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

I'm currently having a chat with a person that makes videogames I really love, about a concept he's working on. Like, as if he actually cares what I think - because he does care what I think.

As much as I hate a large part of the internet, this sort of connectivity is something really love.

My friend and I have a podcast where we're going through every episode of the DCAU and ranking them. Currently on Batman Beyond. https://anchor.fm/batrankings

He made an off-the-cuff joke before we moved on from Superman: TAS to Batman Beyond, "Yeah, soon we'll be done with Superman, what's next in the watch list? Matlock, right?" So of course to run with the gag we had to do a one-shot podcast episode where we reviewed an episode of Matlock, and as we've been going through Beyond, we occasionally reference how we got through all nine seasons of Matlock and ranked them. "I keep hearing people say they can't find those episodes. I don't know what the problem is, they're right there in the feed, just keep scrolling."

Anyway, it turns out there IS a Matlock podcast, because of course there is. https://anchor.fm/mattalk

This makes me happy.

hbi2k wrote:

My friend and I have a podcast where we're going through every episode of the DCAU and ranking them. Currently on Batman Beyond. https://anchor.fm/batrankings

Wait, are you skipping the masterpieces of the Zeta Project and Static Shock?!

Well, I guess Matlock and Murder She Wrote are ok stand ins

We want to at least do the episodes of Static Shock that cross over with the greater DCAU, we just haven't found the right excuse yet.

We did Batman Beyond S2E20 "Zeta" a couple weeks ago. It's currently ranked 25 out of 34; nothing about it made either of us eager to watch the show that spun off from it.

Man as a kid I loved Zeta. Can't speak to any reason why as an adult but I was at home loving cartoons.

I just have to shout out the Astronomy Picture of the Day app. It’s free and is available for iOS, iPadOS, and Android.

I love using the widget to display a new image every day on my home screen. There’s also a random feature so you can browse past images as well.

Finally finishing my PhD today.

Maybe I'll have time to play more videogames after this.

Congratulations Dr. Gremlin! Have fun doing Ph. Doctor stuff!

Gremlin wrote:

Finally finishing my PhD today.

Maybe I'll have time to play more videogames after this.

Congrats!

Doctor Doctor
Gimme the news
I gotta bad case of
looooovin games

Gremlin wrote:

Finally finishing my PhD today.

Maybe I'll have time to play more videogames after this.

One time forum name change to Doctor Gremlin?

Gremlin wrote:

Finally finishing my PhD today.

Maybe I'll have time to play more videogames after this.

Congratulations.

Spoiler:

And as one PhD to another, the answer to your question is no.

A_Unicycle wrote:

My love today is Pokemon cards

I hope this doesn’t turn into a loathe down the road, but I’ve dipped back into Magic: The Gathering. Now that I’m not a high school kid or fresh University graduate, I actually have some disposable income. But I’m still wary of spending a lot of money, as you will see.

My local hobby shop is a 20-25 minute walk from my place. I went in to see if I could buy some bulk commons/uncommons to check out the recent sets. After talking to some of the staff, the boss came out and said I could take as many as I wanted from the big ‘ol singles box they had out front. I took two fistfuls and bought a small card-box to take them home in.

One week later and I’ve been back to the store to buy a Bundle Pack (8 boosters & foil lands in a nice set-themed box) and more (paid) commons to make some budget decks. I was also able to pull my old cards out of storage. I’m having a blast!

And eventually, when you have enough cards, you can donate some commons to the Singles Box, for the next generation.

Stele wrote:
Gremlin wrote:

Finally finishing my PhD today.

Maybe I'll have time to play more videogames after this.

One time forum name change to Doctor Gremlin?

tag update

"Dr. Monstrum ex Machina"
Or "Ph.D not Texas" local?

Dr. MeM
Pee aych Dee
PhD PhDum
MeMet Oz

The beef-jerky-issance we're living in.

Like, obviously, some of the stuff is very "made by bearded men with very strong opinions about vinyl and IPAs and costs a kerskillion bucks" but it's cool that I have more, better options for a quickie protein snack outside of just Slim Jims.

Prederick wrote:

The beef-jerky-issance we're living in.

Like, obviously, some of the stuff is very "made by bearded men with very strong opinions about vinyl and IPAs and costs a kerskillion bucks" but it's cool that I have more, better options for a quickie protein snack outside of just Slim Jims.

Having recently been instructed to go on a low sodium diet, I'm "salty" that all that craft jerky is now verboten.

Someone needs to figure out low sodium jerky. And be successful enough at it that it is in stores (he said after a quick Google).

Low sodium turkey bacon was good for me but our usual grocery stopped carrying it months ago and I'm missing it

In my team from my last job, we had a large number of South Africans. Thanks to them, I learnt the difference between jerky, 'real' jerky, biltong, 'real' biltong, as well as an appreciation for droëwors which is amazing. Honestly a big deal with all of those - would never have thought that previously.

Do you know if the American-made "Bledie Lekker" brand is any good? The ingredients look right, and they claim it's made "in the Karoo way", but it's from North Carolina...

Been having three day weekends all December. Every Saturday I think tomorrow I have work. Then realize I don't. It's a nice feeling.

Last Friday was my last day at my old job but I don't start the new job until January 3rd. Been weird being free to do whatever while my wife still gets up and goes to work everyday.

For whatever reason, over the past two or three years, I've watched a fairly big number of TV shows from Thailand. Once in a while I find one that is actually good (A Tale of a Thousand Stars comes to mind), but usually they're... mediocre.

This week, I started watching To Sir, With Love (released officially on YouTube). And I'm completely hooked. I've watched six episodes in two days (out of 17).

This is a soap opera. About a Chinese mafia family in Bangkok, during World War II. It has a somewhat clueless mafia patriarch. He has two wives, who hate and are constantly plotting against each other. Each of them has a son, and both wives are trying to get them to succeed their father (although one of them is not interested). In the first episode, the patriarch's brother is outed as gay while his lover is being beaten in the middle of a family council. The brother slits his own throat in the next scene. Then, a bit later, the second wife tries to kill the patriarch's first son (from the first wife) by throwing a (bad CGI) snake near the kid.

What follows (after a 12 year time jump) is something that alternates between soap opera stuff and vaudeville. There's A LOT of eavesdropping. And murders. And murders to cover up a murder. And magic mushrooms (not the fun kind). Brotherly love (which, surprisingly, is not incestuous). There's a killer maid. There are rats in a coffin that eat the cadaver's face off. A dead body is swapped somehow, and nobody seems to care where the spare came from (or who it is). There's a very handsome killer-for-hire with a heart of gold. The wives use a lot of lipstick.

There's a traitor. I mean, of course there's a traitor.

Some of the acting is not great. The second wife is so over the top, it's comical. Her maid is the worst. The first wife is amazing though.

I started watching the show somewhat ironically, but now I can't stop. I don't know if this qualifies as "so bad, it's good", but I love it regardless. I paid for a month of YouTube premium just to avoid the ads.

My video of Mandarin duck chicks has 3.8k veiws. For context, I will occasionally look and see how many views a few of my videos got and it’s usually none, three to eight or, very occasionally, in the late teens which I used to think was impressive. In retrospect I can see the appeal.

Look at some of the other cute animal videos and see what their tags are.
I bet you see a pretty significant bump from adding the appropriate ones of those.

Am I just completely failing at Google, or is there somehow no thread about Pentiment?

And if not, what horrific series of events has brought us as a community to such a dark and hopeless place?

Pentiment is amazing. Set up a thread!

I got a hole-in-one at wordle.

*flex*

Now I need a new starter word though...

Oh dang... Bill Harris book The Man we Trust *cough*that I illustrated*cough* is released. I am incredibly proud of this one. Pick up a copy here.