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  • AntinumericAntinumeric Registered User regular
    Yes
    v
    VishNub wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Against my better judgement I am feeling vague and no doubt soon to be ruthlessly crushed by bitter experience feelings of hopeful anticipation for the LotR TV show.

    But surely the most likely outcome is it ends up pompous and staid and lacking the earnest heart and open emotional warmth of the movies (not The Hobbit movies, those sucked), while simultaneously flattening and dulling what was once a mythic backstory. Everyone's costumes will be shiny and newly-pressed and all the actors will be too good-looking.

    Curse that still small voice in the back of my head saying what if it's good though?

    For every wheel of time there’s an expanse



    Actually no there’s like five bad adaptations for every good one

    Only 5? What was the last good adaptation before expanse?

    In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Yes
    I worked from home for like, two months.

    🤷‍♂️

    Lab positions.

    I was also losing my mind and very much prefer going to the lab/office

  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    No
    Also weird walking back into the old office is like it's just been a long weekend not two freaking years.

    Just this overwhelming sense of familiarity and routine rushing back.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    A Shadowrun game set in a Song of Ice and Fire

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Yes
    v
    VishNub wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Against my better judgement I am feeling vague and no doubt soon to be ruthlessly crushed by bitter experience feelings of hopeful anticipation for the LotR TV show.

    But surely the most likely outcome is it ends up pompous and staid and lacking the earnest heart and open emotional warmth of the movies (not The Hobbit movies, those sucked), while simultaneously flattening and dulling what was once a mythic backstory. Everyone's costumes will be shiny and newly-pressed and all the actors will be too good-looking.

    Curse that still small voice in the back of my head saying what if it's good though?

    For every wheel of time there’s an expanse



    Actually no there’s like five bad adaptations for every good one

    Only 5? What was the last good adaptation before expanse?

    TLJ

  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    No
    VishNub wrote: »
    I worked from home for like, two months.

    🤷‍♂️

    Lab positions.

    I was also losing my mind and very much prefer going to the lab/office

    "Go to the office," and "don't go to the office," were both workable positions for me - going in more so than staying home, in the long run - but the last few months of inconsistent shuffling due to Omicron and "reopening" brinksmanship have been really frustrating.

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Bogart wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    i want to play or run a Star Trek Adventures game but i need three or four people who are free between 5pm and 8pm Eastern so i don't have to stay up too late and also only want to play when i feel like it

    I think I would like to play or run:
    1. The One Ring 2E
    2. Star Trek Adventures
    3. Call of Cthulhu

    But possibly what would scratch this itch is hauling out my MERP ICE campaign settings and poring over them one more time. Yes, yes, show me a detailed internal map of Isengard and the many traps Saruman has in his inner sanctum.

    definitely poring over the details and not actually playing is the best part

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    No
    Chanus wrote: »
    most adaptations are not amazing but also most aren't unwatchable

    I think I have zero interest in new Middle-Earth stories that are "just OK". If they're spending a billion quid and all they come out with is "a show as good as that Shannara series" everyone involved should be exiled to Saturn.

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    just managed to sort two tickets to my football team's first away game of the season next weekend

    i have to say, very nice of the rona to hit me just in time for my isolation period to end for the football

    maybe it's not all bad!

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Bogart wrote: »
    Chanus wrote: »
    most adaptations are not amazing but also most aren't unwatchable

    I think I have zero interest in new Middle-Earth stories that are "just OK". If they're spending a billion quid and all they come out with is "a show as good as that Shannara series" everyone involved should be exiled to Saturn.

    yeah for that setting specifically we don't really need more content so it should be good if we're getting more content or what's the point?

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    Tav wrote: »
    i would take the train if i could but i'm walking distance from the office

    nid2ds9d1duj.png

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    No
    VishNub wrote: »
    Oh no I jinxed it

    My train is abandoning me three stops short

    I’m sorry red line I should not have edited in that picture

    It’s the red line, it doesn’t care about you, it just stopped because it is old and tired and needed a rest

  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i would take the train if i could but i'm walking distance from the office

    nid2ds9d1duj.png

    I like the lack of pants in the bottom image

  • GilgaronGilgaron Registered User regular
    No
    There's a railyard not too far from here but all the lines are for heavy freight, the public transport in the metro area is all buses. Post COVID I mostly take my keyboard to work but need to drive when it is time to go into one of the work campuses.

  • VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Yes
    Sleep wrote: »
    VishNub wrote: »
    Oh no I jinxed it

    My train is abandoning me three stops short

    I’m sorry red line I should not have edited in that picture

    It’s the red line, it doesn’t care about you, it just stopped because it is old and tired and needed a rest

    Relatable

    It sent its friend to pick me up so it’s ok

    Now I am awash in the youthful exuberance of the silver line

    VishNub on
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Chanus wrote: »

    I can't believe she is making that man listen to Primus.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    No
    Echo wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i would take the train if i could but i'm walking distance from the office

    nid2ds9d1duj.png

    I have very fine hair that sticks in all different directions without a shower, so when I attempt this its extremely obvious

    Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
  • KruiteKruite Registered User regular
    No
    Lotr Total War. Make it happen CA/Sega

  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i would take the train if i could but i'm walking distance from the office

    nid2ds9d1duj.png

    I have very fine hair that sticks in all different directions without a shower, so when I attempt this its extremely obvious

    may i introduce you to our lord and saviour, baseball caps

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    I had to move my car which is the first time I’ve been out of the apartment since some point in the past

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Kruite wrote: »
    Lotr Total War. Make it happen CA/Sega

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/third-age-total-war/

    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    We were supposed to have a train out to our suburb years and years ago. Imagine being able to go a few blocks and then take a train downtown or to the airport.

    Nimbys keep fucking us though.

    Maybe if we can get Sisqo behind the project then they'll do it...

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    Yes
    I learned today that Cunnilinging is a word.

  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    I’m with Bogart. Mediocre LOTR sucks and I’d rather it didn’t exist. I never bothered with the Hobbit movies after the like half an hour into the second one I think.

    can you feel the struggle within?
  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Eagerly looking forward to wordle thread once most people get to 237.

    l5sruu1fyatf.jpg

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    No
    I guess I'm glad that the Tolkien estate has stopped a bunch of tie-in fiction from being made. God, can you imagine how much money they've been offered for someone to do a sequel to LotR?

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited February 2022
    so this shit fabric softener i was sent a year's supply of reeks so much of cheap perfume that i can't wear my clothes after using it

    apparently for $20 Amazon will send out UPS to pick it up off my porch and i don't have to bother tracking down a printer for a shipping label or anything

    so it's sitting on my porch now. jesus this stuff is bad

    Method Ginger Mango, does not smell the least bit like ginger or mango it just has that harsh and oppressive stench of a $10 bottle of perfume

    Chanus on
    Allegedly a voice of reason.
  • SixSix Caches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhex Registered User regular
    edited February 2022
    Bogart wrote: »
    I guess I'm glad that the Tolkien estate has stopped a bunch of tie-in fiction from being made. God, can you imagine how much money they've been offered for someone to do a sequel to LotR?

    I hope it doesn’t turn into Star Wars where every scrap of an idea or concept art gets turned into something except that’s exactly what will happen.

    Six on
    can you feel the struggle within?
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    Tav wrote: »
    i would take the train if i could but i'm walking distance from the office

    nid2ds9d1duj.png

    I have very fine hair that sticks in all different directions without a shower, so when I attempt this its extremely obvious

    Me too and yet it does not stop me

  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    No
    My hair looks wild when I don't take time to shower and do some styling so my method is to just have fucked-up hair constantly because I have 8AM meetings and I don't care if my colleagues think my hair is just permanently scraggly looking.

    We're all in this together
  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    I learned today that Cunnilinging is a word.

    He said, cunnilingingly

  • JebusUDJebusUD Adventure! Candy IslandRegistered User regular
    Sisqo lives in my suburb. You can see him at the Whole Foods. He wrote a Christmas book recently.

    and I wonder about my neighbors even though I don't have them
    but they're listening to every word I say
  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    Six wrote: »
    I’m with Bogart. Mediocre LOTR sucks and I’d rather it didn’t exist. I never bothered with the Hobbit movies after the like half an hour into the second one I think.

    the projector broke in the screening i was in of the second one and the cinema offered us to go to another showing or a free ticket to another movie and we took the latter

  • WinkyWinky rRegistered User regular
    I need a haircut pretty badly but I've finally just passed from "obviously needs a haircut" to "maybe it's long and shaggy on purpose? maybe."

  • AuralynxAuralynx Darkness is a perspective Watching the ego workRegistered User regular
    edited February 2022
    No
    Six wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    I guess I'm glad that the Tolkien estate has stopped a bunch of tie-in fiction from being made. God, can you imagine how much money they've been offered for someone to do a sequel to LotR?

    I hope it doesn’t turn into Star Wars where every scrap of an idea of concept art gets turned into something except that’s exactly what will happen.

    You could mine mediocre-to-bad spinoff plots from the Silmarillion for years.

    Auralynx on
  • evilbobevilbob RADELAIDERegistered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    I guess I'm glad that the Tolkien estate has stopped a bunch of tie-in fiction from being made. God, can you imagine how much money they've been offered for someone to do a sequel to LotR?

    We've had the much loved original trilogy and the poorly received prequel trilogy. Just gotta get JJ Abrams for the sequel trilogy.

    l5sruu1fyatf.jpg

  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    No
    Bogart wrote: »
    Against my better judgement I am feeling vague and no doubt soon to be ruthlessly crushed by bitter experience feelings of hopeful anticipation for the LotR TV show.

    But surely the most likely outcome is it ends up pompous and staid and lacking the earnest heart and open emotional warmth of the movies (not The Hobbit movies, those sucked), while simultaneously flattening and dulling what was once a mythic backstory. Everyone's costumes will be shiny and newly-pressed and all the actors will be too good-looking.

    Curse that still small voice in the back of my head saying what if it's good though?

    Look at Star wars and weep

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Six wrote: »
    I’m with Bogart. Mediocre LOTR sucks and I’d rather it didn’t exist. I never bothered with the Hobbit movies after the like half an hour into the second one I think.

    👋

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    No
    Driving into work today, and I saw another Rivian SUV. This one was new to me - all white.

    It got me to thinking.. man, I really do want an EV, but I live in an apartment and thus don't have access to a charger.

    But... what if an apartment company installed chargers, and then used the chips/tracking stuff in the plug or registration or whatever to know who was using it at any given time? That way they could appropriately charge folks. Or, alternatively, just eat the cost and bake it into people's rent.

    Then I thought about that recruiter letter from Rivian, and thinking.. hmm. If I were to have a job over there, would I be able to convince people to go that route?

    He/Him | "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Dr. Johnetta Cole, 7/22/2024
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