Poll of the Day > Have you given up onThe Geek Life?

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've never been able to appreciate Akira Toriyama's art.

It's actually discouraged me from playing games that I might otherwise have played, like the later Dragon Quest games (his art style was less obvious in the earlier games, when they were using NES graphics, but the newer games make it very on-model and very visibly his work).

I wish we got something similar with Amano... nothing looks like the watercolours and promo art in the actual Final Fantasy games, although ff6 comes close some times

Lokarin posted...

I wish we got something similar with Amano... nothing looks like the watercolours and promo art in the actual Final Fantasy games, although ff6 comes close some times

I think the closest I know off the top of my head was Kartia. But that wasn't all that much more, because that was a PS1 game compared to the early NES/SNES Final Fantasy games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartia:_The_Word_of_Fate

Wound up watching the s35 Simpsons Halloween episode (meh) and the Theranos spoof (woohoo!). Out of all the episodes I've watched recently, the Theranos spoof was probably the only to hit it out of the park.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I've never been able to appreciate Akira Toriyama's art.

It's actually discouraged me from playing games that I might otherwise have played, like the later Dragon Quest games (his art style was less obvious in the earlier games, when they were using NES graphics, but the newer games make it very on-model and very visibly his work).

I've enjoyed that particular art style, although it feels weird at times because I associate it with his manga/anime.

I'm still alive. I have rhe flu. I'm getting better, but it's still the bloody flu.

I'm also preparing for my honeymoon.

But Wave, you've been married for 7 years already.

Yes, I have, but I've been very sick, and in the hospital a lot, and I'm finally well enough to go do things.

Where are you going?

Well, that's to be told in another post.

Honeygeek
Geekymoon

Watched the DC Superpets movie. It was okay.

Count_Drachma posted...

Watched the DC Superpets movie. It was okay.

I'm sorry but why?

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm still alive. I have rhe flu. I'm getting better, but it's still the bloody flu.

I'm also preparing for my honeymoon.

But Wave, you've been married for 7 years already.

Yes, I have, but I've been very sick, and in the hospital a lot, and I'm finally well enough to go do things.

Where are you going?

Well, that's to be told in another post.

I had the flu as well. Fucked me up. Glad to see you've been improving health wise!

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm sorry but why?

To be fair, the trailers for that movie made it look better than most of DC's actual mainline movies.

Granted, that's a low bar these days...

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm sorry but why?

In hindsight, that's probably a fair question. I hadn't seen the trailers or commercials, but the art style and promotional materials had made me curious. I'd even already picked up mini figurines of Ace and Krypto for my desk... but I can't remember what I wound up doing with them since they never made it there. They just the cheap little Dollar Tree versions, though.

Anyway, it was still better than The Flash movie... which, I mean, isn't saying much, but...

I'm going to Las Vegas for my honeymoons. It's happening in April.

The reservation is booked and the plane tickets are as well. It's happening.

If any of you Geeks have been there can you give me some recommendations for local restaurants and activities.

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm going to Las Vegas for my honeymoons. It's happening in April.

The reservation is booked and the plane tickets are as well. It's happening.

If any of you Geeks have been there can you give me some recommendations for local restaurants and activities.

Ride the roller coaster at New York New York casino. It's amazing at night.

Microsoft is set to have a press conference some time next week to announce a bevy of their exclusive games will no longer be exclusive to Xbone.

I'm vomcerned only because competition is good for the marketn and with less competition the market has a chance to become stagnant.

It's still funny because I have said that Microsoft would get out of the console business 5 years ago before the Xbox Series X was announced. I'm just half a decade late.

The_Wave_Master posted...

I'm vomcerned only because competition is good for the marketn and with less competition the market has a chance to become stagnant.

Exclusives are the laziest form of "competition" and don't necessarily result in the kinds of improvements that move the industry forward. In fact, Microsoft's purchases of various companies -- which gave them their exclusives -- has made the marketplace LESS competitive and more stagnant.

Not to mention a lot of "competition" isn't really competition. For example, Apple recently released its own VR headset, but the features are basically what's already offered by other companies where the only difference is it costs a metric fuckton more because, well, Apple.

It's happened this Thursday at 3pm eastern standard time.

Microsoft is going third party.

Or at least I suspect. Halo and Gears on Playstation will expand those tranches by a considerable margin.

Ready for Sega Dreamcast 2

Metalsonic66 posted...

Ready for Sega Dreamcast 2

That's why we're in the darkest timeline.

I will have to see if those rumors are true on Thursday.

Were the rumors true?

The rumors are true.

Penny's Big Breakaway is great

oh noes; some of my pet bugs escaped from the tank when I was changing the water!

I rescued 2 of them, but I'm pretty sure I saw a third... I can't find it

Count_Drachma posted...

Were the rumors true?

No. Microsoft is still making consoles.

Saw something related to Hati or whatever, which led me to briefly wiki-walk, confirming she's a character from the LA Ahsoka show. And, upon learning Sabine Wren is in it, I was kinda tempted to check it out... but then realized all of the "homework" involved since I'd first need to watch Mando and Rebels.

It's weird how decades ago, that would've seemed like a perk. Now, it's a hassle.

Pretty sure you can just watch it and figure out anything else through context

Pretty sure if you watched you'd just be annoyed afterward that you'd wasted your time.

I've got to say, I'm very happy where scifi is for movies right now. Dune Part 2 came out, and that was a massive hit. Then there's also 3 Body Problem that netflix came up.

They're not hardest of hard scifi, but there's enough out there, that hopefully is big enough, that I'm crazy excited that scifi may become big again.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Pretty sure you can just watch it and figure out anything else through context

Yeah, but then I'd constantly feel, "This isn't the full experience."

It's like when I watched Kong vs Godzilla, and assumed there was valid, underlying context to the stuff I didn't understand... when in reality it was a terribly-written mess of a movie that sequeled another terribly-written mess of a movie.

Or if I hadn't seen Avengers before Thor 3 when I wouldn't have realized how stupid Loki's reaction in one scene which served as a callback.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Pretty sure if you watched you'd just be annoyed afterward that you'd wasted your time.

It's possible, especially if I watched the earlier stuff and then thought it wasn't as good as that.

shadowsword87 posted...

I've got to say, I'm very happy where scifi is for movies right now. Dune Part 2 came out, and that was a massive hit. Then there's also 3 Body Problem that netflix came up.

They're not hardest of hard scifi, but there's enough out there, that hopefully is big enough, that I'm crazy excited that scifi may become big again.

Other than Dune and the mainstream scifi franchises (like SW), I'm not sure I've noticed much scifi hitting theaters, etc.

MS is doing whatnow?