Jar Jar Binks ("no man's land")

 Everyone talks like a cross between Jar-Jar and Yoda.

I'm a miner, which is OK, I guess.

Who am I?
I can pick a race, I can pick a head for the race.
No fat guys.
(also no humans)

WTF do I do with all the space-junk no one wants?
If I dump it all, I'll prolly need it instantly to, um.
??

I guess this game is ok for people who don't play games much,

it's a little like solitaire in space.
Who is Artemis? (who cares?)

Who has food pellets?

"Mine or die"
Feed the gas guzzler.
No beds, nor any couches.
A space-heater would be nice.

And then, ...?
Wait, this is "Sims", isn't it.
O...k I'm gonna play for a month maybe and shop around.

It's like mahjong without the gambling, it's (boring)

I glossed over this grumpy entry because all the others were voting hard for this game.
OK I'm in the grumpy minority, I guess.

Why (for example) is it such a deal to learn the language of reptilian-types who call me a weak interloper? "Death! Death!" My auto-translator says to me, as if that's gonna make me cozy up to them to buy stuff.

Push a button on my PC and I'm a "Magnate" but there isn't much to buy.

Yay, fly around, meet more a-holes. I don't see the charm yet.

(I think it's great for imperialist miner-types, I'm just, um, giving food to the cute animals and shooting evil plants, not pirating around starting wars.)

The biggie-picture (I'll predict, OK?) will be a big letdown.
"Luke I am your father," etc

Or was it designed as a multiplayer-thing, and pariah-hermits like me with amnesia wouldn't fit in? Voice-chat my way into whatever political secret society is trendy these days...yeah, that must be it.

"16! 16!" ok sure, whatever...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Sky

If this were amazon people would be all 
"It doesn't work, Don't buy this, missing parts"

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/104pr6t/which_is_your_favorite_and_least_favorite_alien/#lightbox

Most of the post-ers there are slightly racist, although they could all be 8th graders too. I feel old playing this game.
I turned off absolutely everything and am following the thin plot.
But in this current iteration, All planets are too hot, too cold or poisonous, 
And I haven't found a place for my Ponderosa.

Evil dudes from every sci-fi show out there: They're always the most popular.
Yeah great.
I'll be over here growing my olives and tomatoes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/gspx6r/do_you_play_as_an_alien_gek_korvax_vykeen/

Must all planets suck?
Are we all bots?
Who the hell is Vinnie? (whats-his-name)

https://www.nomansskyresources.com/characters

I've triangulated Vinnie (whatshisname) and...and... ?

I get all sleepy a LOT playing this game
It's solitaire, if Solitaire had a plot

Black-hole=Worm-Hole, in stargate/startrek speak.

Assholes pepper my radio with calls to war. I wanted to save Amadeus, not get drafted. (Artemis, sorry)

My ship wasn't built for war.
(They sort of fill your pockets with useless crap no one seems to want, and the good stuff, I'm not eligible for.)

Without really knowing a player's race in-game, they're asked to support an entire race in wars and such, or warp out of the galaxy.
"White Christian Nationalism" came up in reddit, 

on a question about where to live in a county in California.

The game parallels today's news about nationalism in general, but they misstate the "Fringe." (I think, IDK)

Join God (a big machine) to take over the universe, join a Race in their war,

Or find a planet to mine stuff on and retire with the animals.

Make the universe great again (MUGa)

Yeah, butt

"pro open borders" "Pro (insert race here)"

is bad, mmkay?
I switched back to BG3, for now.
It's like nostalgia all over again.

Good vs bad, not white vs the other race.

In my NMS game I talk like crap because I'm a permanent foreigner just learning the language, but I can be accepted if I'll join some war against the whozits.

(why?)

 

old movies

 Charles Gray

https://www.reddit.com/r/JamesBond/comments/1fb1xb9/it_was_me_james_all_along_i_was_your_brother_but/

Anyone British,  actually, if you severely limit the accent to a very, very small part of the UK, and to actors overacting.
Charles Gray gives a lecture (a 30 second one) on "Horror."
It's a movie from G0d-knows-where that my mind slapped into my mind's projector to wake me up today.

"Horror" rhymes with "HoTTer" in the UK movies I'm thinking of, 

but drilling down examples of how people pronounce "Horror" in places where 

"R" is almost never spoken (I'm thinking, "Japan") would be too massively huge of a project no one would care about.

A classic-movie theater no one goes to but bugs and winos, until it closes from years of neglect.

"Well, that was a good movie, how odd," was my reaction, 
And then I remembered it was all an advertisement to get off my ass to go to the lobby and pee.

Tik-Tok has lots of asian accent links...

https://www.tiktok.com/@loveenglish.uk/video/7296567208967294241
Reddit too:
https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/58p708/how_do_you_pronounce_horror/

This overdone video (it didn't need music) proves people in the UK can say "R" and add free vowels whenever they feel like it. 

*This* video is an exercise in hypocrisy, sort of...a pedantic-type can say "R" to teach an accent but hidden in his patter are the ways he really talks
(shoat instead of "Short")

And god love you googling an accent by the spelling, it's damn near impossible.

Roit propah aksent spulled ba da wuhds, it's impossibo, mait

And people who love to hear themselves talking slowly is grating.
The best ones use real people, not trumped-up sounds they explain forever.

Other than the new term of the day "Non-Rhotic"
I'm severely not finding much, 

"Add Caption"
(nevermind)

it's deteriorating into an accent demonstration peppered by US-people preaching the correct pronunciations.
You could make zillions, I swear, with your own special accent (from Wales or wherever)

But it *can* get annoying, as I shall now demonstrate 

The huge gigantic gargantuan (did I mention "enormous"?) theater downtown has rant-worthy blogs if you felt that this blog-entry was beneath you.
After the obligatory Trump sharts, 

A well paid writer who people look up to, who google adores.
and I glossed over because it was there (why?)
(Link)

365 comments and counting.

ONE of those comments mentioned "Google Mesh" and the old Train-of-thought started cranking up...

How much is an upper-crust, RTG cat toilet that (prolly) uses Google mesh?
Cats already know how to shit, and well-trained pets hit the yard (not the street to become pizzas)

"OK google, flush the toilet."

bugs & winos...(nevermind)

the rich and comfortably well off

 A rich guy I knew would have the credit to buy an expensive product, use it, clean it, and return it a few days later.
He'd have some patter stored in his brain to tell the sales guy.

Well, anyway I thought of that, when a guy made a kid's stepping stool on a 

"This old house" episode.
A stepping stool is cheap.
Well, $150 isn't cheap but compare that to a "CNC router" used on the show and a thing making dados and biscuits and varnish and accessories (like adhesive tape and work tables)

My dremel tool and scroll saw and the drill are all myself could possibly ever afford. That worm-drive saw was a splurge but it was too loud to use ever except to make my excellent table (biscuit-free, no dados)
Buy all that shit, impress people at garage parties (I guess) or make crappy youtube videos, lol

Of course, you could take back the router and the work table, so maybe this is pointless (The host most prolly got the router for free.)

Most of the shows don't build stuff, 

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do&oq=what+carpentry+did+jesus+do

they cook things on astronomically expensive kitchen utensils.
My cheese-f'n-slicer was $14 at Kroger.
A La Creuset frying pan (whatever), $150-400.

Donate so these guys can tell you how to cook and build stuff......

Yeah, I prolly shouldn't write this, I don't have enough examples, but it's fun watching them custom-make food and furniture in custom studios costing half a million.

Lessee...paints and brushes, canvas, (IDK) $50,000??

https://www.reddit.com/r/HappyTrees/comments/148q3oj/bob_ross_method_average_starting_cost/ They don't know either but it's lots cheaper than $50,000

Not Rich and usually uncomfortable, I seek a game that will cause me to forget (the floor, the rent, the bugs, and Google-News (or most of it):

No Man's Sky

Is it really a glorified cartoon?
Is it only for people with OCD?

     (Do you spend eons building and collecting?)

It's still a big chunk of change, it never ends, you have to read tons (I'm told),

But people make it sound so tempting.

OK I'll keep looking, and I already wrote tons on my searches.
I don't want a cartoon game,

I hate puzzles,
I like (maybe) story mode where you feel like you've accomplished something

or saved someone.
In the end, everyone likes you, you're rescued, or you own tons and get to sit on a throne.

Fallout new Vegas (in a word.)

 Grubby freedom-fighter guy fights undead democrats and wishes for a better yesterday

"They'll blow up real good," said Snake

I'm dissing a game I never heard of, but it's google's answer to "death-stranding clone"

"No man's Sky" vs "Outer wilds"
o...k
(I guess)
No horses nor zombies, I hope

OK the next couple of entries will bitch about not being able to make fuel.

I can condense it, I can make freaking-jello, just not fuel.

In goes one useless ingredient, out comes one ingredient.

I'm missing the part about other ingredients.

I'll totally guess a decent refinery exists somewhere, miles from where I am.

And how would I know any of this?

"Dude," reddit scoffs, "The game tells you".

The game tells you squat.

My "no man's sky" option (maybe) is to continually restart so the planet I get crashed on doesn't burn or freeze me to death.
My first game started pretty decent but I ran out of fuel and didn't have the proper refineries and refiner-accessories. 
The second time (now) I got much better at not running out of fuel (I walked) but the part about the refineries never came up.

Hank Hill in space.