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[Avarice]

I ate a half of a watermelon today. Well, the tasty part of watermelon, to be accurate.

Yeah I hear you bro the rind and seeds are the best throw the rest away

[Egan_BW]

Lighter Than Heir

Is that good? I've been meaning to read it.

I'm enjoying it.  The advertising is misleading in an interesting way, heh, it's a pretty dark comic about a team of young soldiers during a fragile peacetime.  Each of them is heavily flawed, and they have a lot of trouble working together.  The "main" character, the "Heir", is arguably the worst.  She's the only one with superpowers, and her father was a legendary war hero, making her an absurdly narcissistic glory-hound.

It may sound like I'm over-analyzing, but that's basically the structure of the story - the team tends to barely survive external challenges due to infighting.  But the characters don't feel stale to me, they gradually learn and mature...  Except for the heir herself, heh, so far.

The setting has an interesting mix of mecha-level electronics with black powder muskets, though the main "antagonists" prefer to eschew technology.  Super-powered humans are one in a million, but are of course a plot point, and are pretty consistent (they are super-strong and can fly, but just as fragile as normals).  It also uses German kinda like Firefly did with Chinese, which is neat.  Nationalism is a big theme of course.

I just woke up but I hope this isn't *too* rambly to be useful.  "Yes it's gud I lik it"

Huh. All I've seen of that was a simple banner ad, but now I think it sounds interesting. Judging from that single picture the arts not bad. Thanks for the recommendation/analysis.

[Rose]

So apparently Netflix has their own mini mcu now.

[Rolan7]

Huh. All I've seen of that was a simple banner ad, but now I think it sounds interesting. Judging from that single picture the arts not bad. Thanks for the recommendation/analysis.

Thanks!  What I found interesting about the ads is, it's an honest portrayal of how she acts most of the time...  Including during grim combat with her allies getting shot.  She has a really skewed idea of how heroes are supposed to behave.

[scriver]

Apologies for linking to facebook, but that's where they posted it: Here's a funny clip of two of my favourite tv personalities, Pernilla Månsson and Tarek Taylor, trying out Ghost Pepper as part of Tarek's food segment of their garden show. There's a bit of a running meta-joke on the show that Pernilla overestimates her ability to handle spicy food, and this year she insisted Tarek should get some of the spicier chilis for his vegetable garden. Many manly knee slaps of suppressed agony ensue.

So apparently Netflix has their own mini mcu now.

I think they're part of the main MCU? The cinematic one I mean, in case that C doesn't mean what I think it means.

[Levi]

So apparently Netflix has their own mini mcu now.

And its amazing!

Or at least I think so.

[Rolan7]

Does that mean Marvel Creative Universe?  I don't think that's obvious enough to leave by itself, but I don't watch much superhero stuff...  Well, that's wrong, I watch DC stuff and love it.
I didn't think Batman Vs Superman was *that* bad, but I wasn't invested in the characters at all

...
So I thought I was "done" with "obligations" yesterday, but actually last night was a lot of fun.  And he stopped by today too, to pick up something from years ago, and we hung out for a few hours.  It was great!  Also we're hanging out tomorrow, in the middle of nowhere, doing some hiking.

Jessica Jones is a great show by the way!  Totally unrelated!

[SalmonGod]

My employer entered us into a business charity event for United Way, where teams build boats out of cardboard and race them around one of those artificial ponds you always see around warehouses.

It was our first year participating.  I was one of the two people (technically captain) in the boat paddling.  We got 5th place out of 45 boats participating.  Blew away everyone in our heat in the first round.  In the championship round, they started the race before we had reached the starting line, so we had a really rough start.  But we still passed 3 other boats to get that placing.  Had a very dramatic final stretch, where the people in front of us slowed down too much around the last turn and left us space to cut past them on the inside.  But they managed to catch our rear end and get us turned around as we did so.  Had to row backwards a bit to prevent them from charging straight through and turning us completely around.  They still regained their lead from it, but we straightened up quickly and blew past them right before the finish line.  It was fun!

[TD1]

Sounds it!

Also.... cardboard? 0_o

[SalmonGod]

Yep... treated for water resistance, but otherwise cardboard.  There were maybe a dozen out of the 45 that sank.

Spoiler: Our boat.  It was stable, sturdy, and handled better than you'd think from the look of it.  I'd like to think some of that just had to do with me being good at this, though. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Some of the most noteworthy other boats.  The top two were 1st and 2nd place.  That dragon figurehead was awesome. (click to show/hide)

[Sirus]

Those are much smaller boats than I was expecting.

[overseer05-15]

Figurehead. The dragon figurehead was amazing.

[SalmonGod]

Figurehead. The dragon figurehead was amazing.

Right.  Fixed.

[TD1]

That looks like hilariously good fun.

[IcyTea31]

Interesting detail: this is apparently such a high-profile event that the orca boat's owner managed to secure a bank to sponsor them.