Sargon on podcast of the lotus eaters has I think the only sane take -- a pretty blonde pop singer dating a Chad football player and loving life in a traditional relationship after years of publicly and vocally suffering in relationships with less traditionally masculine men is pretty much exactly a huge conservative W and the people whining about psy-ops really seem to be missing the big picture.
I blitzed through several volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored" because it's a wonderful read.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
Wow! It's a good thing the stats haven't been revised down virtually every month for the past year or that might be really embarrassing breathlessly reporting the initial numbers!
https://youtu.be/MYjGh99Mht8
Pretty much exactly as many commentators expected, disney doesn't have a constitutional right to form its own government.
Commies are still pulling for Disney in this case because fascism and communism are cousins no matter how much they deny it.
Pretty much exactly as many commentators expected, disney doesn't have a constitutional right to form its own government.
Commies are still pulling for Disney in this case because fascism and communism are cousins no matter how much they deny it.
Sotomayor is the same retarded lunch lady who made the argument that because your body produces viruses when you're sick it should be regulated like a factory.
And by my measure she can't count either (as expected by a retarded lunch lady). A supermajority tends to be more than two thirds, but in reality it's just a simple majority -- 4 conservative justices, not 6.
And by my measure she can't count either (as expected by a retarded lunch lady). A supermajority tends to be more than two thirds, but in reality it's just a simple majority -- 4 conservative justices, not 6.
Honestly, I sorta feel like Internet Archive deserves getting sued and depending on the facts they're being sued over, they will justifiably lose.
Swaths of their site are just open hosts for piracy, I don't think you can just call yourself a library and expect to get away with something like that.
I say that as someone who strongly dislikes copyright as it exists today and have already pledged to give up the copyright to my book 15 years after it was published, so it isn't like I'm a big lover of the thing.
Swaths of their site are just open hosts for piracy, I don't think you can just call yourself a library and expect to get away with something like that.
I say that as someone who strongly dislikes copyright as it exists today and have already pledged to give up the copyright to my book 15 years after it was published, so it isn't like I'm a big lover of the thing.
Bitches in the club better get up on my dick right now 'cause age is just a number but I'm the high scorer
Live somewhere for 10 generations and They go "go home!" -- this is home. Get over it.
Because I was painting a picture of a thoroughly inoffensive pop star and conventionally attractive white blonde is part of that picture.
Nothing republicans hate more than (checks notes) a conventionally attractive white, blonde girl in a traditional relationship with a conventionally masculine man.
And they send the policies out to other western powers to copy, "oh it must be good, it's what the world's sole superpower does!"
When I went to college, I shared a 2 bedroom place with my brother, and we paid 350/mo. It wasn't a great building, but it was perfectly ok and in a decent enough part of town. You couldn't get that place for twice the place now. In fact, I bet you couldn't get a similar place for 4 times as much.
Half the problem is definitely too much money sloshing around the system thanks to central banks and various government programs that let people borrow way too much money at way too low rates.
In addition, however, it's pretty tough not to go to any store and order from any restaurant and also realize that there's a lot more people around (and a lot different people around) than back then.
I don't blame the people who took advantage of our policies, it's ultimately the fault of our politicians and the bureaucrats that we're in this situation.
Half the problem is definitely too much money sloshing around the system thanks to central banks and various government programs that let people borrow way too much money at way too low rates.
In addition, however, it's pretty tough not to go to any store and order from any restaurant and also realize that there's a lot more people around (and a lot different people around) than back then.
I don't blame the people who took advantage of our policies, it's ultimately the fault of our politicians and the bureaucrats that we're in this situation.
Wait... Do some people think saying "no bot" or using a hashtag will stop a malicious bot?
Because that's ridiculous and silly. Wishful thinking at best.
Because that's ridiculous and silly. Wishful thinking at best.
Maybe the kids should be forced to take cultural sensitivity training for refusing to respect his culture?
Is it really smart to take advice on mental health from an establishment that has categorically failed on youth mental health?
I always wonder if these same people who think you should use your real name online also wear their drivers license as a T-shirt so everyone everywhere they go can see who they are.
Seems like walking around in a bad neighborhood screaming "OH WOW MY WALLET IS SO FULL OF MONEY RIGHT NOW!"
Seems like walking around in a bad neighborhood screaming "OH WOW MY WALLET IS SO FULL OF MONEY RIGHT NOW!"
Imagine being the guy who wrote that "on hold" music virtually every voicemail system in the world. Probably doing very well for himself.
