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Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: if they weren't Star Wars specifically, the prequels (especially the first) would have been much better received, Jar Jar Binks aside.
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
Gotta make it present tense for that.
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
Mercedes Lackey? Not everything she's written, but there was that one book about a teen boy being bullied... who then gets the magic power to set his bullies on fire (and set other things on fire). I had no complaints.
TitaniumButterfly
21hr ago
Andor was actively incredible though
Haven't looked into it at all. I know redditors who enjoy it immensely so I assumed it was pretty soy.
Mantergeistmann
21hr ago
Other than the (I suspect partially trendy) AuDHD? Something to do with physical mobility, but I've never learned what. Has needed a walker to get around for ages, and is certainly not yet old enough where that'd be unremarkable.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Famously, the entire corpus of Jane Austen.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
I mean if you just mean 'written by a woman' the Hunger Games trilogy had broad appeal.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
There's been quite a lot of Christian big name science fiction writers, actually- Jerry Pournelle was Christian even if he changed denominations a lot, CS Lewis wrote science fiction, etc.
gattsuru
21hr ago
Fair, was speaking more to the extent that they're basically rat-monkeys.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
If we're counting LDS as Christian, Orson Scott Card and Larry Correia might rival him depending on how you count 'successful'.
anon_
21hr ago
You're thinking too much in terms of the general election. In an election where a politician gets 100% of the votes, the process (primary/party otherwise) by which they were selected is the real election.
It's not a stable equilibrium point.
anon_
21hr ago
Plus you get a bunch of loonies in Congress because the district is so far off center that the primary is the larger hurdle.
YE_GUILTY
21hr ago
This is a good to catch up with it. The epilogue just finished yesterday (for Unsounded proper: the second half will have a new title and begin in January.)
Throwaway05
21hr ago
I still haven't seen the last one, and should be surprised if I ever do.
I feel so seen haha. I also refused to watch the last one. Can't even remember its name if I'm being honest. Total fundamental drop off of interest.
You know I also thought Rogue One scratched the itch - interesting. Lots of the more traditional non-woke critics hated it.
Andor was actively incredible though (although I have yet to see the second season, just timing issues).
Lewis's Space Trilogy does a pretty excellent job, I think.
Quantumfreakonomics
21hr ago
I was wondering how a Christian worldview would mesh with interplanetary science fiction, but this explains it.
SubstantialFrivolity
I'm not even supposed to be here today
22hr ago
the ridiculous shoot or move but not both (without perks) in the newer ones.
That's not a thing in general. You can both move and shoot, unless you are using a sniper rifle.
Full-strength no caveat endorsements for recent releases:
You should play them if you haven't.
2rafa
22hr ago
As I recall he sold it well below what he’d have received in an open bidding process because thought Disney and Iger would be better stewards of the brand.
Lewyn
I am at the center of everything that happens to me
22hr ago
I’m hoping Ascent of Ashes lives up to the hype I have for it. Getting another real time with pause colony sim would be a dream come true, especially if it’s more focused on exploration and combat than Rimworld
FCfromSSC
Nuclear levels of sour
22hr ago
Seconding Unsounded. I haven't caught up in a couple years, but the first arc was absolutely fantastic. Also, I would argue Sette is amazing from the very start; I get that people might think of her as a "girl boss", given that she's a... girl(?) and is certainly bossy, but the thing is that her confidence is very obviously artificial, and that while she is in fact quite competent in a variety of ways from the start, the gap between her competence and the situation she's stuck in is immediately obvious, and quite stark. Also, the rest of the characters, male and female, are really, really well done. Duane is amazing as a portrait of a man of principles slowly being ground down by an unprincipled world.
Also, Kill Six Billion Demons, which I likewise am a couple years behind on, but was amazing as far as I've read.
Quantumfreakonomics
22hr ago
Well sure from a deterministic perspective this is trivially true, but the sense we are using it is that a woman doesn't have to do anything in order to be wifed up and have a decent lower-middle-class family life except excercise judgement over which specific suitors she ought to choose. In this frame, far from being slop, Twilight is actually the core female struggle heightened by supernatural fantasy elements.
TitaniumButterfly
22hr ago
Sam Hyde has some advice about this.
Disney lost a bunch of parents pushing gay shit too. Like toddler movies that aren't good is recoverable from- they're toddler movies, after all- and probably doesn't even make a difference. But the people writing their preteen sitcoms being in charge of pixar wasn't the thing that pissed people off. It was GayBC agenda pushing.
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