FD4280
5d ago
Bach, Zelenka, misc other baroque at work.
Miscellaneous non-Anglosphere rock/metal for commuting. Nightwish was kind of interesting. Galneryus is great.
Vysotsky and Iron Maiden for exercise.
FD4280
8d ago
There are many gradations of carless speech. You must train so that your speech is not buggy. Or worse, pedestrian.
FD4280
15d ago
Just hit 400. It has been fun throughout, but slightly better in the first 200.
FD4280
23d ago
You’re right about Worm, and I somehow forgot Mother of Learning (which was great despite the time looping gimmick).
FD4280
24d ago
Still going through Reverend Insanity, about 15% of the way in. Starting to wonder if there are other worthwhile cultivation novels (or games for that matter) with better translations.
Western progression fantasy (Worm, Worth the Candle, Dungeon Crawler Carl) has not been quite as fun.
FD4280
1mo ago
Still on Reverend Insanity. The translation is somehow getting worse. Still hooked. At the current pace, expecting to finish sometime in winter.
Started on Reverend Insanity. The translation I found is horrible (is there a preferred one?), but I’m glued to it anyway.
Edit: if there is an adequate Russian translation, that would also work.
FD4280
1mo ago
Mina the Hollower, little by little.
Absolutely brilliant progression design and exploration. Lots of built in mods to drive the difficulty in either direction; I’m awful at it (bad reflexes, some Souls experience, next to none with platforming) and find the default difficulty just about on the border between frustration and joy.
FD4280
2mo ago
Provide support for K-12 math competitions. Practice space without fees or burdensome regulations, funding for team registrations, equal treatment of public/private/homeschoolers. There’s plenty of local talent to coach the stuff between Micron and BSU. There would be negligible travel costs for anyone making it to a state-level competition since that’ll run in the Boise area anyway.
FD4280
2mo ago
I see Adrian Tchaikovsky brought up quite a bit, but can’t shake the irrational premonition that his books are exceptionally gay (probably in concurrent association with the emperor Hadrian and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky). Is this the case? Please advise.
FD4280
3mo ago
Not rafa, but:
Amish Paradise comes to mind.
(Also at least 5-10% of Vysotsky’s repertoire should qualify. «Расстрел горного эха» is a gold standard for writing alone.)
FD4280
4mo ago
I’m middle-aged, maybe 10 times a year, 1-3 drinks. Pretty much for celebrations or live chess games with other drinkers. I drank much more frequently during grad school to get through grading.
FD4280
4mo ago
I would get Antonin Dvorak to fix the musical equivalent of sudden erectile dysfunction in Symphony 9, Movement 4 by patching the main theme with the solo from Iron Maiden’s “Fear of the Dark.”
FD4280
4mo ago
This undersells the case against the Horde. They’re bulk-importing a new voter base from shitholes beyond the Portal. Sylvanas wants to convert our kids, down to the live-naming rhetoric. Every raid must have an at least population-proportionate share of undergeared Orcs who pull mobs at random. And don’t get me started on the Apothecaries’ response to the shit that came out from the Plaguelands six years ago (leaving aside the question whether it came from the cauldrons or plaguebat meat).
FD4280
4mo ago
Cornwell is compelled to shit on Christianity (at least in the Arthurian trilogy, Warlord Chronicles, the archer books, and at least one of the Sharpe books), with a consistency that bothers me. It’s his single biggest deficiency. I can’t think of anyone else who writes battles so well.
FD4280
4mo ago
36% German, 64% autistic. This sounds about right. No actual German ancestry though.
I've read the series at a time when I had more tolerance for crappy writing, and thought The Scar was by far the most interesting of the bunch.
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