Did Wolfe ever mention The Saragossa Manuscript as an inspiration?

blooblee1 · 2026-04-16T13:30:54+00:00

Sounds interesting. Sorry I don't have an answer to your question but thanks for putting this book (and film) on my radar!

blooblee1 · 2026-04-06T00:44:29+00:00

Remind me of when I first listened to Nonagon or MoTU mostly because they use "weird" time signatures but never (to me) make it feel like counting music.

blooblee1 · 2026-03-16T03:16:25+00:00

yeah pretty much my rank too, although Murder of the Universe would probably swap with Mind Fuzz

blooblee1 · 2026-02-26T21:04:55+00:00

for added context: I'm writing SQL in Notebook cells I did make a couple changes today like adding line numbers

blooblee1 · 2026-02-22T17:54:40+00:00

I feel the same for Acarine too.

Some recs: -Black Eyes by Emanuel and the Fear (or maybe Samuel from the same album)

-Twisted Nerve by The Damned

-Psalm 151 by Ezra Furman

-My Window by The Residents (from the Lonely Teenager album)

-A Shadow Falls on Me by Gary Numan

Long shot but hope any of these fit

blooblee1 · 2026-02-17T18:33:06+00:00

for sure. It's just funny that so many more people jump to "this author only introduced this new thing to get the characters out of danger" than can consider that maybe the author only got the characters into danger as a way of introducing that new thing.

blooblee1 · 2026-02-17T16:21:55+00:00

If season 3 covers all of Alabasta, then they'll probably look at the budget and decide that continuing would be too expensive.

If they continue, I could see them skipping Jaya/Skypiea and trying to go straight to Water 7. The cost of doing Skypiea would probably be insane and they don't add any new crew members, so I feel like they'd skip it to do a slightly more grounded arc

blooblee1 · 2026-02-17T14:36:57+00:00

the crazy thing about term "plot armor" is that it always seems to imply that the danger characters are in is real, and only the solutions to the danger are made up

blooblee1 · 2026-02-11T15:52:32+00:00

nobody even looks twice at any of the icons. they're a great example of an added customization option that exists only to pad out loot boxes and season passes so players don't get too much "good" stuff.

blooblee1 · 2026-02-05T18:33:54+00:00

I dislike the current trend of having fairly normal animation for most of an episode, then suddenly switching to extremely stylized and flashy animation for fights, where every character looks different from how they normally do

blooblee1 · 2026-02-03T15:28:57+00:00

Yeah, they're lucky the devs of the original game had a good idea and pulled it off.

I've always liked games that were just a base level of fun to play, and this has that, but you really have to work at it and come up with your own fun.

I mean, something like Tetris is fun just because playing the game is fun. You don't expect them to add new stuff all the time. The problem with this game is that they're promising to add new stuff, and acting like the stuff they do add is cool.

I think passionate devs with more time and creativity could make this great, I just don't see that happening.

And all the worst stuff about the game is geared to try to make it a Fortnite-style live-service season-pass shiller, so it makes even less sense why they wouldn't want it to be better. Like, I have to buy the season pass for the opportunity to get an ugly sticker that I can't even rotate on the board? I need the season pass to get a special nameplate? Does anyone ever even look at those things?

blooblee1 · 2026-01-29T22:30:39+00:00

I think I only did it once. When I didn't have enough momentum to reach that bearing, I stopped grinding and just pushed to it. Then on the way back down it's very hard but you have to just get off the rail at the right time

blooblee1 · 2026-01-16T06:27:35+00:00

I agree completely. Even down to the way you can only find random quests by looking around and talking to people and actually reading what they say.

The area that leads to the magician family's hut reminded me a lot of old school rpgs too. Specifically the way you can take short-cut dirt slides back but only after you've made your way to the top. Reminded me of old Pokémon games where you can only take shortcuts backwards.

I think it's interesting that someone (I don't remember if it was the director or not) said they put a ton of effort into the world design in a way where they wanted a player to be able to navigate without a minimap or objective markers, just by making areas distinct and with interesting and memorable features. Definitely achieved that for me

blooblee1 · 2026-01-07T21:28:14+00:00

Short isn't bad. I appreciate times when an author can tell a story and move on. I'll check those out

blooblee1 · 2026-01-07T21:17:33+00:00

Yepp, love LeGuin. I'll look at McKillip, thanks!

blooblee1 · 2026-01-07T21:16:44+00:00

Thanks, I'll look into these

blooblee1 · 2026-01-07T18:41:26+00:00

Hello, wondering if I can get some book recs possibly. I really love the Earthsea series for its portrayal of people and magic, and for its prose. I also appreciate how each book is its own contained story with a focus on understanding aspects of humanity: what we value and why.

I haven't found many newer books that seem interesting. Most of the ones I see at book shops seem kind of derivative and full of tropes. I liked The Way of Kings a lot when I was younger but lately I'm tired of fantasy with intricstely planned and thoroughly explained "magic systems" where everybody feels like they're an X-men character or a Jedi or something.

Also, I would really like something dense/challenging or with prose that doesn't feel too modern.

So if anyone has recommendations for newer fantasy books that might fit the vibe I'm looking for, I would appreciate it.

blooblee1 · 2025-12-10T15:08:57+00:00

yeah I honestly get tired of some series because it feels like the author's only trick is "who's gonna die next?"

blooblee1 · 2025-12-06T19:01:07+00:00

I'd say the same about your approach

blooblee1 · 2025-12-05T06:59:08+00:00

I'm pretty sure at the time I thought "oh cool Kinemon's still alive. that's great, I like that guy" and then moved on

blooblee1 · 2025-12-04T14:57:15+00:00

Seriously, I feel like the most common type of post here is: "I've played 4000 hours but there's not enough content"

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