Jimboxy

That is how rumors start I guess

I was at that gig too! Small world

I did that last year as well thinking I was bidding on a game and it fucked me over completely. I should probably log in and see what I need to do on mine still

I’ve just removed 4 years worth of unused restores from our database, so we’ve gone down from a 10gb to just over 1gb. I imagine this might mean we have some speed improvements, but also stops us from being put on a premium sql plan as well

I don’t think I got much further in this before soft bailing on it. It’s ok but feels dated despite not being all that old. A lot of stereotypes about race and gender which was off putting, I might try and push on with it though, after I finish… 11.22.63 by Stephen King. I’ve not read much King stuff outside of The Dark Tower as I’m not really a horror fan. I liked the premise of this, despite it feeling a bit like both Goodnight Sweetheart and that episode of Red Dwarf where they get tied up in the JFK assassination. It might still have parallels with both those things, but at the moment it feels like pretty typical King rambling. Lots of 50s Americana, some references to his other work, little bit meta. I had began to tire of it a little, but it’s picked up again now, I’m about 60% in.

NoHo Hank! I’ve been watching the last season of Barry and was wondering if he’d been in much else

We’re back, sorry about that. We’ve lost a few days worth of content, hopefully none of it was fried gold

My reading pales in comparison compared to what you guys seem to be reading at the moment, but I recently finished: Calibans War (Expanse book 2) - good, not a whole lot happens but introduces some more characters into the mix and continues to set up towards something interesting. The strong point in both books so far has been world building. Apparently it was originally planned as a TTRPG but they decided the world was so rich they should turn it into a book series. Well pick up book 3 as my next read All Systems Red (MurderBot Dairies book 1) - This was a fun novella about an android who can’t be bothered. Sort of like Marvin the Paranoid Android but with heavy weapons. Well written, funny and I’ll pick up the rest of the short stories at some point currently reading: Amazonia - this came out in the early 2000s, I’d never heard of it before, but Good Reads thought I might like it based on other books I’d read. It’s pretty pulpy, similar to Michael Crichton type novels about an expedition into the Amazon. It has a pretty interesting mystery at the start as the catalyst and is an easy read. Feels a little dated perhaps, but I’ll stick with it

That implies that you’re happy with the price of pints and cigars?

Finished it today, loved it. Was going to start book 2 this evening but going to read something else inbetween

I've been pushing myself to read at least one hour a day, and I've probably exceeded that as I've removed all the social stuff from my phone. Anyway, in the last month or so I've finished: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, same chap who wrote The Martian. The story and premise is good, but the lead character and writing style really got on my nerves. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. This was really good. A fast-paced sci-fi adventure that has an interesting set up, but was really well written as well. It's recently been turned into a show on Apple TV; I could see how it would work well. And now I'm about two-thirds of the way through Leviathan Wakes, the first book in The Expanse series. I've had this for years but struggled to get into it. Most of the first half of the book is the same as the first season of the show, which I've seen before, but the second half is new to me and I'm really enjoying it. Should probably wrap it up over the weekend

Not normally how’d we’d do this, but it seemed better here. David Lynch is DEAD

Yeah this looks pretty cool. The only thing that bothered me is in the opening of the trailer he hit the ground at an incredible rate yet hardly made an impact in the snow, but that’s probably a little pedantic

Joined

Looks promising

Yeah I'll join up again. Can't do any worse than this year

You could try and take it up with the moderation team?

Dutch angles

I missed the title of this topic and got excited for something new with this guy

Is it still locked to requiring a Facebook/meta account, or did they back down on that? I need to dig my quest 2 out really, what a waste of money that turned out to be

Get you I honed my Time Crisis skills on a 14" CRT, so 17" would probably feel like an upgrade. I must have switched over to 21" at some point though, thinking about it

Oh my. So do I now

Is Castle of Illusion for GG the same as the Master System version? I'd imagine it probably is. I loved that game, but remember it being proper hard Brazil really loved the Master System didn't they https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_of_Illusion_Starring_Mickey_Mouse

It's certainly ended mine over the last couple of days. I've had this for months but only started it a few nights ago and absolutely love it. I managed my first complete run last night with the green deck, and managed to get to the final level with the red deck. I've been mainly focusing on small hand builds, the half joker is good for this I've found. I'm also trying to do runs where I switch or add more cards of the same suit and try and manipulate the deck to consistently draw face cards, still working on this though. GotY