Sunday, February 17, 2013

Geeky Weekly Funtimez

Episode Reviews
Monday: Cowboy Bebop - Black Dog Serenade and Lost Re-Watch - Some Like It Hoth
Tuesday: Princess Tutu - The Maiden's Prayer and Husbands
Wednesday: Cowboy Bebop - Mushroom Samba and Buffy Re-Watch - Passion
Thursday: Princess Tutu - Crime and Punishment and Buff Re-Watch - Intervention
Friday: Cowboy Bebop - Speak Like a Child and Bones - The Man in the Fallout Shelter

Chapter Reviews
Monday: Wolf-Speaker - Chapter 9
Tuesday: Blackout - Chapter 1
Wednesday: Wolf-Speaker - Chapter 10
Thursday: Blackout - Chapter 2
Friday: Wolf-Speaker -Epilogue and Emperor Mage - Predictions

Also, if anyone didn't see it last week, we're starting a new thing where anyone can request that I edit the time-stamp of their weekly "verbs" threads so that sorting the comments by date will make them easy to find. I'm keeping a list of who has already requested their threads be changed. So if you want me to add you to the list, let me know!

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Pica Reads TO YOU from Prince Ombra by Roderick MacLeish



In case anyone is needing to get caught up:
- Prince Ombra Thread, Week One
- Prince Ombra Thread, Week Two
- Prince Ombra Thread, Week Three

Note: Chapter 14 is long, so it will be split over Monday and Tuesday. Also, there will be no post on Friday, since I'll be busy doing real-life socialising with a certain ghost-cow.
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spectralbovine watches The West Wing

It's hard not to just spend the rest of this three-day weekend mainlining this show.

Current Progress: Season 1, Episode 8.
51 replies · active 650 weeks ago
David Watches Battlestar Galactica

Continuing with Season 1 Episode 3. Plaintext spoilers in the replies for as far as I've gotten. Oh, and I guess it would make sense to keep this at the top with the others, since I've been getting a lot more replies than I expected.
58 replies · active 650 weeks ago
Threerings watched Dexter Season 7

Ok, my brother has been trying to spoil this season for me for months, so let's do it.

(And you can put this on the front page)
20 replies · active 650 weeks ago
Earthsea book club!

We're continuing with The Farthest Shore this week
27 replies · active 650 weeks ago
Miss Crepsley watches LOST

Episode 5.08 LaFleur. This was fun. And informative. And, oh, who cares what happened this episode. SHIPPING IT!
As an X Verbs Y person, can I apply for modly magic?
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megotelek watches Black Books

I've never watched this (I know, I'm ashamed) but it's on Netflix Instant and I watched the first episode last night and THIS IS SO FUN.

(Can this get mod-bumped to the front, please?)
26 replies · active 650 weeks ago
Threerings replays Discworld Noir

Discworld Noir is a fantastic game from 1999, set in Discworld. It's also a noir. Bet you couldn't have guessed that. It's a classic point-and-click adventure game, which is my very favorite kind of game.

I played it 5 years ago or so, after I finally got it to run on Vista. The game is notoriously hard to get to run on modern systems, but I've got it figured out. You do a full install, then download a no-cd crack and use that to run it. It occasionally crashes randomly, so you have to save often, but it's playable. You can find the game on cd on ebay, usually.

The game really plays like a lost Discworld novel, and Terry Pratchett was very involved in the writing of it. I thought some of the Discworld fans around here might be interested in it.

(Edit my timestamp,please? At least I'll be able to find it easier.)
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haha I don't know if anyone saw that one I just had to delete but APPARENTLY SHIT IS STILL WEIRD WITH THE SITE OR SOMETHING

I made a draft of this post a few hours ago, and then from the page that shows all posts I checked it off and selected "publish" and I stg it had the 394 comments of that post from the other week that we had to start over

YOU GUYS

WHAT
12 replies · active 651 weeks ago
Steven Watches 200 Movies for the First Time!


This week I'm watching silent films from the years 1915 - 1927:

The Birth of a Nation (1915) - A film that is "admired" for being groundbreaking on a technical level but reviled for being horribly racist (which it is.)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - An early horror classic. Despite knowing it's name really well I don't really know much about it.

The General (1926) - A comedy film starring Buster Keaton. Ever since I saw Benny & Joon as a kid I've been curious about Buster Keaton so this seemed like a good time to try one of his films out.

Metropolis (1927) - An influential scifi film. I'll be watching the restored version.

It (1927) - A film that was lost for decades. It stars Clara Bow and it was the that spawn the term "It girl".

The Cat and the Canary (1927) - A horror movie that I don't actually know much about.
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Ryan Watches FMA Brotherhood
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Sara Watches the Vampire Diaries: Season 4
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Elexus re-reads Guards! Guards!

So, I idly decided to pick up a Discworld book- and one of the first I read, which is also, coincidentally, the begging of what's most likely the Disc's most popular group of characters, the City Watch. And wow, how far have we come.

The humor is of course, still razor sharp. Its just amazing to think how far these characters will go. Especially when the narration goes on about how Carrot is pining after an unseen dwarven girl or how Vimes never made anything with his life. Not gonna stay like that often, is he?

That said, its surprisingly painful to read about Vimes her.e. He's just so unhappy. He's never been a cheerful character....I'd hug him, if he wasn't fictional or didn't smell of alcohol.
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Um, so I have only just now realized that these posts are titled "Geeky Weekly Funtimez", as I have always thought the first word was "Geekly". The more you know.
5 replies · active 651 weeks ago
FNL season 4 time!
Currently at 4x08 (it snowed yesterday)
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Time for what seems to have turned into my weekly post of shallowness, which I should really think of some snappy name for. Pictures in the reply so you can scroll past more easily.
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Ooh, more Bones! I don't know why I'm so excited about this. Probably because even though a lot of the writing decisions are super questionable, I still love the characters to pieces, especially Booth, Brennan and Hodgins. <3
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Elie reads A Storm of Swords

I made Predictions! Two of which are proven wrong by the first two chapters!
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Hugo Nomination Suggestions!

Heads up! I'm putting up a Hugo nomination suggestions post on Mark Reads Tuesday morning (tentatively scheduled for 9 AM PST, but Mark may change the time). So, megotelek, get your awesome Graphic Story posts ready, and everyone else, if you have recommendations, start putting them together! Mark has no idea what to do besides vote for himself.
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I'm 25 today.

I'm torn between

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Hyaroo makes a fan drawing and doesn't know whether to be amused or bemused at the reactions

Okay, so after yesterday's season finale of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (which I actually liked) I hung out at a number of pony-themed forums to check the fan reaction. And the incredible amount of bile, hatred and raging inspired me to make a fan drawing.

Spoilerriffic drawing in reply.
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Alice Plays Mass Effect 2

still goin!
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Alice Gets Kinda Bored Of Cupcakes And Makes Cookies Instead
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TheFunkeSummers tries catching up with Princess Tutu. Again. Like He will ever be caught up. He really likes talking about himself in the third person.
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The weekend's the best time to experiment, right?

Seeing some talk yesterday about sitting on the computer during the weekend and being bored, I thought I'd make an IRC channel on the Blitzed network for us. It's good because you can see who's online to chat and stuff. (It's not so good because I'm really good at idling/lurking, and I'm there all the time.)

(For those who don't know, IRC is just text chatting, basically. Very old school.)

If you don't have an IRC client, I recommend starting with Mibbit; it's web-based, cross-platform, and pretty solid. To get to the channel, select Blitzed from the menu by "Connect". Then type in a nick where it says "Nick", and put #markspoils in the "Channel" box. It should look something vaguely like this, only with your nick instead of mine. Then click connect.

If you want to experiment with me, I'll be there... as Cosmo. (It's my HOL name, which is why I'm on that particular server.) If you see Grumblesnore, that's me, too, but it means I've gone to bed. I'll be around basically all day, if you want to stop by and say hi.
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