Kavinay

Great idea, gets somewhat bogged down and teases cybertronion lore that never comes.

Ticks all the boxes:
- cold war
- ninjas
- super-soldiers
- sword-fight while falling from an airplane...

Gets a bit convoluted towards the end but ultimately delivers.

Zizek on pandemic isolation alienating even non-labour activity from oneself: clever.

Zizek on the spectre of cancel culture: cringe.

+1 for the scene featuring a spilled Agromech screaming “should I punch out sir?” and the Dervish behind correcting the CO that he had no hands to help.

Could not have predicted that this series would get me with the sorrow of a kaiju named Go-Go Space Baby sending time dilated letters to her given-up son, who was adopted by Ultramen. No joke, this is just a phenomenal series that Zander Cannon outdid himself on with each successive season.

Such an underwhelming run. More happened in the Beast Wars series that was 1/4 the length of Ruckley's plodding narrative.

Starts really strong but there's not much going on in the back half.

Only disappointment is that it had to end so soon.

oof

Just a gorgeous book.

Overall a good primer on Spinoza, but it strikes me as an odd choice to not go into Spinoza's metaphysics and how the resulting pantheism confounds and distinguishes him from his early modern peers.
Put another way: Spinoza was delightfully weird and contextualizing that would go a long way towards making his his work further accessible and appreciated.

It's fine, though still runs into the problem of not really being able to square the spectacular cartoon villain stupidity of the Mongol doctrine.

A typical spelunker turns into Frasier and then AvP.

Best ever cameo of Boris Johnson to boot

“Part of me was hoping racism would work in my favour for once.”

Outstanding.

It's not what you think. This isn't a superhero book and the climax isn't even the firefight at the end but rather two GI's–who aren't Frank Castle–arguing over what America really is.

Great idea and the individual pieces are good, but there's a lot of overlap throughout. Some of it is testament to how brilliant “Jeremy Bearimy” is for teaching moral philosophy, but it feels like this could have been an even better collection if each contributor had a more constrained focus.

Better than Calth atleast

Outstanding

Delightfully weird and playful take on fantasy tropes.

Real grognard nerding out.

Gets a lot better with “I am Baylor!”

Keeping Husserl's book checked out from the library for 2 years with no one noticing is one of the most amusing tidbits Strathern has commented on.

Thoroughly impressed with Strathern's tendency to humanize his stodgy philosophers with details about their sex lives.