I just finished The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie after bouncing off a couple of times over the years, and I enjoyed it.
While looking for my next book I decided to try this Dungeon Crawler Carl everyone’s constantly banging on about, but reading the synopsis reminded me why I always change my mind at the last minute and find something else. I know you all love it here but man it sounds awful.
I kind of enjoyed BotW, but once the awe factor of the landscape wore off it was just a load of mostly unrewarding traveling to too many shrines that were too small. Combine the 120 shrines into like 20 that were 6 times longer each and they would have been cool mini-dungeons that I would have happily done, but as it was I was so bored. The main dungeons were good and I still put 80 or so hours in, but unlike everything pre-Skyward Sword I’ll never revisit the game.
Then Tears of the Kingdom was like hey here it all is again but there’s three times as much and this time there’s no WiiU version to emulate so the performance will be so much worse. Nah.
That’s old, I heard he can almost do a full rep with those dumbells now.
Oo I didn’t know they had wombats there, I’ve been meaning to go for ages. This was a nice shitpost :)
unfortunately
Sorry, you think it’s “unfortunate” that sex pests are being called out now? This isn’t about someone being 100% good or evil at all, it’s so much simpler than that.
compared to someone like Harvey Weinstein
I don’t know anything about what Louis C K did, but the fact that you felt you needed to compare him to WEINSTEIN to downplay it doesn’t look good to me.
I’m most of the way through Cat Mail Co, it’s a nice time waster. I’m also trying to get into Medieval Dynasty. We’ve got a tiny group of 4 people so far, there’s a lumberjack who collects like 1 log a day, a dude who allegedly gets buckets of water from the well, and a hunter I’ve literally never seen do anything. It’s uh… fun.
I might start another run of Elden Ring. It’s been about a year and a half since I last played, so a nice slow-paced game with a new weapon type might be a bit of fun. I didn’t like the expansion at all, but for the most part the main game is pretty chill.
Oh no our chatbot we intentionally made to be offensive and horrible is doing exactly what we programmed it to, I hope nobody writes an article about this as though it’s a mistake and gets people to come and see for themselves!
You’re forgetting the secret bonus rule, which says everything can only be at most mildly infuriating when compared to Israel
Can’t wait to get home and put on my shorty-dorts
Outside of the superficial stuff (they’re both mages in the modern world who have a problem with authority and a large part of the overarching story is about power struggles within the main political structures and all that) they’re pretty different. Dresden is a good guy with a ton of power so while he’s always up against threats a lot bigger than he is, he’s always able to fight back effectively and overcome it. In comparison, Verus doesn’t have that kind of magic and can’t compete, so by necessity he has to become much more opportunistic and ruthless, he’s a very morally-grey character, possibly slipping down over the line and becoming irredeemable.
I really enjoyed it and strongly recommend it. It’s even finished, so you don’t have to wait years as the story unfolds! 12 novels and 2 novellas and you’re done. One is set at the halfway point, but I read them both at the end and thought it was probably better that way than if I’d read it chronologically, up to you.
I just finished the latest InCryptid, for the first time there were two POV characters and they’re my two favourites, which was nice. It was pretty good. As usual the status quo got a bit shaken up by the end, but for once I’m not a big fan of it.
Being as vague as possible for spoiler reasons it feels like the author wanted to undo something she did years ago but couldn’t just write around the changes that had already happened. Most of the main novels add new characters to the lineup and the most interesting part to me is seeing how the family adapts. The latest “new” character will potentially change the dynamic in an interesting way, but the novels are so hyper-focused that you don’t really get to see much outside of the current immediate crisis. The short stories between books are fun, but there’s never enough slice of life for me.
As for my gym audiobooking (The Wise Man’s Fear), I am about halfway through my least favourite sections of the story. I have no idea how these spoiler tags are meant to work, so I’ll just say Kvothe has finished learning to love, and now he will learn to fight, you know where I am if you’ve read it. In my head Tempi is Silent Bob, I know it’s pretty much the opposite of his physical description but it’s all I can see.
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Have you filtered out 99.9% of this site?
Just turn around now bro
Since last week’s post I’ve finished Battle Ground (plus Christmas Eve, Little Things, The Law) & Twelve Months from the Dresden Files, and Risen from Alex Verus. That just leaves the last few novellas from both series to cap them off.
After that, it’ll be the latest Incryptid book I missed from earlier this year, then I dunno maybe back to finishing Mercy Thompson before taking a break from urban fantasy for a while.
I finished up the Lord of the Rings trilogy today, loved it. Now I’m about a third of the way through a reread of Battle Ground (Dresden Files) so that I can get to Twelve Months, probably starting on Thursday. I also listened to ~40% of the last Alex Verus book, I’ll be finishing that in the next two workdays too. This is the one good thing about working night shifts in security.
Man it’s probably been over a decade since I played this, for some reason I thought the original version was taken down when it was remade in 3D.
He’s not as fast as or faster than the Flash
We have an unspoken agreement where the server exaggeratedly looks away when we hit the “no tip” button before paying so we can all pretend it wasn’t there.
I hadn’t really thought about it, I just got negative vibes I guess. Since you asked I went back to reread it and examine what I was feeling.
Straight away, the framing of it is that it’s all a big game, which combined with the general opinions being about how it’s so funny and that it’s “popcorn” and whatever puts me off because I read this as it being unlikely to take anything seriously.
Great. If this were it I’d be in.
Now it’s a battle royale game, which I’m not into, and it’s all about this streamer/reality tv culture that I’m really not into. Like the very first line this screams to me that there won’t be much weight to anything. The comedy and fighting will all be over the top just for the shock factor which means it’ll probably have to escalate more and more each time.
And then finally, I read this as “Do you like dei ex machina? We’ve got 'em!” Can’t say I do.
It just sounds like it’ll all be intolerable reddit-humour. Am I wrong? Sure, probably 🤷♂️ But with essentially infinity books to read, I’m fine with judging them by their covers sometimes. And again, I wouldn’t have gone into detail because I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but I did get asked.