Random non sequitur posts catch-all thread

Samurai Champloo soundtrack by Rza and the Grand Thief Auto Vice City mega soundtrack that has like 15 CDs in it.

Mixolyde wrote:

That whole soundtrack slaps. Nothin's Gonna Stand in our Way!

Not tonight.
Hehehehee...

Tom Bombadil gets all the press for having not been in the LotR movies, but nobody ever thinks of the poor barrow wights.

There is nothing more terrifying than Soundwave's voice not going through the harmonizer. Start at time stamp 2:50.

Somebody justify or defend my nerdness for me or just smack me. Or all three if you would be so kind.

My nerdiness has overflowed again. I call my PC the USS Terror 1138-A, and most noise prompts are Star Trek TNG, DS9, and Voyager. The name is borrowed from the HMS Terror which was lost while searching for the northwest passage stuck with some Star Wars influence. I didn't follow the Donner Party, because Hastings Cutoff seemed a little like a worm hole, and the Dominion still seems to strong for now, so I use PC and Android, I might have an Apple product somewhere but I may not.

My phones, thumb drives, and tablets are my shuttles, I call them Remora because they are parasites but helpful. My games are my holodeck, and some things on my holodeck are not interactive but are stimulating in certain ways.

My psychiatrist's name is Dr... oh wait. Yeah. I have issues. I'm 50. And incurable.

Be the nerd you wish to see in the world

I have trouble accepting me that way, I think I'm a bully to myself.

And George Lucas's "THX 1138", as well, it seems.

MaxShrek wrote:

There is nothing more terrifying than Soundwave's voice not going through the harmonizer. Start at time stamp 2:50.

Constructicons inferior, Soundwave superior.

I know all of this dialogue by heart

Robear wrote:

And George Lucas's "THX 1138", as well, it seems.

I'm apparently a nerd for all seasons. I watched THX-1138 many times on TBS before the redux, I kept thinking it was a fever dream, watching the police robots and realizing they're Imperial Stormtroopers 1.0.

I judged this book based on the cover. I was not disappointed.

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<3 Scalzi. I’ll have to pick that up.

When I was running TTRPGs again, I was buying RPG books as pdfs, because they were cheaper.

But, for a variety of reasons, professional and personal, I haven't run for a while, and I realize that if I'm not actively running a game, I will NEVER read a rulebook pdf, whereas having the tactile object in my hand will cause me to consider picking it up and scanning it, or reading it on the train.

I'm just not a fan of reading big books on my computer, less so on my phone. I gotta have the actual thing in-hand.

Maybe you need a tablet?

Nah, I just like books!

until I have to move. Then I despise books.

Prederick wrote:

Nah, I just like books!

until I have to move. Then I despise books.

#thisismylifenow

I like books too! Then the pandemic hit and the library was closed so I started borrowing e-books from the online library. Now I read books and read on the tablet. And I use the tablet for reading RPG pdfs which just are not suited to reading on a phone screen.

I just vastly prefer the tactile feel of reading a book vs a screen.

Stengah wrote:

I just vastly prefer the tactile feel of reading a book vs a screen.

I insisted the same thing, until I actually read a book on a Kindle. The Kindle is just way more comfortable to hold than a paperback or hardcover book.

Yeah I love my Paperwhite. The only problem is the same one with DVD/Blu: I've already bought a hard copy but they won't give me a digital copy too. Movies have started to do that more but no books.

I had the first 10 or 12 Dresden books and then got a Kindle and now I'm torn. Want the whole collection but reading digital is so better

Well fine.

If I can read my TTRPG books on a Kindle, then I guess I'll give one a shot. Myeah.

I like my books. I less like that due to moving just before the pandemic lockdowns started, most of my books ended up in storage in a different town from where I live, and I have no convenient means to get them to my current place, where there's no room to put them anyway.

And no, I don't want to rebuy them all on Kindle.

For a TTRPG, anything with large illustrations and color, I'd read it using a Kindle app on a tablet, the bigger the better. Works great for comics too.

merphle wrote:
Stengah wrote:

I just vastly prefer the tactile feel of reading a book vs a screen.

I insisted the same thing, until I actually read a book on a Kindle. The Kindle is just way more comfortable to hold than a paperback or hardcover book.

Yeah, it took me a LONG time to come around, but once I gave it a real fair try, and quit thinking about how it wasn't a book, I've come to love Kindles, especially with the built-in lighting. No gutter, no awkward lighting at night, and easy one-handed reading. For a long time I read with Oberon covers, which made it feel more booklike and the smell of leather helped mask the lack of smell of print pages.

It certainly makes my "personal effects" camping load smaller. Used to be I never went camping without a mini-library.

Robear wrote:

For a TTRPG, anything with large illustrations and color, I'd read it using a Kindle app on a tablet, the bigger the better. Works great for comics too.

Huh. Any recommendations?

Prederick wrote:
Robear wrote:

For a TTRPG, anything with large illustrations and color, I'd read it using a Kindle app on a tablet, the bigger the better. Works great for comics too.

Huh. Any recommendations?

Any large-screen color iPad/Android/Fire device should work fine for those, I think.

Yep. Whatever tablet you have lying around will have a Kindle client, the bigger the better.

I like to use a kindle rather than physical book because the souls amazon traps helps me summon more power demons. Also I can make the font bigger which makes the spells easier to read.

The ongoing "Suits" thing is baffling to me.

Why? "Most popular" is rarely equivalent to "highest quality". Never has been.