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Maybe the Most French anything has ever been?

Introduction is quite enchanting, first chapter (so far) is pretty dry and over-written with just enough of a compelling thesis to keep me going. Seems like Lantz is trying to thread a pretty tough needle by pitching this towards both aestheticist academics without a background in games AND game designers without a background in art history. Nevertheless, it's charming to stick an itch.io link in a footnote!

Within 30 seconds of settling into Shipe Pool with my e-reader, a kid told his dad he wanted to show him "how wet [he] can kick" and proceeded to splash the ever-loving fuck out of me. Then, a young girl begged her mom to play Imagine Dragons off her phone, which the mom happily obliged. The universe absolutely does not want a white boy to read Infinite Jest at the pool, but I refuse to relent!

Some unsavory characters so far if you can believe it

do y'all think the library of babel has a dvd section

Maybe it's the sinus pressure of The Cold From Hell talking, but Eschaton seems fun!

Read this for 2 hours last night and woke up this morning with sub-dermal pimples breaking out along my hairline... afraid that I'm sprouting a bandana like I'm in a 50's B-Movie called something like I Was a Teenage LitBro

Finding pieces of myself in this silly ass book while in a depressive episode feels like I'm doing the "its always 2 dumb bitches telling eachother 'exactlyyyy'" tweet with a dead guy

Slow and steady reads the book, as they say

ohhhh so we're getting Freaky, huh??

"He accuses himself of self-love but reflects that a little self-love is a tonic for a fat man in these times."

Started to drag a little bit for me but then we started filing insurance claims for Looney Tune-style slapstick accidents and selling piss, we are so BACK

Noooo don't make your piece of shit charismatic antagonist a direct Trump caricature 2/3 of the way through the book you're so sexy aha