Nacarbac [any]

“The singer, who keeps his identity secret.”

If only we could figure out who this mysterious hoodlum is. Unfortunately, as a newspaper, we are not equipped for this level of investigation.

Whelp, time to read Starfish again!

They’re using “sees” in the fairly lexiphanicistic* sense of “causes X to Y”.

*Pretentious use of words. Ironic.

Do they do that lil’ hunch, puff out, and warble? Adorable birds.

You might like the Horror Vanguard podcast. It’s a left political look at all kindsa horror films, and it takes an honest joy in analysing them more seriously than most of them were intended to be.

And what I was told about the “bounder” one is that it keeps your hand close to being a fist, so you and your fellow ruffians can sucker punch some gentleman.

This one?

https://xcancel.com/BenceNanay/status/959793485334368256

Yeah, they got out and did an imitation protest. All spectacle and no substance. That doesn’t bring people closer to doing real things, it’s reinforcing the learned skill of denying that real things exist.

i’m almost completely positive these are supposed to be bounced off the ground before hitting whoever you’re aiming at. they’re absolutely not supposed to be shot like this.

Oh they absolutely are intended to be fired directly at faces and eyes and all that. There’s a few lines of text and some pictures to play pretend that the impact is actually quite pleasant if you just do a trick shot off the ground, but they’re designed with, and purchased with, the full knowledge that these are going to be used to pop eyeballs and break bones.

It’s just a cheap and safe way - for the cops - to implement a good ol’ savage beatdown.

Just gotta put it into Standard British (Gammon): So-called Glacial Meltwater from some foreign ocean is DILUTING our Pure British Water, and C02 is coming into our classrooms and forcing them to be stuffy and draining.

Though, alas, since it’s a matter of “stop doing bad thing (to planet)” and not “please do bad thing (to foreigners)”, there’ll be no enthusiasm…

Bat-dog, because I was making jokes about a vampire dog being called a drachuahua earlier today. And while looking for art of a bat-dog I found out that the Buettikofer’s epauletted bat is pretty damn close already.

I’ll always recommend Land of the Lustrous/Houseki no Kuni. It’s a beautiful adaptation. Androgynous post-post-post apocalypse crystal-coral humanoids living on an island paradise, bullied by Buddhist moon ghosts. Does get a bit dark towards the end.

Frieren, from your list, is also a wonderfully chilled watch.

I think that would be only possible with genetics, and maybe only when young, since it’d be outright adding new perception rather than using existing channels like this… But you could possibly emulate it with goggles that spread out the target colours and squash the rest of the spectrum?

I kinda want a tapet lucetum myself…

Yeah, Phacelia isn’t native to the UK, but is pretty solidly spread anyway - classic Victorian plant plundering, though at least this time it wasn’t Giant Hogweed.

The phacelia in my garden is full of all kinds of bees, they love it. I can’t recall any other plants getting more attention, and they’re a pretty flower as well.

If it’s just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it’ll be a masterpiece.

Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.

Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.

Even then I’d say it’s still a pretty weak plot, and the delivery is awkwardly struggling against their usual style. Which is still an improvement Elden Ring desperately needed, and understandable when I have no doubt the direct writing style has suffered some atrophy.

Huh, saying that has actually made me a bit more optimistic for this adaptation, since they do show a consistent desire to improve and experiment. Not for the adaptation itself, but it might be a good learning experience if there’s a lot of back-and-forth with A24?

Garth Marenghi never said a goddamn thing wrong in his entire life.

It was always really inconsistent. Some authors treated Alignment as “just kinda your vibe”, some as “a combination of cultural factors and divine meddling”, and some as “intrinsic cosmic morals”, some both but for different things (humans vs Outsiders, etc). Negative Energy and undead as being an Eeeeevil Spookyforce or Basically Just Radiation.

That kind of unaddressed inconsistency fuelled, and still fuels, endless repeats of the “Is Necromancy evil? What if my skeletons are used as agricultural robots to allow for a higher standard of living?”, where everyone talks past each other based on what part of the texts they read and settings they play in.

Check out the fan comic. I remember it being “rad as hell”. The archive links seem to work okay - it’s also on their deviantart, but that interface seemed appalling.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150211002826/http://www.snowflamecomic.com/?comic=snowflame-01-01