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  1. It's funny how cheap wine is less expensive than empty bottles

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @scribus Yeah. Preserving jars are almost the same in that regard. It's cheaper to just buy stuff that's sold in a preserving jar than to buy them empty. A family member has some apple trees and the preserving jars I collected were used to preserve apple sauce made from these apples.

      about 10 months ago in context
  2. "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" what a bad movie. For the most part it's "fine". Very slow pacing but "fine". The last act was the kick into the groin.

    about 10 months ago from web
  3. I have the keys to the house. If it weren't for the heat, I'd be moving my stuff to the house. 31°C and no clouds. Unbearable.

    about 10 months ago from web
  4. The last season of Disenchantment is quite a mess in how the story was told.

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @adiwan I think the whole show would have gone a lot better if the first 4 seasons tried to develop the overarching plot during the whole season instead of just the first and last 2 episodes. This latest one was, like, "all plot, all the time!" and it felt so slapped together. Not awful, but I'm glad they didn't try to keep it alive for 40 years, and I'm not hopeful that Comedy Central will pick it up for a revival in 2030.

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @scribus I think the creators had a lot of internal conflict on how to create an epic and make the episodes episodic, like Futurama and Simpsons. I fully agree with you. I really liked the characters, some more, some less, but none were truly terrible (even Elfo to some degree). It's just that the plot made all of them brainless and stupid stretching all of the characters to an unrecognizable form. Fast-forwarding a lot of the plot didn't help. In this season, multiple times, there was no reason to stop a chase but it happened despite no reason at all.

      about 10 months ago in context
  5. Ah F***!!!! Got a bill from the government for the tax for buying land. 11k€ down the drain. I knew I had to pay it before I got into thinking about buying a house. It still stings nonetheless. That's about 2800 comic issues!

    about 10 months ago from web
  6. oh boy i cant wait! AHAHHAAHAAAAAAA I WANT TO DIE

    about 10 months ago from web
  7. Am I lost in the sauce? Or is the sauce lost in me?

    about 10 months ago from web
  8. In a week I'll own a house! I'd be happier if the city wouldn't penny-pinch me. I had to pay a bill for something that the city should pay themselves: an investigation if the city has an interest in buying the house (first refusal right).

    about 10 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Wow that is a dumb demand, but congratulations on the homeownership!

      about 10 months ago in context
    • @scribus Thanks. The bill was 65€ for that. I will certainly suffer for pleasure of owning a home, especially since there was nothing done for over 40 years and has still wallpaper from the late 70s. What has to be done: New switch box (solar power ready), new electric cables, new windows, roof isolation, the wilderness of a garden needs to be tamed. Also when I'm at it I'll lay down network cables everywhere, at least CAT7 and glass fiber.

      about 10 months ago in context
  9. Done with Yakuza 4, now on Yakuza 5. Big thing I’m noticing about 5 is that it’s slightly more impressive both technically and as a game than Yakuza Kiwami, which released four years later on a next gen console, which is a bit confusing to me but whatever

    about 10 months ago from web
  10. Spotless # https://i.imgur.com/7x9HmqT.jpg http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876403

    about 10 months ago from web
  11. IE about to get hit by a hurricane, what even is anything

    about 10 months ago from web
  12. I'm not really a big karaoke fan in the Yakuza games but I somewhat miss it in Judgment.

    about 10 months ago from web
  13. That’s Yakuza 3 out of the way, would’ve finished it sooner but due to the way combat works it takes roughly two hours to do one random encounter of beginner level thugs

    about 11 months ago from web
  14. I just found the missing bottle and now I have two bottles. My credibility is in tatters.

    about 11 months ago from web
  15. Golf spammers make me teed off. Geddit readers? Chortle!

    about 11 months ago from web
  16. Now we are targeted by Golf SPAM. I've not seen this before, ever. Not even in my email inbox.

    about 11 months ago from web
  17. I’m a few years out from dating being permanently weird, because pretty soon everyone in my pool is either gonna have kids (I AM BAD WITH KIDS) or be enough years younger than me that I, personally, would feel weird dating them even if other people probably don’t really care that much.

    about 11 months ago from web
  18. Yakuza 3 is old and busted and scary

    about 11 months ago from web
  19. Each successive Trump indictment is funnier than the last because every time he’s practically begged people to riot on his behalf at the various courthouses where his arrests occur and like five people show up every time.

    about 11 months ago from web
  20. In yesterday's D&D session I used my lizard familiar, placed it on my druid character's head, activated the feature to look through the familiar's eyes, and thusly gained 30ft darkvision. A poor man's Goggles of Night.

    about a year ago from web
  21. I think this hotel is not for people like me, it’s next to a bunch of corporate headquarters and data centers, the lobby is a trendy bar where a bunch of tech guys are drinking top shelf liquor, and the TV knows my name.

    about a year ago from web
  22. ChatGPT seems to believe that Sora from Kingdom Hearts would be perfectly willing to ally with Tony Soprano but would draw the line at Walter White and I’m uncomfortable with the knowledge that, to an AI, the line between friend and foe lies somewhere between “murderous mob boss” and “murderous drug lord” and not well before both points.

    about a year ago from web
  23. Twitter is essentially dead for me. I used to lurk some creators on twitter but my open source twitter client choqok failed to fetch any new data for a week now.

    about a year ago from web
  24. New Futurama’s pretty funny. Billy West‘s voice ain’t what it used to be though. Fry sounds like he’s been in the future for 23 years or something.

    about a year ago from web
  25. OK what kind of jerk wears flip-flops to the library, and why did it have to be me? ;_;

    about a year ago from web
  26. Hello !

    about a year ago from web
  27. My D&D group started a new campaign and the starting level is 2. I managed to be at 0HP three times within the first two sessions. The first time was a mimic (a barrel), then a quickling, and then some goblinoids with slings.

    about a year ago from web
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    • @scribus It's a female lizardfolk grassland druid with the name "Chamilia Moonsicle". This type of druid is not a tank. With the natural armor and a wooden shield she has 16 AC. Not bad but still too squishy for my taste.
      The first down-to-zero-HP moment happened as she examined a weird barrel that happened to be a mimic-like animated creature. The next time it was a Quickling she managed to percieve (Quickling moved extremely fast) and followed a few steps out of the door, where she got stabbed 3 times with high damage rolls. Then she was hit to the head with a sling by a goblinoid savage (having little HP at the beginning of the battle didn't help either).
      I didn't play unreasonable and not without caution but it was more dumb luck than anything else.

      about a year ago in context
    • @adiwan Man, does dumb luck get stupid sometimes, though... lol

      about a year ago in context
    • @scribus To be totally frank: I have a long history of having many dead characters and stupid moments initiated by my dumb decisions. This time, I swear, wasn't the case.

      about a year ago in context
  28. It sounds obvious in retrospect that you should just play 0 first anyway but I wasn’t expecting them to insert much from 0 into the remakes given how closely the actual story cutscenes stick to the source material

    about a year ago from web
    • @zeldatra I started with 0 as it is basically the beginning of Kiryus story, even though it was told much later after the Yakuza 1 release. 0 has some minor spoilers for 4 and quite some references to other installments. It didn't bother me. I rather liked it because I got an 'aha' moment and understood the reference retroactively, making the scene a little bit richer and due to the backstory aspect more understandable. The problem one can see more is making the decision when to play 0. When it comes to real downgrades Yakuza games 3 is the one that aged the worst, as it didn't get the Kiwami treatment and modernizing the controls and gameplay feel. Looking back on it it has some endearing retro aspect of the PS3 era when looking past those flaws. Generally starting with Kiwami 1 isn't bad either gameplay-wise, as the other games feel much more open and there are more areas besides Kamurocho.

      about a year ago in context
  29. Not that I think this is a bad thing, but I got whiplash upon learning that Kiryu, a Japanese man in 2005 approaching middle age who in the lead-up to Yakuza has been in prison since the 90s, and before that having been in a criminal syndicate since the 80s, is not homophobic, and is perfectly pleasant and even supportive of his cabaret date upon learning she’s a lesbian.

    about a year ago from web
  30. OK well Moho keeps basic, fundamental necessities like "manipulating bezier handles" behind their $400 edition so I think they can mango themselves just on principle alone

    about a year ago from web