I was in the womb during this scene!I was watching it during its initial broadcast run. Loved that show.
I remain a fan of the original, I do not care for the remake.
I am a fan of my original, I wholeheartedly endorse the creation of any remakes, even if only in practice.
I remain a fan of the original, I do not care for the remake.I was in the womb during this scene!I was watching it during its initial broadcast run. Loved that show.
I think we barely managed to get through Season 1 of the remake, then gave up. The over-the-top "beat you with a hammer until you accept it" religious overtones were too much to stomach.
It really felt like going to a theater to watch a sci-fi movie and instead being strapped in your chair and forced to listen to an incredibly tedious religious sermon for hour after hour. It wasn't even "fire and brimstone"; it was more, "hand warmers and innocuous inert rocks".
EDIT: To be fair, I love movies such as Prince of Egypt or The Ten Commandments that are telling religious stories in context. But taking a beloved old series, telling everyone you're going to remake it, and then turning it into a multi-season religious exploration is just awful. Imagine hearing they're re-making Gilligan's Island, but when you watch it it turns out that they're all in Purgatory and they can only be redeemed and escape the island by reflecting on their useless lives.
A completely different story, and likely a less entertaining one.
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I thought that was what Gilligan's Island was about.
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Mostly here to see family, but we'll be visiting a friend in Berkeley on Thursday while Cyz's cousin has doctors appointments. (She's eight months pregnant.)Please give them both my best. How is Cyz doing?
On another round of IVIG, as it turns out she has the chronic version instead of the acute one. Learning what her new limits are, as stamina is definitely not what it was before hand.
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Great alignment test:
"In the sentence, 'I help blind kids,' is the word 'blind' an adjective or a verb?"
Good night, John!
On another round of IVIG, as it turns out she has the chronic version instead of the acute one. Learning what her new limits are, as stamina is definitely not what it was before hand.Mostly here to see family, but we'll be visiting a friend in Berkeley on Thursday while Cyz's cousin has doctors appointments. (She's eight months pregnant.)Please give them both my best. How is Cyz doing?
It sounds like it is a learning process, and likely a frustrating one. I'm glad you are there for her and learning alongside her.
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I thought that was what Gilligan's Island was about.
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It's really pretty sad to watch GMs unable to break their own bad habits.
We've had a relatively peaceful few weeks with our GM, in spite of a bizarre, "Please let me play my own character"/"It's YOUR job to play your character" exchange.
Unfortunately, he just sent me an email asking me to update my "mirror image" character so he could use her again. I'm checking with the other players first to make sure none of the rest of them like this nonsense before I simply respond, "No."
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Great alignment test:
"In the sentence, 'I help blind kids,' is the word 'blind' an adjective or a verb?"
Can't it be both?
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Finished the walkway leading up to the stoop and step I built.
It's always good to finish a job on a Friday!
Next up is a new job somewhere. I'll find out on Monday.
And hopefully next week I'll find out more about building and carving out of rock something I've wanted to do since I was a wee lad (unfortunately not the Thundertank, yet).
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I assume that 'Thundertank' doesn't refer to an outdoor lavvy, in this instance.
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You know, from the the 80s cartoon the Thundercats.
As it just so happens I put my request in for a Thundertank today.
So I can probably expect that any day.
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I think this weekend I'm going to take Tiny T-Rex to see the new Doctor Strange movie.
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You know, from the the 80s cartoon the Thundercats.
As it just so happens I put my request in for a Thundertank today.
So I can probably expect that any day.
Thundercats are the source of one of my deepest moments of embarrassment.
I was walking down the street in Oakland and I saw a guy wearing this logo on his tee shirt. So I smiled and hollered "Thundercats, Ho-oh!"
And then realized, after he gave me an alarmed frown, that he'd just walked out of the Gracie Jiu-Jutsu building.
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Some of my random b~*!%%%#tery is paying off in my PF game. A few weeks ago, I told the players that one of their horses-Chewie-killed and ate a squirrel during the night (the horse's owner happened to by on watch when it happened and saw it). Half the party was freaked out, half the party thought it was awesome. They then killed a bear, and while processing it for meat, one of them tossed some gristle to the horse. It ate it. Slowly and messily since horse teeth aren't really made for eating gristle, but it ate it. The Paladin has tried detecting evil on it several times, but it never pinged. Tonight, I had the stable mistress complain to them that Chewie killed and ate a raccoon, which freaked her the f&#% out and she isn't sure she will ever be able to sleep without hearing the cries of a raccoon being eaten by a horse. The Paladin tried detecting evil again, but nothing. So the Inquisitor (who missed the last couple of sessions) tried using his Detect Evil, since the Paladin one only targets a single creature and the Inquisitor version does a cone. So I smile and say "On round one, you detect the presence of evil. On round two, you know there is one aura. On round three, you see the outline around Han. The other horse. It's evil." Which has thoroughly confused the party, and has them wondering if they can find a way to talk to it (none of them have access to Speak with Animals). And I already know what the horses will say if they manage it.
Two of them have already been through Carrion Crown, one as a player and the other as GM, and both keep saying that they don't remember anything like that happening before. And it's because it isn't in the book. I just thought it would be funny. And I was right.
So, I wasn't going to comment on this before, but...
...we have crows in our neighborhood. Dozens, if not hundreds, of crows. GothBard loves crows, so we were trying to attract them to our yard. I put out little balls of ground beef in the morning to try to get them to associate our yard with food. The little balls of ground beef were disappearing regularly, but I never saw any crows.
Finally one morning I saw the culprit: A squirrel was making off with the ground beef.
So sometimes, if you pay attention, you'll be horrified at what creatures around you will eat meat.
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Some of my random b~*!%%%#tery is paying off in my PF game. A few weeks ago, I told the players that one of their horses-Chewie-killed and ate a squirrel during the night (the horse's owner happened to by on watch when it happened and saw it). Half the party was freaked out, half the party thought it was awesome. They then killed a bear, and while processing it for meat, one of them tossed some gristle to the horse. It ate it. Slowly and messily since horse teeth aren't really made for eating gristle, but it ate it. The Paladin has tried detecting evil on it several times, but it never pinged. Tonight, I had the stable mistress complain to them that Chewie killed and ate a raccoon, which freaked her the f&#% out and she isn't sure she will ever be able to sleep without hearing the cries of a raccoon being eaten by a horse. The Paladin tried detecting evil again, but nothing. So the Inquisitor (who missed the last couple of sessions) tried using his Detect Evil, since the Paladin one only targets a single creature and the Inquisitor version does a cone. So I smile and say "On round one, you detect the presence of evil. On round two, you know there is one aura. On round three, you see the outline around Han. The other horse. It's evil." Which has thoroughly confused the party, and has them wondering if they can find a way to talk to it (none of them have access to Speak with Animals). And I already know what the horses will say if they manage it.
Two of them have already been through Carrion Crown, one as a player and the other as GM, and both keep saying that they don't remember anything like that happening before. And it's because it isn't in the book. I just thought it would be funny. And I was right.
So, I wasn't going to comment on this before, but...
...we have crows in our neighborhood. Dozens, if not hundreds, of crows. GothBard loves crows, so we were trying to attract them to our yard. I put out little balls of ground beef in the morning to try to get...
And probably should keep an eye on the squirrels and pray they haven't developed a taste for human flesh.
Disaster movies always have the apocalypse start in San Francisco! Though I don't think any of them predicted "squirrels indoctrinated to eat meat by unassuming tech nerds" would be the cause.
I guess it's time I move to Hollywood and write that screenplay before anyone else gets the chance!
If you have any requests for casting now is the time to get them in!
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So sometimes, if you pay attention, you'll be horrified at what creatures around you will eat meat.
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So, there's these two giants with nails in their back pulling a giant cart.
Or I should say there was, as I basically just rode back and forth through the bushes chopping at their ankles for a half hour until they were dead. I then looted the wagon and found a really cool weapon I can't use.
Typical.
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And I'm restarting, this time as a bandit named Deadmeat.
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I'm not playing that anymore, it's a stupid game.
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Speaking of stupid things, what is the point of vodka flavoured beer?
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I'm not playing that anymore, it's a stupid game.
That was quick.
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I'm not playing that anymore, it's a stupid game.That was quick.
Yeah, it turns out that when you spend all week being really good at everything it's not as much fun spending your weekend being reminded you're not good at something (video games).
At least with most other games there's a chance dumb luck (or a lowered difficulty setting) can help you survive until you get s*#& figured out.
It turns out I use video games as a way to escape from using my brain. Who know!!
Edit: And most likely I'll pick it up again in 6 months and have a much easier time of it. It's how I do most video games.
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Speaking of stupid things, what is the point of vodka flavoured beer?
It tastes like sick, so you're already resigned to throwing up when you've overindulged?
Admittedly, not a great reason, but that's all I can think of. Eeeww.
I'm not playing that anymore, it's a stupid game.That was quick.Yeah, it turns out that when you spend all week being really good at everything it's not as much fun spending your weekend being reminded you're not good at something (video games).
At least with most other games there's a chance dumb luck (or a lowered difficulty setting) can help you survive until you get s~~% figured out.
It turns out I use video games as a way to escape from using my brain. Who know!!
Edit: And most likely I'll pick it up again in 6 months and have a much easier time of it. It's how I do most video games.
I can quit whenever I want to.
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I can quit whenever I want to.I'm not playing that anymore, it's a stupid game.That was quick.Yeah, it turns out that when you spend all week being really good at everything it's not as much fun spending your weekend being reminded you're not good at something (video games).
At least with most other games there's a chance dumb luck (or a lowered difficulty setting) can help you survive until you get s~~% figured out.
It turns out I use video games as a way to escape from using my brain. Who know!!
Edit: And most likely I'll pick it up again in 6 months and have a much easier time of it. It's how I do most video games.
Of course you can. The real question is: Can you want to quit?
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You know, from the the 80s cartoon the Thundercats.
As it just so happens I put my request in for a Thundertank today.
So I can probably expect that any day.
Thundercats are the source of one of my deepest moments of embarrassment.
I was walking down the street in Oakland and I saw a guy wearing this logo on his tee shirt. So I smiled and hollered "Thundercats, Ho-oh!"
And then realized, after he gave me an alarmed frown, that he'd just walked out of the Gracie Jiu-Jutsu building.
that was either intentional or incredibly poor design.
WW is making biscuits and gravy, bacon and bellinis for me this morning.
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Also, the BBC has announced the next Doctor!
Sooooo cool. Representation matters.
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Also, the BBC has announced the next Doctor!
Sooooo cool. Representation matters.
Doctor Who?
I'm trying out playing as a hero, because they have the biggest weapon.
I'm still dying but I did find one new sword I can use so that's progress.
I've also determined that I do in fact want to avoid the glowing circle of runes on top of the hillside with the weird creepy earth worm boulder stacks.
And, in my journeys I found this giant flower that both belches out a cloud of poison gas and calls down lightning in a radius around the poison gas cloud. Needless to say I did not get too close.
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I'll say this for our GM: He makes dumb decisions (the aforementioned "Mirror Mirror" subplot), but he's absolutely open to un-doing them.
I shot him an email expressing that I hated PvP campaigns, didn't care for playing evil characters, and found the "Mirror Mirror" plotline grossly overused. I can name two APs (Rise of the Runelords and Strange Aeons) and a movie (Gamers: Dorkness Rising) that use it, yet I've never met a player who thinks it's "fun" or "cool".
Yeah, there are plenty of players who love games of intrigue and backstabbery, but, "Play your PC's exact opposite for me," isn't something I've ever heard a player appreciate.
Marvel Movie Timeline #<Who Knows?>: Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Apparently I've taught my kids to be even more cynical than I am. Impus Minor described MoM as a, "Totally stupid movie with some cool visual effects." Impus Major was slightly more generous with, "It wasn't a good movie, but it had some cool scenes. But overall it didn't make any sense."
So I went in last night with very low expectations. And I really enjoyed it. I didn't see a staggering amount of plot stupidity, other than BBEG's utterly classic, "I will kill all the unnamed good guy NPCs, but I'll hold back and keep all named NPCs and player characters alive because otherwise the movie would end sadly," trope. And that's a fairly standard, "You have to accept this trope in order for there to be a movie," thing; if BBEGs always acted sensibly and killed everyone who opposed them immediately, we'd lose more than half of our sci fi/fantasy movies:
Empire: We've captured Princess Leia. What should we do with her?
Vader: Kill her immediately.
Empire: But what if she has valuable information we need to know about what the rebels know?
Vader: It's safer to kill her now and capture and torture the information out of less-important rebels later.
<Shnick>
And suddenly there's no rescue, the secrets are never found, and the rebellion dies.
Anyhoo, I really didn't find the movie particularly stupid. People behaved in reasonable ways, the BBEG's motivation was believable, the choices people made (even when bad) were reasonable for their current situations, and my only complaint was BBEG's ludicrous power level, but whatever, it made a movie.
A flower pod of youth.
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HAPPY MOTHERS DAY to all who observe. A
I found something called a ballista crossbow. Basically a huge crossbow. Now I'm just grinding through a bunch of a%*+@$!s to get my strength high enough to use it.
I've started mastering mounted combat so as long as I don't get my horse killed I'm fine.
Except for the g@%+#!n f#$&ing teleportation trap I walked into and I'm now stuck in some s+&& hole with giant puffballs, a mine filled with crystal douchebags, and a city teaming with giant diseased rats and ghost wizards. So many g+#%%~n ghost wizards.