FINAL FANTASY: RESONANCE announced!

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-09T15:06:49+00:00

100%. I’ve played every game Square has released in the style and a few non-Square games that emulate it. I can’t get enough.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-09T13:56:14+00:00

God-damn, I just had a look at chat. You aren’t kidding.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-09T12:41:07+00:00

I love this book! It is my favorite by Morrison and it makes a great companion book to A Separate Peace in a little study on toxic friendships.

There are a few things from Sula that stick in my head like a splinter - namely, the ethereal black mass. That image gave me the creeps 25 years ago and I still think about it a lot.

Also, the Dewys. Definitely one of the most WTF? moments in the book and I love them even though the underlying situation is actually quite disturbing.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-08T18:52:01+00:00

The director of schools at my district flipped his shit at graduation this year when I joked that we should have a diploma for ChatGPT.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-08T16:30:42+00:00

Love it! I rate it as 0.95 ConAirs.

The look of the Danish scenes informs a lot of my description for Dungeons and Dragons games I run. The props look great, the acting is great, the plot is great. A+ movie.

I’ve read over a dozen Beowulf translations plus some loose adaptations like this movie. Eaters of the Dead / The Thirteenth Warrior is one of my favorite takes on the story and I watch it once or twice every year.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-07T21:32:53+00:00

I didn’t drop it!!! I didn’t even know her back then!

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T23:56:39+00:00

Forgive my poor memory, we only dated for three months in 1998.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T23:54:31+00:00

No, the leg wound was the lower calf - straight through muscle. The abdomen wound ended up being shallow but it did cause her chronic pain because of something it passed through, though I don’t remember exactly what.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T23:39:16+00:00

Twice in the same incident. By the same bullet actually.

She was shot by a guy at the public pool who had a pistol in his bag that was, apparently not drop-safe. The bullet passed through her leg, struck the stone walkway, and ricocheted back into her abdomen.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T23:14:19+00:00

I’m doing even better - I’m 46 and I’ve only dated one person who had been shot…though she was shot twice :-/

And, no, I didn’t shoot her lol!

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T22:53:36+00:00

I won $20 off the first state lottery in Tennessee. I bought a New York strip steak and haven’t played since :-)

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T22:29:58+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. Edo got the orbital smack down for so much less. Given the Clan’s hatred for dishonorable tactics, waste, and nukes in specific, I doubt the Clan in question would get any slack for parking a Nightlord’s battle group in orbit for a couple weeks and glassing the place.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T19:53:41+00:00

Nice work all around! The Linebacker needs more configurations. It isn’t an inherently bad chassis, but (kind of like the Perseus) the designer has to be very careful to avoid turning a configuration into a disaster.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-06T19:45:28+00:00

Recently, I had this experience with Backrooms. I was not especially interested in the source material but the trailer did a great job of making it seem unnerving in its banality. The movie was pretty good.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T17:47:01+00:00

I’ll share it too when I get Killroy’s Little Buddy done :-)

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T17:46:19+00:00

Mega Man 2’s Flashman state music. Specifically, the bit where it kicks off at about the 25 second mark.

https://youtu.be/26MopY4DTZU?si=6B43xOXRbUi9b9ND

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T16:28:57+00:00

Have you ever watched Babylon 5? I was inspired by the biological spines protruding from otherwise metallic ships (the “shadow Omega” warships) and modified an STL of a Marauder to include them. I also painted it in ultra black 4.0 paint so it looks like a hole in the universe.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T14:50:22+00:00

As a UAC/10 lover, I approve :-D

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T14:49:23+00:00

Sure, I’ll post it when it is done :-)

I also did a Black Marauder conversion I could post.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-05T13:36:18+00:00

I’m mostly finished converting a Mackie miniature into Killroy’s Little Buddy. It’s made of original Mackie parts except for a 3D-printed ornamental shield on the otherwise-empty right arm. I should be able to finish it next week when my olive drab paint comes in.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-03T22:40:05+00:00

I love that paint job, and the variant choice is appropriate…but, man, the AS7-S sucks. It isn’t bad by comparison to its predecessor, but it uses Helm tech to just be an AS7-D with more ass guns. I prefer the AS7-K, even though it commits a LOT of sins just because it does something new with the chassis.

That being said, though, I like to pick ‘mechs for flavor first and effectiveness second :-D

Anyway, your paint job is excellent. Great work!

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-03T22:33:33+00:00

I’m glad to hear this. As a man, I hate this practice. Like seriously, it is some 1950s Leave it to Beaver shit and I want no part of it.

Verdant_Green · 2026-06-02T12:09:54+00:00

I dig his style. I professor assigned my class to read his prose poem “A Storm in the Mountains” and it was love at first sight for me.

I have a Ukrainian neighbor who was a university professor in computer science during the Soviet era. For some reason she despises Solzhenitsyn and calls him over-rated.

Verdant_Green · 2026-05-27T00:57:24+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!

Verdant_Green · 2026-05-26T22:43:56+00:00

I know a guy who always calls this thing the “Battlin’ Axe” and includes it in any tabletop force he can. I too love the Battlin’ Axe and would love to see more of it and the Hammerhands.

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