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Olympic Mathlete posted:Dr Who is real bad. Production, set design, technical stuff, even talent is good... the writing tho, my god the writing is just balls.
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Working my way through an unfeasibly large stack of xmas chocolate
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Endless research on dumb stuff to buy for my new RC truck, playing Witcher 3 like a good little goon (free library rental hells yeah), reading Blood Meridian, wishing I had more parts for the Nova.
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Waiting for my next paycheck to arrive so I can finally have music in my car that isn't a tiny bluetooth speaker. And convincing a friend to buy a five oh moostang.
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Jan 24, 2017 15:42
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Ferremit posted:Fretting and worrying about things and not being able to sleep? That is not a favorite thing 
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? I don't know why but I've been playing a lot more video games as of late. I haven't done this in years. In a lot of ways, my violin playing is getting a lot better too.
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Ferremit posted:Fretting and worrying about things and not being able to sleep? What up worry buddy  I wish there was a healthy way to turn my brain off at the end of the day
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CharlesM posted:Trying to race a Pontiac Aztek around the Nordschleife in Forza Motorsport 6, this thing is really hard to do a clean lap with. I've of course upgraded it to the max but it still handles like poo poo. That sounds like a lot of fun hahaha We all know its hot steaming garbage but what specifically is it doing?
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fridge corn posted:im reading a good book right this moment that may become next months botm Which book? If its anything like your last few I definitely want to read it.
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Got back into House of Cards, but it honestly seems tame and uninteresting compared to real life politics.
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mariooncrack posted:I don't know why but I've been playing a lot more video games as of late. I haven't done this in years. ugh dude I just picked up the guitar recently and it's really made me wish I went orchestra in highschool instead of band. Srtinged instruments are so calming and soothing! Do you have any recordings?
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Jan 24, 2017 16:03
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mariooncrack posted:I don't know why but I've been playing a lot more video games as of late. I haven't done this in years. Same. Titanfall 2 is getting a lot of love simply because the movement system is sublime. The single player mode was about 7 hours through, the perfect length and was a whole lot of fun to play, there's one mission where they introduce a particular mechanic which is just ridiculous fun. Multiplayer is great too, it never feels unfair and punching a dude in the face as a giant robot is forever satisfying.
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KozmoNaut posted:Taboo, the BBC TV series with Tom Hardy as a man who returns to Britain after twelve years in Africa, right around end of the war with the United States. Good stuff, and it's only on its third episode, so you can get in from the start Im absolutely gonna try this out, if only for the fact that the Dutch East India Trading Company is in it and every time I want to sound super old and bourgeois I always resort to the phrase "mnyah the Dutch East India Trading Company is posting record profits this quarter" in a 1920s American accent. Yes I realize this makes zero sense.
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? I'm on my second playthrough of Dishonored 2 as Corvo this time, I love the world these games are set in. I'm also cleaning and organizing my workspace downstairs in preparation for making it a podcasting space. A friend is doing a D&D podcast (playing the game, not talking about it) and asked me to be in on it.
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Adiabatic posted:Which book? If its anything like your last few I definitely want to read it. You'll have to wait till next month 😋
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Adiabatic posted:Im absolutely gonna try this out, if only for the fact that the Dutch East India Trading Company is in it and every time I want to sound super old and bourgeois I always resort to the phrase "mnyah the Dutch East India Trading Company is posting record profits this quarter" in a 1920s American accent. Yes I realize this makes zero sense. Have you ever read Tai-pan?
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slothrop posted:What up worry buddy Personally I meditate. It's not everyone's bag but it works for me.
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fridge corn posted:Have you ever read Tai-pan? I have not, but reading the first few lines of the plot summary on Wikipedia, it's getting added to the list.
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i play overwatch a lot so feel free to hmu and we can play together
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The wife and I dicked around on Borderlands 2 quite a bit this weekend. It's a good timesink. I dunno I get bored with vidya games around the 10-20 hour mark and never play them again.
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Adiabatic posted:Personally I meditate. It's not everyone's bag but it works for me. I smoke weed, sometimes it even helps me go to sleep.  Living with insomnia while working 12 hour shifts on a continental rotation (4 nights, 3 days, 3 nights, 4 days with varying time off in between) basically means I sleep 2-4 hours in between shifts and then never really catch back up.
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Jan 24, 2017 16:27
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Adiabatic posted:The wife and I dicked around on Borderlands 2 quite a bit this weekend. It's a good timesink. yeah i do the same with single player games 150hr into OW rn though because it's a whole different ballgame, and competing against angry nerds is the best
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? I'm about halfway down a bottle of Evan Williams single barrel 'cause I can't sleep, and it's pretty good for cheap-rear end bourbon.
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I heard recently that counting backwards from 300 by 3s will supposedly help you go to sleep. It's like un-counting sheep.
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i put my head on my pillow and pass out, only to be woken up later by my wife because im snoring too loud it helps that i have a doggo cuddling me fiercely but i mean cmon let the snoring guy snore
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Listening to Grateful Dead bootlegs from archive.org's music repository. They've got 11,000 Grrateful Dead concerts... and that's among the millions of other bands/artists they have. A lot of it is terrible audience recordings, but there are a lot straight from the soundboard. A lot of people already know about this, but if you don't, check it out: https://archive.org/details/audio
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The Farm Truck is on the cover of the latest Jegs catalog. E: Didn't realize he was a reality tv star. Dagen H fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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InitialDave posted:Cooking using mass as the measure of how much of everything you're putting in always struck me as most logical. It is, but weight was not always an easy thing to measure. Volume is not so difficult, and in cooking, you can get away with a lot of variation for most recipes. Nowadays, an easy-to-use digital scale is pretty cheap. Of course, a set of measuring cups is cheaper still. KozmoNaut posted:Taboo, the BBC TV series with Tom Hardy as a man who returns to Britain after twelve years in Africa, right around end of the war with the United States. Good stuff, and it's only on its third episode, so you can get in from the start You know, it's kind of neat getting a view from the other side of the world. See, here, that war would be "The Revolutionary War", and everyone knows what you're talking about. I guess that term would be much more ambiguous in Europe and other places outside of the US. Just an interesting observation, apropos of nothing. Just something I've never thought about. You guys are expanding my worldview just by talking. Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? Rearranged the shed this past weekend to get some stuff out of the garage to do a little work on the engine I'm hoping to install in my '79 RX-7 (whew!) Still need to finish that up. Playing Dishonored 2 on the XBone, trying to find everything and not kill anyone. So far, I've not had a clean chapter with regards to kills of detections, though my Chaos is still low. Playing as Corvo fist time through. Started watching The Man In The High Castle, only a few episodes in, and also Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, which is all kinds of surreal. Patrick Warburton and Neil Patrick Harris are great. slothrop posted:What up worry buddy I find one of the apps that sounds like a thunderstorm soothing, but I like thunderstorms. It's essentially white noise that my brain can focus on. Storm Sim on iPhone/iPad in particular is what I use, but my wife uses another one and it's fine as well. I have a BT adapter connected to the stereo in the bedroom, so we get some decent thunder going. Rainy Mood is a good one of you don't want to install an app, and it's actual recoded storms Olympic Mathlete posted:Same. Titanfall 2 is getting a lot of love simply because the movement system is sublime. The single player mode was about 7 hours through, the perfect length and was a whole lot of fun to play, there's one mission where they introduce a particular mechanic which is just ridiculous fun. Multiplayer is great too, it never feels unfair and punching a dude in the face as a giant robot is forever satisfying. That's currently my go-to when I feel like playing with other folks. Which mechanic are you referring to? I enjoyed the single-player campaign. Got so much use out of the sniper rifle. It's also fun stomping infantry into the dirt. Adiabatic posted:The wife and I dicked around on Borderlands 2 quite a bit this weekend. It's a good timesink. You just reminded me I need to finish that. Or, really, start it. I'm only a few hours in. And Fallout 3. And Arkham Origins. Oh, and I bought Halo 5 and Arkham Knight recently. Lego Dimensions is still releasing DLC (or, rather, new figure packs.) I'm never going to finish all this. They need to stop coming out with new stuff before I finish the old stuff... Go get a chin strap to help keep your mouth shut. Or do a sleep test and see if you need a CPAP. (I've go both, and sleep better.)
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funny Star Wars parody posted:i play overwatch a lot That game is so boring, it never feels like you're doing any damage until the opponent just drops dead because you've scratched enough numbers off them. Darchangel posted:That's currently my go-to when I feel like playing with other folks. Which mechanic are you referring to? I enjoyed the single-player campaign. Got so much use out of the sniper rifle. the level where you get the glove/bracelet that lets you slip between timelines so you can just dance around any and all danger and snap necks until you've had your fill. Apparently the developers had a type of game jam where they came up with ideas for cool setpieces and levels and then basically made them and strung them all together with a loose kinda story. The factory level was particularly great, climbing up to the top with everything tilted sideways really messed with my head. Also EVA 8 shotgun 4 lyfe...
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In amusing drama one of the writers at TTAC wrote a political diatribe yesterday about SJW's and the like which caused a bit of a backlash. Editor said mea culpa and retracted it; writer takes his ball and leaves as a result. I can't find an archived copy of it yet. 
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TTAC has become increasingly unpalatable for me. It feels like their staff have caught the Doug DeMuro self-importance bug.
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? What about you, what're you in the middle of?
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scuz posted:Started a thread in the fitness log cabin, been making OK progress towards gym goals, so that's fun. Teaching myself JavaScript so that I JavaScript myself out of my lovely IT job. The band just finished a weekend-long stint through OK/AR/MO. I'm still running the local men's roller derby league and while it can be very stressful, it can also be rewarding. What kind of band? My favorite activity currently is learning guitar. Been doing justinguitar.com stuff and learning chords and it's really neat demystifying the instrument. Anybody out there play? Gimme tips!
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Adiabatic posted:What's everybody's favorite thing they're in the middle of right now? New job (well, few months old, but still new) Loooots of remote admin, powershell, etc. Is fun. Now, quit procrastinating and go write a paper and change the world you smart-fucker hillbilly.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:That game is so boring, it never feels like you're doing any damage until the opponent just drops dead because you've scratched enough numbers off them. if you dont play with friends then yeah it's dumb but playing with friends and dunking on tryhard nerds is so satisfying
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Adiabatic posted:What kind of band?  I tell folks that we're kinda like if Roger Miller and Merle Haggard hung out at CBGB instead of around Memphis. The way I learned bass was to tab out, by ear, my favorite songs. Technique is easy enough to learn because there's usually a correct/incorrect way to do it but playing your favorite songs is the bestest.
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funny Star Wars parody posted:if you dont play with friends then yeah it's dumb Also, don't play Tracer unless you can headshot well, it's real frustrating to blow an entire magazine and not kill an enemy. Try Mei or Anna, they have very consistent damage and will teach you exactly how much health enemies have. And Mei is a monster truck that walks like a man
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scuz posted:The way I learned bass was to tab out, by ear, my favorite songs. Technique is easy enough to learn because there's usually a correct/incorrect way to do it but playing your favorite songs is the bestest. Im pretty sure I posted this before but my mom won this guitar for me a few months ago. I traded it in for the same model in a 6 string. It sounds really good but I dont play it enough. 
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Adiabatic posted:What kind of band? I play a bit. The best way I find to master a difficult riff or lick like in the solo part of a song is to concentrate on accuracy before speed. If you can play it slowly but accurately then it's just a matter of slowly building up the tempo till you can play along with the recording Ive used guitar pro which is pretty good tab software that let's you isolate tracks and adjust tempo among other thibgs to play along to and you can download tabs from ultimate-guitar.com Tho tbh in haven't been playing a lot recently so there may be better/newer software out there but I found it really helpful when learning new songs
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Wistful of Dollars posted:In amusing drama one of the writers at TTAC wrote a political diatribe yesterday about SJW's and the like which caused a bit of a backlash. Editor said mea culpa and retracted it; writer takes his ball and leaves as a result. Google's cached copy of Mark Baruth's article is here Bark has not only quit TTAC in a huff he's been whining on Twitter and Instagram about how unfair the whole thing is: https://twitter.com/BarkMFoRS/status/823896534110584833 edit: bbcode is hard FBS fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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