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It is very aww.
I read New Ways to Die, but there's a lot of comic between that and now. I've been meaning to ask for recmomendations on the highlights over that period of time so I don't have to read every single issue to catch up.
I think I might've made a bad first impression on my Intro to Economics professor...
Start with Big Time (#648) and catch up from there. It should be easy, until you get to Spider Island and want to read all the tie-ins because really they were all great.
But don't. Just read the Spider-Man stuff and then check out the other stuff if you really want to. Best recs would be Cloak and Dagger and Shang-Chi being fuckawesome.
ETA: Honestly, rereading your rec, I can't think of anything really skippable. Slott's run is seriously incredibly consistent in awesomeness.
Can't say I've ever gotten past the world-building phase, but I've thought up power-fantasy characters, later toned down by boosting the challenges they face/creating situations in which their views actually get challenged.
^^I'll start with Big Time and once I get caught up from there, I'll jump back to right after New Ways to Die and fill in the gaps.
re 4chan and @Eelektross:
The problem with trying to start a thoughtful discussion is that you can't count on starting a thoughtful discussion in a place that encourages very quick "my first thoughts on the topic" answers.
Sometimes, thoughtful discussions arise--especially when people are building up a new idea piece by piece--but asking people to evaluate something is probably less likely to produce a fruitful discussion.
There's been a mass shooting and hostage situation at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. (Live stream)
no song has the right to be as fun to listen as princes of the universe seriously.
^^ Oh gosh, not another one.
The saddest part of this is that I have to say "another one".
That's pretty tragic.
is this what it means to be an astronaut, ijbm?
An intelligent game for intelligent people, indeed.
too damn hot.
↓ aeiou
Snake. Snake. snaaaaaaaaaaaaa key
Holla holla get pound
press space in space to leap through space
In the year 2020 no one gave a shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
john madden
john madden
football
dickbutt
(I don't know what's going on.)
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i did it
you did it
did it
ehbay
>Bane being white was just eugh
Bane's actually white. He was just locked in a South American prison as a child.
Which isn't to say whitewashing isn't a problem of course.
But looks at Damien in the comics. He's quarter-egyptian, quarter-chinese and he's always drawn pasty.
Also, I love Bane's voice so much. It is like putting every Bond villain's voice in a blender.
It's pretty racist in itself to assume latinos can't be white.
whatinos
wait no that's just "riddle" in mexican
i stayed back an extra like
two hours
at work experience today
woo
it's funny. i actually like working there, i don't mind staying longer than i have to.
That's good to hear.
And just... so many of the people who regularly use the library are pleasant, and there are next to no unpleasant people there. You get a few taciturn, grumpy people who refuse to smile, but they never snap at you or anything even if you fumble around a lot and don't know what to do, and most of the people are quite happy to smile at you and just chat about whatever as you scan their books.
It helps that a lot of the people who regularly come to the library come regularly- like, several hours a day, most days of the week. It seems like a lot of old people come in because it's quiet, not as boring as sitting at home alone, and isn't so lonely.
That, and I actually have co-workers who are nice and talk to me. woooo
I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like fantasy in general, not to say I hate it but I've never seen the point of it. When I try to rationalize this dislike, my brain tells me it's because I have no interest in a world that doesn't exist or in the bizarre instance where it does, I will never visit it. I understand the appeal of epic tales in worlds that don't exist, but I can't get into it like my friends and you guys can.
Personally, I'm more of a scifi/mecha fan, or stuff in the future. Sure there are elements of fantasy in it like adventure and fantastic plot devices, but I like it when they try to explain it using semi-realistic science terminology.
>Convince ninjaclown to watch RaXephon, y/n?
Well, think of it like this: A good story is still a good story, no matter the trappings or genre. You can still like the character interaction, the way the trappings of it develop, that kind of thing.
By that token, fantasy is explained via semi-realistic history terminology (in theory). The major difference between fantasy and sci-fi is that the former more or less admits that it's fantasy. A lot of sci-fi tech is pretty much just magic, but handwaved by the explanation of futuristic technology, whether it's halfway possible or not. So fantasy generally errs towards spiritualism, theming itself around visceral human experience in ways that science is incapable of touching. A lot of sci-fi, especially traditional sci-fi, expresses its themes via its strange technologies and bizarre futures; 1984 is the perfect example, asking "what if surveillance technology was widespread enough to keep check on everyone, all the time?". Or, more lately, Moon, which poses questions about identity and ownership in a world where genetic manipulation is not only possible, but seemingly easy.
But if you look past that, fantasy and sci-fi are fundamentally the same. Both of them, in essence, ask us how we deal with what we don't understand or can't grasp. It could be a dystopian vision of the future or a reflection on a feudal past, where science can't explain all the strange things that happen. It's just that sci-fi falls on the side of analysing social and technological changes while fantasy errs towards spiritual reflection.
"Science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable." - Rod Sterling
Counterpoint.
Anyways, I saw Madass Alex coming. But am I the only one here who casts himself as a wizard?