Loquat
16d ago
I remember my parents once telling me something similar about the mortgage on my childhood home - that when they made extra payments, the principal balance went down a whole lot more than one would naively expect. The bankers pay themselves first.
Loquat
23d ago
Hades 2, aka Hades for the Ladies. New weapons, more complicated between-run levelling, a whole new array of crafting mats to collect, and witches. Lots and lots of witches. Fun times!
Loquat
24d ago
This is more of a party drink since it makes a lot, but I'll throw it in anyway since it won me some favor when I first met my in-laws: Bourbon Slush. You'll need frozen orange juice concentrate, frozen lemonade concentrate, and some sort of tea with spices and orange peel such as Bigelow's Constant Comment, and bourbon. Brew three or four tea bags, mix in the concentrates and bourbon, maybe add some extra sugar if you like your drinks extra sweet, and re-freeze the whole thing. Thaw until slushy before serving.
Loquat
26d ago
What brand of kit? Woobles are more expensive than similar offerings from other companies, but they have extremely detailed step-by-step instruction videos for n00bs.
Loquat
28d ago
Star Trek Discovery had an event, which the beginning of Academy name-drops, where most of the galaxy's warp drives got wrecked, basically so they could have the Federation splinter apart and then slowly rebuild. Presumably that also did a number on all the Federation worlds that had relied on interstellar trade to keep their post-scarcity societies going.
And pickpocketing can still be quite useful if people carry around little electronic devices that grant them access to things, which is what we see the boy using it for.
Loquat
28d ago
Apparently holograms are their own "race" now? Also they got the guy who plays the Holographic Doctor from Voyager to come back, and they're setting up a mentor-mentee relationship, which makes sense if you can get past the absurdity of a holo-teen student existing in the first place.
Loquat
29d ago
Well, I watched the first episode of the new Star Trek show, Starfleet Academy (free on YouTube if you want to see this thing yourself). Overall I'd say the show seems morally confused. It opens with a sequence that suggests a major disaster has created a crisis where civilians are starving, $Main_Dude's mother got caught up in crime solely to avoid starvation, and jailing her (thus separating her from her son) was a moral wrong so grave that the captain responsible ended up resigning over it. But also, the son himself, age 8 at the time, was already a skilled con artist, pickpocket, and hacker, who expertly escaped immediately after his mother's sentencing, and one timeskip later he's in prison in his own right with a rap sheet longer than your arm, all of which would seem to suggest that he spent his early childhood being explicitly trained in the criminal arts, probably by the mother herself.
Naturally, the aforementioned captain has decided to fix her past "mistake" by tracking this guy down, making a deal to get him out of prison, and forcing him to attend Starfleet Academy, against his will and under protest, and the main plot of Season 1 will reportedly follow his efforts to find his mother, who broke out of prison herself during the timeskip but hasn't been seen or heard from since.
There are plenty of other things to point and laugh at with this show - a non-violent Klingon named Jaden, a hologram who was programmed to act like a socially awkward teenager and attend school instead of just being programmed with knowledge and maturity directly, the Dean of Students being played by Stephen Colbert - but that fundamental confusion just kills it for me more than anything else.
Decided my kids are old enough for Lord of the Rings, so we got started with that. We have the Extended version, which I've never watched before, and I found myself noticing that several scenes were actually made worse by the extra stuff added in. We're only one movie in so far, so I think we'll watch the theatrical version of the second one.
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