The second season finale was actually great though, if only because the climax was visually very experimental and cinematic. I feel like Discovery often took chances, and they didn’t often pay off, but that one really did. It looked like they blew the entire season’s visual effects budget in that one episode.
I love watching these things take off. Somehow it always looks like they’re not quite going to make it.
No Country For Old Men was such a masterpiece that it managed to be better than the book, which is a feat given it was written by Cormac McCarthy.
I have this printed and framed next to my desk. It’s a good reminder of the power we all have to live our lives how we choose and the kind of people we want to be.
I think the beauty of the killer reveal is that it changes the story we thought we were experiencing the whole time. We think it’s a detective story, maybe with themes of redemption and economic struggle and love, but it’s actually a story about the struggle of being human against the spectre of a devastating past.
The killer has sacrificed this humanity for his cause, and he hates seeing lives unfold at a distance. He thinks he’s serving some great cause but it’s ultimately petty. And we see what happens when a person gives everything up for this one purpose only for that to fail.
I didn’t pass my check to speak with the cryptid so I don’t know how that changes the perspective of the game at all. Maybe I’ll do a replay and go for it, but the existence of the cryptid just underlined that things aren’t what they seemed throughout the story.
Yeah, the secret to getting good bacon is buying it at the butcher deli counter. You can request your preferred thickness, it’s much leaner, and it’s more flavorful. Unless you’ve got a local artisan cured meat hookup available, it’s the way to go.
Nice try, John Cho’s Lemmy account
How about we be good to each other because it’s the right thing to do. And in a world full of people struggling to get by it’s what we can all offer each other. That works. If any behavior is predicated on causing other people to act a certain way it’s going to have its failures when encountering the great mess of humanity out there.
Maybe you do; I produce far more feces by replying to comments on the internet
You had me at blame Henry Ford.
Damn they made that leaf look so tasty.
My wife and I were having fun doing co-op on the Trine games. Coordinating your character switches to cross obstacles can be pretty fun. The Lego Star Wars games were also fun for us both to just mess around and cause chaos.
One of my favorite Halloween costumes is still a college acquaintance who came to the party as a banana slug. It was so sincere and heartwarming!
Brutal, I just beat this the other day. Must have been stuck on it a month.
You can candy the ginger, which will preserve it a bit and can be used in baked goods or eaten alone!
I have less experience with the curcuma but I’ve seen it added to smoothies. I think it can flavor some toasted nuts for a salad topping, or it can be made into a paste like you’ve done for a curry.
If you just got a point for never having written a postcard, go write a postcard! And mail it to someone that you appreciate in your life. It doesn’t need to be from anywhere exotic or say anything profound, it just takes a few sentences. If you really want to get fancy about it, a lot of little art galleries sell postcard sized prints and you can give someone a tiny little piece of art that speaks to you. Or go to a museum and buy like 10 at the gift shop and keep a stockpile to send when you want to reach out. People love it, and you probably will too.
Our rescue was a “lab/beagle” on paper, but yeah she’s definitely got some American Staffordshire Terrier. Our HoA is very dog friendly and she’s a favorite around the neighborhood. If you adopt a mutt in the US they’re going to have at least some kind of pittie in the mix.
“Most Egregious Truth Stretching About Breed to Skirt HoA Regulations Against Pit Bulls”
“What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Royal Capital, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Caelid, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this world, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the loyalists and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.” - Soldier of Godrick
My wife and I enjoy the symphony and recently went to a local orchestra video game night and the Stardew symphony. We’ve also been to some movie nights and the music ranges in quality. Some music was never written for a full orchestra and as beautiful as live music is, there’s a difference in quality between a show where everyone just plays the melody and where the music was written or adapted to show off what an orchestra can do. Stardew, for example, showed the kind of care one might expect from that game and throughout the night every instrument had a solo at one point or another.
What I do love is that these shows have all drawn a starkly different audience than a night of classical. I am not the most well versed in classical and it’s really nice to be around a bunch of fellow nerds enjoying our passion together at a movie or game night. I think if just a few people come out of that experience and decide to check out a classical symphony afterwards then it’s a worthy undertaking.
I’m less sold on the fact that a lot of the pop culture nights also have a big screen showing clips or something. There’s something to be said about engaging with the musicians playing their hearts out for us all doing the thing that they love and have worked exceptionally hard for. That said, it is a different time than the 1700s and insisting that everything remains the same as it was then is just kinda stodgy.
Over the course of his career, John Williams brought film to the concert hall and legitimized it. Why would video games not be the next step?
If anyone had read this far, go out and listen to live music. It’s transformative. It’s one of the things that makes us human.