Hey! Glad to hear you’re still at it :D

I can’t say because spoilers, but trust me, it all comes together in the end with nary a loose end in site.

I wish I could read it all for the first time again!

I can’t answer your question as I haven’t taken that step yet, everything is still confined to my LAN.

Here’s a similar thread from last month that had a lot of replies. Hopefully will be some useful info there for you. Good luck!

I have more control over it and I don’t need to create accounts and give out my email address.

I have no idea if this is a spoiler or not…

It has been a while since I read them though. I will say I don’t remember feeling perturbed about any plot holes when I finished so I assume it is explained at some point.

Maybe xD

Awesome :D

I can’t really say much without spoilers but yeah, I feel you. Some of them will grow on you probably and the world building is an absolute necessity for the rest of the books (kinda like ARR in FF14 if you’ve played that).

Fantastic, glad you’re enjoying it!

As far as the rest goes, you ain’t seen nothing yet xD

No other book series has made me so emotional.

Enjoy!

Child

Abusing

Theologically

Hateful

Oligarchical

Licentious

Insane

Cunts

Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings series. It’s right up there with Sanderson IMO.

Reading order is the Farseer trilogy, Liveship Traders trilogy, Tawny Man trilogy, the Rain Wild Chronicles and finally the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. IMO they’re all absolute page turners from start to finish. I’ve read the whole lot twice, some of them more.

It’s not quite as daunting as it looks as the Liveship Traders trilogy and the Rain Wild Chronicles follow a different cast of characters from the other 3 trilogies albeit set in the same world and with some crossover.

The one thing that sets it above Sanderson’s work for me is that it’s complete with no loose threads. Hopefully he gets there one day too!

TIL, thank you.

IMO defensive would involve them not leaving the USA.

Right! Every time I see something like this I wonder that people don’t realise the terrain around Tehran and the north-west. A ground invasion against Iran would make Afghanistan look like a picnic in comparison.

Try Flatnotes.

FAFO

A chilling turn? That’s decades late…

Watch the documentary Jesus Camp from 2006.

77m voted for Trump which is 32% of the voting age population.

As a percentage of the overall population it is ~23%.

Who are they? Hard for who?

I propose a new title… “This thing I know a lot about is easy!”

Yup!

My Computer

This Computer

This says it all

Main character moment.

My server is usually between 30w-40w (that’s about 20-25p per day electricity cost in the UK at 25p/kwH).

That’s with the aforementioned processor/ram, a Gigabyte A520M motherboard, 1 case fan, the stock cooler, a 120gb 2.5" SSD, 2 4TB 3.5" HDDs and 1 8TB 3.5" HDD (all drives always spinning).

It’s running OpenMediaVault as OS and 5 docker containers 24/7 (Flatnotes, FreshRSS, Kavita, qBittorrent and RecipeSage). Other than that I use it for media access from a MiniPC running Debian w/ Kodi accessing it via SMB (the server doesn’t transcode).