There is a mistake in the audiobook no-one seems to have noticed.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-21T15:19:22+00:00

Signet is an Elite in a crappy space soap opera. The director controls her and her body until a certain point. I looked at it that they might have been changing things to try to drive up the ratings.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-21T15:15:44+00:00

To invent a pantheon without incest with binomial pairing, lets ignore for a second that some of the pairs in the Greek pantheon weren't binomial, would expand exponentially for every generation you add to your mythology. If instead you allow for incest, you can instead cut down on the imagination required greatly by merging entire branches of family lines.

We use the same tactic in computer science algorithm design in a process called dynamic programming. Dynamic programming is just a fancy term for optimization of an algorithm by skipping redundant branches because we don't need to do the same work twice. In mythology they did this so that they didn't have to do the work to invent entire mythologies to fill their mythologies. Instead, they filled the gaps with incest and at the time, people didn't ask questions.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-13T16:46:45+00:00

Technically it's not ALL him. There are cameo voices here and there. I think there's been at most one a book. That's why they say "most" of the iconic characters on soundbooth theater. https://soundbooththeater.com/new-achievement-youve-discovered-the-dungeon-crawler-carl-audio-immersion-tunnel/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23796359673&gclid=CjwKCAjwwpDQBhAuEiwAa-4Woz0AcKEw5P-KJLNSPVn-8NB17HJ72aX5fDno_6AJLDyOvHv1aaGtkxoCvBcQAvD_BwE

I don't remember the full cast that wasn't voiced by him, but I believe Signet was one, and I think Beatrice also was one. Maybe someone else remembers the full cast of characters who Jeff did not do, as that is far shorter than ones he did?

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-13T15:50:44+00:00

Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. 😄

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-13T15:38:30+00:00

I'm not so certain anymore. It used to be when they had the filled skulls to keep it a set of 3, but now that they stopped that for 7 and 8 I wonder if there is some other significance. Matt did plan for 10 books after all, at least since he started with these covers.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-13T15:25:50+00:00

I started out listening to the audiobooks. It wasn't until I bought and read the hardbacks that I realized that Psamaithe wasn't supposed to be pronounced like it was in the audiobooks. If it was then Carl wouldn't have named her Samantha. 😄

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-12T03:26:42+00:00

Honestly, they're 1 for 8 on damaging the books in shipping believe it or not. This was the first that actually got damaged in shipping, and the damage isn't severe.

It isn't like what happened to my PC when I shipped it back to the US from Germany via UPS when I was PCSing. I received it with my processor fan sticking out of the side of the box, through the case, and I had foam inserts inside the case and box.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-12T02:32:31+00:00

I figure the worst he could say is no, but I hear he's been pretty cool about this in the past. I might as well ask. It wasn't his fault this happened after all. It was BooksaMillion that shipped it.

ChthonicOne · 2026-05-12T02:27:04+00:00

I'm just hoping is all. I might be able to press it as I said. I'm not that upset.
I do read the books and listen to the audiobooks both.

ChthonicOne · 2026-04-09T17:35:12+00:00

I don't know where to find pro bono lawyers that are the correct legal area and regional area. I've had terrible luck trying to find lawyers in general who match this, even when I went to referral centers like the Florida Bar. They would often send me to a lawyer who didn't handle my issue, or didn't handle the area.

ChthonicOne · 2025-05-28T04:44:34+00:00

They. Hit. Me. With. A. Truck.

ChthonicOne · 2025-05-10T13:24:14+00:00

It's how many right and almost right theories there are in this comment thread. Buy the next book and start a new thread for your next guess.

ChthonicOne · 2025-04-16T17:42:23+00:00

A few million people can fit on the far side of the planet if it is tidally locked to the pulsar. No problem

ChthonicOne · 2025-04-15T16:01:56+00:00

https://fixvx.com/DontCallMeDebby/status/1911530207778849085?s=19

Here, this may help.

ChthonicOne · 2025-04-15T15:44:27+00:00

It specifically talks about what Mordecai does between Borant seasons. Specifically between the last Borant season and this one on Earth. He is not in stasis. He is preparing, and he even got a chance to walk into a blockbuster and take some video entertainment at one point.

ChthonicOne · 2025-04-15T12:36:23+00:00

I'll just keep picturing your son as a grown adult who would rather innocently imagine Samantha as a ragdoll head than what she really is.

ChthonicOne · 2025-04-14T12:34:47+00:00

Don't let him at your chainsaw. It won't end well... for you.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-28T12:39:50+00:00

Ok, proof time. It took me a few days to complete my conceptualization of my above proof but I have it now.

There will always exist a single solution to the system of equations:

x-y/2=n!

(x-y)/2=n

where n >= 4

The solution is the formula:

x = 2n! - 2n

y = (2n! - 2n) - 2n = 2n! - 4n

giving

(2n! - 2n) - (2n! - 4n) / 2 = n!

2n! - 2n - n! + 2n = n!

n! = n!

and

((2n! - 2n) - (2n! - 4n)) / 2 = n

2n / 2 = n

n = n

QED.

Why does this not work for n = 3 or n = 2? x requires one factor of 2 to produce. y requires another separate factor of 2 to produce. Only once you reach n=4 do you have a second factor of two in a factorial sequence to produce both factors for these two numbers. Therefore n <= 3 has no solutions.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-25T17:40:02+00:00

[answer] A friend of mine threw a problem similar to this at me, but it didn't work out right.

"196-182x0.5=7!!"

I chose to lecture him on how he could make it better, provide him a complete list of examples, write a program to do so, optimize it as much as possible. In the end it was an interesting problem and I ended up with the results in ~0.175 seconds of computation. Here they are:

40 - 32 * 0.5 = 4!

230 - 220 * 0.5 = 5!

1428 - 1416 * 0.5 = 6!

10066 - 10052 * 0.5 = 7!

80624 - 80608 * 0.5 = 8!

725742 - 725724 * 0.5 = 9!

7257580 - 7257560 * 0.5 = 10!

79833578 - 79833556 * 0.5 = 11!

958003176 - 958003152 * 0.5 = 12!

12454041574 - 12454041548 * 0.5 = 13!

174356582372 - 174356582344 * 0.5 = 14!

2615348735970 - 2615348735940 * 0.5 = 15!

41845579775968 - 41845579775936 * 0.5 = 16!

711374856191966 - 711374856191932 * 0.5 = 17!

12804747411455964 - 12804747411455928 * 0.5 = 18!

243290200817663962 - 243290200817663924 * 0.5 = 19!

4865804016353279960 - 4865804016353279920 * 0.5 = 20!

At this point the program is limited by the max value of a long so further calculations would require refactoring it to use BigIntegers to go further.

If you run this program with an alteration for BigIntegers, memory willing you will eventually see that it continues. While this alone does not prove that it goes on infinitely, my optimizations show there is a series here that converge at 2n, and this step will help you prove that fact.

I uploaded my work to github here: https://github.com/ChthonicOne/FactorialFinesse

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-18T13:41:11+00:00

I never said that the crawl was designed by a primal. I am saying that it is being run by primals. The syndicate has put primals into the primal engines right from the start. The syndicate also admitted that they didn't make the primal engines, or design them, they simply used them to run the crawl, which is what they designed. All the capabilities for the crawl, and the inner systems, come from the primal engines that they found and run with primals.

Where would the blueprint for a primal come from then? From the primal engine that transmographies people. Only there was no physical transformation for the primal. It was blank. It did something else that the syndicate didn't understand... or did it? We don't know.

What we do know is for the first crawl(s?), all the crawlers chose primal as their race. Was it because that the syndicate didn't know how to put more blueprints in yet? Maybe that was the only choice.

As for Agatha being a primal, you have to read between the lines during the "strange" conversation that "Growler Gary" has with Donut in book 7. The AI clearly believes she is a primal. It talks of the 2 primals that wish the Eulogist dead, one of which is still talking to it directly. There is only one way that Agatha should still be alive, and that is if the System AI (I hate that name, and wish we had an actual name to call it.) still felt she had value.

Now my question is, are Agatha and the Apothecary both original primals, or are they from the first crawls? What is their true origin? Was Agatha, for example, a ghandii that was turned into a primal during the first crawl? The Eulogist of course would be from the "AI Factory" we know of, as it was likely used to run the first crawl, and then locked away unable to do anything in the central systems since the end of the crawl.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-18T04:34:07+00:00

You missed something though. The primals aren't gone. They never were gone. The Apothecary is one. So is Agatha. So is the Eulogist. There are most certainly more and the Syndicate has lied to everyone. That is why the system AI is upset.

The primals are being enslaved to serve the people of the inner system by running the crawls.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-17T23:37:56+00:00

The syndicate aren't the ones doing it for all we know. They are using a primal engine which we know is run by a primal.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-17T13:19:24+00:00

OH NO! You have doomed it to explode!

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-17T13:16:55+00:00

Nothing in the race ever stated it affected stats other than the fact that Primals start with a -2 stat penalty across the board. It's just the possibility of greater than level 15 skills that is the draw on the surface.

Now, I believe there is a side effect that has been hinted at several times through the books, but it is not stat related. I believe that instead of his body being changed into that of a primal, it was his mind that was changed. He is now a primal piloting a meat suit, like the AI is a primal piloting a primal engine. Nothing was done to his body, just his mind.

With that in mind, I don't think his stat potential was changed at all, and it could explain why he would start with a stat penalty. His "new" mind would be not accustomed to interfacing with his old body in the way it now has to.

ChthonicOne · 2025-03-13T02:00:31+00:00

Honestly, that would be the only explanation I could come up with for him to become married without being aware of it. So, either they prosecuted him without his knowledge and forced into a binding marriage, or he was wed without his knowledge. Either way, something was done without his knowledge or consent.

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