rq asked What's a piece of long-form media (book, vi…

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is one book series I read over and over again. It's probably the reason why I'm generally so open to people with big variations in beliefs. I am less focused on finding meaning in life, but rather just focusing on experiencing things. And in general accepting that reality in general can be seen differently by others. It's a sci-fi comedy but it has a lot to teach.

Epsi · 1y

Code Lyoko, a French cartoon. I watched it in the morning in a kids show 15 years ago, and I was allowed to mess around unsupervised on the family computer so I joined a few forums of fans of that cartoon. I saw someone making a very simple "simulator" of the supercomputer in the show in Batch and that made me learn batch to create my own. I posted my own version and two people became my beta testers. One of them is my best friend now and I moved to the other side of the country to live close to him. He taught me to code until I started learning on my own, and that's how I became a developer. I'm still occasionally in touch with the other, and we met IRL too a few years ago. I have no idea what my life could possibly have been if I had never stumbled upon code lyoko...

~lucidiot · 1y

the impact of the best ones usually outlasts my memory of them, one i can recall is citizen sleeper however, little else has truly understood or seen me on the level of miserable little human that i am and maybe that being an ok thing to be

desea · 1y

the closest to a "lasting impression" is probably pokemon. it's the only media franchise that accompanied me almost my entire life really. and i still go back to playing some of the older games every now and then.

Jacky · 1y

That's uncomfortably broad for me, but I will answer with Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the beginning of my love of high-concept sci-fi, and I like that its "badass" moments are more about cleverness and collaboration than brute strength and fighting.

the f00fy one · 1y

Well...
"No longer human" is a book I read as I was going through a weird period of my life and I identified a lot with the main character, which is not really a nice thing to say... so the book made me feel somewhat understood, which I needed at the time. Reading the original version of this book was one of my main reasons to want to learn japanese... if only kanji were not so hard.

Milonga fina · 1y

When I was little, I saw a some man dying because he didn't have medicine in his car… or something, I don't remember the details. This all was a fiction, some stupid TV show, one of the thousands. And then I ran to my room, crying and telling myself over and over that it's not real.
This might be the reason media doesn't really affect me anymore.

vyivel · 1y

There are a few, in no particular order:
- Hyperion (series), by Dan Simmons
- The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (series), by Nagaru Tanigawa
- Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy.
- The Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate (+ an army of ghostwriters)
- Eureka Seven
- Durarara!! (series) by Ryohgo Narita
- Shinsekai Yori
- Katawa Shoujo
- The Expanse (series) by "James S.A. Corey"

I have to admit I'm not good at expressing why, but all of those have had a significant impact on my outlook, or at least made me cry.

Izzy · 1y

The album "Rabies" from Skinny Puppy has definitely had a lasting impression on me. It was the second album of theirs that I really listened to (the first was "The Greater Wrong of The Right"). I was already a fan of industrial music when I first listened to it, but something about it took my love of industrial to another level. The fucked up electronic sound of it just clicked with my head. Especially the song Worlock, which ended up inspiring some of the songs I wrote. Heck, all of their music left a very lasting impression on me, but this one was (to me) the most important because of how it influenced my own music.

There's basically a reason I have a Skinny Puppy tattoo on my arm.

Remilia Scarlet · 1y

Deep Rock Galactic

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