Ember, Triune 🎶🔆🔥⚡️ @emanate@awoo.space

@makyo This coming Sunday, possibly yeah! :-)

@irisjaycomics "now I didn't see the film BUT AI are basically good right?"

@irisjaycomics That first truncated sentence says it all. :-/

@Leucrotta @mawr @Oneironott We had that on our shelves for a bit! :-D

@Dex Super cute concept and image! :-D

@literorrery I can't tell if that's good or bad. :-P

@DialMforMara

I don't like the new one's grin. And...yeah. Uh oh.

@Jacel Yeah the "hyper-competitive in-group" was the part I didn't pick up at first, maybe because I thought I was "in". But if it's competitive (and yeah, the book was /entirely/ about who knows the most ephemeral details), I'd never win that. That's not why I enjoy that media. :-)

@tastymochafox Eee, that's adorable!

@Jacel
I remember liking it at the time, but I've always been really bad at thinking critically of something while I'm reading it, and often afterward, too. :-/

I know I liked the general /structure/ of the riddles and puzzle hunt thing, but thinking aout it now the amount of references are rediculous in terms of trying to push a singular 80s-geek-kid experience. I maybe liked it only because I knew a lot of them, but...I also had a hugely sheltered childhood and wouldn't have back /then/.

@memnus@octodon.social "transponder ping" is a cute way of putting that. :-)

@memnus@octodon.social @tastymochafox I know most folks at my house go to Dockside Cannabis, but it's further north.

@green I looked this up on time, out of curiosity, and yeah, there's tons of regional variations. Some places make it with peanuts instead of rice, even.

@indi Yeah, I have trouble with this at my job too. Or even, sometimes, someone trying to force a topic by asking for my opinion, but clearly having their own they want to share desperately. I try to screen those out, but it used to be much harder to do.

I guess at work at least I /appear/ to be good at small talk because I'm often finding something to talk about based on what someone's looking at, or buying, or what I know they're reading, etc.

@DialMforMara Having not read them for various reasons, I suppose that's a good comparison.

Sanderson's stuff definitely moves along at a decent clip. I've never had a 1000+ page book go by so fast.

@DialMforMara I think they're his publishers, so yeah. I do actually like his stuff, even if several of his series have the Wheel Of Time problem (huge, sprawling, unfinished series).

@indi

Hm, I am kinda wondering about if I fit that too. Like, I don't just randomly message most people to say "how's it going?", and I usually need /some/ kind of topic of conversation to keep things going.