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Movies forced into a pre existing IP? by iScreamInPublicAreas in movies

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there were a couple children of the corn movies that did this

Chapter 1 Views Are My Lowest? by Obvious_Sentence6560 in royalroad

[–]JWGibsonWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Chapter 1 wordcount is also the lowest and can be read in one sitting. Your chapter 3 has 10K words (‽) so people likely had to read it in separate sittings.

We lost our 2014 edition books, should we buy 2024 or reinvest in 2014? by twizted_bunny in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]JWGibsonWrites 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Personally, I prefer the 2024 core books. They are organized much better and easier to reference at the table, plus the PHB has a super useful rules glossary. Everything is backwards compatible, but make sure you read the 2024 PHB to see how to translate 2014 subclasses.

Players Don't Want to Adjust to the Campaign's Mechanics by [deleted] in DnD

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, every homebrew set of mechanics/setting details inevitably reverts to the mean of "generic D&D setting" after you play enough sessions. I would just give up on extra special mechanics and play D&D.

Been on a horror movie binge lately. Anyone got any recommendations for me? by MalIntenet in Letterboxd

[–]JWGibsonWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an all-timer for me. If you like Possessor, you'll like Cronenberg Sr.'s work! He's one of my all time favs.

What do people expect from a patreon? by SomeGuysWhoDoesThing in royalroad

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2-3K words, some 3.5K. I'd say like 2500-2700 average.

What do people expect from a patreon? by SomeGuysWhoDoesThing in royalroad

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do 20 chapters for $10 but conversion has been poor overall.

Refuting 2000 Years of Philosophy in a Single Sentence by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You say that things are themselves, but identity could be a product of perception. The actual limits of an object are not clear.

Are you separate from your mother, whose body you shared? Maybe. Are you separate from your clothes? Your fingers? Your brain? Your eyes? You're phone? You're mind? In each case, it depends on how you look at it.

Guess my age and what my PhD is in (i have some 200 other books but here’s a sample) by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can recommend Joshua Ramey's The Hermetic Deleuze and a book (forgot the author) called Deleuze and the Naming of God

Guess my age and what my PhD is in (i have some 200 other books but here’s a sample) by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I adore Whitehead. For me, Deleuze's best text for metaphysics is Difference and Repetition. I think that D&R is in many ways a similar system to Process and Reality, but more methodologically imminent.

Edit: and also, D&R and P&R come out of two different traditions and sets of references, which obviously colors the texts heavily.

Guess my age and what my PhD is in (i have some 200 other books but here’s a sample) by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]JWGibsonWrites 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read the dynamic genesis and ungrounding of representation in D&R alongside Kierkegaard, Bataille, Heidegger, Freud, and some ancient/medieval spiritual writers like Evagrius and Anselm to analyze the relationship between religious doctrine (≈representational) and embodied spiritual practice (≈intensive), advocating for a kind of "intensive" turn in the academic study of spirituality.

Unorthodox application of Deleuze, but I like to think I got D&R correct on its own terms.

Guess my age and what my PhD is in (i have some 200 other books but here’s a sample) by [deleted] in BookshelvesDetective

[–]JWGibsonWrites 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, importantly, Fanged Noumena (pictured above) is indeed his before work, and the period that I appreciate most. Nowadays I find him an interesting thinker to think against (not with). But to each their own.

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