NumberOneShoupFan

maybe things will get better

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@TNOQuoProQuid Say what you will about 80s Fantasy doorstoppers, but you were going to visit every place on that Damn Map in the heroes quest to destroy the cursed sword

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@ROX_Hojin Wow unspeakable horrors being spoken

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@xenocryptsite @bigseb31213 That's crazy. It was niche in the 00s but then the most widely carried wargame as historicals passed away

Interesting it lines up with the D&D explosion. Both had become the biggest thing in their niche in the US by that time?

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@KooHo_jin @MattZeitlin That's British Excellence

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@KooHo_jin @MattZeitlin Every bit of statistics history is either "interesting tidbit about industrial manufacturing", "farming", or "I am proving eugenics scientifically"

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@KooHo_jin @MattZeitlin That's beautiful...
Could they tell?

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@MattZeitlin Not me. I've never trusted my gut once. When I got to a bar, I'm whipping out a p-test on reviews for each beer. If the diff is not significant, I simply choose randomly.

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@rustbeltjacobin Sometimes fun stuff is still happening but they won't put it on the cover. This is a recent fantasy novel I liked about a teacher who fights demons in a modern British Boarding school. A phoenix shoots out of her arm! But b/c it's prestigious you get this cover, which is not bad

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@xenocryptsite We have to support this so that PIRANESI adaptation gets made. "Uh, what if the backrooms looked cool and had a plot, please adapt this weird fantasy novel from a great writer"

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@The_Clermontian In general I think it is pretty bad that it's hard to see clear reactions around the world from real changes in immigration policy. That is, lots of countries have cut immigration a lot in the last few years, and it's hard to see that this has brought salience down

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@rocks_lab @MariGO2thepolls What's weird is that is now really long term; e.g. if you were a Sci-Fi fan in the 80s-90s there was no equivalent in the US of the amount of stuff that was getting animated through OVAs in Japan. And this is still happening.

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@rocks_lab @MariGO2thepolls For some reason Japan has been much better at getting fans of something small to pony up a lot of money. Therefore if you have very specific niche interests you're much likelier to find a manga/anime about that than any US pop culture besides books.

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@ROX_Hojin Maybe b/c Shor posted about it so much?

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@ROX_Hojin Many such cases

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@ROX_Hojin I think like a lot of people you enjoy arguing with people who might listen to you, and therefore mostly argue with people on your side. Me too.

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@ROX_Hojin Celebrating the repeal of RTW, sometimes I forget you actually are on the left....

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@TristanSevers @dee_of_e In general videogame influence seems under noticed. Lots of contemporary fantasy novels seem very influenced by it

[NumberOneShoupFan @OneShoup]

@maiamindel [adjusts glasses] The Orange part is the protestant part. Herbert presumably meant it as a pun on both the Housr of Orange for Protestants and also saffron, the color of Buddhist Monks; since the OC is meant to be the collection of all religious traditions of mankind.