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​​ ​Hey, I'm an equal opportunity complainer: I'm pretty contemptuous of Bethesda games as well.

speaking of intelligent communication, I fixed these for you,

Yep. Don't expect it to let up much at this rate, either.

Three more weeks of funding approved as another stopgap: Dems got CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) re-approved for six more years in exchange for it. I think that's a pretty decent deal for both parties, all things considered. Neither Dems or Republicans really want to be labeled as denying healthcare to children, I would think.

No, I think the darkest timeline was the Patriots winning 4 Super Bowls. We're way past the darkest timeline at this point...and things look like they're going to get worse before they get better.

Total War games are disappointing and shallow on a whole 'nother level, though, sadly. Europa Universalis I really liked at first, but I started getting very frustrated with the devs as they just kept adding more and more unneeded features on top of the game and it all started becoming a jumbled up mess. I wonder if they've stopped releasing expansion yet. As for Civ 6...if they're anything like the real world custom maps from Civ 5, they are probably wonky as heck and don't make for an actual good campaign.

*sigh* go eagles

Unfortunately, that's gonna be a no for me. The last one was absolutely dreadful, and Hollywood has really managed to do what should theoretically be impossible: make dinosaurs completely and utterly passe and boring. Bah, humbug. I watched Kiki's Delivery Service. I like good coming-of-age stories, and this one was fairly nice. It went a little too far on the anime "inexplicably weird timing with dialogue and way, way too long fits of laughter" scale for me, but it was more fun than Only Yesterday was...but less thought-provoking.

I considered it, but upon reflection, it seems like Civ games have gotten worse with every new iteration as of the last few, and as far as I'm aware, there's still no "world scenario"-type game that at least makes an attempt at a real world map, which is what I actually want instead of the random arcadey bullcrap* that the Civ games tend to be, so I had to decline. *There's so little satisfaction in playing in and with randomly generated/placed landforms and civilizations if you ask me, but that's me...

teams sure like to blow it against the patriots when up by more than a possession in the fourth.

Greater context is never a bad thing, but I don't see his explanation as really adding up. A seemingly caveats-free opportunity to solve one of the problems that a whole lot of people are apparently upset about is given to you, and you reject it out of hand. Does he really think the shutdown is going to end within 24 hours? If that ends up being the case, O.K., fair enough...if not...just another thing the Republicans are going to hold over the Dems to try to force their way, just like CHIP when the Dems were all for re-approving it without any questions asked to begin with six bloody months ago when it originally expired.

https://twitter.com/SenateDems/status/954761305424105472 "Early this morning, @clairecmc tried to pass a bill to guarantee military pay and death benefits in the #TrumpShutdown. Republican Leader Mitch McConnell: I object."

Trump says "President Responsible for Shutdown": https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/01/19/trump-government-shutdown-blame-sot-2013-fox-lead.cnn

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​As the doctor said, he has the best genes, and could live to 200 if he really wanted to. ​ ​

​Weirdly, that Vampyr game is made by Dontnod, the Life Is Strange dev. Of course, their first game was Remember Me before that, which mildly flopped, so I guess they're trying to give it another shot. I remain mildly interested...

​ ​(e): also, condolences, LadyCrimson, especially seeing as your mom was the person in your family you had the best relationship with (IIRC).

I'd describe it as depressing. I'm having trouble describing exactly why, though. I guess it boils down to time and growing up. So many opportunities in life lost because of stupid decisions by either yourself or your parents, that devilish whimsy and selfishness that children have being inexorably snuffed out because of time's ever-accelerating course and being forced to grow up in some manner to survive, and being stuck in so many ways with your oh-so-random lot in life. The ending may have been optimistic and hopeful on the surface, but it really just reeked of the deeper, more desperate fight with life that we all undergo and try to win in a variety of ways. I didn't really mind the contemplative bits of the adult segments, but I guess I just didn't find the ongoing story of Taeko to be very compelling. Yes, I did listen to the English dub. I tried a little of the Japanese dub, but as usual, it wasn't for me.

It didn't help that all that stuff was so laughably shallow that it makes you wonder why they bothered in the first place.

Only Yesterday (1991). It was really depressing. I liked the as-a-child segments way more than the as-an-adult segments.

No, I have not. I'm not much of a moviegoer to begin with, and I'm way too intolerant of things I don't like which further suppresses my desire to watch new movies.

Yeah, I really have no idea. Pretty much everything you see there is wrong in some capacity. The sky is alright, I guess.

I read that the original American cut of Nausicaa, Warriors of the Wind, was quite the butchering, too. Hilariously bad cover art that should tell you enough about it:

I like Xbox controllers when I'm predominantly using the analogue stick, but I prefer dualshock-style controllers when I'm predominantly using the d-pad. The strain of using whatever's in the middle of the controller tends to wear on me after a couple of hours regardless of what controller I'm using, so I prefer to just switch out depending on what I'm playing.

One, I watched it with someone else (in person) who was trying very hard to convince me to like anime when I've very explicitly never liked anime (the art styles and the way characters tend to be written and the film-making conventions that seem to go with it), so that was already going to make it very difficult for it to work out. Two, I watched it in Japanese, and I have since learned (as it's been some years since I tried to watch Grave) that I seem to utterly despise Japanese dubs of pretty much all nature. Listening to Japanese people actually talk in a normal manner, I don't have too much of a problem, but whenever I hear Japanese entertainment (TV, movies, games, whatever), it seems like their enunciation just goes completely over-the-top, which activates my misophonia in the most extreme of manners, to the point where I'd honestly rather listen to silence with subtitles than Japanese dubs. It doesn't help that the casting choices for Japanese VA always seem laughably ludicrous...but given that that seems to be a problem in everything Japanese I've ever heard, I'm assuming that there's just a cultural difference in the way people's voices sound there that I'm simply unable to get over. Three, all I remember from that movie is a whole lot screaming and crying, and that I was utterly miserable throughout the entire thing. For most other languages, I would tend to stick with the original dub. Russian, Polish, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Greek...I'm fine with all of those. Japanese and Chinese, and to a lesser degree French*, are the ones that I know of that tend to make me want to gouge my ears out. *Funnily enough, I tend to like French when it's sung, though...and actually, I don't automatically despise Japanese singing, either, now that I think of it.