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Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?

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  • Oh absolutely. Adore was actually the album that got me into them.

    • Which album was a band's creative zenith/magnum opus before falling off?

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  • I agree with both of you. I'm very fond of everything by them up through the American Gothic EP, but Mellon Collie is still kinda the peak.

    • Just finished reading Annihilation - strange book

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  • I saw the movie first, then read the book after hearing it was different/maybe better, since aside from the bear, I found the movie fairly whelming. I ended up really enjoying the book, particularly the dream-like style. Authority, however, I found... really slow. I was intrigued by the premise, and the reveals were interesting, but the pacing was just glacial, imo, and it did away with what I'd liked about Annihilation. I did start Acceptance afterward, but was sort of over it at that point, and never finished it.

    • Fanpushing time!

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  • Despite the first book winning the 2021 SPSFC (admittedly, a much less well-known competition than the SPFBO), I almost never see the Primaterre series by S.A. Tholin mentioned. They are doorstoppers, but very well paced, imo: I inhaled the first two books. If you like space opera that manages to avoid a lot of plot tropes, give the series a try!

    (Sidenote: if you're put off by the "cosmic horror" label on the first book, I recall there being a couple of mildly gory scenes, but it's mostly in the realm of "unfathomably alien" rather than trying to scare.)

    • Need help finding a movie cause i deleted my access to R/Tipofmytongue

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  • Definitely sounds like Mirrormask to me.

    • Improving Fediverse Discovery & Onboarding

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  • This looks great!

    [...] There are also instances with varying levels of moderation, which may be encompassed in this.

    I know you didn't really touch on what the moderation aspect might involve (and maybe you have provisions for this in a section I skimmed), but ideally I would want defederation lists to be included somehow, at least as an advanced option. Does the user want/not want an instance federated with [other instance]? And then, before final instance selection, present the full list just for verification.