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SMS We do do email, hell I did so today after a group text with a picture failed to go through but email is typically reserved for less urgent things. I am out in the field finding fossils during active construction excavations. SMS is typically faster. I personally think it's on my end with group chat and with photos. Email goes through flawlessly but SMS just chugs and fails to go through. Plain texting with one person is snappy though. Also if I want, I could request a work phone since it's an optional part of my employment.

On Friday I got chewed out for not responding to work related texts. The thing is I did. My supervisor and I exchanged screenshots of our text in a group chat. Completely different sequence of texts which made for a really confusing conversation. Add in some missing texts and it appears that I wasn't replying. Things got cleared up but fuck am I still pissed. Besides restarting my phone daily and typing a timestamp in some of my texts, how else can I best defend myself from this situation? I personally think it is my phone (Note 3) and carrier (Cricket) but there's so many variables that it's hard to commit to a plan of action.

They wanted that to improve rendering time for their, I think, 8K (yes, 8K) content. They got to be able to render it and preview it quickly otherwise shit can't get done in a reasonable time frame. In the end though, I think Linus said it wasn't worth it even to them. It's like $35k to outfit the office with them for such a marginal (and spotty) improvement. I think it's their workflow not being up to stuff since this seems to be a co-processor card that big studios uses.

Okay GLaDOS.

Gave Castlevania on Netflix a shot. It's not bad. Some odd cuts and animation issues but it has great color and lighting direction. Some of the fights are pretty badass as well.

GOTY PANZER VOR

Such a nice find since I love this OST so much. Prime example. This is a track to introduce a badass character.

Excellent track to choose because suddenly I am hyped as fuck. With all its improvements it's going to be like playing it brand new.

I've been seeing a bunch about this Ed Sheeran fella. Why should I care about him?

What I took away from this episode: Shit and soup. Shit and soup. Shit. And. Soup. I think I am done with soup for a while. There were some other good scenes though. I'll wait for you all.

I had a similar experience after work for the last couple days. It's almost impossible to find one. I want one for my flight at the end of the month...

People are speculating about implications about XSEED doing/ordering a new port of a PSP game. Joyland put up four games on Greenlight and pulled them a while back. Ys Seven was one of those games. Maybe Joyland pulled them because XSEED already had things in the works. So far 1/4. Two of the others are ones we (FLD, I and many other) want... Zero and Ao.

This time with a proper controller I can probably beat the last boss.

Work is shielding me from browsing politics (10 hours days are nice). What's happening? Did Eric or whatever his face is being insane like his dad?

My older brother forced fed me One Punch Man.

That's fair but you're selling the the games and series short. They're GOAT.

Might be a slow burner of an album since it got to live up to Omega Arcane. Anti-Life Savior from this album is so far best song. This is a solid intro song though.

Hollow Knight If you even remotely like metrovanias, then the hype is very real. I would include Trails in the Sky the 3rd but it's technically not from this year. It's just here to back up FLD's claim. Then again we're both Falcom fanboys so why trust our judgement? As for games from this year, I still need to restart and/or finish NieR: Automata. I also got OneShot in the pipeline that's from late last year so it almost counts from being from this year. It this turns out to be a great game then it be a shame to have it be buried with games from 2016.

Resident Evil: Vendetta I haven't gone through RE7 but this movie is RE4-6 in terms of style. I could leave it at that but nah. First off, I should say I kind of enjoyed this because I came in knowing what I was getting myself into. I would put it in the OK Movie thread but that's a bit generous since: You cannot create tension if you bring in known characters like Chris, Leon and Rebecca. They cannot die. So any new characters that are introduced are death flagged and actually die. I only recall two people who weren't. This all was kind of expected though. What puts this in this movie in this thread is the cuts which makes very little sense. This is especially the case towards the end of the film. I can be entertained by ridiculous feats but bad cuts is just bad. Anyhow I doubt any of you guys care so open spoilers: They opened up cans of worms with being able to turn zombies back. Take the dude who ate his wife. How would he feel after getting turned back? Hell, does the wife die TWICE? Once after being eaten and again after being turned back to human. Like holy shit.