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Private capital is capitalism metastasized, full stop.

Just finished Bad Company by Megan Greenwell, which is an excellent piece of reporting on the effects of private equity in four US...

Guided Age is an excellent completed webcomic that is relevant to our elfgame interests. It has distinct isekai elements and is more...

wow, that is dark https://fictionhorizon.com/mark-hamill-reveals-much-much-darker-backstory/ cue arguing over Luke being that dumb...

It’s a pretty good backstory. I don’t think we need to see it, though.

I haven’t watched them all, so I’ll rank the ones I have seen. 1: Fantastic Mr Fox. An excellent adaptation of the book (which is fun...

My list would definitely include the same 11 movies.

I just finished reading Unmasking Autism, by Dr. Devon Price, and came away from it impressed, though with a few reservations. As far...

Carl Hiaasen's Fever Beach is his best novel in years, maybe a decade. Five stars. Onto my re-read of Pratchett's Going Postal. Also...

Finished Lucky Loser. The chapters on The Apprentice were particularly illuminating. Finished The Steel Seraglio by Mike, Linda, and...

I think it would go down fine in China. The Chinese audience likes Marvel films fine (though not as much as their own films) and would...

True, but she’d have agreed with the sentiments and spoken them for herself. “I have made my mind a sunless place… I am doomed to fight...

I really think Japan in this movie is actually supposed to be China but they changed that because they didn’t want to offend the Chinese...

My version doesn’t have another adventure - maybe because it’s the phone version?

Young Kira would have made Luthen Rael’s sunless space speech and meant every word, and present Kira would have deeply regretted it. She...