Sunday, January 1, 2017

Weekly Shenanigans

Monday
5 AM* - Mark Reads A Wizard Alone - Chapter 5.2
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - 2x25 Message Received
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: DS9 - 6x22 Valiant

Tuesday
5 AM - Mark Reads The Last Continent
 - Part 11
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - 2x26 Log Date 7 15 2
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY - 4x25 One

Wednesday
5 AM - Mark Reads A Wizard Alone - Chapter 6.1
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - Season Two Shorts
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: DS9 - 6x23 Profit and Lace

Thursday
5 AM - Mark Reads 
The Last Continent - Part 12
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe -Season Three Predictions
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: VOY - 4x26 Hope and Fear

Friday
5 AM - Mark Reads A Wizard Alone - Chapter 6.2
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - 3x01 Super Watermelon Island
1 PM - Mark Watches Star Trek: DS9 - 6x24 Time's Orphan

Saturday
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - 3x02 Gem Drill

Sunday
8 AM - Mark Watches Steven Universe - 3x03 Same Old World

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

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25 replies · active 440 weeks ago
Coldrun Plays the Final Fantasy Series


Rikku art by kahentine, posted by djinn87.

All prior posts available at http://coldrungaming.blogspot.com.

Current progress: Final Fantasy X-2.
42 replies · active 439 weeks ago
It's been a little while - how about a music thread?

No particular theme, just any one song you feel like sharing, anything you want to say about it, etc :)
7 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Balthier plays World of Final Fantasy

Plot spoilers from this game below as well as spoilers for EVERY Final Fantasy game
5 replies · active 440 weeks ago
SHERLOCK thread

Plaintext spoilers for 4x01
17 replies · active 439 weeks ago
djinn is Watching an absurd amount of Anime

Current progress: I'll finish Hunter x Hunter probably this week!
22 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Alerting/Waiting/Flailing Post for Mark Watches Videos (for January 9 - 15 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: DS9
6x25
6x26
[predictions]
7x01

STAR TREK: VOYAGER
[no vids this week, only a predictions post]

STEVEN UNIVERSE
3x04
3x05
3x06
3x07
3x08
3x09
3x10
19 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Support/Action Thread (9/208)

Ugh, it's really only been 9 weeks?!
7 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Steven Universe fans! Please take warning!

Massive SPOILERS for the upcoming Sevenbomb are currently loose. Apparently all five episodes have leaked to the internet, bizarrely from Cartoon Network themselves. If you want to see these stories organically and in time with everyone else, be careful online.

Anticipation only, no plot: Nccneragyl gurfr ner uhtr. Ovt, yvsr-punatvat fgbel ryrzragf. V qba'g xabj zber, V unira'g frra gurz.
7 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Stef watches The X-Files and forgot to post her liveblogs in the last thread she made so here it is again



Current Progress: 5x10
19 replies · active 439 weeks ago
The human mind is bizarre sometimes.

I'm a cashier. Which means I spend most of my day desperately bored. So to pass the time, I play music in my head, going through albums and soundtracks. Rocky Horror's good, I know enough lyrics to do a bunch of the Beatles, and I can do the entirety of Weird Al's Running with Scissors with almost no hiccups.

Today however? The only thing my mind wanted to play was the theme song to Moonlighting, which I have never watched.
2 replies · active 440 weeks ago
So Nerdist is a fun company/Youtube channel I follow. Like many others they do some recaps of the previous year. Their main news lady Jessica Chobot had a fun reaction to some Marvel comics Captain America news earlier this year.

This is certainly a top moment from her in 2016. I know she was not the only one to react this way.

[youtube 3M9VnbPVXFY?t=3m54s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M9VnbPVXFY?t=3m54s youtube]
8 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Well, as it is now 12:48 AM on January 3rd, I am officially one year older, and have changed marketing demographics.
11 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Plactus Reads A Song of Ice and Fire: A Storm of Swords
...and Watches Game of Thrones Season 2

Last week, I got through Chapter 61, which ended with Fnafn syrrvat Xvat'f Ynaqvat jvgu Yvggyrsvatre nsgre Wbsserl'f qrngu. I forgot to do any reading yesterday/today because I forgot it was Monday, but I had planned to finish the book on Friday, so I'll just push everything back a day and finish on Saturday. Then I'm going to take a week off before starting A Feast for Crows.

Planned Game of Thrones schedule:
2.03 "Jung Vf Qrnq Znl Arire Qvr" Monday (already watched).
2.04 "Tneqra bs Obarf" Thursday.
2.05 "Gur Tubfg bs Uneerauny" Saturday.

Spoilers will generally be unciphered through what I've read/watched. Nun, etc. away!

TW: To be on the safe side, assume any triggers related to blood/gore/injuries, war/violence/death, slavery, misogyny, and sex (in particular, incest and rape/consent issues). Anything that needs mention beyond that will get a specific warning.
25 replies · active 438 weeks ago


Fifth Stevenbomb content discussion thread, we are ahead of schedule apparently, all five episodes are already released.

Still keep the replies to this thread ROT13-d, anyways.
15 replies · active 439 weeks ago
So I tend to work through my current mental health crisis by obsessively playing one game. Let's play some X-COM 2

Who comes up with these mission names? I'm guessing Bradford.

Okay, image isn't working but I got a mission called "Unholy Tongue" WTF?
16 replies · active 439 weeks ago
ScarlettMi Watches All Of the Movies...

Last year I just kept track of all the movies released in 2016 that I watched, but this year I'm going to try to keep track of all the movies I watch and I'm going to try my hand at writing reviews for them.

(Some general spoilers in the reviews.)
20 replies · active 439 weeks ago
I've finally started watching Person of Interest - it's pretty good so far! :)
4 replies · active 439 weeks ago
My traditional annual year in books bragging post! (Three times makes a tradition, right?)

In 2016, I read 444 books (counting only first-time reads and re-reads of books I haven't read in at least 10 years; Goodreads clocks me at 409 first-time reads). Of those books, about 1.1% were by white male authors (less if you consider the fact that one is an anthology edited by a white man but included short stories by non-white-men)! About 97.5% were by women and about 25.9% were by POC (compared with 4% last year and 20% in 2014).

Of my books:

- 53.8% were romance novels (goes up to 66% if you start lumping in paranormal romance / urban fantasy novels where romance plays a key aspect) (goes up even higher if you add in anything with a romance aspect) (genre distinctions are arbitrary and meaningless) (compared to 74% last year)
- 22.3% were Regency romance novels (compared to 63% last year)
- 31.7% were fantasy novels

I'm not sure why I read so many this year, though I think that my number count is artificially inflated by Seanan Mcguire's Incryptid short stories (which I each counted as a "book"), but I almost doubled the number of books I read compared to last year (last year I clocked in at 229). This is no doubt in part because I was a bit slow at work this year (billed about three-quarters of what I billed last year).
Mark Reads Youtube Playlists!

Friends, it appears I had not updated my Mark Reads playlists since March. This is not particularly surprising to me what with Life and School and Whatnot getting in the way... what is perhaps more surprising is that I just caught up in one fell swoop!
https://www.youtube.com/user/torturedbabycow/play...

I think the default sorting is by date created, but date updated may be more relevant in this case. I am putting all the Patreon commissions in existing playlists called Mark Reads BONUS: blahblahblah, and all the main projects are under Mark Reads Terry Pratchett or Mark Reads Diane Duane. (Holy crap, when I started tonight, my Mark Reads Diane Duane playlist only had the two prologue videos from the first book...)

Anyway, having only recently gone back to listen to Witches Abroad, it was VERY HARD to put A Wizard Abroad on the correct list, so if anybody goes to use my playlists and finds an error please tell me! Any discussion of optimal organization is also welcome, though I make zero promises about implementing smart things since this is basically an archival project at like fourth-tier-hobby-status. :P At some point I do want to split off "complete" Patreon commissions from the rest of the "BONUS" playlists.

And at some point I reeeeaaaalllly need to go listen to the Chuck Tingle readings I've missed....
Posting a link to my holiday card from Mark, if anyone wants to read it:

S.H.I.E.L.D. investigating possible alien activity in Beach City
3 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Good Things Thread

Because OH MY GOD I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE LANGUAGE CLASS. THE KITTEN IS NOT IMPRESSED WITH MY SQUEALING.
20 replies · active 439 weeks ago
It is too damn cold.

Yesterday, the low was 38. Tonight it's 9. -2 with windchill.

Boo.

I lived through a drought in South Africa. Now I'm leaving my faucets on so that they don't freeze. It's been decades, but it still weirds me out.
14 replies · active 439 weeks ago
Please tell met hat someone else here is watching Incorporated
3 replies · active 439 weeks ago
I know there are a fair number of board gamers here. Anyone going to Geekway to the West this year?
3 replies · active 439 weeks ago

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