Yeah, you ain’t gonna make it through the series then, all there is to it. Because I’m okay with his writing style and still get constantly annoyed at things. Book 2 is too depressing, with a dark ending that you see coming for 500+ pages and is entirely unsatisfying when you finally get there. Some of the battles in book 3 go on waaay too long.

He also keeps trying to trigger his readers. I’ve never seen such a display of triggers in anything I’ve ever read, and I am getting annoyed with how often he’s trying to get a rise out of me.

That’s not to say that the series is without it’s strengths and its charms, but it’s both the Best and Worst of modern fantasy. And don’t even get me started with characters suddenly and abruptly turning into Dragons

I’m on Book 4 of the Malazan series by Steven Erikson, “House of Chains”. It’s definitely better than the depressing #2 or the rather erratic #3.

#malazanSummerContinues

Full brim, white and beige. Classy AF

I’ve heard of Ohio, so I can confirm that others have witnessed this

Is… Is this a true story?

Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade

Saw this one so many times when I was younger

That is very fair

This at last explains why the Enterprise is a leaky sieve where anyone can beam onboard at any time

There is no way around light speed and conservation of momentum.

That we know of, yet. We haven’t even had particle accelerators for a hundred years; let’s give it at least 500 years of scientific research and discoveries before we say definitively that we absolutely know, without any doubts, that there’s no way around conservation of momentum.

I ain’t saying there is a way; just that we are very young, and very immature.

Anyone who buys into Will.I.Am’s hype is automatically the wrong person to run anything more than a lemonade stand

Also, gave a platform to “John of God”. She’s sketchy AF

Microplastics

saying competition and fear are incentives to improve service

Fear? Seriously? A public health care service that’s been under-funded by design will “improve service” out of fear? These politicians have no morals.

The idea of “robot dreams” is no longer the exclusive domain of fiction.

No, LLMs are not AGI. They don’t dream, and hallucinations don’t count.

He.

1. Pick some friends that you like
2. Download “I Am Never Going To Give You Up” by Rick Roll
3. Put the song on the disk in very low quality .mp3
4. Give the disks away as “fun, retro” drink coasters
5. Watch as they use the coasters, unaware that you Rick Rollered them

Indeed. Workers exist in order to work. Why would workers want to strike, when instead they could be working? Good thing the government is stepping in to keep them in their place. /s

Mmm, the neon green lines really sell the putrification.

I’ll place your Lemmy Cesium award in a safe place, where it will not be exposed to water

On the top, a bright, clear sunny day, a few picturesque clouds in the sky.

At the bottom, a river, once clean, where corporate logos such as Google and Microsoft sit, partially submerged, stains spreading into the waters around them.

In the middle, a bridge: well constructed across and overtop the river, across which various Fediverse logos are crossing

I dunno, I’m not a graphic designer

Fascinating

I keep hearing it’s much worse than it used to be, profits regardless