29, Including Ted Lasso Only Because I Watched Two Episodes On The Train Last Week When I Had To Stand

thinking about creatures.

I think my first fandom fandom exposure was arguably livejournal, but before that I was in a university RPG society, and before that I was making a weekly pilgrimage to Games Workshop to play games and talk about games, so I think "local club" is an honest answer, also this sentence is too long and must end soon.

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Round my way, getting off the bus you thank the driver. "Cheers, Drive". It's such a cultural keystone that when they built a new bus station in the town center, there was a petition to name the street it was on "Cheers Drive".

If you take the bus, wave to the driver and thank them as you're getting off the bus.

Being a bus driver is an underappreciated and difficult job but still very vital to society. They still have to do customer service and deal with rude and even aggressive passengers, and on top of that have to deal with traffic and other drivers all day (and let's face it, there's a lot of bad drivers out there who aren't considerate about sharing the road). All while providing an invaluable service of getting us where we need to go. Showing them some appreciation can go a long ways for someone doing such an important job that usually gets little to no recognition or thanks.

rpg setting with multiple competing units of damage/resilience used in different regions. you gotta worry about the conversion between hp celsius and hp fahrenheit

"imagine them in their underwear" is weird sanitised advice for people who think the most debased thing someone can be is naked, but not so naked that they're morally discomforting. what you have to do, if you want stage presence, is imagine them as your soulless undead army

I misread this as "fanfic can be as good as professional wrestling", and that seemed rather unkind to everyone involved.

At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.

When I was a kid, me and my friends would have all these "random" conversations, riffing off each other's bullshit about all sorts of dumb shit. I thought I was holding my own, but always a little in awe of my friend's inventiveness. Years later, I saw The Holy Grail for the first time, and realised I was the only one who thought that we were in a riff session.

I'm pretty sure that any two sufficiently good-looking gen Z kids could make it on TikTok by making videos that are 100% word-for-word re-enactments of Monty Python skits, and the whole audience who has never heard of the flying circus in their lives would lose it over such fresh and original material.

I remain a massive fan of the incredibly gutsy decision to have the big finale fight of season 1 not be a big flashy aerial sword-duel, but an old man with a box-cutter vs a kid who had to relearn how to walk a few months ago. (that said Asuna-Yuuki is a masterclass in combat-characterisation. Not just Asuna and Yuuki's personalities shining though how they fight, but the reactions of their friends being reminded that Asuna is That Damn Good, and Kirito's smile because... Kirito always knew she could fight like that)

do you guys think there’s a fight that’s universally loved and hyped up by the sao fandom

Rean is both the most realistic and most absurd of the Trails protags.

He's got two different, unrelated, protagonist secret powers. He's got unexpected ancestry! He's one of less than a dozen people who know Eight Leaves sword tech! He's a champion snowboarder, excellent fisherman, and unbeatable at Magic:the Gathering! He is the Maryest Sue at the ball.

...and he is deeply, realistically, clinically, depressed. His primary drive to help people comes from not being he can, or even should, help himself. He has a breakdown any time he spends more than a day by himself, constantly needing to be thinking about other people - as the alternative, thinking about himself, is too. damn. much.

I like Rean. I really hope he learns to like himself better.

sidequests in most trails game: you are basically a do-gooder for hire. doing these requests is how you put bread on your table and how you move up in the world

sidequests in cold steel: the cute student council president asked you very nicely if you could help her with some stuff and you are incapable of saying no to anyone

I love it when I see a nice art and it immediately dissolves into WTF-ery. Give me those man-made beauties beyond my comprehension.

Moooola!