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Went to a performance of Siegfried earlier today. Of course, I wanted to enjoy it so I decided to take 100mg of thc gummies in addition to bringing a few airplane bottles in my jacket pocket. Arrived about a half hour before it started and the edibles were hitting. Feeling good, I decided to go to the restroom to finish all the liquor I brought prior to the show starting.
Ended up passing out on the shoulder of the poor lady sitting next to me. Guess she was too embarrassed to wake me up. Missed the whole thing and finally became conscious again during the standing ovation.
Overall, 10/10 enjoyed fifteen minutes of beautiful singing and got a decent nap
Buttermilk, because it's cultured.
Ladies, gentlemen, & exceptional souls!
Fellow fantasy nerd here, looking to expand my literary horizons and read a fun sci fi novel. I’d prefer a standalone book as opposed to a series, but I’m also open to starting a series as long as it’s no longer than 3 or 4 books.
Also, I’d prefer it if it was a little upbeat and had some fun alien races in it, a la Star Wars or Guardians. I tried reading a more serious military-themed space novel and gave up halfway through; it just wasn’t my cup of tea.
Thank you!!
UPDATE: Thanks for all your responses!! These all look amazing. In the end, I went with Vorkosigan and the Honor Harrington series. Looking forward to a fun read!
Hi everyone,
I'm at a loss for what to do here. We have been slaving over this game for 3 years now, and after a failed kickstarter (forcing me to fund the rest of the game completely out of my own pocket this past year) we were finally set to release the game on December 7th on Steam.
I submitted the build and it was stuck for over a week as the steam team needed to do a manual review. I got a little worried about the time it was taking, so I sent them an email this morning asking how long it may take. A couple hours later, I was sent notice that the game is now banned from steam, effective immediately.
The reason? They are claiming it involves sex with minors. Let me be absolutely clear about this, there is NONE of this in our game. The one depiction of sex in the game involves two ADULTS, and they are FULLY CLOTHED. Steam hosts games far more racy than ours, featuring anime characters who look far younger being involved in such acts as our characters do. I was hesitant to even put the sexual tag on our store page because I worried it would mislead people who are looking for eroge VNs.
Obviously, I'm devastated. We've been trying to promote this title as much as possible, hoping that the accumulated funds could be used to fund the sequels (two of which are completely written in their entirety). I feel a great injustice has been done here, and I am reaching out to see if there is anyone who knows the proper way to try and appeal this decision. It is pretty clear to me that they saw my email this morning, decided that because we have children featured on the title poster and have a sexual tag on the store page that the two somehow overlap. I do not believe it was reviewed.
While this game does have some violence and sexual depictions, I don't believe it is anything more than 14+. I think 16+ would merely be as a "just in case".
https://twitter.com/CrimeOpera
Update 1: I have received a reply to my appeal, it is the exact same copy/pasted response that was sent to me along with the ban.
Update 2: LOL we're officially more extreme than Taiamanin Asagi, apparently.
Update 3: Kotaku report here - https://kotaku.com/visual-novel-sets-out-to-buck-trends-by-being-less-sexu-1840002895
I have a friend who is obsessed with the show, to the point where he'll start singing the title song and (somehow or other) get me to sing the role of Christine. I explained a few times that Phantom of the Opera IS NOT in fact opera, however the show does incorporate quite a few operatic elements.
Is there anything else I can tell him? (I know what to say, I just don't know HOW to say it)
It would be less romantized and more fucked up if you modernized the setting.
It was really fucking good. I’m not a guy who goes to a lot of opera, but after this I’ll definitely go again. Props to the people at Opera Colorado!
Also, a lot of people fucking killing it with their outfits. Some great fashion on display last night.
Feet are low...
I've spent a lot of time recently listening to Mozart's greatest opera's and am tremendously enjoying them. One thing I noticed is that forgiveness seems to be an extremely important and frequently recurring theme, especially near the end of operas. It seems to come back in almost all of the famous ones. E.g.:
- Pasha Selim's mercy at the end of Die Entführung
- The Contessa's forgiveness at the end of Le Nozze Di Figaro
- Poseidon's deus ex machina at the end of Idomeneo
- Sarastro's wisdom and forgiveness as opposed to the vengeful Queen of the Night ("In diesen heil'gen Mauern [...] kann kein Verräter lauern, weil Man dem Feind vergibt")
- Ferrando and Guglielmo forgive their fiancées for cheating because Cosí fan tutte
- La Clemenza di Tito, obviously
- Don Giovanni seems to be the exception but maybe I am missing something.
So, what gives? Why was this theme so important to Mozart? Was this very common in the time? Does it have to do with his freemasonry? Or was he trying to send a message to the emperor, because of events from his personal life? I'm sure this has been analyzed before but I wasn't really able to find anything myself so if anyone knows some good reading on this that is also much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Not much to look forward to in the near future - except no more Hollyoaks, Neighbours, Corrie (twice at night) etc.
I certainly won't miss this garbage when the episodes do run out. But am concerned about what's going to be broadcast instead (repeats of Blankety Blank and 321 with Dusty Bin?).
Did something change with the people behind the scenes? New writers? I feel like I’m watching a different show
