I’m usually a SF guy but the most memorable read these past ~2 years was the fantasy books The First Law by Joe Abercrombie. The first book hooked me in and I ended up devouring all 9 books. The audiobook version read by Steven Pacey was superb, that man really breathed life into the characters and I’m glad I listened rather than read them.

I recall wanting to read more dark fantasy after and tried listening to Stormlight Archives on recommendation from a friend but the readers and writing was so bad in comparison I gave up after 2 hours.

“They’re made out of meat.”

https://github.com/aghayes/rusty_book_pirate/ don’t know if this still works as it hasn’t been updated in 4 years but might wanna give it a try

Sadly The Culture decided to skip earth.

Not to kink-shame but, wtf Alaska?

Spells, curses and summoning rituals.

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That’s the infamous gerrymandering I’ve read about? Still you are all part of the imperialist machine with your taxes contributing to the bombings of brown people. But I understand that many of you don’t want this, just like I live in a comfy semi-socialist state in the west yet my government has no problems selling weapons to aggressors.

I know, I’m friends with many and have relatives who live there since the 80’s. I even visited and went to World Trade Center before 9/11 happened. Nevertheless, may you all burn in hell for what you have done. Not literally but that’s the vibe I’m on.

I realize there’s a lot of nuance and detail around who’s to blame, I’m generalizing. Another way to see that stat though is that only 21% opposed fascism.

Agreed, they’re beyond any hope. As someone from a country absolutely destroyed by them I have a hard time feeling sympathy though. The schadenfreude from them shooting themselves in the foot via Trump is absolutely delightful.

Americans are not innocent.

I strongly dislike America so profiting off of their suffering is extra sweet. I even bought into UnitedHealth Group during the Luigi dip knowing Americans would forget all about it in a month or so and wouldn’t you know it the stock is bouncing back nicely.

Lucida is awesome, I’ve also used squid.wtf which worked excellently.

I got this in my letterbox last new years day from them. (The paper strip, not the cute magnet frog) It says in Swedish: “On new years eve a lot of fireworks create light phenomenon in the sky. In the near future the greatest light phenomenon the world has ever seen will appear, it will be like when the lightning flames from east to west and shall occur when the Human Son return with his angels. Vigilance is needed for this event!”

It’s been on my fridge ever since. I remain vigilant for the return of the king although it sounds like it will be hard to miss.

Might be a language barrier misunderstanding? Idunno doesn’t seem like you said anything “wrong”

Hmm because they just said so themselves? Sounds unhinged out of context.

Jackie Chan was in Enter The Dragon.

Shouldn’t that be 2? Mars and Venus.

Another fun fact: through that hole there’s also vasculature and capillaries coming through and you can actually see them by looking at a well lit white surface and creating a tiny pinhole with your hand right in front of your eye and wiggling it. Better explained here at around 5:30