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

Robear wrote:

Pentiment is amazing. Set up a thread! :-)

Done.

And now, having wrapped up the core of Citizen Sleeper in my last push to play games this year, I find myself asking the same question.

Is there really no thread for that game either?

Not sure I have time to make a thread for that before I leave on vacation here, but damn, I at least have to say how absolutely wonderful the music is in this game. I had the game on doing more side stuff, and then I just left it on to be the background music while I did other things around the house. So good.

8 hours more work to go till 4 days off. Im going to browse the PSN sale over lunch on my phone to pick out something to play over the break.

It's late Christmas Eve here, so I'm getting a little introspective. I think I might have posted something like this last year, but each Christmas I feel a little bad about how much we spoil the kids. I don't know how much of it is us actually spoiling the kids or just me comparing my poverty childhood with their relatively well-off childhood.

But at the same time, my kids are rad as hell, and my eldest especially has had a huge year and has somehow managed to not only do well, but thrive in it.

Part of the meaning of life is to enjoy it, to squeeze the last drops of joy from the fruit. Never feel shame for helping your kids do that. Spoiled is an attitude of expectation, not a state of having or lacking things.

Happy Christmas!

My 4 year old got these old plastic toy dishes at my mom's house, paired a toy mug with a ping pong ball from the basement and invented a new game last night. Cup-a-ball!

I'm not sure on the rules but it involves bouncing a ball from your cup to the floor and then chasing it while yelling Cup-a-ball!

Thought it was a one time event last night but this morning we are in the basement playing again haha.

Data East's 1993 classic game "Spin Master" starts in my native Spain. At the Madrid airport, to be precise. I can't stop laughing.

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The font on the sign! My eyes! The goggles do nothing!

A friend comes over to see movies most weeks. Her daughter was telling her about various events in her day. While she was telling stories she mentioned ‘Broccoli Pete.’ Apparently, there is a little lad called Pete and he REALLY likes broccoli so Broccoli Pete had become his nickname. Karen suggested she shouldn’t call him that until she checked with the lad’s mother to see if it was ok. Her daughter said, “Oh, his Mum calls him Broccoli Pete as well.”

As we watched that night’s movie I would occasionally say, “Broccoli Pete,” and we’d both laugh uncontrollably.

It could be Broccoli Rob...

fangblackbone wrote:

It could be Broccoli Rob...

Broccoli Robby

Or, in Scotland, Broccoli Rab.

Mario_Alba wrote:

Data East's 1993 classic game "Spin Master" starts in my native Spain. At the Madrid airport, to be precise. I can't stop laughing. :D

What are you talking about, looks suuuuuuper realistic!!!!

Says the European ;P

The philosophizing space chickens are back!

Only counts as light spoilers if you have any idea what I am talking about.

Eleima wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:

Data East's 1993 classic game "Spin Master" starts in my native Spain. At the Madrid airport, to be precise. I can't stop laughing. :D

What are you talking about, looks suuuuuuper realistic!!!! ;)

It looks exactly like I remember it from the last time I was there...

Actually, the whole scene reminds me more of the road checks in the Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade videogame than any airport I have ever seen.

Stealthpizza wrote:

The philosophizing space chickens are back!

Only counts as light spoilers if you have any idea what I am talking about.

I'm assuming this, but the book came out a couple of weeks ago

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And they are awesome.

Stealthpizza wrote:

The philosophizing space chickens are back!

This acid is definitely working.

Jonman wrote:
Stealthpizza wrote:

The philosophizing space chickens are back!

This acid is definitely working.

This glue is not.

Space Chickens? Do tell!

Robear wrote:

Space Chickens? Do tell!

The Innkeeper Chroncles is a sci-fi and fantasy series which follows Dina Demille, a young woman who presides over an old Victorian mansion and bed and breakfast called Gertrude Hunt in the quiet town of Red Deer, Texas. Gertrude Hunt is secretly an intergalactic waypoint known as an "inn" that offers refuge and lodging for a vast variety of extraterrestrial visitors during their visits to Earth.

Author's website: https://ilona-andrews.com/innkeeper-...

thanks!

Robear wrote:

thanks!

I look forward to reading your book report.

Luckily it's on Kindle Unlimited.

Edit - Definitely the wrong thread!

I've never done any sort of content creation or anything similar online before. I'm usually only ever a lurker.

About a year or two ago I was getting into foundry tabletop online and needed a way to handle firearms and ammo. So I made a macro. Figured why not share and put it on the foundry reddit.

Must still be the only macro cause even now I get nice people asking questions and saying thanks. It's nice.

If you have been in the 2022 GWJ Secret Stan: THE HOLIDAYS AWAKEN you know a-unicycle sent me a care package from Australia with a package of Vegemite.

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I have tried it three times.

Time 1: I don't know if I like this or not, but it is definitely not like anything else I have ever eaten.

Time 2: This is really good.

Time 3:

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Totally late to the party on this, but I am just now discovering the pluto.tv, one of seemingly dozens of free ad-supported streaming services that I ignore because they're usually crap, has two 24/7 channels streaming Star Treks TOS/TNG and DS9 respectively, in random episode order, on a continuous loop. Alongside many other channels playing old basic cable staples like Matlock, MacGuyver, etc. The kind of thing where I don't care what episode you show me, I just want to watch some of it. It's kind of brilliant.

Because they're streaming them livestream style instead of on-demand style where everyone who's watching that channel is always watching the same episode at the same time, there's not really any way to block or skip the ads, but I would pay them good American money to play ambient bridge or engine room noises while the free viewers get a commercial break.

Yep Pluto has been great when I am playing a PC game or something and just want background. Watching old 80s sitcoms, Trek or classic Who. Sometimes great movies too

24 hours of DS9 AND MacGuyver? Just when I thought I couldn't get more erect.