love you all, though.

WHAT?!? NO NO NO!!! At least watch FMA Brotherhood. Or watch the first half of FMA first. I am even willing to ship my copies of FMA and FMA Brotherhood to you if you need them. I just want them back. Eventually.


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The rising of the shield hero is pretty damn good. Yes, some of the villains are a bit cliche, but it does get better.

Scarab Sages

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Bath tub swan died :(


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Woran wrote:
Bath tub swan died :(

I am so sorry. I know you loved that little guy.


Orthos wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Orthos wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

Disclaimer: I commuted by bicycle for 12 1/2 years in Albany, Berkeley, and Davis. And I obeyed traffic control devices (in the standard California manner). And yep, it was amazing how many cars would stop, yield the right of way to you, then honk at you and get visibly angry when you refused to take it. Or stopping at a stop sign only to have three bicyclists around you blow right past you and through the intersection.

But in all cases, I wasn't in a "Big City" like New York or San Francisco. I don't even comprehend how bicyclists in such areas can survive, but I'm sure the rules are different.

I nearly had a head-on collision with a cyclist today heading back to work after my appointment because he was in my right-hand lanes coming toward me (therefore, his left lanes). Yet he glared at me in that "how dare you turn onto this road while I'm here" manner as I swerved around him.
Wait a minute. He was in the lane OPPOSITE you(as in going the opposite direction) or driving the wrong way down a one way street? And you were turning onto the street or going straight?

I've seen the same thing, and similarly nearly killed a cyclist because of it: For some reason some cyclists actually believe that they are supposed to ride down the LEFT side of the road on a two-way street.

If cycling is dangerous (and it is, as my two broken helmets can attest), then cycling down the wrong side of the street is suicidal.

if it's a two way street they are supposed to go with the flow of traffic in the direction they are going. That means sometimes they will be on the right side of the road and sometimes on the left, depending on which way they are going.

Full disclosure, I will ride down the street the wrong way if I have been doored. I cannot take another blow to that side.

In this case it was a four lane road, two going each way. He was in, from my perspective,...

that's a really, really weird lane for a cyclist to be in at all- there's no room to maneuver if something goes wrong and there is traffic. Maybe there was an accident up ahead or something?


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Or maybe sometimes we're right when we complain about cyclists that don't follow the rules of the road.

I get it. You cycle, and you do follow the rules, and there are a lot of drivers that hate the concept of sharing the road to the point where they project unnecessary anger onto cyclists doing what they're supposed to do.

I'll straight-up admit my neck of the woods is pretty crap for a bike (though I think Manhattan's getting some decent progress I've noticed when I drive through there). It's a rural town with lots of two-lane highway messes and no bike lanes. But most of the cyclists around here keep to the right, as far to the side as is safe without falling off the road. They hand-signal, they wear safety gear, and they do their best.

This is not every cyclist. And go with observer's bias here and NH's earlier commentary on chaperoning: you don't remember the good ones. You remember the moron that nearly caused a 3-car pile-up because he had to run that stop sign, had to make a left turn from the right shoulder at the last moment, treats his bike as though it's capable of racing a car on the highway.

I'd like to think it's a small minority of cyclists that pull these stunts, and we just remember them because of the suckage anomaly, but some cyclists really do just suck.

And it's not like we're singling them out and pretending drivers have a perfect record, either. See the earlier autonomous vehicle chat for proof of that.


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oh, Woran, I'm so sorry.


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Woran wrote:
Bath tub swan died :(

Ugh. Sorry to hear it!


I’m sorry, Wotan. You did what could be done and it had the best care it could get - it was as comfortable as possible.

Scarab Sages

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Freehold DM wrote:
Woran wrote:
Bath tub swan died :(
I am so sorry. I know you loved that little guy.

I did love him, even if he had been just an hour and a half in my bath tub.


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Sorry, Woran. You did what you could.

Scarab Sages

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He initially perked up on antibiotics and being warm. But he developed seizures, so they had to put him down :(


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Scintillae wrote:

Or maybe sometimes we're right when we complain about cyclists that don't follow the rules of the road.

I get it. You cycle, and you do follow the rules, and there are a lot of drivers that hate the concept of sharing the road to the point where they project unnecessary anger onto cyclists doing what they're supposed to do.

I'll straight-up admit my neck of the woods is pretty crap for a bike (though I think Manhattan's getting some decent progress I've noticed when I drive through there). It's a rural town with lots of two-lane highway messes and no bike lanes. But most of the cyclists around here keep to the right, as far to the side as is safe without falling off the road. They hand-signal, they wear safety gear, and they do their best.

This is not every cyclist. And go with observer's bias here and NH's earlier commentary on chaperoning: you don't remember the good ones. You remember the moron that nearly caused a 3-car pile-up because he had to run that stop sign, had to make a left turn from the right shoulder at the last moment, treats his bike as though it's capable of racing a car on the highway.

I'd like to think it's a small minority of cyclists that pull these stunts, and we just remember them because of the suckage anomaly, but some cyclists really do just suck.

And it's not like we're singling them out and pretending drivers have a perfect record, either. See the earlier autonomous vehicle chat for proof of that.

This.

The entire Midwest is pretty much a disaster for cyclists, with a very small handful of exceptions.

In Illinois, by law, a bicycle is treated as no different than a car. They are specifically *not* a pedestrian and a police officer *can* ticket a cyclist for using a sidewalk under any conditions.

But the only cyclists I see that are doing things as safely and correctly as possible? They're out in the middle of nowhere, doing a cross-country ride on back roads that only see 5-10 cars a day.


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The mind is an interesting thing. So much of what we do is so completely unconscious that we're utterly unaware that we do it.

As essentially the only chore-doer in the household, I've been working for years on what I consider a fundamentally simple concept with my family: "When you leave a room, leave it in the same state you found it in."

So, if you brought in a plate or a mug or a bottle, take it with you when you leave. If you opened a door, close it. If you closed a door, open it. If you unfolded a blanket, fold it back up.

And yeah, that's been a complete and utter failure on all counts. The family's incapable of that.

Yet much simpler instructions, such as, "Always close this door because it lets the heat out," always work, even when it's totally inapplicable. The heat's off in the house. Has been for months. So the door between the kitchen and the bedroom hallway doesn't need to be closed. And yet every single morning I have to open it half a dozen times because family members have trained themselves to close it, so every time they see it open they close it. And when I complain, they say, "Don't give us rules that change. Just tell us, 'Do this' and we'll do it."

So it's kind of interesting: "Don't change the current state of the room" is too complex, yet, "Always close this door" isn't.

If I were a psychology researcher, I'd start working on a paper on it just to find out what the threshold is...


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Orthos wrote:
The Vagrant Erudite wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:

So... this is political, but it's more, "How can anyone in the country be so unbelievably stupid/gullible/willing to believe that Snopes had to write this article?"

It kind of explains why robotic telemarketers telling you that your Social Security Number has been suspended are still having success.

I don't think they believe so much as they really, really want to, so they say they do until it just clicks.

Is there really an appreciable difference, in practice? I don't really see much if any space between "I honestly and naturally believe this outlandish thing that I find convenient" and "I don't believe this outlandish thing, but I find it convenient so I'll say and act like I do believe it until I've tricked myself into actually believing it".

But yeah, see my prior posts on the subject. I'm surrounded by people who claim to believe this exact thing and many others like it, and I can't tell the True Believers from the Self-Convincing Political Opportunists at all, it's all the same as far as I can see.

Oh, self deulsion is far, far worse than stupidity. People can't help being stupid. The self delusional know what they're doing.


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So...
Based on what I keep reading from CY and others about the Midwest, I am lead to wonder if Athens County is like an oasis in the desert, like Austin in Texas.

Because biking here is amazeballs. We have entire paths between towns that are gorgeous and that cars can't go on and are regularly maintained.

Then again, all of Florida is among the worst places to cycle, with Jacksonville being listed among the top 3 worst cities in the US by multiple cycling magazines.


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Scintillae wrote:
I have never been able to watch a Gundam series without losing interest. I have no idea why. But I've tried to watch a few several times...and it's a testament to how well that worked out that I can't even remember which ones.

Probably because so many GIANT ROBOT PILOTED BY MEN shows/movies, the writers think that alone can cover for a mediocre story (I'm looking at you, Pacific Rim - we could have had a Guillermo Del Toro directed Hobbit if it weren't for you).

It does not.

Trigun is awesome. It shows how HARD it is to stick to your convictions. I hate the campy moments, too, though, because I believe all camp (style not the verb) should be put in a meat grinder.

Nobodyshome has my anime ticket.

Go Team Grumpy Old Men!


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Madison is a biking mecca, people come here from other countries just to use our thousands of miles of bike trails.

You can bike from Monroe to the Dells without using a single road (with cheese shoppes and swiss themed hotels every fifteen miles or so.


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Ok I'm done trying to catch up and reply to stuff.

I'll just leave this last part since FFT was mentioned:

Tactics Ogre - Let Us Cling Together

The PSP remake specifically was a total overhaul with tons of new stuff, a new leveling system, a new game + feature, multiple endings, and more. This was Square Enix trying out the whole "remake a game totally" thing on the sly without the press of FF7 or 8. If you played the SNES or PSX versions YOU DID NOT play this.

The FFT crew made it. It is considered a spiritual successor (with the original the spiritual prequel).

Know I can say without hype this game is straight up epic. If you are a turn based tactical combat fan, you MUST play this. If you can't get a PSP grab Retroarch, a controller, and an ISO. I'm using HDMI to play in my big screen.

This game has made it up to Skyrim/FinalFantasyTactics level of replay value for me so far. It has skyrocketed into my top 3 games in only a couple months of knowing it was a thing.

I swear by my glorious ginger beard this game is worth the pain of finding it for FFT junkies.


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Woran wrote:
He initially perked up on antibiotics and being warm. But he developed seizures, so they had to put him down :(

You gave him a bit of time at the end where he was warm and cared for and free from predation. You did good.


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{ominously:} Cycling is a complicated profession. Wouldn't you agree?

Grand Lodge

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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:
I swear by my glorious ginger beard this game is worth the pain of finding it for FFT junkies.

So it looks like I have a new wishlist item.

Edit: They remade a SNES game? What mad lads!


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NobodysHome wrote:


So it's kind of interesting: "Don't change the current state of the room" is too complex, yet, "Always close this door" isn't.

If I were a psychology researcher, I'd start working on a paper on it just to find out what the threshold is...

I think this was looked at years ago, people want simple answers to follow as there is a deep seated distrust for many in complex directives. "Leave the room in the state you found it" kind of falls apart the instant someone other than the listener lives there because they never know if the third party is going to do something in the room they are going to be held responsible for.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Ok I'm done trying to catch up and reply to stuff.

I'll just leave this last part since FFT was mentioned:

Tactics Ogre - Let Us Cling Together

The PSP remake specifically was a total overhaul with tons of new stuff, a new leveling system, a new game + feature, multiple endings, and more. This was Square Enix trying out the whole "remake a game totally" thing on the sly without the press of FF7 or 8. If you played the SNES or PSX versions YOU DID NOT play this.

The FFT crew made it. It is considered a spiritual successor (with the original the spiritual prequel).

Know I can say without hype this game is straight up epic. If you are a turn based tactical combat fan, you MUST play this. If you can't get a PSP grab Retroarch, a controller, and an ISO. I'm using HDMI to play in my big screen.

This game has made it up to Skyrim/FinalFantasyTactics level of replay value for me so far. It has skyrocketed into my top 3 games in only a couple months of knowing it was a thing.

I swear by my glorious ginger beard this game is worth the pain of finding it for FFT junkies.

I have a true love of Ogre Battle, and spent entire DAYS finishing certain maps on SNES. I dont thinking cared for the remake though, it's been a looooong time since I have seen it. Let me look it up on youtube.


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Vanykrye wrote:
Scintillae wrote:
Or maybe sometimes we're right when we complain about cyclists that don't follow the rules of the road...This is not every cyclist...
...In Illinois, by law, a bicycle is treated as no different than a car. They are specifically *not* a pedestrian and a police officer *can* ticket a cyclist for using a sidewalk under any conditions...

So, the issue in Berkeley at least is that many cyclists take the attitude of Jeff the Cyclist in Pearls Before Swine: "Because I cycle I am better than the rest of you drivers and pedestrians, and because I am better I have the God-given right of way in all situations."

The percentage of bicyclists like that around here is disturbingly high; maybe 15-20% of all cyclists fall into this category. The difficulty is that they are abusive to cyclists who follow the rules of the road. I have been flipped off by other cyclists for stopping at a Stop sign. I have been verbally cussed at for not running a red light with traffic coming. By a cyclist. I have a thick skin; I don't care, and I ignore them.
Yet it seems that because of their hostile attitude towards everything non-bicycle, and towards any bicyclist who doesn't join them in their execrable behavior, the percentage of cyclists who blow through Stop signs even when cars have the right of way is around 70-80%. It's a staggering number. (And yes, Scint, I'm aware of 'observer's bias', but as I mentioned in the post that started this, I'm currently teaching Impus Major to drive so I'm tracking every cyclist I see to help Impus Major learn to coexist with them safely.)

And it's definitely a holdover from the Berkeley of the 60s and 70s. When I was growing up, if you were on Telegraph in downtown Berkeley and you needed to cross the street, you just did it wherever you were and if a car had to stop for you, all the better because you were teaching those dirty drivers not to come to YOUR area. So there was already an extremely hostile attitude towards drivers in Berkeley, and an approach of, "If you need to make a driver stop, that's good," and I think it just got passed on to a generation of cyclists and turned this into an amazingly toxic situation: We have oodles of roads with bike lanes, and we even have dedicated north-south bike paths that go for miles. Yet biking around here is incredibly dangerous because of a vicious cycle of pooly-behaved bicyclists incensing drivers, and drivers in turn lashing out at any cyclists they see, even the good ones. Bike lanes and paths go unused so car-hostile cyclists can ride in traffic on congested streets and jam things up further.

It's not fun to bike around here, even when every other street has a bike lane.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

So...

Based on what I keep reading from CY and others about the Midwest, I am lead to wonder if Athens County is like an oasis in the desert, like Austin in Texas.

Because biking here is amazeballs. We have entire paths between towns that are gorgeous and that cars can't go on and are regularly maintained.

Then again, all of Florida is among the worst places to cycle, with Jacksonville being listed among the top 3 worst cities in the US by multiple cycling magazines.

I've heard of Jacksonville. You take your life in your own hands there. And I ride in rush hour Manhattan traffic.

Not the Scint Manhattan, the New York Manhattan.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:
Scintillae wrote:
I have never been able to watch a Gundam series without losing interest. I have no idea why. But I've tried to watch a few several times...and it's a testament to how well that worked out that I can't even remember which ones.
Probably because so many GIANT ROBOT PILOTED BY MEN shows/movies, the writers think that alone can cover for a mediocre story (I'm looking at you, Pacific Rim - we could have had a Guillermo Del Toro directed Hobbit if it weren't for you).

removes TVE from Christmas card list for besmirching one of the GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE

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Trigun is awesome. It shows how HARD it is to stick to your convictions. I hate the campy moments, too, though, because I believe all camp (style not the verb) should be put in a meat grinder.

Nobodyshome has my anime ticket.

sends TVE peroxide, hair gel, and a red london fog, points screaming fangirls in his general direction


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Freehold DM wrote:
NobodysHome wrote:


So it's kind of interesting: "Don't change the current state of the room" is too complex, yet, "Always close this door" isn't.

If I were a psychology researcher, I'd start working on a paper on it just to find out what the threshold is...

I think this was looked at years ago, people want simple answers to follow as there is a deep seated distrust for many in complex directives. "Leave the room in the state you found it" kind of falls apart the instant someone other than the listener lives there because they never know if the third party is going to do something in the room they are going to be held responsible for.

It's not just distrust, it's just hard to guess what different things mean due to simple differentiation of standards.

"Is door closed? {Yes/no}: switch to yes" is a clear binary with a simple action. It doesn't even take work, once you've trained yourself. Just... close the door. Heck, it can even be done as a byproduct of doing something else.

"Is room <'clean'>? {Yes/no}: switch to yes" is simple binary in one regard, but it fails because the definition of "clean" is so incredibly vague as to be impossible for a quick assessment. "But it's obvious if-" is one of those reasonable-seeming statements that isn't, because it fundamentally requires a reprogramming of basic individualized linguistics and mental structure and expectations (i.e. personality reprogramming) that goes beyond simple and straight-forward, despite its seemingly binary state. Also, you know, it takes work - you gotta stop whatever else you are doing (which means stopping your thought process, interrupting and pausing and holding it, then doing something else while maintaining that, then going back to the original thing).

"Is room <same>? {Yes/no}: switch to yes" is... not even remotely simple. Again, despite its appearance it isn't actually a binary yes/no. In addition to standard issues, it requires assessment and processing, actively hunting out details and noticing (something that some people do automatically, and others... do not), and it requires the same sort of "everything is the same" according to an unknown and unknowable arbitrary third standard - i.e. what is considered "the same." This isn't (necessarily) a distrust - it's a fundamental lack of both communication and nuanced subconscious training (which, to some extent, are related, even if they're not the same thing). While it technically requires less work (because it fewer things are needed to be altered), it requires more mental effort: because you have to stop your other mental tasks, rearrange your perception of the room from what it was to whatever it is, now, and then remind yourself of new, different, and ever-shifting task - putting it back to, "how it is now" can be exhausting, mentally, despite the relative simplicity of the rules, because you always have to update what, "now" is. Ultimately, it's a good rule, but it can be hard to enforce, because it absolutely requires mental strain that isn't necessarily present in other things.

It's actually made tougher by not being the one setting it to <state> in the first place. It might be easier, in fact, if people were given specific location or group of locations they were in charge of to handle.

It's, to some extent, akin to the old stereotype of a man coming home to a clean house and dumping his messy clothes around. Is he intentionally making more work for his wife who has (hypothetically) worked hard? No, of course not (unless he's a jerk, but that's not this conversation). Rather, while he knows, intellectually, that <X> requires effort, because it is outside of his personal experience, it simply isn't doesn't relate to his mental sequence. It's not part of his mind-space. He knows where everything is, but he doesn't recognize when anything is out of place (even when he does), because it's not a significant amount of his daily life putting it into <place>.

It's not as simple a retraining feature as it might seem - and, trust me, it does seem like it would be a simple retraining feature. It's because of a host of complicated concepts and personal mental alterations that are complicated in the way they wire into various things.

People be cray-cray, is what I'm saying. :D


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captain yesterday wrote:

Madison is a biking mecca, people come here from other countries just to use our thousands of miles of bike trails.

You can bike from Monroe to the Dells without using a single road (with cheese shoppes and swiss themed hotels every fifteen miles or so.

I do wonder how The Kai would do on those trails. Maybe I'll find out next year.


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Freehold it isnt Ogre Battle. It is the sequel (in story - but in gameplay it's a FFT style game). Lans, Warren, Canopus and even Deneb are in it.

Tactics Ogre - The Knight of Lodis for the Gameboy Advance is in the same vein, but not nearly as good.

OB64 is more the type of game OB was.


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Werner Herzog wrote:
{ominously:} Cycling is a complicated profession. Wouldn't you agree?

it is.

Ride free or die!


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

Freehold it isnt Ogre Battle. It is the sequel (in story - but in gameplay it's a FFT style game). Lans, Warren, Canopus and even Deneb are in it.

Tactics Ogre - The Knight of Lodis for the Gameboy Advance is in the same vein, but not nearly as good.

OB64 is more the type of game OB was.

did it come out for PS1? If so I have it.


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The Vagrant Erudite wrote:

So...

Based on what I keep reading from CY and others about the Midwest, I am lead to wonder if Athens County is like an oasis in the desert, like Austin in Texas.

Because biking here is amazeballs. We have entire paths between towns that are gorgeous and that cars can't go on and are regularly maintained.

Then again, all of Florida is among the worst places to cycle, with Jacksonville being listed among the top 3 worst cities in the US by multiple cycling magazines.

Might be a city-to-city thing. I live and work in a couple of tiny on-the-way-to-the-actual-cities towns, so there's no demand for the infrastructure required to accommodate bikes. But I live within reasonable distance of Manhattan, which is one of the state's biggest college towns. They've got bike lanes, bike police, and I've even seen rental bikes to encourage more people.

But most of the Midwest, once you get out of the suburbs, is just too spread out to make biking practical as a daily thing. I would probably actually die doing 30-40 miles a day even if the highway I had to take to work had a wide enough shoulder to bike on, and I'd still risk getting hit by a tractor. Yep. This is my life.


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Woran wrote:
Freehold DM wrote:
Woran wrote:
Bath tub swan died :(
I am so sorry. I know you loved that little guy.
I did love him, even if he had been just an hour and a half in my bath tub.

and he loves you WORAN. He knows you tried to help him. It was just his time.


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NobodysHome wrote:
Vanykrye wrote:
Scintillae wrote:
Or maybe sometimes we're right when we complain about cyclists that don't follow the rules of the road...This is not every cyclist...
...In Illinois, by law, a bicycle is treated as no different than a car. They are specifically *not* a pedestrian and a police officer *can* ticket a cyclist for using a sidewalk under any conditions...

So, the issue in Berkeley at least is that many cyclists take the attitude of Jeff the Cyclist in Pearls Before Swine: "Because I cycle I am better than the rest of you drivers and pedestrians, and because I am better I have the God-given right of way in all situations."

Ah, see, around here, we get that attitude from Prius drivers, frequently doing 50-60mph in a 70 zone, and may any and all gods help you if one Prius is trying to pass another. It'll take at least a couple miles.

Since we don't have that many cyclists around here, they're just a minor annoyance when they're being rude/stupid.


Jessica Jones

- HOLY CARP! Is that ticket dude in the next-to-last-scene Gabe Lewis Zach Woods (who plays Gabe Lewis in The Office)??

Spoiler:
Also: it's sad. Trish was actually right in more than one instance. That she took it too far is... unfortunate, and too-complex-to-get-into-here reasons (related to a flaw in her character rather than her original stance*).

* This isn't to say that no one else would have had that same flaw. It is natural to self-justify; it is quite possible that anyone would fall into that moral hole. As an aside, I find Erik's powers of arbitration, however, to be... strange. Somewhat out-of-place in the JJ universe, and its rules are... curious, to say the least. I liked him as a character, and I don't actually have a problem with his inclusion in specific, but in general it was a weird sort of dynamic to have a seemingly-objective moral standard in the all-too-often morally complex JJ world. It opesn up many, many questions.

ANYway, it's a good season, and I appreciate how it all sussed itself out, for the most part... well, -ish, anyway. The people in the show are really broken, however, and JJ's inability to allow others to connect with her in an important way is deeply unsatisfying and the source of several of her woes.

I'm sad that it now seems like all the Marvel-related properties on Netflix are cancelled. This means that we'll likely never get a Defenders 2 thing, and that makes me saaaaaaaad.

Spoiler:
It was AWESOME to see Mike Colter (Luke Cage) in the show, though! Here's hoping he does many other great things!

Thank you for all the fun, Netflix!

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