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[Maxperson]

Highlander II /discussion

There was only one!

 

[Maxperson]

The Hobbit Trilogy: It's just too darned long. I felt this especially during The Battle of Five Armies. The shorter theatrical version is just a better watch.

The theatrical version was just less torture. The second movie had virtually nothing in it that happened in the Hobbit. After we left that movie, my wife who had never seen the animated Hobbit movie or read the book, turned to me and said, "I feel like that entire movie was filler."

 

[Maxperson]

In fairness, I'm pretty sure that the one lesson Peter Jackson learned from the LoTR trilogy is that you can never have too much ... ESPECIALLY ENDINGS!

But yeah, that trilogy already suffered from taking a single book and turning it into a trilogy, and then taking the movies in the trilogy (that were already overstuffed and had pacing issues) and just adding more stuff? No thank you.

Yeah. I can't imagine voluntarily watching more footage of those movies.

 

[Hussar]

Odd lunchtime conversation.

I enter the teacher's room first, miss one of the two light switches and only turn on one of the lights. Not terribly fussed about it, I sit down and eat my lunch while reading my laptop. 5 minutes later, fellow teacher comes in and comments about how the room is dark.

"Yes, I missed the switch on the way in. The switch you just walked passed in order to come and tell me how dark it is in the room."

Said teach proceeds to sit down and eat her lunch.

5 minutes later, Teacher 2 enters the room and asks why we are sitting in the dark.

"I missed the light switch that is five inches from your elbow on the way into the room. You can turn on the light if you like."

"Oh, I thought the light was burned out." Proceeds to sit down without turning on the light.

"It's really dark in here."

Sometimes I just have no words for how happy I am that I am an independent contractor and don't have co-workers.

 

[Smackpixi]

But unless you’re a music geek like me, you wouldn’t have learned that The Verve did likewise on the same album sampling a song by Aphrodite’s Child- Vangelis’ family’s band, where he got his big break.

Wait, you’re gonna dangle that out there and not say which songs by the Verve or Aphrodites Child? Jerk. Tell me, let me look it up. Also, Vangelis, like chariots of fire vangelis? Want to know more.

 

[Smackpixi]

Some people just don’t want to have fun. And you just have to accept it and let them be.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wait, you’re gonna dangle that out there and not say which songs by the Verve or Aphrodites Child? Jerk. Tell me, let me look it up. Also, Vangelis, like chariots of fire vangelis? Want to know more.

Despite personally knowing these things are true, both songs in question are deeper cuts. I don’t know them by heart. It will take time for me to track them down.

I can, however, easily remember and share the big track off of AC’s album:



And yes, that’s the one & only Vangelis. AC was his family’s band, and 666 was their third and final (?) album. If you know Vangelis’ signature style, you’ll instantly recognize it on this track.

 

[payn]

Odd lunchtime conversation.

I enter the teacher's room first, miss one of the two light switches and only turn on one of the lights. Not terribly fussed about it, I sit down and eat my lunch while reading my laptop. 5 minutes later, fellow teacher comes in and comments about how the room is dark.

"Yes, I missed the switch on the way in. The switch you just walked passed in order to come and tell me how dark it is in the room."

Said teach proceeds to sit down and eat her lunch.

5 minutes later, Teacher 2 enters the room and asks why we are sitting in the dark.

"I missed the light switch that is five inches from your elbow on the way into the room. You can turn on the light if you like."

"Oh, I thought the light was burned out." Proceeds to sit down without turning on the light.

"It's really dark in here."

Sometimes I just have no words for how happy I am that I am an independent contractor and don't have co-workers.

I've entered enough rooms like that and flipped on the lights only to get yelled at, "hey what are you doing!?" to know to ask before acting. It is a little weird that after asking and finding out its darker for no apparent reason they just go with it though.

 

[Meech17]

Had a nice weekend. A little over a year ago I moved away from my home state to an adjacent one. While I've been able to get a D&D game going with some of my new friends which has been wonderful, I haven't had much luck finding a new play group for Magic: The Gathering. Back home I had a dedicated group of friends, and we would (They still do) meet at least monthly to play at a brewery.

I went back this last weekend to visit and we put together a draft. One of my friends got a box of Modern Horizons 2 and we had ten people show up to draft it! I did horribly. Draft is possibly my favorite way to play MTG, but I'm really, really bad at it. I just have no ability to pick cards. I ended up putting together a Black/Blue Discard deck, and while I had plenty of discard synergy.. It ended up being mostly enabling effects, and not enough payoffs for them.

0-2 Round one.
2-0 Round two.
0-2 Round three.

All in all I had a blast. Hung out with some old friends. Drank a lot of really good beer. Four of us got together and ended up staying up until midnight playing commander that evening too. I also made time to visit my parents, my grandmother.

Did I miss any really fun threads while I was away?

 

[RealAlHazred]

Did I miss any really fun threads while I was away?

We had a whole Edition Crusade, and all of our accounts are now run by AI bots. But you didn't miss much, really.