Porco Rosso isn't my favourite of Miyazaki's movies but it has my favourite Miyazaki scene in it, the one in the clouds.

You know an indie game was good when it spawns its own subgenre.

I'll be honest I don't think this one needed a sarcasm font

lmao it can't even get the time right in that middle one.

...sense you mean, since they're not *like* Asimov, but I'm not familiar enough with Death Note to compare there.

The ultimate answer is probably Stanislaw Lem.

I have not personally got into him enough yet to recommend anything specific, but I feel like Adam Roberts writes in this mode sometimes, and is highly regarded. Worth a look at least?

I've always thought of Ian M Banks' SF books as being puzzle-boxy. Not 100% sure if it's in the logic-puzzle...

...of that area as 'empty' for this purpose since he doesn't know what was there. Either way, didn't strike me as a plausible read of what was actually there.

...of contact and knowledge from mesoamerica that stopped at the edge of mesoamerica just seems wild to me. Feels like he's either literally only put the border there because that's where the current border is, *or* because we commited such a thorough genocide on those in the North that he thinks...

I'm no historian at all, but I got suspicious of Sapiens as soon as I hit his explanation of 'human worlds' pre-exploration-age and his backing it up with this map of them in 1450.

Like I don't know what his reasoning is coz iirc he doesn't explain it, but the idea that there was a boundary...

Her seeing a song about Charli XCX's own insecurities making her think crazy things and assuming it's a directed personal affront is so embarrassing ffs.

Fucking ewww.

That's both in bad taste and, like, I get being a fan but there are other books. Read those you dickhead, you just sound stupid as well as entitled.

Yeah. Setting aside the entitlement, that's just pig-ignorant by the article writer.

And, like, you don't have to be a deep nerd to find an alternative! James SA Corey are just as clickbaitey and one of them writes political fantasy and the other one is GRRM's assistant. It's right there for you!

This FF?

Like watching Jimmy Saville showing up on old British tv shows and whatnot.

They're planning an Authority movie, so I assume one Jenny or another will be involved at some stage, but I doubt she'll be in this.

It's Angelica Spica, the Engineer.

One day if I ever have enough confidence, time and energy to write about games I might do something about how carefully Nintendo designed the topography of the world to engender this feeling, and how few of its imitators understood what it did there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfDA...

See? Trump is an educator!