Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

My wish to play Go more and my aversion to playing 1v1 games with randos are dueling in my head

Playing with K is good but he's very early on the learning curve, and there's only so much 'getting kicked around the board' he's up for (which is understandable)

Thankfully AI is good enough that my tablet will handily beat me for the forseeable future

I should do that more

EDF5 is good

I've only played a handful of missions but "EDF 4.1, but moreso" is my general impression, which is a good impression

Also balancing out levelling and weapon drops across the classes is a really good move

https://store.steampowered.com/app/226840/Age_of_Wonders_III

Age of Wonders III is free (to keep) on Steam atm!

I highly recommend AoW3; It's a good blend of 4X empire-biffing and Heroes of Might and Magic style wandering-heroes/tactical battle shenanigans, and probably our favourite 4X to date.

It's wonderful seeing so many people getting into Evangelion / It's heartbreaking seeing so many people have Wrong Opinions about Evangelion

I'm so used to drawing furries that I can do human bodies pretty well but human faces are "Fffffrick how do I do this again"

Does anyone know of a good e-ink (or otherwise non-backlit) ebook reader that's either open or easily jailbroken?

Like, a Kindle without all the digital bondage those come with

(..Or "How old a Kindle should I look for and how hard would it be to hack open", alternatively)

Lightweight is also a big plus, as my wrists/arms aren't great for holding stuff up for long periods

Gosh the animation of Mob Psycho 100 is so good

It has a real good loose, fluid style of motion

Reading 'The Constant Gardener' for a bit of uplifting Le Carre sparkles (sarcasm)

It's.. Fine? About what we expected.

We like Le Carre a lot, and there's still a lot of his stuff we haven't read. Prettymuch anything that came after Smiley's People is still on the todo list, tbh- And I think we only watched the (very good) BBC miniseries for that.

But definitely not an author to marathon in terms of tone/content

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Realising we haven't really added much to our music library since 2016

Throw me a good album, friendos

I will listen to it

But these are overall minor gripes? Like (as someone who plays OW enough to recognise the abilities despite the above) it's free TV that's good to put on in the background, so it's probably gonna take a regular place in my browser, and be the first esport thing to hold my attention.

I can see why people say they find the OWL too visually confusing; Every ability and character is brightly painted in the same team-colour, so unless you know all the abilities by heart it can just be

"Green explosion on top of a green explosion, inside a green bubble, while a white explosion happens in the bubble to 2 green figures, who are glowing green."

I get colouring things for each team but they really don't need to take it that far, they could just accent it rather than dumping a bucket of [Team Colour] over everything

The Octopus Zenyetta skin actually got me into watching the OWL

So, points to whichever marketing psychologist concocted that evil scheme, I guess

But watching the OWL has only reinforced my feelings that snipers make Overwatch drastically more boring

I swear half the cast of any given match is taken up by watching Widowmakers and Hanzos trying to plink headshots

But the rest is good/entertaining? Nice to see Winston & Zarya being so key to things, and Wrecking Ball has a great mix of abilities mechanically and visually.

Support roles need more screentime, but that never, ever changes.

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Solved! \o/

What do you call the wooden panel running along the bottom of an indoor wall? I've completely forgotten, and I need to write it on a form. >_<;;

Heck this is cool

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/06/its-possible-to-build-a-turing-machine-within-magic-the-gathering/

I am so fuzzy

I misread
"Four Hundred Years of Fashion"
as
"Four Horsemen of Fashion"

And now I want that to be a thing so very badly

That time when Tumblr set 'End of Evangelion' to the subtitle track from 'Bee Movie'

https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/beevangelion

(anime gore, nsfw, copious spoilers, etc)