+1 for Scavengers Reign. Incredible show! Although different I recommend the movie Mars Express and TV show Pantheon.

This the short experiment film Wavelength 1967. But more recent Skinamarink 2022 that was largely influenced by Wavelength

Solaris. Yes this is a good answer.

I really do love it. Fedora has been great. Daily tasks and tools seem good. Games!? Amazing! steam has really really impressed me. Everything works for the most part but I am trying my best to figure out how to move on from Adobe (ps, illustrator, premier, after effects, lightroom) for graphics and other music production software (Ableton/ Audition/MPC). There are a few programs that I’m trying to replace but it’s a struggle. I’m open to suggestions but peoples snarky comments to “Just use…” are not helpful unless they understand the capabilities of each program in the first place. Telling me to replace Ableton live with Reaper doesn’t help. Maybe Reaper can replace Audition but Ableton live has different tools and capabilities. A lot of people offer Wine as a suggestion and it works for some things. I don’t mind fiddling a bit but after few hours of trying to adjust settings to get things to work I boot back to Win or use a mac just to get it done. I’m willing to learn some new programs but it’s a struggle for specialized design, art, media programs. All that said I am open to suggestions for programs.

One that seems to be lacking surprisingly is a really nice local music player like musicbee/foobar2000? Maybe it’s the rise in “streaming music” but Clementine and others don’t seem even close to musicbee.

Yes. Lol. Total eclipse. Obviously never ever look at the eclipse until the sun is completely covered “totality”. And even then have an alarm handy beforehand so you know when it will move out of the total eclipse phase.

Total solar eclipse. I’ve seen a few. There is something so strange about the omnipresent sun you have lived with your whole life suddenly be gone and there is a black space that you can look at with your eyes where the sky used to be and everything is dark like the night. On a human level I’d image it’s the closest thing I’ll get to seeing the Earth from space. Once you see it you will absolutely understand why older civilizations wouldn’t shut up about it. We understand almost everything about when it will happen and what it is but the experience you can never understand. If you live less than 6-8 hours away from a place you can see a total eclipse do it. An eclipse with glasses is OK but it is a million times more impactful looking at total blackness where the sun once was with your own eyes.

Batman: Arkham Origins is it’s still available. If not no worries. TY.

Yah. I split the drive so we will see how it goes. But memory is cheap. I’m not messing around with game saves that could possibly take away hours of my progress.

Also new here. So from what I can tell. You really shouldn’t mix a windows steam library with the Linux steam library? Correct? I mean to avoid all issues. I have it running in a separate space.

Fair point. I always associated those with the fact video games were relatively newer media at the time but you are correct. Some times they would give you maps and instructions.

The director should have reasons for the difficulty of the game. Celeste is a Perfect example. It’s hard but it lets you learn and allows you to try again easily even if what you are doing is hard. Hard games that punish you and make you walk for 20-30 mins just so you can learn a few new moves the boss does can be incredibly frustrating. Many people who play these games eventually look at videos online to help after multiple tries because just “getting there” is extremely time consuming. A lot of games have normalized looking things up and that is disappointing as someone who would rather figure it out on my own. But wasting 30 mins to be killed in 2-3 hits from multiple stage bosses is not enjoyable IMHO.

I find rosin / dry vape that don’t add anything are better than whatever garbage they are putting in the oils. The local shop should have answers.

Have a look. I try and avoid all things typical but lean into 80s goth/punk. It’s 7 hours first 3h builds 2h hour danceable and 1 hour for less dance. With a few “cue” tracks to let me know if I should move up the dancing sooner or later. Leave room for requests. Start around 7 finish after 2am.

Event Horizon is so much better than I remembered it. Sure some plot issues and 90s cgi but the lighting and the set designs are incredible. Plus some very solid acting. Creating a sort of 90s horror movie inspired by Alien / Solaris is such a great idea.

I definitely will. How many episodes are they doing for season 2?

I can’t tell if you actually have an allergy or just don’t like them. There are a lot of different tomatoes so I’d explore those including Tomatillos if you aren’t allergic. If you are allergic. I’d start looking at persimmons, zucchini, eggplant, maybe peppinos even some more mild apples. Don’t go for “sweet or tart”.

I feel like I was the “target” for this movie. Tron’s retro futurism/ cyberpunk style has always been interesting. NIN doing the soundtrack! I’ve listened to it at least 5 times already. Jared Leto? Well I’m not a big fan but he was good recently as a detached psychopath villain in Blade Runner 2049. But is that really a compelling lead? Joachim Ronning directing? Uh oh. A Disney journey man just making the same soulless films. Bottom line is I absolutely despise Disney/Marvel/ new Star wars movies. I don’t trust Disney to do anything remotely new, interesting or meaningful. If they do I consider it a fluke now. I’m assuming this will be like 90% modern Disney movies where they worked on “cgi action scenes” 2 years before they wrote the script and everything will feel like it was scenes pasted together for the trailer advertisments without any interest in world building, plot or characters. Just a bunch of over dramatic dialogue to get to the next “cgi action spectical”. No thanks.

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John Swartzwelder listed as a writer will be the only way to get me in the theater.

Only if I see John Swartzwelder listed as a writer.