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Eldest just received official confirmation of his acceptance into his first choice college. :)

@mietze said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.: Shit, I can no longer deny that I need bifocals. I've been considering bifocals for a while now. When I worked from home, keeping two separate pairs of glasses was just fine. But a couple years into working outside of the house and I'm sort of sick of my options being 'take glasses to work' or 'deal with the eye strain.' I need new glasses anyway, so I think I'mma just take the plunge.

Kipo is very enjoyable. I'm a bit of a sucker for infectiously optimistic protagonists.

@Auspice FFX is also the last Final Fantasy that I played. At least, all the way through. I started on others and gave up on them after about 10 hours.

@sockmonkey today was my friday!

So I finally got around to actually watch Rise of Skywalker and I think my impression of the movie can be best summed up as 'A series of very dramatic scenes that at no point attempt to create a coherent whole'. Since every individual scene is very dramatic, the process of watching the movie is enjoyable enough and it's a fine popcorn flick. However as a casual fan of Star Wars I'm not sure I'm comfortable calling it a Star Wars movie because the movie at no point seems to particularly care about maintaining a coherent universe. ***=NSFW content***click to show Who and Why would someone make a dagger that points to a specific location in the ruins of the death star? Through which means exactly did Palpatine 2.0 build an entire fleet of star destroyers? Where did the manpower come from? How and why did he lift them out of the fucking ground with his force powers? At no point in the entire trilogy does Rey act like a Jedi, yet she somehow overpowers the Emperor by representing 'all of the jedi' Speaking of Rey and acting like a jedi, she just kind of accidentally blows up the transport ship she thinks her friend is in with her force powers. What? What happened to traveling through space taking time? Apparently you can now travel between the core worlds and the unknown regions in 5 minutes flat. Am I actually meant to buy the idea that a droid technician that's skilled enough to bypass C-3PO's programming doesn't know how to take a data backup? I think ultimately I'm just going to pretend this trilogy never happened. A bit like it's such a shame Matrix never got any sequels.

I've been getting by at work with my pain, etc. I crash when I get home a lot, for at least an hour, but.. I manage. It's not really living, but you do what you have to , to pay the bills. Then there's today - frigid outside, spent hours in the car yesterday without any sort of rest stops to stretch (That weren't located in stupid whiteout spots), so my body is like Fuuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuuu Macha. You're not going anywhere today. Boss tells me to call him when I make it in. Uh... Good thing he got that medical accommodation letter from my doctor yesterday, telling him sometimes the pain is just too big to function around.

@hedgehog Rose McDowall - Cut With the Cake Knife Psychedelic Furs/Brecht/Weill - Mack the Knife

@Tinuviel It's funny because it's true.

@Jeshin Hey. I don't know if this got lost in the shuffle (shuffle, noise, vitriol), but I never minded the idea of anyone saying, "Hey, this thing is awesome and we want to feature it." I think it's a great community-building idea, and I hope you keep doing it. Even if people disagree, they will know what you think is good. The big explosion over ideas was because of the prerequisites. That is all.

@Wizz said in MU Things I Love: What a great night, I am going to be gushing for weeks :D If it's longer than four hours, please see a doctor, sugar.

@Auspice

@Cupcake said in The 100: The Mush: @Booriley Was this meant for the Apology thread? The apology thread has a 50% chance of just turning into a shooting gallery for bitter cunts.

@Bobotron said in The State of the Chronicles of Darkness: @tragedyjones Right. I skimmed that and honestly didn't think of Hunter or Mummy. :/ Sorry for forgetting someone's favorite game lines. I only know because it was pointed out on the onyx path forum, honestly.

@Coin said: Maybe it was a good run, maybe it wasn't, but we tried. Good enough for me. Fair nuff.

In contrast, I care where what behavior goes. It's a utility thing.

Altered Carbon, as a major inspiration for Eclipse Phase, has re-ignited THE ITCH.