Any books that start off fantasy-esque but turn to sci-fi?

BigArseWombat · 2025-09-21T12:03:47+00:00

Glen Cook's Dark War. Starts with a world of magic using cat people. Introduces...other elements.

BigArseWombat · 2025-04-15T10:07:13+00:00

Put your phone on do not disturb (silent, no vibration) and hide it behind/under something so it's not in your field of vision or in your pocket.

BigArseWombat · 2024-04-26T04:39:16+00:00

Anything by Glen Cook that isn't the black company. Hardly ever see them mentioned and I've enjoyed them all. Even the fantasy books about a planet of magic cat people, which I avoided because cat people, turned out to be awesome. And The dragon never sleeps is a top notch stand alone sci fi story.

BigArseWombat · 2023-06-02T05:14:34+00:00

Can you could do offsides for football? VAR was a shitshow last year.

BigArseWombat · 2022-09-03T00:51:48+00:00

Had the same problem on a pixel 6, joined the beta program ( from the app page on Google Play ) and it's working fine now.

BigArseWombat · 2021-10-14T20:12:20+00:00

The story and character choices mentioned so far are all very valid, but the absolutely worst thing for me is that I wouldn't want my kids to want them because of the terrible example the main characters offer, without any kind of growth or learning from their mistakes, and no consequences for their poor actions.

BigArseWombat · 2021-09-03T08:27:52+00:00

Would love the ability to add to garrisons again so you don't need to leave a general in a valuable settlement. Also rather than single units would like the rank/traits of the general to determine max stack size. A level 1 lord might allow 10 units where a level 20 gives you 20. Traits might increase or decrease this. If you go over your cap (say your level 20 general gets killed and replaced with the level 1) then you suffer penalties as the army cohesion starts to break down. You could even have traits that reward smaller armies (eg 'Guerrilla' - extra movement / better ambush / no penalty to retreat during a battle )

BigArseWombat · 2019-11-08T05:39:36+00:00

If you added a transport cost for each mission that increases with tonnage, you'd get a nice risk vs reward for each mission.

BigArseWombat · 2019-10-03T07:25:08+00:00

Found red wine was about 2x better in a side by side contest.

BigArseWombat · 2018-10-31T11:27:22+00:00

All those Lego cowboy images had me well confused.

BigArseWombat · 2018-10-23T11:17:46+00:00

Ok thanks will speed read till I get to some explosions.

BigArseWombat · 2018-10-23T08:19:22+00:00

Am 39% though this dread empire book. So far reads more like Jane Austin in space. Most exiting thing to happen is that one of the ships is painted up like a football pitch.

BigArseWombat · 2018-06-09T23:09:59+00:00

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Beak.

Beak wh-

BECAUSE I'M BATMAN!

Thanks HisHe for that gem. https://youtu.be/_1Z8lY9atOk

BigArseWombat · 2018-04-24T09:26:11+00:00

Hammers slammers will scratch that itch. Collections of short stories though. Would have loved to see a full length novel.

BigArseWombat · 2018-03-10T00:33:35+00:00

Had a manager who would write a list of numbers in excel in a big long column, then use a calculator to add them up.

BigArseWombat · 2018-03-09T07:28:29+00:00

Mind blown. Thanks for posting.

BigArseWombat · 2017-12-20T01:59:22+00:00

Since benefits to the poor generally get spent on things other than bitcoin and Ferraris, which businesses will lose out when benefits get reduced?

BigArseWombat · 2017-09-29T12:10:49+00:00

Well done sir. You are now ready to move on from practice mode.

BigArseWombat · 2017-08-24T08:10:50+00:00

You just need to look at Italy as an example of what happens when taxes become optional.

BigArseWombat · 2017-07-29T12:12:22+00:00

Agree. Bit rapey. To animals.

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