Rehab

Closest things have come for me is that a couple of times when waking up, generally from afternoon naps, I've briefly hallucinated (maybe?!) things that looked like big (roughly cat-sized) unidentifiable arthropods/bugs, just floating there. Not just random spots, like I'm pretty sure they had features. Which would quickly fade away into the shadows, like the spots I see when my eyes are adjusting to light. Only ever had my normal depression meds in my system, never seen anything else like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5jtV9fypMw I am become dadmusic

Fictional: A sky whale Other: An elephant, both for the obvious wow/literally a siege weapon factor and for their intelligence. That is, if the process of making them ridable in real life wasn't so horrific My dad's some kinda British mutt at this point, traces the family name's roots to Alsace-Lorraine in today's France, then Scotland to fight the English, then fastforward to the American Revolution and we somehow ended up being Royalists, chased into Canada. My mom's a descendant of some shunned Amish dude, so Swiss, I take it

Smash 4 can take everything else from me, if this is true I will forgive it smh

Since their stat spreads don't tend to be that good even at base, I'd hazard an uninformed guess that balance wouldn't be hurt too bad by just giving them their extra move (all other sorts of appropriate balance minutiae notwithstanding) Not that it matters to the people making FE, given it tends to have a certain kind of anime/video game stylistic take on European middle-ages armaments, but the kinds of plate armor that saw wide battlefield use ain't even that heavy, shit probably wouldn't have been practical, esp. not for the hundreds of years stuff like it was used Making sure they hang on to their niche (or what's supposed to be their niche) might be a little different from just buffing them up to a fair starting point, though. I still like this concept of a class skill I had for them, where maybe if they used something less than all of their movement in a turn, then they could activate a stance, "hold the line" or something, where they would force any melee enemy walking within a space of them while doing something other than going to attack the knight themselves into a battle phase, possibly giving the knight Vantage for it, depending. A little like some attack of opportunity situations in Dungeons & Dragons etc. If they land a hit on the enemy, maybe it could either get pushed back a space, or just have its turn end next to the knight. Or, pending balance evaluations/stat calculation whatevers (like the enemy meeting a certain threshold of more speed/less Con than the knight), maybe the free swipe at an enemy would be plenty. (so basically just an attack of opportunity, then)

Whoa there are actually people here all of a sudden Boarding at 2:03? You guys can't pull that switch now, I was about to catch up on internet stuff damn it

Doh, meant to edit that into this before posting: A good half a week late: came to Ottawa, Canada for the bi-yearly paternal family visit, boarding started not too long after that last post.Got into that area of not-sleep on the flight where time still passed like normal and I could hear everything, but bumps and feet-taps would make me jolt up. Apparently they expected us to get there before it was dark. Didn't happen. At least we didn't catch anybody snowed in, though. Entered the standard haze of mostly-junk-food-eating, game-playing, nigh-twelve-hour-sleeping madness with my cousins, and got access to their consoles. Smash 4's better than I feared, worse than I'd hoped, and as much fun as most-always. Also, my cousin has started getting EA 2K sports releases, seemingly as the yearly releases come out. I wonder how one determines what the high water marks for those series are. Waiting for the flight back now, which of course got delayed from 11:50 to 2, and then 2:30. The Canadian airport's structured much more pleasantly than the U.S. one from where I'm sitting, at least. Just rows of benches in one long-ish sunny room, instead of what feel like cramped side compartments. Dad even opined that our gate probably wasn't there to begin with.And the trip from check-in to waiting area is measured in a couple minutes' stride, instead of a bus ride or a friggin subway stop or two. Only complaint: the dude at baggage check, screening etc said that I wouldn't be able to bring the water bottle I'd gotten with lunch on board. First of all, even us Yankees allow that at this point. Second, I bought it from one of your outlet eateries. And third, it's not like I'm going straight from there to the plane, I went to the gate from there! There are even little duty-free shops you can freakin buy a water bottle from right there, after bag check. Of course it always seems to be some guy with a French accent that presents our Canada trips with little road-bumps. I did catch a guy playing the Civ4-engine Colonization remake on his laptop, though. Didn't have much more than a "hey, is that___?" conversation about it, but it's still cool to see out of the blue. I'm a bit cagey about hinting at my power level in public atm. Maybe I shouldn't be. @Esme: Ha, not hardly, I'm afraid. This time my cousin got a head start on both me and our old family friend/Melee superior who also visits around now. We did a lot of non-competitive multiplayer stuff, like co-op Classic, All Star, event matches, etc. Did most of our versus matches earlier on, when I was going in totally blind. Wario... has changed. Aerial acceleration, landing lag/"autocancel" timings (muh shop dair ; ; ), his shoulder bash, bike tires and quick dismounting for a projectile shield getting removed... The bike's improvements and some other little things are nice, but I'm afraid this isn't the bob-and-weave, turn-on-an-aerial-dime, punishment king and shield destroyer of a character I fell in love with. Ness feels hella better with the new engine stuffs, though. Also can't wait to join the Little Mac army

Our flight was originally scheduled for 11:50, which of course means that we were "behind-schedule," if not "late," when we left at 9:40. It is now *checks time* now 2, right abouts. Oop, got a line forming. Oh wait that's just for some kind of passport checkin thing we already did. And... 15 more minutes, at least according to that fickle, fickle clock.

Help me sf you're one of my small number of hopes There's a small girl and a smaller boy in front of me at this same charging station. They're both playing Minecraft on their little phone devices, and the boy is asking the girl for tips and saying what he's doing and it's cool Did you know that even terrors of children (not these kids, some other dude whose poor mother also had a baby to attend to, and who ran around dragging on the property and pantlegs of people trying to go between the gaps in the ~1.5 feet long gap between the seats and the wall here, while his mom could only call "Joshy" softly, in the manner of somebody trying not to offend a volcano god about to blow this place) can become completely quiet when you hand them a game (of course you do. who am I talking to, after all) God fucking bless the woman who lent him her phone to play a game, payed attention to him as he played and then didn't even snatch it away when he ran around with it a good few minutes before giving it back She deserves a good nap

Garfield my overprotective labrador retriever

The two-ish things I want to do/accomplish most in life (study some very specific aspect of sensation perhaps, so as to work towards discovering or even engineering some way to simulate sensation, and to animate a few dozen things in my head) are in completely separate areas (biology/biotechnology/bioengineering? and animation), require immense amounts of work/skill to even think about doing, are not exactly the first things that would come to my mind for "things that would make me a lot of money," and are things I still have basically no experience with I somehow still have no idea where even the starting points are (help)

Haha, this is a particularly relevant question for me because I couldn't think of anything when my dad asked me to tell my relatives what I wanted for Christmas, so he said "you're probably getting money, then" Which I'm cool with, personally. Unwrapping things admittedly activates a pleasure groove deep in my brain, but the only things I could think to ask for didn't seem appropriate. (a smartphone? ehhh bit too expensive probably, and somehow feels like something I should get a job for. some kinda lessons or a gym membership? so money, basically. maybe a desk, like a standing thing for computers or one of those art desks? wait you dumbass you're going there on a plane. maybe music? let's see, what have I been wanting to pick u-oops time's up.) My family has a thing with gifts where they've always been way generous with presents (and could afford to be), which led to some awkward situations when I ended up getting somebody some kind of gift that actually made them uncomfortable. Like, their "whoa, you don't have to go that far" threshold was different from mine. Made kind of a doofus out of myself to some friends,* so now I get kinda worried that I'll come off like "who's this asshole" when I buy a steam gift or something *(of course not all of them had the same reaction, which my doofus teenage self got even more confused by)

bunga jump into my heart and cut the rope

mfw Italy is way, way more on the progressive side of the issue (Sorry, Italians, I don't actually know enough about you guys' politics to judge and should probably shut up, I just heard this one time that gender equality is stunningly bad in Italy)

"Hey, you know what would be fun? A moderately forum-driven LP, where the spectators decide what order problems are tackled in!" 9.25 INGAME YEARS AND OVER AN ACTUAL MONTH LATER: *the problem chosen first by spectators is finally resolved, 3rd-to-last of 14* It might not have been the best idea to pick a game I still had a lot to learn about for my first LP ever, and the way I involved users was kind of uneven. At least it was something of a learning experience, though.

REP: WORLDWIDE I was going to go "oh thank god" but then I realized I don't actually know whether China supposedly having disproportionately bad football overall compared to their level of enthusiasm for it actually makes them the worse to pick for a training camp ingame also >Paulinho still gets rating in top 3 (I think?) also >reality finally begins to catch onto Michael "Fucking Minted" Laing's "set expectations really low, then perform really high" stratagem; begins to push him towards the precipice of "actually expected to wreck faces at this point," his feet dragging all the way

Tough pick again OldMan and *rolls dice* Loki

Remind me, how many characters do you need to get to level 25-30 to get a top EXP ranking, again? Closer to "all of them" than not? Is a perfect-ranked playthrough possible without the arena? I love the sizes of the game's maps as they are, they're among the things that made me enjoy FE4 so much the first time. and they're also a good part of why I haven't completed the game a second time (my excuse for picking the first option is that I love the game as it is, and would just like a similar such scheme to be designed better in a future installment, please and thank you) The rest of the whole topic hashed a lot of my thoughts on it out already- lots of empty crossing combined with movement penalty terrain don't go together very well. Even worse are the occasions where part of the empty commute includes backtracking. Another thing that comes to mind is that the bigness is put to a kind of waste, because IIRC a large majority of the time the main enemy forces tend to only come from one direction, generally from the next place on the list to seize. IIRC there'll occasionally be forces coming from more than one direction, but except for the bandits attacking villages (which IIRC don't usually require the attention of more than a unit or so), the game doesn't ask players to actually split their forces all that much. I do actually like parts of this idea that the army is on the longest of continuous marches, doing a tour through an entire country, (which I could say is FE4's whole structure,) but it'd make for a nice change of pace to also have situations where a bunch of forts in different directions from the starting point are being attacked, a whole country's like EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE, and the player has to choose whom to send where. Even when characters join from a long way away and under threat in FE4, usually either they can handle themselves (and indeed sometimes must), or they're the only pressing objective the player has.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFX1NtxkqcE Only on some occasions, such as when it would be shit-wreckingly hilarious

It may help to try to set a standard time to go to bed every night, and to turn off all electronics an hour before bed. A good long shower/bath/end of day hygiene routine may help to set that up, if it's not palatable to end all that early. Exercising before bed could go either way depending on the person, but I've occasionally been able to tire myself out enough to just plop on the bed when I got back.

I love it, thank you

I feel fairly comfortable assuming that Jedi calling you heinous was intentional hyperbole. Or maybe it didn't even go that far, maybe he had just heard somebody call somebody else heinous when person two did something that person one really didn't like, and just comprehended that was a meaning the word could have if used in that way. I doubt that he meant to say, I dunno, "somebody should find a way to get you arrested because you're objectively a bad enough person to deserve it." Heinous is just one of those words people use that goes beyond its original/primary dictionary definitions to express displeasure with somebody. Like when somebody releases a particularly buggy or poorly-designed video game, somebody else whose distaste for it is particularly high might say, "Ugh! They should be tried in the Hague." Or like saying somebody is "insufferable." Whatever that person's behavior is, the person saying so probably doesn't intend to say they're literally "impossible to suffer," it's just that the person saying so likely really, really doesn't want to suffer them, and may assume that others would agree enough with them to not hold their choice of words against them in that case. So it goes. Basing your judgement of somebody's moral competence on what they call you when they find you deeply annoying and/or flat-out detrimental to discussion is not something that tends to win a lot of sympathy, in my experience. Most people I have met will tend to just respond with, "oh, you know what he fucking meant. ...I mean, don't you?" Of course, it could be that he doesn't think very hard about what he considers truly evil, and that the word he chose to use is indicative of this. It could also be that he really thinks you ought to be arrested. But I feel fairly comfortable assuming that most people would probably respond to that charge in particular by rolling their eyes and calling you thick-headed. Or something. Sorry for the derail.

If I could beggar you guys for your services too: I would very much appreciate a version of the last panel with just Spidey getting one, but it would be fantastic if I could also beg one of you guys to put a tiny one at Wolverine's feet, like he threw it on the ground

Of my favorite people on SF, Spheerian is one of them

Speaking of sales! Despite that I once read a blog entry from a year or so ago by the game's main creator that he thinks it lends a certain credence to some games to not go on sales that are too huge, because, reasons, I forget, Democracy 3 and its first 2 content packs appear to be on a "fuck you, buy me" discount for the entire steam holiday sale. Just so you know. I mean, I'd buy it, if I were you. Personally speaking. But I made an LP of it, so, yeah, obviously.