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Vertical Lime posted:https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1617145496849596417 Jesus loving christ this is right in my backyard. One of my friends was there but thankfully she's okay...
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After 2 years of constantly putting off getting my car detailed, I took it in today. The catalyst was my wife getting sick and puking all over herself and the car. My car was a little ripe this morning. Thankfully seems like just a bout of food poisoning for my wife.
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I might have to download Control today after reading the premise. I’ve been hopelessly locked into mindlessly optimizing Hades runs for like 6mo. I still need to sit down and finish Yakuza 0 and Far Cry 5 though…. Joey Freshwater posted:Anyone have any good book recommendations? I’ve kind of hit a wall with what to read. I’m open to anything really I just finished up Fuzz by Mary Roach that’s a really good and episodic little nonfiction about laws and policies around human-animal interactions all over the world (attack investigation, nuisance mitigation, etc). LeeMajors fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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Taming down the Christmas lights today and feeling kind of blah about it.
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Jan 22, 2023 19:24
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LeeMajors posted:I might have to download Control today after reading the premise. I finished up Yakuza 0 a couple of weeks ago ( I was in the endgame for a while, but went through a period where I was just playing koi-koi for weeks), and moved on to Kiwami 2, and I'm already almost finished with that. Turns out when you don't have to grind Mr. Shakedown and mini-games for money to level up, Yakuza moves pretty fast!
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Quiet Feet posted:Taming down the Christmas lights today and feeling kind of blah about it. I like to think this just means you're grooming them in some fashion and they stay up all year.
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Jan 22, 2023 19:41
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LeeMajors posted:I’ve been hopelessly locked into mindlessly optimizing Hades runs for like 6mo. If you want another version of this itch, Slay the Spire is a card-based rogue like. Overall a slower burn with no real story beats, but if and when you start seeing synergies between cards and relics it becomes an addiction.
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Grittybeard posted:This is probably a boring overly recommended book that half the thread has read (possibly including you) but I'm finally getting around to Nixonland. I'm trying to get into this book and it's just not cooking yet 
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Jan 22, 2023 19:52
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Control was so good I gave Max Payne and Max Payne 2 a try for the first time afterwards (which hold up pretty well)
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I am getting back into Destiny 2 and I simultaneously hate and love it
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Ornery and Hornery posted:I'm trying to get into this book and it's just not cooking yet I'm not a fan of a lot of the framing Perlstein does, I got the notion of the Franklins vs the Orthoginians in a few pages, it doesn't need to be repeated over and over again in words that just mean the elite or the working class. I spend half my time reading it and half looking up stuff that sounds interesting. But, yeah, I'm not you, so, your mileage may vary for sure. e: didn't mean that to sound condescending if it came off that way, just I like nerdy stuff like that and you may not. I probably only feel like I have to note this because we're getting into a whole lot of condescension talk where I am in the book. Grittybeard fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Jan 22, 2023 |
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Jan 22, 2023 20:13
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Grittybeard posted:I like to think this just means you're grooming them in some fashion and they stay up all year. I await our cyberpunk future thing where we have plants that naturally grow Christmas lights. But then, I also hate yardwork so I don't know how I'd feel about that.
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Jan 22, 2023 20:16
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LeeMajors posted:I just finished up Fuzz by Mary Roach that’s a really good and episodic little nonfiction about laws and policies around human-animal interactions all over the world (attack investigation, nuisance mitigation, etc). I’m listening to this right now and the chapter near the end about trapping and poisoning “invasive” predators is… a little rough to get through. Mary Roach is a really good writer though.
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Freaquency posted:I’m listening to this right now and the chapter near the end about trapping and poisoning “invasive” predators is… a little rough to get through. Mary Roach is a really good writer though. Ah yeah, the stoats in New Zealand She does put a good perspective on the practice and the futility of trying to control nature at least, and how conservation is always focused on some arbitrary point in the past. Coco13 posted:If you want another version of this itch, Slay the Spire is a card-based rogue like. Overall a slower burn with no real story beats, but if and when you start seeing synergies between cards and relics it becomes an addiction. Ill have to check this out when I’ve got some time thanks for the rec. Hades was my first roguelike and im not sure if it’s the genre that appeals to me or that particular game. I’ve got too many games I want to play and too few hours to do so. 
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I’ve been craving some type of strategy stuff and dusted off Into the Breach which is fun for 15 minutes while you’re on a roll but then RNG fucks you with four spawned enemies to gang up on your defense objective and the one existing fucker webs two of your three mechs and then your game is done and you have to start over, and then you remember why you haven’t played it in forever
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I pretty much only play Roguelikes at this point, just because you can be playing in 5 seconds and walk away whenever. StS has insane replayability, I have like 700 hours in it. My only pet peeve (that StS does not have) are the ones where you are sleep walking through hours of gameplay because it is so easy, and then you just explode. Also, just cashed my middle class tax refund from the state of CA, thanks for the free money.
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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Grittybeard posted:I like to think this just means you're grooming them in some fashion and they stay up all year.
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anyone else hyped for wo long fallen dynasty
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T-Square posted:I’ve been craving some type of strategy stuff and dusted off Into the Breach which is fun for 15 minutes while you’re on a roll but then RNG fucks you with four spawned enemies to gang up on your defense objective and the one existing fucker webs two of your three mechs and then your game is done and you have to start over, and then you remember why you haven’t played it in forever That’s not rng
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Alaois posted:anyone else hyped for wo long fallen dynasty I'll have to wait a bit on it, but yeah, it looks fantastic
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Alaois posted:anyone else hyped for wo long fallen dynasty Think it's on gamepass so I'll give it a go. Hopefully I last longer on that then Monster Hunter Rise
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Bills fans are weird but I gotta respect it https://i.imgur.com/zR42ods.mp4
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LeeMajors posted:Ah yeah, the stoats in New Zealand Yeah it was really well presented and I agree with the point of view she was presenting, but it was hard to hear about the different types of traps and how 3 minutes to unconsciousness was considered “humane”. I also got really angry about the domestic cats and their role in it all. I read a book a few years ago called Rambunctious Garden, the thesis of which is basically that. Humans in general basically want to think that they exist outside of these systems and as such can choose when and where to exert influence on them, when the fact is we are irrevocably intertwined with them. One of the stories relayed in that book is about Yosemite, and how white America in general thinks that it is a place that is kept like it would be when it was untouched by people, when in reality it’s a reflection of how indigenous people maintained it centuries ago. Our perception of what nature is and how it works is pretty myopic imo.
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Lady Radia posted:That’s not rng I thought rng was randomly generated poo poo but okay then whatever the term for “randomly generated poo poo that fucks you” is
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Lol I’m being lectured for being bad at video games by an anime av Games poster I’ve never heard of in the TFF chat thread Go Bengos
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Lady Radia posted:if you are not playing in a way that ensures your mechs can stay mobile, and/or controlling spawns, and/or moving your units to occupy the squares needed to protect objectives, that's not random lol Shut up
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T-Square posted:Lol I’m being lectured for being bad at video games by an anime av Games poster I’ve never heard of in the TFF chat thread Maybe you should git gud? i have never played that game and I would probably suck at it.
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Joey Freshwater posted:Anyone have any good book recommendations? I’ve kind of hit a wall with what to read. I’m open to anything really Fast Food Nation. Don't judge the excellent nonfiction book by the horrible fictional adaptation. If it hasn't scared you enough, feel free to follow up with Command and Control, by the same author. A more light-hearted read on an incredibly nerdy subject is The Box, which is a blow by blow of how the standardized TEU shipping container came to be.
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Fast Food Nation is good as hell. I’ve got a stack of books I need to plod through. Just picked up Blitzed, I think from a rec in this thread. Also Mosquito about how the mosquito has killed like 68bn people and completely shaped humanity and culture, Cataclym about the politics of WWI, and I need to revisit and finish 1491 and 1493.
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T-Square posted:Lol I’m being lectured for being bad at video games by an anime av Games poster I’ve never heard of in the TFF chat thread Amy Pole Her posted:Shut up
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I've got Trust checked out from the library to read once I finish my non-fiction book about Japanese history up to the Meiji Restoration. I want to say I heard about it from the thread but I genuinely can't remember. At some point I'll probably re-read the Tale of Genji.
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Lady Radia posted:cry harder lmao I hate being owned this hard
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I've been slowly reading through the Sharpe series of novels. It's kinda similar to the Master and Commander series in that it's historical military fiction during the Napoleonic Wars, but it focuses on a low born infantry Rifleman rising through the ranks, instead of ships.
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God I’m waiting to pick up my car from the detailer and there’s this guy going around asking everyone if they like the bets he made on the SF-DAL game. I think I found what a gambling addict looks like.
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I dug out A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet unpacking some more boxes the other day and remembered really enjoying it and forgot it has two more books so I’ll probably get those soon
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Joey Freshwater posted:Anyone have any good book recommendations? I’ve kind of hit a wall with what to read. I’m open to anything really American On Purpose, Craig Ferguson's autobiography, is excellent.
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