Re: Entertainment Joys

[Werel]

Baaahahaha, the pilot of Black Mirror is the best television I've seen all year. And the rest of the first season is also very good. Hallelujah for good new sci fi.

[Gman]

Rayman: Origins, so adorable and so well designed!

Does it play/feel much like the original for the first Playstation? I loved that game.

Missed this.

I've never played another Rayman game before (besides the Raving Rabids Spin-off), but it is similarly a 2d platformer and is one of the better reviewed 2d platformers in recent years.

Quick note on this - Get "Rayman: Legends" instead of Origins, because Legends has almost ALL of the levels from Origins within it as well, just kind of "remixed" for the sequel (but still very similar to the original). So It's practically getting 2 games for the price of 1. Best 2D platformer I have played in ages (except for the mario games, which are almost always a pillar of platforming games in general).

Also, just learned that "House of Cards" is coming back for another season on the 17th of this February.......... HECK YEAH! My local cable company purchases the series from Netflix directly and previous seasons came shortly after release in the U.S. straight to the V.O.D service, all the episodes just like in netflix available from the go, at no extra cost! This season should get the same treatment, so I'm getting ready to binge watch this season in a week or 2


(I love me some kevin spacey, seriously waiting for the price to drop enough on "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" just to get the story with him)

[The Wisp]

Quick note on this - Get "Rayman: Legends" instead of Origins, because Legends has almost ALL of the levels from Origins within it as well, just kind of "remixed" for the sequel (but still very similar to the original). So It's practically getting 2 games for the price of 1. Best 2D platformer I have played in ages (except for the mario games, which are almost always a pillar of platforming games in general).

I didn't know that. I bought Origins in the Steam fall sale because it was cheaper than Legends. It sounds like Legends is like Origins but better (plus "remixed" Origins levels)?

As an aside, Origins was probably the hardest 2d platfomer I've played in a while, particularly the latter stages and bosses (the chase sequences, so hard yet so awesome when you finish them ).

[Gman]

Quick note on this - Get "Rayman: Legends" instead of Origins, because Legends has almost ALL of the levels from Origins within it as well, just kind of "remixed" for the sequel (but still very similar to the original). So It's practically getting 2 games for the price of 1. Best 2D platformer I have played in ages (except for the mario games, which are almost always a pillar of platforming games in general).

I didn't know that. I bought Origins in the Steam fall sale because it was cheaper than Legends. It sounds like Legends is like Origins but better (plus "remixed" Origins levels)?

As an aside, Origins was probably the hardest 2d platfomer I've played in a while, particularly the latter stages and bosses (the chase sequences, so hard yet so awesome when you finish them ).

Yeah, Legends is pretty much just even more awesomeness of Rayman platforming. I really loved the soundtrack of both of these games, too. Oh and by "chase sequences" do you mean the ones where you chase the treasure chest throughout a level?

[Caffeinated]

Another great webcomic: Oh Joy Sex Toy. http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ Tons of great information about sex and sexuality, with an inclusive viewpoint (never seen someone of your size/age/race/disability/etc depicted in a sexual context? Here's somewhere you may.)

[Lemminkainen]

I just saw Why Don't You Play in Hell, which I think is my favorite film of this year. It's the most fun I have ever had while watching a movie, and its end is simultaneously hilarious, sad, and glorious. It also made me understand just how filmmaking can be joyous for people who really love it. And it's about characters who are all batshit crazy, but so committed to what they do and what they love that you have to cheer for them and love them. Go check out the trailer (which I would say is pretty representative of how entertaining the movie is), and if it seems like it would be your kind of thing and it's come to a theater near where you live, please go see it ASAP.

[Gentleman Johnny]

I just started GTA V but I'm really digging the multiple protagonists with interlocking stories. It really creates a feel of a (fairly tongue in cheek) crime drama. Each character has family, friends, character development and when you get a couple of them on screen together (I haven't gotten the third guy yet) its a really fun payoff watching their very different lives collide.

[Suika]

I have some books on my shelf that I need to open myself.

Another great webcomic: Oh Joy Sex Toy. http://www.ohjoysextoy.com/ Tons of great information about sex and sexuality, with an inclusive viewpoint (never seen someone of your size/age/race/disability/etc depicted in a sexual context? Here's somewhere you may.)

But what about the lonely and bitter virgins!?

[Enail]

But what about the lonely and bitter virgins!?

I, uh, don't think sex toys typically come with an experience requirement. Or a social fulfillment or an unbitterness requirement, for that matter.

[Suika]

But what about the lonely and bitter virgins!?

I, uh, don't think sex toys typically come with an experience requirement. Or a social fulfillment or an unbitterness requirement, for that matter.

So you don't think that the new and modern cybertoys automatically will scan through your facebook in search of activity, and if you aren't social enough, would collapse into a black hole of castration?

[nearly_takuan]

They depict lonely bitter virgins in a sexual context? This I have to see.

[Werel]

They depict lonely bitter virgins in a sexual context? This I have to see.

Me too!

This OJST on consent (NSFW) is fantastic reading for everybody who ever plans on having sexual contact with another person.

edit: And wow, this is the first time I've heard anyone else describe my birth control as "the most sci-fi method out there"! Which it totally is! Well done, comic author.

[waxingjaney]

Whaddaya know, someone who actually knows how to use "linchpin" correctly. Too bad Hipster Velma's posture is atrocious.

[Jayce]

How in the world did I not find out about Sydney's version of Mana Bar until today. Well it only opened a month ago but awesome!!!!!!! Alcohol, socialising and people that like video games all in once place!

[Guest]

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/evil-dead-series-starz-ash-bruce-campbell-1201352764/

Had no idea this was gonna be a thing. I am sooold.

[Gentleman Johnny]

The Mysterious Package Company's Curios And Conondrums magazine is giving more hours of entertainment for my dollar than anything I can remember. There's a complex series of interconnected puzzles to get into the mysterious Vault that have a small community working n them. My notes are starting to look like crazy conspiracy theory stuff.

[reboot]

I got such a kick out of this: http://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/austin-light-illustrates-movie-titles-with-one-letter-removed/ I am easily amused

[waxingjaney]

#12 is just inexplicable.

[Guest]

Finding new music that immediately love is a pretty good feeling. Especially when you can't help but marathon a whole album in one sitting right upon finding it.

[The Wisp]

I'm in the midst of reading the dystopian novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, written in the 1920s, for a class, and the narrator is just talking about one aspect of the society that seems like, well, not too far of an exaggeration of some things we hear on the main site comments from time to time:

...OneState mounted an attack on that other rule of the world, Love. Finally ,this element was also conquered, i.e., organized, mathematicized, and our Lex sexualis was promulgated about 300 years ago: "Any Number [person] has the right of access to any other Number as a sexual product."

The rest is a purely technical matter. They give you a careful going-over in the Sexual Bureau labs and determine the exact content of the sexual hormones in your blood and work you your correct Table of Sex Days. Then you fill out a declaration that on your days you'd like to make use of Number (or Numbers) so-and-so and they hand you the corresponding book of tickets. And that's it.

[Conreezy]

I got such a kick out of this: http://twistedsifter.com/2014/11/austin-light-illustrates-movie-titles-with-one-letter-removed/ I am easily amused

This just made my night.

[Gman]

Awesome Chillout mix that I found on mixcloud:

http://www.mixcloud.com/LRBZ/smooth-chillout-music-mix-2014/

[Gman]

Just watched the movie "Silver Linnings Playbook"........... wow.... just wow..... it was amazing. I'm not usually into drama-rom movies, but this was different. The characters felt real, raw, rough (meaning human and not a cardboard/cookie-cutter/sterotype), performance was top notch. That and the fact that I totally have a celebrity crush on Jennifer Lawrence (she is just so amazing on several levels ). 

This was the first peice of media that I have ever seen on netflix - never heard of it before, netflix recommended it to me, so I said why the heck not. I can see now why so many people are addicted to it. 
If your wondering how did I manage to get to use netflix outside the US - well, it was all thanks to this little free add-on app to google chrome web browser called "hola". Works flawlessly for me (didn't notice any bugs or usage issues of any kind): Hola

[nearly_takuan]

(oops, this should go here.)

With bony hands I hold my lover;
On soulless feet, we cross the floor;
The music stops, as if to answer
An empty knock upon the door.
It seemed her skin was sweet as mango,
When last I held her to my breast,
But now, we dance this grim fandango,
And will four years until we rest.

[celette482]

I just saw the Fantastic (Fant4stic) Four trailer. I have.... thoughts.

It's like Interstellar! But they set a Black Guy on fire?! Annnnd that's the plot?

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