Gorth
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7 hours ago, majestic said:
Well, not quite the same, but similar, yes. Warp storms, dimensional barriers, the effect is the same, I suppose.
It doesn't help that the lore seems to have two conflicting narratives around humanity's downfall before the events in 30k. One version it was the Eldar created warp storms (as their excesses grew out of bounds) and in a different version it was humanity's hubris fiddling with technologies that shouldn't have been invented that lead to them imploding
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6 hours ago, majestic said:
Wasn't that what led to the end of "The Dark Age of Technology" first time around? Effectively relegating humanity to isolated clusters among the stars (because the Eldar at the time decided to make a mess of warp travel until the birth of Slaanesh)
edit: Not aided by the fact, that the weaponry back then was much more destructive than what is currently available to humanity
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Not a movie per se, but about a movie. How to make a movie on a shoe string budget (and what little budget you had was donated by the rock bands of the time)...
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I went shopping for groceries the other day and saw this one in the window of a store while walking by. How could I possibly not buy a bottle of vodka in such a bottle???
It's a nice vodka, made in Canada. But lets be real, the bottle was it's selling point
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Nanowar of Steel... completely not inspired by Iron Maiden
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1 hour ago, BruceVC said:
Gorthfuscious, you know what I would suggest?
Start at the beginning and when you get to the end then you stop
I probably beat you to it, but it's all out of my hands at the moment
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I sometimes come across these as recommended videos. I think they've done a good job at fixing the speed, frame rate and colorize some of these old clips from the late 1800's and early 1900's...
A personal favourite of mine, the last known footage of the Bismarck (movie shot from the perspective of the accompanying Prinz Eugen)
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On 4/8/2024 at 9:42 AM, Agiel said:
Those look awesome!
Waiting for the new Skaven models to be released before spending too much work on my 20 year old plastic rank and file rats (all my character and elite rats are metal miniatures)
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How to summarize 40 years of video gaming in a single blog post...
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19 hours ago, InsaneCommander said:
It's been quite some time since I watched this, so I was confused in some scenes, but I still didn't want to watch the recap.
It's interesting to compare this with Overlord. In both cases you have characters capable of extremely evil things, but in Tensei Slime they only do it to people who do terrible things to them.
If I had to be an isekai character, it would definitely be Rimuru. The guy can recreate anything he wants, including food, mangas, healing potions...
While I was trying to make up my mind, a character caught my attention and I watched "Gushing over Magical Girls".... all I can say is
No, not going to post clips from it, but dang it was funny (and Utenas VA was simply awesome)!
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With Frieren being history now (sob) and no announcement of a season 2 (which would probably take another 3 years to make) and Metallic Rouge ending too, with episode 13, I returned to my favourite slime (Diablo is just bad ass)
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37 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:
Frieren, episode 2.
This show is so glacially slow, I have way too much time to ponder how dense Frieren is. Admittedly, 3 and half minutes of the 26 minutes runtime is used up by music that I immediately skip, but that just takes it down to 22 minutes, which is probably 11 minutes too many.
...You know, that gives me an idea.
Frieren, episode 3, double speed.
That's sort of better - closer to but still not quite a normal pace, anyways. Fern called Frieren "helplessly dense", which seems appropriate. Eh, this still isn't really working for me, though.
Frieren, episode 4, triple speed.
You know, these first four episodes have basically felt like the second coming of...uh, what was it called? Girls' Last Tour, I had to go look it up. There are things that I like about it, but it feels more like an "in theory" rather than an "in practice" kind of thing. Too slow of a pace combined with too much artificial writing/characters, I suppose. All the moments that are clearly supposed to be cute just seem...annoyingly manipulative in that very nu-anime fashion to me, so I'm just getting kind of grumpy instead.
Frieren, episode 5, light speed.
Yeah, okay, I think we're done here, this isn't working. It's not awful, it's not offensive, but I am just not getting anything out of this. But just in case...
Frieren, episode 25, LUDICROUS SPEED
Wait, who the hell are all these people? Oh, forget about it, the show still feels exactly the same anyways.
I'm the type of person that vastly prefers the short and sweet fight of Obi-Wan Kenobi vs. Darth Vader in A New Hope, no matter how simple and goofy it may be, over what feels like the hour long and much more technically impressive fight of Anakin vs. Obi-Wan in Revenge of the Sith, so that wasn't necessarily the best way to try to appeal to me. Though it didn't really end up having anything to do with my issues with this show, so...
You gave it a try
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8 minutes ago, majestic said:
Sorry, could not resist.
Makes you wonder how it ended up with the nick name, Side Quest - the Anime
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Maybe a rabies variant? Instead of resenting water, you started resenting food? Please tell if the urge to bite people suddenly comes over you!
edit: Iirc, the rabies symptom is called hydrophobia, no idea what the food equivalent would be
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On 3/27/2024 at 11:28 AM, ShadySands said:
Trying to wait for the first expansion or whatever they're calling it to start a new game. Maybe I'll go finish one of my abandoned runs... or boot up Wrath.
In a slightly similar boat... waiting for the GotY version before buying it
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8 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
And the question is simple " why do you think some\certain\ a few people believe the media reporting in one war but dismiss the same media reporting on another war "
I suspect you know the answer to your own question, if you have to be honest about it. Not sure why you need other people to bring up "confirmation bias"?
Personally, I don't trust governments much, but I'll take the Australian governments words for it when they tell that Australian citizens were killed in Gaza when IDF airstrikes deliberately targeted international aid workers to chase them out...
Those same attacks on aid convoys has led to a political **** storm in the UK and the US as their citizens were also killed by the IDF
It was so bad Biden got on the phone with Netanyahu and made ultimatums...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68737846
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2 hours ago, Bartimaeus said:
Frieren, episode 1:
This episode did not make me want to claw out my eyes, chew off my tongue, cut off my ears, burn my nose hairs, tear out my spinal cord, or excavate my brain from my skull. So, that's an improvement over the last one...that gosh-awful food one. Though it also didn't do that much for me either...interesting concept, but I'm kind of lukewarm on it so far. Both Frieren and Fern have annoying voices/mannerisms, so that's not helping. If I hadn't noticed this was made by my guys Madhouse, I don't think I would have checked this out at all.
Just a suggestion, the first 4 episodes were released together as a "prologue" to kick the season off, introduce characters and the basics of the world. The story doesn't really start until episode 5 with a declared goal...
Edit: Just some amusing trivia, it took Madhouse 3 years to make the anime and in some instances elaborated considerably on the Manga, like the "eat your heart out Disney" dance sequence, which was a 1 minute long scene with custom written score and real dancers doing motion capture to be hand animated, was a single panel in the manga. A fight towards the end was two panels in the manga and Madhouse made it a 3 episode fight, seriously flexing in the animation and choreography department while doing so.
Edit2: I'm obviously biased as I liked the show very much, even if it took me a few episodes to get into it.
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6 hours ago, LadyCrimson said:
Posting just because: 2:26
"Yeah our clothes are now trendy today ...
... because we just never threw them away."Too true.
Edit: it is funny how Genx is seems largely forgotten (public references I mean). Ppl go from Boomer straight to Millennial.
We *are* known as the “forgotten generation” after all… except when it’s time for tax returns
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You have to have been around for a while to get this one (Office 97) and it's probably more sad than funny, but I thought it was very well done
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5 hours ago, Malcador said:
Aged like wine.
In Brisbane, the F-18 Super Hornets and C-17 Globemasters still buzz the buildings in the CBD every year during the "River Fire" festival... I never get tired of seeing it up close. Something about seeing those jets at such low altitude cruising through the city (following the path of the river) and then pull up just before the bridge
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12 hours ago, ShadySands said:
Our company is closing our local office so we all get to be full time remote instead of 2 days in office. I already was fully remote but I'm glad for the move.
As someone who has worked fully remote since Covid, I can relate
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On 3/31/2024 at 2:56 AM, InsaneCommander said:
@Gorth I'm watching "Moonlit Fantasy" and you'll probably like it. It's very similar to "That Time I got Reincarnated as a Slime", with a guy going to another world and eventually founding his own nation with monsters.
He was taken by a goddess that thinks he is ugly, so he was cursed and can't speak the human language. Not to mention that every human in the new world is handsome/beautiful so people think he is not one of them.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll check it out
Feeling sort of sad and empty with no more "Frieren Fridays" (and no word on a season two either at the time writing)
Otherwise just following Metallic Rouge (the latter not being a typo) which is up to episode 12. I did see that Tensei Nikki (that time I got reincarnated as a slime) has a third season on the way, so I do have a bit to look forward to (and possibly get disappointed in)
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27 minutes ago, rjshae said:
That’s a nice summary of the Periodic System
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40 minutes ago, xzar_monty said:
A funny (to me) observation: reading Don Quixote today, it's impossible not to notice the parallel between Don Quixote and modern conspiracy theorists. Don Quixote is neither stupid nor uneducated, it's just that he has a huge flaw in his thinking when it comes to the question of chivalry, and no one can help him see the problem, no matter how they try. That's precisely how it is with conspiracy theorists, it's just that the flaw happens to be in different "places" in their mind.
It didn’t stop the former Australian prime minister from fighting tooth and nail against windmills
(for the glory of the coal, gas and oil industry)
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Music: Sharing and Listening - Where words fail, music speaks
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I probably had a bit of a crush on her when I was a young teenager in the 80's..
Old recording, not best recording quality sadly...