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Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
Learning about James Baldwin in the book James Baldwin: Living on Fire and helplessly accepting that nothing ever changes, I guess.

Zurtilik fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Aug 25, 2020

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Zurtilik

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beer pal posted:

u ever just stop & think sometimes like drat... hteres so many books

Yes and then the dumb perfectionist part of my brain almost wants to stop upon realizing I wouldn't be able to read them all if I wanted to.

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
Help I'm binging manga!

Doing Dragon Ball and Jojo right now.

Zurtilik fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Sep 8, 2020

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia

nut posted:

which jojo series? I don't think I ever got farther than part 3 but someday maybe

Never read any. So I started right at part 1. Finished part 1 last night. Will probably start part 2 in the next day or so.

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
I've been reading mostly on the Shonen Jump app because it's super cheap and legal ($2/month for an archive of most of their big titles) There's some manga I really want to read that don't have a legal option outside of paying like $10+ for each individual volume, which isn't so bad if you're buying along with the release of one or two series. But when you want to catch up with a big old series or something you're looking at an easy $200+ to get everything. (I'd have to take out a small loan for Case Closed/Detective Conan)

InkyPen and Comixology seem okay but still missing a lot. I know there's 'free' sites. But I wish I could at least contribute a few nickels to the artists and translation staff.

Zurtilik fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Sep 9, 2020

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia

blaise rascal posted:

Two books I've finished lately were the d&d player's handbook and the d&d dungeon master's guide

They're cool because they let you be a dunjin master

but which edition?!

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia

cda posted:

Vivid memories of reading these in middle school, just in case...

I spent a good portion of mid to late elementary school just fawning over the second edition monster manual.

Then I got a full set of 3.5 a few years later.

Skipped 4.

Now I have all the main books for 5.

DnD rules! Especially Monster Manuals, which I have kept and collected even when I've given away/sold my other books.

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia

take the moon posted:

i highly recommend reading the zero edition stuff, the art in those books is really nice and its def my most fun d&d experience

Is that what were calling the original release now or is there actually a product labeled "zero edition"?

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
I've been reading 'How Music Works' by David Byrne. It's been fun, I'm trying to learn more about uhhh... history of music, music tech and the industry and such. Not a bad intro read with a few tangents about the Talking Heads and some of Byrne's, sometimes I feel like the examples helped to drive the chapter's premise a lot and other times it just seemed like him regaling about his past. Overall the book seems like a nice light weight introduction into the sort of thing I wanted out of it, if you're someone who has worked on music or follow a lot of in-depth music background stuff it probably is rehashing a lot of what you know though.

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
I feel like 95% of the time I laugh at a book it's like the dryest humor imaginable. Like a guy talking about how he hopes he doesn't get wet and then it's raining outside or something dumb.

Zurtilik

The Biggest Brain in Guardia
Im reading the Two Towers finally. Yeehoo

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Finished the Two Towers. Good book, good movie. Sam is a nice boy.

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