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I really need to go see that movie.You should. It's came out in 1980.
You have a amazing talent gran. being able to make me go from laughing at your jokes to wanting to strangle you seemlessly.
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Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays everyone. May 2018 be better than 2017 was.
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What do you call a pirate droid? Arrrr2-D2.
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-_-
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The Christmas menu in question:
1 kg of
ribeye beef steak(medium - well done)ribsteak,
2 kg of ribs
2 kg of roast lamb shank with bone-in
A mixed sausage platter
25 fried chicken wings
2 packets of fried rice
2 packets of beef bologonise spaghetti
Sautéed Brussel Sprouts with bacon bits
Boiled French beans
Buttered kennel corn
Sautéed mushrooms.
1 kg of hazelnut praline log cake.Shrooms ran out - I think I need moar shrooms next year. Was considering cutting chicken wings from 25 to 15, but again with only 6 pieces left over it might not be the best of ideas. We need to have a certain amount of leftovers - so that there's enough food for everyone.
12 adults attending the lunch in question.
*puts on his most stoic and Nimoy-que expression*
"fascinating..."
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Morning. *yawn*
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*sigh* and my relief is late...
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The kids showed amazing restraint, waiting until 6:58 to wake us up.
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They deserve presents for that.
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They can wait until we get our coffee.
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But BBUUUTTT DDDDAAAADDDD we wanna open present NOW!
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I'm going to pelt my co-worker with coal.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE ELSE!!!
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Bah hum bug (I'm just il that im still at work)
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Every single customer I watched screaming at a cashier or manager today reaffirmed my desire to just end Christmas all together. Humans don't deserve it.
I've said it before -- I have amazing respect for any poor soul who can survive working retail. I lasted 8 months at a frigging video store where the owner's attitude was, "If you're going to cause a problem in my store, you can have a ban hammer. And take your friends with you."
Seeing the way customers behave makes me very happy I'll never have to work retail again.
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The only good thing about waking up early and starting to cook before everyone else is awake is that there is leftover poppyseed cake from last night.
I'd say Merry Christmas to everyone, but it's impolite to talk with your mouth full.
MURGHY CHURISTMURGH!
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Every single customer I watched screaming at a cashier or manager today reaffirmed my desire to just end Christmas all together. Humans don't deserve it.I've said it before -- I have amazing respect for any poor soul who can survive working retail. I lasted 8 months at a frigging video store where the owner's attitude was, "If you're going to cause a problem in my store, you can have a ban hammer. And take your friends with you."
Seeing the way customers behave makes me very happy I'll never have to work retail again.
Surprisingly we had way more self pity (so many people saying they're terrible parents because they don't get the kid exactly what they want) then out and out rage.
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It's not Christmas until I stab myself with a toy.
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It's not Christmas until I stab myself with a toy.
And it doesn’t even have pointy things!
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Surprisingly we had way more self pity (so many people saying they're terrible parents because they don't get the kid exactly what they want) then out and out rage.Every single customer I watched screaming at a cashier or manager today reaffirmed my desire to just end Christmas all together. Humans don't deserve it.I've said it before -- I have amazing respect for any poor soul who can survive working retail. I lasted 8 months at a frigging video store where the owner's attitude was, "If you're going to cause a problem in my store, you can have a ban hammer. And take your friends with you."
Seeing the way customers behave makes me very happy I'll never have to work retail again.
You've been to the West Coast. "Anything that goes wrong in my life is someone else's fault!"
What's funny is that locals (those born and raised in the area) tend to be a lot more laid-back than transplants. I think our reputation just attracts a certain type of self-entitled transplant.But I'm sure that's politics, and I'd like to give Fritzy and Freehold a day off, so I'll wander off now.
CT was set up under the idea of a mutable timeline, and CC under mutable multiple timelines. An example of why you should pick one or the other and stick with it for the entire series.I looked up why the story for CC sucked so much and was so needlessly complex and weird - it's because CT was written by a group, with different writers focusing on different eras.
The guy who did Zeal wrote all of CC. And Zeal was needlessly weird and complex.
Because of COURSE he did.
F!$~ing Zeal.
I would suggest that it really isn't a bad idea: CC had some phenomenal potential. The problems, however, are numerous. In this case, it was never really considered how the existence of multiple timelines undermines your achievements in CT (as it implies that no matter what you did, the original world/future/whatever was still present - Lavos still "won" but "elsewhen" - and that sucks a lot of the narrative power of the first one. If that's not the case, and there are explicitly limited timelines - or if, instead, CC implies you created an "all new" set of timelines that never could have existed otherwise by your actions in CT - it has other problems, not the least of which, it never clearly communicates that to you.
First, it purposefully erased many accomplishments the player did in CT in order to get to CC story/timeline. Second, it never ever told you what was going on - it left everything vague and iffy, even when it bothers to give explanations, they're half-hearted, contradictory, and often suggest that either said explanations are flawed in some way, or are missing some information, or some combination of the two - or are just flat out lies (the one exception to this is FATE's role, and your extraordinarily complex family history). The huge cast of characters is really cool... except they never made space for proper character development, leaving some little more than, "he's a fungus, who was once a guy! How wacky!" - yes each person gets a story, but those stories are poorly balanced and flushed out only in the most basic of senses... and worse, none of them feel important to the plot, unlike CT where everyone was important to the plot, and while their side-missions were not, you at least felt they mattered. Here... they could matter, I guess? Some of them? ... but most do not. Also, there is really only one "good" ending - in direct defiance of CT, only one ending is "real" or "good" - the rest are weak and vague at best: CT has a single "major" narrative that is the (set of) good endings, but it has about four major departures from that which also function as a primary narrative and could function as accurate canon; plus a bunch of silly ones. CC by contrast has a metric ton of no sequitur endings starring some of the characters you can recruit (with no real guidance on which, and some of which turn into rampaging monsters or badguys) and exactly one ending relative to the game's story with (maybe) one variation on that. Also any alternate endings weren't animated - I presume due to lack of space, but it's still disappointing to work hard on an alternate ending to get... a text scrawl and static picture.
The game has phenomenal story potential - but it needs to explain things better or somehow do a better job conveying what it's about. As it stands it doesn't feel like a sequel to CT.
It's like loving the movie Clue, and going to watch the sequel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which the characters and events of the first are vaguely referenced, but it's implied that everyone you loved and cared about in the first film was killed off-screen, by that singing telegram girl, who, by the way, now rules the US (by way of FBI) with an iron fist. There is such a dissonance between everything that it's hard to understand where the narrative is coming from.
Then, of course, is wasted potential: "this character is tooooootally not Magus, that's for sure! And even if he is, we'll make sure that he is wasted in-character with no relevance to the plot! Retcon time: he is, but is still totally wasted!" "Hey this person named for a person from another game has literally nothing to do with him! Hurray!" "Let's turn a minor character from annoying wuss to kind of okay uh "a hero" by having a "collect the set" sidequest!"
And finally, the mechanics. There is nothing - nothing! - wrong with playing with mechanics. But it's pretty explicit that these mechanics are physical things that can be taken from you. Also, require FATE to function properly. So... then the plot never actually acknowledges or does anything with this. Oh, and this weird arbitrary thing that happens to be hinted at, but is vague and really easily missed (and is easily messed up during the final battle - because you can only see the last three of the seven steps you're supposed to take, not to mention RNG badguy can easily break your pattern at any time) is the literal only way to win. SUDDEN SURPRISE RAILROAD~!
And even there, you've got a problem: the narrative happens all out of sequence to make sense. The flow of villains should have been: DD -> dragons (who help you during said battle, in order to snatch the FF for themselves) -> FATE. This would have allowed for narrative cohesion, and made each of your actions functionally necessary - and it ends with you using your power to destroy the source of said abilities, meaning it explains the internal cohesion, and allows you to more or less save the world while unknowingly escalating the danger to your own - basically the narrative track of CT. It would royally mess with the ending, but the ending didn't really make much sense anyway (being both confused and vague and maybe contradictory).
And, to be clear, none of these are problems that sink a game. In fact, if it weren't a sequel, and all ties to the original were severed, it would be hailed as a classic and SE would be inundated with requests for a sequel. Put them all together into a game that has a deeply opposing emotional feel to it, and you're left with a huge dissonance for fans.
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Merry Christmas!
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TL - for all the noise you're making, an I, really? Rubbish!
And the Christmas lunch party...
Well there was a case of a knife getting knocked behind the washing machine(thanks-clumsy me) which caused some consternation, but yeah, party was great, everyone said the food was great! And they liked the steaks!
See? Always get the right vendors the job =)
There were no complaints about any of the food items not tasting good, though there was quite some mutton left over. (I can't really cut down on the mutton since it comes on a whole lamb leg)
My complaint about the steak: When I ordered the communal platter of rib steak - I thought I was going to get 1 kg of ribs and 1 kg of steak. It turns out it's 1 kg of rib steak. Luckily there was enough for everyone. Having not enough food for everyone would be horribly embarrassing.
I had a beer, ate fried rice, had spaghetti, ate mutton, beef, pork ribs and chicken wings, ate 2 slices of hazelnut praline log cake, two scoups of ice cream, an osmanthus ice jelly and generally made a happy pig of myself =)
Osmanthus ice jelly btw - is not something you'll find anywhere. It's a Mort made creation. Basically it was inspired by this, but instead I used ice jelly powder instead of konnyaku jelly powder, since I felt that the soft, smooth texture of ice jelly powder better compliments the light taste of the osmanthus flower.
Konnyaku jelly powder makes for chewier jellies, best used for stronger flavours such as canned longans
...you wouldn't happen to be married, would you?
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You do NOT EAT WOOKIE! They are a sentient species!
*declares smite ebul on Gran and pounces, biting Gran and grabbing him, then clawing him twice*
*realizes she is not a paladin and doesn't have smite ebul...*
its the speech center of the brain thats so delicious.
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GargleGargleGargle!
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Surprisingly we had way more self pity (so many people saying they're terrible parents because they don't get the kid exactly what they want) then out and out rage.Every single customer I watched screaming at a cashier or manager today reaffirmed my desire to just end Christmas all together. Humans don't deserve it.I've said it before -- I have amazing respect for any poor soul who can survive working retail. I lasted 8 months at a frigging video store where the owner's attitude was, "If you're going to cause a problem in my store, you can have a ban hammer. And take your friends with you."
Seeing the way customers behave makes me very happy I'll never have to work retail again.
You've been to the West Coast. "Anything that goes wrong in my life is someone else's fault!"
What's funny is that locals (those born and raised in the area) tend to be a lot more laid-back than transplants. I think our reputation just attracts a certain type of self-entitled transplant.But I'm sure that's politics, and I'd like to give Fritzy and Freehold a day off, so I'll wander off now.
MURGHY CHURISTMURGH!
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If a book sucks so much that you have to try multiple times over the course of decades to read it, it just sucks. There's no but in that situation. Literature shouldn't be a burden. It should be entertainment, not a job.
It's like grits. If you need to cover them with cheese, or sugar, or whatever the hell you throw in it to make it even kind of palatable, it's not a good food. You don't like grits. You like all the s&!~ you throw on grits.
The Silmarillion is a piece of wretched dog s@&$. It's the worst piece of garbage I've ever even partially slogged through, and I was assigned Nicholas and Alexandra for a middle school gifted reading class, and boy oh boy, was that a major pile of excrement. It's a horrible historical drama about the last Czar of Russia's hemophiliac son, and you'd think that could be made into something slightly enjoyable, but it was not even close. I literally took a D in a class I otherwise had an A in because our reports were like 30% of our grade, and I refused to finish that regurgitated grit meal. ...and it was better than The Silmarillion. (This was the same class that assigned me Ender's Game, one of the best books I've read to date, though the movie is...just...so bad...)
If it didn't have the name Tolkien on the cover, it wouldn't even be paperback fodder sitting in the back of an airport duty-free shop, let alone a name most of us recognize.
I still like grits...
>.>
(But the sillmarillion is basically just "here is a book for super-fan-nerds who want nothing but dry exposition and world building because they're into that sort of thing" - it's not meant to be a real novel, it's someone's note on how they built a world and offering it as a thing you can read, if you're really that into it. I find nothing offensive in its existence, but I'm okay with weird "pictorial guide to Star Wars universe" books, too, so.)
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I'm not married but I have a BF and we're trying to get a house:P
I'm an unabashed foodie. I have some ability to cook and bake, but I honestly haven't done full party preparations for large scale cooking before.
I salute whoever who can do it - the last time I was frying party beehoon for my family(yes it turned out pretty good actually), it was pretty tiring when you need to keep tossing the beehoon. Good thing I work out in the gym =)
Oh another funny story: My cousin's husband asked me if I had bought shares in the steak restaurant since I was shamelessly bragging about the steak.
I personally feel that if you find a good food store, you should share it with all your friends. Going by his theory, I would be having shares in...many food stalls over Singapore. Like Hiong Kee Dumplings, Golden Shoe Nasi Lemak,arnolds fried chicken,wingstop...well the list goes on :P
But I do cultivate a food network to hear the yummy things around.
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Ah, Christmas morning and the things you learn:
Sometimes my kids are so sweet!
...woke Impus Major, turned off the Christmas carols, and put on The Simpsons.
It's... an interesting Christmas, to say the least!
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*Yowls mournfully at Freehold DM*
I really like races that are fluffy in Star Wars. Couldn't you go eat a bantha instead?