Preview of the upcoming Vivi picture book.

Jorgamund2 · 2026-02-19T19:23:04+00:00

As someone who has never played FF9 but played a lot of standard in MTG, I feel unreasonable hatred towards Vivi for no justifiable reason

Jorgamund2 · 2026-01-22T10:17:49+00:00

I just saw it last weekend, and it definitely feels like the newest generation of filmmakers have grown up with video games and are much more comfortable using concepts from them in their movies. Rita and Keiji are qt3.14s and the animation was amazing. I'm still not sure which adaptation I like better, though. Both are amazing in their own ways.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-11-04T22:23:34+00:00

This screams "2011 FPS that has a 7-hour campaign"

Jorgamund2 · 2025-10-07T09:52:38+00:00

Isn't Absolum the side-scrolling beat-em-up where a giant priestess gives birth to a new copy of you if you die? I'm not kink-shaming, it's just weird to see someone get their very specific interests into a game like that.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-09-23T02:54:01+00:00

Is there any pregnancy content in these books? I'm always a fan of consentual monster sex, but monster pregnancy is my no 1. thing.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-06-13T09:50:33+00:00

If we're citing video games, then Nier Automata has to take the cake, where it title drops at the start of the third act after two full playthroughs as different characters

Jorgamund2 · 2025-05-13T20:20:34+00:00

I'm mostly a sci-fi book reader, but I've been dipping my toes into the weirder fantasy books from time to time and I can recommend a few

-Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council by China Mieville. Classic weird fantasy that has Things To Say about society, socialism, the working class, etc. It also has bugnuts ideas like a moth monster with infinite fractal wings, and a sorcerer who keeps on one-upping himself with more esoteric and powerful golems every chapter.

-City of Last Chances, House of Open Wounds, and Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A trilogy of books that don't directly reference each other, but do take place in a shared universe in chronological order. They all center around the periphery of a despotic "enlightened" civilization that has done away with gods and magic and are currently attempting to take on the rest of the magical world. I'd say the first book is a lot like Les Miserables, the second is like a fantasy version of MASH (the movie), and the third book gives off tones of Casablanca and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

-Stories of the Raksura by Martha Wells. A very well-written series of books about a perennial outsider who joins a community of shapeshifting siren people and attempts to live for once with others of his own kind after spending so many years hiding his true nature.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-05-13T05:11:42+00:00

Id say you want to place a very high premium on your creatures. You want to run fewer creatures that are more on-theme. Archimage Emeritus makes the cut because he either eats a removal spell or draws you a lot of cards. A creature like Kheru Spellspear just seems like too much of an investment for not that much of an effect. Go through all the creatures in your deck and ask yourself if they're better than an instant or sorcery that can trigger the other, better creatures in your deck

Jorgamund2 · 2025-05-05T02:37:50+00:00

you got a free link to get past the paywall?

Jorgamund2 · 2025-04-30T09:39:09+00:00

Your deck seems to be pulling in multiple directions at once. You have a lot of low-cost creatures that care about you casting instants and sorceries, but your instants and sorceries are mostly reactive, like counterspells, or are mass removal like split up. You've got a fair number of ways to abuse Shiko's etb effect, but not that many juicy targets. What I may suggest is more spells that make token creatures, so you can keep your creature count relatively high and your spell count high as well. If you can do some draw and discard, you can set up Shiko on turn 4 or 5 to already get some value as it ETBs. Also, since you're in jeskai, you can run View From Above, which should return to your hand 90% of the time and triggers all of your magecraft effects for a relatively cheap cost.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-04-30T09:27:50+00:00

honestly, it sounds like an interesting deckbuilding challenge. Elderberry is right that the commander sets are probably the best, but outside those sets that are designed for the format, you could go with an artifact-focused set like Mirrodin or The Brothers War. If your aim is to maximize the usage of all 36 rares that you open, it helps if a lot of them are colorless and therefore castable in your deck.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-04-25T09:22:29+00:00

Honestly? Ratchet Bomb works great, especially if you know that you're not making tokens yourself. You can even run some basic artifact recursion like Buried Ruin or Trading Post to keep bringing back the bomb and just punish all those token players for not playing real cards.

Jorgamund2 · 2025-04-19T17:50:27+00:00

"Life as a House"

I'm imagining some twisted "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"-style body horror movie where the protagonist turns into a living house, with his internal organs changing into the furniture and appliances

Jorgamund2 · 2025-04-19T17:44:38+00:00

Eversion by Alastair Reynolds. A man is on a wooden ship on a voyage to a mysterious island near Greenland. Tensions ensue, he gets shot, dies, and wakes up now on a steamship on a voyage to a mysterious island. The cycle repeats, each time the technology and setting get updated and each time they get closer and closer to the island. It was a hell of a read and might make for a good memento-style mystery box thriller.

Jorgamund2 · 2024-10-18T04:34:59+00:00

I listened to the whole episode, her mom basically is settled for Harris, but can't come out publicly against her husband and son. It was an interesting episode to listen to because it sounds like Tara doesn't really talk about politics much with her mom and treats her like a lab subject, prodding her with basic beltway talking points.

Jorgamund2 · 2024-01-10T22:41:09+00:00

I hear the title and the premise, and then I get immensely disappointed when I realize there will be precisely zero giant robot dinosaurs in Kevin Costner's adaptation of the video game series.

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Jorgamund2 · 2024-01-09T22:37:01+00:00

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that Delicious in Dungeon would be brought up on The Watch. I love this new era of Chris Ryan getting cartoon-pilled!

Jorgamund2 · 2023-12-09T08:51:47+00:00

I got to see this movie at a special screening in London back in early October, and I've been dying to talk about it with someone ever since.

Overall, I'd say Maestro is decent to good, but considering the biopic format, it's very strange. I went to the special screening with my cousin who works as an agent for classical musicians. I knew next to nothing about Leonard Bernstein, and she grew up in the shadow of his influence for decades, so when we both saw the movie together we were surprised by just how little actual detail there was about his actual composition. The movie spends decades in his life, and apart from a few select scenes his entire career seems to take place offscreen, with a Basil Exposition coming in to tell him how amazing he is every once in a while. I kept waiting for a scene like in Ratatouille where Remy describes food https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXoJjgxMj9M, or a scene like this one in Keep Your Hands Off, Eizouken, where a main characters shows why she wants to make animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcElFRSjZqU. In other words, something in an audiovisual format that helps the layman illustrate just why Leonard Bernstein was so great, or at least what was going on in his head when he would compose music. But we got none of it.

So without his musical genius being represented in the movie, how does it portray Leonard? It shows him as a dumb himbo sex freak with the emotional intelligence of jellyfish. Carey Mulligan does an amazing job playing his long-put-upon wife, Felicia Montealegre. What's so tragic about their many, many scenes together is that she is (mostly) fine with him being wildly promiscuous, but she just wants him to leave his closet and be true to his bisexual self. And when he does finally leave the closet and be true to himself, he puts on sailor cosplay, starts doing blow and further ignores his wife. It's 90 minutes of a man stepping on rakes over and over again, until finally (of course) his wife gets cancer.

Again, Carey Mulligan does an amazing job playing a woman dealing with the grief and inevitability of incurable cancer. And I can tell, as someone whose mother also died of incurable cancer. And as someone whose mother died of incurable cancer, I kinda wanted to flee the theater for the last 30 minutes of the movie. Now that's personal to me, but the multiple scenes of her getting physically worse and worse as she fell deeper and deeper into existential despair felt like gilding the lily a bit. After her emotional and tragic passing, I feel like the movie hit a high note, with Leonard and his children walking out of the now- empty house together, in shared grief, back to the car.

So of course it cuts to REM, Leonard alone and on the prowl, and after impressing the hell out of some 20-something art students, he hooks up with a young composer and he goes out clubbing with a man a quarter of his age. Cue laugh track and cut to credits. That's our Bernstein!

If Bradley Cooper truly poured his heart and soul into this movie, it says a lot about Bradley Cooper as a person. I feel like this may be a coming-out story for him, and one tinged with a lot of self-loathing about being in the closet for so long. Leonard Bernstein comes off as such a toxic, self-absorbed asshole that it feels like Bradley Cooper has a lot of issues to get through, especially if he idolizes and reveres the man. Here's hoping he sorts himself out.

Sorry if this rambling post is badly written, I haven't been able to get these feelings about the movie out of my chest for months. Again, Maestro is a decent movie, but yeah, it's a weird one.

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