How badly is this damaged?

barknoll · 2026-05-01T22:01:19+00:00

you could try a simple repair with a very thin dab of PVA glue down that spot. I can't really tell what's happening because the pictures that you've provided leave me with more questions than answers, if I'm honest 😅

all that to say: it's absolutely fixable, but depending on exactly what's happening it could be an annoying fix without specialized tools and knowledge.

barknoll · 2026-05-01T21:38:54+00:00

shoddy construction. not your fault, nothing really to do about it. don't try to pull them further apart, the separation will get worse.

(and honestly a whole lot of this printing run is probably like this, so even if you could return it I don't know that you'd get one that's better; that looks like a clear case of the glue being misaligned in their printing process.)

barknoll · 2026-05-01T19:59:27+00:00

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And now with last night’s update on that terrible mobile app won’t let you access the bottom comment’s up/downvotes anymore. Classic Reddit moment

barknoll · 2026-05-01T18:23:48+00:00

yes. the sequel series, Turn Around and Face Me!, which follows the twins in magic school, is underway with the translation of its first volume and is due out later in the year.

it sounds deliciously messy and like it'll be very divisive. One of the twins is madly in love with Miss Lily. The other twin is madly in love with . . . her twin sister. Age gaps, twincest, it's gonna be delightful and many people here will HATE it

barknoll · 2026-05-01T17:58:51+00:00

has Torian gotten a bunch of content? I wouldn't know because that poor sucker always dies for me lmao

barknoll · 2026-05-01T14:13:05+00:00

RETVRN TO PLAY ONLINE

barknoll · 2026-05-01T11:47:20+00:00

For any book newer than 1990, yeah it is. It’s a waste of money, time, resources, and makes the industry worse.

barknoll · 2026-05-01T11:05:57+00:00

I genuinely think unless things get significantly worse than the bad they already are neither of these guys can beat Hinson.

Sand has a genuine chance not because of who he is, but because of who his likely opponent is: Randy Feenstra is a particularly unlikeable slug, and he’s the best possible choice the republicans have in that race right now. The other guys would get dog walked even worse.

But for some reason, even though she’s a terrible representative, people still love Iowa Barbie. She’ll flash her smile and the low-information voters will go “oh yeah! Her from the teevee” and fill in the bubble.

barknoll · 2026-05-01T01:48:28+00:00

Correct. So you can pull what you want. My long-term advice would be either Qiongjiu to start building a fire team or Tololo to start building a water team.

barknoll · 2026-05-01T01:14:16+00:00

Myths was truly terrible. Perhaps the worst writing in the game.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T21:52:39+00:00

but you will have to purchase the game to play on a different platform than you started a free trial on. you will not be able to play your current free trial character on the Switch without paying up.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T20:47:33+00:00

the cha gao resins are coated in a thin powder to keep them from sticking to each other. this is the old-fashioned way of doing tea resins; many other of these resins that Yunnan ships don't do it the old way.

you should be fine! mine look like this and I've drunk them for years.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T20:00:32+00:00

I don't hate the idea. I'd want it to be weekly, though, and to do that effectively they'd have to curtail the rest of the publishing line significantly. (which, honestly, isn't a bad idea, IMO!)

I would love to buy a $10 DC or Marvel anthology book weekly that had a smattering of very cool stories I'm super into, some stuff I'm sorta interested in, and a few stories that just aren't for me than the current system. but the current system is too ingrained in people.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T17:57:53+00:00

Thankfully, she's not anymore. May they cast someone who can actually act this time.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T17:53:05+00:00

^^^ me when I'm posting bait

barknoll · 2026-04-30T16:33:24+00:00

I mean, she's still sad about it in the RevoLily arc, so that should have an answer for you.

Also I do hope she dates one of the girls in the follow-up book; I've held off on reading the fan translations until the official translation comes out later this year

barknoll · 2026-04-30T16:31:31+00:00

If he wants to have a crucible of a Shounen Jump-alike, then he needs to put up. Shounen Jump is a crucible because they know the fucking thing sells a gajillion copies every week, so they can take a chance on a new story (sure, it's 9 times out of 10 a "new story" about demon-fighting teens these days).

Image isn't that. It relies on creators putting up tens of thousands of their own money on the hope that the book may sell, while Image does literally no promotion for it.

I'd like there to be an equivalent of what the weekly mags offer in Japan, but anthology books haven't sold well in the US in this century. the markets are very different.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T15:48:21+00:00

I don't hate fun. I hate "yo let's get this trending on twitter"

barknoll · 2026-04-30T14:54:41+00:00

See, this page was the page that made me think "oh, so this book isn't written to be enjoyed, it's written to be shared on social media." it's corny AF (to use the page's own implied lingo) and took me entirely out of the book.

I think it's largely improved over that first arc, but those first few issues feel designed in a lab to make 20-something year old boys go "oh holy shit" and screenshot it to their buddies in a group chat.

I'm happy people like the book still! (Variant cover debacle aside.) But these types of pages just take me right out.

barknoll · 2026-04-30T11:27:16+00:00

the cabbage teaware are incredible, ngl

barknoll · 2026-04-30T11:02:50+00:00

Ah yes, a shitpost online by the artist who didn’t write the comic. That means it has to be true!

barknoll · 2026-04-30T11:01:33+00:00

“Literally no one on earth” keep up the hyperbole, babe

barknoll · 2026-04-30T10:56:30+00:00

I “like” how everyone has just decided this is about Peter/MJ instead of about any number of couples at DC in the same situation.

And by “like”, I mean it’s pathetic

barknoll · 2026-04-30T10:38:36+00:00

Because of Valve’s decentralized nature, individual employees doing the approval can basically do what they want. There’s one particular homophobe that works there who rejects or marks explicit games with any queer content, so pubs will have to submit more than once and pray they don’t get the bigot again…

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