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Yeah I'm open to that and also didn't expend any real effort here. You know what I mean. The point is made. Yes I could be happier with it. It's difficult for me to be ugly, even on purpose. Take no joy in the awful stuff and would sooner screen it out than collect and revel in it. Else I'd be on /r/drama.
Corvos
22hr ago
My biggest personal grip with litrpg is when the story reads like a D&D campaign converted into a novel. The fights feel like a string of meaningless encounters.
This was the big problem with Worth the Candle for me. It felt like the author had a list of a hundred 'super cool D&D adventures' that he wanted to fit in, and just slotted them one after another, with only the barest excuse for why they were happening. I grant that this is somewhat justified by the setting, but it doesn't make it good writing.
DiscourseMagnus
22hr ago
While there's often an unfortunate association there, I don't think that the problem is so much inherent to the grammatical qualities of the perspective as it is the thoughtlessness the author employs in selecting any perspective at all. This is closely related to the oft-commented-upon "books as wannabe movies" problem.
erwgv3g34
23hr ago
From "The Next Ten Billion Years" by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid Report):
One hundred million years from now:
Retro-rockets fire and fall silent as the ungainly craft settles down on the surface of the Moon. After feverish final checks, the hatch is opened, and two figures descend onto the lunar surface. They are bipeds, but not even remotely human; instead, they belong to Earth’s third intelligent species. They are distantly descended from the crows of our time, though they look no more like crows than you look like the tree shrews of the middle Cretaceous. Since you have a larynx rather than a syrinx, you can’t even begin to pronounce what they call themselves, so we’ll call them corvins.
Earth’s second intelligent species, whom we’ll call cyons after their raccoon ancestors, are long gone. They lasted a little more than eight million years before the changes of an unstable planet sent them down the long road to extinction; they never got that deeply into technology, though their political institutions made the most sophisticated human equivalents look embarrassingly crude. The corvins are another matter. Some twist of inherited psychology left them with a passion for heights and upward movement; they worked out the basic principles of the hot air balloon before they got around to inventing the wheel, and balloons, gliders, and corvin-carrying kites play much the same roles in their earliest epic literature that horses and chariots play in ours.
As corvin societies evolved more complex technologies, eyes gazed upwards from soaring tower-cities at the moon, the perch of perches set high above the world. All that was needed to make those dreams a reality was petroleum, and a hundred million years is more than enough time for the Earth to restock her petroleum reserves—especially if that period starts off with an oceanic anoxic event that stashes gigatons of carbon in marine sediments. Thus it was inevitable that, sooner or later, the strongest of the great corvin kith-assemblies would devote its talents and wealth to the task of reaching the moon.
The universe has a surprise in store for the corvins, though. Their first moon landing included among its goals the investigation of some odd surface features, too small to be seen clearly by Earth-based equipment. That first lander thus set down on a flat lunar plain that, a very long time ago, was called the Sea of Tranquillity, and so it was that the stunned corvin astronauts found themselves facing the unmistakable remains of a spacecraft that arrived on the moon in the unimaginably distant past.
A few equivocal traces buried in terrestrial sediments had suggested already to corvin loremasters that another intelligent species might have lived on the Earth before them, though the theory was dismissed by most as wild speculation. The scattered remnants on the Moon confirmed them, and made it hard for even the most optimistic corvins to embrace the notion that some providence guaranteed the survival of intelligent species. The curious markings on some of the remains, which some loremasters suggested might be a mode of visual communication, resisted all attempts at decipherment, and very little was ever learnt for certain about the enigmatic ancient species that left its mark on the Moon.
Even so, it will be suggested long afterwards that the stark warning embodied in those long-abandoned spacecraft played an important role in convincing corvin societies to rein in the extravagant use of petroleum and other nonrenewable resources, though it also inspired hugely expensive and ultimately futile attempts to achieve interstellar migration—for some reason the corbins never got into the quest for fusion power or artificial intelligence. One way or another, though, the corvins turned out to be the most enduring of Earth’s intelligent species, and more than 28 million years passed before their day finally ended.
Semantically incorrect; as in your example, the grammar (including syntax) is fine.
But I'd say that it's semantically fine too so long as the swinging motion is also a hefting motion. Uppercut? The sentence is correct. Horizontal? Defensible, since the attacker was exerting vertical force to keep the mace moving horizontally, but the intended implication should be "wow this mace was heavy" or at least "the attacker had to transition from raising the mace to attacking with it in a single motion" rather than "the mace had to be lifted before the swing began". Overhead bash? Incorrect, since the lifting motion for that ends before the aimed ("at her") part of the swing begins.
But regardless, if this is the worst prose that @TitaniumButterfly sees in his web fiction, I want to know what he's reading! I've enjoyed several web serials, but it's usually been much clearer that any editorial feedback did not come from professionals with English degrees, and you either make peace with that or you don't.
cjet79
23hr ago
On mobile so I can't pull up a long list of recommendations. But the politics issue doesn't happen in all parts of the genre. Or at least not all web fiction.
My biggest personal grip with litrpg is when the story reads like a D&D campaign converted into a novel. The fights feel like a string of meaningless encounters. The MC bumbles their way into saving the world. The setting is nothing but a contrived excuse to bully the MC when he is young.
DiscourseMagnus
1d ago
I see plenty of merit in points 2 through 5, but as has already been noted I think you at least chose a weak example on point 1.
FtttG
1d ago
You ever tried to pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time?
I'm doing it right now, and I am killing it. Skill issue. /s
FtttG
1d ago
Yes, that's why the OP was right to say that it's grammatically (or syntactically, or whatever) incorrect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You linked a far left wing think tank as your source somehow thinking it would be persuasive, despite the many cues one gets when you land at the website that this isn't an academic study, its propaganda (and leftist at that, just aesthetically) trying to mimic research, poorly.
anti-dan already attacked your source. I'm defending the idea of dismissing such sources. I know it's really annoying to have someone go through all this effort to put up the form of something that should be really persuasive, then have people see through it and realize it is only the form and the thing is not persuasive at all, but it's absolutely the right thing.
Tree
1d ago
There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
the scheme benefits from significant tax relief, as vehicles are exempt from VAT and Insurance Premium Tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motability
Massive growth in the number of pip claimants:
https://x.com/thurhyde/status/1949753087419207786
IFS: 'The rapid growth in [working-age] health-related benefits [post-COVID] seems to be largely a UK phenomenon.
https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1945752894868701444
Less than 10% of motability cars have any modification for the disabled.
have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time.
I'm sure we all benefit when the state pays for everyone’s BMW. He is providing much more than mobility to the slightly anxious, he’s doling out unheard of creditworthiness to the not-so working class.
CertainlyWorse
No one is coming. It's just you.
1d ago
Thats another horrifying masterpiece.
But if we know of one place where the capitalists can't go... its SPACE!
DefinitelyAnAlt
1d ago
If you're hired, you have earned the right to be there. It means you are smart enough. A new employee seems stupid because they're ignorant and unfamiliar.
To that end, your goal should be to rid yourself of that ignorance and get familiar with the standard work-loop. This is very important. You only get better by doing. Best to pick up the smallest item that you can take to completion and build up momentum.
Once you find your bearings, you can nerd out with your coworker. To become an expert, one must obsessively chase excellence in their craft. By definition, they become nerds about some aspect of their job. If you start a conversation with them about that obsession, they are generous with their time. In fact, they'll often go out of their way to help you learn.
On your side, it means working hard, being proactive and following up on these resources/engagements offered by people. Yes, that means your first couple of months will demand longer hours. But for it most part, it's just time, repetition and focus.
I don't want to interrupt the smart people
You have to. You should. And you should more of it in your first few months. It's easy to get stuck in "you don't know what you don't know" if you don't deal with it early. The only way to mitigate this risk is to ask.
Set the expectation up front. I explicitly told my manager that 'I will be a loud idiot [1]' for the first few weeks. He agreed and encouraged it [2]. Everyone has been there before.
Have clear escalation ladder when asking for help. Mine goes something like: 'Spend a few hours trying to self-start -> Look for wiki -> DM a coworker for resources -> hop on a call -> sit side by side for spoon-fed demonstration'.
[1] in those exact words, but I did repeat it in more professional phrasing right after
[2] Takes some luck to have the right culture / leadership
edit: accidentally replied from my main account :|
If you're a software developer, I highly recommend sitting shoulder-to-shoulder or screen sharing with a coworker to see exactly how they work. It sounds intrusive, but there are a ton of subtle things that good devs do, that never gets brought up in conversations. It gives you a real feel for what your flow (as a fellow dev in the team) should look like.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
1d ago
Future world contains Outer Heaven?
wtf, I love low TFR now?!
yofuckreddit
1d ago
Thank you for the compliment, it means a lot.
I just want a relaxed trip on a road with a pub at the end of a few hours.
I don't think we're too different here in my default mode. I enjoy exerting myself this way precisely because it makes the nightly beers taste so much better.
The most relaxed route I've ridden and one that I've enjoyed very much is this one: https://bikepacking.com/routes/chauga-river-ramble/ over 3 days. I could go even more relaxed, to be honest, and rely more on the road. I've considered trying to put together a route for the bourbon trail, and there's also two other bikepacking "gravel growler" routes that stitch together breweries.
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
1d ago
But hefting a weapon and swinging the same weapon are consecutive, not concurrent—in GURPS terms, a Ready action and then an Attack action.
Primaprimaprima
I am trying so hard not to say the MBTI type of everyone I reply to
1d ago
To a first approximation, no one actually wants values diversity, whether in their fiction or anywhere else.
Challenge accepted. ("No one could ever want X". Well then, it is the philosopher's duty to want X. No generalization can be allowed to stand without an exception.)
I agree that value diversity within a given concrete mode of life is hard to consciously wish for in a direct sense (unless you're a certain unique type of individual at any rate). But certainly if we zoom out and consider a patchwork of distinct modes of life, there is no issue. I don't agree with how Islamic societies treat their women, but in an abstract sense, I'm happy that Muslims are able to continue on with their cherished values all the same. (Selfishly, it provides a further object of contemplation for me.) And fiction is an ideal medium for exploring such alternative modes of life.
DefinitelyAnAlt
1d ago
IC = Individual contributors, as opposed to smooth-talking managers.
I'm ~30. I'm on the "younger" side for this team.
pretty stressful
Not yet. My 1st year at the previous job was god-tier stressful, so my tolerance has gone way up.
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
1d ago
The annual US revenue of Novo Nordisk (Semaglutide) seems to be 45G$,
Isn't it a Danish company? I've wondered about that because I've seen lots of concern about cuts to research funding citing GLP medications as an example, but it seems odd that my tax dollars payed for the research, and now I would have to pay the Danes, as it were, to use it.
DirtyWaterHotDog
1d ago
- Rocky (1-4)
- Independence day (1996)
Some series (mostly 10 minute clips on Youtube)
- Supernatural (Season 1-6)
- House MD (As long as it's the OG crew)
- Chapelle show (especially this one)
- Would I lie to you (This video)
self_made_human
Sajjano durjano bhūyāt, durjano badhyatāṃ sadā, baddho'nyān nibandhāyet
1d ago
I saw Jurassic World Rebirth in theaters a few weeks back, but didn't get around to writing a review, and honestly, don't think it deserves an exhaustive analysis. But it was okay! There were dinosaurs, in a dinosaur movie, and that is intrinsically appealing. It also raises pointed questions about how Dominion was so bad that I left it in a DNF state.
In favor:
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The movie is an intentional throwback to the first trilogy, in terms of setting, pacing and cinematography. It's more more restrained, the pacing more deliberate. There is a tangible sense of place, a welcome departure from the green-screen-heavy aesthetic of the World trilogy, which only reminds me (negatively) of Marvel slop.
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The characters, sometimes, act self-aware.
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There are dinosaurs. Most of them act like wild carnivores as opposed to horror movie villains.
Against:
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The characters just as often turn off their brain when convenient for the plot.
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The onus for being there, namely to create a super anti-clotting drug and the precise means of doing so, are not very plausible. They need three samples from 3 different types of large dinosaur to "cure heart disease", and
there is literally a wild Apatosaur in the first scene of the movie, in New Fucking York, why didn't they just sample that?? -
Do not look too hard for plot holes, it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. To pick on them makes me feel bad, like challenging a child with Downs syndrome to a debate.
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In continued Hollywood tradition, the trailer spoils about 90% of the tense scenes in the movie.
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Children = invincible.
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- They soft retconned the entire point of the last two movies. Dinosaurs got loose and spread throughout terrestrial ecosystems, being somewhere between invasive and endemic. Photos of Triceratops herds migrating through Wyoming, Pteranodons nesting on skyscrapers, the works. And then they just... died off. No, seriously, dinosaurs - which colonized everything from the Arctic to the Antarctic - just couldn't handle conditions outside the modern equator. Thanks, global warming?
??? What. It would have been better to just reframe this as an alternate universe take or properly retcon things.
Overall, a 7/10. A good way to please the child in you that still fondly remembers making their plastic Rex fight and win against Army men. The British are an enlightened people, so I enjoyed it with multiple beers in the movie hall, and didn't miss anything of note during the necessary piss breaks.
IGI-111
God was a dream of good government.
1d ago
At the Mountains of Madness truly deserves a remake in Spess
MadMonzer
Pedo! Pedo! Pedo! Out! Out! Out!
1d ago
They've got Motability, a scheme where the disabled get vehicles paid for by the state.
This is only true in the sense that anything bought out of state benefits is paid for by the state, including the food retirees eat etc. Motability is a scheme where people getting disability benefits can have their benefit paid directly to the leasing company, which mean they are more creditworthy and get lower lease rates than they would be if they had to remember to make their own car payments on time. There is no cost to the taxpayer beyond the benefits we would be paying these people anyway.
See I found that good. Actually I'm not sure why it would be upsetting to you. Oh no! Too many cool ideas!
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