Andrew Jackson Lynch

Tremendous covers, guys.

I will never not love the emotional intensity on the lead's face as he sings those lines. He really wants those ribs.

Another way of describing it: The decision space in Captain's Chair is SO broad that it almost loops back around to feeling like there isn't one. I can't understand the ramifications of any single decision if every subsequent decision is also unfolding a massive decision tree all its own.

No need for an apology at all, a lot of people DO like the feeling I'm describing, or at least something approaching it.

At its worst, it's "Autograph signed photo of Tom Cruise on the set of the 1999 movie Vanilla Sky. Moderate crease to upper right corner, otherwise fine." At its best, it's what you spent today doing, a delirious series of discoveries.

This thread makes me miss cataloguing antiquities.

I am, however, expecting review copies of both expansions from WizKids when the time comes. I want to dig into why it feels this way. Also. The Borg.

I don't think it *is* a good problem to have! I love an open decision space, but I don't enjoy feeling rattled for several hours after finishing a game. Imperium feels meditative, a pleasant and salty lake to float on, but Captain's Chair feels like I'm drowning in decisions.

As for the week, I managed two missions of Regicide Legacy (I'm unsure what I think), a thousand hands of Jungo (it's wonderful), and three chapters of Aeon's End: Legacy, which takes an interesting approach to legacizing. It's almost an Aeon's End tutorial.

My problem with Captain's Chair, after five or six plays, is that it gets me so keyed up that I have to spend several hours afterwards decompressing. I've never played another game that does that, and I've played a TON of Imperium.

I'm curious to get my hands on Two Towers and see if it holds up better than the first one.

What a great way to take a great word and make it stupid, this prescribed use.

Somehow the most terrifying of all possible answers.

Which one is Bari.

I had no idea that was her last movie. She's great in it.

I do not know if the implication carries into German, or if "Hitlerrede" would be a normal way of saying that. "Ich habe heute ein Stück der Merkelrede gehört."

I’m translating some of Victor Klemperer's diary from 1933. He talks about listening to a bit of one of Hitler’s speeches on the radio, and calls it “Hitlerrede.” There’s something wonderfully insulting about that as an English speaker, like he’s calling it “Hitler talk.”

That's why that "sleeping giant" line from Tora! Tora! Tora! hits so hard, because the U.S. had been regularly involved in international conflict in the decade prior to WWII.

"Oh, they're publishing one of his novels posthumously? Huh. Wonder where that was tucked away. Wait. Is Pynchon even dead?"

And that's how I learned Thomas Pynchon wasn't dead.

If you count his albums with S&G, Paul Simon's 12th album is Graceland, and The Beatles recorded Abbey Road after Let It Be, making it the twelfth album they recorded.

Sir. I am into it.

"'Hairy Solidarity' is my favorite Warren Zevon song," he thought to himself for some reason.

Also: Solidhairity.

All reasonable. Since he was the primary creative driver of S&G, I think it's appropriate for the prompt (I wouldn't say they are the same otherwise), but I can see it either way.

They're a slam dunk for me if we consider that Abbey Road was recorded afterwards and is therefor their actual twelfth album. Otherwise I'd give it to Paul Simon, since Graceland is his twelfth album if we include Simon & Garfunkel.

It was in Bill Murray's contract that he had to get in a full round, they used what footage he gave them.

Yeah, Japanese is a real and particular joy to learn.

Very nice. I got back into it over the summer for about a month, but then life got in the way, as it do.

Are you taking a class? Or are you self-teaching?

Not that I was looking forward to it before, but videos like this, as things escalate across the board, make me much more nervous about when this inevitably comes to NYC.