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Hah, I've the opposite: I can't get my PC to go to Sleep. I think something somewhere is keeping it awake, or waking it up even, but following the instructions for getting cmd to list everything that's sending a "don't sleep" command to Windows turns up empty. So if it's something where I need my PC to be in the same spot some hours later I pretty much just lock it n leave it running. Unfortunately I built this PC so no OEM drivers to grab off a site somewhere with a fix on that front, or maybe I've plugged in my reset switch wrong and it's constantly running. Also I guess there was that time a while ago (and a couple times since) where it wouldn't even shut down.

I quite like epic spell wars. I'd be up for trying the DC Deck builder. Or whatever anyone else is up for, I'm pretty open to stuff. As mentioned I've a fondness for co-op, I'm also down for something "simple", wouldn't want to burn out on big multi hour games too quick. (though I'm super down for figuring something longer in the future, e.g Firefly or Xia or similar)

That last moment is not only great, but also I'm kinda like "wait, people honestly still think Tyrion did it?". I always figured it was a show trial and he was just a convenient scapegoat. Anywho for this weeks episode: It has been leaked by India. SD (heck, almost sub-SD) quality which from flicking through it's just not worth it unless you're super happy to follow just for the story and less so for the visuals and spectacle. My flicking through to check the quality (not gonna spend solid 20 minutes of my time until I go "yeah this isn't worth it") I got one moment that's like "dang it" but also "yeah this needs to be seen in at least 720, so I'm up for waiting.

I can do Sunday.

Getting there. No doubt at least a decade if not more away.

I have googled. Darkest Night looks kinda complex, but it another co-op game. Same with Wizards Academy. Tiny Epic Galaxies looks to be a bit like a couple games I've played in the past, I'd be quite down with (and BGG puts it as "best with 3"). And it's listed as 30 minutes, whereas most of the others are mostly in multi-hour things (though I guess bonus on some of the set up not being a thing, and some bits being automated). Three Cheers for Master seems kinda simple, and also it's down as 20-40 minutes which is pretty dang doable too.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Pretty much: It's fun romp and visually fantastic but the two main leads are absolutely shit. I also think it should have been "Valerian & Laureline" (as in the comics) since they're pretty equal. So having played the mobile game a bit I'm somewhat familiar with some of the lore (though I'd say it's quite well shown). I think plot wise it has a couple stumbles in having two opening sequences when really the first prologue (the development of the ISS in 1975 to the Alpha: City of Thousand Planets of ~2800) could have been put into a title sequence thing or something maybe. Some of the dialogue is tripe, but so is much of the dialogue in Fifth Element so with stronger leads it'd have been much better pushed out. It kinda came out much how I'd expected with DeHaan and Delevigne just being kind of weak. DeHaan while being 31 just doesn't look old enough to be a Major and a respected agent. Rihanna, a singer, acts both of them under the table (I quite liked her character, even if I feel her introduction was overly long, especially for a film that Odeon are marketing in their "family summer films" thing). It had a lot of interesting elements to it, such as the interdimensional "Big Market", the feast sequence, all of Rihannas stuff, and for the most part things flow well into each other though a couple sequences are of questionable import (e.g the feast sequence and Rihanna stuff) and for a chunk of the film you're left a little bit confused (or at least I was). But it does all come together at the end (in a kind of cliched way). It's disappointing because it's a premise with lots of promise and potential for all kinds of fun (though they don't cover the time travel aspect of their jobs in this one, though do hint at a couple times) but Delevigne and DeHaan are so flat it's fucked. (also there's the degree of being quite close to GotG and Star Wars, which is unfortunate given they draw from the same source material). It's weird cos they've got John Goodman, Clive Owen n Ethan Hawke in here so it's not like they were struggling to find established actors to give it a bit of life. Oh n fun thing: the emperor of one of the main races is voiced by Ayesha from GotG2. Which'd be why he/she sounded familiar (I'd thought maybe Cluadia Black, but I'd also thought one of the guys was Russel Brand so I was a bit naf at noticing who was who).

So first we have this weird thing with Bruce Willis. He is slowly retroactively making the earlier Die Hards bad. This looks like a sort of concept might be fine but just something kind of off in this trailer: And a new sci-fi thingy from Netflix

Yeah I'm pretty open to most things. I've played Cosmic Encounter before IRL (though some time ago). I believe it'll be kinda super fiddly. I've given a few of the games I've grabbed a spin, not really sure how to make Zombicide work despite it being a DLC game. It looks super cool and looks like it should do a lot of the fiddly stuff for you but...yeah not super sure. There's a dial on the table to set to specific pre-built scenarios but I think I need to read a DLC manual for how that works (it includes the rules and they're pretty standard). Superfight for me sits in the same realm as CaH so I'd guess you wouldn't be super keen on it. Strikes me that the actual digital version of that game would work better anyway. I've vague peripheral awareness of Mistfall and it meaning to be decent. Checking up on BGG it seems it's sort of game for me (I quite like co-op games, see me also adding in Legendary). It's an RPG game though, which chatting with HotHeart post match (p.s hope your meal went well) seems he's not super keen on (I'd mentioned Pathfinder Adventures, which is one of those games you play over several sessions). The others I shall google more on tomorrow (it's now going midnight here and I'm tired, just wrapping up a few posts I'd started a few hours ago).

Man didn't bother with Yiazmat back then, not sure I'll do it now but does sound like it's a tad more bearable (and hey being able to rest the system and the speeding up stuff should help things along). Back of my mind I'm aware Zodiac Spears are kind of a thing but I'm hoping that it's not that "don't open these 4 specific unmarked chests" thing that was in the PS2 version, and not really caring if that is the case.

How Cowboy imagines himself. 18th Birthday I'm not super sure what I'd have been playing. Maybe a bit of FFXII (EU release of Feb 2007, so yeah)..how time flies. A few months beyond that though I start my first job, get my first proper gaming PC and start Uni. Which means I was playing Crysis, and with uni friends I was playing CS:S and...I don't want to Google this but I think DoW: Soulstorm had not long come out, but it might have been the one prior with the Necrons...feck it lets google: Dark Crusade (with the Necrons) came out in 2006 so yeah we'll have been playing that. Oh and SupCom: Forged Alliance. Not super sure what SP PC games I was playing back then. Probably still a bit of Casear III and Civ IV. I'd almost add my PS3 but I looked up my history with that and I actually got my PS3 as an early 19th birthday present for myself. And first thing on my "purchase" list (really wish Sony accounts wouldn't count these as "purchases") was....Haze Demo. The fateful game that fucked over the Timesplitters franchise. No idea what my first PS3 game was, it doesn't show physical purchases..oh wait it'll be GTAIV and GT5 since those came with the PS3.

Yeah, I maybe took a bit of time to get grasped on the rules of Scythe. I would think future games would be much shorter. TTS was relatively intuitive despite its many many quirks. Definitely enjoy that you can scale up pieces, can't do that in real life. Slightly disappointed the table doesn't properly flip in that DLC. Also it's a little bit weird things like flicking pieces isn't locked out of something like that Abyss I'd say is about on-par with Scythe in fiddliness (though much less worker placement). The auction system might be a tad pain to do virtually, but I guess it's just saying yay or nay. I'm off on Wednesday so I'll see on setting a bit of time to go through what I've got added in my workshop n see how they work. I know how a chunk of them play in reality, just in a digital world (digimon digital monsters...) to get hang of and make sure things work out. e.g Abyss has pearls as a currency which I can't see going well in a physics sandbox. But might mean it's something else in the TTS edition.

Is that one element Oscaar Isaacs dancing that he didn't reprise in Star Wars?

This was posted as "I divorce her, right?" on reddit and everyone seemed to be like "yeah" n such until I came across a fellow brit equally confused as I was (I'm thinking "there's nothing hugely wrong with paper plates"). Turns out this is an uncommon way to cut a sandwich in half, whereas here you'd not really think much different. Sometimes diagonal if you want to be fancy (most store bought sandwiches are diagonal, though usually the "finest" n equiv is cut like above). And for parties you'd cut into triangles. Also to add in here, what you guys call a "grilled cheese sandwich" we just call a "toastie" so hows that for saving on letters. Even have a machine for making them: http://www.wilko.com/grills+sandwich-makers/wilko-sandwich-toaster-4-slice-black/invt/0316233

TCP: "Dean hasn't updated the poll in ages" Dean: "Okay I've updated the poll" Daniel: "You've put in wrong poll options" Anywho:

Someone shared this on Reddit in response to a post about a very wand like looking stick. It's kinda cute.

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/tabletop-simulator Tabletop Sim currently half price on HIB if any of you would like to come join us.

Well that was all quite fun, and I think I've certainly got Scythe a bit more figured out and a lot more comfortable with the controls of TTS (i wonder how VR would play). I think it'd be neat to maybe have a couple others. The chat on Discord worked quite well, I might nudge Dan to set up a dedicated TTS channel (or maybe give me admin powers n I can do it myself..hint hint). As discussed for potential future games: I own on DLC: - Zombicide I have in the workshop: Of which I physically own: - Abyss - Discworld Ankh-Morpork - Cards Against Humanity -Suburbia (though digitally) And all of them I've played except Concordia (Hot Heart suggested it) and Dark Souls (it was a top rated game and it's singleplayer which I wouldn't mind having a spin with more of that kind of game). I would be up for teaching Abyss. I think Zombicide would work well with the three of us or up to one more. And I kinda want to give Secret Palpatine a spin (though with more people, similar with CaH. Be neat to have a crack at a forum-wide CAH one evening/afternoon/morning)

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/29/jon-ronson-bespoke-porn-nothing-is-too-weird-all-requests?CMP=share_btn_tw This article on custom porn is certainly interesting. It's more on the fetishes than anything...well pornographic as such.

Got em downloaded. Holy crap is Box a PITA site to navigate and use.

I'm just at Mt Bur Omisace. But I've had a busy few weeks (also running a chunk through the remote play, which is useful, but mainly for grinding than wanting to do anything specific with).

I can do some Scythe. Never played it before, but can be a quick learner.

There we go, updated the poll.

Having seen it now