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What I remember about the Professor is that he said he hasn't kissed in a very long time and immediately started laughing so hard he broke a beaker. Truly a VolCel king. Sailor Moon, the 90's anime at least, generally worked best with the filler episodes because the canon plot is kinda dumb. Who cares what BLACK LADY was trying to do when you have 20+ episodes of Usagi and the gang being silly gooses? I don't. I'm pretty sure if we get Isekaied we're going to go on a journey to Not-Egypt to fight a hundred year old vampire gym god. Half of us are going to die horribly, but it's the memories we make on the way that count.

It's my mom's birthday and we can't even go to Red Lobster like we usually do. Maybe I'll make shrimp at home.

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I'm genuinely at a loss for what Professor Tomoe was trying to accomplish in season 3/S as well. Find the Pure Crystal Hearts...and...uh, something something, Hotaru turns into Black Lady, which he wants because...I don't even know? I think he was possessed by either demons or aliens that probably wanted to take over the world, because that's pretty much always the main plot outside of the filler arcs. Also, wait, not Black Lady, because Black Lady was Chibi-Usa's evil form... My knowledge of Sailor Moon's main story mostly revolves around remembering some of the minions and the stupid macguffins they were always after. I think Chibi-Usa and the baddies were after Usagi's Silver Crystal thingy in season 2, the Pure Heart Crystals (which probably lead to something else but who cares what) in season 3, and the...beautiful dreams in season 4? Which also probably lead to something else, but I have no idea what. Like, I remember the Amazoness Quartet turning against Nehellenia in SuperS, the cat lady (Roan, Koan?) & company turning against the phantom guy in R, or Naru losing her dream king guy...because those are things that actually happened and had character moments attached to their occurrences, but I have no idea what anyone was really trying to do. Except for Ail and An in the filler season 2 arc, I guess: they were just confused, because their demon tree from the netherworld apparently ran exclusively on love, trust, and good feelings, contrary to what you (and apparently they) would expect, so trying to feed it humans just wasn't really going to work out. Whoops.

Because the one near you closed? HUZZAH for your mom.

https://www.engadget.com/gaming/steam-now-tells-gamers-up-front-that-theyre-buying-a-license-not-a-game-085106522.html?guccounter=1

I have a phone. I got it to play some Blizzard game way back when but then forgot about it. Maybe I can finally use it.

Grinding along in Rogue Trader, curiosity sure taught me, checking out random stuff because am conditioned by games to check every icon when surprise! Herald of Tzeentch spawned. Getting too old, this combat is tiring me out.

it shouldn't actually be killing off enemy combatants prior to a boarding fight. i could be wrong, but istr this is a deliberate choice by the designers. grapeshot can be very effective in low to mid ship fights. the problem is that it scales very poorly into high-level ship fights because surgeons are too good and there are lots of crew members. you can continue to get the enemy ship to cycle combatants around, but they will still have crew members to spare to shoot you down, while their injured sailors heal so quickly that you aren't causing any lasting damage. grapeshot in this case doesn't get you closer to winning, it just slows down how quickly you lose. the one exception is when you have high-enough-rank sailors to trigger events with some regularity, then you can waste tons more enemy time with grapeshot and the game sometimes glitches out and deletes sailors from ship combat (not boarding combat) while trying to move sailors around to deal with events. but cannonball shots also can trigger events, get you closer to winning, and can disable the ship surgeon AND ship cannoneers. for high level ship fights, there's only two good strategies and all other strategies are worse: 1. just cannonball the enemy ship down with the best DPS you can manage 2. use magranite flamethrower on a fast ship like your default or the voyager with high level cannoneers and just brute force the enemy ship down. the fundamental design problem is that they simply made cannonball do too many vital things (your main win condition, disable surgeon, disable enemy weapons [which is their main win condition]).

For something more upbeat:

I went to watch it but I could only rent it for 25 tax non-inclusive warbucks or buy it for 30 tax non-inclusive warbucks. It was free on the plane ride home from Germany but I wasn't in a position to watch it because I was in the middle seat with a baby on my lap and a wife on one shoulder and a son-a-tron on the other.

Dandadan ep 2 - Attack of the Sumo Alien-Ghost Still going strong. It's very kinetic and stylish, it would have been easier to make the banana pilfering alien a cgi monstrosity out of a 10-year old videogame like many anime do, but by god this looks so much better. And going to black and white is a power move so I'm happy. Also feels like they did a speedrun on Shinji's multi-saga arc with The Other Ken Takakura in like 2 episodes. We'll see how things go after he reclaims his......manly essence from the Turbo Granny. Given that they're made by the same studio that isn't surprising. Ngl, I very much enjoyed both on a visual level but I did not reccomend Dandadan to you because if you had a seizure I did not want to be held liable or get drug to hell by a demon you summoned.

I don't know if you like to look at videos, but More Perfect Union on youtube has quite a few videos about those subjects, they're quite good. You shouldn't necessarily go vegan though, the farming practices of the big producers are wrecking their soil, and have other bad practices ontop of that. It's better to ensure that what you buy comes from sustainable farming practices. Alot of vegan foods are ontop of that highly processed stuff, so if you go down that route you should be wary of that too.

To add to the ecology-related articles: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024/sep/24/where-does-the-uks-fast-fashion-end-up-i-found-out-on-a-beach-clean-in-ghana The reinforcement of the gender stereotypes aside, it is interesting, though unsettling. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/08/earths-vital-signs-show-humanitys-future-in-balance-say-climate-experts Not sure whether the acceleration to the hard-to-recover point is overestimated, but even now, the climate change is noticeable. I was trying to find an article about the effects of animal farming (aka those torture-murder factories) on the environment (very negative, including air; the prices of the properties around also go down by up to 75%), but the search engines did not favour me today. https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/23/long-shadow-life-under-the-veiled-grasp-of-factory-farming-in-europe This one. TLDR: go vegan, use less bandwidth, buy less physical items, recycle what you can, and do not reproduce, so maybe we will not die from the global warming.

Bigger worlds in video games inevitably means lower content density and more walking around with not much to see or do... ...But given that it's a Bethesda game, I'm not certain that it's necessarily a bad thing to put more space between the player and the game's writing/design.

What does that even mean, enough people clicked on "Preorder"? Aaaanyway, was about to say "Will buy when it's 75% off", but then read that it's going to be a "parry timing" setting in it, meaning there's parry mechanics, and I hate parrying in games with power of thousands of blue suns. Memories of some scrawny crackbrain with sh†tstained pants and bent, rusty fork parrying my flaming radioactive maul delivered by 10str character with all the melee perks in FO4 still cloud my mind in red hot searing rage.

That's a big negative for me. None of Bethesda's games needed bigger maps, they needed more variety in what's already there.

1998 called and wanted it's mechanics back. Frankly, it's objectively worse, since you don't get to look down at the characters cleavage.

how many player are still delusional enough to believe bethesda can make decent game

The next 3 closest ones to me closed. We used to go on or around her birthday. I did end up making shrimp and just finished eating, well, when I started typing this a couple hours ago. The kids hated it and my wife isn't a big fan so I finished everyone's plates. They humor me only so far.

I bought Two Worlds 2 when it came out. Never really played it. Something bothered me in the initial feel. Maybe I'll have to try again after a full BruceVC rating has been given.

And compression. Or lack thereof. Worried that Bokishi will run it at ultrahypersuperextraultraultra HD and a resolution of 192.000 x 108.000, some devs don't compress at all, to ensure best quality no naked eye would be able to identify.