HeyJaredOn The Off Chance You Want My Opinion
Book reviews, lukewarm socialist takes, and miscellaneous grouchiness
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sometimes things are good (opens the original)
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Sometimes things are good. I could say it is “important” to remember that, for your mental health or because moments of happiness or rest are essential revolutionary praxis or “resistance,” or some other such thing, but I kinda don’t want to, because while these sentiments are sometimes true, such thoughts instrumentalize the good things in life, as if the good things are only there to help you get through the bad things, as if they lack an essential internal things-in-themselves-ness that justi
Make Comic Book Shows Ridiculous Again (opens the original)
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Spoilers throughout for both seasons of Daredevil: Born Again.The Swordsman is on trial! He sits before a panel of three judges, charged with violating New York’s new “Safer Streets” law, which criminalizes masked vigilantism and requires anyone convicted under its new strictures to be sentenced to life in prison. The Swordsman’s attorney does her level best, but the panel is intimidated by the Safer Streets Initiative’s architect, Mayor Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk, and finds him guilty. He will spend
TANSTAAFL (opens the original)
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I am reading all 215 sci-fi and fantasy books I inherited after my dad’s death (that I have not already read within the last twenty-or-so years). You can click here to learn more about the project; the tag for the whole project is here.Thanks for reading On The Off Chance You Want My Opinion! Subscribe for free to receive new posts; subscribe at $5/month to he
Thomas Coberly's Sci-Fi (opens the original)
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(This is mostly inside-baseball housekeeping stuff. Feel free to skip if you’re not invested in this sort of thing.)(Also I am not actually pivoting to video. I thought that was fairly clear from the way the silly video I posted yesterday ended, but from some of the (very nice and supportive) messages I’ve gotten, I may have been wrong about that. It is conceivably possible I will make more sketches as the Spirit Moves, but I don’t think I have it in me to be a YouTube Content Creator.)<div clas
bill is pivoting to video (opens the original)
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you ever pivoted to video? i’m pivoting to video as we speak. video-maxxing; pivot-pilledin dwarf fortress terms this is called a Strange Mood
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