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  1. Comment on I love space horror and sci-fi with horror elements. Any recommendations around? in ~books

    andatsofthefall
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    I love the Craft Sequence, so I don't think those books would be too silly for me. Weird stuff can be very fun.

    I love the Craft Sequence, so I don't think those books would be too silly for me. Weird stuff can be very fun.

  2. Comment on I love space horror and sci-fi with horror elements. Any recommendations around? in ~books

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    I've never read Roadside Picnic, but I'll let you know my thoughts sometime, once I've picked it up. I have read House of Leaves and I enjoyed it. It's a very unsettling experience, for sure. I'm...

    I've never read Roadside Picnic, but I'll let you know my thoughts sometime, once I've picked it up.

    I have read House of Leaves and I enjoyed it. It's a very unsettling experience, for sure. I'm glad my list helped you! Sci-fi horror is a relatively niche subgenre and I'm always looking for new entries.

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  3. Comment on Does anyone here collect Pokemon from event distributions? in ~games

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    Oh yeah, gen 3 events did not have Cherish Balls or ribbons, IIRC. Those started in gen 4 and above (although some events have exceptions to the Cherish Ball rule). Honestly, I would bite your...

    Oh yeah, gen 3 events did not have Cherish Balls or ribbons, IIRC. Those started in gen 4 and above (although some events have exceptions to the Cherish Ball rule). Honestly, I would bite your hand off for any of those 10th Anniversary events! Suicune and Umbreon especially.

    I met someone recently who had an Aura Mew from gen III as well and I'm mad jealous. I have some gen 4/5 events myself at least!

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  4. Comment on Does anyone here collect Pokemon from event distributions? in ~games

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    I personally came back in gen 8 and have been having a lot of fun with the games. Went from shiny hunting to event collection!

    I personally came back in gen 8 and have been having a lot of fun with the games. Went from shiny hunting to event collection!

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  5. Comment on Does anyone here collect Pokemon from event distributions? in ~games

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    Yup. There are unique code distributions though, like Lechonk from Gamestop, the 25th Anniversary Pikachu in Japan or the shiny Pichu being distributed in Korea. The WiFi distros are probably the...

    Yup. There are unique code distributions though, like Lechonk from Gamestop, the 25th Anniversary Pikachu in Japan or the shiny Pichu being distributed in Korea. The WiFi distros are probably the easiest to obtain however.

  6. Comment on Does anyone here collect Pokemon from event distributions? in ~games

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    Well, there's a WiFi release on the latest game for an event Gastrodon, and a shiny Arcanine in a couple of weeks, so it's a good time to start!

    Well, there's a WiFi release on the latest game for an event Gastrodon, and a shiny Arcanine in a couple of weeks, so it's a good time to start!

  7. I love space horror and sci-fi with horror elements. Any recommendations around?

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    New to Tildes, so I wanted to kick things off by asking—do you have any sci-fi horror recs you reckon I might be interested in? Here's some of what I've read: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Solid...

    New to Tildes, so I wanted to kick things off by asking—do you have any sci-fi horror recs you reckon I might be interested in? Here's some of what I've read:

     

    Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

    • Solid read, but definitely more about the weird vibes than anything else. Sequels didn't hook me as much.

     

    Blindsight by Peter Watts

    • I generally try not to DNF my reads. But this was one of them. I'm sorry, I just can't buy vampires in a sci-fi world that's trying to take itself seriously, without proper grounding. It's also incredibly dry.

     

    Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

    • A pretty solid read, I like how the narrative is told via flashbacks and then suddenly terminates in a way that makes you want to know more, in the most tantalizing of ways. Unfortunately I thought the reveal of the lurking horror was incredibly meh, and it went mostly downhill from there.

     

    Diamond Dogs by Alistair Reynolds

    • Fantastic novella with a mysterious locale functioning as the backdrop of the setting, and the horror elements being both external (as in the setting) and internal (how far our characters are willing to go to crack the mystery).

     

    Paradise-1 by David Wellington

    • A really solid space horror novel, with a pretty interesting protagonist trio (including a self-aware robot with plastic bodies) and it has some genuinely uncomfortable moments of horror that I can absolutely get behind. My main issue though, is that it ends in a cliffhanger and I'm still mad about it.

     

    Salvaged by Madeleine Roux

    • Decent read, but the horror reveal came super early and in reality, it's less space horror than it is human drama involving horror elements which is basically the Protomolecule from the Expanse. Fun read though, if you're okay with that.

     

    Salvation Day by Kali Wallace

    • I thought this was somewhat bland, the concept and initial plot were interesting, but it trails off and overall, overstays its welcome with some scenes that pacing-wise, feel like they belong in the middle part of the book. Some solid moments of horror though.

     

    Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo

    • Probably the quintessential space horror book for me. A fantastic setting, an intriguing protagonist narrative interspersed with religious themes and a genuinely solid pacing, horror-wise.

     

    Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty

    • This would have been an interesting murder mystery in space... if it actually had good and compelling characters. It does not. Everyone feels like a cardboard cutout with One Defining Trait and that's it.

     

    The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

    • This was... a disappointment. I still rank it amongst the worst books I've read, simply because the protagonist is unbelievable. I can buy a protagonist doing things under duress or from being manipulated, but I cannot buy a protagonist who constantly flip flops 5 minutes after making a decision and then
      hooks up with the person who was manipulating her, because yay fucked up sexytimes! Look, I want queer representation in my books too, but this came off too much as just doing it for the vibes. Queer rep deserves better than stupid protagonists.

     

    Walking to Aldebaraan by Adrian Tchaikovsky

    • A great novella; it's a retelling of a really well-known story but reframed in sci-fi terms, and I love that approach.

     

    We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

    • A really haphazard book I think; I like some things about it, but others just don't make sense, or contradict it. E.g. the protagonist is a psychologist, but is absolutely horrible at reading human emotion and speech, and a loner who prefers robots. Throw in some Michio Kaku-esque pseudoscience and while it's not a horrible read, it feels like a book that could have been better with a rewrite. The setting and suspense are pretty neat though.

     

    So, as you can see, I have met the good, the bad and the ugly of sci-fi horror. I'd love to find more! For non-book horror or horror adjacent works I've enjoyed, those include Alien, The Thing, Event Horizon, Sunshine, Underwater and Dead Space. Please don't recommend tie-in novels though; I can find those myself and generally I've found that they're not really up to par.

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  8. Does anyone here collect Pokemon from event distributions?

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    What I'm talking about are Pokemon that are given away in official events, which usually come in a Cherish Ball (after gen 4), have a ribbon, and were met in a 'fateful encounter'. I'm...

    What I'm talking about are Pokemon that are given away in official events, which usually come in a Cherish Ball (after gen 4), have a ribbon, and were met in a 'fateful encounter'. I'm particularly interested in the H-Zoroark event distribution at the moment, because I love that Pokemon and the red color of the Cherish Ball matches it nicely.

    Mostly just looking around for fellow traders to chat about cool shit we have, but I'm up for a trade or two if there's anyone interested!

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