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Keep the Nazis out. with flames and force is necessary. Both online & in real life.
2·1 year agoThis is a fantastic track from an amazing album. Highly recommend it if you love melodic funeral doom.
41·1 year ago“Sir, how high are you?” “Yes.”
1·1 year agoFucking duh!
I briefly lived with a Kiwi years ago and he thought I hated him because I kept calling him ‘mate’. And I thought he hated me because he kept calling me ‘bro’.
I know the issues, especially the issues with disability and mobility issues have with them, but my personal sense of nostalgia trumps all of that.
(obvious sarcasm is obvious)
Pity. I grew up with the classic ones. Wish they kept them around, even if just for the sake of tourism.
I miss those trams. They might still have them in Melbourne but I’m not down in Melbourne.
Tom Holt is much in a similar vein as Pratchett (even shared the same cover artist for a while) with his satirical takes on fantasy & fairy tale tropes.
Surprised no one has mentioned Robert Rankin, who has a darker view that Adams but is good at satirical takes, even though some of his works do feel dated since they were written for the contemporary audience of the publications time.
Diana Wynne Jones is also recommended, she was an influence on Pratchett to a degree. She picks apart a lot of fantasy tropes in her books. she was also a friend and teacher to Gaiman. Most people know her for the Ghibli adaptation of her book Howl’s Moving Castle.
Jasper Forrde has been described to me as like Adams but haven’t read his book yet.
and finally the Gormenghast series by Mervyn Peake, which was referenced a lot in the early Discworld novels.
1·1 year agoI remember having to restart the entire game because I didn’t find a key item in a level but still enjoyed it as a whole. Some design issues, reused the same levels the entire and weird ideas (whole sale cripping from Lovecraft without making a better connecting narrative was jarring) but as a whole was very fun, with some good chapters to play (enjoyed the Monk one the most for some reason).
Metroid II: Samus Returns & Gargoyles Quest (such a bloody hard game) on the OG GameBoy were my favs. I played a lot of *Battletoads *on it too but that game was so bloody frustratingly difficult, especially for a kid, so played it mostly out of spite to get past the stupid brain ball chasing you level. Also loved Parodius (parody side scrolling SHUMP from Konami) but never owned it, so borrowed it from friends to play. Naturally I also played Tetris to the point that the music still haunts my dreams. There was also a pretty decent Spider-Man game for it, but can’t remember it’s name & it’s not showing up on lists.
The OG GB also had a lot of bog awful licensed property (movie/tv/cartoon) tie in games too, as well as generally terrible releases. To see them all, check this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_games
I unfortunately never owned an Advance, so only got into games on it later via official emulators (the Wii U control pad was the best GB Advance out there), so got to play Golden Sun later but enjoyed it as a fairly unique take on the J-RPG genre. The releases of Breath of Fire 1 & 2 on the Advance was also a great thing, since they were my favourite SNES games.
For GBA games, here’s a list but so many shitty licensed games there too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_Boy_Advance_games
Not speed metal, just classic post-NWoBHM Heavy Meal style stuff in the vain of Raven, Saxon, & Crimson Glroy. \m/
“There is a large juxtaposition between expectation and result.” Once used that when asked to give feedback on a store manager when I was a security guard.
It’s now all John Oliver as far as the eye can see.
Canberra was -2 at 7 PM last night. am used to cold winters, this is pretty fucked though.
Bolt shoud’ve been fired years ago but he’s one of the few people left at Sky/Murdoch that will so willingly debase themselves with stupid options & say such pathetic things to get a smidgen of views without demanding a better spot & higher pay.