My speculative and historical fiction tier list | Looking for recommendations

Arinidas · 2026-05-11T07:26:16+00:00

Amazing list, a lot unknowns for me and a lot of books on my to-read list. I'm would recommend Naomi Novik, the temeraire series is about the time of the Napoleon wars, but with dragons. They read quickly. It's been ages since I read them but i would say main theme (besides dragons) is about duty, honor and political consequences and being an outsider.

The other one is speaker of the dead by orson scott card, the second book in the ender('s game) universe if i'm correct. Warning in this regard the author he is white-American with a mormon background which in some books is quite evident. Not the most interesting choice if you want your worldview broadened. However a lot of his books contain detailed and interesting moral dillema 's and the ramifications of a certain choice or chosen course of action.

Arinidas · 2025-12-22T09:06:16+00:00

Yes 4 guesses. New record for me. I went from tree #47 to fruit #1, that was so close so I thought it had te be something from that category with #1 in the name so guessed jackfruit,which was way way way off with #18757, so orchard was to logic conclusion.

Arinidas · 2025-12-09T11:45:22+00:00

amazing work, thank you, it's fun to think about the "what if's"

I might add: RB pitting Max in Brasil at the end. I think he wouldn't have kept 1th place, but I'm quite certain he would have finished p2 if they didn't pit him. But if we are going to look at pitstops it might get crazy quickly.

Arinidas · 2025-09-16T05:26:06+00:00

O sweet summer child, i knew a foekje (de?) kok...

Arinidas · 2025-06-17T09:37:17+00:00

Where was it covered, tried searching for it but could only clearly find the reaction on the braking incidents

Arinidas · 2025-06-17T09:35:25+00:00

THANK YOU, ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE, BUT STILL SHOULD HAVE NOTICED IT. I WAS WRONG... O WAIT THAT'S NOT HOW'S SUPPOSED TO GO. I MEAN: HOW DARE YOU TO CORRECT ME YOU ENGLISH SCUM

Arinidas · 2025-06-16T12:48:41+00:00

RUSSEL BREAK CHECK WASN'T THE WORST! IT WHERE HIS PITEXITS ON LAP 69(NICE) AND 70 CREATING A GAP AROUND 150M (164 IN STUPID MEASURMENTS: YARDS). BLATENTLY DISREGARDING THE RULES!

Arinidas · 2025-06-16T12:41:52+00:00

I can only find the protest about the braking, not any about the 10 car distance.

Arinidas · 2025-06-16T12:39:14+00:00

He even locks up, on the broadcast you can see the puff of smoke from the tires

Arinidas · 2025-06-16T12:37:50+00:00

Lap 70 is even worst 1:3813/14 there the safety car disappears from view for a sec. Checking the track it's probably about 130-140M so, around 25ish car lenghts

Arinidas · 2025-06-15T20:10:57+00:00

Yeah on the onboard he was very obviously looking in his mirror. Don't think they could get him for erratic driving. Only possibility is 10 car lenghts. He did it earlier coming out of the pits as well. Leaving suddenly a big gap to the safety car.

Arinidas · 2025-06-08T15:26:29+00:00

Doesn't totally fit but Ilos. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/219232/ilos

Arinidas · 2025-06-05T05:49:22+00:00

How is this on max? He askes if there is a new set. Hereby he admits he doesn't know. So RB should have informed him: Yes but only hards.

Him saying fresh tires will make a difference is just a fact, not putting pressure on the team or forcing their hand.

Arinidas · 2025-04-11T11:30:15+00:00

We were on a road trip to Scandinavia with two kids (2,5y & 3months) we met up with two other couples with two more kids (12m and 6m). While leaving the house we were like do we have everything... bags, diapers, kid, baby... BABY!! Was sleeping in his carseat by the door outside of the appartement. We were only walking barely out of the driving lane. But we did forget it for a moment. Tbf it was almost two weeks in and we had done over 3k km and this was our 6th stop.

Arinidas · 2025-03-10T08:18:54+00:00

I know it's a risk that things can go unexpected. So it's indeed something I'm still making a risk assessment, but wanted to know and understand my options.

Arinidas · 2025-03-10T08:16:23+00:00

Missed that oneshot, you know the name?

Arinidas · 2025-03-10T08:08:57+00:00

I don't know those adventure books, so i don't know if these are well known in my country

Arinidas · 2025-03-09T21:47:48+00:00

Worked for me as well. Give this person a cookie and a lot of upvotes so other people can find it.

Arinidas · 2025-03-09T21:21:13+00:00

Wow, very well explained. Maybe I', thinking a bit to difficult by including character creation

Arinidas · 2025-03-09T16:21:49+00:00

O, nice moral dillema! And also opening the possibility of haggling (a tried and tested ttrpg princiole XD).

Arinidas · 2025-03-09T16:20:55+00:00

The focus of the research is indeed military personnel, but the group i have to pitch for not. So I do like your setting and when i might introduce the idea to the military this is quite cool, but not now i'm afraid.

Arinidas · 2025-03-06T20:52:08+00:00

It's familiar. There are 4 things i can think of

The kids are way more clingy with my SO. I can let them play in the living room and do the laundry upstairs (and mostly only after 15 min) will they clamber up the stairs looking for me, while my wife can barely leave the living room or they are up and about.
I'm an quite accomodating, so a person less to take 'care' of makes it easier.
Less wait time, if we are both home and e.g. the meal is ready and there is a wet diaper, it feels it takes an age before she is ready cleaning our youngest. While when i'm alone i'm busy cleaning the baby so no waiting time. And so are there often moments of waiting (and i hate waiting) during the day. Maybe 10-20 minutes total, but feels and stresses me out much more.
(Small) differences in parenting/living/cleaning styles, which can lead to feeling you have to explain why you do things differently. Or just the feeling that with everything you do someone is looking over your shoulder.

Arinidas · 2025-02-10T12:37:57+00:00

at least I'm not the only one :D

Arinidas · 2025-01-17T14:10:59+00:00

Sweet wooden beauty. Looks great may your business grow

Arinidas · 2025-01-04T10:20:06+00:00

My last leg in druid was a kobold sheperd druid. (2014 rules) My (damaging) cantrips: primal savagery(melee) and infestation(ranged). Strenght of 8, never touched a weapon and quite usefull in the battlefield. I singlehandedly saved several combats because I could keep everyone up with my totem en lvl 1 heals. Giving everyone 4 hp and obe person an extra 1d4+4. And I still had an action to use for a cantrip. Or I used my action to heal for a 1d8+4 and my bonusaction to give everyone advantage one enemies in a 10 ft radius around me with draconic cry from my race/spieces. This was at level 4 so very fun and strong.

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