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When I did my 2nd or 3rd re-read of Gardens of the Moon, I had trouble remembering why it is so disliked. It has problems, sure, but compared to some 80s or 90s Fantasy it is light years ahead. But, I also had the knowledge of everything that comes after and the ride I was gearing up for. New...

I’m supportive. We have our differences but she’s fine as far as MIL’s go, and she really likes me so that helps. We also have no other family here and the idea of her wanting to help watch the 3 boys (even if it only works out 10% of the time), sounds great. She’s also putting the house and...

Should be closing on our land Monday 9/22. In a wrinkle to the whole effort that I've been holding off posting about, my Mother-in-Law is now purchasing a lot behind our lot and relocating here from Dallas. So, we'll be doing two home builds with lots separated by some green space. She was...

Compared to the time it takes to get used to an Ergo keyboard, it took about 10 minutes to get used to the vertical mouse and my wrist feels a ton better.

Looks like it is official that Suntup will be doing "No Country for Old Men." They released a teaser on their site today, going on sale Sept 18th. Not full reveal yet. I may actually go in for this one. Be nice to have a real high quality version on the shelf...

Man, there's a ton. I just asked ChatGTP for a whole list a couple months back when we started this. Architectural Designs. (architecturaldesigns.com) Houseplans.com. (Houseplans.com) The House Designers. (thehousedesigners.com) America’s Best House Plans. (House Plans) ePlans. (Eplans.com)...

Continue to follow my blog as we go through the process! It'll be very entertaining and provide countless opportunities to say "I told you so!" and "That was a dumb decision!" Do you have a lot yet? Not all floorplans or tentative plans will fit all lots. Even though we have a more traditional...

I saw that pop up in my Instagram feed but forgot to go back and watch it. I have one of his fence stops and something else I can’t remember and have liked them.

The most important lesson my first boss ever taught me when I started working professionally was “trust but verify” 😂 Think he was a big Reagan fan. I asked again and got the same $1397641. Short actual update to our endeavor now that I’m done with yard work and we’re about to head back out...

Yeah I’m the same way until I start trying to migrate to excel then I try to manually do the formulas to double check myself and the GPT. It gets tricky with the way you ask and how it interprets that and I usually ask it to give me a table of monthly amounts and totals broken out by categories...

I’ve been doing a ton of scenarios lately for our home build project and done too many of these lately. Glancing at your table something feels off. It may be a misunderstanding on my part. My spreadsheets are getting a little out of hand with all the research and planning I’m doing for this...

The fact that there is almost zero map enhancement is really kind of laughable. Yeah maybe we’re all spoiled gamers being handheld and spoon fed blah blah. But I mean even the original Metroid had a serviceable map. And your “metroidvania” map is so bad not even Lewis and Clark could make use of it.

I do think Void is right, pushing ePub to your Kindle shouldn't be an issue. You may have to do it via USB though.

I can confirm on the first. Just beat the bell beast and ran into getting damaged on my down attack quite a few times. Was frustrating me b/c it didn't seem to have the attack frames or something b/c I'd get clipped by the edge of the enemy or something and get hit before hitting the ground /...

Just finished it. What a crap movie. Nothing about it felt right or cohesive. Fat country bumpkin Jonathon and Martha? Some random scrambled message from Jor El and the world goes crazy? Actually it isn’t even worth all the complaining. How disappointing.

After I posted in the What’d You Just Read about The Devils and my Broken Binding copy, someone mentioned he may have more planned in that universe.

Devils was the first Abercrombie I've read and loved it. Really want to go back and do all the 1st Law and some others after finishing up some Hobb.

It kind of felt like in 2017 the resurgence or explosion of the Metroidvania stuff was just getting kicked off. So Hollow Knight came out at a real good time. Ori came out just before that in 2015 and from my mind really got things kicking. Dead Cells was 2017 also. So, it was well positioned...

I swapped to Kobo because Amazon just changed policy of letting you offload the books from your Kindle. Previously you could sync it to your computer and download / upload your .pdf or .kindles whatever, but no more. So fuck them...

Picked it up today also to try out and forgot I had to go pick up the kids. Not because I was playing and it was so good or anything. Just downloaded it at literally 4pm which is when we leave. So, don’t use that as an endorsement on Steam. Will play some tomorrow!

Yeah I get what you mean about the ebooks. I don’t find e-ink to put as much stress on my eyes as a normal computer screen, but it is a balance. Too dark and I strain to see it, too bright and it is like shining a flashlight in my eye. Wife is super sensitive to light when she sleeps so once I...

The 2024 physical novel was a limited run done by Conversation Tree Press, the ones I posted above (Solaris by Stanisław Lem). It is the only current print version of the 2011 translation. The 2011 translation was first available in eBook and Audiobook only in 2014 (Amazon.com: Solaris eBook ...

We're attempting to move forward with our land purchase it looks like. Spent an hour or more with the builders on Labor Day looking at lots and eventually settled on two parcels. Individually they aren't big enough for what we want so we'll be paying more but end up having a buffer on either...

That's a good question. Did some looking at it appears that Jasienko's version was also based on the French text and not the original Polish. Which definitely seems strange given that Jasienko is Polish, but he was a part of a large Polish post WWII intellectual community living in France. So...

No, it has some beheadings and blood and whatnot but no boobage.

Y’all are going to hate me, but this wasn’t actually the worst movie ever. I have no connection, knowledge, never read or seen anything source material related to Red Sonja. So, my perspective is this as just another cheesy Hercules, Xena, The Outpost, Beastmaster. Yeah conceptually the little...

Hmm Solaris is a hard one to pin down. It is very heavy with philosophical arguments and themes around what constitutes life and consciousness, as the scientists try to define what Solaris is… Well, if you aren’t familiar with the source novel or either film version, maybe that’s a good place...

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. In preparation for the Conversation Tree Press edition, I re-read the original translation from 1970 from Kilmartin and Cox. That version was not a direct from Polish effort and was instead translated from a French edition of Solaris. So, it was a double translation...

Cool, I d/l the demo but got pulled away before trying. The language in the trailer on Steam was very heavy about “success not bringing advancement; die and learn skills” yadda yadda. Made it sound more rogue’ish elements. uh the demo crashes my 3080Ti heh, some video memory error. Odd. May...

Trailer makes it sound more like Returnal than Doom? I guess it could be Doom shooting with Returnal rogue-like mechanics. May be fun to try out.

I spent like 40 minutes this morning watching old Mr. Show clips on YouTube after reading that dumb comment. That shit was hilarious. Blowing Up the Moon, the audition one, the lie detector. Those old sketch shows were the best.

Already bored of Silent Hill 2. Who thought it was a good idea to make a movie about Silent Hill and then spend like 45 minutes not even in the damn city? Maybe the back half is better.

lol I posted about it like 4 posts above. It wasn’t terrible but didn’t feel like it was any more than a 6/10, and a weak one at that.

I started 2 immediately after but only got about 10 minutes in and had to crash. Optimistic these days that my bedtime goes past 9:30 lol.

Just finished a rewatch of the 1st movie and man it was pretty great. Didn't remember much about it, definitely room for improvement and some of the CGI was extremely dated, but other scenes were just top notch. Towards the end when she gets off the elevator and is in the room filled with lying...

Kind of how a lot will add Tournament or PVP modes in some fashion. While Tournament may not directly have you “fight” other players, it does rank you against how far, fast, or efficient you got there. So you’re constantly competing and spending resources ($) to get betterer than others.

We also watched it last night and am in line with just about everyone. It was pretty bland as far as plot goes, generic, but visuals were great. Makes me regret not seeing it on a huge screen. Also kind of dumb that every race was like “ohh intense, we’re gonna do it!” Crash. Next race “oh we...

Land, don’t die bc your Ryobi blew up.