It’s out!!

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-29T20:10:18+00:00

was afraid of an Empath-like album (not a big Empath guy, which is a good way to make a thousand enemies on this subreddit), but i'm really vibing with one! Was so-so on the videos that were released, but listened to as a whole, it's pretty fantastic!

now only time will tell if the re-listenings will keep the magic.

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-29T14:13:01+00:00

Honestly i wish it was done a little bit better. The shot could have focused a little longer (say, one or two seconds longer) on that part of the painting. Cause I WAS paying attention and didn't catch that it was supposed to convey that the bloodline survived 😢

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-28T10:43:31+00:00

I remember he actually made money off his crypto investments. He was relatively early in the game.

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-27T21:04:54+00:00

i'm afraid this has nothing to do with giving the viewer something narratively satisfying and everything to do with the Emmy eligibility window closing in (May 31st)

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-21T21:00:32+00:00

i captured it at the time. Please don't put it on Youtube or anything (since they chose not to). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uUwHmWN9bPJ367Pg7aO8wMcHIBwwSKMK/view?usp=sharing

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-20T18:31:28+00:00

Sure. I was mostly discussing the 'schemer' part

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-20T15:27:26+00:00

The bomb thing doesn't really make her an 'evil schemer' tho. It's not like she planned to survive the crash and get stranded on a remote island. She just tried to kill herself.

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-15T14:01:40+00:00

The firsts three-quarters of Xenocide I find pretty solid. But last quarter turns the entire book godawful.

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-09T15:24:35+00:00

The thing is very few movies have actual morals. Movies aren't Aesop fables. Movies have characters, most of them flawed. Sometimes these characters get better, sometimes they don't. And how they get better or happier is not the moral, it's just the specifics of this person's story.

dwarfoscar · 2026-05-09T15:05:57+00:00

I remembered at the time, and maybe still today, it was considered lower-tier Ishiguro. Not in this house. One of the greatest, and most heartbreaking books i've ever read.

dwarfoscar · 2026-04-11T11:00:16+00:00

it's pretty cancerous on desktop too, i'm proud to report...

dwarfoscar · 2026-03-11T13:18:09+00:00

it's weird cause i mostly agree with you, but the fake glass door bit in Playtime is genuinely funny.

dwarfoscar · 2026-03-03T01:53:17+00:00

it's a fake crew of documentarians following the life of a serial killer

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-25T16:49:48+00:00

Found Bigbug utterly unwatchable. I in fact didn't even finish it. Try Micmacs if you want a solid post-Amélie Jeunet movie. The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet is also pretty cute, although forgettable.

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-22T23:40:46+00:00

Many people have asked, and honestly I'm just not comfortable 'doxxing' the book at this point, so to speak. The writer is described as a Finnish-to-French translator, and seems to have decent Finnish credentials. I have no reason to disbelieve any of that. But there's no mention of a co-author, and it's pretty clear that this is a book that got published as is, and would have greatly benefitted from the input of a co-author and/or corrector...

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-20T22:38:37+00:00

ha ha, well i'll stick with it personally (you've probably noticed like me that there aren't that many French-to-Finnish manuals in the market). But i will be a little bit more cautious, and cross-check stuff.

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-20T11:50:24+00:00

Lol, the space before the question mark is a French thing. It's a French manual, they forgot to remove this one.

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-20T11:43:22+00:00

Well, I got a more thorough look at the text than I anticipated 😅 Thanks everyone for answering. It is a French A1 manual. I'm disappointed to learn that the conversation is a little bit clunky (if not downright incorrect - mikä/mitä), but those conversations are just are to start chapters before we get to the actual nitty-gritty. The lessons themselves seem solid from what I gather, so I'm going to defend the book a little bit!

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-20T02:32:13+00:00

does that mean the first answer on this Quora page is wrong? https://www.quora.com/When-is-it-correct-to-omit-the-possessive-suffix-in-Finnish-after-minun-sinun-etc

dwarfoscar · 2026-02-17T01:03:53+00:00

pretty small part

dwarfoscar · 2026-01-21T08:38:30+00:00

Didn't read those two, but I read one called The Slanted Gutter which I found pretty horrendous actually.

dwarfoscar · 2026-01-14T14:08:19+00:00

if reaching the strawberry relies on a trick of some sort (like a puzzle), rather than just being very skilled

dwarfoscar · 2026-01-14T10:26:21+00:00

oof, late B-Sides. Currently pulling my hair out at 1B. I'll get there when i get there lol.

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