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It's a shame there's no ThemShep option.

I would love to see a "Hallmark" christmas movie that turns into a horror movie halfway through.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I would love to see a "Hallmark" christmas movie that turns into a horror movie halfway through.

For some reason the first thing to pop into my head was Silent Night, Deadly Night 2. Probably since it's only slightly better quality than a Hallmark movie.

I would like Bronchitis to quietly fack off and leave me alone. No one invited Bronchitis to the party.

Jonman wrote:
Tscott wrote:

If a facehugger were to latch onto a Jedi, would the result be an alien with force powers and reflexes? And if so, how screwed would the universe be?

Universes plural.

Different galaxy so maybe just singular universe. But my question is, if you actually did kill one, would that Xenomorph then hunt Force Ghosts in the afterlife?

Grenn wrote:
Jonman wrote:
Tscott wrote:

If a facehugger were to latch onto a Jedi, would the result be an alien with force powers and reflexes? And if so, how screwed would the universe be?

Universes plural.

Different galaxy so maybe just singular universe. But my question is, if you actually did kill one, would that Xenomorph then hunt Force Ghosts in the afterlife?

Just imagine the horror of Xenomorph Midi-chlorians!

Even though they were (often hilariously) edited and had commercials, I miss when the networks had movies on the weekend.

The deluxe version of Pillars of Eternity 2 is on Steam sale for $45. Must... try to... resist.

“Symposium” is Greek for “drinking party”. If you go to a symposium and there’s no alcohol, it’s not a real symposium and you should file a complaint.

A mix of facebook "memories" and snooping around my old internet hangouts has left me cringing.

Specifically, my old DeviantArt account. I have a lot of artwork posted there from 15 years ago. I feel like a totally different person, and the majority of my comments and interactions do not reflect who I am now at all. On one hand, I want to back up my old images and nuke the page to avoid people stumbling onto it. Another part of me wants to keep it because those were formative years, and it acts as a sort of "snapshot" of highschool me - almost like a journal.

It's under a different username, but I'd hate to think my Secret Santa stalked hard enough to find it and now has a warped view of who I am. Also makes me wonder what it's going to be like for children growing up these days, where they have access to social media from a much, much younger age.

Anyway, yeah, embarrassing.

Just don't direct a Disney movie and then publicly ridicule an alt-right icon.

Haha! I'll try not to.

TIL that the week I was born, almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court of the US decided in Smith v. Maryland that metadata was not surveillance and does not need a warrant to collect.

The arc of No Man's Sky has been so interesting to see. The game was a victim of its own hype when it came out, which I can't completely blame the Devs for, even though the hype train was ludicrously out of control in the run-up to release (in retrospect, I'm not surprised they didn't decide to step up and tell their community "you all need to stop getting quite so insanely excited about this game and stay realistic"). Then it came out, and didn't live up to said hype (nothing possibly could), and there was some pretty incredible backlash, and then things quieted down for a while and now it appears to have grown into a perfectly good exploration game.

I just find the narrative arc of its life really interesting, is all. From hype to bust and back to reality.

I tend to put off opening emails at work with "scary" subjects that seem like they are going to involve a lot of headaches. Usually though they turn out to be innocuous FYIs or simple questions that I can answer right away.

Ironically, it's the emails with the subjects "Quick Question" or "FYI" that blow up my world.

PaladinTom wrote:

I tend to put off opening emails at work with "scary" subjects that seem like they are going to involve a lot of headaches. Usually though they turn out to be innocuous FYIs or simple questions that I can answer right away.

Ironically, it's the emails with the subjects "Quick Question" or "FYI" that blow up my world.

I got an email this morning that read: "Quick Question: We've been reading a high humidity alarm in your server room for three days. Do we need to let someone know about that?"

trichy wrote:
PaladinTom wrote:

I tend to put off opening emails at work with "scary" subjects that seem like they are going to involve a lot of headaches. Usually though they turn out to be innocuous FYIs or simple questions that I can answer right away.

Ironically, it's the emails with the subjects "Quick Question" or "FYI" that blow up my world.

I got an email this morning that read: "Quick Question: We've been reading a high humidity alarm in your server room for three days. Do we need to let someone know about that?"

It’s fine. Water-cooled computers are a thing, right? So all that humidity is just free extra cooling for your servers. Science.

It'll stop your servers from getting boogers.

Jonman wrote:

It'll stop your servers from getting boogers.

It's a well known fact that network congestion is caused by server boogers

PaladinTom wrote:

Ironically, it's the emails with the subjects "Quick Question" or "FYI" that blow up my world.

I really hate getting emails with "quick question" as the subject.

My stock response is "quick questions often require lengthy responses".

Two of the members of my current D&D group are younger than my oldest set of dice. Also, I am pretty sure that a majority of the women I have ever played tabletop RPG's with are in this group.

I watched the deleted scenes for Prometheus today, and they made me sad, because almost every one of them would have improved the movie, but they were cut for reasons of "pacing."

It seems today's (well, six years ago's) movies must be GO GO GO or audiences get bored.

Good news, my laptop has a sd card reader built into it. The bad news is I bought two sd card readers because I lost the first one and didn't know my laptop had a sd card reader. I blame old age.

BadKen wrote:

I watched the deleted scenes for Prometheus today, and they made me sad, because almost every one of them would have improved the movie, but they were cut for reasons of "pacing."

It seems today's (well, six years ago's) movies must be GO GO GO or audiences get bored.

That is sad. That movies plot seemed to take leaps in plot and logic. Not sure if I want to see those deleted scenes or not. If they ever restore them I'd give the movie another watch.

Another thing that hurt the movie was that, to me, the underlying message seemed to be that faith wins out over science. Seems like a flawed approach when exploring alien planets.

Prometheus was better when I rewatched it after seeing Alien: Covenant. Not perfect, but the added context for David and his motivations puts a lot of Prometheus in a different light.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Prometheus was better when I rewatched it after seeing Alien: Covenant. Not perfect, but the added context for David and his motivations puts a lot of Prometheus in a different light.

Thanks. I'll give Covenant a go and then perhaps give Prometheus another chance.

I enjoyed Covenant largely because I am a Fassbender AND Katherine Waterston AND Billy Crudup fanboy. The fact that Danny McBride was in it scared me to my bones, but he was surprisingly good. He was playing an actual role instead of being McBridey, and it was a minor but impactful role. The fact that Damon Lindelof was nowhere near the screenplay is a big plus, though the characters did just as many dumb things as in Prometheus. It helps that it is gorgeous to look at, with beautiful sound and score.

Alien Covenant is another divisive movie. Even critics were split on it. I liked it enough to buy it on iTunes.

I’ve heard mixed things about Covenant and just couldn’t face after Prometheus. Time I got it seen.

I was let down by Covenant, I wanted a different movie. I can enjoy Prometheus but mostly because I just want to love it more than I should.