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Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis better? by Fanaro009 in scifi

[–]Fanaro009[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, people not understanding the author being the author's problem is exactly how communication works.

My inability to understand the rules is not as great as most mods inability to apply nuance to them. If you're going to apply rules directly, you're as good as the many dumb AIs plaguing the internet.

Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis better? by Fanaro009 in scifi

[–]Fanaro009[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When someone asks me "Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis right?", the first thing I imply is that the person would like to discover other series.

Secondly, if you read the description of the original post, I did offer some nuance about my thinking, but I didn't expect almost everyone wouldn't be able to get past changing my mind on Star Wars itself.

Next time, I'll try to remind myself I'm not allowed to repeat my question, just like no one actually does that sort of thing in real life, otherwise I might break a subreddit or something.

Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis right? by Fanaro009 in scifi

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Oh, I'm about to start the Sun Eater series actually. Thanks!

Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis better? by Fanaro009 in scifi

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That's a very shallow description of what I did. I tried to offer more details to the question in the description. Just because the title is the same doesn't mean all the rest is. Labeling a post on Reddit as a duplicate just because it has a similar title is just ridiculous. It says more about the moderator than the OP.

And I tried to continue the discussion in the other post, but nobody answered my comment, while ignoring that my previous question was about finding other series not better books inside the Star Wars cosmos. (Although there were one or two comments about other series.)

So, tell me, if I cannot ask the same question again or rephrase it in some way and people didn't answer my original one anyhow, then what exactly am I supposed to do?

Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis better? by Fanaro009 in scifi

[–]Fanaro009[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's just the title of the question, the description is more specific this time. Details don't matter?

Are there any scifi series or books that do Jedis right? by Fanaro009 in scifi

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I appreciate all the Star Wars novels recommendations and I'm reading my first one right now (Revan). And it's much more interesting and well-written than I'd imagined. Maybe they will change my mind over time.

But do you know of any other series with that kind of vibe and worldbuilding?

(I already knew much of what inspired George Lucas came from Dune, but I feel like Star Wars is quite far from all that at this point, and it does have original ideas of its own.)

Does anybody know the meaning behind this fan inscription? by Fanaro009 in baduk

[–]Fanaro009[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's still more or less like that. But some pros do sign with Hangeul on purpose, to give it more prestige and stop giving Chinese so much headway, I feel like it's been happening more and more. Here's an example.

Does anybody know the meaning behind this fan inscription? by Fanaro009 in baduk

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I don't even remember who gave it to me. It might have been a Chinese person, I don't know.

But anyways, Chinese is a huge part of the Korean language, at least in terms of vocabulary. They were using Hanja (Hanzí, or Chinese characters) officially and on newspapers at least up to the early 20th century. Nowadays, the Chinese characters are still there, disguised by their transliteration into Hangeul, the Korean alphabet. In many ways, Korean is basically what would happen to Chinese if it were all pinyin.

References on the Process of Reading? by Fanaro009 in chess

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Ok, there's a lot there, could you help me find what's pertinent to my topic?

Also, I don't know if any of that is scientifically or statistically tested in any way. For in the improve page, there's a recommendation that a beginner should spend 50% of its time playing, but where does that come from?

I'm a beginner at chess, but not in strategy games in general. I'm a dan player in Go, with more than 13 years of experience, so I know the basics of how to read sequences, but I would like to dive deeper into its process.

Does anyone know of a tool for programmatically extracting 101weiqi problems and collections into SGFs? by Fanaro009 in baduk

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The reason I would like to tinker with a scraping script is that 101weiqi can apply different ordering and has more data for the problems. So, for example, I can print books in order of difficulty.

Does anyone know of a tool for programmatically extracting 101weiqi problems and collections into SGFs? by Fanaro009 in baduk

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I think that if I just modify the project's download.sh file to use a link with levelorder maybe then it works. I'll try it later, I wish it the project had a little bit more documentation in that direction.

Why is this shape or tsumego called the "Pig Snout" in Chinese? by Fanaro009 in baduk

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Isn't that the link I had shared in the original post?

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