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People who tell you to skip The Colour of Magic are lying, don't listen to them

Circle back to it. Don't miss any, but I rarely recommend it as someone's first Discworld book. Here's my thing: Pterry hadn't really found his voice yet and discovered his material but Colour is still fun and he lays out several of his foundational characters: Rincewind, CMOT Dibbler, Death, Cohen the Barbarian, etc. I recommend a book to a new Discworld reader based on their interests. Like musical theater? Read Maskerade. Suchlike. If the person's jam is fantasy books themselves then Colour IS the way to go since those first two books were a direct parody of major fantasy novels and fantasy tropes. So yeah, read Colour but it usually shouldn't be first. Colour is a treat for established Discworld readers.

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In terms of establishing the fundamental aesthetic of the 1990s strand of cinematic cyberpunk, the 1993 Super Mario Bros. adaptation is probably up there with Johnny Mnemonic and Lawnmower Man influence-wise, as much as we all hate to admit it.

Welcome to the "learned from this post that the first major live-action feature film adaptation of a pre-existing video game franchise was a dystopian cyberpunk AU of Super Mario Bros. for some inexplicable reason" club.

I do believe the stink of this movie saved us from some far worse projects. I have no idea what those would have been, but I believe.

Are you kidding? This film was the vanguard; it may have tanked in theatres, but the novelty of it led to a number of bandwagon-jumping projects in following years. After Super Mario Bros. dropped in 1993, we had Double Dragon and the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter in 1994, then Paul W S Anderson's Mortal Kombat in 1995; the unexpected commercial success of the latter film was reportedly the deciding factor when Angelina Jolie accepted the lead role in Tomb Raider a few years later, which in turn kicked off the second wave of major live-action video game adaptations in the early 2000s that gave us the Resident Evil films

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I prefer to focus on positive outcomes.

I need to rewatch this movie, this is an absolutely insane detail for them to consider and work around.

OP's assertion about the cyberpunk aesthetic is bold and it is right

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theres a lot of jobs i think would be cool to automate but the people being automated out of a job are given no alternatives because this is being done for the employers benefit not the employee. so we're in a weird situation where im lookin at jobs that i really dont think any person should be forced to endure and still having to go "well i guess id rather a human do it than a robot" which kind of sucks major ass actually. why am i on the side of employment. god damn it.

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what's a good place to find a queer VtM group to play with? cause all of the ttrpg LFG places are just festered with people only looking to play DnD

Wish you were local, bud, because I run Vampire at my local shop and my troupe and game are queer as hell. We got pronouns that haven't been heard since 1066.

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.