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I'm watching the Rocky movies because they're a new friend's favorites. I hadn't realized how much they're shonen anime.

Oh great, I would love to pick up more audiobooks, thanks for sharing these. Although you noted your distaste for podcasts, I would like to continue to recommend the New Yorker Fiction Podcast which has short stories read and discussed by a different author. You would almost think I get paid give ...

I've been playing Chess960 lately and enjoying it a lot. Nobody I play with is a real chess expert so we don't know the opening moves by name, but it's still fun having the basic balance of the starting game totally messed up. It makes you focus on the consequences of each move right from the start.

(I considered just replying to the reading thread with this, but it seems distinct enough for its own thread.)

I have a job where I can listen to things and 40 hours a week adds up to a lot of audio. I'm not crazy about podcasts so most of this is audiobooks and I have developed Thoughts Upon the ...

finished up Wolf Hall: The Mirror and Light . i love so much to watch old english character actors Character Act. every time damian lewis is in something i'm always either seeing Bobby Billions or Brody Homeland doing something in my head so its very funny to see him do henry the 8th stuff the ...

Started reading The Devil and the White City by Erik Larson, the 2003 popular history that launched a thousand HH Holmes documentaries. It's a breezy and compelling read but also has a lot of what I dislike about journalists writing history*: total certainty in their own reading of the evidence ...

Oh man, that beautiful UI... I really miss when games were still at least partially using OS-level UI. I'm a big fan of Lunatic Dawn: Passage of The Book partially because of that, as well as the PC port of Suikoden I.


The UI is sooo good! On the Mac version each panel was its own system window ...

oooo I wanna play! I'm great at lying

Deadlock: Planetary Conquest was very formative for me* as a 90s Macintosh gamer. It's a sort of city-builder/4X game about seven alien empires competing to control the mysterious planet Gallius IV.

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