And some people intrinsically LOVE that.

Wow, that’s great! Cute, amusing, clever, nice storytelling, nice art, nice mastery of overall cartooning.

I’ll be adding this series to the list unless there’s any objections.

They both have their appeals. XD

Bullying seems kind of nice up to a point, because it’s overt. Past a certain point though, I’d rather not.

Deception seems really annoying and unwanted in most cases, until it becomes a certain appealing meta-system, which might just help a person deal with the terror of the unknown and the ever-shifting, confusing nature of modern life.

Good points.

“Oh i want to live more healthy so i dont drink magic potion anymore because i can do it on my own”. Asterix would NEVER do that. He sometimes is the first to go “hey we got the magic potion. That will help us!”

I think that could have made sense if the potion was corrosive to the imbiber, like drugs or alcohol, but then of course that thread would have wound through the whole series from book one, and would have made it far more gloomy. Could be a really interesting alternate-universe album or mini-series, tho.

I feel about the same (btw, en anglais, cela s’écrit “Picts”), and yeah, the Chieftan’s daughter seemed to me like too much of a re-tread of the young guy from the ‘Norseman’ adventure, but much less colorful. That’s part of why I didn’t enjoy the nutrition expert from the last one, White Iris, because he seemed too derivative of the Soothsayer, the Roman agent, the guy who promoted jealousy, the capitalist guy, and so forth. Also, at least for the États-Unis market, nutrition gimmickry was a much hotter topic around the 70’s-90’s, I’d say.

That said, occasionally there are small brilliant moments, like this one from Asterix and the Griffin: https://lemm.ee/post/3310802

I just hope it wont be as dull as the last few.

I’m sure they’re trying their best, but to me it tends to highlight/underscore what a great writer Goscinny was. Very light-hearted and amusing on the surface, but with careful plotting and good source research to deeply satisfy the reader. I think it’s not talked about enough.

I’d say there’s also a certain trap lurking for the new writers, in that if 1) they try to spread their wings too much, then the comic will no longer seem authentic, but 2) if they try to follow the ‘rules’ too much, then it will be seen as a weak, imitative album. They have to somehow hit whatever rich, middle ground they can.

IMO it’s easier for the artist, in that they can keep practicing until they get as close as possible to Uderzo’s style, and their job is basically done. For the right professional I think that’s very possible, as we’ve seen.

OTOH, I feel like certain other series like Largo Winch, Thorgal, Les Schtroumpfs (specifically the one by “Tebo”) and the tribute albums to Lucky Luke (but not the main line) managed to be excellent under new teams. But it’s not easy, I guess.

Sort of like a deluxe, Peruvian version of Scottish cottage pie, no?

And… gotta love those thinly-sliced red onions (and for me, habanero slices) soaked in lime juice in the fridge, overnight. I used to use them as a topping on all kinds of meals before my stomach finally gave out, lol.

Traditional versions also contain ~50% butter by total pre-cooking weight. (Hello heart-health my old friend…)

Dunno about your area, but there’s some pretty awesome frozen puff pastry sold in thin-ish sheets at most stores around here. It bakes up quick and almost magically multi-layered, and I would not for a million years be able to tell it from scratch puff pastry from une belle boulangerie.

This is a myth. You actually don’t.

No, I think that’s what OP’s question is all about-- more than ever, many/most people DO need to stay informed to a baseline extent. That’s because laws, policy and legal interpretation are changing hard and fast in the USA for example, and citizens who aren’t informed can be critically blindsided. That may result in their jobs suddenly vanishing for no good reason, discrimination being ratcheted up against them, their rights suddenly eroding (as we saw in the wake of Roe vs. Wade being revoked), and/or they’re now facing deportation or being held in a facility ‘just because.’ Or for example, many people depend on Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA and/or SSI to stay afloat, and those are all going to be cut down, evidently. So certainly, you’d want to be as prepared as possible for stuff like the above, while still retaining a healthy mindset.

Or for example, if you were in Great Britain and weren’t paying attention to the Brexit background, you may have been part of (and directly affected by), the voting disaster enabling the plan to go through.

Gonna take a detour here and mention the time that I tried to make tofu from scratch, starting with making soy milk from dried beans that I’d ordered just for the task:

The soy milk turned out surprisingly well, with the help of a semi-automated device, but I realised on the spot that most commercial soy milk has a tonne of sugar added to it, and I didn’t want to go down that route. In fact, it just about turned me off of soy milk permanently.

Anyway, I moved on to the tofu-making stage, and realised that both coagulants I tested (lemon juice and nigari powder) imparted a huge, unwanted taste to the tofu, on top of neither being all that great at coagulating the soy milk. In the end, I think I could have improved on this cooking disaster, but my motivation was gone at that point, and I wanted to move on.

There’s also the fact that no matter what a versatile food tofu is, it’s also a significantly processed one, and I wanted to move in the opposite direction. That said, I understand that fresh-made tofu in Japan and other places can be incredibly tasty, almost worth wolfing down straight with no cooking or spices.

Not saying you’re right or wrong, but these types of events only happen occasionally, mais non?

I liked my original Mac too, but certainly missed the deluxe keyboard and two-button mouse. :S

Yeap… we… well… we have our DRIVES, us lemmings ducks lemmings ducks!

Bah, what force shall prevail in the end?! 🦺

Oh rabbits, was it really… that wild? oO

Exactly.
Such lovely, wonderful creatures, yet also such shameless bastards…

Au contraire, moaning me-- if there’s something lovely & ethical to steal, you betcha!

Now, those are some good, pretty-amazing pics, mais non?

(Eh, I’ve seen a lot of stuff in my life, particularly as a Zoo-worker over the years…)

Point is-- it’s a great post IMO!

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Let’s be real. What OP really wants is for a certain moderator to not have power on a server she deems as influential. Thus, she’s trying to leverage peer pressure in order to make that happen.

Assuming good-faith effort, don’t you think it’s reasonable to publicly call out disingenuous, trollish behavior, especially with that sublemmy being one of the biggest ones across the FV?

Consider that we don’t have the same mechanisms across the FV as exist on Reddit, such that other means of correcting (evidently) terrible decisions (such as making a huge troll a mod on a big community) need to be explored at the very least. I.e., sometimes I think it doesn’t help in the end to run away from this kind of problem, and none of us should really want LW to drift towards an abomination such as HexBear, right?

…But not necessarily great ones.
(yes, and I know I’m being argumentative AF on this point; I do see the logic of what you’re saying)

In any case, hopefully that troll’s influence across a giant instance like LW is relatively minor in the end. Also, by OP sticking to their SUBSCRIBE feed, they won’t have to deal with that community, either. shrug