llamapocalypse

K’chain Che’malle. Fricken’ dinosaurs with fricken’ sword arms.

They’ve got Seth Dickinson as part of the writing team and literally everything I’ve read of his is fantastic, including game stuff and his novels and short stories, so I’m hopeful.

OH DEER GOD

Take my opinion with a slight grain of salt because it’s been at least a decade since I read the book and a half of the series that I got through, but from what I recall the books just didn’t really have much to them - flat characters, awkward dialogue, and the actual prose itself was pretty bad. It was also boring enough that I just didn’t care about anything that was happening, and I’d read enough good fantasy by the time I read Eragon that its flaws were hard to look past - I know the dude was a teenager when he wrote it, but that doesn’t make the work magically better. Not trying to shit on anybody’s parade, but it just really wasn’t my thing.

I don’t know about worse, but the Eragon books and movie are equally terrible.

Malazan Book of the Fallen, Gentlemen Bastards series, most of Neil Gaiman’s work, The Library at Mount Char, the Baru Cormorant series, Gatsby, Flowers for Algernon, and most of Plath’s work - I go back to most of those every few years.

They do not meme with their keyboard, they meme with their heart.

Nail.

Centaur for disease control and hemogoblin are perfect, may have to steal.

The “smart home” story in particular is oddly prescient.

A young boy

I’ve really been enjoying EVE Online for the past few months. Tried it a decade ago and bounced right off, but it caught me this time around.

“Watching porn at work, so both.”

Not sure if this is quite what you’re looking for, but the journals of a lot of famous writers and poets are published - people like Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, etc. who had bipolar disorder might be of interest. Plenty of psych memoirs out their too by people like Terri Cheney and Marya Hornbacher that might be of interest.

I feel like Tahani and Eleanor are both high int low wis, just different alignments. Not sure about Tahani but I’m pretty sure Eleanor is chaotic neutral

Freespace 2, and particularly the Freespace Open mod Blue Planet. Fantastic gameplay and the story/characters/mission design in the Blue Planet mod take a 90s game and make it better than most current ones.