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My fun thing I realized with the last pair of shoes I got is that my feet get wider after the second mile of walking and it's uneven between my feet.
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It seems that this thread has a lot of people confusing 17th century liberalism, mid 20th century neoliberalism, and a different "neoliberalism", which seems like a combination of neoclassical economics, utilitarianism, Weber's idea of the protestant work ethic, and Reaganomics.
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Great now I'm thinking of the setting of the board game Apiary, where everyone is a sentient cyborg bee in space, free associating with Mothership. So I'm thinking of a magic system where if the player missteps their dance, they take SAN damage.
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I'd much rather the right one. The space below the header should be larger than the space between body lines to maintain information hierarchy. And the bottom margin on the left one bugs me. Probably could stand to go for a different font though.
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I default to Palatino, TBH, but Garamond and Baskerville are nice depending on the application.
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I feel like only some Isekai fantasies with game mechanics count as LitRPGs. Like "I'm a spider, so what?" is really explicit about leveling skills as core story progression, but "KonoSuba" just has character sheets as resumes as an occasional gag.
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From a world building perspective, I think some shallowness of that is ultimately coming from "Journey to the West"'s plot structure, which uses settings as set pieces for the monster of the week. A lot of these fantasy authors are cutting their teeth on web serials, where that structure works well.
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As far as visuals go, in addition to Dragon Quest and AD&D, I think there's some visual DNA from Disney's "Snow White", "Cinderella", and "Sleeping Beauty" if you go far enough back.
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Though I didn't care for that anime, I thought the thing that "I'm A Spider So What?" did with having an in-universe religion dedicated to the narrator that announced when you leveled up was an interesting idea, though the execution had a a lot to be desired.
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Sometimes the setting has explicit in universe stat blocks and game-like mechanics. Though this showed up in various LitRPG-adjacent isekai earlier, I first saw it in a non-isekai fantasy with in Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? (2013). I've seen it fairly regularly since.
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I feel like The Craft (1996) is important to this conversation, but I don't think it really codifies the taxonomy.
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I think it's cool how unapologetically furry you are. That's part of what makes your posts fun to read, while also being educational.
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I have a wooden clothespin that I keep on my toaster oven. It lets me pull out the rack easily.
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Fair. My top bar hasn't been useful in years because I have over 200 tabs per window and never clear them out.
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I've been using Tree Style Tab for years.
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Maomao: Aw. A magic ring? I wanted a rare ingredient.
The One Ring: A magic ring can acquire many rare ingredients.
Maomao: Explain how!
The One Ring: Magic can be used to acquire goods and services.
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I love a good #xenogears reference.
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My problem with this is that mosquitoes aren't biting people so much they die of blood loss like most non-humans. They're infecting them with disease. If we count the number of humans killed by infectious diseases caught from humans, we should see >5MM from TB, lower respiratory infections, etc.
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I think the people who would have gotten big into MLMs are now overly online instead of reading too many celebrity magazines.