recommendations:

* Our Ancestors (The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Nonexistent Knight)

* The Complete Cosmicomics (Cosmicomics, t zero, + others)

* Invisible Cities

* If on a winter's night a traveler

same.

before it was a job, I was programming exclusively to trance.fm (sadly gone)

Don Quixote is #1

everyone else is in alphabetical order

A nice overview of the page numbers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/codexseraphinianus/comments/qpy2r8/...

> Nine Sols was a way easier game

For me it was the other way around. In Nine Sols I got immediately stuck in the boss (mini-boss?) fight against two enemies and the flying gal.

Hollow Knight was difficult at times (Coliseum of Fools, Radiance) but it never felt unfair. Some fights (Mantis Lords, Grimm) are among the best times I've had playing a game

An application of the Poisson distribution (1946)

https://garcialab.berkeley.edu/courses/papers/Clarke1946.pdf

Famously used by Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow. The notion of obtaining a distribution of random rocket attacks blew my young mind and prompted a life-long interest in the sturdy of statistics.

Mandatory Tom Scott videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAsrsMPftOI

Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202288 (1 comment)

Amazing list by Nabokov, and "strong opinions" indeed

It reminded me of Southland Tales.

Not a bad thing