ochi_chernye

The movie ending struck me as senseless and unearned. The short story ended much better, in my opinion. Still on the run, no apparent end to the mist, no military showing up to save the day. Darker, in my book.

Hey, if we can make a pencil out of leaves, cephalopods can swim through our GI tract like species 8472 through fluidic space.

I'm sure that'll work, provided there aren't any meddlesome kids about!

I'm looking forward to the inevitable Flop House episode.

While this is true, people still bear responsibility for the media they choose to consume. People wake up every day and decide to get their information from liars and grifters, because they prefer the way lies feel. It isn't as if they don't have options. Now, media literacy is definitely a problem. But the only solution is education, and that's a silver bullet too slow to save us from all the extant ill-educated mooks.

When people tell me that their stubborn ignorance has reached levels so acute as to endanger the lives of everyone on Earth, I find it prudent to believe them.

Alan Alda's got a pretty good podcast now. I watched a lot of MASH reruns growing up. Feels strange that kids now don't have the experience of watching a bunch of stuff that's not made for them at all, just because that's what's on TV.

I've just reinstalled Grim Dawn, having last played it some years ago, and am currently working my way through Act 2. I don't frequently play ARPG's, but I'll try a new one when I get it in a bundle or somesuch. Mostly, they don't hold my interest. Grim Dawn, vanilla and unmodded (I assume there's some kind of modding scene; haven't looked yet) still manages to scratch that itch for me. At some point I'll pick up the DLC. Right now I just want to find something good enough to replace this crazy caster 2h sword I'm using, so that I can bring Albrecht's Aether Ray back into the rotation!

Man, I've been wanting to pick up Rimworld forever, but I'm pretty scrupulous about only buying games at a steep discount (making exceptions for supporting indie devs I like), and I've never seen it more than 20% off. I guess we'll see who blinks first.

The trick is to have someone distract you mid-fall, so you forget to land.

In the actual world, governed by actual mathematics, you are incorrect. This has been repeatedly pointed out to you, with illustrative examples, by many people. Your stubborn, willful ignorance cannot change the fabric of reality.