Random thing you love right now that doesn't deserve its own thread

Me too!

Aw shucks, thank you!

There is... a lot... to catch up on here.

Waiting on the wheelchair to get me out of this hospital and on the way home.

You are going in the right direction.

My new computer has left "shipping" and is now "In Transit". Hopefully it transits out of the shipping center soon.

I love that DuckDuckGo uses favicons in its search results and has a dark theme.

Also, DuckDuckGo.

Cancelled Disney Movie Club.

It was a good deal for the introductory package, and would probably be more worthwhile for someone with kids consuming Disney movies on blu-ray. My problem was I kept getting discs even after I declined the monthly offer. And some months I just forgot. They always let you return anything you don't want, but the process for doing that is a pain in the arse.

I had to call to cancel. I hate web sites that make you call to cancel after you set up a membership on the web site. They wanted to upsell me to "Club Plus," which doesn't require monthly refusal. Unfortunately it is only free for one year, and $19.95/year after that. Clearly they do not expect to make money from legitimate sales to ongoing members who have fulfilled their initial agreement.

Anyway, no more accidental movies. Yay!

BadKen wrote:

Cancelled Disney Movie Club. ...

Did you not learn your lesson from Columbia House?

Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Waiting on the wheelchair to get me out of this hospital and on the way home.

Woo! Good luck, buddy. Hope you're well on the mend

And welcome back, Harpo!

BoogtehWoog wrote:
Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Waiting on the wheelchair to get me out of this hospital and on the way home.

Woo! Good luck, buddy. Hope you're well on the mend

And welcome back, Harpo!

Thanks. Leaving in an hour to get the catheter and staples out. Wish I didn't have to go back to work tomorrow, or ever again for that matter.

So soon?! Ugh. I'm sorry.

Was supposed to go back today, but they wanted to give the staples another day, so scheduled my appt for this afternoon. Rather than just go back for the morning and immediately take a half day off, I just took the whole day.

Feel 1000% better with the staples and catheter out. Little bit of irritation and muscle soreness, but the splitting-me-up-the-middle pain when I twist around is gone, so no more:

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For the first time in a long time I feel very relaxed after venting to my psychiatrist. While I'm still upset about my situation, having talked about it and explained/explored why I'm upset, I feel a sense of calm I haven't felt in longer than I care to admit.

Into the Spiderverse is, yeah, real good.

Jay Smooth "liked" one of my Tweets. I'm basically Twitter famous now.

My old car is in a garage on a floodplain, and we had record snowfall this winter in the Midwest. For about four months I just left it in there because I was just a bit too depressed to dig the garage door out of the snow. Then when the snow melted and the flooding began I kind of prepared myself for the worst.

Well, while it hasn't stopped raining yet, I'm happy to say the garage has not flooded (hooray for public flood control projects). I checked all the fluids and cranked the engine and it started right up. The battery wasn't even dead after several weeks of sub-zero cold. So I'm feeling good about that today.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Into the Spiderverse is, yeah, real good.

Yeah! We watched that last night. It was incredible!

Spoiler:

PETER PORKER THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER HAM

If you get a chance, watch the entire Spider-Ham short from the extras. It's amusing.

BadKen wrote:

If you get a chance, watch the entire Spider-Ham short from the extras. It's amusing.

Back in the good ol’ ‘80s I bought a few issues of the comic book. I remember them being amusing, but I was kind of a dumb-sh*t teenager.

Since we're spider-talking, cross post from the Marvel topic:

Loved the "Hi, Hello" parody poster of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's "Oh, Hello on Broadway" you see in Times Square, before I realized Mulaney played Spider-Ham.

BF and I got these figures from C2E2. Waiting on a third figure of Broly. Friggin' love 'em!

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Bonus_Eruptus wrote:

Loved the "Hi, Hello" parody poster of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's "Oh, Hello on Broadway" you see in Times Square, before I realized Mulaney played Spider-Ham.

I had to keep pausing during the Times Square scenes, there are so many easter eggs crammed in there.
I liked the "From Dusk Till Shaun" billboard.

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Nice. I quite enjoyed it apart from all the bugs and sone odd choices. If they’ve fixed those it’ll be a great time. Also, ship combat

Is it just me, or does the face on the video's thumbnail look like Keanu Reeves?

John Wick: 1776

Well, he *is* an assassin...

I have deleted the Ubisoft Assassin's Creed 3 Remaster video I had posted here. Now that I have had a chance to play it, it is definitely NOT a "random thing I love." I can not in good conscience suggest that anyone consider buying it.

The quality of life changes are far and away outweighed by the horribly degraded graphics. They seemingly had to work hard to make the graphics so much worse than the original. Scene lighting is either too dim or blown out. Shadows are flat, lower quality than they were seven years ago, and in many cases have bugs that cause distracting banding on shadowed surfaces. Models and textures are either not improved, or even worse in cutscenes (the original uses higher quality models for cut scenes, the remaster sometimes uses the lower poly gameplay models during cutscenes).

Have a look at these:

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Images from the original are on the LEFT, the remaster on the RIGHT. These are not cherry picked images. This kind of degredation is present throughout. Here's a tweet thread with more examples: https://twitter.com/TheEld2/status/1...

Super disappointing. Ubisoft really screwed the pooch with this release.