Saturday, August 13, 2016

Weekly Shenanigans

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads A Wizard Abroad - Chapter 2.2
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY - 3x01 Basics, Part II

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads Hogfather
 - Part 1
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY - 3x02 Flashback

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads A Wizard Abroad - Chapter 3.1
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY - 3x03 The Chute

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
Hogfather - Part 2
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY- 3x04 The Swarm

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads A Wizard Abroad - Chapter 3.2
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: DS9 - 5x01 Apocalypse Rising

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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Coldrun Plays the Final Fantasy Series



All prior posts available at http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com. TW: discussion there of weight and body image.

Current progress: Starting Final Fantasy X!
209 replies · active 458 weeks ago
Balthier plays TIE fighter (on medium, no cheats (yet)) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8XV9CtGZVA

I know the audio(voice in particular) needs adjustment, but other feedback and criticism is requested.

first video of Battle 1 mission 1 to 3
4 failures
3 rescued successfully
1 time captured and taken to prison

hopefully copyright is fixed, but some sound will be gone, future installments will have no music because of copyright
8 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Pokemon Go


A few resources -
https://thesilphroad.com/research (then hit moves) - Move Damage Per Second (DPS) List https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator - Different pokemon of a species have different potential values for HP, Attack, and Defense, which all get rolled into CP. This lets you see which of your pokemon have the strongest potentials.
http://ispokemongodownornot.com/ - Not quite as useful anymore, but still worth bookmarking. http://www.pidgeycalc.com/ - Should you evolve / use a lucky egg or not?
22 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for August 22 - 26 episodes)


(pic from MW DS9 5x01 - Znegbx vf gur Punatryvat, abg Tbjeba)

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: DS9
5x02
5x03
5x04

STAR TREK: VOYAGER
3x05
3x06

(SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN - He's planning to watch one a day while on tour, which I think begins this week, but I'm not sure exactly what kind of schedule the uploading will follow. If he mentions anything more on Twitter, I'll leave a comment here to update everyone.)
8 replies · active 458 weeks ago
djinn Plays Hipster Games



This Week: Valiant Hearts = Fullmetal Heart
7 replies · active 458 weeks ago
OcamposMoon Replays Dust: An Elysian Tail

fidget and anyy
Art by slash000 (Bill Stiernberg)

Current playing progress: The Glade

TW: for everything
7 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Extra History



Tiberius attempts to get land reforms passed through the Senate. It doesn't go so well.
4 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Okay, just to make sure people see this: I'm gonna be away tomorrow, Tuesday, and the grand majority of Wednesday. So be good little Spoilies, alright? :)
11 replies · active 458 weeks ago
Music thread



Guilty pleasure songs
5 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Hello friends! Let's talk about books!

We haven't had a Currently Reading thread in awhile, have we? (and if we have, I missed them, whoops)

Aside from Mark's books, at the moment I am currently reading:
A Dance with Dragons: I am sure this will take me the rest of the year to finish
Gone with the Wind: will probably take me the rest of the year to finish
Bitterblue: I read Graceling and Fire years ago, and this one's been sitting on my shelf for 3+ years--I had an urge to actually start rereading the first book tonight but decided to channel that into Bitterblue

I just finished rereading Catching Fire through audible and will probably reread Mockingjay at the end of the year

My next three YA books to read are tentatively The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner, Sabriel by Garth Nix, and The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
44 replies · active 458 weeks ago
Confession: It's been over a month and I'm still watching Game of Thrones reaction videos.
15 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Discussion thread for the Olympics!

19 replies · active 458 weeks ago
L has to talk about DS9, because of reasons

Spoilers through 6x13.
15 replies · active 459 weeks ago
I'm signed up with the local elder care service as a precaution since my transplant. I don't actually use them often, just once in a while when I'm at neg spoons for multiple days in a row. Moldy dishes are not fun.

Today was my 6 mo assessment. Basically the social worker comes in goes, "you good?" and verifies I don't need any care changes. New social worker however, so she wasn't used to A. me being 25 and mobile. and B. I didn't need a new copy of my ICE orders and medlist. She didn't know that there was a section on the iphone health app that has all that available without logging into the phone.
I just bought No Man's Sky last night. This game is either going to be underwhelming, or will consume me. Either way, I should probably regret this, but I am excited to play it.
3 replies · active 459 weeks ago
TFW you're buying a birthday card for your mother and realize you won't be able to get any of them.

Mom, your understan- "Next."
I am in awe of your patie- "NOPE."
6 replies · active 459 weeks ago
I have this picture as my desktop background:


But I opened my computer just now
Read, "Sing his name"
And responded to myself
"Alexander Hamilton..."
2 replies · active 459 weeks ago
EmberQuill watches Fate/Zero

So... Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya was the first Fate series I ever watched, and up until today it was the only one.

*waits for Fate purists to stop screaming at me*

Yeah yeah, I know. To be honest, I can't even remember why I've been avoiding the rest of the Fate franchise until now. When I first heard about Fate/Stay Night there was some reason why I decided not to watch it, and because of that I didn't ever watch Zero or UBW either, but it's been so long that I no longer remember why, or even if the reason was any good. So I figured it was about time I saw the rest of Fate.
13 replies · active 458 weeks ago
Spider-man Homecoming casting spoilers
16 replies · active 458 weeks ago
‘Lost Boys’ TV Series

I normally dislike reboots/remakes, but this could turn into something very interesting, especially with Rob Thomas and team at the helm. I'll be following the development of this show closely.

‘The Lost Boys’ TV Series Based On Movie In Works At The CW
2 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Anyone else still weeping with joy over the new Overwatch short?

2 replies · active 458 weeks ago
Oh dear, what have I gotten myself into.



Yup, just watched the pilot and I'm gonna watch more. Thoughts on pilot and later reactions will be here.
3 replies · active 459 weeks ago
Ugh...The Dream Cruise is happening today. It's great if you like cars, but I don't. It just means I can't go anywhere.
4 replies · active 458 weeks ago

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