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  1. 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.

     Mentalist, on 29 April 2026 - 04:51 AM, said:

     Cause, 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    23 March 2026 - 05:42 PM

    Finishing up The Strength of the Few, I still think it is too grim for me to really enjoy it, but it is a well written and interesting book.

    View PostQuickTidal, on 23 March 2026 - 04:56 PM, said:

    Deep in a Book hangover I can't escape. I've tried no less than 7 books in the last week or so and fell off all of them.

    No idea what I could try to get out of this.


    Pick up a favorite you haven't read in while, that isn't too heavy, something comfortably familiar. My go to is Lord of Light.

  5. In Topic: Has anybody read...

    05 March 2026 - 04:21 PM

    I found the first Abhorsen book fine, possibly even good but bounced off the second entirely.

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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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