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But that was VOY, not TNG...

I signed up the moment it was possible to, give or take a day. So a good while now... it's currently importing my GOG library and doesn't want to connect to Steam at all, but hey, well, I guess that's why they don't ship it yet, as Bill once said. edit: Well, Steam works now. It tripped over the 2FA earlier, but now it's happily importing my library. \o/

Weeeeee, I just got invited to the Galaxy 2.0 Beta.

Season one of Stranger Things was most likely a lightning in a bottle situation. To be honest that the second and third seasons were as good as they are is an achievement in itself - especially since they recycled the plot of the first twice. The attempts at humor didn't bother me so much as the constant balancing on the edge of suspension of disbelief. Even for a show with extradimensional aliens and psychic powers season three tried its damndest to be somewhat... unrealistic.

Well with October starting tomorrow I'll be reading the third Harry Potter novel. If they are anything like the movies now the real fun begins.

Final shap! *skip*

Went to vote, then went and picked up unhealthy comfort food to counteract the inevitable dismay that always seems to come with elections recently.

I see myself playing some Celeste soon. I'm both excited and terrified at the prospect.

Oy. Wait, for real? They added something even worse? Wow. Le sigh.

Wait until you see the B-side of Chapter 7. Eh, and after that the REAL fun starts.

I watched Between Two Ferns: The Movie. Well that's one thing where a movie wasn't necessary. The best parts were - not surprisingly! - the actual talk show segments and the outtakes of these during the credits. Everything else was mildly amusing at best, but such is often the case for me when I watch comedy. It's well worth fast forwarding through the film to get to the Between Two Ferns sections.

I got some reading done during my vacation. Y'know, sitting on a balcony with my Kindle in hand, watching the bay and enjoying the breeze is something I could really get used to. Finished the first two Harry Potter novels (which I got as my monthly Amazon Prime e-book for August and September) and grabbed a few things from Prime Reading, like The Forever War and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. Them Potter books were more entertaining than I imagined. I'm curious to see how much different the later films were because the first two were pretty faithful to the source material, and I heard that changed with the third one. Not curious enough to buy the books early though. Heh.

You should have played Everquest. People sold buffs. Granted, the game had some ridiculous buffs with no level scaling, so you could get your fresh alt an endgame gear's worth of stats for a couple of hours right away and you often had to play classes with severe experience penalties (hybrid tax in EQ was awesome, 20% less experience) for them, so that might explain that.

Sorry to hear that guys, terrible news and a terrible accident. I'll be off for two weeks, going on vacation. Looking forward to some good ol' downtime at the sea.

I love their music videos. In The Zone from Episode 2 is a work of genius.

Sure is, WoW Classic can be accessed by subscribers. You still need a key to sign up though. I don't know if you only get classic when you bought Battle for Azeroth, otherwise the base game and Legion will most likely suffice (and you can't buy anything less anyway).

Tol Barad was what really got me. Several times.

Oh boy, so that line "a thousand generations live in you!" is meant literally, and Rey's really a clone with the experience of generations of Jedi loaded into her at creation. Kind of like a human holocron. >.<

Dynamic respawn times based on zone load is relatively new, yes. Eh, and by that I mean it was introduced to immense effect back in Cataclysm where Athene (ab)used it to get the world first level 85 character by simply grinding a patch of quickly respawning mobs that some out of group friends killed, i.e. he tapped everything, they nuked it, the enemies respawned instantly.

Funny thing, if someone told me a few years ago that Miley Cyrus would be the reason for me to reevaluate my opinion of Nine Inch Nails post Broken (yeah I'm that guy who didn't like The Downward Spiral with some very few exceptions like Heresy and Hurt, sue me ) I would have laughed at them. I guess stranger things have happened, but anyway, I'm beginning to realize that The Fragile is much, much better than I ever thought it was. Or to be more accurate: ever wanted to give it credit for during my youthfully rebellious but somewhat ignorant "It's mainstream now so it sucks" phase. Still can't stand Closer from The Downward Spiral. That apparently had nothing to do with it being a club hit. Heh.

Woha, it's like Manowar and Dream Evil had a superhero love child. Awesome.

I'm pretty sure they find it... puzzling enough. *snicker*

All that talk about growing vegetables made me remember a fun little tidbit that happened to my partents last year. They're renting a patch of land near my grandmother's former home, roughly 20,000 square feet wedged between the street and a small river. Anyhow, last year mom planted some corn which was growing fine until they went on vacation. When they came back her uncle called and said that all of it was gone. You know, usually when people steal corn they only take a few ears. This time, well, everything was gone - neatly cut off right above the ground. All the corn. Vanished - quite literally over night. Some days later he called and said he found the missing corn while fishing. In... yeah, right. A beaver dam. Cheeky little bastards.

Got around to finishing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 6. All in all maybe the weakest season since the first, but still pretty entertaining all in all, but it sure was weird... even for a show set in the MCU (or not, any more, what with Endgame and all).