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  1. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    21 May 2026 - 07:27 PM

    View PostGarak, on 21 May 2026 - 02:26 PM, said:

    Estonia has a city with a majority russian speaking population. They believe they can pull a "we just want to reunited with our brothers" move and show NATO is unwilling to engage them and thus impotent (this would of course mean their claims that NATO is a threat are baseless but let's not let logic stop anyone).


    If the Russian leaders believe that they are even more terminally stupid than we already believes, the response might not be instant everyone presses declare total war button but the EU NATO states can heap a lot of misery on Moskov it hasn't already done. Just expelling all Russian citizen and sizing all Russian owned assets in the EU while blocking the straight of denmark would be a fun start and stuff they maybe should have done already if you ask me.

  2. In Topic: Star Wars Expanded Universe Thread (ALL)

    20 May 2026 - 03:00 PM

    View PostQuickTidal, on 20 May 2026 - 11:19 AM, said:

    View PostGarak, on 20 May 2026 - 04:29 AM, said:

    Darksaber is less bothersome because of spoiler reasons.

    If you know the eew but yeah it won't be as "wtf did I just read" as it was for me.


    Fun fact, I JUST learned that the author of COURTSHIP is Dave Wolverton, who also goes by the name David Farland (!), who was Brandon Sanderson's teacher in Uni...and who is a Mormon too, and thus the weird shit in COURTSHIP begins to make MUCH more sense...


    Farland's runelord books share a bit of stuff with Sanderson not least in the mechanic take on magic, they are also deeply weird and if I remember right has probably aged pretty badly.

  3. In Topic: The Russia Politics and War in Ukraine Thread

    29 April 2026 - 05:32 AM

    Great work for those of you updating this thread, it's awesome regular news over here in Sweden suck at these things.

    View PostMentalist, on 29 April 2026 - 04:51 AM, said:

    View PostCause, on 28 April 2026 - 11:22 PM, said:

    OMG, I just saw an add for poly market on my instagram feed. “The odds of an Ukraine ceasefire in 2026 is now only 26%”. The text was accompanied by a Ukrainian soldier throwing Molotov cocktails at a billboard that said Ukraine and Russia are one people together.

    Fucking gross to take bets on war but to actually post about it is sickening. I knew this was a thing but never actually been exposed to it.


    LMAO

    Prediction markets are just part and parcel of the low-key technical dystopia we, as a species, are sliding into. I gave up getting outraged over the concept about half a year ago.


    They aren't wrong about the low likelihood of the ceasefire, though. trump's lost leverage to force Ukraine to make unpopular concessions; and there's no indications that things are disastrous enough to force putler to sue for a ceasefire where there's a non-zero chance of him losing face and showing weakness to his mafiocracy.


    Saw a few people saying we are going towards a dystopia even the cyberpunk dystopias of last centuries couldn't imagine and stuff like this prove that we are certainly going in that direction some of the time. Its just such a banal and boring dystopia...why couldn't we have one of the cool ones.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    10 April 2026 - 04:48 PM

    View Postworry, on 10 April 2026 - 03:22 PM, said:

    Anyway, I don't think it's the worst of the worst or anything, just "mid" as the kids say, but 1000 pages of mid is itself kinda sub-mid, if that math adds up. I did think the reveals in the final section were interesting, somewhat surprising, and I suppose intriguing setup for what comes next. I'm gonna take at least month off before hitting the next book though.


    If you found Way of Kings mid, I wonder what you will think of the next few. I found Way of Kings pretty good at least mid+, but a few of the others where a bit of a struggle. Personally I think Sanderson went wrong with the long backstory parts which should have been handled with much more finesse, instead of basically beating us with the backstory over the head and bloating the books insanely. Basically by the "last" book I only skimmed the backstories and didn't miss anything really.

    QuickTidal is right the series never reaches the highs of the first book again, I would probably have said the series was unsatisfactory but Kaladin who was my favorite through the series ended in the perfect place at the end which strangely enough made the entire thing worth it for me.

  5. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    24 March 2026 - 08:03 AM

    Finished up The Strength of the Few and yeah there was a lot of reversals closer to the end which perhaps make the book a bit less grim but it was a bit of slog up to that point. Started up Shadow Upon Time which promises more of the same. I've generally enjoyed the Sun Eater books but they can also be very grim. Yet I'm curious to see if there is any twist to an ending the readers have known about since the first book.

    View PostQuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 10:10 PM, said:

    Okay so I’m taking both Abyss and Chances advice and mashing them up…. I’m re-reading the Clocktaur War! Huzzah. Usrula Vernon’s prose is so cozy and funny that it’s bound to get me outta my funk.


    Funny usually works. Sometimes we need to get back to the reason why we read which is some kind of enjoyment, entertainment most of the time. Its sometimes lost when we read heavier books which might be stylistically great, have great big ideas but just aren't that enjoyable.

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    Chance 

    16 Dec 2025 - 18:48
    All is well but probably mostly lurking for the foreseeable future I'm just not comfortable with how much social and political issues invade my interests these days including the forums.
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    Tsundoku 

    16 Dec 2025 - 03:54
    Hello again, hello. How goes it?
    Well, I hope.
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    Tsundoku 

    24 Dec 2021 - 14:48
    Hey dude
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