An impressive doozy of an unwinnable #CobaltCore situation, if I don't say so myself.
• Yes, that's the final boss with three HP left, and my ship's cannon lined up with its weak point.
• Yes, that's me holding 10 identical non-attack cards, each of which adds a copy of itself to your hand when you play it.
• Yes, each such card has the "This stays in your hand if not played" modification on it.
• Yes, there is a 10-card hand limit.
Tonight's film is SORCERER (1977). I don't know why this was on my list! I suspect that it was mentioned in a book about Kraftwerk I read. It is full of period German electronica…
The good part is good. Four desperados from around the world on a suicide mission to drive two truckfuls of unstable dynamite through 200 miles of Colombian jungle! LOST clearly cribbed from this.
The whole first act goes deep into their backstories, spending 40 minutes on story a modern movie would handle in 15.
Interactive fiction arch-mage (and my old friend and colleague) @zarfeblong is filling his feed with some high-quality public note-taking and ruminating about the just-begun #GDC, if that's of interest to you. #gamedev
A thing about #VideoGames I think of now and again:
I am anticipating a possible middle-future cultural phenomenon where a ton of people, starting with #GenX-ers, express that they love video games and want to play more but they're getting too old for them. That is, their eyesight and reflexes and so on begin to drop below the threshold to enjoy them, en masse.
This hasn't been a problem with other mass-cultural media before, right? You generally don't get too old for books or movies and such.
@jmac I feel like that's already happened. Definitely heard people my age say they don't/can't play video games because they don't have the hand-eye coordination. (I have yet to convince them to try interactive fiction but I haven't tried too hard yet.)
@jmac I think in the recent past it was harder for old folks to read standard-print books, when the only real option was a magnifying glass or the like. Now a Kindle will let you just size up the font, or there's audiobooks. So it's kind of the opposite for other media, things have gotten better.
I am haunted by several great games that I have played a bunch of but walked away from for one reason or another. Which one should I make a push at this weekend? #Videogames
I'm looking for listening suggestions.. Music. What I love is free jazz funk punk classical new music choral. If it's from the seventies and I haven't heard it I'll be especially excited. Most recently rediscovered Richard Muhal Abrams also Richard Hell. There are still Prince albums I haven't played. I think that's today's goto
It's anachronistic for King Arthur's knights to participate in jousting tournaments -- jousting as a sport didn't exist yet during the early middle ages when the stories are set. But it was popular during the high middle ages, when a lot of Arthurian romances were written, so medieval writers sometimes put in jousting scenes.
I am delighted to discover that 48 of 65 respondents think that Cheez Whiz is stuff that you spray out of a can.
You are all thinking of Easy Cheese. Cheez Whiz is and was always a cheesy sauce that comes in a jar. You spoon it out, or you heat the jar and pour it over your cheesesteaks and your nachos.
But it feels right to call the spray stuff Cheez Whiz, right? You have held a can clearly labeled EASY CHEESE in your hand, and called it Cheez Whiz. https://masto.nyc/@jmac/111898965657423858
My initial impression of Atlas Shrugged was I parsed the title as like "Girl, Interrupted" and I thought the book must be about an Atlas-like figure who gets shrugged. I had never seen "shrug" used in a transitive manner like that and I had no idea what "shrugging someone" could mean. I still don't.
Hi friends. I am traveling to #Vienna next week, and then #Budapest the week after that. Other than seeing “The Third Man” once, I know nothing of either place!
I am very open to any suggestions for sights and experiences, and your advice for an English-only visitor.
First #BaldursGate3 comment: The Dark Urge is not appropriate for a first-time co-op playthrough. I respect the boldness of not restricting him to NG+, but, um, he probably should have been.
I picked him because his name and monologue are hilarious! I wanted to roleplay him as a mopey bard who absolutely named himself. But the game had other, highly specific ideas, and things went off the rails fast.
His shtick might have been fun were I playing solo, but it's a killer (ahem) of co-op fun.
We gave #StarTrek LD the ol' college try after SNW's “Those Old Scientists” but man, feeling out of gas after four episodes.
The main characters are just, like... not likable! Right? Boimler and green lady are cringey fuckups, and Mariner is a cringey jerk.
E3 got my hopes up—I liked the parody of management antipatterns, and the unexpected horniness—but E4 refocuses on what a jerk Mariner is, and how nobody likes her! And like: yeah! I don't like her either! And she's the main guy! Eh!
