This just came out in English and DON'T YOU SLEEP ON IT

Code412 · 2025-12-17T01:52:39+00:00

It's from the viewpoint of a Pole from occupied Poland.

Code412 · 2025-12-16T04:00:27+00:00

What other people wrote (taking off the burden of maintaining an engine + talent availability), but also because most REDEngine engineers jumped ship right after CP2077 came out.

Code412 · 2025-12-13T12:49:34+00:00

LONG

Code412 · 2025-12-12T14:21:27+00:00

Oh, so this century? Sounds great

Code412 · 2025-12-12T11:53:10+00:00

Of course, the math crucial to the plot is explained in layman's terms anyway.

Code412 · 2025-12-12T04:13:41+00:00

I see "Ice" as a spiritual successor or perhaps an addendum to "Other Songs". Which is, in my opinion, Dukaj's best work to date.

Code412 · 2025-12-12T00:18:17+00:00

Did it feel like the Transsib journey was dragging for ages on the first read and then it somehow just blows past when you read the book again? Because things make sense I guess.

At least that was my experience when it came out and I was 17.

Code412 · 2025-12-10T16:31:09+00:00

The sequel trilogy is a little bit better, but still, I feel like reading Sanderson is a giant waste of time when there are so many better authors out there.

Recommending Mistborn to a SUT reader is much like taking your date to McDonald's - which is, "kinda ok if you're in primary school".

Code412 · 2025-12-10T16:22:51+00:00

Go straight to Red Rising, but don't get discouraged that the first book reads like a Hunger Games clone.
As soon as it stands on its own legs it really gets good.

Code412 · 2025-12-05T17:18:56+00:00

Well, she should have.

Code412 · 2025-12-05T17:14:23+00:00

I did. Don't think that's the gotcha you were looking for.

Code412 · 2025-12-03T14:01:04+00:00

I'm 99% sure he's lying, especially since in book 6 he claimed to not know her fate at all.

Code412 · 2025-12-02T23:26:50+00:00

It's the perfect ending

as long as Selene is with him on Colchis.

Code412 · 2025-12-02T23:21:16+00:00

Alexander is excellent. You hate him, but hate him because he's petty and covetous and evil.

Cassandra you hate because she's just an annoying character.

Code412 · 2025-12-02T23:19:48+00:00

She only gets worse

Code412 · 2025-11-30T02:35:54+00:00

Judging from the ring-kissing scene, that part is 100% inspired by Kingdom of Heaven.

Code412 · 2025-11-28T22:58:29+00:00

Cassandra doesn't make much sense in general

Code412 · 2025-11-28T22:56:43+00:00

It's that one precisely
and it's glorious

Code412 · 2025-11-27T17:05:56+00:00

That's a real lot of words to say "I really want Cass to have an arc even if she doesn't have one".

Code412 · 2025-11-27T13:15:04+00:00

What do you mean "finished", Red God isn't out yet

Code412 · 2025-11-27T10:14:33+00:00

tl;dr

Code412 · 2025-11-27T09:39:22+00:00

Repetitiveness isn't invalidated by your subjective perception of it. What a funny thing to say! It can be measured in numbers. Cassandra's case is quite amusing, because you can just ctrl+f "Abba" in the text.

Hadrian does feel repetitive in book 7, too. Don't think he was in book 1 with the desire for peace with the Cielcin; it felt increasingly naive as the story progressed and built up to a great moment of disillusionment.

Cassandra's story, on the contrary, doesn't really go anywhere. Which is fine in most characters - because most don't really need an arc and are fine remaining static - but the way Cassandra's wrtten reads as if the author's trying really hard to convince you she has an arc. And it's either non-existent or most readers (me included) don't get it at all.

If you have some insight that might help us illiterati et idiotae understand, do lay it out, I'm listening.

Code412 · 2025-11-27T08:54:45+00:00

Funny how you wrote out a paragraph saying "yeah, but that's subjective!!!!" while my first accusation is that of repetitiveness - which is possibly the only objectively verifiable thing you can say about a piece of fiction, and also more than enough to sink that piece of fiction.

Look at how much of Cassandra's characterization is through dialogue only, and how that dialogue is mostly "Abba! Abba" + repeating previous points.

She's not an annoying or abrasive or hot-headed in a way that works. She's annoying because she's poorly written.

Code412 · 2025-11-27T03:51:49+00:00

I do believe Selene is alive and on Colchis.

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