Ghost_MH

Aside from just gaming, doesn't Disney also use Unreal Engine for a bunch of their stuff? At the very minimum, I know they use UE on their LED stages over at ILM.

Easy

Wordle 964 4/6*

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Can't believe I got that purple category

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Puzzle #242
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Blah, this one threw me off

Wordle 963 5/6*

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Puzzle #241
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3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Michigan school shooter's mother guilty of involuntary manslaughter

WWW.BBC.COM

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Jennifer Crumbley, 45, is the first US parent ever convicted of manslaughter over a mass shooting by their child.

 

Isn't this the shooting where the school was worried about this kid day dreaming about shooting up the school, but the parents refused to dismiss the kid, refused to get help for the kid, and didn't tell the school they had just gifted the child a gun?

If I'm remembering it right, good. There has to come a point where negligence becomes criminal. This wouldn't be a case of "I didn't know little Timmy knew the combination to the gun safe". This is "Hey, my child says the dark corners of the room talk to him, maybe a gun will make him feel better".

6 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Martian Successor Nadesico

Glad people are still enjoying some good 90s mecha. I managed to grab one of these back in December before they started being harder to find.

Yeah, I have a poster of him with a bunch of other older robots like Astroboy and Gigantor hanging in my office that I nabbed in an Artist Alley over at Anime Boston years back. I might try this out. I do have a toy of his bookmarked over at Big Bad Toys. Instead I blew this month's toy budget on a Voltes V and SDF-01 from Macross Do You Remember Love.

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Wordle 962 4/6*

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Green and yellow, right away. The other two, not so much. Should have gotten purple faster. I was on the right track, but didn't quite make the connection before the miss

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Puzzle #240
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Wordle 961 3/6*

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18 hours ago, Brick said:

Wordle 960 4/6*

 

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛

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  Reveal hidden contents

Salet

Rouge

Dirge

Verge

 

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Puzzle #238

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I've been trying a lot of different martinis lately so I recognized that set immediately. 

 

What the fuck is mate? 

 

It's been very popular as of late.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I've been gaming long enough to know that Sony and Nintendo being the only players in the console space would NOT be a good thing for gamers and consumers.

Valve has to retry the whole console thing. There's already a burgeoning market of these mini $3-400 micro PCs with specs similar to the Deck and other handheld PCs.

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Wordle 960 4/6*

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Green category through me off

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Anyone else actually play these? I don't know how much I'd call this a remake. Most of the puzzles are new. This much is a little disappointing. I know the game has to be designed around TV play, so it couldn't have any of the very cool puzzles that involved holding the DS in your hands, but the puzzles still weren't nearly as creative. I still enjoyed my time with the game. Took me about 12 hours to get through both stories.

I've got to ask, though. Who thought the default camera speed was the best choice? I almost quit the game early on until I saw you could change the camera speed in the menu.

Eh

Wordle 959 4/6*

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Stupid purple category

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Thought I had the word there

Wordle 958 4/6*

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Blah, that green threw me off.

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5 hours ago, Jwheel86 said:

As early as possible get her on Social Security SSI (then open an ABLE Account, that you could actually do now, it's basically a 529 Savings account, and draft a 3rd Party Special Needs Trust and have your Wills direct her inheritance to the Trust), SSI will get her a small income (she get full Social Security Disability when you retire) and most importantly Medicaid under federal eligibility. With Medicaid you'll want to get her on whatever the developmental disability waiver Mass has, that'll get her Day Supports, Supported Employment, and Direct Support Professionals in your home. Done the road you can look into Group Homes. Some of this stuff she might be eligible for now. Mass currently doesn't have a waiting list, but that can change. 

Really do appreciate it. A lot of this stuff is really unintuitive. All my kids have 529 I opened for them the day I got their SS cards. Just opened my daughter an ABLE account and am rolling her 529 over to that as soon as the ink dries. Now to just walk down the rest of your list. Anything that helps, especially with how expensive therapy is. Her neurologist wants her in 15-20hr/wk. It's so fucking expensive. Last year, I blew through my entire family max out of pocket by like mid-February thanks to it.

46 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

My ex's son is 21 and is aging out of the School system so she's trying to figure out what to do with him after August. Fortunately we live in Los Angeles and she has a little bit of money so it should work out. He's non-verbal and requires constant supervision but he can go to the bathroom and answer basic questions. 

It's always fun how unique everyone is case to case. My daughter is verbal, but she has no language. It's as if someone reached into her head and just snatched her ability to process language, but not her ability to speak. She can read, she can label things, she can sing and get all the lyrics right, she can repeat her favorite episodes of Daniel Tiger, and even commercials. Nobody can tell if she understands any of it, though. There was a period of time when she thought "thank you" was pronounced "for contributions to your local PBS station and viewers like you" and "good night" was "Hey Google, turn off the girls light".

43 minutes ago, Jason said:

There's no adult programs? My brother in NJ was able to keep going to the same place he'd been going as a kid once he turned 18. IIRC it's all paid by the state except for like two weeks between end of the regular year and the summer program, and you can also just not pay for those two weeks. 

I'm sure there are and I'll start worrying about them when she's in her teens. Who knows what the landscape will look like ten, fifteen years from now. I wish summer school were longer for her. She gets a month of half day classes.

4 hours ago, Uaarkson said:

As the parent of two autistic children, this absolutely enrages me.

My middle child is autistic and these are the stories that both enrage and frighten me. She's 6, the size of a 10yo, gentle and sweet as can be, but prone to random screams. I'm happy I live in Massachusetts and have the kids in a school system that can get her help. Right now, I'm just hoping she learns to use a toilet and maybe handle some yes/no questions. Unfortunately, public schools don't last forever and I have no idea where she'll be when she's 19.

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Wordle 957 4/6*

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Oh, I hate Connections today

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Puzzle #235
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The better guess was the weight one

Wordle 956 5/6*

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If I'm going to get my first guess wrong, at least it was colorful

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Puzzle #234
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Gah, I so nearly lost here

Wordle 955 6/6*

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Looked it up and I was down to two words, so I really was just fifty/fifty on which of the two I came up with first.

You piece of

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2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

I'm currently going through Sonny Boy (which is amazing) but that's a few years old. The only anime that looked good from Fall 2023 and now Winter 2024 were:

 

-Frieren

-Pluto

-Ooku: The Inner Chambers

-Solo Leveling

-Metallic Rouge

 

I wait for a season of anime to end before I can tell what from that season was good, so I can't say much about Solo Leveling and Metallic Rouge, they're just the only ones that looked different/better than the usual anime stuff for this season but we'll know more at the end of March. What Ghost_MH said about Metallic Rouge isn't promising though. But Frieren, Pluto, and Ooku (from Fall 2023) look great so I'll definitely get to those at some point.

I was really looking forward to Metallic Rouge. A flashy take of a world similar to Pluto by Bones? Sure, I'm in. I'm still ready to throw some money down for some of the robots in the series because I really like their designs. Animation is great, art is great, English dub is great...I like the characters. That's probably enough for most people. I just have zero idea why anything that is happening is happening. Three episodes in, still completely lost, but not with mystery. The plot just hasn't really presented itself yet. Maybe others will enjoy it more than me. I went over to check out ANN's episode reviews and they have the first two episodes a 4.5/5 and the third a 3/5.

The series so far is fun and maybe that's good enough. However, I'm having trouble getting into that sort of fun just coming off Pluto that dealt with a lot of the same themes and subject matter but with real grace and intrigue.

Anyone enjoying any of the anime currently airing?

Gushing Over Magical Girls is for perverts and degenerates, so I guess that makes me one of them now. It's actually hilarious and a ton of fun. Nobody should go out of their way to subscribe to HiDive for it, though.

Metallic Rogue has been a huge disappointment so far. I'm three episodes in and it still feels like all style, no substance. I'm also not super convinced lore dumps we're likely to receive later in the series really turns out around.

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is a ton of fun. It's a typical isekai, but I like the concept of healers should be tanks to save lives in the front lines.

Frieren is still the best anime anywhere right now, so no surprise there.

I stared at this for so long. The word just took forever to come to me.

Wordle 954 5/6*

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At least Connections was easy

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Puzzle #232
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41 minutes ago, TUFKAK said:

I personally always find it curious we worry about humane capital punishment against those who perpetuated inhumane crimes.

Because we want the death penalty to be a spectacle, but not so much as to make the families watching ill. Otherwise, we'd do it like Japan and kill death row inmates in secret and not let anyone know until after the deed is done.

This one really had me sweating. However, that turned up to be the only playable word left, so not as scary after hitting Enter on the guess.

Wordle 953 6/6*

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⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Really glad I got everything other than the purple words. I don't think I would have made that connection.

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