Ooooh, I generated probably a dozen or so but this one’s my favorite.

I definitely second Kino’s journey. Fantastic little slice of life.

Yes, it absolutely does it justice.

It even does a good job of capturing a bit of the Mushishi vibe in and of itself.

And yes you are spot on the nose with why I got so excited. It is RARE that Mushishi pops up in conversations.

I am exercising extreme control to not create a couple of dozen extra accounts across multiple instances to create an apparent wave of support for your dicision to include Mushishi because #OMG MUSHISHI IS THE GOAT.

My wife once described it as a “Warm hug and a heavy sigh during a tough season of your life.”

Can be super melancholy at times and emotionally challenging but as soon as you either catch your breath / dry your tears / re-evaluate your life / heavy sigh a couple dozen time / sit in the dark in complete silence (episode dependent you immediately want to dive into the next episode. Even if you are unsure why.

Music: Beautiful Story: Beautiful Art: Beautiful

If you are looking for an anime that will make you think, feel, and wonder, then Mushishi is the one for you. It is a rare gem that deserves to be watched by anyone who appreciates the beauty and complexity of life. Mushishi is not just an anime, it is an experience.

Caveat: Mushishi may not be for everyone. Some people may find it too slow-paced, episodic, lacking in action or prefer more character development or continuity between episodes. Valid criticisms all, but I think they are outweighed by the strengths of the anime. Mushishi is not meant to be a typical show with a linear plot or flashy attention grabbing sequences.

It is meant to be a slice of life with a touch of magic. It is meant to be enjoyed at your own pace and with an open mind. If you can appreciate that, then you will love Mushishi as much as I do.

Ah yes, Baeu Miles quite possibly one of my favorite human beings to have ever existed. Love his stuff.

I fully blame autocorrect for that.

How you are viewing the book is incredibly valid.

The one way that I have come up with to describe a potential reason for the way the story is portrayed is this:

The ENTIRE series is from the perspective of a die hard semi-introverted software engineer and HUGE NERD who has this deep-seated need of just wanting to help and make things better.

Taking that into account everything written kind of states to make sense.

I love the series and it goes to some VERY interesting places.

There is one warning to give. At a certain point the book starts to suffer from scale creep. The characters are already able to do “X” so we need an enemy that can do “X+Y+Z” so now character learns to do "X+Y+Z TIME 10²“. At a certain point it’s best to just stop worrying about the explanations and just enjoy the story.

Highly recommend.

There is a caveat here.

In the Larry Niven/Ringworkd/Known Space fan base there is a MASSIVE divide between groups regarding which order you should read the books in.

The two main groups fall into the following:

1: Read in publication order. 2: Read Ringworld then Ringworld Engineers. After that go back to the earlier works which are technically prequels.

The one thing that almost everyone agrees is don’t bother with Ringworld Throne.

Here’s what I typically suggest for the series:

First, read the Ringworld saga. Ringworld, Ringworld Engineers, Ringworld Throne, Ringworld’s Children (maybe skip the last two, read reviews, make your decision based on how much you like the universe, I petrography like all of them)

They are pretty closely linked and serve as a good introduction to Known Space. You don’t have to know a lot about the Man-Kzin Wars, Beowulf Shaeffer, puppeteers or any other backstory to understand them.

Next, read all the books that fill out the universe with history and details, back stories, and lore. Crashlander, Protector, Three Books of Known Space, Flatlander, etc.

These give you more background on Earth, the colonies, Beowulf Shaeffer, and so on.

IF (big if) at this point you are still in love with everything Known Space then move on to the Fleet of World’s books. They do have a bit of retconning in them but not in a bad way that feels disingenuous, so I don’t view this as a negative mark.

One last point: If you are just looking for the “Humans as a superior species” aspect as you originally requested, just go read “Protector”, the other commenter is correct. It’s a very interesting twist on the subject.

If you want a HUGE universe of books to dive in to with an amazing amount of different intertwining stories and cool universe building: See above.

It took me way to long to figure out you were talking a out the Tau. I have never heard them described like that and will never be able to look at them the same again.

Excellent series. I’ve listened to it on audio books a couple of times and am currently going through it again with my wife. It’s taking forever though because she only listens in 30 minute chunks or so.

Gore Bernelli (sp?) is possibly my favorite character in literature.

I came here specifically hoping this series was already mentioned.

For true inconvenience: only the person has no-clip. Not material objects. If you want to No-clip through a wall you need to be naked.

Garunteed way to fasttrack the invention of true wireless power delivery.

there might be some lost in Translation happening here, it’s meant to say that Liam is about to be lapped.

If you zoom out this image JUST a little bit you will find Liam Lawson slightly ahead of Verstappen.

My trouble at the moment is that I am reaching myself 3d modeling and texture skinning for trackmania.

Wanna take a guess where the largest repository of blender/substance painter tutorials and trouble shooting is?

At the time it was worth it for all the exclusives that you would never see on YouTube. Plus my experience was that they served a better video and audio quality than Youtube.

Some artists use numbers in their names and adding numbers will change what the search returns sometimes with odd results.

It’s personally a catch 22 for me.

I listen to an absolutely absurd amounts of different artists. A large portion of them simply don’t have albums available for purchase and if they did… I would actually go broke buying all the stuff I listen to.

Every single day I type in a Combo of 2 random letters and numbers into spotify and listen to the first artist I don’t recognize.

It really sucks that Spotify doesn’t pay the artists anything reasonable but I haven’t found an alternative that allows me to consume as much different music as I currently do.

This isn’t even including the podcasts and audio books into the equation.

Any sailor worth his salt needs spend a few seasons earning his sea legs before he can begin to call to claim any understanding of the sea.

AKA, There is no easy way. It will lots of time and manual labor to find all the individual files in your Playlist.