Well, hmm... what to say?
I'm psyching up for my trip. I probably shouldn't, in retrospect, have scheduled a morning flight after a night shift at work, so Saturday morning is likely to suck just a little bit. But Saturday I'm off to Washington D.C. to visit my dad and stepmom and see the sights. Well, some of the sights. A week really isn't long enough to see everything there by any means.
We've got White House tour tickets and a couple evening shows lined up, plus plenty of museums and galleries and monuments to see.
I'm leaning toward taking my laptop with me, as I may end up with some evening time free due to their schedule, though I'm not fully decided yet. Sadly, it's not real travel-sized, but it would be nice to be able to easily check in. It sort of makes me wish I'd purchased a Surface Pro or the like by now, but I'll procrastinate on that some more.
In local WTFery, we've had this story. I got through about half of this story about a 19-year-old robbing a local marijuana dispensary while his father was there acting as a "customer," before realizing I knew these people. They both did maintenance work here until a while back, and the wife/mother (who hasn't been implicated in any of this) does accounting/advertising work here still.
It's pretty trippy just from knowing them (apparently not that well), but some of the details get pretty crazy, too. The son, who was the one with a gun and who is quoted as having said he was ready to shoot anyone who didn't comply with him, was released without bail (still charged, to be tried, and all that, but not being held in jail). That seems a little crazy to me, and not just me. I try not to be overly judgmental about incarceration, but it seems like someone who commits armed robbery and later says they would have been perfectly willing to shoot people is not someone you want loose.
Around $3000 and some amount of marijuana is really not worth the ruin of your life, folks, even if things seem bad.
In games...
WoW is still a little frustrating to me in that the garrison campaign missions still haven't shown up for my main. The first one came up for an alt that hit level 100, no problem. I know coding issues are difficult on something like this, but I have to wonder what is a "reasonable" time to fix a problem that is locking some percentage of people out of content?
I'd kind of like to see the additions to FFXIV, but made the conscious decision not to worry about that until back from my trip, at least.
In GW2, I'm left wondering... was that really the Living Story season end? Does that mean it won't continue until the expansion is out? They haven't announced a release date, but I expect that's at least six months out, which is sort of a long time for a content drought (unless you're WoW).
I've been watching the second season of Log Horizon as it comes out. It seems a bit less "special" or "thought-provoking" to me than the first season, though it has introduced some potentially-interesting NPC characters here and there and I still see a certain charm in the familiarity of MMORPG conventions.
I've also been getting caught up with the second season of Aldnoah.Zero. The first season seemed to kill off several main characters at the end, which made it hard for me to recommend in any way. Amusingly (and somewhat annoyingly), the second season starts right up and they're all alive. There are periods of mediocrity and some moments of brilliance in the show. I find Inaho more fun to watch than I probably should, given he's so emotionally restrained. He, especially after picking up cybernetics for the second season, epitomizes a "super power" I always liked probably better than I've seen anywhere else.
Even beforehand, he was incredibly calculating and analytical. While some people freak out that an enemy craft has a shield absorbing attacks, he starts immediately testing and reasoning out weaknesses. Once he gets his cyber eye (and associated bits), all that is enhanced with additional information. He's calculating the gravity disturbances of debris in space to make accurate shots against moving enemies at ranges that would require extreme luck for anyone else. Or course, "realistically" one might ask why "normal" combat mechs aren't equipped with targeting computers that can do that, but still.
That enhanced, predictive reasoning is something I imagined in Shadowrun cyber tactical computers or characters like Marvel's Nimrod (who I remember at time he was almost becoming a heroic). It hasn't been very frequently portrayed, though. More often, the "super brain" type characters are shown as 1) able to predict miraculously even without up-to-date data (Equilibrium's John Preston) or 2) having "planned this all along" (Joker in The Dark Knight, or Batman in most of his comics).
We've got White House tour tickets and a couple evening shows lined up, plus plenty of museums and galleries and monuments to see.
I'm leaning toward taking my laptop with me, as I may end up with some evening time free due to their schedule, though I'm not fully decided yet. Sadly, it's not real travel-sized, but it would be nice to be able to easily check in. It sort of makes me wish I'd purchased a Surface Pro or the like by now, but I'll procrastinate on that some more.
In local WTFery, we've had this story. I got through about half of this story about a 19-year-old robbing a local marijuana dispensary while his father was there acting as a "customer," before realizing I knew these people. They both did maintenance work here until a while back, and the wife/mother (who hasn't been implicated in any of this) does accounting/advertising work here still.
It's pretty trippy just from knowing them (apparently not that well), but some of the details get pretty crazy, too. The son, who was the one with a gun and who is quoted as having said he was ready to shoot anyone who didn't comply with him, was released without bail (still charged, to be tried, and all that, but not being held in jail). That seems a little crazy to me, and not just me. I try not to be overly judgmental about incarceration, but it seems like someone who commits armed robbery and later says they would have been perfectly willing to shoot people is not someone you want loose.
Around $3000 and some amount of marijuana is really not worth the ruin of your life, folks, even if things seem bad.
In games...
WoW is still a little frustrating to me in that the garrison campaign missions still haven't shown up for my main. The first one came up for an alt that hit level 100, no problem. I know coding issues are difficult on something like this, but I have to wonder what is a "reasonable" time to fix a problem that is locking some percentage of people out of content?
I'd kind of like to see the additions to FFXIV, but made the conscious decision not to worry about that until back from my trip, at least.
In GW2, I'm left wondering... was that really the Living Story season end? Does that mean it won't continue until the expansion is out? They haven't announced a release date, but I expect that's at least six months out, which is sort of a long time for a content drought (unless you're WoW).
I've been watching the second season of Log Horizon as it comes out. It seems a bit less "special" or "thought-provoking" to me than the first season, though it has introduced some potentially-interesting NPC characters here and there and I still see a certain charm in the familiarity of MMORPG conventions.
I've also been getting caught up with the second season of Aldnoah.Zero. The first season seemed to kill off several main characters at the end, which made it hard for me to recommend in any way. Amusingly (and somewhat annoyingly), the second season starts right up and they're all alive. There are periods of mediocrity and some moments of brilliance in the show. I find Inaho more fun to watch than I probably should, given he's so emotionally restrained. He, especially after picking up cybernetics for the second season, epitomizes a "super power" I always liked probably better than I've seen anywhere else.
Even beforehand, he was incredibly calculating and analytical. While some people freak out that an enemy craft has a shield absorbing attacks, he starts immediately testing and reasoning out weaknesses. Once he gets his cyber eye (and associated bits), all that is enhanced with additional information. He's calculating the gravity disturbances of debris in space to make accurate shots against moving enemies at ranges that would require extreme luck for anyone else. Or course, "realistically" one might ask why "normal" combat mechs aren't equipped with targeting computers that can do that, but still.
That enhanced, predictive reasoning is something I imagined in Shadowrun cyber tactical computers or characters like Marvel's Nimrod (who I remember at time he was almost becoming a heroic). It hasn't been very frequently portrayed, though. More often, the "super brain" type characters are shown as 1) able to predict miraculously even without up-to-date data (Equilibrium's John Preston) or 2) having "planned this all along" (Joker in The Dark Knight, or Batman in most of his comics).
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