In the same vein I keep thinking about a "false crime" podcast

imo Metroid 1 did incredibly at incorporating weird "alien" elements in the music (Norfair is very odd, Ridley is in a whole-tone scale, even Brinstar has a 4/3 rhythm in the melody) while still keeping it approachable. They could push it a bit further, and in 2 they did but overshot for most people

I can at least respect the pageantry on this one

I think what you're glossing over here is that you probably really wanna put the magic ring on. Maybe you could escape the phantoms if you could only shake these distracting thoughts about how wearing that ring would be really cool and fun. Maybe wearing it would help with the distraction!

The old adage goes, "what's the difference between a million and a billion? About a billion".

A million is only a tenth of a percent of a billion 😲

That guy was a PhD accompanied by a John Williams score, I gotta consider him double-a. Or at least "two thumbs up"

Advances in mental health treatment have almost entirely cured knuckleballs

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk is a murder mystery about artists in Ottoman Turkey where chapters are delivered from many different characters' perspectives, including all suspects, as well as chapters that are openly from the murderer, where they gloat that they're so good at not giving you clues

This actually happened again a few days ago, maybe I do know what carnelian is

Just you wait until x approaches infinity and then we'll see who eats who

It's deeply strange to me that every creative work for the past thousand years is like "vengeance is unfulfilling and self-destructive" yet the most mainstream position in society still seems to be "we are owed revenge when we are wronged"

I might be crazy for this one but my migraines pretty reliably get worse along with autumn weather, so it may be something like that

I don't look half that powerful going up a staircase, even if it's less challenging for me

If we can learn from this that good media getting canceled is yuri in itself, we will at last find the beauty in the world around us

Even if that's the case, it's the asocial behavior that characterizes szpd; delusions are not part of the disorder

My understanding of schizoid pd is that its primary feature is complete disinterest in social interaction, which doesn't really align with what I'm getting from Wikipedia about chunibyo