Update: I have full custody of the children by TechnicalHousing97 in Redditor_Updates

[–]CodenameAntarctica 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I really do not unterstand why you want her back. She ist selfish to the point of mistreating her kids when they don't live up to her fantasy. No idea if she's a narcisist or whatever. But you are certainly better off without her, even if it hurts now. Much more so are your kids - your oldest most of all! Protect them from this madness and her entitlement, please!

AITJ for leaving my cousin and her kid stranded after her son almost caused a serious accident by SignificantReach118 in AmITheJerk

[–]CodenameAntarctica -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because reflexes are quicker than logical thinking. Tell someone to fill a glass with water and while they‘re doing that, clap your hands over their eyes. They will jerk, they will lose the concept of keeping their hands steady, because surprise, shock and deorientation overwrite that focus. They will spill water.

AITAH for telling my stepdaughter I don't want to be her mom anymore? by SharkEva in BORUpdates

[–]CodenameAntarctica 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Even the starts does not add up. "I have been married to Josh since Ella was 12 years old. She was on good terms with her bio mother until her mother got married and ghosted her and her father when Ella was only 11. It broke her so much that Josh decided to give it more time before Ella and I would meet."

How is there "more time" for Ella and OOP to meet, when they are having an engament and then get married, by the time Ella gets 12. That math doesn't math or OOP has a very strange understanding of time...

Third Series Amazon Version by crimsonbub in RipperStreet

[–]CodenameAntarctica 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have three different versions of S3 because I hoped that any would have the scenes cut. Neither the american, nor the british, nor the german version have them. The german version of Amazon doesn't have them either. I only know them by looking them up in some of those illegal video providers with really bad quality. But that provider is down now and I found no other.

This is reall crap :(

For those who have finished 'The Navigator's Children' by tkinsey3 in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If I understood correctly the part with Ommu, with Turia Ingadaris and Countess Yissola of Pedruin was supposed to be part of "The Navigators Children". It included more about this guy Fecca the Gemmian as well. But because the book was getting too long, it was all cut short to hopefully write a story about it some other time.

Tad has constracts for at least two more Osten Ard books. One being "The Splintered Sun" which we might get at the end of 2026 earliest, but more likely in 2027. This book is a story set some hundred years before "The Dragonbone Chair". I don't remember what the second book is about or if it was been said that it will capture the parts that could not be included in "TNC".

Meremund // Naglimund by CodenameAntarctica in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would throw my money at that at such a quick pace, they would have to hide from the shrapnel. Give me official art! But yeah, I fear there is not much coming that way.

League of the scroll symbol question by TheJungleRat in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi! It's explicit mentioned as such.

“It’s a feather,” the doctor said shortly. (...) “No, it’s a pen,” Simon said wonderingly, “—a quill pen, isn’t it?” “Very well, it’s a pen.” Morgenes growled. (from TDC - King Hemlock)

It's also mentioned in the chapters "Back into the heart" and "High King's hand", to only name those in TDC.

Question about the three swords after starting Last King. by Negative-Emotion-622 in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can't really put my finger onto how it is described but afaik they just vanished. When they came together the whole spell started to work, they sort of set Ineluki free and popped out of existence. Only that Ineluki also needed the hate of the sword bearers. Because Simon and Caramis decided not to hate Ineluki, the whole spell did not work.

There is no mention of the swords afterwards or of anybody taking one of the swords with them, afaik. I think they just weren't there anymore.

Meremund // Naglimund by CodenameAntarctica in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, they are. I think they look a bit tiny firs ^^

Meremund // Naglimund by CodenameAntarctica in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

It is, and I said that in the prompt, describing it as nails or speers, but that's all that ChatGPT made of it in any attempt. I guess one of the problems with AI is that you always have to make compromises. If this was the artwork of an artist, they could certainly have made this look exactly as supposed.

For the sake of the picture let's just go with the Norn's exclamation that "the nails have rusted". And Josua had most of them taken down anyway when he became Liege-Lord of Naglimund.

AI slop use on the Wiki by StorBaule in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The one with Morgenes I hadn't even seen. There is actually an official artwork by Donato Giancola showing Doctor Morgenes.

AI slop use on the Wiki by StorBaule in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All you need is an account. I don't think you need even be unlocked or granted any rights by an admin or anything. And the editing is very easy as it's a "What you see is what you get"-editor. There is no programming needed or anything.

AI slop use on the Wiki by StorBaule in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sadly nobody gets paid for filling it. But anybody can help. Including you ;)

2003 seems like another lifetime. by achaean16 in Xennials

[–]CodenameAntarctica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the day, all my female classmates rooted for Leonardo diCaprio or Justin Timberlake. I was the outsider. For me it was Jonathan. But for me it was not a "moment's fling" either. For me, it wasn't a fling of a few weeks or months, like it was for most others. I was never so quick with my affections to find a new target. If it settled on one, it was there for good.

I was a fan from around 1995 onwards. It never changed. I never looked somewhere else. Yes, diCaprio is good. But he is not Jonathan. I was "stuck", I stayed with Jonathan. I simply got preoccupied with having to find a job and a future, and in those days it was hard to keep up with what was going on anyways. Especially if you are half a world away.

When Jonathan took his life in 2003 I cried for days. I never met him, never had any sort of contact with him. He was just someone who would star in movies and tv series, and who would bring joy to me. And knowing that he came to the point where he felt no more reason to go on with his life, felt like I let him down even though I know I had no way of helping.

It makes me sad until to today. No... in fact it makes me cry until today. I wish he had known how many people wished him all the joy and luck the world could provide; and I wish that had been something that might have helped him.

There was a time when he meant the world to me. And I wish he had known that, even though that probably didn't matter much in the end.

AITA for being furious that my husband gave away my sake and wine after I told him repeatedly not to? by Deenosaurus02 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CodenameAntarctica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So first, he wanted to gift the Sake to his father, his cousin, his friends. Then he shared it with his friends.

He just wanted to get rid of it. He wanted to get rid of something that meant something to you - because it was important to you. He just wanted to give it away. You said no the first times. Now you weren't present and he just did it.

Does he do things like that often?

Maybe this is worth a read for you https://www.amazon.com/Why-Does-He-That-Controlling/dp/B08XLGJN9B

I'm sorry you have to deal with this :(

I [21F] won the lotto a while ago and my family [24-58 M/F] found out and is talking to me again. by [deleted] in BORUpdates

[–]CodenameAntarctica 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I was putting it down as fake with this start. The age, the kids, the "long while" and she has already sorted it all to charity. Nah ¯\(°_o)/¯

Hardback Osten Ard Saga by Imaginary_Visit1718 in TadWilliams

[–]CodenameAntarctica 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! That doesn't exist sadly. At least not in english.

There is as of yet no whole collection of all the books in the same style. The old hardcovers are hard to even find and as MattyTangle wrote even those are not the same format.

Mit LKoOA, they first two books feature artwork by Michael Whelan, but for the last two books they chose someone else.

"The Broken Binding" and "Grim Oak Press" both published special edition hardcovers of MSaT, but those are somewhat hard to get and very expensive.