Sunday, August 16, 2015

Weekly Shenanigans

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads Shatterglass - Chapter 9
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 4x11 Kuvira's Gambit
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 3x23 Sarek

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
Witches Abroad - Part 16
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 4x12 Day of the Colossus
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 3x24 Menage A Troi

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Shatterglass - Chapter 10
8 AM - Mark Watches The Legend of Korra - 4x13 The Last Stand
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 3x25 Transfigurations

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
Small Gods - Part 1
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - 3x26 The Best of Both Worlds

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads Shatterglass - Chapter 11
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: TNG - Season Four Predictions

As always, please remember that all video exchanges are to be done in the Black Market, which you'll find linked in the sidebar.

* All times listed are in the US Pacific timezone.

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Djinn Watches Leverage and Can't Handle That This Show is Almost Over

Current Progress: 5x01
32 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Coldrun Plays the Final Fantasy Series


Tifa by discoart, posted by djinn87.

All prior posts for my playthroughs from FFI through present available at http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com. TW: discussion of weight and body issues on that site as well.

Current progress: Final Fantasy VII - Crisis Core.
47 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for August 24 - 28 episodes)



This is where Mark lets us know when the new videos are up (they're usually uploaded all at once). Please do not try to buy a new episode until he posts here (or on Twitter) to say there's something new ready to download.

Link exchanges and donations take place on the Black Market post. Below are links to the store page for each show (just click on the show title), plus a list of the episodes that we expect to be uploaded for the week.

STAR TREK: TNG (new season, new store page)
4x01
4x02
4x03
4x04
4x05

No double feature videos this week, as far as we know.
50 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Books Thread!

Because my brother and I just spent a ton of money buying books yesterday. Between us we bought:

Steelheart (Reckoners #1) by Brandon Sanderson
Firefight (Reckoners #2) by Brandon Sanderson
The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

Currently, I'm still reading the last Heroes of Olympus book. What's everyone else been up to with reading?
40 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Spoils (Re-)Watches The X-Files

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This week:

Monday: 5x07: 'Rzvyl'
Wednesday: 5x08: 'Xvgfhartnev'
Friday: 5x11: 'Xvyy Fjvgpu'
13 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Looking forward to the TNG season 4 predictions. This time Mark has something to really predict and character story lines to address. Should be entertaining.
Hey! Are there any other deaf/Deaf/HOH folks, or anyone with auditory processing disorder, in the MDS community?

if so:



TALK TO ME
3 replies · active 512 weeks ago
So I went boardgaming for the first time since moving to Iowa. There was a decent turnout, not nearly as many as St. Louis, but still about fifty people.



I got in games of Ticket to Ride - Sweden, Splendor, Sushi Go, and Forbidden Desert...but we also played a game of Pandemic. 4 infection cards, 2 newbies. And we won. Without a single outbreak.

7 replies · active 512 weeks ago
Hey guys, I went to Mark's event in Portland last night ('twas AWESOME) and he mentioned that a patreon supporter had commissioned a video of him watching Ouran High School Host Club and that everyone would be able to see it and I NEED that video in my life. He said it'd be going up soon, but he didn't say when. Anyone have any idea where/when I can find it?
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Balthier7285 gaming live on my twitch channel http://www.twitch.tv/balthier7285

Will play Okami now on my own time, check here for progress reports and updates

This week I start Dragon Age Origins (never played before)

Dragon Age Origins Thursday at 7 pm EDT
Final Fantasy 7 (is there any interest left? If not I will stop)

After Dragon Age Origins:
Dark Souls

Weekly Stream To do list
Dark Souls 1
Child of Light
Fallout 3

Thinking about
Beyond Good and Evil
Journey
Rayman Legends
Ni No Kuni
The Mark of Kri
looking for suggestions

Not doing
ICO

Past Games with my ratings
The Last of Us (4/5)
Valkyria Chronicles (5/5)
Infamous Second Son (3.5/5)
Shadow of the Colossus (2/5)
Mirror's Edge (3/5)
Okami (4/5) (still in progress)

My YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/7285balthier

find some past stuff on there
25 replies · active 511 weeks ago
For those of you who enjoy tabletop games, or who like dice, this may be of interest to you:

Level Up Dice by Level 3B on Kickstarter:


Music Thread: Prog Rock/Art Rock - It seemed to come up in last week's music thread, so why not go into it here? Post some of your favorite dorkrock numbers here. You don't have to be 30 minutes long and feature a seven-minute keyboard solo to work here, but it sure helps!

(Feel free to create a different thread below if this isn't what you're into).
10 replies · active 512 weeks ago
Continuing to listen to the audio version of "Worm," a superhero web serial which you can read for free at http://parahumans.wordpress.com.



It's super awesome. Assume MANY trigger warnings. If there's one you're concerned about before continuing, please feel free to reply to this post if you would like, and either I or one of those who has read through this will reply.

Currently at 14.1.
42 replies · active 511 weeks ago
Stef watches The Walking Dead




TRIGGER WARNINGS: mentions of Abuse, Blood, Body Horror, Death, Gore, Guns, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Weapons

Current Progress: 3x12
83 replies · active 512 weeks ago
Discussion Thread for Book Four of Down to Agincourt by Seperis

End!verse Castiel gif from *Supernatural*[X]

(Possible spoilers for all previous books, as well as Supernatural canon through the end of season seven, at least.)

Thanks to Ladylark for the idea!

And, yes, chapter one of The Game of God has been posted!!!
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[youtube aAodRUPN7lE&ab_channel=ExtraCredits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAodRUPN7lE&ab_channel=ExtraCredits youtube]

I know I usually only post these when they start, but I have such a morbid fascination with the Crusades.

One of the games I poured hours into trying to beat as a child was Age of Empires 2, which had campaigns for Saladin and Barbarossa.
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This week's funny things from tumblr



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10 replies · active 512 weeks ago
Time to once again spam the thread with what I've been doing since last Monday!

On my Patreon:
2+/mo subscribers can read the latest Near-Apocalypse of '09 post, on the notoriously bad BTAS episode "Cat Scratch Fever."
5+/mo subscribers can see my latest vlog, a response to Star vs. the Forces of Evil S1E4.

(cont in reply)
2 replies · active 512 weeks ago
Hi everyone! This is the final week I'll be posting Question(s) of the Week on Mark Spoils for now! Anyone can answer these, so here they are:

- How can you tell if someone's comments have a condescending tone to them? What are, like, "red flag" phrases to watch out for? Or does it depend on context?

- Has anyone read a Diana Wynne Jones story? It can be either her novels or short stories.

- (This is a question I posted on August 3) Were you aware of the idea and/or the term of "social justice" before stumbling into Mark Does Stuff? If so, where did you learn those concepts? (note that "social justice" might mean something different to someone else)

- Does anyone know Sebald Code?

I might start a read-through of Brian Jacques' novel Martin the Warrior later this year on this blog. So don't forget to check it out! See you guys!
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In this post, Previous Question(s) of the Week can be answered here, so here they are (you don't need to answer all of these):

+ If you were given the power to add anything, like a rule, or a feature, on the Mark Does Stuff site, what would it be? (Note it must be something that Mark approves of.)

+ How much do you guys know about The X-Files?

+ What MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games) does anyone play, other than League of Legends?

+ Plus, are there any good chess players out here? I'm looking for future challengers.

+ Which fanfiction site would you prefer: ao3 (Archive Of Our Own) or Wattpad?

+ Are there any fellow Filipino/a/xs out there in the Mark Does Stuff community?

+ Do any of you mention or advertise Mark to your other online friends? (Online only, no offline)

+ Other than Mark, which person (like an author, a celebrity, or a celebrity author, etc.) would you want to meet and hang out with in real life?

+ For cake lovers, what is your favorite kind of cake? (It can be any kind of cake.)

+ What was a thing (i.e. a blog post, an essay, or a book, etc.) that changed your view of the world in general?

+ What was the first convention you attended? When was it? How did you get in? What were your first impressions of that con and how did you feel about it?

+ Have you seen any movies from Studio Ghibli? If so, what was the first movie you've seen by them? (Note that this question also includes any movies that Miyazaki-san has not directed.)

+ What is your D&D (Dungeons & Dragons) alignment? Note that you don't need to play D&D to know about your alignment. You can find out by taking this questionnaire and see your results there.

+ When and how did you stumble upon one of Mark's sites? This can count for either or both Reads/Watches.

+ How many of you are familiar with the Tales franchise?

+ Which Rei do you guys prefer? Ayanami or Ryugazaki? (any other character named Rei is also welcome)

+ When did you first stumble upon or know about Princess Tutu? How?

+ Have you ever played any of the LittleBigPlanet games for the PS3 (or have LBP3 for PS4)?

P.S. Please support arctic_hare on Patreon! The link is on the sidebar of Spoils!

P.P.S Juice is a warrior's drink!

See you guys! It's been fun hearing your answers!
Hey spoilies, I have two very important questions! [Spoilers for a hopefully-future Mark Watches show]

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2. Ubj pna jr znxr fher gung ur jngpurf gur rcvfbqrf va gur evtug beqre juvyr fvzhygnarbhfyl yrggvat crbcyr sbyybj nybat ng ubzr? Gur vGharf naq Lbhghor rcvfbqr beqref ner ubcryrffyl obexrq.
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Huh, I hit 120p recently. Strange.
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Anyone here watch Video Game High School? Just finished it last night...I did not sign on for these feelings.
6 replies · active 512 weeks ago
What about a different kind of Spoils movie liveblog?



I love horror movies. They scare the crap out of me, and I love them. But they're always more fun to watch with other people! So here I was, about to watch "The Babadook" for the first time. I'd heard great things about it, that it was scary as hell, and saw it's on Netflix.

Then it hit me: why not do it as a liveblog?

I've enjoyed the times we've liveblogged in the community - "Terminator" (1 and 2), "Advent Children," "Clue..." So why not this?

It wouldn't be this week, but next Saturday, August 29th. Who'd be interested? If so, would you prefer it to be NIGHT TIME SO SPOOKY or DAY TIME OH GOD SHIELD ME FROM THE TERRORS OF THE NIGHT?
http://strawpoll.me/5248332
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