Sorry to hear that Stele 
Damn, that opening scene of Barbie is perfect.
I'm convinced the scene in Inglorious Basterds that begins with the movie switching to a warning and ending with the explosion of the entire place is a work of art.
That, and the basement scene. Wow.
That, and the basement scene. Wow.
Few things in a movie have actually made me feel queezy, but those scalping scenes made me feel a bit iffy and I felt something on my forehead. Not pain, but I felt something.
Oh, it's a Tarentino movie, for sure...
"Stuck in the middle with you"
Poor Things, if goodjer opinions of Boy and Heron are any guide. Looks like reviewers find both of them outstanding. Are you looking for heartwarming, or extremely weird and also possibly heartwarming? Yorgos always delivers the weird with style.
Poor Things was a f*cking delight, BTW.
Between this and the show with Nathan Fiedler, good year for Emma Stone.
My iPad thinks I’m doing brilliantly at reducing my average daily screen time. My new iPhone knows different.
Facts about presidents that might mess with your perception of time
Theodore Roosevelt would have been 80 years old when WW2 broke out, slightly younger than Biden is now.
The entirety of the United States' Presidential era (starting in 1789 with Washington's inauguration) has taken place during the lifetimes of just three Presidents: Martin Van Buren (1782-1862), William Howard Taft (1857-1930), and Jimmy Carter (born 1924).
Harriet Tubman was born when Thomas Jefferson was alive and died when Ronald Reagan was alive
The middle one is fascinating.
Steam year in review:
39% of my time was in 2023 games.
7% of my time was in games 8 years or older.
54% of my time was in games 1-7 years old.
Baldur's Gate 3 14% of my total play time.
Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr 14% of my total play time.
Melvor Idle 12% of my total play time.
Persona 3 Portable 6% of my total play time.
Remnant II 6% of my total play time.
Wartales 6% of my total play time.
Armored Core VI 5% of my total play time.
Starfield 4% of my total play time.
My top tags:
Warhammer 40k, Mechs, Souls like, Idler, Collectathon, and Space.
An interesting mix.
I showed up to work, and my trailer tire has a big screw in the tire. So as I sit here waiting for fleet repair, I was thinking... I wonder if, like the computer bug is named after an actual bug, being screwed is taken from an actual screw messing things up?
That's absolutely correct, MaxShrek, but perhaps not in the way you (or I) anticipated. "You're screwed" and similar expressions originated in the 16th century and referred to being caught in thumbscrews or similar devices. Under inescapable pressure would be an approximate meaning.
"Screwed up" first appeared in 1907 in English, and referred to a string on an instrument being screwed up very tightly. Tense, likely to break, not behaving normally, would be the connotation at the time. "Screwed up tight" gets the original sense correctly.
I was shocked to find the two are not related.
That's absolutely correct, MaxShrek, but perhaps not in the way you (or I) anticipated. "You're screwed" and similar expressions originated in the 16th century and referred to being caught in thumbscrews or similar devices. Under inescapable pressure would be an approximate meaning.
"Screwed up" first appeared in 1907 in English, and referred to a string on an instrument being screwed up very tightly. Tense, likely to break, not behaving normally, would be the connotation at the time. "Screwed up tight" gets the original sense correctly.
I was shocked to find the two are not related.
Interesting!
I think, on the whole, we were much healthier when Going Online was an event, a specific thing you did in a specific place. And "logging off" meant you actually, literally, logged off. Completely. The internet did not follow you.
This year I'm taking Christmas into my own hands. This year the fat man is going to get what is coming to him. I was a good boy all year long and deserve all the toys. I'm taking all the toys. I'm taking the sleigh. AND I'M TAKEN OVER THE MFing NORTH POLE.
Santa has screwed me over for the last time. I have over a hundred candy canes that I have licked to deadly points. I have over hundred chocolate bombs that are actual bombs. My nut cracker doesn't just crack walnuts. I'M COMING FOR YOU SANTA. All I wanted was a PS5, but noooooo I'll got was a crossword puzzle. YOU NO I CAN'T SPALL.
You've had too much eggnog Baron, go home.
I'm not on Epstein's list, just saying before the 2 weeks is up.
Marked safe from Epstein's private sex island.
That's not the friggin' Christmas Star, Gris... Its the light at the sewage treatment plant.
I purge my wishlist, I add things back during the sale, I purge my wishlist, I add things back during the sale. Over half the items on the list are not out yet. I question if it is worth it to clean up my wishlist every few months as there is a sale every few months.
I nuked my entire wishlist this year as a way to reduce my fomo around sales. I had several hundred games on there so it’s not like I was even aware of half the things on there. My memory isn’t that good. In still bought a few games this sale, but at least they were games that looked good in the moment, and not games I’ve been eying forever without actually committing.
Yeah, I nuke the entire wishlist every couple years and start over.
There's a fairly wide difference between "games I actually want to play in the imminent future" and "games that look notionally interesting but never rise to the top of the To Play list", and I haven't learned how to discriminate between those two with any degree of accuracy.
Hmm... you have inspired me to prune my wish list. I have no need for a wish list. My wish list should consist of the literally hundreds of games I have available and unplayed between my Epic, PS5, Steam, and Xbox libraries.
I was sort of viewing the wishlist as the version of the Steam store I've personally curated, but it never really seemed to work well in that regard. My only regret is the number of indie games on there that I will likely completely forget. But, again, I had never actually committed to any of them, so it feels moot.
Yeah mine has ballooned to 100. I think 50 of them I would actually play though, if I had the time. And the rest if I could quit my job and do nothing but play games.
I typically use the wishlist feature just to keep track of indie games that look potentially neat, but I want to let them bake through early access, or hit a decent sale. I regularly look through and prune stuff, but typically only things that have mediocre user reviews, or things that seem less appealing over time.
Yeah, I view my wishlist as more of a "things I want to be notified if they go on sale" list. And if too many sales go by and I still haven't felt like buying it, I prune it from the list. Pretty good about keeping it in the relatively manageable 20ish item range that way.
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