statlerwaldorf

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good on you. I only got the molduga one. I had started combing the map for the remaining talus/hynox/Hudson signs but it started to feel like a job so I just finished the game. Maybe I'll come back in a bit and finish the rest out little by little.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just wait till you hit chapter 95, The Cassock. I took an AP English class more than 20 years ago that focused mainly on Moby Dick and that chapter still sticks out in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

World War Z is fantastic as an audiobook. If you're not familiar, it's written as a set of interviews of people who lived through a zombie war. The author, Max Brooks, voices the narrator/journalist and actors like Alan Alda, Mark Hamill, Carl and Rob Reiner voice the various interviewees. Mark Hamill doing the Battle of Yonkers is a highlight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like all three of those guys but for some reason the podcast doesn't work for me. It feels forced or disingenuous or something I can't quite put my finger on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'd like to see a game where you play as Zelda. I remember there being a question if she was the protagonist of BOTW in the first teaser because Link was wearing the hood up.

I know that the "woke" cries would be ridiculous, but I think it'd be neat to have her save Link for once.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Puffshrooms are your friend here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, just toss one at the ground in the center of them all. It has a pretty large radius and will one shot kill the group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finishing up Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson. I'm on book 10, The Crippled God. It's taken almost 2 years because I had a kid in the middle of it.

I can't even begin to describe how dense and fantastic it is. I feel like it's spoiled fantasy for me. I can't imagine anyone else ever coming close. Going to take a break for a while and read something else before trying another series in that world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The guy whose company planned an event at a plantation, complete with period costumes, and forgot that their remote IT guy was black.

There's a series of pictures of an older white woman in an blue ball gown coming down these ornate stairs all smiles and then her seeing him and realizing her mistake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you played the old LucasArts SCUMM adventure games? Full Throttle, Monkey Island, The Dig, and Grim Fandango are masterpieces.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is exactly it. Beyond a couple very niche subs, I felt no desire to interact at all. It had turned into howling into the void of bots and memes. This feels like legitimate engagement with actual humans...or passable facsimiles.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I remember HATING Reddit after the great Digg migration. The information was presented in a different way and the discussions seemed to be the focus rather than the linked content. It took a while to get used to it and I'm feeling a bit of the same here. There are a ton of similarities that are already here, so it's not as jarring and things are improving every day.

I feel like I'm interacting more here than I did on Reddit for a long time. By the time anything showed up on my feed over there, it was 1 day old, had 5000 comments, and had devolved into memes.

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