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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Multigenerational households are so much better than the western dream of a one-family private home Lol. Lmao, even
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Multigenerational households are so much better than the western dream of a one-family private home I mean if this life is what you want, then good on you, brother, but I would very much not enjoy that. I am not a social species.
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Nov 20, 2023 15:47
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My unpopular opinion is that the proper amount of milk for cereal is to just moisten it. If your cereal is swimming in milk that's too much milk
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Nov 20, 2023 16:16
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My unpopular opinion is that if your cereal needs milk at all to be edible, it’s not worth eating. Dry cereal 4 lyfe 
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Killingyouguy! posted:Lol. Lmao, even It was mentioned in the boomer thread, that baby boomers were one of the first generations to be able to really start to recognize being in a toxic family relationship and having the financial means to escape. Unfortunately this helped to reinforce a more atomized society in which the end goal was being as isolated as possible from anyone and never having to compromise or share anything. Living as a collective group puts more social demands on individuals with regard to making compromises about space, personal time, resources, labor etc. The people with the boomer mentality can't really envision a hierarchy where they don't aspire to be at the top so they'll shun such living situations. Not every family is the ideal for multi generational households but in the current economic climate the alternative is still often even worse.
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Nov 20, 2023 16:59
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Might be the best spin I’ve ever seen put on “moved back in with my parents”.
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Warhammer 40k has better lore because they’ve had 3+ decades to develop it, but for the past three or four years, the stuff coming out for Age of Sigmar has been way more interesting than the stuff for 40k. Give it another decade, AoS will be the better setting.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:18
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I'd like to believe you, but sci-fi is inherently better than fantasy.
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Nov 20, 2023 19:22
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Blue Moonlight posted:My unpopular opinion is that if your cereal needs milk at all to be edible, it’s not worth eating. I eat cereal with yoghurt. One part cereal to two parts yoghurt (by weight). It softens a little but stays crunchy.
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Aramek posted:I'd like to believe you, but sci-fi is inherently better than fantasy. Sci fi is just fantasy with specious reasoning.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Sci fi is just fantasy with specious reasoning. Scifi is fantasy with cooler aesthetics  My milquetoast opinion is fantasy stuff is just so boring. The aesthetics just fall totally flat for me and just make me feel like I'm at a really uncomfortable renfair or something.
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Nov 20, 2023 20:26
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ishikabibble posted:Scifi is fantasy with cooler aesthetics They almost always feel like an excuse to shoehorn in a weird fetish or just moving backwards from a ‘cool idea’ that just ends up with a deus ex machina driven plot like solving a cereal hox maze by going backward. Sometimes both, in the case of the ‘60s San Fran Sci Fantasy pedo scene. And I don’t hate all fantasy or all sci fi, but wow does it seem to harbor some of the worst writing of terrible people this side of economic theory.
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If western fantasy had more historically authentic aesthetics it would at least look visually interesting but everything just looks generic. D&D 3e defined an aesthetic that was meant to be timeless but wound up just being kind of boring comic booky, in a lazy movie costume design sort of way. And western fantasy continues to take cues from that in varying degrees. It's rare to find Witcher 3-tier historical authenticity (it's just medieval Poland with monsters and elves) or design clarity and cohesion like that of the LotR movies. A lot of that is budget but some of that is just a lack of creative spark.
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Imagining having to grow up in a single household with my extended family... yeah, probably would've killed myself. Or died from covid+horse drugs if I made it that far.
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Aramek posted:I'd like to believe you, but sci-fi is inherently better than fantasy. The problem is that 40k is hidebound, most of the new models it gets these days are just updates of old models. The most exciting actually new model to come out for 40k this year is this guy  Meanwhile in AoS, Flesh Eater Courts are getting this big expansion with brand new units like these guys   
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The most fantastical and alien setting Tolkien could conceive of is essentially rural Ireland. He was THAT English.
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There's never been a good fantasy. Even for the best in the genre, the most that can be said is "this would have been better as a straight up historical novel instead of trying to conceal that it is a historical novel". Previously mentioned was Sapkowski - he eventually graduated to historical fiction, and it's no wonder.
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The Silmarillion stuff is much more alien, part of the theme of the greater work is the world falling over and over into a state that's closer to the world we are in.
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steinrokkan posted:There's never been a good fantasy. Even for the best in the genre, the most that can be said is "this would have been better as a straight up historical novel instead of trying to conceal that it is a historical novel". Previously mentioned was Sapkowski - he eventually graduated to historical fiction, and it's no wonder. I liked the first five Amber books but haven’t reread them since Zelazny died so they may very well not hold up. I would argue he was a good author altogether though — I do still reread Night in Lonesome October, Lord of Light, and his non-Chronicles short stories fairly often.
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Also, any"good non-historical fantasy" you may come up with is actually sci-fi in disguise for reasons I won't be clarifying 
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steinrokkan posted:Also, any"good non-historical fantasy" you may come up with is actually sci-fi in disguise for reasons I won't be clarifying 2001 and Star Wars are fantasy. Dune is scifi.
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And sometimes you straight up put magic and fantasy into your historical fiction. See: Luo Guanzhong
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Tolkien’s trick to good fantasy was that he was curious and had actual artistic goals beyond ‘swords are cool’. It has almost never been replicated.
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War and industry alike rob us of our humanity ---------------------------------------------------> Wow cool sword!
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steinrokkan posted:There's never been a good fantasy. Even for the best in the genre, the most that can be said is "this would have been better as a straight up historical novel instead of trying to conceal that it is a historical novel". Previously mentioned was Sapkowski - he eventually graduated to historical fiction, and it's no wonder. Dorohedoro and Delicious in Dungeon both prove you wrong.
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Nov 20, 2023 21:40
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Late sleepers make me sad. Get up! You're missing the best part of the day!
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I prefer fantasy to scifi because swords are cooler than guns
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I'd much rather watch a bad, but weird movie than a good one that follows a formulaic structure. I'm also not partial to Sci-fi or Fantasy as long as it's very loving weird and not dnd/Star Wars but with a few slight differences.
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fantasy when it's really good is a linguistic paradise sci fi when it's really good is cutting social commentary on the nature of humanity, gender, biology, etc. LOTR is still the height of fantasy. Sci fi has LeGuin and Butler
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alexandriao posted:fantasy when it's really good is a linguistic paradise Ah, a Heterogenia Linguistico fan 
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Gripweed posted:The problem is that 40k is hidebound, most of the new models it gets these days are just updates of old models. The most exciting actually new model to come out for 40k this year is this guy I've got no skin in this game (  ) but the 40K one is infinitely more interesting to me than all the rest of them, although "intestine powdered wig" is pretty loving good. Trolls/Orcs/Goblins/etc. using limbs, skulls, and corpses as part of their gear and decorating, it's hard to get excited about that. But sniper dude on big stilts? That owns, I wanna know everything there is to know about that because what the gently caress? Presumably a sniper that's literally wading through battle taking potshots at important targets? In one of the most suicidal means of transportation for both close combatants and ranged combatants?
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Ordo Mechanicus found a use for Corporal Deadeye Babylegs
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alexandriao posted:sci fi when it's really good is cutting social commentary on the nature of humanity, gender, biology, etc. No thank you. Give me Big loving Cool Ideas (#alastairReynoldsGang) over social studies everyday. Issaries has a new favorite as of 05:48 on Nov 21, 2023 |
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bawk posted:I've got no skin in this game ( He's just one of the regular guys but with stilts for legs and a sniper rifle  And the other guys aren't trolls, orcs, or goblins, they're just and noble warriors. In their own minds they aren't covered in corpse bits, they're covered in elegant finery. edit: also that sniper is going to cost like 35 dollars but only be like 35 points in game, so it's just making Mechanicus a somehow even more expensive army to collect
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Late sleepers make me sad. Get up! You're missing the best part of the day! Actually the best part of the day is after the sun has gone down, all the day's work is done, and you have the entire evening to relax. You're wasting it sleeping.
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Fantasy is at its best when it’s a shirtless musclebound guy swinging his sword at a dragon
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Tiggum posted:Actually the best part of the day is after the sun has gone down, all the day's work is done, and you have the entire evening to relax. You're wasting it sleeping. See this is exactly the sort of silly stuff a vampire says. The pre-dawn has all the beauty except no one's around and there's nothing to do, it's just you, the stars, and the slow sunrise before you have to face the day. Perhaps my actual unpopular opinion is considering like 3 to be "morning" not "late" but I am correct unrelatedly, space marines are the best set of factions and Emperor's Children are the best space marines
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:no one's around and there's nothing to do
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Tiggum posted:How is that a good thing? It's the only time he can get away from his big loud family he's crammed in with.
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The name "Alvin and The Chipmunks" implies that Alvin himself is not a chipmunk. So what exactly is he? Some sort of mutant? A replicant? What dark secret is Alvin hiding under that hoodie?!  ...also, would you lend that guy twenty bucks and expect to get it back?
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