Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

Am I really the only person holding my mug Jedi-style? Pfffff.

 

I've been to Chicago in the winter, and can see how you could easily get dehydrated in the wind and cold there. Syracuse is about the same.

I remember during C3 standing in line in the cold rain wearing shorts and sandals and being very glad for a hot cup of coffee.

 

Sorry, double post

 

Yeah, Chicago winters can be brutal. It's not the cold so much as it is the wind; it makes your whole body ache right to the bones. It certainly makes outdoor sporting events during the winter an extra layer of intense, only the die-hard fans are willing to endure it.

 

I grant that most alcoholic drinks I have tasted have been exactly that class (about 90% of my alcoholic consumption is stuff I can get for free as I don't feel like paying for that stuff), but still in all those drinks it's always been the alcohol that has tasted bad. If there's a pop/soda option I take that, especially because usually they are free (when available) in student parties. It's like stealing money.

 

With me, it's never made any difference how expensive the wine is -- never drunk beer in my life, so no idea with those -- I've still never enjoyed the taste. I always cringe whenever I taste one of those deserts made with alcohol of some kind, as with me it just utterly, utterly overpowers any other flavours, and I've just never got why people enjoy masking the cream or vanilla or [insert other actual flavours of said desert]. Ditto with red wine sauce on chicken and that sort of thing...

 

And the liqueur filled chocolates. I'm eating a perfectly good chocolate praline, then suddenly "surprise, liqueur!" Why?

 

I would love to make it to one of those outdoor hockey games, that looks like a good time.

And their is certainly something to say for decent quality wine or beer, along with a good meal. New England has quite a few breweries, a good lager with a bowl of chowder, maybe read a couple Dark Times comics, that's nice eh?

 

I'm waiting for an outdoor NHL game on the Rideau Canal. That would be a thing of beauty. I'd drive for that.

A decent whisk(e)y can be wonderful. A Islay Scotch like a 16-year-old Lagavulin is just perfect after a long day.

 

I would travel up to Ottawa to see that, maybe get a beavertail and some poutine.

 

Since I have no idea what a beavertail and poutine are, that statement simply sounded dirty.

 

A beavertail is a fried dough pastry you can get on the canal in Ottawa

 

So I have been reading the Dathomir part of Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds and the impression I got is threefold –
A) it feels like the author have actually not read the Courtship of Princess Leia.
B) it feels like the author don’t like the jedi, at least the old order, or were told to paint them in a bad light.
C) it feels like the author don’t like the Force overall.

Anybody else got those impressions?



Also is there anybody else that gets continuity-headache by the rancor riding humans on Dathomir in Dawn of the Jedi #1?

 

Gamiel: I did. Matter of fact, everything after issue zero was pretty much pure continuity headache for me, and the previews had look so promising as well.

 

I'm having a nasty time finding Caol Ila in my home province and it makes me sad. I tried it this one time at Burning Man (#thatguy) and nothing has ever tasted so good. I was also able to get it in Ottawa. #RideauCanalNHLGame

I don't know about dirty, but greasy. Definitely greasy.

 

GrandAdmiralJello I just read a review for Assassin's Creed Rogue, and I think it sounds like a game you would like.

 

So, I struggle through the early portions of DAI on nightmare difficulty, finally reach the first 'milestone'... and then realise that I imported the wrong world state.

Or, rather, I imported the correct one but I forgot that I'd played around with it a few days ago and so it's not perfect.

*sigh*

Oh well, I didn't like my Inquisitor's name, anyway.

 

Does the Xbox version still import DA2 saves, or does it need the Keep too?

I'm strongly leaning toward just using the Keep and getting the PC version, simply because the loading screens in DA2 on Xbox drove me mad, but... I also dunno if I trust my Keep decisions to fit my previous characters, as it's been soooooooooo long since I played them.

 

They all need the Keep, by my understanding.