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I'm playing a ton of a free game called Fortnite on XBOX One. 
Watching-wise, no TV really, but I've been seeing about a movie per week.

I watched a movie called Game Night that was really funny.  Also, the new Queer Eye on Netflix was good.

I think a lot of you are too young to appreciate this but Roseanne is coming back on tonight. It used to be a great show ... well until the last season when it definitely jumped the shark. Fortunately they have decided to forget about that and return to the poor white trash family they have always been.

I've been getting into Fortnite too, but on the PC. My main game is Rocket League, been playing that ever since it came out. Then some PUBG with friends.

I don't really watch TV anymore. I mainly stream YouTube vids or Twitch as background noise or during dinner.

Monster Hunter World all day erry day

I've been sorting through a lot of the fringe crapola series on Netflix. Van Helsing, Wynnona Earp, Godless...just trying to find a decent nugget of TV.

Still looking...

^The Magicians?  I like it a lot, like Harry Potter in college..crude language, sex, gruesome deaths, etc.

Got into Longmire...it's okay.  Pretty slow, but the main character is really likable...not really bingable in my opinion though.

^I tried Longmire,Couldn't get into it.
I really liked the 1st season of the Magicians,the 2nd felt like it went downhill,I've not picked it up yet.

T.V....

The final season of The Americans returns Wednesday...Baseball Opening day ...Thursday
I'm starting the 2nd season of the 100, :-\

IZombie -3 seasons on netflix,and then the first 3 or 4 of the current season streamed on the CW... I really liked it....I missed yesterday's newest episode,I plan on streaming it later this week on CW.


Completed,or petered out when I got bored...

End of the F***ing World - I loved this,quirky out there ...not so much the ending..
All of Sense 8 -I liked it ok...
Traveelrs- All of them available..I liked them
Shameless..petered out after 2.5 seasons,got really bored.
Hell on Wheels,I really liked the 1st season..,watched a couple of episodes of 3rd,and was done with it...
All of Black Mirror I liked them...
Orange is the new Black- All of them- I really like these,except the last season...was just missing something

Occasionally playing Madden 17,when I get a bit of urge to play something...

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Game: Mah Jong on the internet

Show: Glad The Americans is back, wish it wasn't the final season.

That show is twisted since it makes you root for the Russians. It's kind of like watching Dexter except they are not killing bad guys. They are killing Americans.

When this show first started, I watched maybe the first 3-4 episodes, but then lost interest. They're in season 3 or 4 now, right?

Season 3, renewed for a 4th season.  If you didn't like it after the first 4 episodes, you probably won't like the rest then. 

I liked Roseanne back in the day.  How was the revival?

Destiny 2 and Everspace. Everspace is on sale for $18 on steam. I highly recommend it and the expansion for $6.00.

https://everspace-game.com/

https://www.destinythegame.com/

It was only OK. Maybe it just needs a couple episodes to get going. There were glimpses of the old Roseanne but much of it was forced in my humble opinion.

What's Everspace like? I loved the Privateer series of space games (not Wing Commander, though). The X-series was okay, but never really grabbed me the way Privateer did. I did like Freelancer quite a bit. I also liked (like) Elite: Dangerous, although I haven't had the time needed to play it for a long, long time. I also have No Man's Sky "unopened" somewhere (purchased, but not downloaded on PS4, I think), which I haven't found the time to try out.

The first was like bam, bam, bam. It seemed like they tried to get in a lot in a quick time to let people know where the characters are today. I thought the second show was more typical of Roseanne and revolved around their gender fluid dressing grandson. they drew very high numbers for the night. I know a lot of the conservative crowd liked it but it is far from a conservative show ... which I think fits in perfectly with society today. People are all over the place in real life. Well ... except for the news channels. They seem to pick a side.

Get it. You'll love it. It's not as open world as those games are, you are confined to relatively small "jump" zones, however the mechanics of the game work really well and you will enjoy the time you do get out of the game. Don't expect to play the game for 2 years, but it's great for 150 hours or so of really good fun. The ship controls are tight and easy to figure out (there aren't that many of them), the visuals are clean and fast, the combat is quick and accessible but still varied enough to keep it entertaining. There are so many little "feautures" of this game that don't immediately come to light but are introduced slowly over time that the learning curve is terrific. There is no tutorial because it doesn't need one, you will learn as you go and that's part of the appeal in my opinion. One word of advice and that is to start playing the game on easy. I know people don't like to do that but it works well in this game because of the way game plays. Your ship will gradually become stronger as you play, but in the beginning its not very durable and if you die, you start back at the beginning to make another pass. Each pass you get to spend any credits you have earned so if you don't make much progress you won't have much to spend on your ship and you will end up starting over a lot. I've seen many complaints about it being too repetitive and I feel that's because those people were starting out on Normal or even Hard and having to replay the beginning area over and over. I took the approach of starting on easy and made good progress from the very first run. Starting over was very infrequent. Once I got to the point where I could make it all the way to the last sector regularly, then I moved to Normal and found it again difficult to make it that far. The difficulty levels here are more akin to the difficulty levels in Diablo 2 where you first have to kill Diablo on Normal to go to Nightmare and then on to Hell. That's how you should approach this game in my opinion. It's a little old school, but it works. Yes you will be playing through the "jumps" again but each is randomly generated and changes with the difficulty so playing through on Normal or Hard is different than playing through on Easy. There will be more dangers not just harder ones for example. It's different fighting 4 or 5 mobs at once as opposed to just 1 or 2 on easy. You start to realize that the amount of energy your weapons, shields etc use are NOT insignificant attributes for example. If you run out of energy, you might be dead. That's the kind of subtlety to the gameplay that I don't think many people really appreciate.

Agreed. The second episode was a little more the way I remember Roseanne and you're right, I did think that some of the first episode was the way it was to get everything introduced quickly.

I thought Roseanne was ok,back in the day (the original show)..I remember watching it every once in a while.
but...
It came to either Metv,or Lafftv OTA,and it's on nightly like back to back (to back maybe) episodes,when I'm waiting for Carson to come on.The topper was last year when My Mom was in the hospital,her roommate for the last week apparently loved the show (caught a marathon? being added to one of the local retro stations),like 6 days of crappy hospital cable,to local to watch nothing but Roseanne reruns. I've hated even 10 seconds of the show since.

I have ZEROooooooooooo interest in watching the reboot.

Started season 3 of the 100....Ugghh..shitshow bad...I'm done...
No new Izombie this week,but I did enjoy the Penn & Teller Fool us April fools show (in the Izombie spot).

I'm currently a drift on what to watch next...

OK, I think I have to chime in on a new show I just started watching. In the past, I have been fairly vocal up here about not really liking most of the sitcoms that have come out in the last 15-20 years. Well, after being told to watch it by a good friend, I finally started watching...

The Santa Clarita Diet

Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, and a comedy dark enough to touch my heart. I zipped through the first season (10 eps) this week, and am starting on season 2 now. Lots of blood, lots of gore, and extremely intelligent comedy are the recipe...and it is delicious.

No spoilers...just watch one episode. If it's for you, you'll know it fairly quickly.

^ I had a little bit before the Cubs game started....I just finished the pilot,based on this,and it's pretty good so far  :D (and I HATE DREW BARRYMORE!  :D)

Rocket League, absolutely obsessed with the game.

Also; Alice: Madness Returns,  Bloodborne

That's why I didn't try watching it when it first came out...I really don't like Drew Barrymore. No matter what role she plays, she always comes across a little plastic to me.  However, in this new role, that plasticness (plasticity?) actually works really well.

^ That was me...My favorite Drew Barrymore movie (as an adult,she was annoying but fine in ET, :D) is actually Scream 1 when she got killed in the opening scene...

P.S. About...half way through the 1st episode....It was kinda Ehh,ok...I get it...Boring...Then....The 1 scene,I about fell off my couch laughing so hard at it....

I started watching Santa Clarita on Saturday and just finished season 2. Great show if you have a dark a dark sense of humor. Thanks for the heads up!

That's pretty much how I've been describing it to folks...a really dark comedy with extremely intelligent dialogue.

I've got 3 more episodes remaining in season 2...can't wait to wrap things up tonight.

Has anyone watched Vikings on the History channel? We started watching this after Santa Clarita and it's hard to walk away from. We just started season 4.

Vikings is on my list...too many great reviews from people I trust for that sort of thing.

I just wrapped up season 1 of Lost in Space, and it was pretty damned good. Almost wrapped on the first season of Marco Polo, and that one is pretty solid as well, though having lots of hot naked Asian women running around having sex definitely helps.

I've seen every episode of Vikings.  It's an awesome show...some seasons get slow, but it picks back up.  Really good, down to historical accuracy of their garb and way of life, but they take liberties with the main Viking..some of the stuff he does, other vikings actually did in history.

I finished San Clarita diet (loved it!),and I'm finishing up season 3 of Bosch currently,squeezing in episodes around the Cubs games...

I stopped watching Vikings after the kids grew up and took on prominent roles. It got old to me about that time.

They take a lot of liberties like in the character of Floki. He actually didn't exist with Ragnar but had his own stories. They've brought it all together to make one very cool story!

Fortunately I'm binge watching it so slow story lines kind of go by quickly.

You talking about Bjorn? I like him as an adult ... so far.

Lagitha keeps me watching

She sure isn't hard to look at!

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I like Bjorn as an adult also. Ragnar has other children and the time line jumps forward and they are all adults. I quit watching not long after that. Lagitha couldn't even keep me interested

I haven't gotten that far yet. The boys are still pretty young as they are in France fighting against Rollo.

I just started Mindhunters. It is awesome.

I liked Mindhunters a lot.

Mindhunters was very cool...can't wait for the next season.

I really wanted to like Mindhunters but I gave up on the season. I was watching later at night and the slow pace kept putting me to sleep so I had to always watch it in segments.

Wasn't it Mindhunters,the show,you guys talked about a few months ago being slow as dirt? I've avoided it because of that...

Binged Santa Clarita Diet over the weekend with the wife.  Very funny.  I think Ramona was my favorite character, so wise.

Mindhunters is not really slow, based on what they had to do in season one to set up how the FBI, and law enforcement worked back then.
I suspect season two will be more fast-paced, as their growing reputation will lead to more cases being sent their way.
Plus BTK is going to go off in season two.

I am catching up on The Blacklist. I love Spader in this show. He is fat from all that scenery he is chewing.

Currently catching up on Brockmire season 2 (Saw episode 1,work/baseball kept me for seeing the the last couple of them so far,so I'm going to stream them)
Caught up to date on the latest season of Izombie..I'm getting less,and less interested in it...
Watched 1-1/2 seasons of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmit...It really petered out fast,and become less funny,too musical? for me the more I watched.

Trying to find something else to watch... :-\

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars.

I'm also not ashamed to admit I enjoyed the movie Jem and I think I should have my own character on My Little Pony.

Well....it's over. 

BigDaddyBrony?

the wife and i have been watching who do you think you are. it's a pretty nifty show

Did anyone watch Cobra Kai? I really liked it although I didn't actually cafe for how the season ended. It was funny to see someone who wasn't politically correct by today's standards and the many 80s references throughout the series. Also lot's of throw backs to the original movies.

Apparently except the novelty is fading fast.  There's no way to make a boy pony and I haven't had long hair in about 10 years so all the hair style options they give you look ridiculous now.