“I won’t care how you remember me” by Tigers Jaw was hitting right on the drive in for me.

I liked that one too, I read it around the same time as Tusk, and those two are connected in my mind. They both seem to be in the same universe, and some of the technology from tusk shows up in Mountain and vice versa. I think you’ll like it if you like his other books.

Huge fan of this author’s books. Tusks of Eternity blew my mind. Short read, absolutely wild premise of an elephant researcher’s mind being transferred into a cloned Mammoth in the distant future. Deals with the idea of non-human animals having unseen cultures that are just as important as their genetic material for the species’ survival. That and how destructive humanity is to the environment and ourselves.

I actually read Palaces of the Crow earlier this year and while it is less sci fi than the other books by Mr. Nayler, I loved it too.

I’ll have to pick up Where the Axe is Buried at some point. Thanks for the review.

The band The Fall of Troy has a song called Tom Waits, probably as either a joke or to mess with people looking up the Tom Waits song.

Do you have any mutual friends that might be able to corroborate?

I guess that’s a fair point, I may just be confused based on my own limited understanding.

Is it as simple as deleting everything after the first 11 characters post / like in the picture? Is that universal to every YouTube link?

Anyone know of any tools in the Apple ecosystem or URL based tools?

In Dark Souls 3, you are an unkindled, a historic warrior that was strong enough to attempt to link the flame but who failed in their life. So there is some precedent for your character starting with skills of their chosen profession. Who knows, maybe they even made it as far as the Kiln before falling? You rise out of your grave because the Lords of Cinder, who actually linked the flame, had been revived at the end of the world and convergence of time and space (or something like that) to link it again, but refused. I like to think there is some ambiguity in these games, and you can write your character’s own backstory for who they were and what happened to them.

Imagine the Crimson Skies (game) universe but with a more interesting story.

Sorry if you liked the plot, I loved the game but the story wasn’t particularly memorable for me.

Pretty sure ladybugs eat aphids, so why not have your cake and eat it too?

Thats hilarious.

I was thinking of showing up as the Ice King from Adventure Time earlier, but I’m not sure the joke would land.

whoops… yeah definitely could have worded that better.

I love it, I can just say the snow melted off of me before I got to the party.

I still use a Tesseract Deepcool case for my home PC that I got in the mid 2010s. Nothing groundbreaking, could have more fan slots. It didn’t change the world, but it did open my world to building PCs and picking parts, so that’s cool.

100% not what you are talking about.

I dunno, there were pretty big anti mask movements back in the 1918 “Spanish” Influenza pandemic. I think it’s completely possible that ignorance can persist, even in the face of obvious oblivion.

I really like that line of thought.

Exactly this is what I feel like Elden Ring has been missing from the start: factions with rewards to encourage multiplayer engagement. I even miss Aldrich invasions and being a mound maker. Half the invaders in Elden Ring play like mound makers anyways and attack everything indiscriminately… may as well get some shackles for it.

That and the removal of the ember/humanity requirement made it less likely that people would be exposed to invasions. I remember beating bosses, forgetting I was ember-ed, and run into an invader at the worst/best possible moment. I know that some people hated being forced into PVP, but it got the blood flowing and made every play-through feel just a little unique. It added character to the world, made it feel alive.

Edit: What would some interesting factions be for Elden ring that would be lore friendly? I like the idea of maybe a SOTE invasion class being fire knights. In hindsight they could have locked some of the spells and weapon arts behind this instead of the NPC invaders. The bloody fingers and recusant fingers were clearly based on some of the invasion factions in previous games, would have been cool to see at least one of those have rewards based on invasion success/spoils. Golden order would seem to be the closest analogue to the Warriors of Sunlight, and has a handful of relevant spells and weapons that could have been chases. Maybe a faction for Those Who Live in Death that could have been like the Gravelord Servents or something?

That looks clean! I wish I could find an aftermarket replacement or 3d print model for a 2ds shell, but nobody seems to make those for some reason.

Bad Books - Bad Books II (original version)

Thrice - Beggars

O’ Brother - Death of Day EP

Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight

At the Drive In - Relationship of Command

Edit: also any of Elliot Smith or Jose Gonzalez’s stuff too, especially for fingerpicking

Nice, I’ll have to look into that one.

A couple that I’ve been following are:

• Pokemon Lazarus, an emerald romhack in a new region based on Greece. Lots of custom pixel art for the trees/architecture/terrain and apparently has megas.
• Pokemon KEP, a red hack that adds some of the original beta Pokemon back in to the game along with regional variants of Kanto Pokemon, and adds a couple new locations/characters/music/features.
• Pokemon Extreme Yellow which adds in some of the Kanto megas as final evolutions. A bunch of other goodies too such as expanded maps, quality of life stuff, crazy hard puzzles. The creator is trying to implement a bunch of other crazy stuff for an unreleased update including diving mechanics.