Welcome!

I’m interested in the ‘live like it’s early 2020’ bit; what do you mean there?

Forgot the ‘exercise’ part.

Slight correction: It is well known for doing nothing to the rich. A distinction as subtle as it is important…and telling.

I don’t intend to be a negative Nancy about it all but I expect everything will fall through some crack or slip through some loophole or…just get looked away from, in the end. It’s a pattern I’ve seen again and again with this man.

I refuse.

Now this, I can definitely see. Not to wax melancholic, but mine was an abnormal and truncated childhood, so I never found the comic personally relatable, and that might amount for the disconnect - it always came across as either outlandish and nonsensical (bordering on lolsorandumb) to faux-deep and mollycoddling of the reader’s inner toddler that never seemed much more than condescending to me.

But in the context of cueing it through the hypothetical series of how a regular adult might reminisce about their own childhood, the nostalgic, near-wistful fondness I see for it makes a lot more sense, even if to me it feels saccharine and, dare I say, disingenuous.

Thanks!

May not quite be alone but Becky Chambers’ To Be Taught, If Fortunate has some very strong themes of isolation.

The “oh so nerdy” references weren’t quite so ubiquitous earlier in, were they? The question popped into my head the other day but I don’t feel like going back to check.

Again? I thought this happened already? What’s different about this one?

“Shite” is kind of harsh, I’d say. It’s not an awful strip. It’s just made out to be much better than it really is. It’s a single step above “run-of-the-mill”.

Yeah, mea culpa on that. My phrasing was bad, but I edited the OP to clarify.

Nope, but I edited the post to clarify.

The comic itself isn’t, but it’s going to be merchandised to hell at first opportunity, is what I meant.

Oh wow, I forgot about khinsider!

I don’t dislike Dresden Files but I’m liking it less as it veers further & further from its initial premise. Book 1 and book…er, 16? the latest one…are so tonally different. Power creep, yeah, is part of it, but also it went from “fun noir throwback starring Detective Hard-Boiled” solving things cleverly (and without spellslinging ALL the time) to “what if a Jedi with the power of God and pop culture references on his side fought Irish folklore kaijus while Bigfoot was watching”.

Like… I’m strapped in for the ride and enjoying it besides but the series seems to have gotten a lot less intellectually stimulating and than before and is now “big powers do a fighting”.

Just me?

Thanks for the summary. I can agree with each deserving its place…

Except First Law. Couldn’t get into that one, but may give it another try.

I liked American Gods but also can’t find it in myself to disagree with this take.

Anon discovers the underlying foundation of Buddhism.

More varied formalwear than “suit with some superficial variations” (tux, 2- or 3-piece, colors, tie variety). Broader range of styles.

I think you win just for originality and not “witnessed very violent happening.”

Not that violence isn’t fucked up, too, but…Jesus.