I want to stick to the novelizations of episodes 1 - 6 for now, whether I want more or not I’ll decide afterwards.

I want to read the novelizations of the main saga sometime. I’ve heard prequels are actually great in book form.

The bar would’ve been on the floor twenty years ago, they’ve hit the mariana trench since then.

If I don’t respond to this thread just assume it’s Sword Art Online.

I think you should consider putting Librera on your phone if you don’t have a social media addiction problem. Dark mode is very comfortable. It’s not good for comics (unless you are using it on a tablet), I use Perfect Reader for those. An e-reader would probably be better but this is just so cheap, and more portable.

Just letting you know, you still haven’t pinned this week’s thread.

It was also a stupid thing to lie about, the guy complains about video games and Windows for a living, who cares if he is an engineer? I don’t know what he was thinking.

In regards to his technical advice, I remember it being fairly sound but it’s also stuff you can get from privacy communities on Reddit. You don’t need to be a software engineer or anything fancy to get this stuff, having a moderate understanding of technology is enough.

I learned about digital privacy from a DuckDuckGo ad and went further down the rabbithole by joining the privacytools subreddit (I think they are called PrivacyGuides now). It’s not hard, infact it’s very easy since people working on them are idealist so they made everything as easy to understand as possible.

He is, he is also a sloptuber. He runs a by the numbers commentary channel that mostly discusses whatever else everyone is discussing that day. Or does a stealth Linux installation tutorial when there is absolutely nothing to talk about.

His videos in regard to free software and online privacy have some merit, but for the most part there is no point to his channel at all. You’ve seen all these videos already.

You could check out The Horse, The Wheel and Language then. I didn’t finish it but the parts I’ve read were fascinating.

Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas was a really good read.

The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testement has some interesting info, though it’s a very dry read.

Non-Marxist in general, or non-marxist non-fiction specifically?

I like them too but it’s just not worth it. In Western animation it takes forever for a show to air, there is very few to choose from and they are subject to corporate crap every step of the way. And most Japanese animation I’ve seen is cheap and / or tropey junk.

Making a book is cheap enough that the author has way more free rein to do what they want, even if they are dealing with a commerical genre. And there are so many books to choose from and more of them keep coming out so you’ll never run out of material, the worst that could happen is you get into an ongoing series and it doesn’t finish. To me that means the tradeoffs border on irrelevant.

Oh I watched the first three seasons of Infinity Train already, the whole shitshow that followed made me give up on animation entirely. And seeing the state of animation these days confirms that I’ve made the right call in my opinion.

Just read (comic)books people, books are just better.

No, he is fine as far as I’m aware. But he didn’t get to create anything after Gravity Falls, he was working on something with Netflix but nothing came of it. I’m not aware of anyone besides Dana Terrace who made a successful cartoon in recent memory and managed to move on to a new project. Western animation is cooked.

Lol, didn’t even notice that.

On a side note, imagine making Gravity Falls and never getting to work on another show again. We don’t push pro-comicbook propaganda to animation workers hard enough.

I’ve been reading Sword Art Online vol. 1. Apart from an unnecessary sex joke in chapter 7 it’s been pretty fun so far, though I’m starting to fear that mid-scene exposition dumps are just a part of lightnovels.

Theory wise I intend to continue reading Wage-Labor and Capital sometime.