I’ve been enjoying DCC too much lately, I usually alternate my books between Star Wars and another one. Asimov is one of the main ones, but I also don’t want to be done them!

This is my read Asimov shelf, doesn’t include his editor only ones.

And my used, to be read section of his.

Got a lot of reading in this week actually! Finished up DCC 6 and am already halfway through (Star Wars legends) book 2 of the black fleet crisis, Shield of Lies.

It’s an interesting difference in story telling from the first book, the first book was your “standard” change between the 3 storylines wherever, maybe every chapter as a good average. But this book, parts 1/2/3 and maybe 4. First part of the book was all Landos storyline, while Part two so far is Luke.

After this, I’m diving into DCC #7 (edit) and that’s just south of 900 pages, so it’ll take the week+ likely.

I hadn’t noticed anything like that, but I did look at my book 8 which is 200 pages shorter than 7 and it’s the same thickness, so that has the thicker pages like 6.

Interesting, and this could make sense. I checked book 8, it’s about the same thickness as 7, but 200 pages shorter. So it’s the thicker pages again, first edition, dunno if they’ve done a second yet as it’s new.

When you’re used to 300-400 page books, it’s noticeable, but such easy reading it does go pretty fast.

It does, but EVs and Solar crop up in the 80s far more in the show than real life too. It’s not just for space.

Its the manned part, cant really build the ships that well or they’re too heavy to lift off or something along those lines.

It’s alternate history, the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race.

And you can launch once a month, not twice a year, you can launch more frequently. But the logistics and costs don’t make sense.

Large part is not being able to operate in the dark on the moon, that’s the limiting factor.

The general public is the best. It’s the sum interpretations of people that define these “definitions” and they do change over time as well, that’s how languages should work.

So it’s always interesting to see people’s personal takes, even if it’s against the norms, but makes sense. Star Wars obviously doesn’t quite fit the “mould” so to speak.

Dragon Ball would seem to fit that area as well.

How’s that different than a standard fantasy? Is it the rpg mechanics?

In the few fantasies (other than Star Wars) I’ve read, there’s always some stuff the protagonist needs to do before dealing with the antagonist. Get a sword, learn a spell, stuff like that type of thing.

So I guess where’s the line that it’s story progression vs character progression?

Hell even some stories in Star Wars can fall into that category, Anakins upbringing and progression to a Jedi “master”?

In a newly built Modern neighborhood the houses are all built to the same basic “set of standards”, that includes an ups or a battery with the solar installation.

A lot of people who say they are “techy” aren’t actually all that techy, they just have a laptop with a server and Linux. It’s pretty dang common to have ups or battery’s when actual modern tech is installed in a house.

Even infills in older neighbourhoods are frequent enough that there should be plenty.

Or try living in the suburbs where you gotta get gas trucked in, you’re gonna want backups.

We don’t have fluctuating energy prices like that, it’s set for 24 hours. Commercial/industrial customers can have varying rates.

Selling to the grid here is useless, you can’t sell more than you use. So if you use zero, you can’t sell any back. You can only sell to offset what you used.

So say you buy $100 from the grid this month, you can only sell back that $100 dollars, you can’t profit from it.

It’s common with stuff like balcony solar systems so you have a way to store some power easily.

There’s different levels and stages of being “techy”. Just having a passion for computers and data is only one. Most of my techy friends are into solar as well.

Weird, with solar being so easy to install, most people I know want a way to store it.

Where do you live that this isn’t the case?

A LOT of people have networks and systems on UPS’s, so that’ll tell you nothing much really.

I can still watch media on my tablets if the power goes out.

Almost halfway through book 6 of DCC, it’s around 800 pages >.<

After this it’s book two of Star Wars the Black Fleet Crisis, which is called Shield of Lies. The first book was good, although I wasn’t happy that they left all of the story lines open, usually one gets closed.

Fantasy genre doesn’t typically have the RPG elements like the Achievement popups, actual leveling with stat points, narrators, and stuff like that. Unless that’s the “theme” of it being progression. Atleast that’s my understanding, I don’t enjoy the fantasy genre too much myself.

Do you have any examples? The little I’ve played with Ai the different models can give wildly different results from even just asking for a synopsis of an email.

If you are just using the same Ai and similar prompts like “write a murder mystery” I could see it happening. But that’s just not understating AI at that point.

But at the same time, ask the same author to write 10 murder mysteries and they’ll sound similar too.

It was only mid twenties the last couple days so I was able to get some work done than get a decent reading break. I’m halfway through SW legends “Before the Storm”, it’s book 1 of a trilogy. It’s got a fairly obvious continuity error, but the first prequel movie was 1999 and this book was 1996. It says the Yoda was a hermit on Dagobah for over a hundred years, or close. I’m enjoying it, part of the story centers around Lando, and his partner Lobot from Cloud City who we haven’t heard from since Vaders little tea party there.

After this, it’s book 6 of DCC. I’m hoping the weather isn’t stupid hot and I can get some deck reading in. I enjoy just sitting with my feet in a bucket of water. Anything bigger like a wading pool and the dogs splash too much, can’t ruin my brothers books.

Thank you! I find it’s always easier to do something when there’s a goal and a method. So I’ve been consistent with it, even with all of life’s curveballs.

Hrmm there’s two ways to look at this I think.

First, I got back into reading around the start of 2022, and did this pattern for most of it, so we can say I’m 2/3 done in four years and will be completely done in a little over two years.

The other, I started tracking my reading in StoryGraph at the beginning of the yeah. I’ve got 40 books left, and it says my current pace is a book every 10 days. So with my alternating pattern it would be 80 books for 800 days. Just a little over 2 years.

Neat.