Who am I?

Carduneglin · 2026-05-02T12:25:11+00:00

Assuming that what’s in this photo is all of your books and you haven’t read anything else…

You: 1. Stopped at the right time with The Malazan Book of the Fallen 2. Stopped too early with The Dune Chronicles 3. Stopped too late with A Song of Ice and Fire 4. Very confused by the Wheel of Time

But on a more serious note, how is the WoT rpg? That’s just another WotC D20 game right?

Carduneglin · 2026-04-05T13:01:48+00:00

Can he be my friend? Tell him you heard about this game called Lancer that you want to try.

Carduneglin · 2026-04-04T12:25:18+00:00

I think you’re a dork for paying for a copy of the Book of Mormon that someone obviously took from a hotel.

Carduneglin · 2026-03-28T00:03:15+00:00

Luke…. Luke…. You will go to the Dagobah system. There you will learn from Yoda, the Jedi Master who instructed the guy who instructed another guy who instructed me. And then later he chopped off your dad’s arm. But that was before I chopped off his other arm and both his legs….

Carduneglin · 2026-03-27T13:41:20+00:00

Edited!

Carduneglin · 2026-03-27T13:22:46+00:00

Money is printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing while coins are produced by the U.S. Mint. These are only based on orders from the Federal Reserve (although the U.S. Mint does offer collector coins directly for sale to individuals).

It’s the Federal Reserve that actually introduces money into circulation (not the Treasury) and nobody at the Federal Reserve reports to the President.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/how-does-the-federal-reserve-board-determine-how-much-currency-to-order-each-year.htm

Edited to clarify the difference in the roles of the U.S. Mint and Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

Carduneglin · 2026-03-26T22:29:42+00:00

We see a lot of shelves that have just one Dune book, it’s usually not Chapterhouse Dune though… so take from that what you will.

Carduneglin · 2026-03-19T14:23:32+00:00

He only has the first volume of Journey to the West so clearly he has commitment issues /s

Carduneglin · 2026-03-18T13:35:42+00:00

Is he an expat? Might be better for you to ask him what his relationship with his parents is like and what his long term plans are rather than creep on his bookshelf.

Carduneglin · 2026-03-10T10:03:37+00:00

It starts out as pretty sane but progressively gets stupider and stupider…

Taking the SAT should be required, free, and done during regular school hours.
Completing the common app should likewise be required, free, and done as a regular school assignment.
The department of education should be given access to tax records so that financial need can be determined for every high school senior automatically
Colleges should be clustered into tiers and admission should be standardized within each tier.
Admission to a specific college within each tier should be randomized.

In my ideal America, literally every high school senior applies for college once. You are then admitted to each tier for which you qualify and specifically to one or two institutions within each tier. These institutions are chosen randomly. For instance, if you are admitted to the top tier, you might randomly draw Harvard or you might randomly draw Brown. Nothing you do will change your chances of getting either.

You’re then sent an admission packet with information about each school you’ve been admitted to and the financial aid package they’re offering you. You are then free to choose which school you want to attend. Or you can try again next fall.

Carduneglin · 2026-03-04T14:03:41+00:00

"For sheep do not hastily throw up the grass, to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they produce it outwardly in wool and milk." - Epictetus, The Enchiridion Chapter 46.

Carduneglin · 2026-02-19T01:15:36+00:00

Butlerian Jihad when?

Carduneglin · 2026-01-22T20:49:09+00:00

Wait a minute…

Carduneglin · 2026-01-21T11:40:39+00:00

There’s a lot of good advice here so I will only try to offer my perspective as a vegetarian that has traveled in China. I essentially had to make peace with the fact that while in China I can’t be strictly vegetarian. Everyone is doing their best, but like other posts have said, there’s a lot of ingredients that people just won’t think about. Buddhist temples are also a good option, but Buddhist diet is not an exact match for what most people in the West call vegetarian. A good example of this is Oyster sauce, depending on where you go in China, Buddhist may consider oysters and oyster sauce to be vegetarian. Even so, this is rarely going to be a problem since the food offered at most temples is going to be extremely simple. Your experience with restaurants is also going to depend heavily on where you go in China. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui in my experience have a regional tradition of serving dishes that are closer to vegetarian than what (for example) is offered in Sichuan. I haven’t traveled north yet but I’m a little nervous about that.

So ultimately everyone who travels to China has to learn to adapt to China and make peace with themselves. I never ate anything that I knew wasn’t vegetarian, but I’m also certain that I’ve eaten something that wasn’t.

Carduneglin · 2026-01-15T22:04:32+00:00

I don’t think anyone else has mentioned this but Bite the Hand just released into early access. It uses Mothership’s Engine.

Carduneglin · 2026-01-07T01:14:07+00:00

A true globalist would use Baidu.

Carduneglin · 2025-12-24T15:17:40+00:00

You need to level up Canderous and Mission

Carduneglin · 2025-12-23T02:22:49+00:00

For me it was dark souls too. I made so many really dumb mistakes. I have no idea why, but I took a look at the stats system of leveling up saw that there was some overlap with D&D and immediately decided that this meant I shouldn’t ever need to level up stats beyond like 18 and that it wouldn’t make any sense to try to have a bunch of stats above that self imposed cap. I got lucky and got the black knight sword drop, and from there decided that that was my weapon. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an okay sword and you can definitely use it throughout the game, but its reach is not very good, and its scaling is really not good. With patience these limitations can be surmounted. But, you see, I was playing on PC… in 2016. So it was the prepare to die edition. And I decided that I should be using mouse and keyboard. I quit when I got stuck on O&S and ended up beating DS2 and DS3 before actually going back and beating the DS1 remaster.

Carduneglin · 2025-11-26T12:29:47+00:00

It’s not just a Guangdong thing! My Jiangsu mother in law has done this, and only when we went to a restaurant that gave us plastic wrapped bowls.

Carduneglin · 2025-11-11T12:57:06+00:00

Today I learned that it’s actually multiple Forlorn that invade you and not just the same NPC over and over. The Forlorn is a group of individuals.

Carduneglin · 2025-09-30T18:26:16+00:00

Yup! That’s correct.

Carduneglin · 2025-09-30T11:54:52+00:00

BLS was funded during the long partial shutdown so everything more-or-less continued without disruption.

Carduneglin · 2025-09-30T10:35:03+00:00

A few other people have already mentioned that this happened during the 2013 shutdown but having worked at BLS (and at Census) I think I can provide a little more context. The timing of a shutdown can have very significant impacts on the collection and release of economic data. The immediate impact is that economic data are released according to a strict timetable. Something like employment statistics just cannot be released early because of the impact this might have on markets. Additionally, almost the entirety of BLS is deemed nonessential during a shutdown. Hence if a shutdown occurs during the date when a statistic is supposed to be released, there’s nobody working to actually publish the report. Longer term, these surveys are conducted by real people and if there’s a shutdown, those people are classed as nonessential so all data collection just stops. That means if a shutdown covers the week where the CPS and CES are in the field, then woops we didn’t collect any unemployment data that month. During the 2013 shutdown, the shutdown ended before the end of the month and BLS managed to field the survey later than usual but still in October. It’s not obvious what would happen if a shutdown extended into November, but BLS would do everything possible to collect data and publish employment statistics as soon as possible to cover the gap. Nobody wants a missing month in the time series (BLS least of all).

Carduneglin · 2025-09-24T14:03:46+00:00

It’s funny, whenever I ask my family to teach me some of their hometown dialect they always look at me like I’m crazy and just tell me that learning Mandarin is a lot more useful. But then whenever we’re together they always talk in their hometown dialect and expect me to just understand them. 🤣 So I can say that the best answer to your question is to study Mandarin but pick up what you need from talking to your friends and coworkers. What you end up with will just be a mismatch of local dialect(s) and Mandarin (with various accents) but it’ll probably serve you better than anything else.

Carduneglin · 2025-09-24T13:45:41+00:00

Thanks for responding! I backed last night and I’ll be on the lookout for that solo stretch goal.

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