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I might be romanticising the past here, but I think the internet right now is probably at its worst. From the earliest days it was very...

Bluesky just shows you who you're following, either in a chronological or "most important" order, unless you click on the Discover or...

It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life...

I just started it last night because this thread reminded me it exists, and it does appear to be that! And yeah these books are...

It's all part of the same thing. School systems that have high numbers of school counselors -- the numbers that experts actually...

I really want this. I think Strix has a decent start and 2024/ToV/A5e all have better social encounter rules than 2014. There's...

I believe it's a side character from one of the previous novels actually choosing to leave the cozy stuff behind and go adventuring, and...

Tell whoever's opinions you're regurgitating, then, that Bluesky is pretty much ordinary people and the lefties are on Spoutible.

In the first season the bullies tried to literally murder Mike

Ahem. Just to be clear… I lived through the 70/80 feral generation times. The accuracy of stranger things was rather disturbing. So was...

And you responded with a bunch of completely unrelated rambling, defending against an accusation I never made - namely, that you dislike...

It is! I highly recommend. It's gotten tons of accolades and two sequels for a reason! Well, one sequel and one prequel. And the books...

I noticed the sorcerer thing also . . . Apparently, when they are playing D&D in the last episode, they have Dwarven Forge terrain on...

To be fair, the exaggerated degrees of bullying are partly coming from the show’s influences - Steven Spielberg, Stephen King… possibly...

One of Travis Baldree's other books, Bookshops and Bonedust, features the same main character in a similar cozy setup; it's actually a...