Weekend Chatterbox

She read yesterdays 'Box...


She may never recover ...

I was called condescending btl at the other place, I just pointed out that paragraphs would be their friend, most strange

btlgq+ is the current preferred nomenclature, you daft alt right bastards.

Hello all!

I've gone done mowed my beard. A beautiful sight.

Indeed you are correct, I believe. Even at my dumbo secondary modern school we were taught that the sentence was the unit of the primary subject (with clauses being related secondary / subsidiary subjects).  And that the paragraph is the unit of meaning.

Without paragraphs you get a monolithic collection of a variety of subjects compressed together in a charnel pit of jumbled meanings from which your poor reader has to disentangle the narrative in order to make sense of the mess.

Requiring your reader to be a forensic linguist to understand what you're trying to say is impolite, illiterate and obscures whatever pearls of wisdom may be hidden in the muck.

ftfy

Hi!

More Prey this morning. Gone and got me a shotgun.

Now it's dad's taxi's. Pray for Tuffers.

Although I am listening to Smooth FM. It's ace.

I prefer to call it Smooooooth FM.

I got a 6th and 7th on PUBG and got a bunch of kills so progress has been made. This French arsehole streamer killed me whilst camping though:

pubg.report/streams/1cd3d7df-9847-46f1-8b16-097ca86805b7/117440556

Td2 does it change much as it goes along? Had a quick go last night and not sure about things yet, is it just run, shoot and get confused trying to climb walls?

Afternoon.

Yesterday I played a bit of Dragging On Quest VII. Then I went on a shopping spree with the new micro SD card in place. To answer dakylosaurus419 's question whether there's anything worthwhile, it depends. (I could have had Mario Kart cheaper, dang.) I just worked off my wishlist where I put stuff that looks interesting in one way or another as it comes out, since it's almost impossible to find anything once a game is no longer in the "recently released" window. I got FF VII and IX and half price Unravel 2 (f**k EA) and Fe (f**k EA again) as well as a number of smaller indie titles for cheap.

Also for half price (which is what it costs on other platforms) I got Silence, which is apparently the sequel to The Whispered World, which I played many years ago on my laptop that wasn't able to cope with the cut scenes. I still remember one of the puzzles where you had to catch a fly with chopsticks, Karate Kid style. If you didn't get the reference you were at a complete loss at what to do.

I completely missed that the Collection of Mana is getting a physical release in August, I would have waited for that. I started it up and plunged straight into Final Fantasy Adventure, which I played on the Game Boy as Mystic Quest. They give you a choice of playing at different aspect ratios in black & white, "colour" (my choice, being the graphics whore that I am) and Game Boy green, complete with motion blur. Enchanting! I couldn't wait getting to the first enemies and once again experiencing the most gratifying feature of this game: the sound that enemies make when you defeat them. It's something between popping a gum bubble and cracking a whip and it is so, so satisfying.

I played until the early hours of the morning and got up too late today. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling. I never got to play the sequel, Secret of Mana, and, of course, this is the first official western localisation of the third one. I'm happy and I regret nothing.

I also watched far too many Nintendo Treehouse videos and analyses thereof. Eiji Aonuma talking about getting grey hair from having to go through too many crunch periods. (I'm really happy that they are delaying Animal Crossing in order to maintain a decent work-life balance for their employees. It means that I can maintain a healthy game-life balance until March.) And he mentioned that the new Zelda is a little bit darker than Majora's Mask.

Darker than Majora's Mask? Now that is dark.

Too dark?