I live in Chicago and we do have a big centrally located park, along with other smaller parks scattered around. It’s down by the lake, and they keep that big stupid bean there.
Pro tip for tourists, if you absolutely have to go see the bean don’t touch it; everybody touches the damn thing and you will get sick. Go look at the Picasso instead. It’s on all of the tourist attraction maps and way more interesting than a big shiny bean.
Nah, Chicagos a great town with excellent food, culture, museums and events. Lots of festivals in the summer, it runs along a beatuiful lake with nice beaches, it has great people, all in all I love Chicago. Full disclosure, there are neighborhoods with high crime, it is unfortunately super segregated, and cold as hell in the winter.
Was just out there a month ago. Place was clean, good weather too. A lot of things to do. Nothing what they’ve shown in the news. I stayed near the loop, didn’t travel south, as I had no reason to.
Leaving Chicago, the taxi driver said he wanted people to continue thinking Chicago was a shit town, because it keeps rent down. Funny.
If you need a comic that won't run out, you can try EGS. A comic about teens running into a wide variety of supernatural stuff. https://www.egscomics.com/
It's been running since 2002 and still going. And while the early arc are pretty rough in both art style and writing quality, it gets progressively better as the author matures.
Another comic I love is Sleepless Domain, a dark magical girl story about a locked down city that comes under monster attack every night. https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/
I found both of these through https://hiveworkscomics.com/ which is another, though smaller comic repository like Webtoons.
I have too much other shit going on and can’t mentally set it all aside any more which keeps me from getting immersed in games. There’s just always something else in the back of my mind I’m also thinking about when I’m trying to play. I try getting everything done first so I can concentrate but there’s just so much.
I rarely play alone anymore. Which makes it even more difficult as you get older. It’s hard to match up with other people when life keeps them equally busy.
I’ve also noticed that I want a new experience from my games, kind of like searching for that new movie. Games rich in their story and yet not that distracted in side quests seem to keep me going. God of War was ideal, Horizon too. Baldurs Gate 3 had me for a while, but most online titles suck the time out of me at almost no return.
Kill Six Billion Demons is my favorite right now. Gorgeous, sprawling, complex artwork from start to finish, philosophically interesting, bordering on pretentious but I love it. I sometimes read this one while wearing my VR headset to properly examine certain pages close up.
Johnny Wander is the homepage for an incredible artist/writer duo. I’ve really been enjoying their latest story Barbarous, but their archives are a bit of a pain to navigate to find the starting point for each story. Worth the pain though.
Octopus Pie has been over for a few years but is always worth returning to. Woman lives in New York, people are weird, and New York has a lot of people. Reading this one will make you feel good, Do Not Skip.
Sleepless Domain is an interesting one, generally a cutesy story with an anime, leaning towards chibi art style but focused around a set of brutal murders that happen towards the front end of the story and the survivor’s guilt that follows.
Gunnerkrigg Court is hard for me to describe but gets a re-read from me every few years. A surreal examination of why we tell stories and The Power Of Friendship? It’s been going so long that I half suspect it’s not going anywhere and is just an excuse to keep chugging for as many years as its author needs it to, and also half suspect it’s imminently ending in the next few months. I don’t think I really have a problem with it either way; it’s written very well.
I also want to add Questionable Content. Someone else mentioned it before but I think it needs linking to. It’s one of the first webcomics I picked up so it’s hard for me to judge it fairly, but even having evolved so much since the early days I think there’s something to love about every stage of its development. It was just easy reading about hipsters listening to music and drinking coffee, and then somewhere along the way it became a sci-fi story too and goodness I love it.
Put another one for “Kill Six Billion Demons”. when i first saw it i finished it in the same day. I’m now subscribed to the rss and happy for each new page.
I Roved Out. Extremely NSFW, it would be categorized as porn. It is an incredible story, and is so despite the porn. The sex is so interwoven with the story, I can’t imagine a SFW version could ever be constructed, which is shame because it’s such good art, and such a great story. I can’t praise it enough. If graphic sex doesn’t bother you, I highly recommend it.
Blastwave. Short, so if you binge it it’ll be over quickly.
There have been other great recommendations I won’t repeat, but these two have exceptional art.
Edit someone else beat me to recommending Blastwave. It’s good.
Wilde Life - small-town mystery, light spooky vibes but mostly feel-good. Relationship focused.
Girls with Slingshots - complete! comedy about a friend group. LGBT+ themes, sex positive. A bit raunchy, if that’s not your bag.
Skin Deep - urban fantasy. Neat worldbuilding, long running.
Broodhollow - another small-town mystery, but more legit creepy. Plot of the murder-hauntings-cults variety.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things - comedy. premise is a temp agency for brawny fictional characters & villains trying to get normal dayjobs. Takes the piss out of common tropes.
Awkward Zombie - comedy. No plot, just comics about video games & other things the artist is into.
Johnny Wander - 4 comics in a trenchcoat, but they’re all pretty cute. Started as an autobio comic with the occasional original fiction story mixed in, but they’ve all been separated out for easier reading now.
A lot of these are hosted by sites that host other comics, so you can follow that rabbit hole pretty far. Also some artists will link to other comics they like in the about/notes pages, good way to find other stuff.
A lot of modern games definitely don’t do story well. The amount of times I download a game for 10 mins of exposition before starting or not getting to play while the game tells rather than shows is outrageous.
The perfect game for me would start immediately and have any exposition happen via audio while being able to play the game.
Like most good indie games, too. “Show don’t tell” is a lesson well learned from the days of Nintendo hegemony, only AAA studios forgot everything not relatedto maximizing profits.
Kill 6 Billion Demons is an absolute classic. Good enought to have made it into print trade paperbacks, but still free online. The visual style and wild world building are truly a joy to behold. You also get a bit of the sparky web comic flavor while still holding together an excellent long term story arc with serious plot.
There is nowhere you can get unbiased news. You have to analyze the bias and think critically about it if you want to really understand what’s happening.
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