For example, Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are two series I could watch on repeat. Absolutely solid.
First few seasons of Orange is the New Black (really ran out of steam after that imo)
Now, sci-fi specifically … it’s been a while since I’ve seen a good one. Some people I know really, really like The Expanse, though for me it just didn’t connect. Black Mirror is hit and miss, but when it hits, it’s amazing (the stinker episodes are real stinkers though).
I tried Breaking Bad - hated it. I never gave Better Call Saul a chance as there is nothing that seemed promising about it. I guess I could watch an episode of Better Call Saul, I just don’t see this being a good idea. Now I can’t hate it because I never watched, it once I watch an entire episode, I have a hunch I won’t remain so indifferent… :/
Ok then… can you explain (in detail prferably) what got you hooked oh X-Files, the things you live about the show?
I like it too, but saying Breaking Bad is a bad show, just… IDK… doesn’t sit right with me. And I don’t watch just any show, I’ve probably watched like 5 or 6 in my entire life (I’m 38 BTW).
edit2: I hate HATE HATE game of thrones with a passion, I gave it a shot twice! (2x) What’s worse is the entirety of society gaslighting you into it not being an awful show.
Admit got is no-where near as good a time as x-files. I just watched a humanoid leech escaping through a system of sewers. I witnessed alien abductions. Intrigue within the fbi. Secret allies, even more secret conspirators and classified government units on even more classified government missions.
got is like a bad off brand xenia warrior princess…
Things like good an awful are subjective, so yeah. Sometimes I feel like a lot of people insist something is good based on their own connection to the media, but nothing is really objectively good or bad.
People warned me against playing Final Fantasy 15, the critics trashed it, yet it’s one of my favorite games in the franchise.
There are 16 actually, and that’s only including the mainline games.
Each game is standalone, but shares certain attributes. Think similar to the Legend of Zelda series.
For me, 15 was just a great escape. I often call it my “bro roadtrip simulator” because it’s a lot of driving around an open world and getting to know the characters.
The last segment was rushed in development, and it shows, but for me it works because by the time I enter that segment, it’s because I’m ready to be done.
I didn’t intend it to be a direct comparison. It’s just that both are similar in that the games tend to be standalone experiences rather than sequential. They share certain characters, themes, and archetypes, but you can pick up any game and play it on its own.
In spite of my username, I actually haven’t played LoZ since Wind Waker, though I did enjoy that one a lot
But what really pisses me off about current Zelda is the incredible amount of missed oportunities it has.
Like, why can’t we customize Link? (And if we can’t, why don’t they give him an actual dialog?)
Why can’t we have mainstream titles with playable characters other than Link?
It’s those kinds of things that prevents me from giving Skyward Sword and everything that came after a proper chance.
I love ALL Classic Zelda (yes, even Zelda 2 and the CD-i games for all the wrong reasons xD)
Not only the gameplay was fun, but you could see the developers really gave their best considering the limitations of their time.
Windwaker and Twilight Princess are… odd special cases.
The 2000s was a experimental era, and let’s be honest, Nintendo shot themselves in the leg by limiting the Gamecube to 1.4GB size discs.
But once the Wii arrived there really was no reason to keep on the same “silent yet uncustomizable” main character trope.
I like videogames when they are fun, yes.
But showing a good, creative design is also a big part of the inmersion for me.
And that seems to be the last thing on the list for Modern Zelda.
People will say that Breath of the Wild had beautiful graphics and was wonderful design.
And to a point, they’re right.
But when i see Windwaker, Skyward Sword and Breath of the Wild side to side i can’t avoid to think that they feel a bit… same-y.
I’m not saying i want a realistic Zelda, but again, i would either a customizable, path branching Zelda game, OR a Zelda game where Link has something other than button inputs on the script.
You have to give The Expanse a chance. I had no idea what was going on for most of the first season, but I really enjoyed the world-building and character development. It pays off later.
The Expanse spent the first three episodes setting things up; it got much better after that, although eventually it stopped being as good to me; kind of like Battlestar Galactica in the day.
Give The Expanse another try; it does truly get good before it gets derivative in later seasons.
S1 is good, though a bit rough imo. Later seasons (after Bezos bought the rights, said “finish the story”, and threw money at it to make it happen) do have a much more polished feel. Overall, I found it to be a very good adaptation of the source material.
The books are excellent - can’t recommend them enough.
A lot of people didn’t like season 1 of the Expanse (I enjoyed it) and said it got much better after that. I will say the Amazon seasons aren’t too great either as it looked and felt more like a low-budget soap opera.
Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad were both made by Vince Gilligan who worked on X-Files as well so they’re a good choice assuming you’re one of the few who haven’t already seen them.
Firefly. Watch the one season before the Movie. Then there are 8 novels now and comics by both Dark Horse & BOOM! Much disagreement about BOOM!'s but they got canceled too. It’s at least critical to read up on Wash’s family history and more, I think, but whatever.
You like it enough, gimmie a buzz and we’ll set up signal and video chat you into participating the original board game.
Here in a couple months or so I’ll be excited to do exactly that as the decade celebration of the original publish of the game has been conducted to issue an upgrade with minor extension elements, a make on quality parts for the game, and some extra things like options for player ships and whatnot.
Then there’s Firefly: Adventures which is a co-op game I got a friend who is excited to learn and play as I am seeing as we haven’t gotten to do so successfully yet. I have all the extensions and all that for everything too.
Only in the context that whatever is being spoken was “translated”. Not that they’re actually any rules or an entire vocabulary or just pretty much anything that a language has to have to be a language. It’s very convincing and that it might be a language to the lay person like you or me who gets fooled into thinking that it is a language, but the actual linguists and people who study language and such, it’s most definitely not a language.
It’s simple, you just have to remind yourself of the difference between the words ‘give’ and ‘take’ a shit. You have to observe the direction of transaction, are you giving or taking?
And if you’re taking a shit, well where the hell are you taking it to, and why? 🤔
Well clearly you’ve identified the problem. If your dogs poo every time you walk them, then stop walking them and they’ll stop pooing, problem solved 👍
Everybody jokes but one day there’s going to be a Cyberpunk|40kMechanicus|DeusEx market part for purchase, and the world will be further divided by those that need access to sewage and those that do not.
Thanks for the recommendation! Difficult to find genuine and good language apps these days that don’t cost to much money and or are riddled with ads and intrusive tracking.
I use Duolingo (and actually pay for it) and I agree 100% with this. The app is primarily about keeping you engaged and on the app. The method is by attempting to teach you a language.
Duolingo does have that function. It’s much more obvious on desktop web, but in the phone app, you tap the notebook icons to the right of the headings. I mean, they’re not necessarily excellent explanations, but they’re there.
That feature was never there in the app for norwegian at all. They just added something similar which is basically the review of all the sentences in the lesson. Fucking useless if you ask me.
Lingodeer is a technical mess with popups, banners and lock or crown icons everywhere. There are situations where it just won’t let you continue to the next lesson and the flow inside the exercises is very janky. Turning off the animations helps a lot but it’s nowhere near the ease of use of Duolingo.
The problem with all these alternatives is that the language selection is extremely limited. You want to learn English, French, German, or Spanish? Great, there are a million options for you! But if you go a bit more niche like Finnish or Irish, your options are much more limited. Of course there are ways to learn those languages - and much better ways than Duolingo. But Duolingo’s strength is offering a bunch of them, for free, in one place.
Note that I’m not trying to defend Duolingo, but rather deploring the lack of alternatives.
That’s good. The fucking broilers these days eat eachother because they need the energy. And it’s not from hormones like that guy below says. It’s from selective breeding. But they do grow fucking fast and it’s not the ones we eat that we need to worry about primarily, it’s their mothers that we need to keep alive through that bullshit. Using smaller, slower growing chickens is more responsible.
The chickens aren’t separated in the store; all the butchering and separating happens in the factory. The store gets boxes of legs, boxes of breasts, boxes of thighs, etc.
It seems plausible someone was very new and mistook the drumlet bin for the drumstick bin. I’d bet your order wasn’t the only mistake before someone noticed and corrected them.
It may be worth contacting the shop with your photo, because it will be obvious to them that is a drumlet. May be worth a free meal.
Okay, that’s weird. I get KFC on occasion and haven’t noticed any appreciable change in the drumstick size. The one in your photo is tiny and appears to be the same shape and size as a standard drumlet.
To cover the ten most traded currencies and ten most populous countries, the following are close in size to the coin in the post:
Australian dollar: 5 cent
Bangladeshi taka: 5 poisha
Brazilian real: slightly smaller than the 10 centavo
British pound: Between the 1 penny and the 5 pence
Canadian dollar: 1 cent
Chinese renminbi: 1 jiao
Euro: 2 cent
Hong Kong dollar: 20 cent
Indian rupee: 50 paise
Indonesian rupiah: slightly smaller than the 50 rupiah
Japanese yen: slightly smaller than the 1 yen
Mexican peso: 20 centavo
Nigerian naira: smaller than all current coins. About three-quarters the diameter of the 2 naira
Pakistani rupee: 5 rupee
Russian ruble: between the 5 kopeck and 50 kopeck
Singaporean dollar: 10 cent
Swiss franc: 10 centime
What happens when you can but the other guy is broke including homeless now. Do you murder the economy just because the “mutual” “giving” dies on one end?
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