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i don't have a big stake since this is a community i don't really take part in, but i will say when i see those bot posts that are just grabbing reddit posts and tossing them here i don't really engage with them.

i feel compelled to comment on posts that were made with intention by a user that will actually see my input. it might add content but to me it seems like it would kind of be filler, less substantial than an actual poster making a thread.

yeah this thematic is so perfect for jungle. i've been excited for this champ for months and i play jungle, so i plan to whip it out in the jungle anyway lol

i think the book does a good job of explaining its internal logic. there are a few povs. one of those raised in the library is the primary character, even though they're part of the less than normal crowd of misfits her discipline was language, so naturally she is good at communicating and her perspective is about as normal as it can be given the circumstances.

another of the main cast is a fish out of water type regular joe, who is appropriately confused at the goings-on.

and it has fun with it's scenarios, the book knows how ridiculous it can be and characters can be just as bewildered as the reader, so it grounds itself that way.

i read The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins not long ago. it's a modern fantasy story about a group of orphans raised into adulthood by who is for all intents and purposes, god. content warning for things like extreme violence and gore, sexual assault and child torture, i won't get into those details but these things are present in the story.

the children are taught by him in this mystical library, isolated from the rest of the world, with each one learning a different discipline in a hyperfixated and certainly unhealthy manner. for example one is taught every aspect of war and combat at the expense of anything else. learning everything in all of the universe and reality in that field to the point where he can telepathically understand what an opponent intends to do next. this doesn't really result in very well rounded individuals. so pretty much every character is extremely bizzare.

the best way i can think to describe the story would be if the kinds of characters from ancient myths were real, existed in our modern day, and were absolutely not mentally sound. the story is really just completely weird and has no interest in pretending anything should be normal. when confronted with breaking into a house, of course the solution is to recruit a plumber and a pair of lions. our friends at the library don't know what a telephone is but if you give them the rundown we can have the president of the united states taking orders over the phone in the next 5 minutes.

i do recommend it, despite its oddness there is still an interesting and honestly kind of touching narrative on trauma and acceptance that i think is well told.

i actually just made the switch to gestures after who knows how many years of navigation buttons. actually only took an hour or so to stop going for the buttons where they used to be, a few tasks i really auto-pilot on i still make the mistake now and again. but i've actually really come to prefer the gestures. i like being able to go back by swiping anywhere and it's kind of fun to just toss an app off my screen to go home. also great that the gestures are always ready to work when the bar may have been hidden in certain circumstances.

this looks fantastic. i love the little story going on with the thread of fate and the scissors, a romantic tragedy. are these original characters?

you should be able to hit the double checkmark icon in the top right of the inbox to clear it. i was able to do that without issue

he seems a little devilish in a quirky, mischievous kind of way. cool guy

oh i've eyeballed picking up the physical box set before, the full page colors look great and it looks fantastic on a shelf. grabing that is definitely something i'll do even if it's only to have on display 😅

not exactly ghibli but i love nausicaä of the valley of the wind. one of my favorite movies in general. it has my favorite take on the environmentalist thread that so many miyazaki movies have, and the world building is a favorite of mine in anime, with so much more to offer in the manga. not to mention out of all the miyazaki flying contraptions, nausicaä's glider is definitely the coolest.

my recommendation in general or for anyone looking for something different is Sonny Boy. the show is about a class of kids finding themselves alone after their school suddenly comes to exist in a black empty void, or, "going adrift" as they put it. alongside this they each also manifest odd powers from bending reality entirely to making their fingertip glow.

this premise expands a lot in the show in ways you really cannot predict. it's completely bizzare and very sentimental. it's a short show at 12 episodes, but absolutely one of my favorite shows of all time and very unique. i've recommended it several times to many people and everyone i know has loved it.

kind of a shame fatigue is cut. 3 is my favorite of the games i've played and it was really the only one that i had to think about the way i explored the dungeon. granted it could go for an overhaul in its funtionality given how it kind of phases itself out of the game. social link voicing is crazy, even if i'm still salty about things like the answer being cut, that shows there was a good level of commitment to make this remake equally if not shinier than p5.