I mean, I use Discord pretty much every day, and that’s what I assumed.

Oh, and Dunsany! Can’t believe I forgot him.

They’re both mass-market pulp that are entertaining to read. There’s plenty of sci-fi and fantasy that’s literature: Ursula LeGuin, Tolkien, Gene Wolfe, NK Jemisin, Vonnegut… the list goes on.

I mean, it’s Tom Clancy. It’s a fun read, like Dan Brown or Brandon Sanderson, but it’s not literature or anything.

It sounds like you should be doing the shopping when you want to do the cooking.

I’ve found the $5 a month tier to be just about right. There have been a few months I’ve gone over, but they make that super easy to deal with: they just change the subscription renewal date and you start your next month a few days early.

I don’t remember who said it first, but I’ve linked it before: there’s no paradox if tolerance is a social contact rather than an ethic. If someone breaks the terms of the contact, then the other party is not bound by it any more.

I get where you’re coming from. Unfortunately, it’s not really that simple. Sometimes a relationship is so toxic that there’s no way to restore the basic trust that’s needed in order to function as a unit. This is no different. Pre-Trump, we might have been able to talk and salvage things; at this point, they’re just as broken as a relationship full of cheating and domestic abuse. My fear is that the only way forward is breakup (ie civil war) or some other equally deep trauma.

I understand where you’re coming from, but I disagree completely. They are written in a different style than we’re used to today, but they’re masterfully done. To me, the movies are largely good adaptations, but the books are far superior.

But that’s the nice thing about taste: everyone’s entitled to their own.

That is relevant to my interests. I’ll have to pay a visit to Baltimore.

Two, maybe 2.5. Season 4 was a disaster IMO. I’ve got it on DVD but haven’t even bothered ripping it.

Oh man, that reminds me of a place near me that does palak paneer fries. It’s like Indian poutine. Amazing.

I bet they’ve got websites with RSS feeds. Pick up an RSS reader and subscribe to their news & announcements page.

Relevant link: https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/

I think they tend to be more interesting too, yeah.

I’d rate them about the same, personally. Though Brooks is at least just derivative and juvenile; Goodkind gets increasingly self indulgent.

Darknet Diaries. Full of fascinating cybersecurity stories and interviews, with both whitehats and blackhats.

First time I ever saw in-car GPS was arrive 2003 when I was hitchhiking in Japan. Heading the car just give directions was mind-blowing; it was like being in a William Gibson novel.

Bottlescrews and turnbuckles both have one end threaded in each direction.

Forged in the Dark games are great; I haven’t gotten to play Blades, but I’ve run some Scum & Villainy (which is a space opera setting: think Star Wars meets Firefly), and it’s probably my new favorite system

MorkBorg is fun for the aesthetic, but the combat always seems to just drag on, with round after round of damage getting blocked by armor. On the up side, the rounds go really quick.

What you’re asking about there seems like it’s really: “Is something being knowledge vs belief subjective or objective?”

The answer, just like for “is cereal soup?”, is that it’s all semantics. It’s not like there’s some Authority who’s created the Platonic Form of Knowledge that Beliefs cannot partake of, and there’s a clear delineation between Knowledge and Belief. We’re just using these weird shapes, sounds, hand gestures, or whatever else to try to do telepathy and get our thoughts into someone else’s head. Like all semantic questions, what this comes down to is: have you chosen the right word to convey your thought? If people seem to not be getting it, try the other one.