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The Martian. Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. A key gets jammed in a lock of the front door and it results in me being a glorified guard dog for, as of now, six hours. In that time I destroyed the last half of The Martian. It sort of makes me feel a bit closer to Watney. Sure I don't have Death tugging on my spacesuit but being stranded watching the house with a history of break-ins through the very door. The Boogie Man can come busting in at any moment! Anywho. Watney's character is awesome. The book is awesome. Disco is not awesome... maybe. I'm a geologist too like Lewis. Field camp causes weird thing to happen to a person. Read the book.

I love Shimoneta. Kind of predictable though and, yes, some of the stuff that happens can be seen as quite sexist but it's a fun anime. The moment I got sold was oddly this and her: The other stuff are just icing on the cake.

Can't stand the ? Also you must have missed the CGI shitfest that was episode 4 but maybe Toonami aired a fixed version. I think Kill la Kill is solid. Still though, you'll be still chasing the high that was Gurren Lagann. Hard to beat what I think is one of the anime of its decade.

I spent too much at Vegas for a 980 or even a 980ti... unless I find some extra cash, I guess I'll settle with a 970.

Right, I remember now why I hate mobile games: shitty controls. I should say that I love the browser version though. Playing as a "Giver" is kind of neat. Some people actually stop chasing you and allow you to do your thing.

Roar and Ant Man. A friend showed me Roar. Shit is terrible but got redeemed for its premise... big cats everywhere. The movie is in ways hilarious but on the other hand it is scary. Ant Man, if I can get into traditional mecha and magical girl tropes then I guess I can get into Marvel movies and their tropes.

The firepower is real. With a wok ring, you can even tilt the wok to help with the wok hei since the flame, while hot as hell, is not that high. All I need to do now is to learn how to properly cook with a wok. I just made a stir fry noodle with beef. There's so many parts to it that it's hard to tell how I fucked up. I should just cook a bunch of stir fry green beans. That dish should be easy to do and easy to tell if it is done correctly. If anything, the chives that I used to season the wok tastes correct so this setup works. I should also say that I can fry stuff with (careful) abandon. If I was to do it in my kitchen, I would have to preheat a shit ton of oil. With this burner, I can make due with far less oil.

Then we have this classic...

You can't exactly fight and conquer nature, you can only dance with it the best you can. Any short term help is just that, short term. Long term, I just don't see any short term fixes being any help. Industries that uses ton of water (e.g., Agriculture) is going to get hit hard with some small relief every so often. The trend is still a drier future. The economies of the Southwest has to be flexible, to say the least. What can't be flexible is human needs. Securing water for consumption, hygiene and a bit of extra (e.g., small garden, hobbies and cleaning) will go a long way to make sure people stay put if their industries doesn't necessarily rely on water. It be quite the thing to see a ghost city. If local, state and the federal government can get together to keep the Mississippi River from changing course, which can leave many ports and cities high and dry, then they can at least try to manage the above. Or they do not try and we can see the greatest and slowest* shitshow that dwarf the one that happened with Katrina*. ... Yeah, I'm cynical as fuck with regards to this topic. I don't envy our children. There is a good chance that we (you and I) will pass before the real interesting stuff happens. They will hate the condition the world is in that we and those before us left them with. At this point, we (as a country and humanity really) just got to take the hit and hope we are flexible enough to have a decent lives (i.e., a stable world). Hopefully, as you said GOH, people start to realize that this is no joke. To be honest, one major reason why I don't want kids is I don't want them to deal with the consequences of our inaction. *When compared to other natural disasters. This drought situation is a slow burner compared to a quick earthquake/tornado or a couple days long hurricane.

I got the Humble Game Making Bundle. Like most things like this, it's for me to dick around in. Might be more useful if I was say 16 but we'll see and who knows, there might be a NPC geologist in the game world.

https://soundcloud.com/subfire-music/sfremix-splatoon-squid-sisters-finale Stay fresh!

I'm unsure if I asked this before so here it is: Can Soundcloud embedding or whatever be a thing? Ton of good music is stuck on Soundcloud and having them play over in the Music thread makes it a bit easier for folks to tune in. It's a small thing but it's neat. And if you can and do do it, let us hope that it doesn't break threads like my last suggestion of webm files.

The dude is 94 and is married to the Queen so whatever.

I powered through the first two seasons of Symphogear to catch up with the third season. Not to say its perfect but the series is /m/ as fuck. It has music, mecha musume, magical (girls) and macho manly men. Mysteries everywhere. If I was a teenager, I would be so all over this series but as I said, its not perfect. It likes to pull off unexpected twists to "clean up" some plot points that they don't have time to expand on. Not expanding on some of the stuff that does happen is also a problem. With my favorite /m/ series, Gurren Lagann, I could use Spiral Power to explain a lot. This series, it's WTF territory. Still massively enjoyable. I just wish there were some real threats... with the third (or fourth) series, I can only see them pulling a GaoGaiGar Final (Another massively /m/ series but it got its own flaws). One specific thing that I got to praise is how generally well this series uses its OP, ED and at time uses the time space to expand some more. Like this: I should get into the modern Dragon Ball stuff. I've heard that they're not bad... for one thing, Buu is around in his lovely self.

This may or may not end well.

I put that in my cart then the price changed back... sadness.

Anybody here checked out We Stand on Guard?

I had a hour or two battle with that first colossus. While I didn't die much, that encounter consisted of me getting stomped and trashed because for a long while, I wasn't sure how to exactly climb it and kill it. Eventually it clicked after a drip feed of getting it to kneel, followed by getting onto it's back and finally getting on its fucking head. My god, that thrill of the kill followed by a huge smack down to Earth. Quite a big "WTF?" moment for me. Anyhow, the following colossi took far less time. Others were forgettable but there are a bunch that I still remember. I think the hardness for me was the lack of cues/hints you find in a lot of modern games but it eventually does click. The time it took for me to learn how to climb the colossus seemed appropriate for someone at my skill level who never climbed and killed one... I think a lot more people got it within the first 30 minutes. Edit: So yeah Gerbil... try again. I think you are letting really weird technical difficulties cloud your judgement. I'm kind of baffled by what is going on with your TV and why SotC is doing that. If I get some time, I'll look into it for you since the game deserves better presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdNtVwDwZ5E I usually have an unusual dislike for these two but this is pretty good.