There’s actually been quite a few waves of German immigration to the US throughout the years, they make up a pretty big part of US ancestry. There’s even been a myth that German almost became the national language in 1795 and only lost by a single vote in Congress, but it’s apparently just that, a myth. So it’s probably no wonder we share some cultural quirks like awkward goodbyes and a love for scheisse porn.
Had anybody ever suggested otherwise? I’m assuming if there’s any pressure to not use 2D, it’s from game developers themselves because it’s likely costlier/more labor intensive than just going with 3D. Otherwise, gamers just want to play good games, 2D or 3D doesn’t matter.
Is that screencap from an episode when Data had to jerk and suck off a bunch of ghosts to save the ship? The 90s were a wild time.
Not to be confused with Perry Farrell.
I kind of wish they just didn’t make any trailers for this game. I went in completely blind, not knowing anything about it, just based solely on people talking about it so often, and it was great. The less you know going in, the more impactful some of those scenes are the first time you go in. There’s just some scenes that melt your brain the first time you encounter them. “Wait… WTF is that?”
I mostly interact with it through iTunes on Windows, which is sort of just sort of frozen in time and frustrating as hell to use (that’s a whole other issue in and of itself), but even switching over to a Mac and trying to interact with my iPod just feels like a more irritating experience than it should be. Hell, most of the stuff I that I should be able to do on the iPod itself, just can’t be done apparently and requires you hook it up to a PC/Mac. Simple things like just adding a song file, renaming a song name, adding it to an album, or adding a picture. Yeah, it’s easier on a computer, but there shouldn’t be any reason you can’t have the same functionality on an iPod or iPad at this point. I dread having to add songs to my iPod anymore, because half the time it will just refuse to add it and I’ll spend an hour or two trying to troubleshoot it to figure out what the problem is.
I think AI has some potential uses, but it feels like Apple has ignored its Music app for years, they just have the bare minimum and stopped giving a shit. Adding AI is probably the last thing they needed to do to improve their music software.
More like the Tertiary Objective
I’ve made this realization with multiplayer-only games, but I play solo and have been slowly getting into the big box games I have lying around, it would take forever trying to complete that shit with friends. I learned awhile ago that it’s just too much of a hassle trying to get people together for a regular boardgame night, it’s just not in the cards for me. I play in a weekly rpg/d&d game, but there’s a never a chance in our group to pull people away from rpgs.
First thing I needed to do though was give up on getting anything new, so I’ve almost completely cut myself off from any new kickstarters, I don’t need anything else to add to the pile.
Playing solo, I’ve been close to completing Gloomhaven for weeks/months now after a year/2 year-long hiatus. I had gotten about half-way through, but then put it down bc of everything else I had still waiting. I picked it back up a bit ago and have been methodically going through each branch of the “storyline” and unlocking what I can of it. I’ve just about unlocked every class I can, but everytime I turn around there’s something else to do, some new scenario that needs completing, I just don’t want to put it back down again bc I know it will be another year or two before I pick it back up again and by that point I’ll have forgotten how to play and I’ll be too far along to try to relearn it again. I want to at least finish out the last of the classes and the actual storyline before taking a break from it.
My biggest dislike of the system is how ridiculous some of the puzzles have been. I like the tactical puzzle and hand management aspects, but some of the secret envelopes with puzzles are just batshit insane. I took one look at one in particular, spent 10 minutes trying to figure it out, then gave up and looked online. I realized there was no way in hell I would’ve ever figured that one out on my own.
It’s too late, he’s seen everything.
I can’t believe you’d say something like that in public, the mods must be asleep if they haven’t shut down this thread and banned you yet.
Was Chekov considered controversial at the time when Star Trek originally came out? Russians and Americans working together during the Cold War? Or was it overshadowed by having a >gasp!< black woman on the Bridge?
Star Hope: A New War
I watched it as an impressionable 6 year old and loved every minute of it, but yeah, watching through it again, the first season was rough.
“The Reading Rainbow guy on MY Star Trek?! Oh god, is he gonna read a book to the shields to get them to hold?”
Not sure I can say “utterly disappointed”, but Tainted Grail had so much promise: great art, concept, unique take on Arthurian legend, seemingly interesting mechanics, but the game kind of flubbed after it actually hit the table. Just grindy, with bits seemingly added in to just artificially increase the length of the game. The grindy mechanics got in the way of appreciating the story, since you frequently have to choose between investigating story elements or feeding the giant statues. The miniatures are beautiful, but are almost unused throughout the game, conflict (combat/diplomacy) is interesting at first, but gets pretty repetitive the more you do it and doesn’t really improve much throughout the campaign. A lot of aspects of the game sort of overstayed it’s welcome for me due to its length being artificially increased, to where I rushed through at the end, skipping over exploring more because I just wanted it to be over.
The only useful thing I’ve found with Siri is that my kids can be entertained by her for a few minutes asking her to tell them knock-knock jokes.
I appreciate that she wasn’t as sexualized as Crusher (if at all), it was pretty cringey in the first season.