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Can't tell if you're joking or not since an anime does exist called Dungeon of Black Company (which I haven't watched), and probably a thousand other mangas/anime containing the words "Black Company", since "Black Company" is a term in Japanese.

Anyone else read these before they were apparently banned in schools

yeah

They were banned, what?

In a few schools they were banned because of the smoking and drinking iirc.

I remember Bone being huge in elementary school, but I never really gave them a fair chance

Same

Finished The Strength of the Few and I enjoyed it. I recommend the series. I look online and I guess people don't like it, but whatever, I enjoyed it a lot.

Started watching the anime The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess, and I started thinking of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever

I think Thomas Covenant might be the oldest example of isekai by Truck-Kun.

Since that book series dates to the 70s.

I do not get the hype behind the Thomas Covenant books. Read them for the first time somewhat recently and found them just ok. Not bad really, but definitely not stand-out.

(Also I only just now saw that this was changed to books chat)

Asked a while ago, but, for once my opinion was actually the majority. I usually have quite different opinions haha. A lot of the characters just generally felt out of place, notably Kaladin, and the overall story just became too big for the world. Once you start going into the realm of the gods, the story becomes too much. I don't exactly know how to explain, but I enjoy more grounded stories. Also the ending just sucks. I care more for endings than anything else and I was told that this would be a good ending for the half-way point of the series, but the ending is not only a MASSIVE cliffhanger, but leaves just about every non-Kaladin character in just a horrible place.

Kaladin's entire story arc is entirely anachronistic though and I don't understand how anyone competent could have written it.

also also I think Rothfuss is secrely dead and any time he's been seen in real life is a body double.

I only got 3 quarters through Lord Foul's Bane. Besides inventing truck-kun, I did find the book rather freaky how nobody ever said the word "fuck". I asked my acting teacher if that word was invented in 1980.

that never once came to my mind

Hey I used to read this when I was an elementary school

I forgot the plot but remember the characters

Or some of them

Fone bone

And smiley bone

This is the episode where the anime jumps the shark

I feel like Pix made 50 episodes between this episode and the rusp dog episode and just did not upload them

how did we get here

Non canon OVA

Good to see GFL2 is still going strong

There were too many feet in that game when i tried it

Goon

Yea but this is the $500 feet skin

I guess they brought back the Skin Gacha from GFL1 and people are upset

I will cease gacha posting in book chat after this, but logged into GFL2 for anni event and was greeted with these

Thanks for the support bro

I LOVE STARFY

Sell me on starfy

I need another "I am watching a stream" game now that I am done chibi-robo

cute underwater platformer

very easy game, just playing for the aesthetic honestly. I enjoyed it as a child.

It's Shantae crossed with Kirby

good game

my sister got the ds one for christmas, and i liked it enough to try it and play it entirely 💀

like 10+ years ago

I'll consider it then

btw, only the officailly translated Starfy is good. I tried Starfy 1 and it was actually an awful experience, it made me very sad.

Pix update that I only posted in my Rance groupchat, Polu was evil last night

I then had to explain to Pix that she should not google the games in that list, and that she would not like "living with sister: monochrome fantasy"

Well, I think she would like the non "have sex with your sister" parts of that game, but uh

thats half the game

Been reading the latest Black Company book, and I can really see Glen Cook's innerweeb grow. 25 years ago (Real time. Not book time), the Black Company was last seen moving to fantasy Tibet. Now every other new character has a Japanese name with "no" (with the n being lower case) as their middle name.

I've been putting off reading Black Company for some time now despite being recommended it, would you think it's worth getting in to?

So long as the Rapture doesn't happen this Honnikah, sure? General rule of thumb is if you don't like the first book, give the second a shot since it is structually a lot different as it wasn't written as a bunch of novellas duck-taped together.

1 hour after writing this comment, I got bombarded by a bunch of new chinese names. So Glen remembers that other parts of Asia do exist.

Although I am a bit unusual since I didn't get introduced to the Black Company series through the books, but a WarCraft III custom campaign based off of the first book. I liked it's income system.

Pix's take on Pepe the frog

Wow

Pix seems like the sweetest person ever

She is 10-15% evil most days

more if Rusp is in chat

the entire cast is here. Rusp dog, Rusp human, me, Polu, and Mr. Midnight

he's so japan pilled he listed them from right to left 😔

no, what happened is the following Pika thinks "everyone is here. I will post this." He then types the first part of his message. However he then thinks "wait, what if the full cast is not actually here?" So he places his eye cursor on the leftmost figure and begins to verify one by one left to right that each member of the cast is there. But he wants to save his memory since he has a lot of other things on his mind, so he decides that he'll forget each character's name after he recognizes it, and instead just remember how many of the cast members appeared. When his eye seeks to the end and verifies the last character, he knows that the whole cast is there because the number he counted is the same as the cast size. But there's a problem... Because he didn't remember the names of each one, he doesn't know what to write in the message! He thinks "I COULD return my eye cursor to the beginning, and then go from left to right and write the name of each character. BUT, then I would end up moving twice the amount..." He realizes that in order to best preserve the number of uses of his eyes, which can only traverse a fixed number of degrees in their lifetime, it's more efficient to instead write the name of the characters in reverse order starting from his current position at the right.

What actually happed is I wanted to end with mr. midnight

I thought the thing said cunny

Spooky did reach for that

I think this is a fascinating read: https://a.co/d/8kMCuEk It's more of a personal story, it's fascinating. The writer was a Peace Corps volunteer for Uzbekistan for 3 months before he got culture shock and pleaded to go home, and then some years later, he decided to go back and visit the friends he made. The book is half history and half a travel blog. If you enjoy the travel blogs from mattlakeman.org then this book is a much more in-depth version of those blogs.

It says it's about the Aral Sea, but don't expect to hear about it for more than 30 or so pages. It's mainly an introduction of the history of Uzbekistan.