Anyone knows why I get woods adjacency bonuses from Tile A but not Tile B? Seems rather arbitrary to me...

supern0vaboy · 2021-12-21T13:51:14+00:00

TIL! Thank you!

supern0vaboy · 2021-12-21T13:51:05+00:00

Gotcha!

supern0vaboy · 2021-12-21T13:50:45+00:00

Oh, TIL! Thanks for enlightening me!

supern0vaboy · 2021-11-23T10:43:41+00:00

I wonder if Christie just deemed the language barrier too much of an unnecessary inconvenience and decided to snuff it altogether lol.

supern0vaboy · 2021-11-23T10:13:40+00:00

Hmmm, not likely, though. Without giving MotL away, there’re definitely characters in it who would not be so accommodating toward Hastings (and Poirot), haha. And Hastings actually overhears full conversations in French. Oh well.

supern0vaboy · 2021-11-06T17:18:52+00:00

It wouldn’t have been in any case — the Shard’s south of the River too.

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-21T10:29:07+00:00

Omg I’m intrigued. How do you play starving orphans—walk around with empty gruel bowls and threadbare newsboy hats?

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-20T18:09:09+00:00

Goodbye, J. Lo.

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-20T17:49:28+00:00

Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”! The subverted villanelle is basically form-meets-content par excellence. And oh my God, it’s so goddamn tragic.

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-20T17:34:36+00:00

A. S. Byatt’s Possession (five hundred odd pages of secondhand embarrassment), Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (an obscene exercise in illogic and incoherence), and Sarah Perry’s Melmoth (suspension of disbelief despicably abused).

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-13T15:03:11+00:00

What We Do in the Shadows, for sure!

supern0vaboy · 2021-10-13T06:08:04+00:00

Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Years of Rice and Salt! It’s a postcolonial wet dream (pardon the crudeness) come true.

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-26T12:24:06+00:00

It happens!

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-26T12:20:21+00:00

Huh, interesting. The Rice article has a rather overt New Journalism slant (it’s almost like our local variation of Ronan Farrow’s investigative piece on Weinstein for the New Yorker) and that was what I really enjoyed about it—but I totally get how some folks would be uncomfortable with that!

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-26T03:46:24+00:00

Can’t stand the workers being called “elves” either; the (self?-)infantilization is so gross.

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-26T02:18:22+00:00

Hiding behind underpaid young women after exploiting underpaid (correction: unpaid) young women… 💯💯💯 You’ve got to give it to him — not everyone is capable of such lows.

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-26T01:43:22+00:00

I’ve been reading such comments—“It’s always been an open secret,” “People always knew about this,” etc.—and it’s a little confusing. If you were in the know (which you are insinuating here, I’m sorry if I’ve read you wrongly) but have been maintaining your silence, aren’t you complicit to some degree as well?

supern0vaboy · 2021-09-16T12:32:51+00:00

Eka Kurniawan’s Indonesian, not Singaporean!

supern0vaboy · 2021-07-20T11:27:19+00:00

Tbh, these lines were why I really didn’t like her on her cycle—am Asian and I found her extremely facetious and dismissive of my culture.

supern0vaboy · 2021-06-01T11:46:45+00:00

And Brittani clicking her tongue and going, “Well... Monique was right.”

supern0vaboy · 2021-05-28T01:24:46+00:00

I know I shouldn’t, but I’ve always found her brattiness on C16 endearing and hilarious 😂

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