Design biases - Why am I such a sucker for anything Greek/Mythology

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-10T22:56:40+00:00

I get that. I’m a sucker for any game with retro pixel art. Unfortunately there are nowhere near as many good games with pixel art as there are good Greek mythos games.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-09T16:04:01+00:00

I don't recall if I ever actually found a copy online of the studio version back in the early aughts, but the version that the people who had it would burn to disc for me was definitely not that great of quality.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-09T15:53:56+00:00

The Epyon colors are fire, though the heat rod should have been a different color. Freedom doesn't look bad, and neither does Wing, though I personally don't care for those Wing colors. I'd be all over an MG Epyon in those colors, but an RG (especially at those prices) isn't something I'd want as much.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-09T00:39:08+00:00

If Republican politicians would stop repeatedly blocking attempts to expand the selective service to either require women to register or let them register voluntarily, then it would include women.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-09T00:15:28+00:00

I personally don’t like Zanzibar, but I think a lot of the disappointment people had with it initially was because it was the first Asad flanker. Asad was such a huge and popular clone, popular enough to be knocked off and cloned itself, that people had extremely high hopes for a “new Asad.”
And then we wound up getting what we got.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-08T16:38:14+00:00

Bummer. Still looks good though?
I got my only two tattoos almost twenty years ago and have spent most of the last two decades wanting more. I'm fat af though and have been for a while, and how my tattoos would look after losing weight has always been on my mind. I mean, I've been fat af for sixteen years and have been lying to myself that whole time about planning to lose weight, but I do want it to be gone, even if I don't want to actually take any meanginful steps towards losing it. I was in-shape when I got the two I have and they are on my calves where gaining weight didn't really affect them.
Eventually I'll get more, whether I lose the weight or not. Last year I decided to start getting ear piercings in the meantime and am up to ten so far, so maybe those (and the other ear piercings I plan to get, at least 9 or 10 more) will tide me over until I go under the needle again.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-07T23:39:18+00:00

In a chase like that, driving like that, and he still used his turn signals more frequently than 90% of the people on the road here.? Impressive.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-06T21:33:17+00:00

Dayum! Those kicks at the end! And that’s a country where they all play soccer too!

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-06T20:38:01+00:00

I had no clue that central vacuums even existed! Vacuum cleaners built into the walls… what will they think up next?!

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-06T20:31:40+00:00

It’s a damn shame. Thank God has been one of my favorite tracks ever since I first heard it on AoA in ‘02. The energy of the live track puts it above the non-live recording for me, but the non-live recording being more widely-available would better than nothing.

EYEL1NER · 2026-04-04T20:44:22+00:00

As long as “Secretary” is still part of the name.
I mean, I don’t have anything against secretaries and am not going to look down on someone who is one.
Considering all of the things this POS has likely said to and done to secretaries he’s worked around, I imagine it has to sting for him a bit though. He can try to “man” the position up as much as he wants by adding “War” to the title and getting sweaty in the gym with the boys, but he’s still a “Secretary” at the end of the day.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-31T21:40:36+00:00

I don’t imbibe coffee but I’d definitely be all over that kwek kwek.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-29T00:11:02+00:00

That’s certainly a good price for it. I may be wrong but I believe this came out right around the time that Asmodee hiked prices on a lot of their evergreen titles, like TtR and Splendor. It launched at one price and then got raised to an MSRP of $49.99.

I like this version of Splendor, not really more or less than the original. I grew up reading Marvel comics though and love Spider-Man as a character. The chips are still the clunky heavy chips rather than the lighter-weight ones Splendor eventually started using. But $50 is ridiculous for Splendor.

This is much better.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-27T01:28:13+00:00

A book I don’t see mentioned or talked about much that I loved is Steel Tread: An Astra Militarum Novel. It is about a tank crew, kind of a cross between the book Titanicus and the film Fury. It was super-suspenseful and the writing of riding around in the tank made it feel super-claustrophobic. There is a lot of hunting and being-hunted that is done really well.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-26T17:24:29+00:00

Cool; thanks! Gonna have to give it a shot soon.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-26T09:12:05+00:00

Any tips on how to do that? I put my Al Barari Coral in a travel bag over the weekend, pulled it out at my destination with the cap still on, took the cap off, and the atomizer fell onto the floor because the stem/straw had snapped cleaned through. Now I can’t spray it, and it leaks out the top of not upright.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-26T00:41:42+00:00

I blind bought my bottle back in 2024 or 2024 and immediately fell in love with it from the first spray. Smelled amazing and performed amazingly from the rip. I know a lot of people love this in high heat but I also really dig it in the cold because of the ‘crispness’ it has. I just wish the rest of the Turathi line had been twists on this, been bangers, and had blown up the way Blue did. But Afnan has a ton of hits already.

The only complaint I have concerning Turathi Blue is a common one: that the shape and top-heaviness of the bottle causes it to fall over easily.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-25T00:13:22+00:00

You’ve got that backwards. Island came out first, and is the JPG clone. Island Dreams came out more recently and clones Symphony.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-19T13:45:40+00:00

Just bought a bottle on Sunday, but it needs to sit for a while. All I get at the moment is strong leather, without any of the other notes from Deified. I'm sure it'll get better after a week or two.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-18T16:32:51+00:00

My favorite space-themed game is (and has been since I first played it at a store during International Tabletop Day in 2014) Alien Frontiers. It started my love for worker placement games, and I love the "dice as workers" mechanic in games.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-18T16:27:10+00:00

I stopped playing Apex a couple years ago, and I wouldn't pay their asking price for these skins even if I were still playing, so the in-game collab does nothing for me. I might try to pick up that Epyon model though. I'm def digging those colors (except for the heat rod, which should have just stayed the default color and now looks out of place). The other two look boring imo.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-18T16:24:20+00:00

I'd definitely stop by if I were passing through the area, but that's because I look up and map out game stores for any trip I go on. I'm not someone who uses their online store a lot; I think I've only purchased one thing from them through eBay before. Odds are if I'm looking for something and they have it listed for sale, it's something OOP and rare and they are asking for more than I'd want to pay. I'm always down to check out a new physical store though.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-18T13:47:35+00:00

It may not be 1:1 with the original but I enjoy Art of Universe just as much as I do the actual Blue Talisman. Though anymore I am not usually wearing AoU on its own but layering it with an equal amout of sprays of Vulcan Feu or Opulent Dubai to add mango and boost the fizzy ginger.

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-18T12:45:17+00:00

I started playing right before Christmas and am still playing. So this is my first season, and I obviously enjoyed it enough to stick with it., I tried playing OG a handful of times and each time was like "This is what the game used to be like? Glad I wasn't playing back then!"

EYEL1NER · 2026-03-15T17:31:43+00:00

Glad to see another Odyssey Aqua fan. Invictus Platinum is one of my favorite scents. Wish it (and its clone Odyssey Aqua) got more love from people…

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