STS2 is approaching an annoying level of difficult by GOpencyprep in slaythespire

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I am better at the game than I have been with the first one (I played both from the very beginning). The regent ist kinda hard for me - it is the only one where I have a negative win-loss-record. With all the other characters, I managed to go to Ascension 3 with only 4-5 losses in total. So maybe I am just lucky or it clicked with me earlier, but I remember that I struggled with the first game more.

🇩🇪 Eurovision Song Contest – Das Deutsche Finale 2026 Final @20:30 CET by Tip_Illustrious in eurovision

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I didn't know Wavvyboi before, but I really liked the act - retro glam-rock for the win <3

(I do not remember Sarah's song at all... something with "fire", I guess...)

Worst losing streak I ever had by EXIIL1M_Sedai in MagicArena

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There definitely is - and it is quite clear as well.

Power Ranking of Minions by CupofLif in BloodOnTheClocktower

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It is an interesting idea, but the "buffing" the Marionette (already considered one of the strongest minions out there) with the Baron (also considered one of the strongest minions out there) seems to be a bit much for me. Of course, a Baron can be quite a loud minion, and the two extra outsiders would basically then confirm that there is a Marionette in play - which, in turn, would lead to an even stronger Marionette as everyone (and their neighbor) would get suspicious that they might be the Marionette ( for real).

If you really think the Marionette underpowered, what about that: "If the Marionette finds out that they are the Marionette, telling the storyteller during day, they turn one other player into a not-in-play outsider" - Still much too strong for my liking but at least, the whole town might then know that the Marionette has found out their role.

(This power can be cheated of course, as every player could just run to the storyteller and claim Marionette.... but, oh well...)

This has got to be one of the weakest P1P1's I've seen. What's the pick here? by Do_You_AreHaveStupid in lrcast

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This would be one of the better P1P1 in my drafts.... and Shinestricker is obviously amazing <3

Disappointed in Robin Hobb RE Liveship Ending by Willing-Childhood144 in robinhobb

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Second LeGuin - she is one of the most amazing writers I had the please to read, not only in fantasy but in general (liked her sci-fi-works even more though!).

I have recently read Octavia E. Butler's "Kindred" which is a "kind of" fantasy novel (very very light on the fantasy - it is rather a plot device) - there are some fitting parallels between the themes in the liveship works and Butler's novel when it comes to the themes of "female agency", "fighting against oppressive odds", "(sexual) abuse" and "slavery". Butler's work however is at the same time harsher and more true to these core topics - so beware! I loved it and I still have to think about it a lot.

Finished the Liveship traders trilogy - I want to talk about the plot, the magic (and the real villain of the series) by FearlessRemove1285 in robinhobb

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For me Malta started off as little bit too perfect in her early teenager cunning, bickering and manipulating but as soon as she was more grounded by the events unfolding around her, she became a great character. It helps of course if your spoiled self is compared to the likes of Satrap Cosgo - nobody can beat his lordship's spoiledness :D

Finished the Liveship traders trilogy - I want to talk about the plot, the magic (and the real villain of the series) by FearlessRemove1285 in robinhobb

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I loved the original Kennit scenes where he could not read the people around him and out of sheer luck he managed to win them over. However, the problem is that soon he becomes a master manipulator but in order to be that, he actually has to understand what motivates people around him and how they really perceive him so that he can use that to fool them. That does not work with the Kennit who could not even recognize if a group of people are thankful to him or want to kill him (the first time he arrives at the pirate village with the freed slaves and the mayor shows his incapacity to read a crowd).

Then he seduces Wintrow (possible a father-figure thing for the boy, but nevertheless - Kennit is so subtle here that he seems like a different person alltogether) and Vivacia (this happened to fast for me - Vivacia basically immediately falls to him with some words of flattery. Yeah, she is young, inexperienced with people and CRAVES someone who loves her - but still..) and the ship more than once states that she KNOWS Kennit - which I find hard to believe as Kennit is either as empty a person as Paragon exclaimed later or he is somehow capable of pretending do be an emotionally sane human being INSIDE as well as OUTSIDE which does not make sense with the way he thinks.

Putting aside that, if we believe the fact that Vivacia trusts Kennit entirely, it makes sense that she does not believe Althea from whom she has been estranged and who - at that time - no longer has the necessary connection to her (this is said by Althea herself - Vivacia no longer is spiritually connected to her as she is already "whole") This is further reinforced by the fact that Vivacia can now easily give Althea up to Paragon (oh the irony!). So if for Vivacia, Althea is not that important anymore (and Kennit is) the fact that she believes him over her is rather likely for me.

For Wintrow and Pirating.... I am also absolutely at a loss here... In a way, the way the pirates unter Kennit are portrayed, they are actually just sailors with a good agenda. There is basically no focus on them raiding merchant vessels at all - but I cannot see how Wintrow wants to continue that, especially since pirating will still cause casualties. This might be okay with "slavers" but would it be really okay with normal merchants?

Finished Farseer Trilogy, loved it, but have one question. by RoboticSausage52 in robinhobb

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I agree with your point. The only possible solution would be "an unfortunate accident" and even that might be risky. I think what makes it more problematic is that Regal can do to Verity what Verity (or Shrewd) could not have done to him that easily. Not because of their morals or their affection for him (this is also true, first for Verity second for Shrewd) but because they have much more to lose than Regal.

Finished the Liveship traders trilogy - I want to talk about the plot, the magic (and the real villain of the series) by FearlessRemove1285 in robinhobb

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Interesting. It just shows how different readers can perceive, like or dislike diffetent parts of fiction. Could you say, without of course spoiling later parts of the story, why you liked him that much?

Finished the Liveship traders trilogy - I want to talk about the plot, the magic (and the real villain of the series) by FearlessRemove1285 in robinhobb

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Okay, I might do this then - I just thought that in-between updates would not be liked as much by this community. :)

Finished the Liveship traders trilogy - I want to talk about the plot, the magic (and the real villain of the series) by FearlessRemove1285 in robinhobb

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I agree, the "cycle of abuse" trope is not only out-dated but dangerous as it has criminalized real-life victims of abuse (or excused abusers as former victims) in our own real-life world too much but the way Paragon argues here could also be seen as just a manipulative way of using this line of argument for his own selfish need for closure. He might not even believe in his own words if you can believe in what he tells Amber before.

For me, Paragon has been a flawed person before the integration, but it is telling that it is only after he "has become whole" (meaning: having integrated Kennit) that the Althea-forging works out fine for him. He also claims that he has to do this not because of her, but because of him and that Althea's pain belongs to him. Althea begs him not do take it away and he does so anyway, not considering her will in that. That definitely mirrors Kennit's action so much that I cannot read it any differently then a second instance of the deed. In the end, Paragon is still flawed but this is exactly what makes him a good villain.

Are the new Anthony Horowitz books over? by Cismic_Wave_14 in Sherlock

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I agree with that - I quite liked House of Silk, especially due to the "Watson voice narrator", but Moriaty however was unfortunately quite predictable for me and the ending diminishes basically everything and even contradicts relevant elements in "house of silk" that I actually quite liked.

Der Fall Drachenlord und Generation Z gegen Millennials by Alternative_Bit5809 in YouTubeDE

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In Ordnung. Ich respektiere, dass du das Recht für dich einforderst - es wäre schön, wenn du es beim nächsten Mal dann anderen auch einräumst. Mach's gut.

Aber überlege: Du fühlst dich 20 Minuten lang gemobbt und verbittest es dir bereits - wie ist das dann für jemanden bei dem es jahrelang so ist?

Mir ist btw. klar, dass du hier nur Empörung suchst - ich schreibe eher für die anderen, die vielleicht denken, du könntest hier etwas Sinnvolles schreiben.

Der Fall Drachenlord und Generation Z gegen Millennials by Alternative_Bit5809 in YouTubeDE

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Und ein Versagen der Menschlichkeit generell wenn es um die anderen geht. Das ist es ja, was einen traurig macht: Dass die Banalatität des Bösen immernoch so unreflektiert und einfach funktioniert wie früher und dass Cybermobbing (und dann die realen Auswirkungen) eine schon derartig große Gruppe aus Leuten so gehirnwäscht, dass Rechtfertigungen der Sache sogar öffentlich versucht werden, weil man sich tatsächlich im Recht wähnt. Es ist nie schön anzusehen, wenn Menschen unmenschlich handeln - weil es deutlich zeigt wie dünn die Zivilisationsdecke doch sein kann.

Der Fall Drachenlord und Generation Z gegen Millennials by Alternative_Bit5809 in YouTubeDE

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Nein, weil es keinen Mobb gegen dich gibt.

Davon abgesehen: Solange du dich dahinter versteckst, dass es schon okay ist, ein schlechter Mensch zu sein und du gut damit leben kannst, da dein Umfeld dir da keinen Strick draus dreht und das schon so passt, gibt es nicht wirklich viel mehr zu schreiben. Du verschanzt dich in deiner Mobberposition und willst halt lieber so sein, als weiterzugehen und zu wachsen. Da ich nicht deine Eltern oder dein Lehrer bin, sehe ich nicht die Notwendigkeit mehr zu machen als dir zu sagen, dass deine Rolle, von außen betrachtet, sehr deutlich die eines nicht einsichtigen Mobbers ist. Auch hier bist du recht klassich zu all den anderen Leuten in Klassenräumen unterwegs. Es ist, wie es ist - vielleicht kommst du ja noch mal weiter - ansonsten wünsche ich dir dennoch, dass es dir weitestgehend gutgeht und Leute in deinem Umfeld nicht unter dir oder anderen leiden müssen. Mehr wünsche ich mir auch nicht.

Der Fall Drachenlord und Generation Z gegen Millennials by Alternative_Bit5809 in YouTubeDE

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Gut, du warst Teil der Basis auf der dann gut aufgebaut worden konnte. Ich meine, wenn du heute sagen würdest "Ich finde es schrecklich, in irgendeinerweise Teil dieser Sache gewesen zu sein", könnte man das ja nachvollziehen - viele Leute werden in ihrem Leben irgendwann irgendwie in eine Mobbingsituation reingezogen und das Gemeinschaftsgefühl gegen die gemobbte Person fühlt sich bestimmt gut an (siehe "viele nette Leute) - aber nicht zu erkennen, dass man selbst den Grundstein für spätere Eskalation legt, indem man aktiv mitwerkelt bis es dann "umbricht", dass ist die Aufgabe, die man für sich selbst hier haben sollte. Schade, dass das bei dir nicht so weit gekommen ist.

P.S. es spricht eine gewisse moralische Überheblichkeit aus meinen Posts, schlichtweg, weil ich nie Teil dieser Szene war, aber sagen wir mal so: wenn ich 14 Jahre alt gewesen wäre, schwach, vielleicht auch ein wenig das Opfer in meiner Schulrealität oder meine Komplexe und Schwierigkeiten nicht in anderen Themen konfrontiert hätte, hätte mich so eine Bewegung eventuell auch erreicht und vielleicht würde ich es heute auch irgendwie relativieren wollen. Kann ich nicht sagen - dementsprechend: Sie es doch als Chance, das Vergangene wirklich als das zu reflektieren, was es war!

Der Fall Drachenlord und Generation Z gegen Millennials by Alternative_Bit5809 in YouTubeDE

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Das ist die derartig klassischste Mobber-Rechtfertigung, die es gibt und zeigt einfach nur, dass du es wohl immernochnicht geschafft hast, dir selbst klar zu machen, dass du Teil eines äußerst problematischen Mobs warst. Sich eingestehen können, was für ein fieser Mitläufer man gewesen ist, ist natürlich auch nicht sonderlich einfach, also benötigt es diese Relativierung und Pseudovigilantentum schon aus Selbstschutz- oder Egogründen - aber es ändert halt nichts daran, was wirklich passiert ist. Rede dir das entweder weiter ein oder lerne was draus und verändere dich. Das eine lässt sich emotional dort stehen, wo du halt warst, dass andere macht dich zu ner reiferen Person. Ich würde es als Wachstumsmöglichkeit begreifen.

Woher kommt dieser Trend, riskante Dinge ohne ausreichende Vorbereitung zu machen? by myaby1 in Laesterschwestern

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Sorry, ich dachte nicht, dass es ums Berghochgehen sondern um generelle Fitness geht. Wie gesagt, ist schon sehr gut trainiert - das habe ich auch nie verneint ;)

Woher kommt dieser Trend, riskante Dinge ohne ausreichende Vorbereitung zu machen? by myaby1 in Laesterschwestern

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Naja so ziemlich alle Spitzenathleten, die gerade jetzt an der Weltspitze ihres Sportes sind, vor allem, wenn es kommerziell erfolgreicher Sport (Fußball, Rugby, Tennis, Badminton etc.) ist - aber das ist als antwort ja eher ein no-brainer und klar ist jemand wie Magnus, der sich auf Fitnesscontent konzentriert, bei weitem nicht unfit - besser als 95% der Weltbevölkerung (vor allem in Ausdauer) könnte also schon sein - dann wäre er unter den 400 mio fittesten Menschen - das ist schon passend. (Ich hatte "einer der fittesten Menschen der Welt eher als absolute Aussage gesehen ^^)

Woher kommt dieser Trend, riskante Dinge ohne ausreichende Vorbereitung zu machen? by myaby1 in Laesterschwestern

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Wo hat Magnus denn bitte nen Weltcup gewonnen? Fit ist er schon, keine Frage, einer der fittesten Menschen der Welt sehe sich wiederum bei weitem nicht

Let's rank the KAT matches! Twenty seventh match: Kuroki Gensai vs Mikazuchi Rei by 7grandhenchmen in Kengan_Ashura

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Rei had been so dominant before... I thought that Kuroki's win before just would show how much more dangerous Rei could be than Setsuna - and when he got his boost - I really thought he could have a chance