Raithe

It was nice to see Alpha Protocol make it into the top 10.

I haven't played it yet myself. I admit that I've always been dissuaded from playing it because of how big of a red flag the "vampire underworld" setting is for me. I hope - and partly expect - to be wrong about all my preconceptions, and at the very least this poll has definitely made me consider that I should perhaps check it out... But I'm not entirely certain when I'll get around to it. I think you have to be into the universe and possibly be into the underdog tale of Troika to really appreciate the game. The writing is great, the characters are great, and there is a lot of customization and choice. Many different ways to play the game just by choosing your race or species or whatever. Unfortunately the game is very buggy and unfinished in some aspects -- even with unofficial patches -- or at least it was 6 or 7 years ago. Personally I don't care for the setting and was let down by the bugged and unfinished state of the game so I only played the game once. If you do try playing it, it is worth downloading and running the fan mod/patch to it. A whole heap of the minor (and major) bugs get sorted by it.

Caught Bladerunner 2049 last night. Interesting, enjoyable in its own way. Definitely that slow paced, drawn out story. But I think it's one I'm going to have to let settle in my mind a few days before I can really consider its positives and negatives.

Well... I'm not sure what my takeaway is from that.

For another viewpoint... Admiral Holdo wasn't a feminist, she was just a bad leader

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr2hbE6aW0

I'm still shocked at the design of those Resistance Bombers at the start of the film. Plus.. gravity dropped bombs.. in space? Controls to drop them a remote that's dropped around, and why design the bomb bays in quite that fashion? I get that the whole X-Wing vs Tie Fighter sequences were originally designed based on Battle of Britain footage, but still..that seemed incredibly anachronistic and wrong-headed on so many levels.

Sorry to hear that LC, condolences. My level of frustration is growing. Banging my head on Orange. I thought it was a simple thing to do, but I import my csv, and instead of useful data it's turning into complete gibberish. My time stamp while in the correct format of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss only shows up on the various plots as Time(x1e+09) ... which really doesn't give you a clue. I am about ready to chew through my keyboard, because I simply want to plot time stamps to rfid being used and door opening and closing and it just keeps giving me a mess that means nothing. I should be able to simply plug it into the right widgets, but nada seems to work. Right, venting frustration done and accomplished. I shall have a cup of tea and then attempt to slay this dragon once again over the afternoon.

Gods of Egypt. It's.. it's a funny film to figure out. On the one hand, it's got some fairly lush visuals, and it's nice how they've put in lots of little references to Egyptian mythology without making a big deal of it. It does have some nice performances from the cast, but.. they are some really bizarre casting choices for a film set in mythological pre-history Egypt. Plus a chunk of the storyline does feel as if it was borrowed from Thor. I think it would have fared better if they'd stripped away the explicit Egypt references and simply had it as a general "fantasy" film. It did have a certain.. Harryhausen / Thief of Bagdhad / Sinbad type of feel to it.