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Finished The Payback by Kashana Cauley, which is a pleasantly intense book set in an alternate dystopian US (LA, really) where rather...

Folks probably won't understand my perspective. Since I'm in the middle of working through it I'm not sure I fully understand it yet...

Did someone teach you that a story should have one, singular, "THE point"? That person was incorrect. Wow, are you wrong. IT...

I think it’s fair to say that FU is going for JRPG feel (not just Final Fantasy of any number but also Fire Emblem, Tales, Trails...

I believe the movie was originally intended to be longer, and that's certainly felt here, and in the near-absence of Celine, who is...

Yes, that was definitely an issue - Mira and Zoey basically never got more development than they did in Golden - “called a problem...

Speaking of language, saw this today at a nearby Mexican grocery. Both goofy and cool, we thought. https://lamodernausa.com/ensenas/

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin is beautifully written and is spot on about how being an immigrant can feel - like a ghost in your new home...

I think it’s fair to say that modern xianxia fiction is dominated by Chinese manhua and web novels, some of which have been adapted into...

Also, ensure everyone’s material needs are met, make it clear you can’t get any more however loud you shout, and try and meet their...

Wouldn't be hard. Just don't raise them in a system that only ever rewards selfishness. Selfishness is not human nature, it's culture...

I'd love to see how they got the majority of humans to stop being selfish/envy etc

It's why I'm beyond skeptical of the new owners of Paramount. They seem to have the...opposite view...from the baseline pro-science...

We don't have a resource problem. We have a distribution problem. A recent study shows that “Provisioning decent living standards (DLS)...

Where were you when Optimus Prime died?