I read everything I could get my hands on (and still do), except the shit they assigned us for school.

I get “historically relevant” classics are a thing, but students don’t want to read most of them because they’re brutally formal and none of them can relate to them. It’s a chore primarily because the curriculum is all old and because burying 500 layers of symbolism into a story isn’t how people write any more (because it sucks).

If more reading assignments were stories written to actually entertain kids and just asking the kids to put themselves in the character’s shoes and “what would you do”, maybe they wouldn’t hate reading so much.

The reasoning is super transparent. It’s the only way it could do what it’s doing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

the Developer Kit product comprehensively has not met our usual standards of excellence and so we are reaching out to let you know that unfortunately we have made the decision to pause this product and the support of it, indefinitely.

It sounds like they fucked something up.

24 days from the ruling is an insane timeline.

Hitman is really good, too.

The always online for live service shit sucks, and I can’t defend that, but you can run your own server on PC and they don’t seem to have taken any action against the project. But once you get past that, it’s right there in the discussion for the best stealth action games on the market. The gunplay is a little clunky, but it feels intentional to push you into using weapons to get back to stealth, and of the contenders in the stealth space, the costume element makes it the most unique.

But I’m really excited to see what they do with Bond.

I couldn’t quite get into the first one, but the premise sounds cool.

His “just use email” like that isn’t very obviously worse in every respect kind of undermines his whole premise.

I can’t imagine how bad of a student I would have been if “literally don’t do it” was a 65. That’s insane.

They didn’t even give him the 0 he deserved?

Finished Words of Radiance, started Oathbringer.

They hit pretty hard back to back with the end of one and right out of the gate in the other.

He wants all of his books in one index.

It’s a little different on a second read. The way it’s set up is excellent at building a tension where any scene can be pivotal, and you don’t have that on a re-read. But I did pick up details I missed the first time on the second pass (about through words of radiance), and the scenes that don’t progress you through the main arc still feel purposeful.

If I’d read 6 months ago instead of finishing probably a month before the new one I’d probably start from the beginning again. I reread a lot, though. A lot of other series (even with less of an arc) I’d read from the start even after just finishing it lol.

They’re really not. Dude didn’t invent wing doors.

They’re a publicly traded company.

Their executives need something to point to to be able to push back against pressure to jump on the trend.

I’m somewhere between “death of the author” and “there are no/all valid interpretations”. Stories help you explore through eyes that aren’t your own and ask questions or raise contradictions you wouldn’t otherwise consider, but I don’t really think critically analyzing fiction is all that useful.

Dive deep into a story, feel what you feel, let your mind wander. I think classes analyzing themes in the Scarlet Letter or whatever are missing the point of storytelling. It should be organic, and whatever it triggers is valid.

No problem. I’m never going to criticize piracy because I don’t really care either way, but I wouldn’t want to see anyone pay several times as much for a product that’s worse for their needs.

I think I might have to break my habit and not start from scratch before book 5. It just feels like so much.

I love all extra myths and fairy tales as part of the story. I feel like you could pull those out and sell it as standalone for people intimidated by the whole giant thing who still want a flavor of his worldbuilding.

Just FYI, the official way to watch after the fact isn’t Sunday ticket. It’s NFL+, and removes commercials from the main broadcast, along with providing an abbreviated version that cuts out all the between play stuff but keeps all the action, and access to the film, and is (in the US) $100, not as expensive as Sunday ticket. You can also search for specific plays by specific players with NFL Pro. (Edit: it looks like they still call it gamepass internationally, and you also get the games live).

Doesn’t mean don’t look for alternatives, but it’s not as expensive as you’re thinking unless you want live games.

They’re paced pretty well, too. It feels a little longer so far because the entire last week has only just barely brought me close to where I was reading the ebooks, so I’ve been chomping at the bit to get some of the questions where I was answered.

But holy hell does it feel longer as one big storyline though. It’s fantastic, but even though I listen to a lot of audiobooks (and just finished a 30 book series with a bunch of them pushing 600 pages/30 hours) and do it at 2x speed, the length feels different lol.

Yes.

But the lies around them are so excessive that it’s a lot easier for executives of a publicly traded company to make reasonable decisions if they have concrete support for it.