western-series

[worthy crypt]

yeah idk i do watch some booktube people but im off reddit

[limber urchin]

After I finish Empire of the Dawn tonight, I'm gonna go back and finish Frankenstein (halfway through or more at the moment). And then, THEN, finally I will go back and complete Dune.

[sage remnant]

This man's never finishing dune

[limber urchin]

But I know I will feel empty after Empire.

I'm curious what will fill that void.

[tawny parcel]

i will read dune before you do buffy

[worthy crypt]

i stopped after dune 3 or 4

theres like 12 of them

[limber urchin]

I'm 1/4 through it. But you could easily catch up.

[sage remnant]

6

[tawny parcel]

im gonna finish fight club then rythm of war

[sage remnant]

rest are by his son

[tawny parcel]

then something else

idk

[sage remnant]

Milking the franchise

[limber urchin]

I only want to read book 1 just to finally get an idea of it.

[sage remnant]

Dune 4's my fav

🙏

[worthy crypt]

ill get a bunch of reading time over the holidays, i have to travel a lot to see all my family

[sage remnant]

Man it would be so fun if I could do audiobooks

[tawny parcel]

im also seeing my family so hopefully i get reading as well then

[sage remnant]

so many extra reading time

[worthy crypt]

yeah idk how you get any significant reading done without audiobooks

i listened to like 30 audiobooks this year and read like 3 paper books

[limber urchin]

Yeah, I just can't focus on the audio without being distracted.

[tawny parcel]

i do audiobooks if m driving

[limber urchin]

But I like to listen to them as background noise after reading it myself

[worthy crypt]

i put it in mindless stuff i dont gotta focus on, like driving, chores, exercise

[tawny parcel]

i dont like doing exercise because i alwaysw try to focus on form and stuff

and then I start thinking about that

[worthy crypt]

I need audiobooks or id probably never exercise

I need em as part of the experience/reward cause i hate exercising

[spiral quest]

I mostly just walk for exercise and listen to music. I used to do audiobooks when walking but I found I wasnt concentrating as much as I wanted to. Now I don't do Audiobooks at all

[tawny parcel]

i think i could do auidobooks for walking

but not exercising

[modern lichen]

[frank rivet]

Lol I'ma be honest

That sounds stupid lol

Practical make up with depth projection sounds a lot better for a cyclops

[near echo]

Yeah I'm not sure that's the best solution lol

More power to em tho

I think it's a bit ridiculous how practical effects has kinda become a buzzword in its own right cuz people immediately associate cgi with looking cheap

I gotta imagine they're doing plenty of cg on that cyclops too to smooth movements and exaggerate expressions, and at that point I'm curious if they're even benefiting from an animatronic or if it's pretty much gonna be a wholesale model replacement just leveraging the lighting information and a statue ala the Sonic movies would have sufficed

[frank rivet]

Seems like a big waste of money lol

When you can get really good makeup nowadays

[foggy mirage]

I'm ngl the more I hear him talk about this movie the bigger a dickhead he sounds

https://vxtwitter.com/NolanAnalyst/status/1991431842537320810?s=20@caskysync#0000 @near echo

Nolan Archive (@NolanAnalyst)

Christopher Nolan explains how he approached the mythological aspect of THE ODYSSEY:

“One of the things I needed to crack was how to approach mythological elements in a sort of real-world way. The big breakthrough creatively in thinking about the gods was that everything that is now explained by science was once supernatural. Lightning, thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes... people are literally seeing gods everywhere; not even the evidence of gods, they're seeing the actions of gods. I don't want to say too much about it beyond indicating that yes, the evidence of the supernatural is all around these people. It's very much part of their lives. And I think it's quite a lot of fun to tap into that.”

(via @empiremagazine)

vxTwitter / fixvx · Nov 20, 2025, 9:02 AM

He said so much and nothing at the same time

||https://vxtwitter.com/ChristianLukens/status/1991739600709296529?s=20|| pluribus latest

Christian Lukens (@ChristianLukens)

That's the actual mayor of Albuquerque lmaoooo #Pluribus

vxTwitter / fixvx · Nov 21, 2025, 5:25 AM

[near echo]

This feels like such a surface level reading of mythology and its role in culture lol

Hopefully the film has way more going on than this

[foggy mirage]

Thats literally what I thought so too

[foggy mirage]

"These mfs dumb they took things as they saw them."

Like yes jackass this is how mythology works

The supernatural exists around them

😭

Baby's first fantasy film

[near echo]

Even then the roots of it are so much deeper than inventing characters to explain natural phenomenon

[leaden depot]

Nolan special

[near echo]

You look into the inspirational sources of cyclopses and minotaurs and the titans and the stories they provide are just as interesting as their legends

There's literally a whole history there. No shit but sometimes it needs to be said lol. It wasn't just surface level observation

[sage remnant]

Dude Bros judging film before its even out

[foggy mirage]

Nolan just talks like a dickhead

He can't help himself

[near echo]

I'm not a fan of Nolan or a lot of his movies

I think the only one I've seen I have any fondness for is Dunkirk

[foggy mirage]

Memento for me

Maybe inception

Parts of tenet

[frank rivet]

Icl the dark night is a top 5

[near echo]

I'm not an inception HATER but I think it's so boring and average compared to nearly every other film about the nature of dreams that I've seen and I can't believe it's become the one most synonymous with that matter

[modern lichen]

https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1992997984792117555

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

Brady Corbet confirms his next film will be:

• X-rated
• Entirely shot on 70mm
• Set to span from the 19th century into the present day— but mostly take place in the 1970s

Filming is expected to begin next summer.

X · Nov 24, 2025, 4:45 PM

[frank rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/twitch-residentsleeper-sleepy-gif-15374561

But inception was

[foggy mirage]

Peak is back ?

Werwulf and this in the same year is crazy for me

[sage remnant]

It'd the first one most people had watched

[foggy mirage]

Literally only looking foward to avatar in December

[sage remnant]

And people like mind boggling stuff

which inception is for most people

[frank rivet]

Avatar yes

But icl the new avatar kinda looks weird lol

[foggy mirage]

Still gonna have to see it

[frank rivet]

True

I'll be there no matter what

I just want more water I'm a big water guy

[foggy mirage]

Fucking water boy

[near echo]

Inception ||for me felt like a blockbuster action movie using dreams as something of a motif, not something that feels like it actually happens within someones psyche||

[tawny parcel]

nolan will save cinema with the odyssey like he saved it with oppenheimer

[foggy mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/adam-sandler-the-waterboy-water-thirsty-sports-gif-5513842

[modern lichen]

i dont give a shit about avatar or james cameron

[frank rivet]

How many times did you see Oppenheimer be honest

[modern lichen]

but i am going to go with my friends to watch it

[tawny parcel]

1 and it was pirated on my computer and it was awesome

[foggy mirage]

Lmao

[tawny parcel]

and i think about it and I got the book of it

american prometheus

i wish i saw it in theaters

[modern lichen]

its time for us to hang out, fuck the movie itself i dont care

[near echo]

Fire & Ash is the make or break point of this franchise

[foggy mirage]

I watched in in theaters

[foggy mirage]

Its gonna make 2 billion

[frank rivet]

It's making a billion dollars

[foggy mirage]

Again

There is no break

[near echo]

If it sells a billion again then there's a conversation to be had about avatar being the biggest IP of all time with zero cultural influence

[tawny parcel]

lmao

[foggy mirage]

😭

[tawny parcel]

literally

[frank rivet]

Bro I don't think you understand

[tawny parcel]

idk whos watching these movies

[foggy mirage]

Thats been the case since 2 came out

[frank rivet]

No one knows a single avatar character

[near echo]

If it's just a moderate box office then it was two flukes carried by technical innovation the first time and morbid curiosity the second

[foggy mirage]

First one pretty much was the case

[modern lichen]

it will make a billion dollars and no one will care like 1 hour after watching the film

[frank rivet]

I still don't know who the main character is

[foggy mirage]

Jake sully

Literally only one i know

[frank rivet]

I don't even know his wife name

[foggy mirage]

I dont either

And I watched avatar 1 30 times

[near echo]

I don't either and I liked the second movie a lot

[foggy mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/shrug-idk-dexter-innocent-gif-10412116

[tawny parcel]

man now im thinking about when i watched the interstellar in imax

religious ass experience

[frank rivet]

I remember one of the kids name was Spider

Which was dumb af

[tawny parcel]

i started believing in god seeing some of thse shots with the music

[modern lichen]

why

[tawny parcel]

i had not seen a true imax film until i had seen a nolan imax film

[frank rivet]

Because it looks nice

[modern lichen]

what's in there for you to watch it 30 times

[frank rivet]

Water

[foggy mirage]

Nothing better to do back then

And a family member

Liked it

[modern lichen]

the first one, which barely has any water

[near echo]

Avatar 2 ||is his name because humans have more fingers so they look like spider hands to the natives||

[tawny parcel]

😭

[frank rivet]

I think avatar was the first 3d movie I ever saw

[near echo]

It reminds me of Panzer Dragoon so I can lament the fate of those games and drink a bottle of whiskey

[tawny parcel]

the game can not be that good bro

[near echo]

Spy Kids 3D: Game Over has been FORGOTTEN

[modern lichen]

Spy Kids 2 >>>

[near echo]

I mean no shit

[sage remnant]

Same

[frank rivet]

What's the spy kids with the spider gorilla

[tawny parcel]

spy kids 3d is cinema

[sage remnant]

gonna go with whole class

[near echo]

3D was like proto Sharkboy & Lava Girl

[frank rivet]

Was that 2?

[tawny parcel]

sharkboy and lava girl also cinema

dream dream dream dream dream dream

[modern lichen]

Robert Rodriguez so washed

[near echo]

I love Panzer Dragoon but I'm half kidding

[sage remnant]

Who

[foggy mirage]

Favorite Robert movie still just desperado

[near echo]

There's a shitty Xbox spiritual sequel to it by ex-Sega talent called Crimson Dragon

And that games pretty awful

But it's EERILY similar to Avatar

Like has some of the same plot beats as Way of the Water and everything

[modern lichen]

We don’t care about your niche games man /j

[near echo]

Hey.

[tawny parcel]

/srs/

[modern lichen]

Lmfao

Bon the only guy who can out obscure me

[sage remnant]

If it doesn't make billion its not good fr

[tawny parcel]

i havent seen like any movies this year have there been any good ones

[foggy mirage]

Lost odyssey pc port please

[tawny parcel]

the only one that catches my eye is marty supreme

superman was good

[modern lichen]

You should search on Letterboxd

Like a real man

[sage remnant]

I loved superman and fantastic four

[modern lichen]

Instead of asking around like a bitch

[tawny parcel]

I strive to be a white boy like timothee chalomet

[sage remnant]

My favorite of this year I think

[foggy mirage]

Dint love fantastic four ngl

[modern lichen]

Beta bitch

[tawny parcel]

you must be fun at parties

[sage remnant]

my fav MCU project probably :)

[near echo]

I pray

[tawny parcel]

"seen any good movies this year" "yeah i used my letterbox"

point and laugh

[sage remnant]

I watched really good movies this year, but not of this year's release

Robocop, locke, Coherence

those two days were so good movie days

[near echo]

Joking aside but also keeping to the comparisons I was making all these things pull from Moebius. Who IS one of the single most important artists of all time. Someone's who's reach extended across multiple countries and industries and genres

These things I'm referencing all pull from Arzach

And I think that's why Avatar has zero influence

[near echo]

Its bringing those kinds of visual motifs to life with a fidelity they've never had before

Not a single thing in these films is NEW

They're already well established in jrpgs and comics and animation

That's why they're always spectacles and you can't remember shit from em

[foggy mirage]

Need that xeno gears movie

[modern lichen]

Good films this year:

• One Battle After Another
• No Other Choice
• Sinners
• Black Bag
• Train Dreams
• Superman
• F4 First Step
• Weapons
• 28 Years Later
• F1
• Phoenician Scheme
• Predator Killer of Killers
• Mission Impossible Final Reckoning
  @tawny parcel

[tawny parcel]

oh yeah i watched f1 too

vroom vroom

[near echo]

Didn't like F4 very much

[tawny parcel]

fun action slop

[sage remnant]

Oh yeah f1 and final reckoning too

good movies

[tawny parcel]

i watched part of sinners but it was too late at night and then i never finished it

[foggy mirage]

Suprised how many people i know with usually good taste

That hated 28 years

[foggy mirage]

Ngl feel final was worse than dead

[sage remnant]

It's among the lesser good movies of franchise

but that's still like a good movie lol

Fast 11 and Beyond the Spiderverse when

[foggy mirage]

Spider verse happening before 11

[arctic flax]

Kinda dont care bout spiderverse anymore, its been too long

Ill watch it when it comes out but im not anticipating it or thinking about it

[modern lichen]

Revolutionary

[arctic flax]

hope one battle still playing in my theatres. Havent been able to watch it yet

[white smelt]

Now you’re speaking my language

But can’t you play it on pc through gamepass?

[foggy mirage]

You can ?

This shit is news to me

[white smelt]

I thought you could play any game pass game on pc and Xbox cause it’s just windows architecture

Am I wrong?

What the hell is gamepass for?

[sage sleet]

anybody have any good sites to watch shows on?

44 cents to my name for a few days n ion wanna spend money on FX to begin w for a series that will most likely be dog asshole

[sage remnant]

Cineby

Hexa.watch

[sage sleet]

shukran habibi

[foggy mirage]

Nope

Only native running games

If it did let you play anything there it would be worth the money

[sage remnant]

it allows Cloud streaming now I think

Qbz you would probably know

[worthy crypt]

I think the common stuff makes it very easy to ship on both but that doesn't guarantee a game will choose to ship on both. But I don't really know i work on the boring guts of game stuff. I gave up the professional gamedev dreams when I saw how brutal the jobs were re pay and work life balance

In gamedev You will work twice as hard, make less than half as much, and most of the time your audience hates you. Or at least has a few very loud people who do

[sage remnant]

Aren't you on Graphics team/side of stuff? 👀

[foggy mirage]

They tried turning this shit into Netflix for games

[worthy crypt]

I'm a humble ricotta miner providing for the lasagna of the world

[foggy mirage]

Keep this up I'm making a Garfield animated sequel

Still with Chris pratt

[worthy crypt]

He's so cool

[sage remnant]

Make the next Stardew Valley qbz

[main lion]

there are already a lot of games like stardew

play those

[sage remnant]

Yeah I have

played thosse

[main lion]

ah

[foggy mirage]

Adapt stardew

Into a whole movie

[worthy crypt]

I do wanna make games again when I retire but I burned out on doing it as a hobby cause the job is pretty soul crushing. The ricotta mining I mean

[sage sleet]

Think imma see rental family today

Been a min since I been to the theatres

I think

[modern lichen]

bro fell for a satire tweet lmfao

[sage sleet]

My fault. Logging off.

[modern lichen]

[modern lichen]

https://fixupx.com/belladonnafeli/status/1993131061669490708?s=20

feli🩸🐦‍⬛ (@belladonnafeli)

Lord save us from booktok

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FixupX · Nov 25, 2025, 1:34 AM

[sage remnant]

They seem to have aphantasia 👀

[valid thunder]

I aint reading grrm big back describing food for 2 pages

Its fine to skim

[modern lichen]

Never skipping food descriptions from GRRM

[sage remnant]

I don't think its fine to skim but I guess for people with aphantasia I can see it being a okay reason

[valid thunder]

Depends on the book

Some authors definitely be padding for no reason

[spiral quest]

I don't skim, but I also don't read GRRM

Though I do read Robert Jordan

[sage remnant]

Final boss of unnecessary description fr

[spiral quest]

And repetitive

[limber urchin]

I had a great time with Empire of the Dawn.

[spiral quest]

I love the story in Wheel of Time but you gotta suffer

[limber urchin]

I think you will like it.

[sage remnant]

Nice buffy

[valid thunder]

Rj is a great example of when its perfectly fine to skim

[modern lichen]

recently read an RF kuang book so bad with the descriptions i can tend to agree on the case to case basis

[limber urchin]

Back to Frankenstein.

[sage remnant]

weak

I never skimmed rj

[valid thunder]

Rj is far more egregious than grrm

[sage remnant]

That he is

[limber urchin]

I think the next big fantasy trilogy I will tackle sometime in the future will be that Prince of Thorns trilogy or whatever it's called. But I have a few more books to get through first.

[valid thunder]

I dont think grrm even writes uneconomically, i just dont like reading about food

[limber urchin]

......i do

[modern lichen]

same, i like the way he describes a lot of things

[sage remnant]

Damn Mark Lawrence

[valid thunder]

I am always surprised when i hear grrms prose is considered sub par. I guess i read too much contemporary fantasy

[sage remnant]

His Library Trilogy is liked more btw Buffy

[limber urchin]

which one is actually better to you?

[sage remnant]

Not read Library Trilogy. Didn't appeal to me

[limber urchin]

I now see what people mean by GRRM's prose after the Empire trilogy. Jay Kristoff can paint with words by comparison.

[sage remnant]

Eh

I would also consider Kristoff's prose to be mediocre

Not in a bad sense too ig. It just doesn't stand out or become an issue

[sage remnant]

Also that has Berserk level gore at times.

[limber urchin]

Well, you just sold me on it.

[modern lichen]

bugonia is fine

the korean original is better

[limber urchin]

Whenever I see posters from that movie Bugonia, I can only think to Mr. Doubtfire ||When Sally Fields gets pissed at a goat that Robin Williams brought over from the zoo, and yells "you ate my begonias!" It's like a weird core memory I have of the first time ever hearing the word begonia. I know it's not the same word, but my brain thinks they're the same.||

[sage remnant]

@worthy crypt apparently DCC got two tabletop rpg games

Also Wow

[worthy crypt]

yeah my friend was telling me about it we might try to run a game of it

im very curious to see how it goes cause i think part of the benefit is like... the iceberg of systems yknow what i mean

you can imply theres 10000 classes to pick from but you only have to flesh out the 8 or so classes your main characters actually pick

so how they gonna do that in a tapletop rpg that is supposed to be offering all these options that are only ever implied

[sage remnant]

Probably the designers who created it had to put in more effort in communication with Dinniman

[worthy crypt]

its not just classes though everything is kinda taking advantage of that iceberg concept so i wonder where they draw the line. they cant possibly implement everythig implied or even anything close to it

[sage remnant]

Ye

[peak pilot]

Finished words of radiance

[sage remnant]

Nicr

Continue

[peak pilot]

No

Words of radiance ending ||adolin is goated for killing sadeas, 4 radiants are founded (actually 5 with lift I believe) and Jasnah is alive!!!. I actually think eshonai is alive too because that end to her is too anticlimactic for her to be actually dead||

[peak pilot]

Should I read edgedancer?

[shrewd sigil]

yesss100%

[tawny parcel]

Edgrdancer ||no because the main character is lift and she is annoying||

[shrewd sigil]

woa ending ||sadeas' death scene is probably my favorite part of the ending, he really was just a piece of shit that only lived because everyone tolerated him||

[shrewd sigil]

the things I want to say ...

edgedancer/stormlight ||lift is a top 5 character||

[spiral quest]

https://tenor.com/view/office-michael-scott-thank-you-gif-5278681

Every time I say it I get tons of people telling me I am wrong, nice to finally see otherwise

[modern lichen]

You’re agreeing with Wombat of all people

[spiral quest]

A broken clock is right twice a day

[modern lichen]

Heartbreaking! The worst person you know made a valid point ass moment

[tawny parcel]

OB ||it was a terrible day when she got reintroduced back in oathbringer||

[valid thunder]

I agree with wombat

That character is vexing

[modern lichen]

Edgedancer/OB ||I don’t care about Lift myself because I tend to forget what she does sometimes||

[spiral quest]

Stormlight ||Lift is one of those characters in literature that I roll my eyes at when they appear on the page. I don't like saying it but man||

[tawny parcel]

TRUTH NUKE

[spiral quest]

Sometimes there are just characters in literature that make the experience worse for you

[modern lichen]

There are worse characters I’ve encountered

[spiral quest]

I am not disagreeing

Just dislike this character a lot

[valid thunder]

Ob || she talks like a mcu character ||

[modern lichen]

Man I guess Katabasis IS the worst book I completed this year, I’ve dropped two other bad ones but somehow I just finished Katabasis despite it being dogshit

[spiral quest]

I am so much quicker to dnf a book than I used to be

[modern lichen]

Yeah same

[spiral quest]

As a kid Id put up with anything, now I get to page 30 and if it's not doing anything, I pass

[modern lichen]

But I just stuck with this

Because the first 3rd was actually ok

[spiral quest]

Isnt that the worst

When a book is good for a while then you get like halfway or 2/3rds through and it nose dives

[limber urchin]

Stormlight ||You're right.||

[modern lichen]

I should’ve expected worse because Babel was actively ok until like the first third as well

[spiral quest]

Series feels worse for that though. I am still irritated by Dark Tower

Interesting

You struck me as someone who woulda enjoyed Kuang as an author

Based off their rep anyway

[modern lichen]

Babel and Katabasis are two different types of problematic writing but they suffer from the same academic credentials that characterize Kuang’s literature that signals an inability to properly narrate a story or even attempt to tell one

[limber urchin]

well now I need to read Kuang

[tawny parcel]

I’M right you mean

[limber urchin]

You sure are you little SF6 champion, you.

[modern lichen]

Yellowface is a different case, because it’s intentionally a satire that just feels like it’s hitting back at the critics of her work but also falls into the pits of its own satire

[tawny parcel]

Haesh you’ve read fight club right

[modern lichen]

Yeah

[tawny parcel]

I’m halfway through it I dont care for it but I’ll thug it out

[modern lichen]

It’s an ok book

[tawny parcel]

Feels like pseudo intellectual bullshit

[modern lichen]

Palanhuik is an acquired taste

Requires time to settle in and is not easy to access

[tawny parcel]

Fight club ||he put his penis in the tomato soup look at how he fights against the man||

Bravo Palanhuik

[modern lichen]

Fight Club is transgressive without much bite or substance to back it up

[tawny parcel]

I also just dont like the bleakness of it lol

[modern lichen]

I think it works in the favor of it, gives it a consistency of tone and intent

But it’s just not that interesting to read

I don’t like the film either

[sage remnant]

Top 3

[tawny parcel]

Fight club ||I’m okay with a bleak setting, but most of the times I like it when theres a beating heart that shows that hey theres something to push past here ||

[sage remnant]

also Vady having great taste like usual

[modern lichen]

I genuinely think the term overrated fits Fight Club

[spiral quest]

I am kinda with Harsh, I read Fight club years ago and I just didnt enjoy it much

[sage remnant]

💯

Tho I don't know about the book. Only the movie

[spiral quest]

Around the same time I read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

[modern lichen]

It’s one of Fincher’s weaker films too

[tawny parcel]

Fight club ||i do like some of the lines tho “with insomnia everything is a copy of a copy of a copy”||

[sage remnant]

?????

😔

[modern lichen]

Fear and Loathing works because Hunter S Thompson’s gonzo tendencies and writing style are motivated by a self awareness and humor that are endearing

[spiral quest]

I liked Fear and Loathing, but I am not one of those dudes who puts it on a super high pedestal

[modern lichen]

I don’t either

But it’s still a good read

[spiral quest]

For sure. I don't usually venture out of sci fi/fantasy/horror, so it was a good time for that

Oh and westerns, I like some of those too

[modern lichen]

Currently reading Underworld, Don Delillo’s writing style is absolutely beautiful but it’s such a stone cold bummer, loving it tho

[spiral quest]

Don Delillo is one of those authors that is on my way off the in the future tbr. I do want to read that stuff but it's not particularly tempting atm

[sage remnant]

Oh about this Yes. Edgedancer is my top Stormlight books but that's also a unpopular opinion

[spiral quest]

I donated my copy of Edgedancer lmao

[sage remnant]

WaT, OB and Edgedancer are my 5/5 Stormlight books

[sage remnant]

Sad!

Stormlight all
|| Lift is my top 3 characters with
Szeth
Dalinar
Lift being the list ||

[spiral quest]

I didnt gel with it at all, but that's me. WoR and WoK are my top 2 Stormlight books

Well we def arent on the same page there

[sage remnant]

That's what makes it fun!

[valid thunder]

2 peak 1 mid

[spiral quest]

I agree, Id rather not be like how so many booktubers and stuff are. Recommending the same shit all the time

[sage remnant]

2034 Can't come any sooner

I need Stormlight 6 fast

[valid thunder]

Tsa || i should pay more attention to lift next time ig. Kinda crazy u alr have her in top 3 given her real arc is supposed to be in the second half no ? ||

[sage remnant]

Yes

The foundations are already there and p solid

but its like very sprinkled

[valid thunder]

Ok so u have her in top 3 based on j the setup

[sage remnant]

Stormlight all || Szeth was my top 1 in book 1 itself and like what I got of his character in that book was just expanded and bolstered in wat||

[valid thunder]

Where does kaladin rank for u

[sage remnant]

Uhhhhh

6-7?

[valid thunder]

Das low. But i understand

[sage remnant]

Stormlight all
||
Szeth
Dalinar
Lift
Todium
Shallan ||

[sage remnant]

He's still a 11/10 character for me

[valid thunder]

Wat || havent read wat but alot of ppl say his conclusion was fumbled||

[sage remnant]

It's like ranking top OP characters for me. I love all of them so much but there's gotta be some I love more lol

[sage remnant]

Eh not really

[tawny parcel]

So tuff

[sage remnant]

If you liked his character arc in RoW, then you would like it

[tawny parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/67-gif-8575841764206736991

[valid thunder]

Hmm

[sage remnant]

I had loved it, so the conclusion was one of the most emotional shit I have read

[valid thunder]

2034 hmmm . I should delay my reread till then lol

[sage remnant]

I also have a tendency of having characters ranked high if like they do more in less time span

[valid thunder]

I dont wanna read wat with my fragmentary recollection of first 4 books

[valid thunder]

I mean kaladin has a pretty long arc lol

[sage remnant]

Stormlight || Lift and that minor antagonist from Naruto who's my top 2 character who you said doesn't have a character arc are of that reason ||

I didn't mean Kal

Yeah this was my list Mirio

[valid thunder]

Interesting

[valid thunder]

I can see this reflected here lol

[jolly ruin]

What are the top 5 western tv shows of all time (excluding comedies)

[worthy crypt]

sopranos, breaking bad, the wire, ....

better call saul maybe? succession was pretty good. idk those top 3 are pretty solidifed im not sure about 4 adn 5

[valid thunder]

Younger me would have put mr robot up there but idk how it holds up now

Sopranos for sure tho

[young compass]

do you mean like

cowboy western

or just western world lmao

[jolly ruin]

Western world lol

Basically English stuff

[limber urchin]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (no bias, btw).

[jolly ruin]

Completely objective and peer reviewed

[valid thunder]

Adventure time

Should be top 5

[limber urchin]

I think he means live action. Right?

[jolly ruin]

I tried watching Mr robot, dropped it after like 6 episodes
Ngl I went in with high expectations cause a lot of people really be hyping it up

[jolly ruin]

Yeah

Real people

[limber urchin]

Twin Peaks could fall under this banner but it might be too niche.

[jolly ruin]

None of that weeb shit

[worthy crypt]

if you can say lke the first 4 seasons of game of thrones i think thats pretty peak

if you just pretend it ends there

[limber urchin]

The first four seasons for sure would fall under that.

[young compass]

Twin peaks

[jolly ruin]

Hmm haven’t heard of twin peaks before

Might check it out after finishing the wire

[young compass]

it’s David Lynch so prepare for weird

[limber urchin]

Good weird

[jolly ruin]

I don’t mind weird

If it’s good quality weird

[young compass]

it’s good yeah

[limber urchin]

Doctor Who would be a great show to check out too, in terms of Western television.

But it's best to start with the spiritual reboot that happened in 2005.

[young compass]

do not subject yourself to Dr who

[worthy crypt]

there are some great ones in there but also some pretty weak ones. idk if, as a whole, it would be top 5

[limber urchin]

Ignore the sentient tuba.

[young compass]

aren’t you Pakistani khalid

Or am i confusing you with someone

[jolly ruin]

Looks like there’s a consensus on breaking bad, sopranos, the wire and early got

[valid thunder]

Andor is really good imo

[young compass]

I don’t like breaking bad that much tbh

[jolly ruin]

Arab

[worthy crypt]

well now youre just being contrarian

[young compass]

Definitely way less than the wire or the sopranos

[limber urchin]

Andor is too recent I think and I'm not sure how well it's loved.

[jolly ruin]

Thoughts on House MD

[valid thunder]

Its not top 5 oat yea

[young compass]

At a certain point early on the drama just gets absurd and it loses me

[valid thunder]

S1 tho individually i would put up with any season i have watched

[young compass]

You know the point

[limber urchin]

Scrubs is great, but it's not top 5 and probably falls somewhere along the lines of comedy and drama

[young compass]

Yeah he said no comedies

[worthy crypt]

its fine but nothing special. Something decent enough to put on in whenever but not anywhere close to top 5

[young compass]

Otherwise I would have said taxi

[jolly ruin]

Oh yeah no comedies

I forgot the rule I put myself

[limber urchin]

no fucking laughing

[valid thunder]

Mid

[young compass]

Oh fuckin deadwood

Check out deadwood, that fits both western criteria

[limber urchin]

but uh you should watch buffy

[young compass]

House is painful to watch

[valid thunder]

Is buffy actually good or is it nostalgia

[limber urchin]

hmmmm

good question

extrememly important to television would be the best answer I think

[valid thunder]

I mean idc abt that lol

[limber urchin]

but it is good with some dated elements

[jolly ruin]

I think i will probably do the Sopranos after the wire

[young compass]

Buffy is a tier above supernatural

[young compass]

Yeah probably best, just get those two out of the way and nobody can really bother you

[jolly ruin]

Yeah true
Lots of seasons tho hopefully it doesn’t fall off

Many series tend to do that

[valid thunder]

Sopranos ?

[jolly ruin]

Yeah

[limber urchin]

watch every season of GoT

[valid thunder]

It stays consistent

[young compass]

Oh yeah people usually recommend true detective s1

[limber urchin]

wait

Heroes season 1 is AMAZING

[frank rivet]

true detective S1

IS PEAK

[young compass]

It’s a complete story

[frank rivet]

everything after that is TRASH

[jolly ruin]

True detective is good but not top 5 material me don’t think

[valid thunder]

Bcs and bb are good. Bcs is def top 5 material

[young compass]

OH, somebody somewhere is really good IMO

[frank rivet]

speaking of Peak...Watch The Chair Company

[limber urchin]

Maybe

[young compass]

it’s a drama that has comedic elements cause the characters are silly sometimes but it’s a drama first and foremost

[limber urchin]

What about that Severence show that half of you are always praising

[valid thunder]

Not top 5

[young compass]

S1 good s2 bad

[valid thunder]

Its similar to andor i think

[frank rivet]

i still need to watch Andor....

[valid thunder]

Quality wise

Andor s1 is better tho

[young compass]

Honestly I agree Mirio, the closer both andor and severance got to having to answer their meta question instead of using their setting to make critique/analysis the worse they got

[frank rivet]

Severence is good but you gotta get into the mood to watch it

[arctic flax]

I rmbr watching all of bb,sopranos,the wire in the same month

back to back peak

[valid thunder]

Same month is crazy

[raw gate]

It’s the greatest ever imo

[arctic flax]

I didnt watch it past s1 but s1 was awesome

[arctic flax]

I was starting to get into prestige tv in 2020

Finished a lot of series that year

[valid thunder]

When i watched sopranos i was obsessed for like 3 months. Just rewatching some episodes and reading analysis online.

[arctic flax]

same time i was getting into anime too lol

ill never forget that experience

[valid thunder]

I even watched the mid movie david chase made

[arctic flax]

few shows interest me anymore

[arctic flax]

Didnt watch that

[valid thunder]

Same

[arctic flax]

bit the slander for it is funny in the sooranos sub

[valid thunder]

Good shows are getting shorter and shorter

[raw gate]

Severance and Pluribus will give me my fill of contemporary television for the time being. I’m also not that interested in many shows

[arctic flax]

And forever to come out

[arctic flax]

severance s2 ,andor s2 are upcoming on my to finish list once i get the time

and meaning to check out pluribus too

[valid thunder]

Yup. Tho the bear has a consistent schedule for modern shows

[raw gate]

I guess The Penguin too, since I think I remember that it was green lit for a second season

Although I might be making that up

[valid thunder]

Ion think so

[raw gate]

Yeah, it wasn’t

Wishful thinking on my end probably

[valid thunder]

Season 1 is kinda perfect

As a self contained story

Instead of an s2 they should cover another villain imo

[raw gate]

That’s true. I’d love to see Penguin and Batman in a film together as adversaries at least, though

[valid thunder]

True

[limber urchin]

Batman Returns???

[raw gate]

Oz has main movie antagonist potential and they wouldn’t even really need to do too much to establish his character

[arctic flax]

Were not getting back the days of shows like BB dropping seasons every year

and with 10-13 eps

Cuz movie actors are in most of shows now

and streaming

[valid thunder]

True

[limber urchin]

kill me

8 ep seasons.....

[valid thunder]

He should definitely be atleast one of the main villains of batman 2

[arctic flax]

Didnt watch it but im assuming ur talking about jk sims char?

[valid thunder]

Hes talking about penguin

Colin farrell

[arctic flax]

oh thought he meant OZ hbo series

[limber urchin]

so did i looooool

[valid thunder]

Penguins name being oz is funny lowkey

[limber urchin]

it's Oswald Cobblepot?

[arctic flax]

2 letter names be cool

[valid thunder]

Thats his full name 😭

?

Damn bro i would become a villain too if i was named that

[near pewter]

https://x.com/screentime/status/1993375326760763770?s=20

ScreenTime (@screentime)

'RUSH HOUR 4' is officially in the works

(via: Deadline)

X · Nov 25, 2025, 5:44 PM

We are so back

[white smelt]

Thank you Trump

🙏

[worthy crypt]

Oz is decent but mixed, some great moments some really stupid moments

jk simmons plays a nazi

also edie falco plays a prison guard, i didnt notice that till now having watched the sopranos

[frank rivet]

Lol rush hour 4 rush to the hospital

[rich meadow]

I doubt he’ll be doing as many solo stunts lol

[spiral quest]

I like Rush Hour but idk who was wanting a 4th one

We really live in an IP world

[worthy crypt]

movies are expensive to make, no one wants to lose a ton of money

[spiral quest]

Miss the era of mid budget movies

Just give me some fun ideas that don't cost a ton to make

[peak pilot]

😴

[frank rivet]

I miss watching comedies at the theater

Date Movie 🍿

[spiral quest]

I showed my gf some various American comedies from the era I grew up in

She wasnt into em much lmao

[frank rivet]

22 jump street

[peak pilot]

Oathbringers ||who is the lady on the cover and the lady that is on the inside with special galaxy like clothes||

[tawny parcel]

Ob ||idk on the inside but cover is jasnah, tbats why i knew she revived 😭 ||

[sand cypress]

Oathbringer || the ones on the inside are depictions of the heralds- Galaxy woman is Shalash iirc ||

[spice folio]

holy W

[sage remnant]

Trump

[sage remnant]

TWOK ||https://www.rxddit.com/r/imaginarycosmere/s/ZjRBYvSkcU ||

[valid thunder]

Looks ai generated

[sage remnant]

It doesn't???

[modern lichen]

[tawny parcel]

Twok ||shallan is so pretty I wish redheads were real||

[sage remnant]

💀

Wombat on Stormlight isn't good for my sanity

[tawny parcel]

THAT SNOT EVEN A CRAZY THING TO SAY

[main lion]

it doesn't but it does look boring

[modern lichen]

The more I think about Bugonia, the more perplexing it gets

[sage remnant]

Sure

[copper phoenix]

man... kate beckinsale been my celeb crush since forever and I thought nothing could hurt me again after I learned she dated pete davidson

then I saw her latest interview

I wanna jump into the sun

[sage remnant]

The eggs one ?

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/nwoBk4bQkp.gif

[modern lichen]

[valid thunder]

Ok wow i was NOT expecting that

[spiral quest]

How am I supposed to watch Underworld and Van Helsing now

She has CHANGED too holy damn

[white smelt]

The wheel of kime?

[sage remnant]

The Way of Kings

Only WoT sub I am in is WetlanderHumor. Idc fanarts

[tawny parcel]

Fight club No fucking way

[sage remnant]

@sudden swift what manga do you like. I am gonna pick a book for you

[sudden swift]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-lion-thinking-ragebait-rage-bait-monkey-gif-14090242814517187668

Any shounen(that is not ass) I think

[sage remnant]

read Cradle

first book is ass but it's good after that

Very shounen

Plenty of OP and Naruto power references

or if you want one single book that's super good

and shounen feel

Sword of Kaigen

should work for a Bleach fan

[sudden swift]

This one?

[main lion]

thats a pretty big ask to try to sell people on western books and recommend them their first book as something ass

pretty bad barrier to entry

lol

[sage remnant]

I meann
Vinni would probably like it

Its better than start of Bleach

[sage remnant]

Ye

if you want smth regulars of here have read, then Mistborn The Final Empire would also be a good start

[sage remnant]

This would be really good tho @sudden swift one of my fav books of all time

@sand cypress would also agree

[foggy mirage]

Pluribus ep 5 is out

Pluribus ep 5 ||my guess its dead bodies turned into powder which they refine into broth for nutrients. The color, feel, pH and everything points to human broth. Its likely how they all stay nutrient rich. There is no big farming since pesticide kills insects, they freed all animals and they dont kill for food. It's a pretty huge reveal after knowing it cam be reversed. Also the voice mail actor is howard from better call saul. A sneaky vince collaborative cameo with a better call saul characte.||

Out early due to turkey day

[foggy mirage]

@frank rivet stop spoiling yourself

😭

[frank rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/i-cant-help-myself-dikhan-s2e3-i-just-have-to-cant-control-myself-gif-16852095955853353838

[foggy mirage]

Hit the books

Then pluribus

[peak pilot]

Oathbringers ||I saw the cover but had no idea who it was so it didn’t spoil it for me. I was geniunely surprised and happy seeing jasnah back at the end of the book. Sanderson may be back||

[modern lichen]

@sage remnant is there no reread option in hardcover

[wanton epoch]

I’m watching a movie

It’s so good

[sage remnant]

with the Dates Read

[wanton epoch]

Mlp eqg rainbow rocks

[modern lichen]

ok got it

[leaden depot]

Done with 1967 stuff, how the comics stuff look rn

And the writers, interior artists and cover artists

[frank rivet]

how do you like the new batman 2025

[sage remnant]

Hog is still at 1967

he's reading/watching every medium other than books from earliest date to current

[leaden depot]

I'm crazy like that lol

I have heard good things about both Absolute and Fraction Batman tho... unlike Hush 2 lolll

[leaden depot]

[sand cypress]

I can vouch for this book 🔥

[modern lichen]

richard linklater is the master of the chamber film

really liked blue moon even though i dont really know a lot about musical theatre or lorenz hart

also, ethan hawke is an extraordinary performer

[leaden depot]

idk what this is gonna be about but this promo page goes hard

It does remind me of this lol

[limber urchin]

me too buddy

[leaden depot]

[leaden depot]

https://tenor.com/view/say-that-again-gif-968943876633031890

[leaden depot]

[limber urchin]

"...we love you all....in a decent manly way, of course!" lmao

[white smelt]

Now shatner posts on 4chan

[outer tulip]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1993774158468280773?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

New poster for ‘THE MANDALORIAN & GROGU’

In theaters on May 22, 2026.

X · Nov 26, 2025, 8:09 PM

look at star wars trying to make a come back.. i'm here for it though

[tawny parcel]

Why does this poster look so weird

Idk how to describe it

[raw gate]

[raw gate]

It’s bad

[tawny parcel]

Yeah but why is it bad

[raw gate]

Low effort

[valid thunder]

Baby yoda looking into my soul

[raw gate]

Can’t click on any Twitter links with attachments without seeing a Charlie Kirk edit

[white smelt]

AI, look at grogus hands…

[white smelt]

Is it back in stock??

[raw gate]

Yeah, I picked it up last weekend during the Black Friday sales. This isn’t the super duper cool release with the box and everything, though

It’s just the case and discs

Twin Peaks / Fire Walk With Me

Would have picked this up in a heartbeat

[spice folio]

I’m about to watch a 4 hour movie

[dark star]

What movie is four hours long ???😭

Besides endgame … or was that 3 hours ???

Close to four??

Idk 🤷‍♀️

[tawny parcel]

Finished fight club

Probably the most boring book I’ve read this year

Not gonna sit here and act like I understood every part of this book but even then i just found it boring

Probably gonna go to rhythm of war next so i can have my fantasy slop

[limber urchin]

Have you seen the film at least?

[spice folio]

it’s called a brighter summer day

from Edward Yang

[tawny parcel]

Like 3/4ths of it

[limber urchin]

Oh. Maybe finish it.

I'm sure you like it better right?

[tawny parcel]

It was really late so I only remember bits and pieces

[tawny parcel]

Watching the Christmas card with my mom she loves this hallmark movie but its so bad

I’ve seen this movie so many times

[limber urchin]

Hallmark Channel is just Christmasslop

[tawny parcel]

Legit just dudes getting cheated on by their wives in the guise of Christmas spirit

[dark star]

I hope you enjoy it 😭 I don’t think I could sit still that long

[tawny parcel]

Rating all the books ive read this year from lowest to top
12. Fight Club 11/24-11/26
11. Project Hail Mary 8/21-8/29
10. The Shining 4/29-5/09
9. Intermezzo 10/28-10/31
8. A Dance With Dragons 3/20-4/28
7.Oathbringer 9/17-10/21
6. A Feast for Crows (I forgot to put the dates for this one when reading it)
5.The Way of Kings 8/01-8/18
4. 11/22/63 11/06-11/15
3. Words of Radiance 8/30-9/16
2. Fahrenheit 451 5/24-5/27

1. A Storm of Swords 12/18-1/24

Wrf

Discord

What did you do

Why did you fuck up my formatting

I dont jnow how to fix this its supposed to be from 12-1

So storm of swords at 1 and fight club at 12

We peaked with the beginning of the year bravo martin

I liked all the books i read tho except fight club which i felt nothing about

[limber urchin]

A Storm of Swords

[worthy crypt]

that numbering is very confusing

[limber urchin]

That's testament to how good it is, especially since you didn't watch the show.

[worthy crypt]

storm is the best one in the first round i feel like

dance is better on reread

but 13 years later dance has some biterness wen you see all the exciting setup

[limber urchin]

Dance ||Has Reek and Theon chapters, which are kind of my favorites in the series.||

[tawny parcel]

No discord just fucked it up

[tawny parcel]

I thought anout putting a feast for crows above the way of kings

Really love a feast for crows

Think it does such good character building

[worthy crypt]

Dance || Those chapters are great and its also good to give mereen the fully intrigue scrutiny that you would apply to agot. I think a lot of people on first read myself included, are just like ok ok whatever another person with a funy exotic name. But thinking about something like 'who poisoned the locusts' is so interesting. it 95% wasnt hizdar who goes down for it ||

[limber urchin]

I wouldn't be surprised if you ranked Feast low. i think it's the book that is least enjoyed by the general fan base.

[tawny parcel]

Dance ||my biggest issue with the book is probably funny enough some of tyrions chapters, he feels like he has way too many this book||

[tawny parcel]

The fanbase are idiots and i am smarter than them, a feast for crows is a very good book

[limber urchin]

Dance ||He is in his depressed edgelord period during this time. I'll blame it on that.||

[tawny parcel]

But yeah

I started reading with a game of thrones, then i got to a storm of swords and said holy hell

This reading shit is serious

Theres levels to this shit

[worthy crypt]

dance || probably the shavepate. And that perspective makes barristan's final chapters so good. Hes this noble easily manipulated fool. ned stark come again, being weilded by a manipulator to cause chaos and gain power ||

[limber urchin]

holy shit true

[tawny parcel]

Dance ||Barristan is sooooooo good in this book man||

Elite character

Dance ||don’t mess with an old man in a young man’s game ||

A dance with dragons could maybe go higher on a reread just a bit of it is a blur

[limber urchin]

Wombat, it's time for you to fall into the tinfoil ASOIAF pipeline

[tawny parcel]

I fell into it for a little bit after i finished it lol

[worthy crypt]

dance || but thats the brilliance of it it has the surface level awesome quality youre rooting him on this old veteran champion heroically avenging his betrayed queen. But if you look closely, thats not actually what's happening. Hes being used by the man who plotted agaisnt his queen to kill her husband ||

[tawny parcel]

Would watch theory videos and shit

[worthy crypt]

did u read the winds preview chapters like the forsaken?

[tawny parcel]

I haven’t, I’m just going to wait to see if the book comes out

If the book comes out, it comes out

[worthy crypt]

that chapter bums me out the most just so much potential for the future that i kinda doubt will ever be realized

[limber urchin]

I've listened to the Forsaken, but I've not read the others that were released

Yeah, the Forsaken is fucking brutal, I love it

[tawny parcel]

Dance|| also the dude from what is it, the reigon with the sisters, meeran??? I’m blanking on all the names. But that dudes chapters could have been cut except for a couple, the windblown was so boring lol. Although him dying is one of the best chapters in the book, writes the dragons like a horror book||

[limber urchin]

I know who you're talking about and I do kind of agree to an extent

Dance ||Was it Tristan Martel?||

[tawny parcel]

Oh yeah

Thats their name

[limber urchin]

there's so many damn characters to remember

[tawny parcel]

Dance ||the martells, what is the region they live in called||

Lmfao yeah

Georges character writing is his greatest strength though

[limber urchin]

imagine trying to remember every ASOIAF and every OP character.

[limber urchin]

Dance ||Dorne. Sunspear is the capital I believe.||

[tawny parcel]

Oh ya

Man

You have a good memroy

[limber urchin]

No, I've just been listening to this series for 13 years

repetition

[tawny parcel]

A storm of swords ||has jamie and he’s top 5 character in fiction so ||

A storm of swords ||jamie and brienne 🥹 ||

Top 1 book

Especially reading it with my dad was awesome

Because we would be in the middle of it and start talking like wtf is going on 😭

[limber urchin]

Wait. Dance ||It might've been Quenyn Martel, not Tristan, who was burned by Dany's dragons. Or however the heck these names are spelled.||

[limber urchin]

without question

[tawny parcel]

Oh thats who it is then wait dance ||who tf is tristan||

[worthy crypt]

Dance || I love the Quentin thread. A lot of people think it's useless but it's not. He thinks he's the hero, he's the main character on a great adventure so it's guaranteed to go well. But the first line of the first Quentin chapter is "the adventure stank". It was a boat called the adventure but his whole quest was just a bad stupid cursed idea from the very beginning ||

[tawny parcel]

Dance ||i get the idea, i just think its kinda boring im ngl||

Or like, how he does it

[limber urchin]

Dance ||I believe he was sent to King's Landing to represent Dorne. Or something like that.||

[tawny parcel]

Dance ||is that the guy cersei sleeps with again||

Dance ||no wait thats one of her cousins or nephew or something right||

[limber urchin]

yes Dance ||Lancel Lannister. But she also has a handmaid she sleeps with. And at least one guard, possibly a Kingsguard. ||

[tawny parcel]

But yeah fahrenheit 451 and Words of Radiance go in 2 and 3

Although part of me wants to put fahrenheit a tiny bit lower

Like I said I’ve liked every book I’ve read this year except fight club

[limber urchin]

Empire of the Dawn may have been my favorite books this year. But it could've easily been Words of Radiance, as well.

[tawny parcel]

Words of radiance is soooo good

[limber urchin]

WOR ||That whole final section is fucking awesome.||

however.....

[tawny parcel]

I think funny enough thats my least favoritr part of it

[limber urchin]

ROW ||I want to shoutout Raboniel as one of my all-time favorite villains.||

[tawny parcel]

Wor ||it just felt like too much even for sando||

At least while i was reading it

[limber urchin]

anime in book form

[tawny parcel]

And also wor|| i didnt care for eshonhai ||

[limber urchin]

I just loved WOR ||Finding the way to Urithiru. That whole fight and discovery was everything.||

[limber urchin]

oh yeah I can understand that

Also

TWOK ||Nothing, I bet, for a long time is going to come close to this ending. No ending has ever made me feel the way this did.||

[tawny parcel]

Ya twok ||def has the best ending so far for me as well in the series||

[sage remnant]

OB 😎

[limber urchin]

OB ||Final battle is awesome||

[sage remnant]

For me, while TWOK ending is great and better than most stories/books, nothing would make me feel the height of emotions that OB ending and WaT ending made me feel

TWOK is good but like those two books benefit from earlier books already having done the setup and required character work and all

[limber urchin]

ooh yeah WAT ||The ending was the most intriguing. But I need to see the aftermath of it all before I truly have a solidified feeling on it all. It's so set-upy.||

[sage remnant]

I mean in the catharsis part itself

[limber urchin]

I still think my favorite singular moment in the series was Stormlight ||They came from another world. That still blows me away, and I fell for it, never saw it coming.||

[sage remnant]

WaT || Like Kaladinn's fifth ideal, Szeth's fifth ideal, EVERYTHING that Dalinar had from Ascending to Honor to renouncing his oaths to Szeth fighting with Nightblood to Nightblood going above his Intent to Kaladin being a Herald to even the callbacks ||

Shit made me cry like nothing else has lol

[tawny parcel]

Can i open this

[sage remnant]

I saw it coming from like more than a book ago, but the way it was written in the story was awesome

[sage remnant]

yes

Buffy's message there is from OB

[limber urchin]

WAT ||Actually, I'm still kind of pissed about Kaladin's destination. But that's mostly because I love him most when he's fighting and not a therapist. I understand why he ended up where he did, but I do prefer him the other way. Maybe Harald Kaladin will blow me away. ||

[tawny parcel]

Gonna start rhythm tonight me thinks

[sage remnant]

WaT || Kaladin inventing Therapy is like one of my fav parts of the book ||

[tawny parcel]

Unless my friends ask me to play deadlock

[sage remnant]

WaT || Like the whole dialogue of him and Syl "It was a nice dream" at end of RoW part 2 when they had to get back to fighting because that's the only way they can now protect when they don't want to take up arms at all just makes me emotional ||

[limber urchin]

WAT || It was sooooooooo good.||

you need to get to Wind and Truth, Wombat. Holy shit there are so many good things about it

[tawny parcel]

I’ve heard

Things about it

Its a divisive book is what i hear

[limber urchin]

WAT ||It was Wit that told him the word right?||

[limber urchin]

ignore any of that and just read it

[sage remnant]

Man's a living walkin W

[sage remnant]

Yes

[sage remnant]

People are stupid

[limber urchin]

Feast is a divisive book. But it's still great all around.

[sage remnant]

Probably 1 or 2 legitimate complaints

But rest are just stupid

[tawny parcel]

True

[white smelt]

PTA and Fortnite??

[sage remnant]

Time to make a list cuz no way you have read more than me

1. Mistborn secret History. 4.99999/5
2. Way Station. 4.5/5
3. One Day All this will be Yours 4.5/5
4. Well of Ascension. 4.25/5
5. The Big 4 4/5
6. The Final Empire reread 3.75/5
7. Elric of Melnibone: 3.5/5
8. Quicksilver: 3.5/5
9. Tress of Emerald Sea: 3/5
10. Hero of Ages: 0.5/5
11. How to Retire at 35: Eh
12. Think and Grow Rich: Eh

Same number. Thank god

[spice folio]

twas a masterpiece

[tawny parcel]

My books were bigger

I mog you

AND IM knocking out rhythm of war easy

[sage remnant]

Doesn't matter

[sage remnant]

And I Malazan

[tawny parcel]

Yes it does bro

Size matters

[sage remnant]

That's what she said

[young compass]

Lmao why did you read those self help books

[rich meadow]

He wants to retire at 35

So he has more time for fantasy slop

[worthy crypt]

Its a little old and recommends a slow/boring approach but the little book of common sense investing is probably the best money book. Obviously this isnt financial advice live your own life dont at me if things dont work out for you but over a decade or so the approach described has been positive for me

[sand cypress]

This man refuses to give anything a 5/5

That hero of ages rating is diabolical

And incorrect

[sage remnant]

A WoW slop enjoyer saying that is CRAZY

[sage remnant]

Uhhh idr

I just decided due to something I don't remember what

[sage remnant]

Fully correct

[sage remnant]

Noted

yeah I won't at you at that lol

[sage remnant]

Not my fault a super good book has 1 line that almost ruins it

so that .00001 is for forgetting that line exists

[near echo]

Watched yellow submarine

Idk if it's because of my apathy towards the band or the shitty impersonators doing the voices but I could not tell which beatle was which for half the movies run lol

[modest canyon]

This could apply to 90% of his ratings

[sage remnant]

Sadly I don't like Cosmere slop like y'all 😌

It is a burden, having great taste

[modest canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/zaunvi-caitvitwt-stan-twitter-gif-10576500664165224210

[sage remnant]

It's probably in my top 40 if I count manga and books : )

I like it but I like a lot of stuff more

[modest canyon]

Happy for you

[sage remnant]

Don't be

[modest canyon]

Why not 😭

[sage remnant]

Idk. I don't enjoy people coming on randomly attacking on taste without having given me any good convo at all

[modest canyon]

Goro I think we've had a billion convos

And I was joking

[sage remnant]

[modest canyon]

See, you always dish it and can never take it

[sage remnant]

Sure

idrc

Happy for you tho

[modest canyon]

You dont have to, just dont be a sanctimonous salty sally

[sage remnant]

Idk. When someone doesn't get salty most of the time and gets with someone, you could figure out the context

[modest canyon]

Idk. When someone constantly shits on other opinions and cries like a baby receiving shit for their opinion, you can figure out the rest

[sage remnant]

I haven't shit on your opinion tho?

[modest canyon]

LOL

Aight you got it

[sage remnant]

I did on Keater's

Last time when he was here

I just don't remember any convo between us other than like in os and those were years ago

I talk books with Azua regularly so I shit on his and he shit on my taste. Same with plenty others

I don't think I have ever shat on any of your opinion. I don't even have many things I dislike to do that lol

CSM, OP live action, Hero of Ages, Tress, Reckoners, Dresden files

That's the exhaustive list of things I dislike.

[modest canyon]

I just don't remember

I don't think

Therein lies the problem, you have absolutely shat on my opinion for me liking HoA and OPLA

[sage remnant]

I do shit on OPLA but I don't think I have done that to people

lemme check in history once I get to a PC. I gotta be thorough

Currently walking

[modest canyon]

Fine OPLA wasn't as bad as I remember

[spiral quest]

I didnt enjoy OPLA

[modest canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/oaky-okay-ok-meme-typo-oakley-gif-1135585561201001219

[sage remnant]

That's one step done

[spiral quest]

I am not sure why people seem to adore it, but that's how the cookie crumbles

[sage remnant]

I find it to be like a 7/10 show but a 3/10 adaptation

[spiral quest]

I just can't agree, but if ya enjoyed it that's cool

[sage remnant]

I would have liked it if I wasn't a fan of OP already

[modest canyon]

Sabble discovers different tastes today

[spiral quest]

How so?

[near echo]

Season 1s final episode is really bad but it was edited during the writers strike and the director didn't even see the final version until it was too late cuz he was part of it

[sage remnant]

Also Sab haven't had the chance to get update on you since Life lifed

What's the status on your WiP?

[near echo]

I hope S2 is more consistent

[modest canyon]

Agreed

I found it very campy and charming

Could be much better

[spiral quest]

WiP is still working, but I am happy with the progress. I've begun weaving in some Navajo myth inspirations

[spiral quest]

I think I am just not meant for LA adaptations

No matter the set design, the costume work

It all looks like cosplay to me

[modest canyon]

Happy for you, or sorry that happened

[spiral quest]

Thanks friendo

[modest canyon]

LA Death Note is one of the worst things I've ever watched yet I enjoy it

I like to see adaptations

Mostly movies tho

[spiral quest]

I mean I am not gonna say adaptations shouldn't exist

I just think anime adaptations aren't for me

[modest canyon]

Fairs

[spiral quest]

It's great that series gets more recognition and I am glad that of the live action adaptations out there, OP's is seen as good

[modest canyon]

I just think OPLA is likely the only way most of the people in my life will ever consume One Piece

[spiral quest]

Yeah and I can say that's cool as hell

Because it means more OP fans and I am not gonna hate that

I am just super picky on stuff. And it's not just anime, for example the Witcher adaptation irritates me

[modest canyon]

My dad likes Witcher show

I never liked it

[spiral quest]

I can see why people would like it but I love the books and the games, so the show left me really dissatisfied

[modest canyon]

But thats mostly because it very much felt like Andrej's vision for the books come to life simply did not exist lol

They were like

[spiral quest]

No they def did not make that happen

[modest canyon]

"What can make us money"

[spiral quest]

They changed so many things the original stories lose their original meanings and sometimes don't make sense

[modest canyon]

OPLA at least I know they're trying to be faithful to Oda's vision because they consult with Oda all the time

They reshot a lot of S1 scenes bc Oda hated that shit

[spiral quest]

I am curious what the original shoots were like

Wonder if they were like Cowboy Bebop LA bad

[modest canyon]

I highly doubt Oda would make them reshoot it if it was passable

I feel like it was, in fact, CBLA levels of bad originally

[spiral quest]

I really wanna see those originals. Never will but

Man imagine

There's probably peak comedy in there

[modest canyon]

Would be a fun thing to watch as a blooper reel or "forbidden" cut

And they do have a Herculean task

If I was in charge of it and Oda hated it to the point of telling me to reshoot a bunch of stuff I think I would commit seppuku 😭

[spiral quest]

I still think signing up to do a live action of One Piece wasn't the best idea. Even if season 1 was successful they are going to have to do Chopper and shit now

I dont even want to know how Franky is gonna work

[modest canyon]

Chopper actually looks okay

[spiral quest]

I saw some of Chopper. Not bad

They didnt original sonic it

[modest canyon]

Thank god

And got a legitimate voice actress to play him too

[spiral quest]

[modest canyon]

Its the eyes

Always the eyes...

[spiral quest]

So terrible lmao

But yeh Chopper didn't turn out too bad

I hope for good things for people who like OPLA

[modest canyon]

My mom and youngest sister watched s1 with me and said they will watch s2 with me

[spiral quest]

That's what's upp bud

[modest canyon]

Yesssssss

Thats why I will always be on the front lines of the OPLA defense

[spiral quest]

I tried getting my gf to watch both the anime and LA. She didnt like either lmao

[modest canyon]

Oh I forced my gf to read the colored manga

Only way I could get her to do it

[spiral quest]

I tried everything, just nothing clicked

Her favorite manga ever is Tokyo Ghoul

She hates the anime tho