Bartimaeus

I played some shooters pretty young (Counter-Strike, Quake III, Turok, America's Army all before the age of 10!), but most pertinently I played a lot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. a little later, which has some of the most extreme head-bobbing you'll ever see in any game plus plenty of weapon swaying to boot, so I guess I avoided those two issues. Field of view, on the other hand...what is with so many first-person games setting it so low that even I get sick from them? Seriously, stop it! Thankfully, I've played about ten hours of Outer Wilds and I've almost totally conquered that one...almost. There's still a rare occasion that I lose my bearings because of suddenly teleporting or gravity turning sideways that gets me...I imagine you wouldn't fare too well with that?

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to survive on that. My own favorite movies and shows take up close to 3 TB in of themselves, which was the limit I was running up against and was what required the upgrade...especially because I also have half a terabyte of music, so I literally was just about out of room with my two 4 TB drives - mirrored drives, since I'm unwilling to accept any kind of data loss, . But then, I also had about 10 TB of movies and shows for other people (e.g. my nieces) across three other 4 TB drives (that I don't mirror, since I - selfishly - care significantly less about them, ). So space was becoming a bit of a problem...and I rather hate splitting up the contents of my own drives arbitrarily due to space constrictions (I have a bit of an OCD for hard drive organization - nothing gets put on those HDDs unless I'm "archiving" it, i.e. I do not plan to touch those files ever again...barring unforeseen circumstances), hence why I went straight for the 14 TB drives when I saw them on sale for $200 each. Difficult to turn that price down. Even with mirroring them, the 14 TBs should hold me over for some time to come given how rarely I add new shows or movies to them. Though it doesn't help that I keep everything at absurd quality for myself...I have 51 favorite movies, and they take up just about 1 terabyte. This is, presumably, utterly ridiculous by most people's standards - there are plenty of people out there who encode standard length films down to 1-2 GB each at 1080p using the ultra-efficient (but definitely image quality-lossy) x265 encoder, meanwhile I sometimes don't encode my movies at all and leave them in the raw bluray state because I desire utterly perfect image quality. A single pixel changed in a nearly unobservable manner? No, I say!

I ordered 4x14 TB like...8 or 9 months ago, and they finally just arrived about two weeks ago. It's nice to have space.

Is it better to be curbstomped from beginning to end with no chance of ever winning a la the Cardinals, Footballs, or Patriots...or is better to get down big and come back only to be most foully slain at the last moment a la the Cowboys? The latter seems more heart-breaking, but at least you cared and you were invested and it felt like it had meaning and you could've kept going if not for the clock running out...whereas the former is more like "oh, we didn't deserve to be here to begin with, this has all been some kind of great big joke". I guess neither of them feel very good, but in different ways.

About that... Admittedly, it didn't end up working out anyways, but extra points here that it's against the Cowboys, . I think people in the stadium were mad at the refs in general - generally speaking, the home team is penalized less than the away team...whether it's because of home-cooking or just because the away team has more trouble operating when they're not at home and suffering from the crowd noise, it's unusual that the home team was penalized in a number of 49ers drive-extending or Cowboys drive-ending penalties. Howerver, like half of those were completely needless pre-snap penalties... Don't think it's a wise idea for Dak Prescott to be advocating fans throw stuff at the referees...

Felt like I was watching a McCarthy-era Packers playoff game. Shoot yourselves repeatedly in the foot and get destroyed early, start staging a surprising come back...then lose on the final play. Only thing is, it happened in the Wild Card instead of the NFCCG.

Lmao.

What happened is you guys decided to substitute super late, and you're not allowed to snap the ball until the defense is finished substituting.

I couldn't help but laugh when the Cowboys receiver had no idea the ball was coming to him because the sun blinded him due to that stadium's stupid design. I've complained for years about the sun blinding the players in that stadium, so it was nice to see it bite the Cowboys, .

Outside of SuperS, Sailor Moon is pretty consistent in all of its key strengths...and weaknesses. If you're the type of person that loves its strengths while its weaknesses are conversely the least important part of the show to you and thus forgivable, then it would make sense you love it...and that would be me, . Ah, it's a classic case of an "instantly take you out of the show and make you become skeptical and annoyed with everything the show does even slightly wrong because you've become hyper-critical of its failings and weaknesses as the result of the show having gleefully and unabashedly shattered its own illusion of meaningfulness and integrity forevermore" moment. Well, at least that's what it would be for me - though such moments usually happen early on in cartoons/animes, so at least there's that. Tamako Market seems to be an exception...inexplicable as it may be, . No kidding - I've noticed myself randomly and reflxively CTRL+A-ing long messages in other places as a result of this phenomenon.

Other people forgive and forget stupid, ill-fitting moments in their entertainment all the time...that is, when they even notice them to start with - I'm sure many viewers of this movie didn't notice anything out of place with those kinds of scenes. However, majestic, we do not seem to be like other people - consistency and integrity in characters, framing, tone, and style are usually a requirement and not a suggestion for us. The only leeway I usually ever give anything is for something that's already had a good run and only makes minor unforced errors and/or indulgences. Even then, some of the questionable decisions some of my favorite shows made, such as in Steven Universe, still bother me when I think about them, .

If they were taken out behind the woodshed in the first half, they were then repeatedly machined gun in the head in the second half.

Wikipedia: "In exchange for additional financial support, Mobius announced that the game's initial release on PC users would be a timed-exclusive on the Epic Games Store. As it was originally announced that Fig backers would have received redemption keys on Steam for the game, some backers complained about the change; Linux users noted that as the Epic Games Store does not have a Linux-compatible front end, the change left them without any option." Perhaps something that was "fixed" sometime later once it was released on Steam? True...and in a sense, it ends up working out regardless - I'm perfectly patient in waiting for these situations to resolve themselves, .

Didn't even know about that, to be honest. I did not back it or even follow it, nor pay anywhere near full price for it. Seems like they did Metro: Exodus one even worse, because Exodus at least gave the original Steam purchasers the game on Steam, while from what I'm reading, Outer Wilds did not (and in the process, screwed over their promised Linux support because EGS has no Linux client). Gross. I haven't been absolutely blown away with it like so many apparently have been, but I definitely like it and think it made correct decisions in balancing world (well, worlds) and gameplay...for whatever that is worth, .

There's a mystery you have to uncover via exploring and investigating information you figure out (read the spoiler below if you want to know what it is - it's not really particularly spoilery since you already know about the loop reset mechanic, which I didn't going into it and which thus surprised me), which is also part of what makes it Subnautica-ish for me. A number of differences in the specific particulars of the gameplay, but it ends up feeling like a similar game even so. The game helpfully keeps a record of all important information you find in your space journal in between resets. I also didn't even realize this game qualified as "open world"...I guess it kind of makes sense, but it doesn't really feel like it's open world, because there aren't that many "planets" and the "planets" are incredibly small, which is really bizarre for its sense of scale but it's a good thing for actual gameplay, IMO. The world is probably...I don't know, somewhere between 1/100th and 1/500th the size of Breath of the Wild - it's not really even a comparison. howlongtobeat.com puts it at 15-20 hours length, which was right about where I was guessing it was - even for a 100%er, it's only at 25 hours.

I'm starting to finally get desensitized to the deaths. For the first few hours, it was a lot of "I'm just going to close my eyes now until this is over"s. Accidentally falling into the sun, eaten by gooberfishes, shot out of repulsion cannons into dead space and suffocating, accidentally crash-landing into planets at a thousand kmph because I didn't slow down enough in time...not great.

Earlier, I accidentally stepped onto a teleporter that I did not know was a teleporter and got flung to some far-away station I'd never seen before, looked around for approximately ten seconds before promptly falling into a black hole that I thought was safely far "above" me but turned out to actually be "below" me because its gravitational pull forced the issue, which then turned out to be a wormhole instead of a black hole and sucked me away to some other place that I had no idea what was either, where I then had no idea what to do especially since I was in space without my ship while running clear out of oxygen and thus perished. Good times were had by everyone...well, everyone except for me.

The whole "reset every 20 minutes" mechanic doesn't much appeal to you, or is it something else?

Outer Wilds (note: not The Outer Worlds). Somewhat Subnautica-ish, but without the survival/building mechanics...so also somewhat not Subnautica-ish. Space sure can make me sick.

Are you deliberately trying to get majestic to never watch Samurai Champloo? Nope, I did not, you are wrong. Better luck next time, pal! "Hilarious" is one word for it, . Episode 22 of Samurai Champloo. Mushrooms, necromancers, and meteors. I don't know what to make of this episode. It was fine, but probably the weakest episode of the entire show thus far. Episode 23 of Samurai Champloo. Bills, yankees, and baseball. I don't know what to make of this episode...except that there's a little bit of a resemblance to that one Steven Universe baseball episode. Feels like I stepped straight off into crazy-town for these two episodes - hopefully the last three will be a little more connected to our characters and the plot, as the rest of the show has done a much better job of meaningfully tying both of those into the crazy rather than the other way around like these two did.

To be fair, there's lots of things I've tried where I've had specific pointed criticisms...that I could've easily ignored if the work had grabbed me in other ways and made it so I wouldn't focus too much on what I didn't like, but it didn't, so those criticisms were front and center. Often times, the reality is if something doesn't appeal to you, it doesn't appeal to you, and nothing more needs to be said or done about it, move on, . P.S. When are you going to make a fan translation of the Miyu books for me? I'm not totally against the premise, but it looks like a typical Hollywood affair. On the other hand, I might prefer to watch Pretty Woman over this. High fashion is like...I don't even know, I don't think I could be less interested. Seems like a less than ideal date movie. I really am going to get back into this soon...

Perfectly fine from everything I've ever done with it, and I think the general experience is that compatibility with everything is fine, but some games either suffer get a little faster or a little slower, depending on the exact game in question. The latest version of LTSC (2019) is basically a slightly stripped down version of Windows 10 1803, but only ongoing security updates and nothing feature-related. They're going to release one last final version of Windows 10 LTSC sometime within the next year or two, last I heard - most likely will be a slightly stripped down version of whatever the last major version of Windows 10 is. Might decide to upgrade to that when it comes out, I'm not entirely certain yet.

Yes, even though I hate college ball, it was nice to see not-Alabama win. @Keyrock How confident you feeling about the 49ers game?

Many of the primary strengths of Linux are also its weaknesses in that they make the OS difficult and annoying to use. Good for a number of specialized purposes, bad for most other things. The fact that there are so many "major" distributions and nobody can agree on which is the best even for just a general user also means no version of the OS will ever be ubiquitous enough to really take-off - everyone's too split across too many different versions. I'm not really ever expecting Linux's story to change. I'm glad I was able to find a more static version of Windows 10 to use (LTSC), otherwise I'd probably still be trying to use Windows 7. Static, stable, secure, and functional - the primary things I want in an OS, and LTSC gets the job done. ...On the other hand, you do have to steal it to obtain it for non-business purposes, but not really much of an issue.

This show sounds an awful lot like how I felt when I watched Okko's Inn. It's fine, there's nothing wrong with it, I should be into it to some degree...but it ain't grabbing me for whatever reason.