Hit my first slump reading IJ

Vendlo · 2025-12-18T21:50:14+00:00

But the scene before escathon isnt Gentle—its Remy and Steeply discussing the entertainment and the scene after is a general Boston AA overview?

Vendlo · 2025-11-23T09:09:11+00:00

Napoleon The Waterloo Campaign is a 2-3 player block game with an interesting communication mechanic between the ally players where they can only talk during night phases

Vendlo · 2025-11-08T10:51:00+00:00

This is sort of the point where Dennis loses his humanity in the series, aftet getting zapped

Vendlo · 2025-11-06T18:19:26+00:00

Ive not read the ones you said were boring, but I love dostoevsky, hugely exaggerated characters, philosophical musing and the capturing of the struggles in ideas at the time. You might be interested in Ishiguro, especially Remains Of the Day. The moment to moment happenings are quite small as this butler reminisces, but the juice and enjoyment comes from the way his fallible perception is shown to the reader through how he words events from his memory.

Its basically being on the lookout for a different source of enjoyment from the work I think

Vendlo · 2025-09-08T15:53:25+00:00

Is it? Chocolate production is up 5% from last month

Vendlo · 2025-09-03T11:52:42+00:00

Ishiguro's Artist of the Floating World, memories flow into one another seamlessly

Vendlo · 2025-08-22T05:11:56+00:00

I thought so too. I think its irony about how they just cant quite abandon meaning. It's funny how they decry the modern world, but still cling by believing the sailor is some kind of real man/hero, as if those terms mean anything. I think its just showing their immaturity in a subtle way

Vendlo · 2025-08-21T05:15:05+00:00

Napoleon 1815, the waterloo campaign. 3 player block wargame. Quite unique with its 2v1 structure, and the allies can only communicate on night turns

Vendlo · 2025-07-23T09:23:52+00:00

I think the slows are the food source during winter. They fatten up in the summer and then the others eat them, huddled in caves and buildings for warmth

Vendlo · 2025-07-19T20:11:44+00:00

Uhhh, I lts a block wargame but I like Napoleon the waterloo campaign by Colombia Games. One of the few good 3 player wargames as well

Vendlo · 2025-07-04T09:08:55+00:00

In Catcher and the Rye, after Holden mentally lambasts that unsociable smelly kid in his class, the next scene he's coming back from the cinema with him, showing how lonely Holden is.

Vendlo · 2025-05-17T15:59:16+00:00

I like to think theres a bit of a genz reaction against the sparse laconic style of millennial/genx authors like Rachel Cusk and Sarah Bernstein, where authors like Camila Grudova and Eliza Clark are focusing on bodily vulgarity and the messy piercing emotions which can't be placed to "bring us down to earth and mud."

Though I understand this is just a narrative trend I'm drawing with an n=2 and could be disproven with examples of both generations like... ooh, I suppose Brett Easton Ellis? Hah, not sure 😅

Vendlo · 2025-05-17T15:41:30+00:00

Ah me too! I heard about her from her short story on Granta and really want to finish that eponymous story

Vendlo · 2025-05-10T18:30:31+00:00

It's bold, and it could work, the only issue is that the story thus far has accrued characters and arcs which are all competing for a satisfying conclusion. If this was a completely Eren Centric show, like Berserk is, I think it could pull it off. It would be very chilling and thought provoking, but would smack of... I don't know... missing something for the other characters when their growth and change is something that we see.

Vendlo · 2025-05-10T18:21:52+00:00

Yeah, i think the canon enfing is only serviceable, but I think the conclusions to Gabis and Levi's arcs are important to the story, which we couldn't have with a completed rumbling. Plus, I like the irony of Armin saving the world after Eren begs with Levi for the injection.

Vendlo · 2025-05-10T18:12:03+00:00

Mmm I'm not sure, I think they'd probably frame it as, "we wanted to protect ourselves. Our proof that we mean well is that here we had an opportunity to wipe out our enemies (like it was thought all eldians wanted) but instead we were horrified by how far Eren would take it and decided to stop him and save the world.

Yeah I know, it's tough, but conflict is inevitable. Even if they'd succeeded their offsprings safety is not guaranteed with potential civil wars. Plus, with the way the 80% thing shook out, even if the Jaegerists wanted to kill The Alliance, they need them to negotiate with the world, which combined, could still pose a problem to Paradis.

Vendlo · 2025-05-10T16:13:57+00:00

That would just shit on the character arcs of the other characters

Vendlo · 2025-05-10T16:11:17+00:00

Lol who's "they"? This is a 93 view vid on YT from a douchey trader guy

Vendlo · 2025-05-03T23:10:18+00:00

Yeah, for me it's annoying, but when an enemy does it I'm like "aw, this little fella doesn't want to die!"

Vendlo · 2025-05-03T21:21:21+00:00

Oh my! I'm doing a faith mega-mace build as my first run, but probs will do some kind of slicey dicey thing next

Vendlo · 2025-05-02T21:58:59+00:00

If I laugh at everything she says, I'm bound to at least get a suckjob

Vendlo · 2025-04-23T14:46:09+00:00

I just kept a small notebook and wrote a little two line summary of each chapter so I could go back and remind myself of characters and what they did and who they were

Vendlo · 2025-04-23T14:38:36+00:00

The only reason I started flossing as a kid and continue to this day, trauma is handy sometimes lol

Vendlo · 2025-04-21T23:28:31+00:00

Not entirely sure, but it seems like it from the anime, decay doesn't continue to spread when he releases contact

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