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ResetEra Hangout [OT]The Bucket
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Yeah I feel like that is very much a film for kids that kinda grew up with the audience, but I heard nothing but great things about it. Let's see how good this saga is.
Wait, so you're saying you joining me on my double feature? I love us haha. Let's do this The Bucket.
I rewatched some of the Potter films last month. I'll hop back in on some rewatches later in the series. They're all on HBO Now. Any way we can stream in a chatroom like with Netflix Party, but HBO?
amateur what? Pizza-eating might be a profession but so is modeling. >:)
also. in ancient rome in the language of the romans there was a word for a lover, amator. The Italians thought this was a good word but they changed it a little so that the teacher didn't realize they'd just copied the romans' homework, and their word for lover became amatore. The french were like cela ne semble pas être la meilleure façon d'épeler and they changed it to amateur. Then the English were like "oy gov'ner I'm a lad who loves to do this thing but it ain't me profession, see. I know, I'm an amateur!" And that's how the word amateur was born. So the next time you call someone an amateur just know that you're recognizing that they love what they do despite not getting paid for it.
I make an exception if it's late and I haven't eaten anything all day, but that's it.
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Holy balls that makes perfect sense
Thank you for showing be etymology can be cool
It's so good, but i'm having the very same issues with it that i have with FTL - namely that i always feel like i deserve the 'perfect' playthrough and abandon timeline as soon as i fuck up :P
I simply cannot accept only a partial victory in these games. I have learned to force myself to accept some grid damage, but if i were to lose a pilot - ABANDON TIMELINE!
The game's systems are so good though, and getting those perfect combos like i'll hit that bug so it'll miss its attack, but it's now also standing on top of an another bug that would emerge next turn, thereby blocking that bug and at the same time receiving fatal damage - sooooo satisfying
I'm only 10 minutes into Cloverfield Paradox and the acting is hilarious bad, I can't believe what I'm watching here, wtf is this shit!?
EDIT: Yep, lasted about 20 minutes and gave up. Dog poo. Most overhyped franchise ever, zero substance. Previous two movies were mediocre too. I ain't ever paying to see this shit Abrams! Stick to Star Wars!
EDIT: Yep, lasted about 20 minutes and gave up. Dog poo. Most overhyped franchise ever, zero substance. Previous two movies were mediocre too. I ain't ever paying to see this shit Abrams! Stick to Star Wars!
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I don't know why you gave it a try if you thought the previous two movies were mediocre. That'd be like expecting Star Wars 9 or Solo to be good movies.
I was forced to learn Latin in high school and becoming an etymology geek is basically the only usefulness that's ever provided me :P
I like having fuck ups that carry over. Being able to adapt to adversity is what I love about these games.
ironically, i feel like mech pilots are the most easily replaced 'resource' ... intuitively, you feel like losing a pilot is the worst that can happen to you, but a single time pod can have a new (experienced) pilot AND a power core. - so now i'm a bit more lenient with regards to losses.
Learning that - unless you do an actual ATTACK you can roll back all 3 of your mech's moves was a godsend. I still had to abandon timeline just now because i accidentally punched my own mech buddy to death :(
i love how you're learning new 'strategies' the more you play the game. Like, just a few campaigns ago, i had the realization, that it can be a tactical move to smack an enemy against a building - like, if the bug's charging up a 2 damage attack, it's better to sacrifice 1 damage to the building if that means killing the bug while doing so.
I keep forgetting when I start runs. Can you still earn the achievements if you have a custom squad?
Just like every ship in FTL has 3 achievements, so does each squad in ITB - "custom squad" is a squad in that sense. Just like "random squad" i think.
Yeah, there are definitely still mech specific achievements you can get still get with a custom squad.
Finally managed a successful run last night (only two islands) with punchy, laser and that rocket launcher mech that spawns a smoke cloud. Came into the final fight with 6 energy and scraped out the win with one left.
TAB is very unforgiving, but pretty cool.
Finally managed a successful run last night (only two islands) with punchy, laser and that rocket launcher mech that spawns a smoke cloud. Came into the final fight with 6 energy and scraped out the win with one left.
TAB is very unforgiving, but pretty cool.
Proud of my little expansion project on my town in Kingdoms and Castles, Cheek Point. The people all live in big cottages or manors and have everything they need within walking distance. If only I had planned the city that well:
yeah, i had to google what truck nuts were, and then i remembered...
Weirdly enough, they'd actually look a lot more 'fun' on a bycicle than on a truck, because they'd be much more proportional in size and lose the whole "*grunt grunt* manly car" aspect.
Wasn't impressed with the last 2-3 Tropicos, so I think I'll wait.
Yup, that one wasn't on my radar until recently - and it looks really really neat. Not sure if i'm gonna jump in at release, i think i'll wait for it to be on sale for sub €30
Yeah I didn't play those, but watching some videos recently make it look really darn interesting.
Yeah, $40 is a maybe a tad steep. If it was $30 I'd be in no questions asked.
I should just go back to my PlayStation and finish Yakuza 0 finally.
It's raining, so Chinese tonight so I don't have to go out and get wet. Had to tip kind of large since it's raining and all, and they make you order $15 for delivery. That is a ton of Chinese food. I am going to have food for like three meals.
I used to order multiple meals back when Amazon was like hey spend forty bucks on dinner or we'll charge you for delivery. Now they just charge you for delivery always. Three meals for fifteen bucks is tiny.
I usually eat out too for lunch and often even dinner (at least takeaway from the deil, like pasta you just heat up at home) too, and that's about $10 a meal. But geez, delivery Chinese? I'll probably have to throw half of it away before I can eat it. It was even more than I was anticipating. I had a little bit of everything and there's still a giant bag of the stuff in the kitchen.
What'd you do with the multiple meals? Save them in the fridge or try to eat it all at once? : p
I'm not a big eater but I'm bad at cooking so I order food and then wind up up not finishing it all because the portions are too big and restaurants won't deliver if you don't meet a certain price.
Etymology is one of those things that I wished I had studied in uni.
I'm a history nerd so etymology would be up my angle.
Did you know the word for idiot comes from Latin idiota which comes from Greek's idiotes?
Idiotes meant a person completely concerned with their private life rather than public life. They were idiotes because they didn't vote nor engage in politics.
The original connotation was about how selfish the person was which over time shifted to bad judgement and stupidity on the part of a person.
Save in the fridge. I'm not above reheating food.
To be honest, my understanding of greek barely stretches past what I've heard ad nauseum from christian pastors, like the fish symbol being ichthus or there being three different words for love.
That's cool though. One of my favorite etymologies is how villain, someone who lived in a farm villa, mutated into "someone the elitist city folk didn't like" and eventually just a bad person in general.
Re-heated pizza tastes even better than regular pizza.
Destroy my microwave if I'm wrong.
That's one of my favorites too. Villain is such a cool word.
In contrast, hero was originally just another word for demi-god. People born above the rest of us mere mortals but then that shifted in its meaning to mean just a brave dude with a good heart.
So villain and hero were really on opposite sides even in the beginning.
It's the contrasting of a serf and a demi-god.
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Amateur hour.
And the word nerd comes from nert which comes from nut.
Nut being American slang for a stupid/crazy person. And a nutter is the British form of that word.
Nutter = Nut=Nert= Nerd
That's about all I got atm.
https://www.etymonline.com/
Reading this used to be a hobby of mine.
Reheated pizza AND cold pizza depending of the circumstances taste even better than pizza just out of the oven.