Bloodstained. A remake of Castlevania. It's better than the originals.
Not visually at least. The move to 3D is made with really poor taste.
I don't agree. I just finished it and I have no problem with it. It reminds me of Dark Souls 1.
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#472Cormac McCarthy. Finally started "bingeing" his books from the local library and not since Virginia Woolf has a writer's use of words to paint pictures made such an impression on me.
I was looking for some English language fiction literature. Any book you'd recommend?
No Country for Old Men is the most accessible. Blood Meridian is harder, but very good.
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#473LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.
> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.
As a frequenter of various nba forums and subreddits, I cannot believe you have invaded my safe space with this argument ;)
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#474. NET Core
I came here for this one. Between the platform convergence and incredible productivity you get with tools like Blazor, I could not be happier. The latest C# language version is also really nice w/ the additional functional paradigms, pattern matching, et. al.
There are certainly a few rough spots on non-windows platforms if you want to port legacy .NET Framework apps, but for most enterprisey use cases, .NET Core is an amazing fit.
The performance also constantly staggers me. AspNetCore is trading blows within the top 10 slots of the techempower composite benchmark these days.
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#475The 2020 elections.
Now that the elections are over: does anyone think they were underwhelming?
2016 had the real threat of both never-Trumpers and Bernie-or-busters, and a lot of weird drama with pizzagate, grab them by the pussy, and her emails. 2020 had nothing anywhere near that and had a comfy and predictable ending.
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#476Hamilton. I'm not big into theater nor musicals, and I had heard so much about it by the time I watched it on Disney+, I wasn't expecting it to blow me away but it totally did. I'm a huge fan now, watched it several times, listened to the album hundreds of times, read the book, and recommend it every time I can :)
I think it's so good because it's a distillation of a true life that affects the modern world still in complex ways, made by an artist who understands it's subject matter deeply and intimately. It both treats it's subject matter incredibly intelligently, yet never tries to show off with braininess and focuses on memorable stage characters and top notch songs. It's so good on so many layers.
This is exactly the opposite of how I feel about hamilton. And lin-manuel miranda in general. As much as hip-hop is fundamentally a "telling" art form, I feel like Miranda's text is far far on the "show don't tell" spectrum in terms of it's emotional content, say, compared to 90s west coast hip hop. (See also moana, the lyrics in that are very tell-not-show). For a more intelligent fictionalisation of that era, I recommend Burr, by Gore Vidal.
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#477The Instant Pot
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#478LeBron James was touted as the Next Great Hope for basketball, was on the cover of Sports Illustrated at age 17, and his high school games were televised on ESPN. Since then he's won 4 NBA championships, opened a school in his hometown, and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time.
> and become arguably the greatest basketball player of all time. LeBron is definitely the best of his era but he's not touching Jordan in terms of greatest player of all time, even if he does pull off two more championships. During the 90s, Jordan was as close to a demi-god in the sports world as you could get.
The Greatest Of All Time isn't Jordan; it's Bill Russell. 11 championships - nearly twice what Jordan has.
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#479- Halt & Catch Fire
- IntelliJ
- Toyota having dependable cars.
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#480Cormac McCarthy. Finally started "bingeing" his books from the local library and not since Virginia Woolf has a writer's use of words to paint pictures made such an impression on me.
Blood Meridian is a top 3 book for me. Just fantastic. With one of those endings that takes the book from a 4.5/5 to a 5/5