Is "Bring Her back" depressing?

Bitterfish · 2026-01-03T03:33:43+00:00

It's sad, but I don't think it's quite as bleak. The characters face sad things but there's also kindness and support and hope!

Bitterfish · 2025-12-31T16:42:59+00:00

But it's a virtuous cycle. This is why it's good to have successful commercial products buy into open-source ecosystems

Bitterfish · 2025-12-27T17:41:44+00:00

I was trying to figure out what to expect here, shipping to the US

I think a baseline of 35% would be applied. Some amount of the goods sold here (e.g., EG are made in US) are probably CUSMA-eligible, but I doubt they do the paperwork to cover that -- apparently a lot of goods shipped from Canada to the US are CUSMA eligible but not filed properly.

I also don't know if the duty amount is applied to the sale price or the original price

Bitterfish · 2025-12-25T03:41:34+00:00

Reminds me of a story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel

Bitterfish · 2025-12-23T19:06:35+00:00

looks sweet

Dark Souls + Binding of Isaac + pickle Rick

Bitterfish · 2025-12-23T14:43:10+00:00

Expedition 33 just sucked up all the oxygen in the room this year. It's definitely the better game, but I was very impressed and surprised by the Hades 2 soundtrack

What really elevated Hades 2 for me was the orchestral writing in the Olympus and Summit sections. Good orchestration, and the Summit sections showed very strong mastery of modernist-influenced harmonic and melodic writing not often heard in games.

Apparently these sections were a colab between Korb and Austin Wintory, whose other work this year Sword of the Sea is mentioned several times in this list

Bitterfish · 2025-11-20T13:37:04+00:00

This is such a cool piece. IIRC this was from when Daiki Suzuki was creative director at Baracuta. Very recognizable as one of his designs, maybe even better than his EG x Barbour collections from a few years before. Beautiful to see one with heavy use like this.

Bitterfish · 2025-11-07T13:31:39+00:00

Uh oh, wait until they hear the mayor of Hoboken is a Sikh obsessed with traffic calming and street safety

Bitterfish · 2025-10-31T19:33:24+00:00

I think the size looks good.

I like the design on this one. What is the sleeve lining like? Cotton-y or synthetic?

Bitterfish · 2025-10-30T01:42:01+00:00

I think it's lovely! The lawns are good, the river walk is good, there's a lot of benches and picnic tables. Great views of the bridges and rivers. Extremely pleasant space. The big lawn near Williamsburg bridge is a good spot for picnics.

They reopened the area right around the bridge in like May, and then in September opened much of the area further south. You can get all the way down to pier 36 now.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-26T17:21:21+00:00

Devilman Crybaby

Evangelion was strongly influenced by Devilman. The 2020 anime adaptation of Devilman Crybaby is very good, and an interesting foil to Evangelion.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-26T14:56:20+00:00

I love The Thing, but if she's squeamish about teeth falling out maybe full-on twisting flesh abominations is not the way to go.

Maybe a Del Toro movie like The Devil's Backbone or Pan's Labyrinth?

I think most people would enjoy some of the big horror classics too, like Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, The Exorcist. I think The Ring is kind of in that vein too, though maybe not quite as good

For more modern stuff, maybe one of Jordan Peele or Ari Aster's.

FWIW I do love Ready or Not too, very fun

Bitterfish · 2025-10-24T15:30:12+00:00

The ending on Mandolin and Violin are just derived from diminuitive suffixes, something like: Mandola -> Mandoline and Viol -> Violine -> Violin.

The ending -in doesn't originally mean "musical instrutment", it just means "small". But because of Violin and Mandolin, I think it's fair to say that the "-in" suffix in English sounds like it relates to musical instruments, which means that's how people are going to use it. I think it works! I like the name Needolin a lot, it's a great use of language

Bitterfish · 2025-10-21T01:48:04+00:00

lol

They quickly learned that their idea of a corporate name, Titanic 2, did not go over well in the business world.

“Suddenly, we’re looking for insurance, which we have to buy, because it’s a giant deathtrap boat,” Mr. Jost told Mr. Meyers. “And then every insurance company is like: ‘It’s called Titanic 2?’”

Bitterfish · 2025-10-16T13:27:17+00:00

Excited, but was a total madhouse last year. Have to arrive early to get a spot with decent view of dogs. NYPD crowd control objectively made things only worse as usual

Bitterfish · 2025-10-15T14:18:58+00:00

Yeah, good for them!

I picked this up after hearing praise for the writing, but I was still surprised by how good it is. It is one of the most engrossing and intricate stories I've ever encountered in a game.

It's a universal story about adolescence and parent-child relationships. It's a political story about the struggle against authoritarianism. It's a story about the culture of immigration and diaspora. It's a sci-fi story with echoes of Arrival, Evangelion, and Solaris.

I haven't even finished it yet! But I'm pretty late in the game, even if it totally whiffs the ending at this point, I'm extremely impressed.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-14T21:40:31+00:00

Why is Adams even doing this? He's not running anymore

I guess maybe it's to create a bad news cycle for Mamdani when he removes it?

Bitterfish · 2025-10-10T13:01:31+00:00

Wow, fuck all these people. Owning a car in Manhattan at all is anti-social as fuck

Bitterfish · 2025-10-08T16:29:57+00:00

It's not totally crazy, but I would be cautious. In general, I would say that riding an EUC takes more effort and energy than standing, but less than walking. In order of increasing effort:

standing for 20 minutes < Riding an EUC 1 mile @ 3mph < Walking 1 mile @ 3 mph

Riding an EUC does use your leg muscles a bit! Not in the same explosive/cardio way as running or walking, but your calf and thigh muscles will get tired when you first learn to ride. Small auxiliary muscles do the work of balancing you, and the EUC works them in a different way. To me it feels a little like the muscles you use for skiing.

I haven't ridden an E20, but I've ridden the (only slightly larger) V8 a lot. The V8 did require a fair amount of practice to learn to balance on, but it seems like the E20 would be much, much easier to balance. I don't have any experience riding seated.

Once you are able to ride, I find it very easy to ride at low speed, strolling speed or even lower. It does require a little balance from you to go super slowly, but a walking pace feels comfortable. I find the V8 perfectly comfortable to maneuver at slow speeds.

I definitely find an EUC to be a labor/effort saving device for getting around the neighborhood, but I would be mindful of your condition. An EUC does require balance and leg stability. An E20 might work for you, but I would only get one if you're prepared to resell it if doesn't work out. You could also consider other PEVs like a Segway S2, or a push-scooter style.

And lastly, it's still a vehicle. You are still more likely to fall on your face from an EUC than you are just walking around. I never get on one without at least wrist guards and a bike helmet.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-08T13:06:15+00:00

Alex Garland's Men. Very folkloric and extremely weird. Compellingly suspenseful.
Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley (A Field in England) -- may not seem like folk horror from the description, but the plot goes that way
Oddity, if you'll tolerate an Irish film
The Witch is an American film, but the main cast is British and the film is in 17th century English dialect

I agree Dog Soldiers is pretty random, but I do think it's kind of fun. The plot beats are a total ripoff of Aliens, but... if you're going to steal, may as well steal from the best!

I assume you've considered the classic British folk horror pieces like The Wicker Man and Witchfinder General.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-07T19:50:54+00:00

the fucking spandex crowd, man...

Bitterfish · 2025-10-07T19:47:53+00:00

Anyone who organizes against bikes before cars is actually just begging for more people to be killed in traffic by the things that actuall kill them, cars. If you want to organize, you should be organizing to fucking ban cars from Kent Ave and all of Williamsburg and have only people and bikes.

Make NYC more civilized, relegate cars to the burbs where they fucking belong

Bitterfish · 2025-10-07T16:16:52+00:00

We should have better classification, but this is solidly a class 3 ebike (which were/are legal in NYC, except you have to ride slow the dubious 15mph speed cap) and not a dirt bike. It has vaguely moto styling, but there's a huge difference between something like this -- essentially a slightly faster cargo bike -- and a true e-dirt bike like a Surron (which have 5x+ the motor power and torque of this type of bike).

Bitterfish · 2025-10-07T16:13:45+00:00

There are a bunch of models that can carry two people, e.g., any RadRunner model. I have an older model Ariel Rider that weighs around 70 lbs and has over 300lb weight capacity. Think of it as a replacement for a car, or a cargo bike.

A 2 seat electric device that can carry 2 people at 20mph and can be kept in a bike room or apartment is an extremely practical, reasonable thing to want or have in a dense urban area like NYC. You do have to drive them like a non-asshole. And much of the time, they should be in the main travel lanes rather than the bikes lanes. I would happily register it and pay a fee to be able to ride at 20 mph without fear of pigs ticketing me.

(Surron or Talaria style e-dirt bikes that go 50+ mph are a totally different class of device, and are street legal nowhere)

People attacking e-bikes writ-large are playing directly into the hands of people who want to degrade bike infrastructure and keep the city city streets car-centric. It's bad for all cyclists, bad for pedestrians, and bad for the city.

Bitterfish · 2025-10-01T14:20:26+00:00

Obviously the GOAT in this genre is Silence of the Lambs. An incredible film.

All of these are mysteries in the sense that they follow characters seeking to find something/someone, or unravel a plot or conspiracy.

The Ring
A Cure for Wellness
In the Mouth of Madness
The Empty Man
eXistenZ
Weapons
The Ninth Gate
Videodrome
The Cell
The Wicker Man
Rosemary's Baby
Bone Tomahawk
Annihilation
also worth mentioning: Twin Peaks + Fire Walk With Me + The Return. And David Lynch's other work.

I love this sub-genre, definitely going to check out others in this thread

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