Lurker > Llarian

Ah yes, sportsball wins again. It was already steamrolling every single other extracurricular [e.g. beneficial things like theatre/art/music], so why not actual curriculum? Students only need to learn to run, with a touch of hand-eye coordination... they don't need math. /end sarcasm

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I went at some point in September last year, matinee for 2019's The Personal History of David Copperfield at a local art theatre where I could select my seat [and therefore see that no one else was attending at that time].

I love films. I wanna go back so bad. Oh Danny boy~ the big buckets of popcorn calling~


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TheSultanOfSlam posted...

Dc's oracle. https://imgur.com/gallery/wHH6Whj

@Llarian

finally done

This looks great!! Thank you!

Love the way you drew her tech setup too. Nice.

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Favorite takeout meal?

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Tag

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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Corrik, if you're going to read anything anyone says here, read what I've said in this topic.

You need a lawyer. That isn't to punish your wife. It's not to attack her. It's not to take advantage of her or anything. You need a lawyer because they protects YOU and YOUR interests in this. They will help guide you through this difficult process and make sure you don't get hurt more than you have to. If you don't get a lawyer, your chances of being able to see your child as often as you'd like after this plummet.

I know it hurts. And I'm sorry you're in so much pain right now, but it's very important you get a lawyer to talk you through this process now before things get out of hand. Because their advice is going to be a million times more important than any advice we can give you right now.

Please get a lawyer for your sake, your wife's sake, and your child's sake.

This right here.

Also, sorry for your loss - even if it hasn't been good, you love her and wanted the best for all of you. Looking out for yourself and your kid is your best bet though. The reality is this level of pain is not a good environment for making decisions. Get a legal professional to advise you on next steps.

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colliding posted...

bump

Thanks for the save.

Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

Phoenix makes a pretty solid case that Orla the orca was being manipulated to create a witness - draw Ms. DePlume in to watch as Orla does a couple predetermined tricks, and it certainly looks bad! We present the Whistle as our evidence that anyone could manipulate Orla, provided they knew the whistle patterns for various tricks. Norma DePlume freaks out over being hoodwinked and her sprite loses some accessories, prompting 'scandalized' reactions from Judge and Phoenix [I'm not really sure what, if anything, happened here].

We send the Bloody Coin to be analyzed.

Blackquill mysteriously produces the Coin Bag, stained with blood that matches the victim, and claims that Orla the orca was manipulating a person into murder?? This could've been an open-and-shut case, but nooo. XD

All righty. We'll see what he's on about next time! See you tomorrow!

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TheSultanOfSlam posted...

So far i have only drawn a wheelchair wheel lol

Looking forward to it :D

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I don't know all the details, but she needs to adios.

Offer to help her fill the bins, anything that gets her out sooner. She can figure out a place to be until the 1st, be it family/friends/extended-stay hotel, and short term storage for any stuff. Especially if she's telling you what to do living wise, and there is no effort being made towards food, nope. That sounds like a loooong 3 weeks ahead. You need to finally do what's convenient for you, not her.

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Steam Powered Giraffe - Automatonic Electronic Harmonics

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GenesisSaga posted...

Aurelio Voltaire - Mechanical Girl

I will second this, I just learned of it today and it is amazing.

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Sorry, y'all. Will post more tomorrow. It's been a little wild running around IRL.

Thanks for your patience.

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At first glance, this man looked like Vanilla Ice to me.

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How do you typically open an envelope from the mail? Discuss.

I prefer to slice mine open with letter opener or knife, regardless of its contents.

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TheSultanOfSlam posted...

Didn't have the chance to draw yesterday

Hey, no rush. I know how it is.

What are your opinions, if any, on visual novels? What is your favorite type of videogame [or top 3]?

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NeatoAnAccount posted...

I like pepperoni pineapple. Pepperoni is one of my favorite pizza toppings, and the pineapple is such a good contrast.

Part Sicilian here to validate the pep/pineapple combo. Tom and I call it the "Intense Vacation"...because it's better than Hawaiian.

Also, people who don't like olives? More for me. :P

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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

Walt, what happened to the post concluding 5-5?!

Fair... I guess I didn't write it. Thanks for the heads up.

Case 5-5 - Turnabout for Tomorrow

There was a bit of moon rock left over from the courtroom bombing, and since Athena's earring is made of same, we were able to compare it to prove it was the same moon rock that had old blood on it from 7 years ago, cornering the Phantom and causing him to flip out. There's this whole 'no one knows who the Phantom truly is, not even the Phantom' thing that was probably supposed to be cool but I was left feeling a little empty about it.

Phoenix Wrong aka the Phantom gets sniped and taken away. Athena is found Not Guilty. Woohoo~!

Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

Norma DePlume wigs out when we show her a bloody coin we found near the body...and there was about 300 coins in total, many of them at the bottom of the orca tank. 7 lbs of coins, quite enough to kill someone.

She's rather tight-lipped about everything, so we poke around elsewhere. Turns out Pearls met Marlon Rimes the day of the murder bc she wandered off during a trip, so she had to be held for questioning. Funky. Norma DePlume knows more than she's letting on - but apparently the orca had killed another trainer the year before?

We go to court and try to get a clear answer out of Norma DePlume, who's convinced that she saw Orla kill the Captain... it seems Orla was bleeding and once the wound was covered by the hat, it stopped. We determine according to security footage that we never saw the Captain enter the pool... so he must have been dead already.

...I expect us to get in a bit of b8 weirdness over this because Orla the orca must be in seawater, or at least sufficiently salty water. This typically causes bodies to float. If the Captain took on sufficient water in his lungs, he would generally sink but it would take him some time to build up the decomposition gases causing him to naturally float to the surface. Unless we're to believe that Orla was 'helping' him back to the surface like a family pet, in a vain attempt to keep him alive.

We'll follow up with Rimes' testimony tomorrow. See you then!

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Tag, getting mine next week and will let you know!

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Met Marlon Rimes. Now I can't stop thinking of that one ProZD video...

https://youtu.be/wgsYH21Gh0Y

...will post an actual writeup of today later.

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Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

...I didn't click on the chalk outline. You guyyyys. I need more sleep.

Sasha Buckler shows us a little bit of the show, and Phoenix gets to play the dastardly Nostache [as he has no mustache] and get splashed with water by Orla. Sasha tells us about Orla and the captain's daily routine of her head-butting him, saying he was a strong guy who was the only one who could handle Orla doing that. Must have been, dang.

We hear about a tip at the Pub O'Danger, so we head over that way. There we meet Norma DePlume, and I am gonna take a wild guess that isn't her real name >_> Not gonna lie, my first thought was 'Sal Manella in drag'? The character design is reminiscent of Dee Vasquez as well. She's got an air of Old Hollywood-era mystery about her.

She claims special dispensation to be around the Shipshape Aquarium, even if it's supposed to be closed. What's up with that? We'll have to see...tomorrow!

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Entirely possible, given the volume of toys your daughter has available, that she could benefit from toy rotation? You store some of her toys away and out of sight [back of your closet, garage, whatever] and leave out the toys that you see her playing with the most. Give it an amount of time, then rotate 'em out. Kids will generally play with whatever's there, but they'll get decision fatigue if there's too much out at any one time.

At this point she's mastered object permanence. I wonder if you put these figures away while she was sleeping one night, if she'd notice the next day? Or would she start playing with something else? Alternatively, interactive play with one of you might be preferable to toys. At least until you can get her something Sailor Moon related of her own?


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I find this incredibly creepy. "I respect your choice but I reject your rejection" is the kind of sentiment that has no place in society right now??

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Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

I have to say, I'm very happy with the short rejection exchange when we Present during this episode. That's a complaint I had with some of the prior cases - we had to go back and forth for quite a long time when I showed the wrong piece of evidence :|

I have picked up, poked, prodded, and talked to Sasha a bunch so far. There must be something I'm missing, as it's not triggering anything further in the storyline so far. Better luck next time, I guess. See you tomorrow!

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NeatoAnAccount posted...

This is a teaching moment. She's 3 and a half so she can't really empathize with you here. She's never had anyone break her stuff and she's never had to buy anything for herself.

"You may play with the dolls when you learn how to play gently with them."

This teaches her that she doesn't always get what she wants, and it also incentivizes her to treat others' property with respect. You're not being a jerk, you're protecting your property. You wouldn't be asking us if these things were 100x more expensive. But 3-year-olds can't understand "these things are $50" OR "these things are $5000," so you shouldn't really treat them differently. The important thing is that it's not hers, so she must play nicely with it. If she has plenty of things to play with (and it sounds like she does) you aren't depriving her of anything.

This this this.

Also picking consequences that are easy for you to stick to but will still have an impact on your daughter is crucial. I knew that if I was not treating a toy or book nicely, it got whisked away to the top of the fridge where to my young mind, it might as well be in Siberia. Brief frustration or annoyance, but since my parents were They Who Cannot Be Moved, I quickly learned that the best course of action was treat things nicely and gently.

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TheSultanOfSlam posted...

If anyone is still following the answer to both questions was Captain Jack Ward.

Thanks for answering this, I would not have known that.

Would you be up for drawing DC's Oracle [any interpretation]?

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Special Episode: Turnabout Reclaimed

From the people that brought you, "let the parrot speak", comes an all-new adventure...

This time, an orca is being accused of killing the owner of Shipshape Aquarium in the absence of any other suspects. We have decided this is suspicious and are therefore gathering evidence that we can present to push it towards a murder trial, rather than letting poor, unfairly maligned Orla the orca be put down for her supposed crimes.

We poke around the room, find a lot of random stuff, and make a Sharknado reference.

This whole thing is reminding me of a video I saw where an orca baits some birds by bringing them a fish, then hanging back about 6-10 feet and grinning like there's no tomorrow. The bird with the weakest sense of self-control goes for the fish while the other birds scram... and the orca gets a snack.

We'll do some more investigating the scene of the crime tomorrow! See you then!

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Heeey. I will post more tomorrow.

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https://www.us.capcommobile.com/ace-attorney-investigations-compatibility

w h a t.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 [not Edge] running Android 8.0.0. Pretty sure this means I can't play AAI on my phone. According to the entry on Google Play, 'it is possible to purchase the game on an incompatible device', it's your responsibility to make sure it meets the minimum reqs and they won't be issuing refunds.

It's been a long time since we bought a physical game around these parts, son. Already searched the local libraries, and although they have AA1-4 for the DS/3DS, they don't have copies of the newer ones. GameStop's website is borked, when I search it keeps redirecting me to NES cartridges. Every legit-looking copy on eBay is $60+? Amazon has got me over at a barrel at $75+? I guess I could try my luck at the local Disc Replay or Half Price Books, although I'm pretty sure a game like this evaporates as soon as it hits the shelves. Heeeelp.

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colliding posted...

heck yeah, finally someone with the guts to not put Nick in the top 10

His name is [usually] on the tin, so his built-in popularity doesn't really need my help. Phoenix himself is fine, but I generally dislike main characters? I have yet to sort out exactly why. The best I can guess is that they are designed for wide appeal, and that never really grabs me. Creators don't have the same concerns with secondary/tertiary characters, so the characters end up with better defined interests/quirks/motivations, and that's more interesting to me.
Leonhart4 posted...

Also based on your characters list you'll probably enjoy the AAI games despite their issues.

I'm very pleased to hear this!! Thanks so much!

For Dual Destinies, case ranking goes 5, 3, 2, 4, 1.
Case 5 - Turnabout for Tomorrow is neat in that it wraps everything up. Tough to not rank the last case highly, so here we are.
Case 3 - Turnabout Academy is the most enjoyable case to me, plenty of twists and turns even though their understanding of sculpture was WAY off.
Case 2 - The Monstrous Turnabout had issues, but was overall fun and engaging.
Case 4 - The Cosmic Turnabout felt way too long, the standout part was clearing the defendant without actually finding the murderer.
Case 1 - Turnabout Countdown is one of the better first cases iirc, plus it introduces you to new characters and the overall new look of the game, but it doesn't hold up against the others.

I'll have to dig into OSTs soon and let you know the tracks I liked.


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Yoooo, this is awesome!!

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Okay but on a separate note, Millard Fillmore's wife catches a cold at Pierce's inauguration, dies within a month, and the following summer his daughter dies of cholera? Devastating.

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I am offend. Very offend!
You will apology with boots!

1. Who is jack sparrow loosely based on?
I wanna say this is Keith Richards?

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Lopen posted...

The Oregon Trail 2 riffs and sound effects that got played for diseases/etc freaked me out as a kid. Most good memories of that one for sure.(I feel like riff is the wrong word but whatever you know what I mean)

I looked up the Oregon Trail 2 soundtrack online. I couldn't find the sound effects, but apparently they played the same piece of music in the background differently depending on the health of your party. Bright and up-tempo when they were doing Good and slow, somber, almost minor when you were doing Poor. Yeesh, morale alert.

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I picked 2nd [est. 1995] because my version, Oregon Trail Deluxe [1992] wasn't on here.

1st is good, but the 3rd-person hunting takes some getting used to.

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Eddv posted...

Edith the Petticoat President Wilson

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tag!

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me

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Miyavi - Dear My Friend

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