western-series

[young compass]

Jack black was never very funny to me but this film is certainly the most blatant example of his role in Hollywood, kind of sad really

[copper phoenix]

he was good in school of rock and tenacious d

[young compass]

I definitely prefer Jim Carrey to him in the category of comedic actors who are always the same sort of comedic

Carrey also did eternal sunshine so more points to him

Has jack black ever done a meaningfully serious role

Bernie sort of counts I guess

[near echo]

Dudes great in Jackson's King Kong

[copper phoenix]

comedians who also act in movies find their niche and keep doing the same thing for the rest of their lives

at least you have the likes of adam sandler and jim carrey who try something completely different to throw everyone off and then go back to the same shit

[sage remnant]

what's the different one for Sandler?

Uncut gems?

[young compass]

yeah, and punch drunk love which was the one everyone parroted for years

[sage remnant]

ah okay

[young compass]

I just refreshed myself on this film, I think I saw it in theaters? I remember reading he was basically playing orson welles

[sage remnant]

damn I always forget people here are old :kekhands:

I was a baby during then

okay now that I'm on a computer.

WAT full || Thoughts on

1. The whole Clash of Champions, especially how it ended.
2. Honor's POV (this was possibly my fav section of the book. Caught me by surprised, really loved how it fitted to the overall story and Dalinar's decision at the end
3. Szeth being able to finally fight to his fullest without the fear or grief of causing harm
4. "I am not a thing. I am my own agent. I make my own decisions."
5. Unoathed
6. Adolin's entire character arc.
7. Kaladin's entire character arc of what he wants to do and the whole segment of him seeing his past selves and yeah that entire portion.
8. The ending chapter.
   ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || adolins entire arc is incredible, he was cool before but ever since the trial he just shot up my rankings and then his fight vs skibidi and the unoathed scenes bro was always being nice to everyone since chapter 1 without caring about stupid oaths or anything he just cared ||

wat || and the payoff to it all was just insanely good ||

[sage remnant]

about this
WaT ch 131 || In Oathbringer, Wit says that there was a time when he had failed so badly and had ran away from everything and just do nothing, not be there when someone needs help like he usually is. I think that was related to Ashyn ||

[sage remnant]

WaT || That whole sequence leading to Unoathed is just pure cinema ||

[copper phoenix]

stormlight || my favorite characters ins the series are now: kaladin > taravangian > adolin > dalinar ||

[sage remnant]

My list hasn't changed much I think
|| Szeth
Dalinar
Lift
Adolin
Kaladin
Shallan
I am not sure where Todium will fit, but he will be high. Taravangian was already interesting and the whole interludes with Todium did wonders for his character ||
WaT end

My top 1 has been the same one since book 1 to 5 damn

[copper phoenix]

lol

[sage remnant]

WaT end || Man Adolin's is just so immaculate till the end. The whole "He will try to understand his father, reading his own words" is just so emotional ||

does me in everytime

[limber urchin]

Easier to just send a JPEG of my responses due to character limitations. WAT end

[limber urchin]

WAT end ||Promises>Oaths||

[sage remnant]

Ah so we differ a bit on 3 and 4

[limber urchin]

Yeah I knew that was coming lol

I don't hate it I promise you that

It's definitely good.

[sage remnant]

I think it's just cuz of me liking that character more than you

[limber urchin]

I don't know who my favorite characters are for sure yet.

[sage remnant]

I was sure on top 1 ever since Prologue of book 1

and I haven't been disappointed ever since

[limber urchin]

Though I think I can confidently say that Stormlight spoilers everything ||Dalinar may be one of the best characters I've experienced in fiction.||

[copper phoenix]

🐐

[sage remnant]

OB Sanderlanche

🧎‍♂️‍➡️

[limber urchin]

yeah that was crazy

[sage remnant]

I hadn't thought anything might surpass that for me and then I read RoW || Kaladin 4th Ideal ||

[limber urchin]

Hm, although I still think TWOK's sanderlanche is still my favorite.

the build up to it is poetic

[sage remnant]

For me it's

OB
WaT
TWOK
RoW
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
WoR

[copper phoenix]

wat || kaladins arc was pretty much done after the 4th ideal so I was expecting him to not be the focus in this book and him learning how to be a therapist from wit is actually better than just doing the same shit he did in previous books imo ||

[sage remnant]

Yeah

It's like

[copper phoenix]

wat || also heralds are not gods ||

[sage remnant]

WaT || Kaladin's truly happy and peaceful for the first time since Roshone ||

||Like first time in 12 years 😭 ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || and hes actually gonna help the heralds especially my other goat taln so whats not to like ||

wat || Im so fucking hyped to see those 2 together |||

[sage remnant]

WaT || For me, this book was more of a payoff to his character arc than like part of his character arc sort of ||

It works wonderfully for me cuz of that

[limber urchin]

BTW WAT end ||It seems the general consensus online is that his whole MCU-like dialogue about being a therapist at the end is cringe. I fucking loved it though. It was set up well enough and had just the perfect balance of cheese.||

[sage remnant]

that's the thing buffy

It's set up

and is no bad than the earlier books

heck WoR had more cheesiness and that

[limber urchin]

i know, but they almost feel like, i guess, demigods or something like that at times

[sage remnant]

The issues many people seem to have with the language of this book, I had those with WoR

[limber urchin]

Fucking WAT end ||Ishar be like, "This isn't even my final form" to Kaladin. powerscaling be crazy.||

[sage remnant]

tbf
WaT end || I fucking love powerscaling in this series||

WAT end || Like with oaths, and how they unlock power. Like a massive power increase can occur and it feels organic ||

oh oh

I forgot to ask

WAT end || what did you think of our goat Nightblood controlling his uncontrolled investiture sucking ||

[limber urchin]

it was kind of funny oddly enough

mainly 'cause I wasn't expecting it

[sage remnant]

Ah

Also || about the Gavinor thingy, there were several hints || WaT end

I had predicted that while reading

[limber urchin]

I sure as hell didn't. I would need a careful reread and a youtube analysis at the same time.

[sage remnant]

also || Maya MVP
""Life after Death. I never really understood that motto anyway. Let's kick some Fused ass" || WaT end

🧎‍♂️‍➡️

[sage remnant]

WaT end|| Elhokar's voice continuously talking to him.

Then Gavinor seeing Dalinar beating the shit out of Elhokar and burning Rathalas.

Plus the statement that they could age up to old when days might have passed outside.

I mean, it was builded up well imo ||

[limber urchin]

I love her so much

[copper phoenix]

wat || yea it was so obvious it was obvious it was gonna be gavinor lol ||

[limber urchin]

Ahhh shit good points. especially the last one lol

[sage remnant]

that's copied pasted message btw buffy

so the last line there isn't for you

[copper phoenix]

wat even before that || all the introspection of him talking about revenge and showing off his bottled hatred ||

[limber urchin]

oh

[sage remnant]

I copied it from my convo in dg server

was mostly alternating posting here, 17th shard, and there while reading

[copper phoenix]

wat || I always suspected it was gonna be someone close to dalinar, either jasnah, adolin or gavinor ||

[sage remnant]

oh yeah btw on that
WaT || Lift MVP ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || adolin especially this book was talking so much about hating his dad that was definitely to throw people off ||

[sage remnant]

just love her voice and perspective on stuff so much

[copper phoenix]

wat || now shes gonna train with vasher shit is gonna get serious ||

wat || jasnha getting absolutely dogwalked by taravangian was insane, he destroyed her entire career ||

[limber urchin]

OK. I think I compiled my favorite moments in the series. There are probably many more I'm forgetting that could be better, but these are the ones that stand out to me.

[copper phoenix]

peak

[sage remnant]

btw 9 is like one of worst things in the series for me

i HATED how it was done

[young compass]

oooh i disagree on #9 lmao

[copper phoenix]

wat || I'd put adolin vs skibidi there too||

[limber urchin]

me like

[sage remnant]

the pacing of that whole section makes WoR my least fav stormlight book

[copper phoenix]

wat || and every single taln scene is peak not just that one ||

[limber urchin]

that was very good

[copper phoenix]

oh right

[sage remnant]

no || "I am unity" ? || WaT all

as in the whole portion from || You cannot have my pain to that ||

[limber urchin]

WOR ||My thought process is that Brandon wanted him to die in the gutters with no glory or fanfare. something I felt he deserved, if not worse. Granted, in hindsight, one could argue that Dalinar maybe deserved it for all the horrors he committed (but maybe not Adolin).||

[limber urchin]

For some reason, while I do love that moment, I don't think I loved it as much as others do.

[sage remnant]

damn

[copper phoenix]

stormlight || one of the first scenes in the series when kaladin is about to jump into the chasm and he stops because syl came back (after he thought she left him) and syl is like carrying a leaf for him because she thought it was important to him (it was a poison leaf kalading used to carry around but he lost it but she had no idea) ||

[sage remnant]

yeah I love those moments you mentioned but like my top 5 are all from OB to WaT lol

[copper phoenix]

that entire scene is just a gut punch

stormlight || and that finally giving kaladin the will to fight again||

[sage remnant]

that was the chapter that got me hooked to Stormlight

made me cry for the first time in this series too

[copper phoenix]

incredible stuff

cinema

[limber urchin]

If you want to know what honestly caught my attention with Stormlight, it was TWOK ||Immediately after the prologue. "3400 Years Later." I love shit like that.||

What I didn't expect to happen was for me to Stormlight Archive ||Lose care in Jasnash. After the first book, she just didn't impress me as much.||

[sage remnant]

Stormlight all ||
My list would be

1. "I accept it Stormfather. I accept that there will be those I cannot protect"
2. "You cannot have my pain"
3. "I'd wanna go dancing with Syl"
4. "Teft was worth saving" (fuck moash)
5. Entire Szeth's arc in this book ||

fuck there are too many to make a proper list

[limber urchin]

it's like 5-6000 pages, god only knows how many good moments there are.

[copper phoenix]

stormlight || yea she was kinda underutilized but what did you think of taravangian destroying her entire philosophy she based her entire life on ||

[sage remnant]

For me it's crazy like there are more in one book than 4 combined for me

[copper phoenix]

so many peak moments its insane

I hope I live long enough to see them adapted

[sage remnant]

WAT end || The craziest part of it is

She wasn't destroyed by Todium. She was fated to lose by Diagram that Taravangian when he was human had created ||

that was the best part of the entire thing for me

[copper phoenix]

I trust brando to not let any bum adapt it but that also means its gonna take forever

[limber urchin]

It sucks we have to wait so long for book 6.

[copper phoenix]

sadge

[sage remnant]

WaT end || Todium didn't really came to debate properly with Jasnah. He wouldn't have beaten her at a proper debate. He just started with the first time Jasnah had gone against her views (saving Renarin in OB) and then just kept up the momentum ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || imma say it again tara is one of the greatest villains in all of fiction even before his ascension ||

[sage remnant]

oh btw
WaT end ||
The first arc of Stormlight started by Kaladin losing his brother.
The arc ended with Kaladin getting to save someone who had been in a place similar to Tien ||

[limber urchin]

WAT end ||I'm fucking terrible with things like philosophy and its related disciplines. But it felt wrong to me. I thought Jasnah would be way better at this - but I guess the whole point was that she was too logical and didn't appeal to Fen's emotions. It also made me kind of not like Fen. But she was always a stubborn and emotionally driven character, so her decisions make sense in context.||

[sage remnant]

Yeah this is what it worked for me

WaT end || Jasnah would be better than that, but she saw the direction Todium went at just too late ||

[limber urchin]

Yeah, this I did love. WAT ||Viewing Szeth from the lens of being Tien made me really connect with him. And in that regards, his journey with Kaladin was worth it.||

[sage remnant]

It's such a full circle

OH and

WaT end ||
Sebarial to Dalinar about Gavilar just pretending to follow the Codes, while Dalinar went on and became it ||

WaT end || Was already on Fuck Gavilar after RoW Prologue. WaT prologue just made me way too sad for Dalinar ||

[limber urchin]

Oh shit wait. Man. Stormlight Archive ||I wish we got more of Sebariel, he's like one of the best underutilized characters. I love that dude. Life goals.||

[copper phoenix]

wat || there was nothing jasnah could do that wouldn't make you and everyone else hate her, if she followed thru with her world view she would've killed renarin, aesudan, fen or literally anyone who posed a threat to kholinar or the world. But that would just make her as bad as taravangian. ||

so its up to you to decided if thats what you wanted of her

[sage remnant]

I think the character like his will be like not as good if they are given more screentime Buffy

Like they work due to how less their pagetime/screentime are and how they shine in that

[copper phoenix]

wat || imo I'd rather have jasnah be a good person instead of the emotionless machine everyone thought she was ||

[limber urchin]

couldn't she just lie to win the argument and twist words to appeal to emotions?

why the fuck not at this point?

[sage remnant]

WaT end || That was how she lost ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || lie about what, taravangian had the receipts ||

[sage remnant]

WaT end ||like that was the whole point of how Todium took Fen to his side ||

[limber urchin]

i mean intentionally lie

like a villain

[copper phoenix]

wat || taravangian literally had proof of everything she did and did not do, she wasn't fooling anyone ||

[limber urchin]

I'm reaching for anything WAT ||But I wonder if Jasnah could've just said "no taravangian is lying, that never happened. he's a god he can make up anything."||

[sage remnant]

WaT end || It's like
It wasn't a debate of logical arguments or philosophy. If it was that, then it would never work.
It was a debate of appealing to Fen, and Todium had Jasnah cornered by the things she said at the beginning of the debate ||

[limber urchin]

oh yeah no i totally know what it is and why she lost

WAT ||She better do something cool in future books to make up for this. she was so broken by the end of this book. I think book 6 will be her backstory.||

[sage remnant]

WaT end || I think it worked for me because she's like way too OP to a extent. We are seeing her on her prime in a way. Already 4th ideal. Is constantly peeking into shadesmar and can soulcast even air. And like just about anything ||

WAT end || It makes for a great point for her coming back strong ||

[limber urchin]

Damn WAT end ||Say goodbye to sex with your hot queen, Wit. You tried buddy, but it was never enough for her. ||

[copper phoenix]

wat || technically wit dumped her ||

[sage remnant]

Okay yeah one thing that I really loved about Stormlight ||
Was how in the first book, it had a combination of both showing a non-fantastical truth about the various myths and being introduced to the fantastical elements of the world at the same time. It was just really amazing experience ||

[limber urchin]

oh shit i forgot that

[sage remnant]

WaT || Technically, she wrote the letter first ||

btw buffy

Read Psalm for the wild built next

[limber urchin]

I do have future fears for the series though ||I don't want things to go too far beyond Roshar. I hope the story stays there. I don't need offworld shenanigans.||

I ain't reading SHIT for a minute. I need some games.

[copper phoenix]

tough luck bucko

[young compass]

i was recommended this

tell me how it is

[copper phoenix]

buckle up buckaroo

[young compass]

was trying to avoid reading it

[sage remnant]

don't listen to spice buffy

I think || The narrative will stay at Roshar, but the ramification will be wide cosmere level || WAT

[copper phoenix]

wat || urithiru will be a space ship or help me god ||

[sage remnant]

Uhhhh

[limber urchin]

Stormlight ||Cosmere more like Slopsmere||

[limber urchin]

is this a real fan theory or were you both just memeing?

[sage remnant]

my fan theory was different buffy

spice's is different

but the || space ship part || is there in both. WaT

[limber urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/wanna-kill-myself-the-office-michael-scott-steve-carell-frustrated-gif-13414030

[young compass]

oh i thought you were just starting it lol

[sage remnant]

Oh no I have read it

It's been like more than a year so gimme time to write about it lol

[young compass]

are the ethos in the film like

[limber urchin]

Goodbye books, hello Xenoblade Chronicles X which has words to read

[young compass]

film? book

[sage remnant]

book

[young compass]

like kind of

[limber urchin]

but I might skim some Frakenstein and the King in Yellow

[young compass]

hippie spirituality pilled

or are they more causal/material?

[sage remnant]

Oh no not at all

This one worked for me due to many I have read feeling that way

or like there's some aspect of those to some extent there, but they are like explored than being the good thing/norm

Psalm for the Wild Built || It's got a really good solarpunk world where technology and development is done in like a properly coexisting with the nature rather than in the expense of nature.

The way I pitch it to others is like take J R R Tolkien's issues with technology and how averse to nature it's development was, and turn it into a scifi world where the issues are solved. ||

Okay that's the good things

Now the bad things were

|| It had really inconsistent pacing, like it felt it needed some extra stuff in between for it to feel natural.
||

and I found the prose clunky

which I don't think is the general consensus.

But I legit had to take out Legends and Latte and read it to assure myself that my reading comprehension hasn't decreased and the issue was in the books prose

[sage remnant]

For the king in Yellow, you can do like

one story in a week

sort

[young compass]

the other feeling i got was that it was basically a vehicle novel, where the masking of its philosophy isn't sufficient and everything seems like too contrived of a tool to make some sort of point or other. was this something you felt

ive read a lot of conscious sci-fi/fantasy stuff that ends up in that category

murderbot does too sometimes

[sage remnant]

I have only read first book of Murderbot and didn't feel anything as such in that

For Murderbot, I just loved the voice of Murderbot lol

It was just very fresh

and fun to read

[sage remnant]

I wouldn't say this was the case for me

I am thinking of a proper manga comparison we both have read but can't think of any rn

It leans more towards Yokohama than Aria, I would just leave it at that

[limber urchin]

anything will be less daunting than Stormlight at this point, besides other epic fantasies I guess.

my brain is mush after these past 4 months

[sage remnant]

have you heard of The Wandering Inn

[limber urchin]

nope

[sage remnant]

It's a webnovel which is at 1.2 m words rn

wait

that's one volume

14.5 m 5 months ago

[sage remnant]

btw that more so came from the || Rysn interlude where she says she has an idea. I just thought it would be really cool if she makes a spaceship somehow in the future lol || WaT end

looking through my messages and
|| Damn ch 93 was when I predicted that || WaTend

[young compass]

i think yokohama does it too

||but for nostalgia towards a certain sort of society and aesthetic ||

it's why im starting to resent it a bit

took it off my favorites lol

[sage remnant]

hmmm

Either way Juba, you can finish this book in like an hour and an half at max

I would say you should give it a try

Okay sharing a bunch of stuff Buffy. gonna ping you at once
WaT end

|| Was reading a friend's reaction to WaT which made me reread certain parts of it which led me to a observation
Like the parallels between the three oath breaks.
Sizgil's one was for the present.
Szeth's was for his past.
Dalinar's was for the future || WaT

Btw the person in this context is you

WaT end || Some really amazing stuff here. First this makes the whole thing with Mishram's capture much more nuanced. Tanavast was already losing, and stopping a direct clash of gods being the top of his list is very very valid. Could he have trusted Mishram, yes. And ye probably did. But what he didn't trust was Odium Shard, and since he himself was losing against his shard, he was correct in being afraid of that.

Impact of Nohadon being shown brought tears to my eyes. Such a wonderful person.

Another one is about the passage of time. Tanavast sat in Shinovar listening for 2500 years. And a convo between him and Rayse was equivalent to much more in real life, like how he held Rayse's attention which allowed Mishram couple of years to find the pool.

The other best part of this chapter, other than shedding light on Mishram ordeal, was this comment.

"A god who cares? You killed that god

I maybe interpreting too much but what it seems to be is that the 16 from Yolen (and Cephandrius) killed Adonalsium due to thinking of him as a worthless god or an indifferent one, cuz he didn't do anything which meant he didn't care.
But in not doing anything was he doing the most good. He created life, planets and then he just continued listening. He was there, but not as an active force cuz he had known that any of his meddling would just cause ruin. And by that he was being the most benevolent god the cosmere could get cuz he understood his own dangers. There was another point in this book where Tanavast mentions that Adonalsium just let them kill him, without putting up any fight. He might have known his death, shattering would have led to individual pieces which would be more terrible as they don't have those which keep them in balance, but even that was a more preferable outcome than one where he would have fought. His existence being completely vanquished was more right for him than even doing anything to try to stop them.
||

Yeah I think this is it.

@limber urchin

now time to go watch Lazarus

[limber urchin]

oh that's a super good observation

[naive juniper]

i downloaded and now privately own all three seasons of INVINCIBLE

https://tenor.com/view/aha-gif-2873577311782390556

[primal mason]

https://tenor.com/view/cops-police-sirens-catching-crminals-what-you-gonna-do-gif-22472645

[cursive venture]

Just finished the Dark Knight Rises

Good to very good but not great?

[foggy mirage]

https://youtu.be/eWzPKrNoSyM?si=_UZBqHeJbMYmZKJZ

Peak fiction

It feels good to be a predator and alien fan

[tawny parcel]

When is that alien earth coming out?

Do we know

[foggy mirage]

Still sumer this year

My guess july

As for romulus early 2027 is my guess

November this year is for predator badlands

Since Disney nuked blade

And replaced it's slot with predator

[tawny parcel]

Man fuckass ai trailers

Theyre the top results

[foggy mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/packwatch-gif-22219180

[foggy mirage]

I do not mess with these fake trailers

The hype is real though

Very excited to see them listen to their fans

You know how long people have begged

For a Japanese predator movie

[tawny parcel]

I love my gf but once she said the stranger things season 5 trailer came out and then she sent me an ai and it was just like a realization

[foggy mirage]

Or vikings

[tawny parcel]

Like damn

[foggy mirage]

Or a war period ????

[tawny parcel]

This shit can actually work

[foggy mirage]

Id cook her for this

[tawny parcel]

I still need to check out predator 😞

I did

Lol

She said she only saw the thumbnail

[foggy mirage]

Id say you're good as long as you don't watch "the predator"

[tawny parcel]

And didnt get a chance to see it

[foggy mirage]

Absolute shit tier movie

Also character assination for the predators

[foggy mirage]

Stranger things is lock

Not the biggest fan but I'll see it to the end

[tawny parcel]

Same for me lol

[raw gate]

The Predator animated film oh my days

Just fell down to my knees

[foggy mirage]

Out of joy

Now i only need alien vs predator

Which both directors are open to

[knotty fox]

New Daredevil

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[fresh umbra]

Just imagine that episode but it was the whole season

[sage remnant]

WaT

Goda moment

[near echo]

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth was nowhere near as cool as its poster 😔

too many greasy naked people, not enough dinosaurs

was gonna watch Rock & Rule too but its already 2am that's another bad idea saved for another day

[frank rivet]

is this made by the same people that made Prey, that was a really good movie

[sage remnant]

https://youtu.be/vEioDeOiqEs?si=Tiyix0lF_XsJRxQ2

@sand cypress

[limber urchin]

Oh damn that's a nice attention to detail.

[sage remnant]

WaT || Dalinar's character arc of seeing that people are the same, whether they are lighteyes or kings or darkeyes and by this book even a freaking god is so good ||

||Like I think the main point of Honor flashback was for Dalinar to learn that bit too, among other stuff ||

[limber urchin]

also @sage remnant Stormlight in general ||I wanted to listen to youtubers give their thoughts on the series, but in so doing, what I ran into was both "why you should read stormlight" and "negative reviews of Wind and Truth." Is this common for each book release, or has WAT been getting more flak than the others? I noticed this on the subreddit too. Or is it more a combination of the series getting popular and/or the book only releasing a few months ago?||

[copper phoenix]

isnt that the same with every single piece of media ever

[sage remnant]

the scenario has been very exhausting ever since Year of the Sanderson tbf

[copper phoenix]

whats that

[sage remnant]

secret projects thingy

the whole "I wrote 5 books in secret"

[copper phoenix]

what exactly is the problem

[sage remnant]

popularity increased

[copper phoenix]

makes sense

normies ruin everything

[limber urchin]

Yes, I didn't know if WAT had actual real legit criticism or if it was just bandwagon hopping. I don't know enough about the series to really fully judge it yet.

[copper phoenix]

same with severance becoming a normie show in s2

now everybody has some stupid shit to say

[sage remnant]

Some are proper criticisms from what I have seen

but almost anything is being hated

[copper phoenix]

idc about criticism from randoms online

[limber urchin]

i will now hate it too

[copper phoenix]

I like what I like

[sage remnant]

|| Saw a lot of comments seeing how Honor flashback should have been a seperate novella || WaT

I am like

[copper phoenix]

sheep

[limber urchin]

those were my favorite chapters though

[outer tulip]

just finished White Lotus finale.. shed a tear for the cast, will miss them . They felt like family

[sage remnant]

yea

it's just tiring as a whole

[copper phoenix]

nah but consuming too much online discourse might legit change poison your thoughts this is why I rarely look up things

[sage remnant]

Like

[copper phoenix]

I dont use any social media except discord

[limber urchin]

WAT end ||The Honor chapters are stupidly good. One criticism I noticed was about the Spritual Realm, but I was always looking forward to seeing the past from Dalinar's eyes. That was super fun. ||

[copper phoenix]

I rarely check reddit

[limber urchin]

but we're the worst

[sage remnant]

WaT || a huge amount of complains were about the use of the word "slut" and how it was too modern ||
And even in TWOK, there was stuff like this

[sage remnant]

People have been disliking things that were my fav in the book so Idc lol

Plus people apparently expected Hero of Ages style of ending
and this was apparently not like that

(I haven't read Mistborn completely so no idea how that was)

[limber urchin]

WAT ||I guess whore would've been more in-universe with the series, but slut and whore are two different definitions. I don't even know what the ancient word for slut is, though I guess it could be whore.||

[sage remnant]

WaT || It doesn't bother me for being too modern when the first book had it before 50% ||

I am not gonna be bothered about this in 5th book when it was normal in the first book

[limber urchin]

The books have had modern prose since book 1 yes.

Maybe it got worse, but I would need to reread to really notice it.

[sage remnant]

I reread it, and other than || use of the word "dated", which sanderson said was a mistake which slipped, I wasn't bothered by any || WaT

[copper phoenix]

people who care about prose are the worst

[sage remnant]

WAT.
People were enraged by || Chullusy for months || btw Buffy

I found it very good cuz of how outrageous it was

[limber urchin]

i still think that's funny

[sage remnant]

I do too

And I am not gonna change my mind cuz internet told me so

:kek:

[limber urchin]

I'm trying to think about real criticisms I have for the series.

[sage remnant]

buffy can you check #manga to see why I have been pinged 😭

[limber urchin]

how would i know if you've been pinged?

[sage remnant]

I don't want to risk getting spoiled about manga

[limber urchin]

ooooh

[sage remnant]

I have been pinged like half min ago

I just need to know context of it lol

[limber urchin]

the context makes no sense to me

[sage remnant]

can you send it here if it can be sent

[limber urchin]

it's not a spoiler nor OP related

[sage remnant]

damnnnn

[limber urchin]

this means nothing to me lol

[sage remnant]

RRR is an Indian movie which had gotten very popular in US and moreso in Japan

[limber urchin]

wait. Has Harsh mentioned RRR before? I think he has.

[sage remnant]

and it seems they are doing a project collaborating with Ishitani

[sage remnant]

yes

[sage remnant]

@modern lichen

[limber urchin]

oh he won't respond right now, he's taking a break from discord

[sage remnant]

ah okay

I was worried due to him not being online lol

[limber urchin]

he's alive

[sage remnant]

cuz he usually says that he would stop being online

[sage remnant]

I think the || Jasnah thing|| counts. WaT

[limber urchin]

i'm thinking overall series

[sage remnant]

Tho I didn't have issue with that, it feels a valid thing cuz it might just be me being stupid to not understand the issue

My main stormlight issue was that Brandon's POV switching game is always bad except in OB sanderlanche and WaT

and even in WaT, I had issues in like || Day 8 || WAT

[copper phoenix]

my only criticism with the series the the way brando writes quippy characters

but its something I dislike since the first book I read from him and I dont think hes gonna change

[sage remnant]

Stormlight whole || Shallan and Lift work very well for me ||

[copper phoenix]

and its not like I absolutely hate it

[sage remnant]

It worked since book 1

[limber urchin]

I like Stomrlight all spoilers||Lift and Shallan's humor, just not the awesome thing LIft says a lot.||

[sage remnant]

Yeah I really don't understand having issue with something that's there since book 1

if that's such a big issue, should have stopped reading the series at the first book itself

if he isn't gonna change it in 4 books, why would he at booko 5 lol

[copper phoenix]

I mean since mistborn

oh also brando sucks at romance

[sage remnant]

People were quippy in Mistborn b1???

[copper phoenix]

not that much but it was already not great

anyway I dont have nearly as manu criticism for stormlight as I have for his other stuff

he basically improved in every possible way

[sage remnant]

My criticism for both Mistborn and Stormlight has been pacing and structuring

[copper phoenix]

never had a problem with pacing in stormlight like ever

[sage remnant]

I won't talk about Reckoners when talking about him cuz like

The first book is like 1/10 for me :kekhands:

[sage remnant]

only in RoW tbf

for stormlight

[copper phoenix]

what makes you think that way

I know you hate that book like its the devil

[sage remnant]

oh no I dislike WoR even more

but for WoR, it's only cuz of the near the end of Sanderlanche and post sanderlanche stuff

[copper phoenix]

I should probably reread all 5 at some point I think I might also put wor way lower

I've only reread the first 3 and for me its my least favorite of them

but whats the problem you have with row

[sage remnant]

for RoW || It felt like Sanderson forgot what the word surprise means.
Raboniel taking over the tower, spoiled and it happens beat by beat exactly how she said in the meeting.
Taravangian attacking Rayse, you only had to put the word "Rayse" and read the taravangian interlude and the todium chapter happens exactly that way ||

among other stuff

[copper phoenix]

row || I have no idea what you mean with taravangian attacking rayse, what exactly did it spoil ||

[limber urchin]

If I had some minor criticisms for Stormlight as a whole, it would be the following:

[sage remnant]

I mean buffy, each book had had more story than earlier books

so like, it's just proportional to the amount of story told :kekhands:

[sage remnant]

RoW || beat by beat how that chapter goes ||

[copper phoenix]

row || also about the raboniel part I dont think everything needs to be a surprise going exactly against everything you expect, the way row was structure it was clear it was going in a different direction than other books so that thought never cross my mind ||

[limber urchin]

but these are only minor complaints, nothing that's a deal breaker

[sage remnant]

I think I will like more in reread

[copper phoenix]

row || I dont think I ever seen anyone else say they predicted how the taranvian plot would go that was one of the craziest twists in the series for me ||

maybe its just a personal thing but I really disagree

[sage remnant]

|| Kaladin, Taravangian, Moash, Shallan and Adolin's best parts || RoW

This was what I had wrote to a friend when I was reading (mf started Stormlight when I was in middle of OB reread and finished RoW before I finished OB)

[limber urchin]

Man, just think, WAT end ||Dalinar could've just killed Odium and solved everything and saved Brandon the headache of writing 5 more books. ||

[sage remnant]

and yeah I had found the POV switching to be worst than every other stormlight book

|| Too much attention to single ones
And again random switching || RoW

[limber urchin]

Rhythm of Snore

i liked it

[sage remnant]

Oh I do like it too

Despite how much I complain about RoW and WoR

they are still like 4/5 lol

[limber urchin]

I will say though ROW ||Raboniel is my favorite antagonist in the series probably.||

[sage remnant]

WAT || Taravangian ||

🧎‍♂️‍➡️

[limber urchin]

i'm guessing he's the general consensus

[sage remnant]

|| I like Moash a lot too ||WaT

as an antagonist

[limber urchin]

i think he's begun to grate on me a little

[sage remnant]

and like specifically his character arc in OB was really amazing

and I still like it a lot in RoW and WaT

WaT all|| but it hasn't been as good as like his chapters in OB part 2 ||

[limber urchin]

how far are you in OP so far, Goro?

[sage remnant]

I paused in Loki reveal chapter

cuz WaT was released like the next week

[tawny parcel]

Oh shit same

[sage remnant]

or smth

it was released before the chapter after that was released

[limber urchin]

ok then I can say this Stormlight (WAT end) and Egghead arc ||Taravangian did to Kharbranth what people assumed happened to Lulusia after Imu fired on it (thinking Vegapunk changed something so it would do so - save the citizens I mean).||

[sage remnant]

hmmm

might be

[limber urchin]

fix that

asap

right now

do it

[sage remnant]

btw buffy

[sage remnant]

check out this trailer

[limber urchin]

looks interesting. is it like deadpool lite or something? it seems mostly comedy?

but i'd probably be better reading the books. i should read more.

[sage remnant]

uhh no. Not similar to deadpool in much of anything

[sage remnant]

It is mostly comedy yes

[limber urchin]

i still have yet to watch anything from apple

[copper phoenix]

severance?

[sage remnant]

apple has peak scifi buffy

[limber urchin]

nope. have no idea what it is, save you all keep talking about it

[copper phoenix]

cringe

[limber urchin]

i am watching TNG at the moment

very very slowly

[copper phoenix]

star kek

[sage remnant]

have you ever watched stargate buffy

[copper phoenix]

bsg >>>>>>

[limber urchin]

sg1? I've seen scenes I believe

I have watched BSG though. loved that

https://tenor.com/view/jim-dwight-identity-thief-geek-battlestargalactica-gif-4700649

[copper phoenix]

so say we all

bsg || the adama maneuver is still one of the grestest things I've ever laid my mortal eyes upon ||

[limber urchin]

frack

[tawny parcel]

I’ve been getting the urge to read it again so I’ll probably go back

[copper phoenix]

they dont make space operas like they used to 😔

[tawny parcel]

I’ve let elbaf chapters built up enough

[limber urchin]

jupiter ascending

[copper phoenix]

the expanse is the closest thing in modern tv but its finished now

[tawny parcel]

Have an 8 hour drive today gonna listen to dance with dragons

[limber urchin]

A Drive with Dragons

[tawny parcel]

Exactly lol

Only like 30% thru this book

[limber urchin]

better than before

[tawny parcel]

Adwd ||Surprisingly Tyrions chapters are rather uninteresting to me mostly this book||

At least so far

[limber urchin]

ADWD ||His post-Westeros chapters are not as exciting to me personally, but they lead to some interesting moments.||

[tawny parcel]

Adwd ||he’s just been chilling with illyrio and griff/the old hand, that was a cool revelation tho ||

Adwd ||I’m pretty curious to see where dany goes this book I’ve enjoyed her chapters so far ||

[sage remnant]

we went from talking about peaks to asoiaf smh

[tawny parcel]

Apologies

[limber urchin]

[tawny parcel]

I’ll be done with it in the month

Hopefully

Its a long book

[copper phoenix]

all my homies hate asoiaf and grrm

[tawny parcel]

Winds of winter coming 2025

Trust

[copper phoenix]

I dun want it

[arctic flax]

mission impossible trailer looks great

[copper phoenix]

idk man after 8 movies Im starting to think the mission is in fact possible

[mild seal]

Wait until you hear about the tv series

[arctic flax]

daredevil BA e4 || really liked matt's meeting with frank, looks like franks still been killing on the low. interested to see where his arc goes from here. All of fisk's scenes this ep made me feel like he was gonna snap. so matt and fisk are both returning to their old ways. is that muse at the end? ||

[sage remnant]

oh btw @hazy patrol I watched s5b and s6 of lucifer

and have it paused at third last ep...

I couldn't continue...

[hazy patrol]

I loved s5

s6 is shit

[arctic flax]

does lucifer have the cw arrowverse vibes

[sage remnant]

at times its better

at times its worse

s1-s2 I would say it's better

[arctic flax]

arrowverse is a guilty pleasure to me

[sage remnant]

s3 feels bloated and slow

s4 is good at times and not good at times

[arctic flax]

I enjoyed arrow upto s6(dropped it s6 first half). flash was good till s2 then stopped being interesting

[sage remnant]

Flash I think I watched upto s4 or s5

idr

[arctic flax]

tho arrow's best seasons(s5,s2) are peak superhero tv seasons

just an inconsistent show

ill prob finish it sometime

ive heard flash rehashes a lot of the stuff/tropes after s2 and apparently gets really bad after a certain season(the final season had some very bad imdb episode scores)

[sage remnant]

ye the rehashing is there

[arctic flax]

barry's powers are so inconsistent. he's fast or slow depending on whatever the writer wants him to be

[hazy patrol]

S1-s2 was pretty fun for me , s3 was slow but still enjoyable , s4 was my personal fav and like the only season in which I had no complaints , s5 was inconsistent but enjoyable and s6 was shit

[sage remnant]

I rewatched it this sem, and I was like binging it continuously for the first two seasons lol

finished s1 in like 2-3 days i think

[hazy patrol]

Me is enjoying friends

Especially since it's my first watch

[sage remnant]

I don't think I have it in me to watch a sitcom fully now

[arctic flax]

^

i only enjoy comedy shows if its a hybrid(sopranos,succession,etc)

sopranos gotta be one of the funniest series all time

[hazy patrol]

I think it's perfect for me rn, since I only watch like 2 eps a day lol and well sitcom is the best when you just have that much time

[arctic flax]

i watch a few sitcom eps but they're too episodic for me to watch them fully

[sage remnant]

It's so hard man
Whenever I sit to watch something, I would feel like I should rather spend my time on upskilling due to the job market.
And when I start working on that, since I am mostly only doing coding adjacent stuff, I feel like I should rather watch or read something.

Then I end up doing nothing and spending the little free time I have on discord

[hazy patrol]

Yeah I feel that, the balance between being productive and utilising free time is kinda hard to find but well ig it just comes down to what you love to do in free time without getting addicted honestly

[sage remnant]

I said fuck it and started reading shangrila frontier manga one day
I ended up staying upto 4 in the morning to read it

so like I either do nothing or go more than I should

[hazy patrol]

I did this with helck recently

Read 50 chs on Sunday

[sage remnant]

atleast it was sunday

for me it was one day before exam

well not the exam night
the night before

so not the worst thing lol

[foggy mirage]

Its the same director working on all 3 movies

[shrewd sigil]

mistborn hero of ages reread ||remembering why it took me so long to finish this book last time 😴💤💤||

[fresh umbra]

You don’t have to watch past season 5

1, 2 and 5 are the only good seasons and you’re better off not watching past that

Daredevil BA ep8 ||I had to rewatch this episode, I can’t believe it took them so long to get showrunners who actually know what they’re doing. It’s an actual crime we had to wait 8 episodes for Bullseye do anything.||

[distant minnow]

I was recommended battlestar galactica a while back and I see theres a 1978 version and a 2005 version, do people usually refer to the 2005 one when recommending this series

nvm I figured it out, one of those shows scattered among 3 different names

[copper phoenix]

yes the 2004 show is the one

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-old-man-shaking-head-gif-3938163323164042530

[near echo]

Finally had the availability to go see looney tunes after work tomorrow after like 3 weeks of having to take care of my dog alone or being sick

And it's not showing anymore as of literally tomorrow 😔😔😔

I feel like a fraud

I'll go see Mickey 17 this weekend instead

[young compass]

tell me how it is

i didnt like it at all

[mild seal]

I got a gift card for AMC, what good movie is coming out this summer?

[near echo]

Supahman

[near echo]

I've never seen any of this dudes movies so it'll be a first

[young compass]

damn

that's disappointing

that movie made me sour on his other movies

at least a bit

[near echo]

I'm busy watching gutter trash instead plz understand

Hammer horror and c list 80s animation

It's who I am

[mild seal]

Oh shit yeah thanks

[wooden swift]

Gonna watch Harakiri @white smelt

[proud fiber]

It's not bad, but it was inevitably going to be a disappointment after Parasite

[white smelt]

The original I hope

[wooden swift]

Of course

[proud fiber]

Ayyy

[wooden swift]

I'll be using it in a lesson

[proud fiber]

Great film

[wooden swift]

Dude from what I've seen

The camerawork is like

S+++++

[proud fiber]

The soundtrack is also outstanding

[wooden swift]

Soundtrack as in score or general audio mastering

Because I hear the wind effects etc are unreal

[proud fiber]

As in score

But it kind of is one with the sound design

[wooden swift]

Sick

Double sick

[proud fiber]

If you've heard conflicted by Ka before

It samples that at the beginning

[white smelt]

Why did Mikey rourke say that

[pine torrent]

minecraft movie:

[sage remnant]

@limber urchin

[vapid radish]

@pine torrent

[pine torrent]

nvm ur right, idk what was wrong the first time

[vapid radish]

Also have an adblocker if you don't already

That's just a good tip in general

[pine torrent]

i doo ty

[modern lichen]

Hello, will be deleting Discord again after posting this message but thought I'd post an update on my 2025 books list, finished The Bright Sword (my favorite of the bunch, must read) and Orbital, just started Intermezzo. Ok goodbye

Books 2025 (9/17):

1. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Cromwell trilogy - Hilary Mantel
3. ~~The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ~~ (partial reread)
4. The Passenger/Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
5. ~~ Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre ~~
6. ~~ The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro ~~
7. ~~ Intermezzo - Sally Rooney ~~
8. The Overstory - Richard Powers
9. ~~ The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern~~ (Did not finish)
10. ~~ Orbital - Samantha Harvey ~~
11. ~~ The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman ~~
12. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
13. Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
14. ~~ The Penguin Book of Norse Myths - Kevin Crossley-Holland ~~

[limber urchin]

I really should read those books one day

the third game and show is probably just not enough to encapsulate the source material

[sage remnant]

many people I know say that the games are the most enjoyable way to experience that story

even more than the books apparently

[copper phoenix]

I mean it really depends

[crimson lance]

That just isnt true

[copper phoenix]

they're very different ways to experience things

in so many ways

[crimson lance]

The games tell a different story set after the books and ignore a lot of the books

And butcher some characters or outright ignore them like yennefer

[copper phoenix]

the witcher games before w3 are mid af

and 3 is good not because it was a great adaptation or anything

but because it was a legit amazing game

[sage remnant]

I haven't read the books so yeah don't know how true it is lol
The prose and the way it tells the story is apparently very boring and bland

from what I have heard

[crimson lance]

The English translation isn't great but that's on the translator everyone who reads it in the original polish or a better translated book comes away liking the prose more than in English

[copper phoenix]

did you read in polish or english

[crimson lance]

English it's just taking to anyone who's read it both ways they always say the same thing

The guy they hired to translate it is a a translator not a writer so it's not great

[primal mason]

What’s your favorite Steve quote in the Minecraft movie?

[young compass]

shut up blue

I had the DISPLEASURE of seeing the new PADDINGTON today @sage sleet

[sage remnant]

when he said "It's Minecrafting time"

[shrewd sigil]

arcane/league new cinematic ||https://youtu.be/mSoGkTxu_FY?si=kXO5Ep_gtkrqtnzU||

||ionia cinematics next season ||

hopefully they stick with fortiche for these cinematics

[primal mason]

No

[copper phoenix]

"first we mine then we craft, lets minecraft!"

absolute cinema

(actual quote btw)

[sage sleet]

Tread lightly

[pale trellis]

Gabriel Macht as Batman

Who sees the vision?

[primal mason]

Tom Holland as Batman

[south hatch]

nice set of books to read, wow.

[sage remnant]

just waiting for his review of the last two

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/vision-are-you-kidding-me-here-we-go-again-seriously-really-gif-20488792

[foggy mirage]

Talk about spiffy

Everyone got worried bro just looks like a normal predator

[sage remnant]

btw Lisa
You gotta tag all of these

[foggy mirage]

Trailer

[sage remnant]

yeah that should be tagged, according to what we have as the rules and all here

feels odd saying this to a helper :kekhands:

[foggy mirage]

I checked it says nothing about trailer stuff

I'll tag it for no one that hasn't seen thr trailer

😭

Regardless the complaints about their design is dumb

[sage remnant]

damn league really pushing out more content eh

[foggy mirage]

They arent gonna all look the same

[sage remnant]

did you finish HoA vady

[shrewd sigil]

hell no 😭

I'm barely 10 chapters in

I'm not really a fan of the book so it's hard to binge

[sage remnant]

Huh

Everyone in other Sanderson discussion place I am in has WoA or HoA as favorite Mistborn book lol

[shrewd sigil]

it has a really great ending which mostly makes up for it but everything before that is just kinda meh for me

[sage remnant]

What's your ranking of the three

WoA> TFE> HoA?

[shrewd sigil]

i think I'd put TFE first

then yeah WoA then HoA

[sage remnant]

It's so over for Mistborn...

[shrewd sigil]

you should just hurry up and finish era 1 so you can form your own opinions..

[sage remnant]

I really hope the latter two books are better cuz like except the Sanderlanche which just gets better the more I think about it,
The rest of the book just gets worse

[shrewd sigil]

words of ascension is about as enjoyable as final empire

but hero of ages just depends on you I think

[sage remnant]

I am like this person
Except for the fact that I have already reread TWOK from || Highstorm to ending || and OB part 2 and Part 5 and WaT sanderlanche in last two weeks

Instead of reading other cosmere

[shrewd sigil]

can't believe this 😔

are you planning on finishing warbreaker or mistborn first i forgot

[sage remnant]

Mistborn first cuz I already have the books bought

And I really want to read Era 2

[sage remnant]

Words of ascension...

[shrewd sigil]

oh bruh 😭

I always mix them up

they're both the 2nd books of their series it's not my fault

[shrewd sigil]

peak..

actually probably shouldn't hype it up too much so you don't end up getting disappointed

[sage remnant]

Isn't || Well of Ascension literally like a Perpendicularity || WoA

That's what it felt like when I was reading TFE

[shrewd sigil]

WoA if you want the answer ||technically yes||

[sage remnant]

I am hyped up by box set cover way beyond what anyone could hype me up

[sage remnant]

Nah won't open

[shrewd sigil]

alr

[sage remnant]

Just that its weird that you confuse them if so

Or even if not so

[copper phoenix]

what are you waiting for to finish reading

[sage remnant]

Oh I have exams running
Also the reason I am more on discord. Gotta be somewhere while procastinating studying

Reading new would distract me
So I just spend time on discord or rereading Stormlight portions lol

[copper phoenix]

cringe

[sage remnant]

No U

[tawny parcel]

Minecraft

Pack it up

[frank rivet]

Was there a new Fantastic 4 announcement today

[foggy mirage]

I wish

[potent zenith]

The Pitt was such a good show I'm happy there's gonna be another season, but its gonna premiere in january

if you want a medical show to watch, i highly recommend The Pitt. Fantastic watch

[burnt lake]

I saw clips of the first episode, it's on my watch list

Interesting having a show based around where I live

[potent zenith]

you're in PA too? i'm on the eastern side, but its still nice to see PA in media, sometimes

[burnt lake]

Pittsburgh has a huge medical experience

It took the city over after the steel industry left

Currently one of the cleanest cities in the US*

[potent zenith]

is it actually?

the furthest west i've been is gettysburg, so maybe i'll have to take amtrak and see for myself

[burnt lake]

Well, supposedly

I see a bunch of difference sources say one thing and others say that it's the opposite

I think, personally, that it is actually really clean

[potent zenith]

Reading is prob the dirtiest

[burnt lake]

There's a lot of construction these days from the times I've been downtown but besides that it's been nice

Pittsburgh USED to be literally the worst place to live in the US regarding smog, pollution and general waste

An INSANE turnaround tbh

[potent zenith]

PA is just unfortunate in general when it comes to smog because of our geography

pollution just gets caught in all our valleys

[burnt lake]

I haven't been to Reading so idk

I haven't been to many places in PA

[potent zenith]

oh, Reading just sucks. Its common to hate on them in my city lmao

Reading is like the New Jersey of PA

[burnt lake]

All I know eastward is Philly and Centralia

[potent zenith]

wtf centralia is so random

[burnt lake]

Oh and Harrisburg

[potent zenith]

Have you been to centralia?

[burnt lake]

But no one cares about Harrisburg

[burnt lake]

No lol I just saw a few videos

[potent zenith]

its not as interesting as it used to be

[burnt lake]

What's that one place that's literally like permanently on fire underground

[potent zenith]

a lot of the fires cooled down, so steam doesn't even rise off the streets when it rains

[burnt lake]

Oh centralia

Fml lmao

[potent zenith]

I grew up in Hershey, hopefully you've heard of that town

[burnt lake]

I've been to Cranberry, Pittsburgh (and all the townships south of it until you hit Bridgeville) and Slippery Rock

I've heard of Hershey, it's like uhhh

Made of chocolate I think?

[potent zenith]

something like that

[burnt lake]

Nah my fiance went a while ago and there was like a old car museum?

Smth like that

[potent zenith]

Yeah! we have a bunch of large auto shows held here

[burnt lake]

We had some back home in NorCal

Cool April Nights

[potent zenith]

mostly antique since Hershey is just old rich white people

[burnt lake]

I kinda miss the geography in NorCal

It was so nice having mountains in your backyard sometimes

[potent zenith]

cali seems nice to live in, just too much sun imo

i like the overcast of PA. Saves me money on sunscreen

[burnt lake]

Idk about down south but up north is beautiful

I wouldn't live there though, shits 1; expensive, 2; hot and 3; homeless populous is not great

Furthest down south I went was Sacramento but I stayed way up north an hour or so from the border to Oregon

[potent zenith]

expensive and hot are def things i dont enjoy

[burnt lake]

Buried in the mountains

Literally just like...

[potent zenith]

Oregon seems like a nice place to live, so i've heard

[burnt lake]

https://tenor.com/view/nicholas-cage-majestic-space-wtf-yes-gif-12258841

[potent zenith]

Mount Fuji?

[burnt lake]

Shasta

[potent zenith]

i was joking, but now i know the name of the mountain lmao

[burnt lake]

Lmfao

[white smelt]

lol

You know just because it’s overcast doesn’t mean the sun isn’t blazing and frying your skin

You still need sunscreen

[potent zenith]

yeah, i know. Just jokes

i even have a sunblock umbrella for when its super sunny

sometimes i'll wear sunscreen when it snows, but it doesn't really snow anymore

[main lion]

do you really need to if you're not actively sitting at the beach in the sun type shit

I havent used sunscreen except for at the beach

[potent zenith]

it depends on how long you're in the sun. It takes 30 minutes for me to walk to (and 30 minutes back from) work, so thats enough sun imo to require sunscreen

[main lion]

thats so much work to walk somewhere

[potent zenith]

i'm a ginger, so i dont really have enough melanin to take the risk lol

[sage remnant]

I don't remember any time I wore sunscreen unless I was annoyed to

[main lion]

I'm white but maybe gingers are more white idk

Im really white tho

[white smelt]

Yes. You should use sunscreen every day dude. If you’re outside at all you should use it

[potent zenith]

realistically, everyone should be wearing sunscreen. Its great for your skin! Idk if gingers are more white than regular white people, we're just a mutation for further north survival

[main lion]

wtf is this shit 😭

aint no way

[white smelt]

Doesn’t matter if it’s not “sunny”, uv rays hit you if it’s day time

[main lion]

no Im aware but like, if Im just walking to get from one place or another?

To walk from my car to my work office?

does that mean people should wear sunscreen if they leave their windows open in their own home?

[potent zenith]

how long is your car ride to work? the sun is beaming on you while you drive

[white smelt]

If you walk to your car you’re driving and unless your car is tinted to be pitch black you’re getting Sun exposure

[main lion]

ye Im not wearing sunscreen to drive bro

thats crazy...

[white smelt]

Idiot

[main lion]

what about this

[white smelt]

If the sun is hitting you, yes

[main lion]

wtffff

[white smelt]

But you can just move

Dude if you’re getting sun in your face it’s uv rays man, idk why you think just being inside a house makes you magically immune

[main lion]

this feels like one of those situations where like, something can "technically" give you cancer (like a fucking water bottle or w/e) but realistically you're being overly anal to try and avoid it

[potent zenith]

this man was a truck driver for 28 years and didnt wear sunscreen. Which side do you think was exposed to the sun?

[main lion]

I never said that

[main lion]

see thats different though

thats 12 hours in the sun a day

not 20 minutes

[potent zenith]

yeah, its more of an extreme case

wearing sunscreen all the time is also pretty draining on the bank

[white smelt]

I’m gonna tell you something. I don’t care about skin cancer. I just wanna be hot for longer. I don’t wanna be wrinkly

[main lion]

I live in florida bro I know UV rays can hit you through clouds, windows, etc.

I'm just saying its being overly extreme with that knowledge to wear sunscreen every time you're in a situation where you're exposed to sun at all

[main lion]

the cancer was a comparison to the effects

not saying you're talking about skin cancer

[white smelt]

Sure but like the sunscreen is so I don’t damage my skin

https://tenor.com/view/fire-blower-cat-inefablejuly-gif-5668608829591186245

[main lion]

I think its fine if you do it yourself but it feels like you're saying everyone needs to be THAT careful about it. But this feels like a compulsive thing from you

like me being a ridiculously unreasonable germaphobe

[white smelt]

I mean everyone should because of skin cancer. You especially in Florida

[potent zenith]

dermatologists recommend everyone to wear a little sunscreen. Even something like 15 SPF is better than nothing

[white smelt]

Macks is Australian and the culture there is sunscreen at all times with bucket hats because the sun is beating down at all times

It’s just the US that has a weird idgaf culture

[main lion]

same applies to what I said before

The sun can give you skin cancer, just as drinking a waterbottle or w/e can give you cancer. But depending on the exposure, its realistically not affecting you.

in any meaningful

capacity

unless you're literally like

in the sun for an hour without stepping inside somewhere occasionally etc

like if you go shopping at an outdoor shopping mall, your occasional minute or two walking from one store to another

doesn't require sunscreen in reality

[white smelt]

You think it’s like some recharging affect. It’s cumulative all your life

[main lion]

so is drinking from a waterbottle

more specifically, so are carcinogens

[potent zenith]

i just do what the doctors tell me

[white smelt]

Listen you do you. Doctor advice is use sunscreen daily for when you’re outside

[main lion]

yes but the advice is usually under the context of like BEING OUTSIDE

[white smelt]

Just because you don’t want to, doesn’t make you right

[main lion]

not being outside

on the other hand maybe the only reason I look ridiculously baby faced still is because I have blackout curtains and rarely hang out with friends. And its night time when I do

even less lately since some of my closest friends moved to georgia

[young compass]

right

[potent zenith]

there's a small movement to change the name of sunburn to radiation burn to make it sound more serious

[main lion]

some people get excited when they're sunburnt here because it means they'll be tanner after it goes away

it doesn't get taken seriously by a lot of people here lol

[potent zenith]

and people putting tanning oil on themselves?

tbh i dont live near a beach, so idk if that's still a thing. I just see it on tv shows

[main lion]

they do yeah lol

[marsh spear]

i dont wear sunscreen

i havent in like 2 years

[bleak halo]

Invincible comic finished ||I finally finished the invincible comic and just holy fucking shit this was a blessing I picked up like there is no reason not to read this shit. The fight with Thragg and Mark on the fucking sun. The fight with fucking thragg and Battle beast that tore an entire planet apart. All of it just so peak 😭. The ending was so sweet to||

@undone junco I’m talking about the the ending of invincible here does this work as a spoiler tag or should I word it differently

[undone junco]

yea thats fine

[bleak halo]

Thank you

[undone junco]

npnp

@brave orbit Dr Who soon

[sage remnant]

Herbert West Reaminator
|| He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms which I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life—but the world holds many ugly things. ||
wtf lovecraft 😭

[brave orbit]

It might be cancelled tho 😔

[sage remnant]

what

why

[undone junco]

the future of the show is iffy, thats what the interviews seem to be implying atleast

and there have been rumors of atleast a break

[brave orbit]

yea

[sage remnant]

it's so over

[undone junco]

yea unfortunately

[echo notch]

Did anyone watch Truman show yet or is it just me?

[candid tundra]

HUH

[echo notch]

No needed to do that

[candid tundra]

HUH

[echo notch]

[burnt lake]

@trim crown Black Mirror s7 (very minor, not really even a spoiler just marking to to be safe)

[trim crown]

Bruh

[limber urchin]

Brooo, that's like genuine stupidity.

say hello to early cancer

[frank rivet]

best episode of Its always sunny @haughty ruin
||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyNumX4wS9w ||

[haughty ruin]

peak scene yeah

but c'mon, always sunny ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZiEAdpX3_o||

[limber urchin]

This will never, never not be funny.

[brave orbit]

PEAK

[main lion]

I have multiple family members that have gotten melanoma but theyve gotten it removed and were fine. Its very strange

[limber urchin]

I bet you can find similar numbers out here on the west coast

[brave orbit]

@copper phoenix DID YOU WATCH WOT

@rich meadow

@sage remnant

[last perch]

Fistfull of Dollars || Never imagined I would like a movie so much that wasn't on my watchlist, 5/5 🤠🤠🤠||

[copper phoenix]

yes sadly it was a mid episode

[vapid marlin]

@tight hatch dune ||my problems aren't with this in the movies, really, because I think they just can't do it well in the medium. but it's basically just- the nature of the voice, spice, and just... the writing style generally having such an enormous amount of the story being worked through internal monologues and thought processes, like. Idt it can be done lol||

the movies were fun for the audio/visual stuff, though. definitely delivered there, almost always does anyway these days

[tight hatch]

ye the scale of things is epic, what would you rate the Dune books overall? the main trilogy

[vapid marlin]

my favorite sci-fi books personally

i don't really rate stuff, but what was written by frank herbert is some of the best stuff I've read in the genre

although i'm not really a big sci-fi guy lol

[tight hatch]

loll

[little hull]

Blue eye samurai is good really like it visually

[tight hatch]

did you watch Dune Prophecy btw?

[vapid marlin]

no, i haven't even heard of it 😵‍💫

[tight hatch]

wowow, um, imo, not good

[vapid marlin]

oof. looks like it's not drawing from too much of the books

that might've helped

[tight hatch]

lol frrr, i watched it with my sister who's reading the books and she hated it 😭
the overall production of it was good tho, like the sets and costumes

[brave orbit]

Stop the cap

[sage remnant]

They adapted Brian's books loosely

[near echo]

Watching Rock & Rule

This is like if Don Bluth made Interstella5555

Can't tell yet if it kicks ass or kinda sucks

[near echo]

Incomprehensible script that feels like they wrote the entire film last second AFTER they animated the entire thing

Fuckin loved it

[wooden swift]

Harakiri fucking rules @proud fiber @white smelt @young compass @modern lichen

Very very well done

[potent zenith]

i'm rewatching Idiocracy

[white smelt]

Bro what the hell happen to Mulaney

He just has a different face now

???

Never mind I found a Reddit thread about it, he’s just not 1% body fat anymore cause he stopped doing cocaine

[mild seal]

lmao

[brave orbit]

Black Mirror S7E5 ||Philly 😔😔😔😔😔😔 ||

Great ep

[undone junco]

did you watch Who

I havent yet, just wondering

[brave orbit]

I have

It's about what you'd expect from a RTD season start I guess lol

fun

[undone junco]

gotcha gotcha, will watch in a couple of hours 🙏

[dim hedge]

FAMILY GUY IS GOAT

[raw gate]

The Lighthouse

|| https://fxtwitter.com/thecinesthetic/status/1911106539789680732?s=46 ||

cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic)

Junji Ito made a short synopsis manga for Robert Eggers’s The Lighthouse for its Japanese theatrical run. It’ll be published in theater pamphlets sold at Japanese theaters.

**💬 5 🔁 104 ❤️ 595 👁️ 26.5K **

FxTwitter · Apr 12, 2025, 5:18 PM

[proud fiber]

thats sick

[pine torrent]

watching house for the first time…not what i expected lol

[foggy mirage]

Peak

Thats what you should have expected

[pine torrent]

it exceeded my expectations idk y i went in with a lousy mindset

[raw gate]

Ikr. I wish I could own it. Japan always has cool stuff like this to go along with certain theatrical runs

[main lion]

you can. These types of things often get resold on mercari japan etc

[raw gate]

I’m learning all kinds of new things lately about stuff I can buy online

I’ll look into it. I can’t imagine it’s resold for too much

[main lion]

ye. Using a proxy site (fromjapan for example) for stuff on japanese websites is clutch.

It might not pop up right away, but Id say peep mercari japan occasionally.

It helps to have the like, kanji for the series or w/e saved somewhere so you can copy paste it into the search bar

thats how I got the japanese theater exclusive stuff for haikyuu

[raw gate]

That’s so cool. I’ve been missing out all this time. There’s plenty stuff similar to what I posted that I’d have bought by now lol

Thanks for telling me

[main lion]

yeah its really clutch for like

jumpshop stuff too

np g

[raw gate]

Nahh they gotta Bepo pillow on there that I need

[main lion]

ye you basically just put the link to the item page in the proxy site, it auto pulls up the item, and then you provide a screenshot just in case

and then they order it for you, let you know what the price would be, and then if you confirm they order it for you

[raw gate]

I wonder…

[main lion]

shipping price is usually kinda high but not horrible if you choose the cheap option.

Downside of the cheap option is that it often takes many months to arrive

but I dont mind waiting usually

idk how tariffs will affect this btw

[foggy mirage]

Time to watch iron giant again

[main lion]

peak

[brave orbit]

BLACK MIRROR S7E1 ||WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS||

[brave orbit]

what the fuck man

[marble oracle]

one piece >>>>>

[jade siren]

Kino giant

[burnt lake]

I hear there's a new season of dr who that just started

[brave orbit]

yea

[burnt lake]

Is it good?

[foggy mirage]

Who knows ?

[burnt lake]

I certainly don't

[foggy mirage]

WHO knows

[burnt lake]

Who?

Hmmm

[foggy mirage]

You're a doctor who fan right ?

I swear not catching this reference

[burnt lake]

Doctor who?

[foggy mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

[burnt lake]

I watched a bit of the 8th (?) Doctor before swapping to the new series under D+ cause that's a lot of catching up to do

I liked it though

[foggy mirage]

||https://youtu.be/1cbQVfVfSrI?si=5oR0LFYJgS6N4Opi|| Doctor Who Day of the doctor season 7 spoiler.

[sage remnant]

watch from start a ep per day

or like an ep whenever you want

without the goal of catching up

[foggy mirage]

Its peak

Did not enjoy the 13th doctor personally though

😭

[sage remnant]

No one did...

[burnt lake]

Lemme just time travel to 1963

https://tenor.com/view/doctor-who-tardis-time-vortex-peter-capaldi-gif-26069395

[sage remnant]

just realized you had mentioned 8th there

didn't mean classic who

only nu who

a couple of classic who eps are missing too I think

[burnt lake]

Oh

[sage remnant]

from eccleston's