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After I posted in the What’d You Just Read about The Devils and my Broken Binding copy, someone mentioned he may have more planned in that universe.

Devils was the first Abercrombie I've read and loved it. Really want to go back and do all the 1st Law and some others after finishing up some Hobb.

It kind of felt like in 2017 the resurgence or explosion of the Metroidvania stuff was just getting kicked off. So Hollow Knight came out at a real good time. Ori came out just before that in 2015 and from my mind really got things kicking. Dead Cells was 2017 also. So, it was well positioned...

I swapped to Kobo because Amazon just changed policy of letting you offload the books from your Kindle. Previously you could sync it to your computer and download / upload your .pdf or .kindles whatever, but no more. So fuck them...

Picked it up today also to try out and forgot I had to go pick up the kids. Not because I was playing and it was so good or anything. Just downloaded it at literally 4pm which is when we leave. So, don’t use that as an endorsement on Steam. Will play some tomorrow!

Yeah I get what you mean about the ebooks. I don’t find e-ink to put as much stress on my eyes as a normal computer screen, but it is a balance. Too dark and I strain to see it, too bright and it is like shining a flashlight in my eye. Wife is super sensitive to light when she sleeps so once I...

The 2024 physical novel was a limited run done by Conversation Tree Press, the ones I posted above (Solaris by Stanisław Lem). It is the only current print version of the 2011 translation. The 2011 translation was first available in eBook and Audiobook only in 2014 (Amazon.com: Solaris eBook ...

We're attempting to move forward with our land purchase it looks like. Spent an hour or more with the builders on Labor Day looking at lots and eventually settled on two parcels. Individually they aren't big enough for what we want so we'll be paying more but end up having a buffer on either...

That's a good question. Did some looking at it appears that Jasienko's version was also based on the French text and not the original Polish. Which definitely seems strange given that Jasienko is Polish, but he was a part of a large Polish post WWII intellectual community living in France. So...

No, it has some beheadings and blood and whatnot but no boobage.

Y’all are going to hate me, but this wasn’t actually the worst movie ever. I have no connection, knowledge, never read or seen anything source material related to Red Sonja. So, my perspective is this as just another cheesy Hercules, Xena, The Outpost, Beastmaster. Yeah conceptually the little...

Hmm Solaris is a hard one to pin down. It is very heavy with philosophical arguments and themes around what constitutes life and consciousness, as the scientists try to define what Solaris is… Well, if you aren’t familiar with the source novel or either film version, maybe that’s a good place...

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. In preparation for the Conversation Tree Press edition, I re-read the original translation from 1970 from Kilmartin and Cox. That version was not a direct from Polish effort and was instead translated from a French edition of Solaris. So, it was a double translation...

Cool, I d/l the demo but got pulled away before trying. The language in the trailer on Steam was very heavy about “success not bringing advancement; die and learn skills” yadda yadda. Made it sound more rogue’ish elements. uh the demo crashes my 3080Ti heh, some video memory error. Odd. May...

Trailer makes it sound more like Returnal than Doom? I guess it could be Doom shooting with Returnal rogue-like mechanics. May be fun to try out.

I spent like 40 minutes this morning watching old Mr. Show clips on YouTube after reading that dumb comment. That shit was hilarious. Blowing Up the Moon, the audition one, the lie detector. Those old sketch shows were the best.

Already bored of Silent Hill 2. Who thought it was a good idea to make a movie about Silent Hill and then spend like 45 minutes not even in the damn city? Maybe the back half is better.

lol I posted about it like 4 posts above. It wasn’t terrible but didn’t feel like it was any more than a 6/10, and a weak one at that.

I started 2 immediately after but only got about 10 minutes in and had to crash. Optimistic these days that my bedtime goes past 9:30 lol.

Just finished a rewatch of the 1st movie and man it was pretty great. Didn't remember much about it, definitely room for improvement and some of the CGI was extremely dated, but other scenes were just top notch. Towards the end when she gets off the elevator and is in the room filled with lying...

Kind of how a lot will add Tournament or PVP modes in some fashion. While Tournament may not directly have you “fight” other players, it does rank you against how far, fast, or efficient you got there. So you’re constantly competing and spending resources ($) to get betterer than others.

We also watched it last night and am in line with just about everyone. It was pretty bland as far as plot goes, generic, but visuals were great. Makes me regret not seeing it on a huge screen. Also kind of dumb that every race was like “ohh intense, we’re gonna do it!” Crash. Next race “oh we...

Land, don’t die bc your Ryobi blew up.

It looks interesting but $20 is a little much for me to try out a roguelike/lite when there's a ton of $10 options out there.

Finished Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay about a week ago. I ended up liking it a whole lot more than expected and was pretty critical of it at the start. It had a nice balance to me of descriptive language and easy prose to get through for a fantasy novel. Ended up reading it fairly quickly by my...

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Speaking of fans... Went ahead and bought this for our nursery b/c the one I bought 2 years ago for our 2nd boy is a total piece of junk. It is remote only, no pull strings, not dual-wired to the switches for fan and light control, so when the remote doesn't work there's no way to just turn off...

Are they though?!

Not content with already dying in a Robin Hood production, Sean Bean is trying to go 2 for 2?

I mean Steven Kostanski has a thing and I don't hate it. Psycho Goreman was actually pretty great and I remember liking The Void too. I'm down for this.

Bro…

Yeah I have a Asus USB-C one for work travel. For some reason one day it stopped working from my USB-C port and just keeps giving me a DisplayPort unsupported error. Another one of those annoyances with my stupid Lenovo. Not that the monitor works any different really off of regular USB port...

I just grabbed a $60 10.1” off Amazon. We’ll see how it works!

Man I need a small monitor like that to help setup my NVR when I add a camera. The NVR has HDMI or VGA out and I’ve just hauled a spare monitor in there. I’ve got a power strip for external power… hmm just reminded me when I saw your picture.

Ready or Not was pretty good, worth a watch. I posted in the Recent Movie thread I watched Borderline that she was in and it is about a 4/10. She wore a wife beater and pink boy shorts about the whole time (I think, already kinda forgot) so there is that.

I only use my laptop once a month for a week while traveling and my travel will be restricted for a while after baby is born, it was just fresh on my mind because I traveled last week and fought with it the whole time. We'll see in a few months. Could just need to be reimaged which isn't a big...

Propoganda numbers lol. Mythic seconds and now this!

This was pretty good. I didn’t find it slow at all really but it did accelerate towards the back half. Worth the watch though.

Ah, this is the one A24 dropped and Bleeker St picked up. Forgot about that until the Bleeker logo popped up. Could be interesting to watch.