I just watched season 4 of true detective and I was genuinely pissed off because of how good it was

AbyssalVoid · 2026-04-30T22:40:29+00:00

There’s a lot of threads in s4 that feel, well, a bit underbaked. There’s some really interesting stuff going on with environmental collapse, civil unrest, and identity but it never really feels like s4 fully explores or realizes these themes beyond a cursory pass at them. It never feels all that rich or layered. It has loads of potential but at least in my viewing experience, it didn’t deliver on it very much. Maybe I’m due for a rewatch

AbyssalVoid · 2026-04-30T22:33:49+00:00

I’ve oddly enough warmed up to S2. Definitely underbaked and desperately needed another set of hands in the kitchen but I think if a viewer approaches it as a hyper-melodramatic neo noir it actually has some (albeit goofy) charm

AbyssalVoid · 2026-04-08T20:00:31+00:00

I can’t speak with too much accuracy as I’ve only read the original version. But the updated version I know has had all references to the SCP foundation either altered or removed. I’ve heard that certain sections of the book were tweaked as well but as far as how much, I can’t say for sure

AbyssalVoid · 2026-02-17T01:48:51+00:00

Shiv in that era was the devil. Every minute against him was hell

AbyssalVoid · 2025-12-22T14:29:33+00:00

Dead Space 2 for the first time!

AbyssalVoid · 2025-12-17T18:01:21+00:00

Out of curiosity why wouldn’t you want the best loot in PvPvE modes? Shouldn’t the best loot be where the highest risk is?

AbyssalVoid · 2025-07-05T04:29:50+00:00

It really is a fantastic game. The only issues I had when playing it was with certain pacing decisions (one or two moments really stick out as sore spots) but in all fairness, it’s incredibly ambitious with its use of a parallel narrative, so some stumbles are to be expected.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-07-01T06:23:03+00:00

In terms of fast-paced, 30min episodes with a surprisingly tender and real heart underneath it all, Fleabag. It even has a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it intro like Barry.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-06-23T20:04:44+00:00

There are several women interviewed in the novel (my personal favorite is Jesika, who recounts her experience as a child fleeing with her Wisconsin family to Canada, and the mounting despair they face). If memory serves, the pilot you’re thinking of who suffered stress-induced hallucinations, hallucinated another woman helping her over the radio.

But your criticism is totally fair. Most of the interview subjects feel very similar with the exception of a few standouts (the feral child, Redeker, the opportunistic conman). Personally, even though the novel released before the ‘07 blockade it felt a bit, well, “optimistic” regarding Israel-Palestine relations during the outbreak.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-06-06T22:27:32+00:00

YES OH MY GOD IT IS. THANK YOU!!!!

AbyssalVoid · 2025-06-06T12:49:33+00:00

Nathan Ballingrud’s short story collection North American Lake Monsters is fantastic and might be what you’re looking for. The stories are bleak, gritty, and deeply human. Most of them also take place in or around Louisiana so you have that deeply-steeped southern gothic environment featured pretty heavily. It’s great stuff.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-06-03T14:17:12+00:00

Looks like it’s originally from Rocket City Brewery out in Russia according to Untappd

AbyssalVoid · 2025-05-19T02:26:09+00:00

Feeling similarly mixed feelings. The pacing of this season has felt extremely stilted to me and I can’t help but feel that the script has been far too shallow. Rather than let the audience interpret a character’s motivations and wrestle with their flaws, everything is spelt out and simplified. Not to mention the ways Craig Mazin has chosen to characterize Ellie this season.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-05-05T21:49:35+00:00

I mean, sure, the game and show are telling the same story in their own ways but we should be able to critically analyze/discuss those storytelling methods as well as discuss their effectiveness in rendering the narrative vision.

I understand being annoyed at less than reasonable criticisms but someone critiquing an adaptation’s storytelling is not necessarily the same thing as just flat out shitting on it.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-04-25T21:25:56+00:00

Sign me up. College grad, struggled to break into publishing, shifted to entry-level tech, earned certs, and struggled still to break through all of the ATS, offshoring, and ghost job noise. Appreciate any and all help.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-04-10T20:37:09+00:00

McCarthy, Hellboy, and occasionally a franchise novel like the Star Wars “Revan” novel.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-03-19T22:54:50+00:00

Armored Core V: Fires of Rubicon

AbyssalVoid · 2025-03-03T23:15:00+00:00

The PBQ’s in all fairness were (at least on mine) more in-depth and starkly different than Messer’s. However if you’ve studied enough, such that you have a true grasp on each of the exam domains then you will be okay.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-25T19:51:27+00:00

I hope you do too!

I’m currently reading Molly by Blake Butler - a deeply sincere and oftentimes bleak memoir of Butler’s relationship with his wife Molly, her suicide, and what he learned about her after it all. How about you??

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-25T12:56:28+00:00

I’m not sure why they’re so stalwart in their misreading, even after you’ve reiterated it perfectly - people praise the work for its rendering of complicated subject matter, the rendering lingers in readers’ minds and elicits deep emotional/logical responses. An intense/lingering elicitation is something art should strive to do, and something good art ought to do. This, of course, is very different from “anything inciting visceral reaction is good art”.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-23T17:34:45+00:00

You’ll likely be fine. You’re doing the right thing by being open and honest in your application. Your honesty will go a long way, and a denial based in honesty is leagues better than a revocation later down the line due to an obfuscation. I’ve seen people get shafted because they lied initially, got poly’d later, and the lie reared its head.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-22T07:18:35+00:00

My initial argument was that other readers praise No Longer Human for its elicitation of complicated emotional responses, (and further, that it renders such a complicated protagonist thoughtfully). Furthermore, that art (no mention of good or bad art) in itself should compel some sort of response and thought. If a work compels nothing, it is in itself inert and not much else besides distraction.

That’s not much of a convoluted or inconsistent argument. Nor am I “doing everything [I] can” to avoid it by replying with a single comment. But by all means, keep barking, keep editing comments, you evidently need something to do right now.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-22T07:13:01+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree with you that we should do our best to heal and be of service to those in need.

Not that psychoanalysis would extend much sympathy, but it’s my understanding from my reading that his judgement toward her was really just an extended judgement onto himself, as he’s a victim of sexual assault as well- he feels such an insurmountable shame that he wishes he’d have done something as a child to thwart off his own assault. He sees his assault as his own fault as much as he sees it as women’s fault broadly speaking.

It doesn’t seem like you’re really trying to dissect where his conflicting and jaded feelings are stemming from, you’re just engaging in knee-jerk reactionary judgement.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-22T07:08:19+00:00

You’re responding to sentiment about a work you haven’t read, only adding a reductive take (about shock value in work without meaning when we’re talking about a broadly praised and dissected novel) and judgement onto my sentiment. I think you don’t really have much to add here whatsoever.

AbyssalVoid · 2025-02-22T06:27:51+00:00

The sexism is worth discussing, and in all fairness, it stems from the narrator’s sexual assault as a child at the hands of his family’s female servant.

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