On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

Y&R - These ep's (I think I got thru 4 of them) were from early- to
mid-April I think. Anyway, this wraps up the whole Sharon/Filis[sic!] kidnapping and Traci engagement sagas - everyone figures out that Dr.
Alan is really his EVOL! twin Martin impersonating Alan, and confront
him. Then, on the absolute flimsiest of pretexts, Chase arrests
"Alan"/Martin, and then has Sharon and Filis[sic!] confront him in "the
box" (H:LOTS ref!), and somehow these two dingbats trick Martin into
"outing" himself! Well, at least this storyline is over... Meanwhile,
over Sally's warnings, dummy Audra takes on Victor's job offer (with conditions) in which she has to "seduce" Kyle to break up him and
Claire. Bah!!


What did you watch?

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something
obvious) and still replaying Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep
again with my co-op friend.

Y&R - These ep's (I think I got thru 4 of them) were from early- to
mid-April I think. Anyway, this wraps up the whole Sharon/Filis[sic!] >kidnapping and Traci engagement sagas - everyone figures out that Dr.
Alan is really his EVOL! twin Martin impersonating Alan, and confront
him. Then, on the absolute flimsiest of pretexts, Chase arrests >"Alan"/Martin, and then has Sharon and Filis[sic!] confront him in "the
box" (H:LOTS ref!), and somehow these two dingbats trick Martin into
"outing" himself! Well, at least this storyline is over... Meanwhile,
over Sally's warnings, dummy Audra takes on Victor's job offer (with >conditions) in which she has to "seduce" Kyle to break up him and
Claire. Bah!!

What did you watch?

Only thing I managed to get in was the second episode of SHERLOCK &
DAUGHTER where in the daughter manages to help find more info to help
find the missing daughter and Watson. I also started A WORKING MAN
last night but was too tired to do more than watch first few minutes
so Statham only managed one fight with members of some Mexican (or
other Hispanic) gang.

What did you watch?

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On 4/26/2025 8:56 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

What did you watch?

Fringe S1E05 'Power Hungry'. IMDb sez "An elevator crashes, killing a
number of people, leading Olivia and the Bishops to a man who appears to unknowingly be able to manipulate electricity." The glyphs spell "surge".

Peter Bishop: We're putting GPS chips on carrier pigeons to find a man
who can control electricity. I have you to thank for that, don't I?
Agent Olivia Dunham: Yeah. That's me.

What Did You Watch?

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On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something obvious)

That's what game Wiki's are for! :) I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam
and have thought it might be of interest to me. How good is it when
you're not frustrated about missing things?

and still replaying Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep
again with my co-op friend.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something >obvious) and still replaying Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep
again with my co-op friend.

Just pay the Trump tariff and get the part imported from Canada that you
need.

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On Apr 26, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:

FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS

What did you watch?

HAVOC (on the Netflixes)

A low-budget Wick-esque movie starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, and Timothy Olyphant. If you like watching John Wick dispatch a seemingly endless stream
of henchman in creatively gruesome ways, this is your kind of movie. It
doesn't have the budget of a Wick production, so it's not as slick and
polished looking, but it gets the job done.

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On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:42:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something
obvious)

That's what game Wiki's are for! :) I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam
and have thought it might be of interest to me. How good is it when
you're not frustrated about missing things?

I've not played enough myself to say much but did watch a play through
by Jesse Cox some time back and really enjoyed it. The game feels a
bit like Subnautica, another game I've enjoyed. Both games are
relatively calm exploration games with necessary resource gathering
and moments of panic when in a dangerous situation. In the case of
Subnautica it's when some of the most dangerous creatures make an
appearance or you enter a dangerous location without proper
protection(running out of air sucks) while Pacific Drive involves you
working through an area that seems perfectly safe until it isn't.
Think when the area around you turns radioactive so you need to get
moving to avoid the danger (not actually radioactive but similar
dangers.)

So in PD you can explore a forest in the Northwest a bit until the
game forces you to move on.

and still replaying Tiny Tina's Assault on the Dragon Keep
again with my co-op friend.

I love the Borderlands games. Shoot'Em Ups without consequences. A
different change from the above two games. Then there's my other games
that I haven't played in a long time but have many hours in, the
Fallout games. Currently still have a Fallout 4 game I need to get
back to at some point. Another exploration game with moments of danger
and violence.

LOL. This is very different from the games I used to play back around
the turn of the century when most of my games where strategy based
like the Age of Empires, Warcraft 3 and Command & Conquer games. Sadly
lately it's only Starcraft keeping that genre alive and I'm not good
enough to feel comfortable playing online so I limit that gaming to
catching the occasional tournament. It's my version of watching sports
where I know most of the players and what moves they are likely to
make.

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On 4/26/2025 1:56 PM, shawn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:42:06 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 4/26/2025 9:54 AM, shawn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 08:56:55 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

On 4/26/25 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

What did you watch?

After a long-ish workday, I just put on my backlog of Y&R and played
video games.

Whee! My latest games are Pacific Drive (but I am getting frustrated
not being able to upgrade my car. Mostly because I'm missing something
obvious)

That's what game Wiki's are for! :) I've seen Pacific Drive on Steam
and have thought it might be of interest to me. How good is it when
you're not frustrated about missing things?

I've not played enough myself to say much but did watch a play through
by Jesse Cox some time back and really enjoyed it. The game feels a
bit like Subnautica, another game I've enjoyed. Both games are
relatively calm exploration games with necessary resource gathering
and moments of panic when in a dangerous situation. In the case of
Subnautica it's when some of the most dangerous creatures make an
appearance or you enter a dangerous location without proper protection(running out of air sucks) while Pacific Drive involves you
working through an area that seems perfectly safe until it isn't.
Think when the area around you turns radioactive so you need to get
moving to avoid the danger (not actually radioactive but similar
dangers.)

So in PD you can explore a forest in the Northwest a bit until the
game forces you to move on.

I've played Subnautica. I'm currently playing 'The Planet Crafter'.
Same genre, the setting is you are a convict dropped on a Mars-like
planet to terraform it.

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dirty old man.

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On 4/26/2025 12:13 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 26, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

I watched:

FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS

What did you watch?

HAVOC (on the Netflixes)

A low-budget Wick-esque movie starring Tom Hardy, Forest Whitaker, and Timothy
Olyphant. If you like watching John Wick dispatch a seemingly endless stream of henchman in creatively gruesome ways, this is your kind of movie. It doesn't have the budget of a Wick production, so it's not as slick and polished looking, but it gets the job done.

You liked it way more than I did.

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