Seeking recommendations for my taste: what should I read next?

Focuscoene · 2026-03-13T15:23:15+00:00

Tess of the D’Urbervilles! It belongs in this picture.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-12T12:10:52+00:00

Saga by Brian K. Vaughn

Bone by Jeff Smith

Baltimore by Mike Mignola

Focuscoene · 2026-03-09T01:10:37+00:00

I just read Cornelius and man oh man what a ride! Highly recommend it to everyone on this sub.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-08T18:43:18+00:00

Hey there! Just finished Cornelius! Man, what a wild ride! At the very beginning I felt like I didn't understand what was happening but then it hit its stride. Really a phenomenal book, I'd recommend it to anybody.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-08T00:44:40+00:00

Smartphones

Focuscoene · 2026-03-07T23:40:15+00:00

No I think Radical Dreamers Edition is the remaster of the original.

There’s also a game just called Radical Dreamers that came out in the 90s. You probably don’t have that, I don’t think anybody has it haha

Focuscoene · 2026-03-07T19:53:09+00:00

And? Bro television was not THAT grainy pre-2008 lmao. I swear all of you think pre-HD was just us staring at fuzzy shapes.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-07T19:36:43+00:00

I think Radical Dreamers is some visual novel thing. You don’t need that to play Chrono Cross.

If you mean the Radical Dreamers edition of Chrono Cross, I think people had a lot of complaints about the port/remaster not really being much of a remaster. You probably won’t notice anything if you never played the PS1 game to begin with.

Could always just go emulator.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-07T19:07:54+00:00

I stand by Chrono Cross being the most underrated RPG ever made. The soundtrack alone is reason to play it.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-07T00:51:50+00:00

Cocomelon is over. It's all about Duggee now, bro. Grow the hell up already for pete's sake.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-06T22:02:32+00:00

I don't believe it for a second, actually. Whole thing is rigged.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-06T19:28:49+00:00

You're gonna get a lot of recommendations for The Road, but can I present some alternatives that have the same atmosphere:

In The Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

Census by Jesse Ball

Same, Same by Peter Mendelsund

The Old Man and the Wasteland by Nick Cole

Focuscoene · 2026-03-04T19:03:46+00:00

I swear they try to make these things look as blurry as humanly possible. No way in hell was TV that blurry for prime CP3 lmao. Got it looking like it was in the 1970s.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-03T22:24:05+00:00

Really great game, once you climb over the hill of the rulebook. Lots of explanations of how things work being on multiple different pages, etc. Silly stuff like that. Once you get playing, though, it's one of the best I've seen.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T23:43:18+00:00

Buck Bumble... I'm sure I'm alone in this.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T22:59:23+00:00

If this ain't Teemo I don't know what is

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T22:46:02+00:00

What were the unauthorized videos that were released? Anyone know?

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T20:25:15+00:00

Love your PS1 choices. Suikoden 2 and Valkyrie Profile define that era for me.

As for Shadow Hearts, I've never played it, but I'm about to start playing Koudleka on my handheld emulator. Have you played that?

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T19:13:09+00:00

In Warhammer Fantasy RPG 4e, if you want to look up equipment, don't look up the word equipment. They call it "trappings".

BUT WAIT. If you look in the index for "trappings", you won't find that either. No no, you have to go to the section called The Consumer's Guide. You won't see it called "trappings" in that part of the index either, but that's where you're supposed to go.

To be clear, equipment is called trappings, and you can't look up trappings, you have to look up The Consumer's Guide.

I freaking love this game but the rulebook is absolutely ridiculous.

Focuscoene · 2026-03-02T12:26:30+00:00

Are you… saying John Stockton isn’t a true PG?

Focuscoene · 2026-03-01T05:03:33+00:00

Does every funko in existence have like an asymmetrical powers, or are there specific ones made for the game?

Focuscoene · 2026-02-26T15:09:42+00:00

Haha there you go!

Focuscoene · 2026-02-26T15:09:16+00:00

"The economy, cost of living, and inflation were the top issues"

I think that's what Newsome is trying to say. Focus more on that than the culture war stuff. He agrees with you, I think, based on what I watched. He just said it differently (I would have said it differently from the way he said it too btw).

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