VivianRixia

It’s been a while since I saw it, but didn’t the Portuguese in Japan hate Blackthorne because he wasn’t one of them? And Blackthorne saw them as his enemy. But he was indeed speaking Portuguese in the story as he knew the language as part of dealing with Portuguese as a trader.

I recommend Shogun. It’s a political drama set in feudal Japan following a fictional not-Tokugawa figure and the English sailor who crashed nearby and becomes his good luck charm.

I love Bob’s but also don’t skip out on their other show, The Great North. Its a similar comedy style but the cast is completely different so it doesn’t feel like a repeat of a show.

Watching Leverage reminded me of watching Burn Notice long ago. It’s fun and entertaining, but it’s also trash, but that’s okay, it knows what it is.

it’s got a great story and characters but it’s still a kids show and will do annoying kids show things sometimes. It’s worth it.

I like to go back to old games that were well regarded in their time but I missed. It’s neat to see what holds up and what doesn’t, but the biggest disappointment to me has to be Secret of Mana. So many people love that game, so I went in with high expectations. I instead found the combat way too simple when it even lets me play, far too often, it takes control away from your characters through annoying status effects. I could not stand it and dropped it fairly quick.

It’s the names of two characters I like. From Paper Mario and the Trails series.

But also, oops, you cant vote, sucks that you were going to vote for us anyway

I bet its hard to blackmail someone who can’t remember they are being blackmailed

God, the entirely of Dollhouse was the most problematic thing I’ve ever seen in retrospect (regarding the born sexy yesterday trope) and I can’t believe that past me didn’t see how messed up everything about it was. That the dolls were turned into helpless blanks between jobs and constantly sexualized in that state was so messed up.

The cure for Alzheimer’s is harvesting brain silk out our nose is what I’m hearing.

And it didn’t give him a chance to be weird and creepy with Summer Glau.

I used to love Joss Whedon from everything he made. I grew up watching Buffy, and loved Firefly, then Marvel got him for Avengers and I was excited for him to be getting such a big break. He later Agents of Shield which I also loved. But then it came out that he was an abuser. His whole persona of championing strong women was merely a facade to hide this.

Learning that Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) had a clause in her contract while working in Buffy (2000-3) at age 15 that she was not to ever be in the same room as Whedon alone opened my eyes to just how bad things are. Not just how bad he was, but how well it was known that he was an abuser and no one did anything about it. That’s just how things were.

I have a hard time watching Buffy or any of his works anymore, just knowing now that he was behind these things.

“The way silk proteins undergo phase separation and then form β-sheet-rich structures mirrors mechanisms we see in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,”

That’s a wild thing to drop and then not elaborate on.

Funny you say that, I mostly swapped to eating cocktail peanuts as my salty snack of choice. They are more filling, so I don’t overeat and are definitely healthier than chips.

I’m that way with Pringles. I look at it and it looks like a giant tube of chips that should ideally last many days, but I can easily eat over half the tube in one sitting if I’m not being conscious of how many I’m eating at a time.

A longer more accurate sign would read:
“Do not enter. Violators will be charged with Trespassing.”
But that’s a lot more words than just saying “No Trespassing”, and its less likely to be overlooked.

Have them get run over by a truck in the last episode and I’m sold.

i wanted to be rich when I was a kid, but it turns out you have to be a soulless monster that steps on people to get ahead in the corporate world and I’m not about that.

I also wanted to work in computers or making video games. I learned that making games is a soul crushing job, so I shied away from that and ended up working as a Software Engineer, so yeah, I nailed that dream. I’ll just stick to playing games.

That’s why I’m trying to get into DevOps, but finding a job is rough, I only see openings for senior level positions that ask for 5+ years experience in a huge set of tools, half of which I’ve never used. How did you get started there?