Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

@nessisonett Oof, -21, f that! Not sure if the nice weather is a good idea if there is relaxation of lockdown rules, as I think there is a review on Monday!

@JohnnyShoulder It would have been worse if we’d actually won the rugby instead of losing by 1 point!

@nessisonett Great match! Can’t believe Wales have had two narrow wins against 14 men now..

@Thrillho I’m happy with the result in that we played well regardless but it was so close! Thought we had it right at the end but no dice. Kinda scary to see how well that Welsh guy played considering he’s my age as well 😂

@nessisonett Hogg’s slip! The tap tackle! So unlucky but I’m not sure why they kicked near the end rather than hold possession. Harsh red too I thought.

@Thrillho The red was definitely a bit harsh but seeing it in slow motion it’s hard to really argue against it. It could have gone either way. I really don’t know why they kicked at the end to be honest, it had worked for them previously so perhaps they thought they might as well take the chance?

Even as a massive Buffy and Angel fan, I have to say, I'm glad Joss Whedon is finally being exposed. I've suspected for a while that this white, liberal, male feminist ally was actually another wolf-in-sheep's-clothing.

It's interesting to see someone being canceled for reasons almost completely unrelated to perversion or politics.

@Ralizah I’ve had my suspicions for a while, mostly due to the way female stars of his shows have been treated. It’s interesting that despite all the good that Buffy did, the set really was that toxic. I think you could tell Whedon wasn’t as involved with Angel though, with how much more at ease Charisma Carpenter looked and how much more she got to do.

@nessisonett

https://www.thewrap.com/joss-whedon-feminist-hypocrite-infide...

This article from his ex-wife certainly pointed toward the truth about the man.

Fifteen years later, when he was done with our marriage and finally ready to tell the truth, he wrote me, “When I was running ‘Buffy,’ I was surrounded by beautiful, needy, aggressive young women. It felt like I had a disease, like something from a Greek myth. Suddenly I am a powerful producer and the world is laid out at my feet and I can’t touch it.”

lmao what a creep.

@Ralizah It's weird because there were long rumours about other co-stars (especially Emma Caulfield), and it's been known for years that Charisma Carpenter was basically sacked for being pregnant, and yet the industry simply didn't give a toss. I'll always love Buffy and Angel, but I'm also glad that Joss Whedon has finally been exposed for what he is. Some of the details Charisma gave are genuinely shocking, and it's encouraging that many of her co-stars have backed her up. It's sadly often seems to be the case that these "allies" turn out to be using their credentials as cover for their own abusive behaviour, or as tools to gain fame and glory.

@nessisonett I like the local newspaper slant with The Daily Record headline of “Support for Celtic fan Buffy actress Charisma Carpenter at centre of abuse claims”.

@Thrillho Cordelia was already my favourite Buffy character but I had no idea she was a Celtic fan😂😂

@Ralizah Way I see it, no matter how hard Whedon tried to position himself as a feminist icon, if he was really this abusive then he’s not a feminist. It’s less indicative of ‘feminists can be bad too’ and more a case of ‘man who says he’s a feminist turns out to not be one’. Like anybody can say they’re a nice person but if their actions prove otherwise then they clearly aren’t.

@Thrillho Have you been watching the second test match? What a walloping!

@Jimmer-jammer Haven't heard from you in a while m'man. Everything ok? How are you and the family? What've you been listening to? @Thrillho and I have been watching the cricket, are you into any sports?

@Jimmer-jammer Loosely speaking, it's a competition of runs and wickets, each team tries to score as many runs as they can when each has had a go at batting (their innings) without their batsmen being taken out - every time a batsman is taken out, it counts as a wicket, the team with the most number of runs after both teams have had two 'goes' or innings each wins the match. When 10 wickets have been taken, that's the end of an innings and all the batsmen are out.

Finally decided to replace the old Wi-Fi router we've been using since 2009/10 (it only has one band, on the 2.4 GHz frequency). Speeds are decent enough with it on the main floor (other than the occasional streaming video quality dips on certain devices), but I practically can't stream anything in HD upstairs (and the Switch can't even connect to the internet up there), so I figured I'd buy something newer.

Bought one of those eero mesh router systems, which are supposedly really easy to set up. Should arrive sometime this week.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

Ys VIII is a pretty sweet game (with the understanding that it looks like an uprezzed GameCube title and features the same mostly tropey characterization you likely became familiar with in ToCS). I wouldn't call myself a Falcom fan, but it was one of the bigger surprises of this generation, IMO. It's weirdly long for an Ys game, though, which, in the past, were notable for how brief and zippy they were. Ys VIII is very much an epic by comparison.

We'll see how Ys IX turns out, but I'm going to attribute VIII's performance to NIS not really knowing how to get the most out of the platform initially. Any platform where DOOM 2016 and The Witcher 3 are highly playable in full fat form shouldn't be struggling to run a PS Vita port.

RE: fighting games with deep stories, I'm reminded of how the 3DS Dead or Alive game included a story campaign, and it turned out to be one of the most weirdly convoluted plots I've ever encountered.

Is it longer then your 30 act epic that you wrote for Fire Emblem Three houses?

No, but it's my second longest one I've done, and it somehow managed to allow me to post and even edit it without the site demanding I prove I'm a human before taking me to an error screen, which is the only reason I've been splitting up my longer pieces to begin with.

They would be if I was actually going into work. I only went in like two days after the winter break before we went back into lockdown over here and this time around I wasn't called in so I've actually been off the past month.

Seeing as we've had the time, and we already had most the supplies we just hadn't had the time/were too exhausted to use them last year, me and my partner have basically redecorated the whole house the past few weeks 😅

That's right. I forget other countries actually do stuff to try and prevent the disease from spreading. Aside from seeing some masks in stores here, you'd never know we were in the middle of a global pandemic where I live. The governor won't even mandate masks. Could be a reason my state briefly had the worst infection-to-population ratio in the world.

Thankfully, my 72-year-old mother is due to receive her first vaccine dose next week.

Well, now's the time to do stuff like redecorating if you're locked inside anyway, right?

@TheBrandedSwordsman I had to pop into work briefly this morning and do other stuff after that so I didn’t see any play today.

It sounds like England were back to their abysmal best with the bat though. It sounds like there’s been lots of praise for Foakes’ wicket keeping but he also dropped a couple too. I’m surprised Root didn’t bowl a bit more rather than leaving Leach and Moeen to toil away.

I’ll be surprised if they’re still playing by the time I tune in tomorrow..

Hooo boy, the tennis has been pretty great. Really cool to see Karatsev make the semi-finals on his Grand Slam debut. Now back to invoking the dark arts in an attempt to hex Djokovic before his match.