I did the same right about when Musk's acquisition was set.

I was a big white lighter narc in college. Get those away from me fam.

Semi related - I have experienced exactly zero cannabis related paranoia/anxiety since the end of prohibition in the mitten. Turns out that cannabis doesn't make you paranoid, threat of militarized police ruining your life over archaic nonsense does.

We are so fucked if we need an academic defense of why it's a good idea to have friends and do things with them.

I get so frustrated with long time friends when they bum out on small social stuff because it's the small stuff that adds up to memories that make a lifetime.

I'll just continue to cook too much food on Friday nights and keep the invite open. I don't know what else to do.

If you're going to pick one, go with Spears.

I feel like I do enough short story stuff to merit a read of On Writing. It only seems to get positive responses from those who read it.

Have you read any of those Dark Imperium books post-Guilliman's awakening?

Yup. I wanted to enjoy them, and certainly enjoyed parts. The more perspective we get from guys like Frater Mathieu and other mortals the better. But overall I felt they were pretty bland. Ultrasmurfs versus Plague Bois is only entertaining for so long. By contrast I thought Spears of the Emperor was AMAZING and is what more warhammer novels should strive towards, specifically because of its emphasis on the relationship between transhumans and mortals.

HH grew lukewarm for me, but those new developments turned my head a bit. I don't care about spoilers, but only know the broad strokes so far.

The Horus Heresy for me is best enjoyed as a series of moments, vignettes. I LOVE the Siege of Terra series so far specifically because it takes the broad strokes that were fated to happen and gives context to the big events. I will agree though that there's lots to slog through before you get to the juicy bits.

Overall I'm pretty happy with the direction GW is taking with the franchise, mostly because they seem to be a lot more free with the IP and there's lots of other good content out there. Hammer and Bolter the TV show has been a pretty big smash hit amongst the fandom and I'm loving the Warhammer 40k: Darktide game. It's a bit barebones but the developers are committed to supporting it for a while, and its core gameplay loop is fun for me.

Cybulskie's book sounds interesting. I like that kind of side-view take on history. I may add it to my list once I'm done with War and Peace and Buddenbrooks.

I don't think I believe in reason anymore. Just entropy.

Glad to see you back.

Prepared to fall off the map myself.

This is tangentially related.

Confession: I've never actually seen Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I've also never seen Back To The Future, or any sequel.

It's gotten to a point now where I never even WANT to see them, because I know my response will be blase and it will be another emotional touchstone that just leaves me feeling cold and isolated because it doesn't evoke anything in me while meaning so much to most everyone else.

The art created in the 70's and 80's, even into the early 90's feels like it comes from a completely different society. I have such a hard time believing so many of the people who were contemporary to it can bear living in the present world. You can't depict a single-income household now without it seeming like obscene luxury.

I don't even know what point I wanted to make originally. I think I just hate all entertainment now that isn't live and in person, not associated with ticketmaster. I think I was trying to say something about how there is a societally norming effect of people consuming and valuing similar media, and the lack of exposure to such creates distance/tension.

100 gecs. straight hyperpop.

Since the travesty of the 2016 electoral season, my closest friends and I have been framing much of the conversation around current politics with 'How are we going to explain this to our children?'

My god daughter turned five in October. The world that I work towards creating has her in it, and my own children of some form or another.

I still don't think that I have anything like a reasonable way to describe the events of the last several years. Stating the facts outright sounds like the most shitty SNL bit imaginable.

It's good.

In short.

Reading it will make you aware of the ways various negative life events have conditioned you to think and feel.

It's good.

In short.

Reading it will make you aware of the ways various negative life events have conditioned you to think and feel.