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Board games. As much as I can convince other folks to carve time out to play with me. Happy to give out recommendations, too many excellent ones to list here.

New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn.

Kaffis Mark V wrote:

New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn.

So the remake/update of the Dennis Quaid film is actually good? I remembered thinking "It seemed like they pretty much covered the concept in the movie..."

Darkroland wrote:

Kaffis Mark V wrote:

New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn.

So the remake/update of the Dennis Quaid film is actually good? I remembered thinking "It seemed like they pretty much covered the concept in the movie..."

I kind of liked the oddball concept of the movie, so I decided to give the series a shot despite being skeptical. After all, how do you stretch the concept into an ongoing series?

Turns out the answer boils down to making Frank also a cop instead of a firefighter, and turning it into a police procedural with a bunch more cases that they collaborate on across time. Raimy (the gender-swapped John character) remains self-conscious of the ripples each timeline change they make, so while she tends to default to her original memories, when she thinks about it, she can remember differing events both ways, which is an interesting take on the time travel genre in its own right and something they start capitalizing on in the procedural format mid-season.

Walt Disney World is doing some neat stuff with drones right now, Taskiss. Might want to keep an eye on them up for upcoming jobs or consulting opportunities.

This is apparently one of their first light shows using drones. I expect them to get more impressive, but even this is really cool.

• The Intel Shooting Star drone features built-in LED lights that can create over 4 billion color combinations in the sky.
• The drones can fly for up to 20 minutes.
• The show will feature 300 drones in each performance.
• The drones are splash-proof and can fly in light rain.
• Each drone weighs only 280 grams (0.617 pounds) – less than the weight of a volleyball.
• All 300 drones can be controlled by one computer and one drone pilot. However, there is always a second pilot on hand as backup.

Small-town holiday fireworks displays typically cost about $2,000 to $7,000 for a basic show, according to Premier Pyrotechnics, while the city of Houston spent an estimated $100,000 on its 2016 Fourth of July fireworks show

Sounds like anybody else looking to replicate Disney's shows will be on the hook for royalties. Disney filed patents 2 years ago...

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/disne ... ark-shows/

6. Supergirl/Flash/Arrow/Legends -- honestly I'm about done with these. Flash in particular is painfully bad, Arrow is just boring. Only Supergirl and (though its bad, its at least midly entertaining, Legends) are holding any interest for me. I WILL say their 4 episode crossover week, while bad generally did have some great moments.

Installing Alexa into every facet of our lives! I <3 Amazon's virtual assistant. I've currently got her (via an Echo and three strategically-placed Dots) able to control our thermostat and lighting, plus her normal, internal tasks (timers and information). Just installed a smart bulb hub to let her control dimming too.

Author:	Screeling [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 9:14 am ]
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How are you having fun/entertaining yourself? How are you getting enjoyment in life? Spending time with someone? TV series? Games? Developing the perfect plan to punch Lenas in the penis? Whachoo been doin? Give it to us in list form In no particular order: Watching 1980's Transformers cartoons with my boy Just finished The Shannara Chronicles - looking for a new show. Maybe watch most recent season of Longmire? Play a match of Overwatch or Mass Effect 3 on a study break Play a little No Man's Sky on an extended break when I just need to chill Hold my baby boy and see what things can get laughs out of him Have sex with my wife

Author:	Talya [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:55 am ]
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-I have kids. Time gets used up. -I've been reading, a lot of non-fiction. -Pitch may be the best TV show ever.

Author:	Midgen [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:36 pm ]
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Pretty much spending all of my spare time on my bike (to the detriment of my guitar playing and building). I'm a heckuva lot healthier than I've been in years though, so it's all good. Read my Strava enhanced year-to-date report http://www.marcellobrivio.com/projects/ ... te=5779138 I'm hoping to get to 9k miles by the end of the year. Weather has been pretty good in November, but it's tough to average 100+ miles a week this time of year without doing a lot of riding in the rain and in the dark (neither of which is much fun).

Author:	Aethien [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:31 pm ]
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Well, this month is NaNoWriMo, so that's what I'm supposed to be doing, but I have trouble getting inspired. I'm basically trying to finish what I started last year, and then worked on only fitfully since then. But, instead, I started playing World of Tanks on the XBox, and I'm completely addited. Much worse than EQ, to be honest. If my love of EQ stemmed from playing D&D as a kid, I have to remember that before there was D&D, there were miniature armor battles. I'm really diggin' tank destroyers right now.

Author:	Raell [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:58 pm ]
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Fighting with my editor about the new book while waiting for the ** copyright office... Eight months to get a copyright. I paid someone in the government money to read my book, you would think they could do it faster than eight months! Getting caught up on the Lee Child books that I didn't read while writing my own . Skyrim and Destiny on Xbox ** on netflix...like everything. I have been rewatching the first season of Supergirl. I love Black Mirror. Just finished season two of Gotham, still not happy with it.

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Author:	Taskiss [ Fri Nov 11, 2016 11:38 pm ]
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I'm going for my commercial drone operators license soon. I started playing with them a couple of years ago, bought several quadcopters, going from small toys up to what you see here - a home-brew drone I put together with semi-randomly selected parts. I'm going to retire soon and pursue starting a business as a drone consultant I've mastered the electronic design part by working with arduino boards and mastered my flight skills by walking miles through my neighborhood flying my toys. Interesting thing, my knees are shot and walking distances was a pain and I resisted doing that till I started walking my quad.. and because of the attention I needed to devote to maintaining altitude and attitude, I totally never felt pain. sweet! Spoiler: Attachment: IMG_1321a.jpg [ 247.87 KiB \| Viewed 10729 times ] Indoor play with my smallest toy:

Author:	Talya [ Sat Nov 12, 2016 7:24 am ]
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Walt Disney World is doing some neat stuff with drones right now, Taskiss. Might want to keep an eye on them up for upcoming jobs or consulting opportunities.

Author:	Lenas [ Sun Nov 13, 2016 5:44 pm ]
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Lots of PSVR, watching MMA and EverQuest.

Author:	Numbuk [ Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:41 pm ]
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Wow, Penny Dreadful, Westworld, podcasts.

Author:	Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:05 am ]
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Roller derby. This weekend will be my 10th weekend tournament worked this year. I might have a problem. Occasional video games. Civ VI, Titanfall 2, and Overwatch are the current most likelies, though I'd like to go back and finish the most recent Tomb Raider: Some Generic Subtitle and ReCore for the stories. Television-wise, I'm probably stubbornly trying to keep up with a few too many series. New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn. My movie-watching has fallen off some; I tend to miss stuff in the theater since I'm busy these days and then forget to look it up after it hits video/streaming. Getting a bit frustrated at the narrowing window to pick stuff up on video since the Redbox revolution means that the most available rental options have a really narrow stocking capacity, and streaming services like Netflix aren't zealously pursuing new movie releases (and are letting their back catalog wither via attrition) since they're expensive to land. Board games. As much as I can convince other folks to carve time out to play with me. Happy to give out recommendations, too many excellent ones to list here.

Author:	Lenas [ Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:17 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: Board games. As much as I can convince other folks to carve time out to play with me. Happy to give out recommendations, too many excellent ones to list here. I am looking forward to my Dark Souls board game shipping next year.

Author:	Darkroland [ Tue Nov 15, 2016 6:19 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn. So the remake/update of the Dennis Quaid film is actually good? I remembered thinking "It seemed like they pretty much covered the concept in the movie..." Of course, the 12 monkeys series (first season is all I've seen) was also pretty great, who knew?

Author:	Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:51 pm ]
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Darkroland wrote: Kaffis Mark V wrote: New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn. So the remake/update of the Dennis Quaid film is actually good? I remembered thinking "It seemed like they pretty much covered the concept in the movie..." I kind of liked the oddball concept of the movie, so I decided to give the series a shot despite being skeptical. After all, how do you stretch the concept into an ongoing series? Turns out the answer boils down to making Frank also a cop instead of a firefighter, and turning it into a police procedural with a bunch more cases that they collaborate on across time. Raimy (the gender-swapped John character) remains self-conscious of the ripples each timeline change they make, so while she tends to default to her original memories, when she thinks about it, she can remember differing events both ways, which is an interesting take on the time travel genre in its own right and something they start capitalizing on in the procedural format mid-season.

Author:	Darkroland [ Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:30 pm ]
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: Darkroland wrote: Kaffis Mark V wrote: New stuff I've been impressed with includes Frequency, The Good Place, and Son of Zorn. So the remake/update of the Dennis Quaid film is actually good? I remembered thinking "It seemed like they pretty much covered the concept in the movie..." I kind of liked the oddball concept of the movie, so I decided to give the series a shot despite being skeptical. After all, how do you stretch the concept into an ongoing series? Turns out the answer boils down to making Frank also a cop instead of a firefighter, and turning it into a police procedural with a bunch more cases that they collaborate on across time. Raimy (the gender-swapped John character) remains self-conscious of the ripples each timeline change they make, so while she tends to default to her original memories, when she thinks about it, she can remember differing events both ways, which is an interesting take on the time travel genre in its own right and something they start capitalizing on in the procedural format mid-season. Ok, that sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.

Author:	Taskiss [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 9:44 am ]
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Talya wrote: This is apparently one of their first light shows using drones. I expect them to get more impressive, but even this is really cool. Yeah, the tech rocks! Imagine tasking those drones to find a lost child... perform agricultural activities... disaster information gathering. There's a good chance that each of those drones in the Disney experiment can be airborne for up to 30 min (easily 15 min) at a hardware cost of about $200 each. A decent laptop can control the entire swarm - GPU's today are controlling the pixels of a games 3D scene on a 4k display, a thousand or so drones in a swarm won't tax it a bit. It's just a vector algorithm applied to a locus x 1000. The commercial drone industry is going to be huge. The infrastructure to support them will be similar to the IT infrastructure in requirements. It's an emerging opportunity and I see it really taking off (yeah, pun intended)

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Author:	Talya [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:27 am ]
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Talya wrote: Walt Disney World is doing some neat stuff with drones right now, Taskiss. Might want to keep an eye on them up for upcoming jobs or consulting opportunities. This is apparently one of their first light shows using drones. I expect them to get more impressive, but even this is really cool. http://thedisneyblog.com/2016/11/16/dis ... ng-drones/

Author:	Taskiss [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:12 am ]
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Here's info on the Disney experiment - https://kikecalvoblog.com/2016/11/17/st ... ng-drones/ Quote: • The Intel Shooting Star drone features built-in LED lights that can create over 4 billion color combinations in the sky. • The drones can fly for up to 20 minutes. • The show will feature 300 drones in each performance. • The drones are splash-proof and can fly in light rain. • Each drone weighs only 280 grams (0.617 pounds) – less than the weight of a volleyball. • All 300 drones can be controlled by one computer and one drone pilot. However, there is always a second pilot on hand as backup. Intel hasn't put a price on the drone that I've been able to find, but here's a pic of 500 of them in formation more info: https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/06/int ... tar-drone/ https://newsroom.intel.com/newsroom/wp- ... -Sheet.pdf And the whole "second pilot on hand as backup" claim? That's ... a mischaracterization. These drones are controlled by the pilot hitting a "start" and "stop" button, there's no manual activity other than that. What, 1 guy controlling 500 discrete AUS's? yeah, right. http://newscentral.exsees.com/item/cb0f ... b217f5b278 Quote: Small-town holiday fireworks displays typically cost about $2,000 to $7,000 for a basic show, according to Premier Pyrotechnics, while the city of Houston spent an estimated $100,000 on its 2016 Fourth of July fireworks show Those displays literally burn through the $, the drones are capable of being back in the air in about an hour. The 4th is a one shot deal, but you're going to see these over auto sales lots, mall promotions, etc. A person could start a part time business just doing light shows. Startup costs can be recouped in less than a year. I'll be happy to help them get up to speed, maintain their fleet, train their operators, etc.

Author:	Talya [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 11:48 am ]
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Sounds like anybody else looking to replicate Disney's shows will be on the hook for royalties. Disney filed patents 2 years ago... https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/disne ... ark-shows/

Author:	Taskiss [ Thu Nov 17, 2016 12:14 pm ]
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Talya wrote: Sounds like anybody else looking to replicate Disney's shows will be on the hook for royalties. Disney filed patents 2 years ago... https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/27/disne ... ark-shows/ They're going to have a "prior art" from Aug 30, 2012 problem...

Author:	TheRiov [ Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:31 am ]
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1. Taking care of my ailing spouse 2. The Good Place 3. Timeless 4. Big Bang Theory (last season! really??) 5. Conviction (apparently didnt even get to round out their 1st season) 6. Supergirl/Flash/Arrow/Legends -- honestly I'm about done with these. Flash in particular is painfully bad, Arrow is just boring. Only Supergirl and (though its bad, its at least midly entertaining, Legends) are holding any interest for me. I WILL say their 4 episode crossover week, while bad generally did have some great moments. Spoiler: Ray Palmer (played by Brandon Routh) commenting that Supergirl reminds him of his cousin for example. I keep waiting for a Glee reference (Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist were both regulars on Glee) or musical episode (Joe West (Jesse Martin) played Tom Collins on from Rent on Broadway. 7. Agents of SHIELD 8. Finally playing Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag

Author:	Talya [ Wed Dec 07, 2016 5:29 pm ]
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TheRiov wrote: 6. Supergirl/Flash/Arrow/Legends -- honestly I'm about done with these. Flash in particular is painfully bad, Arrow is just boring. Only Supergirl and (though its bad, its at least midly entertaining, Legends) are holding any interest for me. I WILL say their 4 episode crossover week, while bad generally did have some great moments. And yet, they're all still better than recent DC movies. /boggle These shows have their moments, but the pointless angst started off old, and isn't getting any better. Might I suggest Westworld? I have a very long list of shows that still air which I'm currently watching (although some are on summer schedules - and few of them do I watch every week. I tend to collect a few and binge watch later.) Elementary Westworld Supergirl Flash Marvel's Agents of SHIELD Arrow Designated Survivor Blindspot Frequency Legends of Tomorrow Pitch The Big Bang Theory The Blacklist Grimm (final season premieres in January) Star Wars Rebels Orphan Black (summer schedule) Dark Matter (summer schedule) Killjoys (Summer schedule) Outlander (Summer schedule) Colony (not sure on schedule) Daredevil (Netflix) Jessica Jones (Netflix) Luke Cage (Netflix) Longmire (Netflix) The Crown (Netflix) Sherlock (BBC wacky weirdness)

Author:	FarSky [ Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:49 am ]
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The only things we watch anymore that are still going concerns are Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Supergirl, Bob's Burgers, Last Week Tonight, and Doctor Who and Sherlock (when they actually make 'em). Eager to see Class, though...heard good things. We tried watching Arrow and The Flash when they had their big four-show crossover, but neither did anything for us. Dropped out of Agents of SHIELD at the beginning of the second season and can't be bothered to care. Daredevil's first season was amazing and we still haven't made it through season 2, because it feels like so much of a slog. Jessica Jones was excellent, but it's not back yet, and I dunno how much the center's gonna hold minus Tennant's amazing Purple Man. Never got up the energy to start Luke Cage. I am excited for Iron Fist and The Defenders, so hopefully that'll pan out. Pokémon Sun and Moon have eaten up most of our available free time, and I'm fiddling around with Dishonored again. I've got the most recent wave of Lego Dimensions packs, but haven't built anything but the 2016 Ghostbusters yet. Gotta get around to Fantastic Beasts and Gremlins at least. Installing Alexa into every facet of our lives! I <3 Amazon's virtual assistant. I've currently got her (via an Echo and three strategically-placed Dots) able to control our thermostat and lighting, plus her normal, internal tasks (timers and information). Just installed a smart bulb hub to let her control dimming too. Werk.

Author:	Müs [ Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:55 pm ]
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Wife and I are working on Game of Thrones. Into season 3.

Author:	Numbuk [ Wed Dec 14, 2016 5:43 pm ]
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ProTip for enjoying Westworld to its possible fullest extent: Avoid anyone talking or writing about Westworld, including and especially "fan theories." Hell, just "go dark" to anything Westworld other than the show.

Author:	Serienya [ Thu Dec 15, 2016 4:24 pm ]
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FarSky wrote: Installing Alexa into every facet of our lives! I <3 Amazon's virtual assistant. I've currently got her (via an Echo and three strategically-placed Dots) able to control our thermostat and lighting, plus her normal, internal tasks (timers and information). Just installed a smart bulb hub to let her control dimming too. We love our Echo. We pick up a Dot for my daughter for Christmas and one for the kitchen. I only dislike that you can only link each to a single Prime account at a time. (For Reasons, my bf and I have separate Prime accounts.) The main Echo is therefore linked to his account, and the Dots will be linked to mine, most likely, so my daughter and I can access my larger music collection without just using Bluetooth. And, since our thermostat died last weekend and our furnace tried to cook us as a result, we got a Nest thermostat. So far, it's kind of cool, although I'm still not sure if it's worth the premium over a normal smart thermostat. (But it is purty.) It learned our schedule pretty damn fast and is so far working out, though.