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I'm not the person who cares about weapons in general lol. I'm here for the ha-ha's. I'm good with doing it the "inefficient" way for the sake of becoming half-way decent in Last Wish. Because I've only done it like once or twice, so I don't really know what's going on. Additionally, I think the usuals for the raid team will be good with doing LW full, getting the boss CP, then doing the CPs after the full run. Unless more people become more regular in raids? I think the middle ground makes the most sense. @TurboR56Mini wants 1k... and will probably be good with middle ground. I only sort of speak for him due to his absolute laziness with forums (and being stuck in meetings).

So, before I forget.. I wanted to respond/post. Below article states that the Devs think it is best to "start fresh" based on the updates. We have all collectively discussed the potential of this happening because of such game-changing updates. But, Devs are leaving it as a weird "option". It does not seem like that if we play in our original world that we will be able to enjoy all the new stuff. So, what do you guys think? Once the new stuff is released on the 16th, should we start fresh? I'm sad no one will get to stumble on my Wolf Sanctuary (then cry about about it)... but I can always build another one in the new world. If we start fresh, I think @TurboR56Mini and I can pop on before the 16th to take some more pics of what we, as a community, have built for record keeping and a nice look back. Valheim devs 'really hope' players start the game over for Hearth and Home | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM "Be fresh! Play fresh!"

Hey! Welcome! How did you find us? I'm sure the collective brains here can help you out! In the meantime, we have a few threads about PC builds. Feel free to read a few! I'll try to come back with something more comprehensive, but I'm actually in the middle of dinner at the moment. (Also, yes. I'm one of the admins here, and US based. So you might see my responses pop in while you're sleeping 🙂 )

This is on my list of movies to watch... eventually. Because it's a good story and based on a true story, from what I remember. As for American football and movies about American football, my favorite movie revolving around that will always be The Replacements. 😄

I finished the Rurouni Kenshin series Sunday night. And, my goodness. Well done. You can tell that they vastly improved parts of their cinematics and writing between the first movie and the second movie (per release date). Movies 2 (Kyoto Inferno) and 3 (The Legend Ends) were released close to each other as it is one story. Same for movies 4 (The Final) and 5 (The Beginning) being released close to each other. Leave it to Warner Bros to produce a series of movies with an overall story arc, I mean, they did do Harry Potter properly too. Back to movies 2 and 3. Kyoto Inferno starts with a highly disturbing scene as you watch a whole squad of policemen get killed and taken.. with the taken ones eventually being dropped to their fiery deaths in a the antagonist's recreation of hell. Aside from the first movie with a very clear villain, what was interesting about the rest was that I don't think you can truly pass clear judgment on the villains of the other movies. And, that's something that is part of Kenshin's burden. The villains produced are products of his past, for better or worse, in his own mostly indirect ways. Kenshin wasn't the one who initially "killed" and burned Shishio, but it was Kenshin starting to question his role as assassin that led his side to grooming a sociopath into an assassin. For movie 4 (The Final), Kenshin understands Enishi's anger and grief, and the guilt he has over Enishi's sister is something he has carried throughout his whole story. He wears it on his face. Literally. With the scars. I am super happy I chose to watch the movies in chronological order instead of release order. I think ending on The Final as the last movie was a nice closure to Kenshin's pain, redemption, and story. However, if you wanted to watch it in release order, ending on The Beginning is also pretty good as it acts more of an encore to flesh out his past. Plus, it's really cool how they used all the previously shot scenes in the older movies to create The Beginning. The continuity of these films are as beautiful as the martial arts in it. Not sure if I have seen any other film series done so well. Not even Marvel. These types of movies and stories just make me crave more of these high-quality productions.

Critics are far too often the death of far too many good games, movies, and TV shows before those stories can even really be told.

So, imagine my surprise while I'm in the kitchen, prepping to make a batch of blondies, annoyed that I am out of chocolate chips that are over 70% and have to settle for 55% because I don't feel like hand chopping the 80% chocolate blocks, and I see this topic pop up in my notifications (initially, I wondered if it was spam...) Since I'm waiting for my browned butter to cool before I make the blondies, I thought I would pop upstairs and form one of my sort-of-coherent posts. So, we want to talk about chocolate, eh? Just the general percent stuff and not the disgusting mass-produced stuff, right? (Although, I will admit, the only mass-produced chocolate I like is Lindt because they somehow kept their flavor, texture, and quality after being merged with Ghirardelli and the trash that is Russell Stovers) Let's get something straight (and I say this in the most friendly and not food snobby way possible), @GazzaGarratt and @Spacedeck ... White chocolate is not chocolate. It is the absence of chocolate. It is sugar, cocoa butter (which is a by-product from making all sort of other chocolate and cocoa things), milk stuff, and vanilla flavoring. You're basically saying you like vanilla lol. Which is something entirely different. And, if I were to make a vanilla ganache or vanilla anything else that involves something creamy, I would be reaching for "white chocolate". Percent-wise, I prefer anything between 70% and 85%. Below that is too sweet to just snack on. 55% is probably the lowest I would go and that would be used in different applications that require the sweetness to balance out whatever else I just put it in. Over 85% gets a bit too bitter and probably should be diluted in something/mixed into something else. For example, hot chocolate where you can add sugar accordingly. Chocolate, itself, has an interesting history in that the way that we generally know it now as a sweet... was not always the case. It was a spice. And various cultures use it as such like Mexico in their mole sauce. Chocolate being sweet was a result of Europeans taking the cacao back home and going "let's add some milk and sugar to it".. then chocolate as we know it was born. It's why Swiss and German chocolates are a thing, yet they don't have the climates to grow cacao. Now, if we want to get into the food snobberiness that I come very very close to, there's even single origin chocolates. And, I can tell you now that I love chocolate too much to actually write down which single-origin chocolates I like over the others. They all have different flavor notes. Some more fruity. Some more bitter. Some that have a tannin-like feel in the mouth. It really just depends on what I have bought and have on hand at the moment to enjoy, that I enjoy. As for what chocolate you will see me buying... it's going to be from an eco-friendly, fair trade company. Right now, I mostly buy Endangered Species chocolates because of what they do with their profits. I recognize that my love for chocolate and coffee can have a negative effect on the environment, and it fuels my anger towards the big producers, like Hershey's and Mars, because they produce shitty tasting chocolate and are destroying the world as they do it. Bottom-line. I like dark. And, I like it over 70% lol. And, it better be actually good quality. 😄

We have a 75" TV in the living room (where @TurboR56Mini plays as it is our main TV room). A nice surround sound system (Kef) that was gifted to us but is probably on its last legs (I think the system is 20+ years old now). Hoping to upgrade to a at least a 85" TV next year to make it even more of a movie theater in the house! 😄

I have only so much time to watch and read stuff, so I tend to only end up watching things that are "the best of the best". Rurouni Kenshin ended up being one of them. It's also called Samurai X. I think it's a really good period piece with some slight fantastical stuff in it.

Just finished Rurouni Kenshin, second in the timeline/first in the series. I actually had to make an account with Vudu to watch even though everyone said that Netflix would have the whole collection. Oh well. Benefit on watching The Beginning first, then this one second? It was really cool to see scenes from this movie in The Beginning. I love seeing long-term continuity. The movies are 9 years apart. Pretty awesome how they managed to introduce the shenanigans of the villain in this without losing much of anything. In anime and manga, there's usually some sort of comedy to sugarcoat the terribleness of a character. They still had it, but it was done just enough that it was not cringeworthy at all. Again, the whole time period of this is intriguing. It's stuff you sort of read in history books and learn in political science and whatnot. Sort of seeing how Japan came to terms with quick modernization and how it clashed against old traditions is fascinating to me. So many stories are about revolution and fighting back, but there's never stories about what happens after the victory. About how a civilization picks up the pieces and moves forward with the new ideals. In Rurouni Kenshin, you start to see it. They start telling you that it's not all rainbows and sunshine. A new era is great, but at the same time, it leads to a rise of new powers and new villains in the world. Those who feel wronged, those who feel abandoned, those who just want to take advantage. Progress is never without some pain, and I think that's what I found compelling about this story when I was reading it, and now watching it as a movie. As you can see, I'm thoroughly enjoying my movie marathon.

Ooohh... I want to see this movie. It looks funny... and I'm hoping most people here know what "Free Guy" stands for lol. As for pushing Ready Player One off its perch, I don't think that was too difficult, eh? Perhaps, I just wanted more from it. I wanted to see more of the gritty part of the book about people getting killed and the torture when Watts gets captured. Loved all the references though. Once Free Guy is available for streaming, totally going to watch it!

@TurboR56Mini is away for the weekend and has the car. So, I'm homebound and stuck downstairs away from my computer and PlayStation. Usually this means I bake and cook a bunch of delicious stuff, but I spent all Thursday and Friday baking things for his trip. Movie marathon weekend it is! I'd go out with friends, but that involves effort. This weekend will be dedicated to watching the live-action Rurouni Kenshin movies series. I read the manga and watched most of the anime when it was originally out. Since my mind is trash, I barely remember much except how much I enjoyed the series and the emotional depth it had. First up (and literally just finished about 10 minutes ago), starting with Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning. Yes, I am thoroughly aware this is the final movie in the series, but it's also the first one in the timeline. But, when you read or watch the manga/anime, you do wonder why and how the protagonist refuses to kill and fights with the blunt edge. I loved being able to start right from the beginning (well, almost. It doesn't get into how he became such a great swordsman). Can I just say that I'm in complete awe of the actors? The speed of the fight scenes is incredible. And, no stunt doubles as the director wanted authenticity. I was curious to see if the actors were actually moving that fast, and yup, they were. The behind the scenes practice sessions are just as crazy fast. Takeru Satoh, the actor who plays the lead character of Kenshin, even stated that if he was ever not able to do any of the moves or stunts then he wouldn't take the role. Manga, like comic books, tend to not be realistic. So translating it to the screen is always tricky. I mean, I love Attack on Titan, but its live action looks terrible. Rurouni Kenshin succeeds where others have failed. And, I think some of it has to do with the overall realism of the story. It touches on the politics/revolution of the time and the weight of war. It doesn't sugar-coat much of anything. The movie itself is well-done. If you're okay with subtitles, I would suggest watching it with subtitles even though it is offered with English dub. I'm not going to give away much of anything about the plot or background. You can look it up. But, if you loved the Ghost of Tsushima game, any anime, or anything about Japanese history, the movie is good to watch if you have time. I have always considered Japanese storytelling to be decades ahead of where American Hollywood is/was. The fact that this story is almost 30 years old is a testament to Japanese arts.

Do we need another Wolf farm?

I don't think it's too late, tbh. Because 1) I don't care about the lore, 2) I'm literally playing this to chit chat with people in FG, 3) @Tar-Eruntalion joined last season. I say, join in for the fun with FG. Now that it's cross-play, we aren't divided between console and PC players here. Thus, I'm more comfortable now lol. Join! Come have fun with us!

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