The comfortable volume levels on my tv are between 8 and 15, so I’m using every one of them.

That is a meaning for the phrase, yes

I suppose it could go either way. That would be true if we see stardates as a universal system that applies anywhere and everywhere. If we instead imagine them to include encoded information about local space time, it makes sense that they might be inconsistent but always moving forward.

I am, of course, using “makes sense” extremely loosely here.

I guess when you’re traveling around faster than the speed of light, time and date stop meaning the same thing as they do back home, so it stands to reason that you couldn’t map stardates to any standard calendar.

At least, that’s my new headcanon.

Props to teenagers getting out there and making things, but I’m skeptical of fact checking with the same technology responsible for making up half its output.

Considering the original meaning of “hit points” referring to how many shells a given ship could take before sinking, 12hp out of a basic spell is still pretty impressive.

Normally I’d say it would be ridiculous for a company to push legislation for such a small demographic, but since Korea has mandatory service still as far as I know, they basically get to put a Samsung in the hands of every male citizen. And they’ll most likely keep using the same brand of phone after.

The problem is that type of phishing is pretty much unheard of these days. You’re so much more likely to run into a fake Microsoft SSO page. I see these every day at work, and if you’re not checking the URL, it’s often identical.

So, the actual highest commandments are use MFA, read urls, and double check email senders.

Interesting. I generally cannot stand deus ex machina, so I’m surprised to not really be able to think of heavy examples of it for Lindon. He certainly gets out of tricky situations, but maybe to me it felt like they were either foreshadowed or somebody like Aethan gets him out of it?

I’m planning another reread soon; I’ll have to pay special attention to see why it didn’t register for me in this particular story.

This is probably my favorite fantasy book series, so I’m super curious what resolutions you’ve found annoying.

I’ll say I find the first book a bit of a slog, but that’s mostly because I can’t stand the secondhand embarrassment of Lindon’s behavior.

Once Aethan shows up, it’s a straight shot to the top for me.

I’m pretty fond of both narrators (though I do wish they had decided on pronunciations ahead of time), but I can’t stand the switching. Either have a dedicated reader for each character, or stick to one narrator for the whole thing, imo.

Relevant XKCD

I know historically “deaf and dumb” meant deaf and mute, but, at least in the classes I took in college, I was told we don’t use that terminology anymore, for hopefully obvious reasons.

Honestly forgot about chai. And I think people took my original comment a little too seriously, lol. Nothing at all against putting milk in your drinks or not. I’m just jealous because my lactose free milk costs twice the price.

If you have to add milk to it to enjoy it, then you like drinking milk. This brought to you by the lactose intolerant gang.

But in reality I actually love a good jasmine green tea, nothing added. Black is fine with some sugar.

I want to know who had the corkscrew.

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.

As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.

Isn’t that just how sponsorships work? Most every major stadium is named after some company or another, because they paid for it.

I have a vague recollection of this fence showing up on Reddit ages ago and everyone telling the owner to get a beware of dog sign instead of fixing it.

Either they followed through, or that’s a pretty good photoshop.