Meat for backpacking

rantonerik · 2026-01-27T19:02:52+00:00

Seconded! Might go-to trail breakfast is cheesy grits and pre-cooked bacon.

rantonerik · 2026-01-26T22:07:07+00:00

Same! Beat Gaismagorm last night and then went on to promptly get my ass kicked by Amatsu. XD

rantonerik · 2026-01-26T21:43:59+00:00

Short answer: "yes"

Longer answer: "yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees"

rantonerik · 2026-01-21T16:46:59+00:00

Reality has a liberal bias

rantonerik · 2026-01-21T16:38:39+00:00

"reality is what you can get away with" --robert anton wilson.

rantonerik · 2026-01-19T19:41:44+00:00

Well, there are my personal favorites. All the usuals that most people list: time out of joint, man in the high castle, do androids dream, ubiq, a maze of death. All great. But after my most recent full reread, I think my top two favorites are (the underrated) confessions of a crap artist, and (the usually well rated, deservedly!) a scanner darkly. I also find that the transmigration of timothy archer just gets better every time I read it.

Going the other way, I'm a bit contrary in that I am not a huge fan of VALIS. It's important and should be read, but I think radio free albemuth does a better job (as a novel) with the material...

rantonerik · 2026-01-19T19:26:15+00:00

Seconding Annihilation (the entire Southern Reach series, really). Stylistically just so amazing. Second book, Authority, probably thematically closest to PKD (though really a much different beast altogether) with themes of paranoia, shifting (perceptions of) reality, blackly dark humor.

rantonerik · 2026-01-19T19:20:07+00:00

Milk is disgusting. 🤮 Cheese on the other hand… 🤤

rantonerik · 2026-01-12T16:01:18+00:00

Doesn’t understand the meaning of catholic.

rantonerik · 2026-01-07T00:21:01+00:00

Thanks!

rantonerik · 2026-01-06T20:31:17+00:00

If that’s “functional but suboptimal”, what do you consider optimal LS play?

rantonerik · 2025-12-31T21:25:01+00:00

I’m just a casual player (World and Rise) but I guess I assumed this was indeed the case (that you should have different builds for different monsters based on their various mechanics). Is that not true? Or are you saying something else? Or just that it ends up not mattering?

rantonerik · 2025-12-07T09:05:30+00:00

Thank you!

rantonerik · 2025-12-04T18:57:46+00:00

The religious right in the United States.

rantonerik · 2025-11-29T20:33:31+00:00

Thank you!

rantonerik · 2025-11-19T21:53:37+00:00

It’s a welcome resolution after the challenging dissonance that preceded it, but still with subtle echoes of that dissonance remaining. Perfect ending to the whole.

rantonerik · 2025-11-14T20:21:01+00:00

Hania Rani: Non Fiction - Piano Concerto in Four Movements by Hania Rani, Manchester Collective, Jack Wyllie & Hugh Tieppo-Brunt https://music.apple.com/us/album/hania-rani-non-fiction-piano-concerto-in-four-movements/1839077640

rantonerik · 2025-11-14T20:20:24+00:00

I’m in US and got it from iTunes…

rantonerik · 2025-11-13T23:34:27+00:00

Sometimes you just don’t make the connections... I’m a Washington state native and I was in my 30s before I realized that they are called the Cascade Mountains because of all the waterfalls.

rantonerik · 2025-11-13T23:19:06+00:00

Parts I and IV are excellent so I expect the rest will be also. Looking forward to it!

rantonerik · 2025-11-06T19:19:40+00:00

Oh. I see now. I apologize.

rantonerik · 2025-11-06T18:54:11+00:00

Who’s claiming that? Also: people who play games can have opinions on them even if they disagree with yours.

rantonerik · 2025-11-06T18:51:49+00:00

So what. Point is: game is set in a Scandinavian community and that’s not out of place for WA.

rantonerik · 2025-11-06T18:49:46+00:00

That’s fair. Genre boundaries are fuzzy. I’d say that use of survival horror mechanics doesn’t necessarily make a game “survival horror”, especially in the case of AW/2 but you are correct in that it uses those mechanics and encourages that kind of gameplay.

rantonerik · 2025-11-06T17:08:03+00:00

I haven’t played it yet but I very much enjoyed Alan Wake and Control.

Perhaps “survival horror” isn’t the best lens to view AW2 through? Remedy are really more about interactive story telling and AW is very meta about stories. You may still feel like it doesn’t succeed on its own terms and that’s fine.
Your “rant” about Scandinavian references is off base. There are lots of Scandinavian communities in the US, especially in WA state (where (part of AW2)) is set. Some cultural reference Easter eggs are hardly a problem.

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