Kal-El814

Watched it last night, that was pretty fun.  I liked the camera pan to the “gameplay angle.”

47 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Y'know - I haven't seen her in a couple of days...

How did her urine look upon your most recent inspection?

This was on my feed today and it seemed relevant. 

I dunno if I’ve watched more than 5 min of the original Jurassic Park since the theater? That sounds impossible (homina homina homina) but I cannot recall seeing all of it again...

8 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I dunno if I agree. M:I plays like a great 1970's John Le Carre-lite spy thriller. On bluray I thought the film looked and sounded fine. Both show their age similarly I feel. 

Haven’t watched the first MI in a while, but I remember the ending helicopter sequence looking rough. 

Of course he did. 

47 minutes ago, Chris- said:

New York pizza and bagels and now Uncharted, what's next? What else do you insist on pissing on today, you punk ass motherfucker?

I have great affection for NYC bagels and pizza, as well as for Uncharted. But you show me someone who enjoyed any of the gameplay in any of the young Drake segments and I’ll show you a rube.

Are 4 minutes of it flashbacks to boring ass segments in Drake’s past, keeping in line with the ratio of the actual games?

3 minutes ago, legend said:

Oh, I'm not surprised at this point. But the state of affairs of the US from the perspective of just a few years ago is mind blowing.

Yeah I don’t mean you specifically. Just surprising that people are saying THIS is the moment. Like... wat.

45 minutes ago, Pikachu said:

I think MI has gotten better with each successive move imo, which is really rare for a long running franchise.

MI:II tho

How is anyone surprised by any of this anymore, lol.

Just now, Jose said:

 

I dont see why saying New York is very good at bagels and pizza is so abhorrent. Of course you can get a solid slice or bagel elsewhere, but there are more great places per capita in New York than anywhere else. Just a fact.

I’d agree that NYC has better joints for those foods per capita than many other areas. But I hear pretty regularly that you cannot get a decent one of either of these outside NYC. 

As someone who grew up in northern NJ and would go to NYC somehway regularly in college, I put New York in quotes because I don’t think there’s a meaningful, geographical distinction between the city and the surrounding areas for foods like pizza and bagels. I can’t speak to Connecticut since I don’t think I’ve had either food there, so I wouldn’t know exactly where to draw the line. 

3 minutes ago, Jose said:

I think the notion that something cant be truly excellent because it's just bread or just bread and cheese is completely absurd.

Bread and cheese are 2 of my favorite things on earth.   I don’t mean peasant food pejoratively!

1 minute ago, SaysWho? said:

Thank you for that clarification.

 

I was about to kick your ass.

I do what I can. 

Let’s be clear... New York City bagels and pizza are both delicious, there’s no disputing that. However, it’s not uncommon to hear people talk about both of these peasant foods as though you cannot get a decent slice or bagel outside of NYC, which is crazytownbananapants.

What say you D1P?

If I’m getting chain pizza around Boston it’s normally Pizzeria Regina. Ernesto’s recently opened a second, non-North End spot near my house in Somerville and they’re legit. 

3 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Too many people waste their time on tiny supermarket lobsters where you have to do all the work yourself. Having to cook a 1 lb lobster and then break it up yourself is obviously a shitty experience.

 

The right way to have lobster is to get a 3-4 lbs lobster and have the restaurant break it up for you so that you're doing more eating than working.

I think smaller lobsters taste sweeter though.

1 hour ago, Engel said:

Once again a woman has to give her job up for a man. 

2/10

On 7/11/2018 at 3:55 PM, GeneticBlueprint said:

I've never played a tabletop RPG. None of my friends were ever into that. I would really like to play this one. I've read two of the Witcher books and loved them. I love the videogames. I'm sure I'd love this.

Check out Blades in the Dark.

It's a D6 based tabletop RPG about being a group of scoundrels in a haunted, "whalepunk," city in the vein of Dishonored. I'd not played many tabletop RPGs before and had certainly never GM'd one. But a bunch of my buddies went to a cabin this winter and I GM'd. The time just flew by, it was great.

The system does a great job of letting the GM and the players make the fiction as they go. The book has a general framework, setting, district maps, some prebaked rivalries and suggested scores. But part of why we liked it so much is that we sorta played it like we were making up the world as we went within the author's framework. The players decided to be a gang of drug pushers, so they got to decide how their drug worked, why it was better than what was currently available, how they could keep their sources exclusive, etc. So unlike something more traditional like DnD, where your characters have explicit hitpoints, enemies have explicit skills, it's a lot more conversational.

On most scores you also just jump right into the first conflict. So if the players in our game were gonna go to a local den, kick people out, and take over their turf, we'd roll for engagement based on their advantages / disadvantages, and the outcome of that roll would dictate where we start. A great roll could establish, "okay you have a guy on the inside who can vouch for you and your tight with the Gondoliers, so we'll assume there was no trouble getting to or into the spot." Where a crap roll would be more like, "Okay, you're tight with the Gondoliers so they can get you close, but the ferryman was out late last night and is coming off his high, so he's drawing attention to the boat by being bragging about something going down to anyone you pass on the river. And your man inside is going to want a cut of the score for selling out his current employer."

You also just pick a load before you go, light / normal / heavy, and you can "spawn" items mid-score based on your need provided you don't exceed your load. You don't have to say, "I'm going to bring my pistols and my bone charm," beforehand. If shit gets spooky, you can say, "good thing I brought my bone charm," tick it off, and you're good. You can also flash back when you run into trouble, which helps avoid analysis paralysis pre-mission. Take some stress when you run into a guard, flash back, and roleplay how you bribed him or kidnapped his kid for leverage before the score.

Dunno how your comment turned into a novella on Blades... I guess I miss playing!

1 hour ago, Chris- said:

@Kal-El814, we await your response.

If this was porn, we’d be at the part where the woman is eyefucking the pool boy. We’re seeing side boob at best, her top isn’t even off. And people are ready to pop. Sad. 

1 hour ago, SFLUFAN said:

I can give you mine right now:  so what?

Thank you. 

39 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

Ethanol is a terrible gasoline replacement whether it's sugar or corn. A car running E85 (via a tune if the engine is E85 ready, which is typically 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline) will get ~70-80% of the mpg of gasoline... and it costs more per gallon (without subsidies). Electric vehicles are certainly the future and where money should be invested.

7 minutes ago, The def star said:

I voted for you Kal because that's a pretty sweet Avatar. Mines not even original

Aww thank you. I just searched for “demod” and found the first one that looked like it would work with the image restrictions. 

I assume @CastlevaniaNut18 has seen pics of @The def star right? I believe he’s posted them before. She has also seen me IRL so I say let her voice be heard. 

It’s @The def star and it’s not even close.

That said I will accept any sympathy votes but OLO if I get none at all.