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Christopher Colton@darktzeratul.bsky.social |
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Sr. QA Analyst at Krafton, Wowpedia admin, and Antioch Remastered co-creator.
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Christopher Colton
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I read a novel once in which the tradition in the protagonist's society is that everyone has two names: their child name that their parents give them, and then their adult name they choose for themselves upon reaching maturity. I always felt that seemed like something people should do in real life.
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Christopher Colton
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I very nearly stopped reading book 1 after chapter 7. I finished it, mostly so I could say I gave it a proper chance, but the main character being such a curmudgeonly asshole was a big part of why I had no desire to continue the series.
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Christopher Colton
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Still got that Perfect World jacket. :)
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Christopher Colton
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The Last Dance by Martin L. Shoemaker, about an investigator looking into a recent mutiny about a Mars-Earth transport ship.
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Christopher Colton
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In the event this is an earnest question rather than sarcastic, the answer is many, many people.
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Christopher Colton
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And in IDW's 2005-2018 comic series, Prowl is perhaps one of the biggest absolute bastards of all, doing awful things for the "greater good" because he thinks he's the only one smart enough and focused enough to see the big picture.
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Christopher Colton
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In a fun twist, it turns out only Lolly is poly.
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Christopher Colton
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Hi! I'm a QA Analyst. My greatest hits are: "Did you guys know this feature was getting added? Is there documentation for how it's supposed to work?" "This animation bug is hilarious!" "Are they seriously marking this Will Not Fix?" "Finally, a stable build!"
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Christopher Colton
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Joss Whedon once remarked that the only thing the opening weekend indicates is the effectiveness of the marketing campaign.
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Christopher Colton
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Sort of like "Her" but in reverse?
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Christopher Colton
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My issue with the antagonist was the absolute fail at writing his motivation. If they wanted him to be a reasonable figure who makes a bad decision to save his kingdom at any cost, they didn't lean into that. Instead they just made him turn evil because of a book, and also he's evil forever now.
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Christopher Colton
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I'm guessing that higher crit chance against undead is just an urban legend, though?
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Christopher Colton
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That's frustrating.
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Christopher Colton
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The best education I ever got on the Civil War and especially its aftermath was not in school, but Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Christopher Colton
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When I read the book, I thought it would make for a fantastic mockumentary. Instead, we got Yet Another Generic Zombie Movie.
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Christopher Colton
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I think this only holds true if by "there" they mean where you should be (whether you know it or not), but not actually where you intended to go from that bus stop.
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Christopher Colton
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My wife is a falconer, and she's told me before that she will trust a freshly trapped wild red-tailed hawk over a pet parrot any day.
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Christopher Colton
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It certainly makes more sense as a "sympathetic villain" plot than "dalmatians killed my parents in a ridiculous freak accident."
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Christopher Colton
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It's less about what previous games did and more that projects have to be either 100% union or 100% non. So if they want to use the same actors for 2 (and they should, they're a big part of why the first one was great), either all those actors join the union or they go non-union for new characters.
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Christopher Colton
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I've got a joke about Orpheus, but I always trip up right before the end.
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Christopher Colton
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I suppose the ghost candle sex episode *has* led to a lot of great jokes, even if they're mostly about how bad Sub Rosa was.
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Christopher Colton
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Maybe leave out the ghost candle sex, though...
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Christopher Colton
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The Transamerica Pyramid?
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Neil Gaiman
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Read this.
What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/o...
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Christopher Colton
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Hence its scientific name being Utahraptor Spielbergi
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Christopher Colton
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How are they?
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Christopher Colton
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...I've seen worse Oreo flavors.
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Christopher Colton
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Rowan Atkinson
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Christopher Colton
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My brain keeps trying and failing to fit the lyrics to the tune of Irish Rover.
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Christopher Colton
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Pretty sure they even censored it out of Hamilton.
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Christopher Colton
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I always thought it'd be really good at quickly generating rough concepts, or variations on a concept, for an artist to redraw and refine the better ones.
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Christopher Colton
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It's the inability to pretend to speak orcish badly, isn't it?
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Christopher Colton
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While I can't claim to be a sesame oil aficionado, I suspect there's a considerably smaller delta between the best and the worst sesame oil than the best and the worst nigiri. There's probably a limit to how bad it can get that just doesn't exist where raw fish is involved. Alas, our poor wallets.
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Christopher Colton
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The second time was... Less entertaining. TSA: *opens my bag, pulls out the 1000-page biography of George Washington and flips through it* "Are you REALLY going to read this whole book?" Me: "Probably not all on the plane, but yeah." TSA: *shoves my bag back at me without another word*
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Christopher Colton
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The first time I got my bag pulled by TSA was entertaining . TSA: *opens my bag and pulls out the snacks* "'Kirkland Brand Cashew Clusters.' Not what I was expecting." Me: "Did it look like something different on the x-ray?" TSA: "Yeah, it looked like explosives. Here's your bag, have a nice day."
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Christopher Colton
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And as I understand it, Dune Messiah is mostly about reinforcing that Paul *isn't* the messianic figure he's worshiped as.
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Christopher Colton
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Reminds me of when people were getting upset about "calling a spade a spade" a few years ago, not realizing that the phrase has always referred to a literal garden spade.
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Kelly Turnbull
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I feel like the biggest problem American cities have had through the entire history of this country is they’re terrified “the wrong people” will enjoy public amenities, so they take them away from everybody, or only make them available for people with money to spend on them.
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Christopher Colton
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Kinda feels to me like that's all the more reason to keep it when/if you do get it.
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Christopher Colton
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Yep! I don't think I've seen Ruddigore done in a different setting before, but the Stanford Savoyards have done some fun ones. My favorite was a Star Trek-themed HMS Pinafore set on the Enterprise D.
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Christopher Colton
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My local G&S group is doing a production at the end of the month set in 19th century Mexico during the Day of the Dead.
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Christopher Colton
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I still maintain he fucked exactly once, was bored by the experience, and never thought about it again.
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Christopher Colton
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Do you want to get cholera? Because this is how you get cholera.
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Christopher Colton
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Some assorted localization fails from a video game I once worked on (before my team fixed them) *An enemy named "Treerat Deflowerer" *An enemy named "Orgiastic Apostle" *An NPC named "Queer Old Man" *An ability named "Graceful Intercourse" (which also caused a bleeding effect)
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Christopher Colton
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I once had a battle that went like this: DM: "A bunch of fire elementals attack! Wizard, you're up first." Wizard: "I cast Mass Fire Resistance." DM: "I'm gonna call the encounter here then."
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Christopher Colton
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...Okay, now that I've seen that full thing, I dunno if "what the actual fuck" is the appropriate response. It might not actually go far enough.
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Christopher Colton
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Wait, I saw the violence quote, but what the actual fuck on the DEI thing!?
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Christopher Colton
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My Pixel did that too. Eventually, I undid the correction enough times that it apparently "learned" and instead started autocorrecting "we're" to "were" in every instance regardless of grammar.
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Christopher Colton
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Guess I'm rolling a Shmonk!
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For fuck's sake, vaccinate your kids and keep them home when they're sick. This was *entirely* preventable.
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