efaardvark

I hollowed out an asteroid mining for raw materials in Empyrion.  It is kind of cozy inside.  My inner 12-yo is telling me to build a base there. 

Oh, and important safety tip.. do NOT fire upon a Zirax destroyer with a shoulder-launched rocket!

8 hours ago, RuthisianCodex said:

Watching Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid with some friends 

If you like that then you should try Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san (Helpful Fox Senko-san).  It's a bit different than Dragon Maid (Senko-san does not cause nearly as much trouble as Tooru) but also similar in some ways.

On 9/24/2020 at 10:54 PM, efaardvark said:

Just started Gibiate.

PSA: Do not squander the minutes of your life watching this.  

Got a new ride in Empyrion.  A bit slower but it has more cargo area (including a small fridge for food and other perishable resources) and should be a bit more durable than the old one....

Going to do some actual (in-game) space exploration with it this weekend, time allowing.

Just started Gibiate.

1 hour ago, Cyclosporum said:

Sub 100% of the time. No way I can watch Dub. This is after all suppose to be in Japanese. I do understand missing on some of the scenes because of having to read the subtitles. I personally don't mind, ill just rewind by 5 or 10 seconds if I can't read the English fast enough. I have taken the initiative to learn Japanese though

That's me too.  After a few bad experiences I never bother with dubs any more.  I've always been a fast reader anyway.  I can read a whole novel between dinner and breakfast.    I can't exactly sight-read but I can take in a sentence or two at a time in my peripheral vision without even really shifting my eyes from the action.  That plus I know enough Japanese to understand most of it without even needing the subs.   I'm not conversational but with material that's simple or that I'm already familiar with I usually turn off the captions entirely and just go with the original Japanese audio.

Welcome!

2 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

Happy Birthday  

@Ohayotaku  Thanks!

@RuthisianCodex

Thanks!

And BTW somewhat apropos choice of pic.  Here's a screenshot from the current game I'm playing

1 hour ago, wikkidgrace said:

Happy (belated) birthday @efaardvark!

Thanks!  And not a problem.  I didn't even realize it myself until a few days after the unfortunate event had passed. 

I took a rocket shot to the cockpit in Empyrion:

For reference it should look more like this: 

Fortunately I had just landed and was not in the vehicle at the time.  I took cover until the rocket-shooting ashhats came in range of my chaingun then I let them have it.  Kind of a good news, bad news situation there however because it left me stranded on the opposite side of the planet from my base, in an environmentally hostile area with high radiation areas all around.  (I was there in the area in the first place to prospect for fuel for my base's reactors.)

I did come somewhat prepared however.  I had a portable constructor - aka crafting table for you minecraft players - and the cargo area in the rear the craft was not damaged so I had a few basic raw materials to work with.  With that plus some key resources salvaged from the enemy's crashed vehicle I was able to build a low-tech replacement to install so I could limp back to base.

This is the version that made it back: 

Sadly, in spite of bringing me back safely I had to scrap it for resources.  It had taken thruster damage as well and kept trying to fly in circles on the way back. 

Started UzuMaid yesterday.  This one is all sorts of wrong. 

hmmm.. not really into the latest and greatest.  Everything is always so hyped up and over-promised.  It is hard for me to get interested in the typical pre-release rumour-mongering over cut-scenes in release trailers.  Do we even have a real, definite list of what titles are going to be out for the new PS and Xbox systems at release yet?  My modus operandi is to wait until the titles are out and available (no pre-release waiting lists for me), the reviews hit the news, and the first few inevitable bug-fix patches are released, then decide it anything still looks worth it.   Also, while I've owned quite a lot of Nintendo bits over the years the Wii is now obsolete and I never got around to buying a switch.  I'm definitely not a fan of either Sony or MSFT either.  Guess I'm not really into the console thing any more.

All that said I am quite looking forward to seeing how Kerbal Space Program 2 turns out, though last I heard that's been pushed back and won't be out until next year.    (And now that Take-Two owns it it is liable to be a very different game from KSP1 besides.)  For now.. nothing really.  Anyway, I just bought Empyrion (kind of an SF-themed minecraft) on steam a couple months ago and I've barely even had a chance to play that!  The last thing I need is another title to waste spend time on.

Not sure if I can help here.  I tried Suzuka way back when but after after reading the manga the anime was something of a letdown.  The only other ones I can remember watching all the way through were Baby Steps and Area no Kishi.  Both were passable, but not really interesting enough to encourage in me an interest in the genre.  YMMV.  AnK is probably the better of the latter two.

14 hours ago, Anime loveer said:

Now watching Hyouka

Someday I'm going to play Journey.  Unfortunately I'd heard the PC version has real problems with the sound.  Since sound was THE inspiration for the console version (Grammy nomination and everything) I've been holding off until that gets fixed.  Another problem for me has been that it is Windows-only if you don't have a PS, but maybe with Steam's Proton?  Well, maybe someday.

Playing Empyrion and the Zrx keep delivering drones containing rockets and minigun ammo.  This one landed conveniently on my balcony.  I didn't even have to leave the house to collect the package. 

Sorry, not really into arena-style games like COD.  Multiplayer/co-op is fine but I'm more a PvE kind of guy, and I prefer games with crafting/building.  I don't mind a little gunplay - currently I'm having fun with Empyrion for instance - but games like COD where you just kill everyone and blow stuff up always seemed kind of pointless to me.  I just can't get into them.

20 hours ago, Ceiling said:

no dont leave . and i wish i could be related to ceiling cat

I just went to hide in another topic for a while. 

Just took a walk up the street - not too far because the air quality is pretty poor - to see if I could spot the column of smoke from the sort-of-nearby "bobcat" fire.  Fortunately I could not.  (If you can see the column then it is time to start worrying.)  Just a kind of smoky orange haze all over everything...

9 minutes ago, RuthisianCodex said:

This is hands down one of the most EPIC things I have ever heard. When the flutes came in at around 1:25-ish, I just about lost it! Fantastic job!

 

There's a bunch more "medieval version" tunes out there & they're pretty much all highly entertaining.  I spent more time than I care to admit to searching through youtube once upon a time in search of them.

Welcome Ceiling-san!  Any relation to Ceiling Cat?    

(Sorry... somebody was going to.    I'll show myself out.)

There were parrots on the wires over my driveway when I got home this evening.

Wait.. parrots??

So, anyone going to pony up for that $1,500 3090 card?  If so, what do you plan to do with it?

Blast from the past.  Anyone know if this is still on funi?

Watched Hakubo on Crunchy.