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offline RussellDust on 2024-07-20 12:09 [#02637094]
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Playing Shredders revenge
Reading Premethea (Alan Moore)
Watching exploding kittens (Netflix)


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2024-07-20 12:18 [#02637096]
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playing: chess
watching: the boys, the outlaws, parks and recreation
reading: gordon burn - happy like murderers, stephen king -
fairy tale


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-07-20 12:51 [#02637097]
Points: 12400 Status: Regular



Playing Cyberpunk 2077, Dungeon Encounters, Celeste
Reading Excession (Iain M. Banks), L’Ontologie politique
de Martin Heidegger (Pierre Bourdieu), Les Revenentes
(Georges Perec)
Watching Grace and Frankie (Netflix)


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-21 09:17 [#02637102]
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Playing: Super Mario Bros.
Reading: La voyage au centre de la terre
Watching: Quin ZaZa (netflix)


 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-07-21 15:59 [#02637110]
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Playing: n/a
Reading: YouTube comments (don’t know why)
Watching: Bridgerton (netflix) w/C🧩💚🐶🐶


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2024-07-22 06:12 [#02637132]
Points: 3377 Status: Regular



playing: i view videogames as a hobby mostly for children
and don't particularly play them. although i will concede i
play around on another child's toy daily i.e. my
skateboards. but at least i'm not frying my brain on digital
media...although i've had some pretty good faceplants that
have definitely rattled my brain around and that's probably
not much better. if anything, last game i probably played
was over at my buddy's. he's got one of those new-fangled
ps5s and a high def tv, so playing sniper elite 5 with all
the gore/blood/x-ray killcam shit turned on is pretty
entertaining & amazing, especially after he's smoked me up a
bit and it makes the graphics just look insane.

reading: mostly don't believe in it. if "iq" is a
thing...reading certainly doesn't increase it lol. i mostly
write these days and get more satisfaction from that. i also
have a hard time reading a book if it's not in one sitting,
so for me to read a book, i might have to set aside a whole
afternoon/day. luckily i read anywhere from 500-700 wpm
depending on the source material, so i can plow through most
books pretty quickly the few occasions i do feel like
reading. neuromancer was probably the last actual
book...like last year? btw, i consider "reading" to be only
books, nothing else.

watching: don't watch anything mainstream/hollywood,
anything made in the last several decades, have absolutely
no cable, tv, or streaming services either. i just put
something from youtube on as background noise usually.
mostly skateboarding, music/music production. like that's
probably 90% of what i watch. all the channels i'm subbed to
on youtube are basically skateboarding, random electronic
music, smaller death/black metal channels. this exact moment
i'm watching uploads of 'the outer limits' on youtube,
basically the only legacy media i'll watch is pre-2000s junk
like that.


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-22 11:17 [#02637146]
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he doesn't believe in reading guys


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-22 11:17 [#02637147]
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in case that's what you were asking russell he doesn't
believe in it


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-07-22 12:20 [#02637148]
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heheh..... you failed his test >:) (you bothered to read his
post)


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-07-22 15:14 [#02637149]
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Playing: guitar

Watching: History of the Occult

Reading: Eli Fieldsteel - Supercollider for the Creative
Musician


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-22 15:38 [#02637151]
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the director of history of the occult's name is cristian
ponce


 

offline Tony Danza from NAFO Suicide Hotline on 2024-07-22 17:05 [#02637152]
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better than cristian nonce amirite


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-07-23 01:26 [#02637157]
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Reading:
Malazan Book of the Fallen Series (stalled)

Watching:
X-Files Season 5 (stalled)

Playing:
https://imgur.com/a/1Z979r8 (steam screenshot). Most of those stalled,
but quite actively playing Forza Horizon 4 this week.

New Path of Exile league this friday, I don't have as much time right
now but I still will fire it up, it looks awesome.


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2024-07-23 05:22 [#02637162]
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it's almost as if i intentionally stated that reading
doesn't make you smart because i understand it's something
that makes pseudo-intellectuals feel attacked (weird how
badly they need books to validate themselves) and i knew it
would draw out & illicit an ego response. the point is not
that people keep failing my tests...it's that do they even
understand exactly what *kind* of test they're failing?
until they understand that, i can keep using it against
them. maybe not let your egos control you so much? oh look:
it's almost as if such behavior just confirms what i said
about the ego of the individual hiding behind certain
causes, virtues, politic, ideology, etc. when the reality is
they're just being disingenuous egoists. these are the very
people of our societies & cultures that need to be mocked &
derided.

>:) <----- this actually confirms something...do you know
what it is? any reason you decided to start mimicking this
sort of response after i did it to you first? simple:
whatever is effective against an individual is something
they will often integrate as a form of attack response for
themselves because they've come to falsely believe it's
effective against other individuals as well. how is it that
one can pride themselves on a supposed level of intelligence
while continually projecting? this is just more confirmation
of egoism; it's only the ego that projects. weird how a
simple smiley can get under someone's skin to such an extent
they falsely believe it can be used to get under my skin by
doing the same thing in return. lol not gonna work, bud. i'm
serious: if my little smiley wasn't effective against you,
you wouldn't have tried to start using them back :)

surely i haven't baited anyone else's ego once again with
anything i've said, right? right?


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-23 10:15 [#02637168]
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no it's just a laughable thing to say you don't believe in
reading. it's also laughable to think that anyone who reads
a book reads it to "increase their iq" or to feel smart or
to validate themselves. and even people who think others who
don't read are lesser than them at least have a reason to
think so opposed to shallow people who think they are above
others


 

offline RussellDust on 2024-07-23 10:35 [#02637174]
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Word


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-07-23 10:47 [#02637178]
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i'm just really impressed that a presumably grown man could
sound so much like a 14yo. it's uncanny, truly.


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2024-07-23 10:50 [#02637179]
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i'd ask you to continue entertaining us but i have enough
empathy that it's only going to make me sad for you. :(


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-23 19:05 [#02637198]
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cmon, i get your reactions to hevs posts,
it sounded kind of downlooking,
but imo might aswell also respect someone to rather do other
things than consuming media or playing games.



 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-23 19:11 [#02637199]
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hows shredders revenge?
looked kinda fun.
did you finish it and did you play with others?


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-23 19:45 [#02637200]
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best thread for a while this one!


 

offline Roger Wilco from Mo's Beans on 2024-07-23 21:04 [#02637201]
Points: 1997 Status: Regular



Playing Knights of the Old Republic II - for the third
time.
Reading Gravity's Rainbow. I've been reading it for 4 years
and I'm down to the last 150 pages. My IQ has gone down from
the experience.
Watching not much really, I watched The Acolyte on Disney+,
I liked the design of the interior of the Jedi ship. And all
the actor kids that seemed to come from some terrible
English stage school. I spotted one nod to KOTOR first game,
but I'm sure there were more. And this post comes full
circle.


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-23 21:44 [#02637204]
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do you think if he said he doesn't like to read i would
react in anyway


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-23 21:46 [#02637205]
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btw i'm not like a bookworm or anything at all this isn't
about me or my opinion either


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-07-24 00:07 [#02637210]
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⇑ get a load of reading rainbow over here


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-24 09:31 [#02637214]
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loool


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-07-24 10:29 [#02637215]
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now that you blown my cover i can go and fuck myself


 

offline RussellDust on 2024-07-24 14:57 [#02637216]
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I’m alone and my dog can’t grab the controller with his
paws. We’ve tried it was very funny.

It’s great fun. Like playing an old 2D beat ‘em up but
with better graphics and great animations. It’s probably
the most fluid game of the genre that I’ve played.

Playing super Mario wonder today. Started over for the big
screen. Before I had been playing handheld. Some games
benefit from being played on a big screen though and this is
one of them.

Reading the book of Thoth (tarot) and it’s a nightmare to
grasp.


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:00 [#02637237]
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play before reading
....aint that a brand of condoms from the '80s


 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:01 [#02637238]
Points: 6531 Status: Addict



Nonsense Before Prophylactics



 

offline steve mcqueen from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:03 [#02637239]
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times roman aint a bad font to be fair


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:13 [#02637242]
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Yeah I can hear it,


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:14 [#02637244]
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wrong Fred


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:18 [#02637245]
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LAZY_TITLE going to watch this next


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 02:33 [#02637247]
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Why was it when we only had 4 channels there seemed to be
well more interesting stuff on tv especially after about 10
o'clock, or what it just that i watched tv then and don't so
much now


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-07-25 05:13 [#02637248]
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It's probably that whole "paralysis in the face of too much
choice" deal. That + just getting old and everything loses
it's sheen a bit.

My lineup as a young man was Star TNG 10-11, Seinfeld
11-11:30, then Letterman. There was nothing but
informercials the rest of the night and we didn't have cable
:(


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-07-25 05:13 [#02637249]
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We might watch Clockwork Orange later tonight, I don't think
I've seen it since I was 17 or 18.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 09:27 [#02637250]
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shredder looked kinda fun,
still play the odd beat em up from back in the day, despite
their very limited and sometimes klunky gameplay and absurd
lengths, cause i missed out on them back in the day.
its probably one of the genres that id like to see improved
most like this,
without modernising the graphics.
there is a few others out there in that league im meaning to
pick up.
so far i havent bought due to the pricing, but im due to
play those someday.
the gameplay and animations sure took some time and work be
put in.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 09:30 [#02637251]
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maybe your dawg needs a custom controller to fully unfold
his gaming potential..


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 09:33 [#02637252]
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Yeah thats true, Funnily enough I am watching TNG again on
blu ray, yeah its partially nostalgia but the production
values and writing knock 99% of modern tv into a cocked hat


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 09:36 [#02637253]
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indeed, especially from season 3 on.
very first episode is really funny though.


 

offline Wolfslice from Bay Area, CA (United States) on 2024-07-25 18:43 [#02637261]
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TNG was so fuckin good.

ijon right, especially after s3. But even s1 and s2 has some
bangers...

I really liked Skin of Evil (the tar man who killed Tasha)
in s1, episode creeped me out as a 7ish year old- esp when
Riker got sucked in.

S2 has measure of a man, where Data is on trial for his
right to live, one of the better eps of the whole series.
But yeah... S3 is definitely where it gets great episode to
episode.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 20:22 [#02637264]
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Oh yes, i remember well how paralyzed i was by that tar
creature.
I was litrrally mortified. And there's def good eps in the
first 2 seasons.

I wonder if a similar series could work, keeping the concept
of a big ensemble cast with plots resolving within 50min
episodes with depth like in star trek.
But this time it was a ship moving about in a more perry
rhodan like galaxy with a majority of non humanoid races
that found ways to establish contacts and space travel with
exosuits for example. It would enter new territory in tv to
make sf more realistic. Visiting for us unihabtable places,
like gas planets, high or low grav planets, toxic paces,
include spheres and habs ans space ports that have multiple
evironments for different species. havent read any rhodan
but i heard a few unique things about it in sf and the time
is ripe for a show like this. The possibilities are there. I
would appreciate another exploration type ship as the
enterprise with a highly developed scientific human society
, or a next level ds9 or b5, but an adventure travelling rag
tag band like farscape could be fun too.


 

offline Hyperflake from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2024-07-25 20:42 [#02637265]
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Season 1 & 2 are definitely a mixed bag but even the crappy
episodes are still pretty fun. One from season 2 that sticks
in my mind apart from the episodes already mentioned is the
one in season 2 where they find a casino on an gas giant and
it has the skeleton of an early earth astronaut in one of
the rooms and the book he was reading is what the aliens
must had read and constructed the casino for him to make him
feel at home. I thought it was quite a surreal setting and
episode, i enjoyed it


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 21:50 [#02637269]
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Its a memorable one. The story and final resolution was
nice, good short story stuff, however the casino was rather
horrific. It felt too much like an inescapable nightmare to
be a hospitable place for a lost person. It probably felt
better for the astronaut and was an improvement over the
barren mars like place though right.

However the one with the flute kind of had a similar setting
while being more mind blowing and offering a broader
pallette of feelings.
I think the whole idea is just amazing and one of my all
time favs.

On the other hand its very comforting to show a being like
the one having created the casino for an astronaut like a
human would nurse a wounded animal. Its a rare story. I
imagine the original script idea was more about that than
the inescapable games and flat gamblers.

Being inside a created environment is a recurring story
element in the show and usually one of the best. Who could
forget Moriarty.


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2024-07-25 22:12 [#02637270]
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I really love that the show had room for personal stories,
slice of life and you know that coming of age kinda stuff.
It made the ship and its inhabitants so much richer.


 

offline big from lsg on 2024-07-26 18:55 [#02637325]
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reading Children of Memory, Adrian Tchaikovsky



 

offline recycle from Where is Phobiazero (Lincoln) (United States) on 2024-07-26 19:30 [#02637327]
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Playing with self
Reading xltronic and dischord and discogs
Watching 2024 Olympic Paris stuff


 

offline RussellDust on 2024-10-13 10:46 [#02639033]
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Playing Tales of the Neon Sea. Like an old point and click
game. Detective work (you’re a detective) and puzzles. 2D
pixel art is lovely. Going to cozy up to it this afternoon.
Weather’s shit anyway!


 

offline mermaidman on 2024-10-13 12:08 [#02639037]
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too much neon for my taste. can we turn down the neon a
little


 


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