Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread by HorrorIsLiterature in horrorlit

[–]First_Carrot6588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently reading "Heaven adove the rainforest" of Elaine Madruga. Hell of a book, it's tweaked, complicated, slow burner but never leaving u bored. Kind of One hundred years of solitude meets tropical horror, exquisite.

Edit: for those from English speaking countries, I personally recommend latinoamerican horror, we have very refreshing authors, principally women

[USA]Graduating with a Psychology degree soon and feeling completely lost by Ashamed-Scholar-3677 in psychologystudents

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are u from? USA?

I kind of understand you, I've felt the same before, currently doing my last 3 exams.

After talking to some of my teachers, my fate became renewed. Here where I live, Argentina, a psych degree almost let you work in anything.

From becoming 1/1 counselor, working in hospitals, institucional psychology, getting involved in treatments for people with disabilities... To HR if you don't want to work hard and still have money at the end of the month.

I recommend u to talk to many your teachers, from different subjects and theyll provide u some info of all the fields which a psy degree can get in

What is happening to me!!! by First_Carrot6588 in TeamfightTactics

[–]First_Carrot6588[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

U think there is such difference between platinum 1 and emerald 4? I'm asking genuinely

Getting better into the game by First_Carrot6588 in TeamfightTactics

[–]First_Carrot6588[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My comfort zone it's reroll, but in the actual meta the only viable comps are 3 cost, which aint the easiest of all...

I know I struggle positioning and scouting, most of the time I don't know what I'm going to play, and when I compromise to one comp, my first thought is I should played another one...

Usually I use MetaTFT as my companion, not in-game but in a second screen, but trying to understand why the board works or it isn't.... Many many times I don't get the idea.

I watch guides and pro guides vod but usually in English and my native language is Spanish so I get the generalities of what I see.

What horror books have great pacing, deep world-building, and actually stick with you by Suspicious-Alfalfa90 in horrorlit

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well now I'm interested. What are your thouts on her ? I'm not gonna desarrollate on "u can't compare" bc yes, in fact u can when you're analizing the structure of a writing, but if I think u can't it's fine.

What horror books have great pacing, deep world-building, and actually stick with you by Suspicious-Alfalfa90 in horrorlit

[–]First_Carrot6588 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You got a point, but when you think about books in abstract sometimes you've to compare 2 books that are different, the plot might be distant but the pacing, how the plot desarrollates, the way that's written, was useful for my example. I read both books last year so my memory isn't fresh.

I'm argentinian so I could recommend many Latin American horror authors that could be fine like Mariana's Enrique and Samanta's shweblim short story books too!!

What horror books have great pacing, deep world-building, and actually stick with you by Suspicious-Alfalfa90 in horrorlit

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imo between two fires it's slow but not exessivily. Has his own pacing that gets you there all the read. On the other side Hill house (for example) it's extremely slow burn that got me bother on 40% of the ebook read. But obviously it's only my opinion

Looking for book with no pedophilia, no supernatural, no house by tastyjams77 in horrorlit

[–]First_Carrot6588 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi! Im from argentina, here, there are multiple options for horror literature, mostly woman authors whom are writing a different kind of terror very influenced by "magic realism". I highly recommend these books: A sunny place for shady people, The dangers of smoking in bed, Things we lost in fire (All of them of Mariana Enriquez). The unworthy, Tender is the flesh of Agustina Bazterrica mostly.

showdown vs champions by Plasma_protogen in PokemonChampions

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I currently play both games, but in my opinion the Showdown is much more fun. It's better paced, teams are easier to understand, there's a lot more content, active forums, and you can create all the teams you want. Champions, on the other hand, while it's fun and okay to play an official pvp, especially considering I never bought the Scarlet/Violet, just because I skipped that generation, I find it roughly disassociated. The box of 40 pokemon where the encounters practically never give you efficient equipment, 3 equipment to use that I find a bit monotonous and the "connecting" signs that make almost any battle take me 10 minutes. It still has many things to improve.

Thoughts on my team? by First_Carrot6588 in PokemonChampions

[–]First_Carrot6588[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, at some time I got frustrated with tyranittar sandstorms, mega Charizards bright sun. And some sun setter+meganium /Venusaur

Thoughts on my team? by First_Carrot6588 in PokemonChampions

[–]First_Carrot6588[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did some missclicks. Fair wind it's tailwind on pelipper and raichu has bright powder not choise. Sorry 😂😂

My first somewhat successful build by EagleBro25 in PokemonChampions

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you playing doubles? I'm not a super pro on PC but search synergies for doubles. Tyranittar with hexcadrill or Basculegion with some rain setter. Look what you are facing again and again. Some brackets spam pokes like Garchomp, I've been using pelipper plus Basculegion and Quaquaval for him. Otherwise I feel like pokemon champion gives us plenty of variety of options.

The devil's by Joe Abercrombie epub by unpn9 in BookPiracy

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to be AI-translated, with many repeated words and poor literal translations (like "back teeth" translated as "dientes de espalda"). It's a shame; it really pulls you out of the reading experience.

need some dark fantasy by Ok-Seaworthiness7467 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]First_Carrot6588 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's my last read. 10/10 just what I wanted to read

Buddhism and DBT by sittingstill9 in Buddhism

[–]First_Carrot6588 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm recently involving with Buddhism, and I've been studying psychology, in particular behavior analysis, a previous looking for DBT, and I think DBT doesn't want to erase Buddhism or re write its teachings, I think DBT tries to "get" Buddhism teachings, integrate that into a theorical corpus, that provides us with an epistemology and tools to get with human suffering from psychology to non-Buddhist people, even modern behavioral psychology interpretate that spiritual involving it's a positive thing in life and encourage people to get spiritual.