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Blowback - Deep dives into American imperialism. Each season covers a single topic and goes into the background history, through to the conflict, to the aftermath in about 10 hour long episodes each. The first season was on the Iraq War, the second on Cuba, the third on the Korean War and the fourth into Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan. Extremely well produced with some great soundtracks.
I have to be honest, I just really like listening to Noah Caldwell Gervais talk regardless of the topic. He has such a comforting tone and speaks with this poetic admiration for the mundane that I’ve only really experienced from reading authors with a pastoralist bent. His travel vlogs are the only ones I’ve ever watched.
Frieren has been a such a pleasant surprise. I read the manga with dodgy fan translations online years ago when it was first coming out, but it got memory holed. Every now and then I’d think of it but could never remember the name. I was over joyed when I realized that the new show a friend got me to watch was that lost series lodged in the back of my mind.
This is also the first time I’m watching something where I’ve read the manga. I’ve never bothered in the past, neither before nor after a show. I’m not particularly weebish, I just got linked it by someone I was in a D&D game with and was bored enough at the time I happened to give it a go.
Spy x Family remains such a wholesome comfort pick. Comedy in anime tends to get completely lost in translation for me but this is the extremely rare one that hits.
File it in the back of your mind for later. You don’t want to date coworkers, it’s such a huge risk even before considering that he might be straight and react poorly. Be friends outside of work, get his contact info, maybe feel out his preferences a bit and then when one of you leaves the job you can broach it.
It’s great for what it is, but it’s fundamentally a kids show. It’s nicely animated, well acted and a lot more palatable to an adult audience than most but it doesn’t scratch that Trek itch for me beyond using the IP. It’s very much an action adventure cartoon. If that should good to you, then yeah go for it!
If it doesn’t, you still might want to make an exception if you’re really invested in Voyager. Characters from it aren’t just cameos, so you’ll get a lot more out of it if you’d really love to see Janeway again.
Last time I played an online shooter it was still just twelve year olds screaming slurs. Literally the only thing that’s different is the average mic quality is better and a lot less likely to blow out your ears every time their voice cracks.
If I have to choose, I’ve found that romances that aren’t “playersexual” are generally better written. In the same vein, romances where the player character has more preset traits than the standard amorphous blob you’re supposed to project yourself onto are also generally better written.
I’d rather my games don’t all try to do the same thing though.
I agree that sexuality can be important to a charachter. But if you wanna do that, seems like the charachter can just not be a romance option.
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it makes sense to just go all the way
Except if you want to tell a story involving the player in a romance? This isn’t a reasonable substitute at all.
I’d like more games that did reject the player. Frankly, I think the average gamer could use being exposed to rejection and shown that it’s not the end of the world.
