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First thing I thought of as well - Unfortunately it’s Netflix and we know better; it wont. It’ll probably crash and burn like the recent Avatar adaptation

Edit: Foot in mouth moment lol. Not Netflix, but imo live-action = DOA for this

In a follow-up posted to social media this morning, NetEase went on to "apologize for any unpleasant experiences or doubts caused by the miscommunication of these terms…

lol

That would make it a handwich

When a friend says they can handle the weight of my emotional baggage but I’m like:

OP, you need to check out Path of Achra!

The game is fantastic in its own right, and I don’t know if it’s directly related to any Arabic mythos/lore or if it’s just one person’s inspired creation, but there are tons of characters, cultures, gods and elemental powers to check out that are all along the lines of what you’re looking for I think.

Path of Achra

The Binding of Isaac

Tiny Rogues

The Dungeon Beneath

These are my four horsemen.

OOOOOOHHHHhhhhhh!!! You just SLAMMED the word Slam!!!

I second this with Agoraphobic AutADHD. I desperately miss the days of flip phones and simpler IM clients. The “requirement” of having a smartphone in this day & age means that, at a low level, there is always a baseline anxiety present in me from wake to sleep.

I’m a person that needs alone time every day or I can’t fully destress so knowing that anyone can always get ahold of me, or if they can’t, they expect immediate responses whenever possible stresses me to holy high hell! Thankfully the friends I do have all understand this, so even if a week or a month passes between messages, it’s treated like no time has passed at all. Without that, friendship is nearly impossible lol

It’s actually an allegory about Adam & Eve and the creation mythos 😅 The last episode of the Evangelion series is not the true last episode, there’s actually a whole separate episode that goes over what really happens

What did you try to start them on? You’ve gotta get them hooked with the visual style first to get them used to the medium, so I always recommend stuff that would be more familiar to them. Stuff like March Comes In Like A Lion; Much more true-to-life and no sudden “surprises” like we know certain shows can do at particular moments 🙄

Yes, they’re relatively easy-to-digest suggestions, hence perhaps a frustration at the root of the OP’s question surrounding the attempts to draw your peers into something you enjoy.

Because of course Skydiving (for example) might be amazing, but you bet your ass I’m not looking into doing that all by myself lol

I will absolutely check this out, thank you! It’s this kind of recommendation that led me to rediscover home movies as well so I love that it keeps going lol

I’ve begun watching & falling in love with something very recently that I think will fall into this category for sure. An old adult swim cartoon called Home Movies.

Made by a lot of the same talent before Bob’s Burgers was a thing, the humour is actually insanely clever and progressive for it’s time & it still feels fresh to me watching it today. Definitely have already had a few laughing fits where I had to pause the episode for a while to catch my breath and I’m only 4 episodes in 😂

For being a simpler sort of design, it also has some good background gags too. Not to mention the comedian guest stars – Episode 3 had Emo Philips which was a delightful surprise, but episode 4 has freakin’ Mitch Hedberg in it! Took me by surprise for sure but it was also a nice little extra thing to hear him say some fresh lines.

That’s all I have to say about it for now, but every night now my partner & I look forward to watching a couple episodes before bed :) it’s a great time!

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