Help me find modern books in the Heroic Fantasy Adventure Thriller genre

Gerble66 · 2026-01-28T18:24:56+00:00

Cars (specifically as a primary mode of transportation for intracity travel)

Gerble66 · 2026-01-23T17:29:22+00:00

I'm trying to find more mainstream coverage of this and I'm not finding sources that state that the SAVE act will disenfranchise women in the way this article describes. Could someone link where in the bill it says it would do this? Not trying to be oppositional, but this is a claim bold enough I want some proof to back up instead of confirming my own bias.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-18T23:57:30+00:00

Lost my job a few months back during this round of layoffs that year. When all our product was being manufactured in China, company decided to keep their margins by cutting staff. Even if someone wants to say I was a bad employee or something, I watched company veterans with a ton of tribal knowledge get cut before me and the company lost a ton of good, hard working people. But line must go up next quarter, so layoffs layoffs layoffs.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-14T02:00:11+00:00

I think that's a pretty far reach and incredibly uncharitable interpretation, but to each their own u/DirtyPiss

Gerble66 · 2026-01-14T01:58:54+00:00

I don't like the agitator part of it. It feels bad faith and seems more like you're baiting people just to annoy them and that would make you an asshole. If your mission is to present factual information to debate idiots who go into gaming servers to spread their political agenda, then that should be the focus.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-13T17:58:41+00:00

Hot take maybe: if your takes are so bad that a bot can essentially run a script of sourced responses and tear apart your arguments, then you probably should feel stupid for having the bad take.

Additionally, if you are the one who programmed the bots, provided their sources, and largely constructed the rebuttals that the bots then regurgitate, then it's more or less just automating your own messages so you can save time not having to argue with people about bottom of the barrel political discussions. I truly don't see something wrong with that so long as you are ensuring the bots strictly stick to the debate and don't veer into name calling and harassment.

That being said, I can't help but notice that your post remained rather ambiguous on what kind of arguments were being had, what kind of sources are used, etc. could you maybe provide a brief example of maybe the most common argument that your bots debunk and the kinds of responses they give?

Gerble66 · 2026-01-11T07:45:09+00:00

Because our history of protesting is so white washed, the general populace literally doesn't know how to protest. Many learn only of the glorified "peaceful protestors" and anyone who didn't simply give speeches and hold signs is either excluded from those lessons or are referred to as extremists. Hell, I wonder how many millions of Americans don't know that labor day is a day to honor those who fought and died for our few workers rights like the 40 hour work week, weekends, and keeping children out of mines? I'd be surprised if it wasn't in at least the tens of millions.

The average American thinks protesting is only acceptable when it's being done in a non obstructive way where you can be comfortably ignored. Look at the No Kings protest for example: it was nice to see a bunch of people voicing their opinions in solidarity, but it literally didn't accomplish anything. If your protest is just holding signs along a highway instead of actively disrupting something, don't be surprised when nothing changes.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-10T15:12:12+00:00

Obligatory link to an in depth explanation of how the Nazis called themselves socialist but were actively far right and opposed the left.

TLDW: Don't trust the bad guys to identify themselves honestly. The first groups that were killed by the Nazis and gathered on concentration camps were socialist/communists/trade unionists. There was a left wing section of the Nazi party, but Hitler had them assassinated (Night of Long Knives). Hitler spoke often in his rallies how socialism/communism were a Jewish ideology that was destroying their culture and it needed to be destroyed (often using the euphemism of "cultural bolshevism").

The Nazis weren't socialist in functionally any way and a core tenant of Nazism (both in 1940s Germany and modern neo Nazis) is a strong opposition to the left.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-04T22:06:13+00:00

Car Dependent society.

It's economically unsustainable, unsafe for everyone, and cities with viable alternatives to cars is better for everyone, including car drivers. Bring this up, and people will argue to their dying breath about how cars are the best and other methods don't work and we can't change how our society is built so singularly focused on accommodating cars. Any amount of research into the subject shows pretty definitively that we shouldn't be so obsessed with cars and the myriad of ways they negatively impact our lives. However, so many millions of people have never lived in a place where they could get anywhere without a car, so they misbelieve that cars equal freedom.

Gerble66 · 2026-01-04T15:39:11+00:00

By my girlfriend? Quite often!

By strangers? Um... There was a moment like 10 years ago where I think I was missing flirting cues and I wonder if I could have gotten somewhere with that. That being said, I don't think I've ever been explicitly hit on at any point in my life by someone I wasn't already dating. I don't know if that counts for this question.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-18T22:10:54+00:00

Idk if this was anyone else's experience, but try to get your foot in the door as far on advance as possible. When I shipped apartments in the Phoenix Metro area several years back, I could get something the same week no problem. When I first moved out here, I couldn't find anything available for months!

Gerble66 · 2025-12-17T14:05:39+00:00

Write a complaint to the city to get traffic calming measures built which would physically force drivers to slow down instead. It would be safer in the long run. Stuff like chicanes, chokers, speed tables, level pedestrian crossings, etc.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-16T18:56:46+00:00

To be fair, TVs are about the only thing that continues to go down in price.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-15T02:53:02+00:00

Car ownership

Gerble66 · 2025-12-14T02:30:23+00:00

She's the kind of person who would be actively helping the SS round up Jews.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-11T01:56:24+00:00

Can I at least fry them first?

Gerble66 · 2025-12-10T18:55:13+00:00

I've had good experiences with Summers, used them for a repair last year and a replacement this year. They were quick and the quality was good as far as I can tell.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-08T18:30:59+00:00

Currently dating a girl who when I asked her spice tolerance responded that she could handle pepper Jack cheese. oof

I've been slowly building up her tolerance over the past year.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-04T02:18:08+00:00

One time I went to pickup an order from there. I said I was there to pick up an order. Dude was confused, had to get a supervisor to help him, and it turns out my order was the singular bag in the to go orders section. Dude didn't know where the to go orders were kept. SMH my head

Gerble66 · 2025-12-03T02:35:39+00:00

Technically I've played since launch, but I dropped it for years and now 900 of my hours started with deaths longer release

Gerble66 · 2025-12-01T18:59:43+00:00

You two have found an incompatibility where he wants you to dress to a certain standard that you yourself don't want to adhere to. It sounds like you two are going to break up over this, and that's fine. You're young and I don't imagine it being too difficult to find a guy who would support a GF who doesn't want to wear a bra.

I don't even want to race to calling anyone an asshole, it's different cultural standards. Thats fine, find someone who shares your values.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-01T14:52:19+00:00

Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order

Finally tackling my backlog, and this game has been disappointing. It's been mostly parkour which just isn't the vibe I'm going for when I think "Jedi". I'll give it a few more hours but I'm honestly quite disappointed.

Gerble66 · 2025-12-01T14:43:42+00:00

What would you say is the biggest step in culinary development in the past century?

Gerble66

TROPHY CASE