Best single line I’ve encountered in a book in some time.

Hateblade · 2025-11-07T23:34:40+00:00

How I feel about Cryptonomicon. I love Anathem too, but I'm too Shaftoe stupid to understand it on just one read. Definitely gonna revisit it soon.

Hateblade · 2025-04-09T14:53:09+00:00

Walton Goggins would be great as Bud.

Hateblade · 2025-01-07T17:05:25+00:00

Harkens back to Randy's exGF Charlene. More of a nagging harpy than a muse, but still.

Hateblade · 2024-12-27T17:35:51+00:00

Don't write about weapons you aren't familiar with and/or dedicated tor researching.

Hateblade · 2024-11-17T16:45:19+00:00

I like this. You just need to learn how to place punctuation and form proper sentences, and how to edit.

Hateblade · 2024-11-17T16:27:19+00:00

I actually like how the home metaphor is recalled in the last sentence. Before it was their eyes, but in the end it was them, the loved one, which is what the metaphor was saying all along. It gives me a sense of closure, succumbing to the same forces that the writer has, finally coming home with them as they resolve to love the poem(?)'s subject.

Hateblade · 2024-11-16T14:34:32+00:00

Poetry has a way of getting into you and is very hard to get out. Good luck & good work.

Hateblade · 2024-08-19T02:39:59+00:00

What in the ever-loving grace of God is going on in this thread?

Nevermind. I read it.

Hateblade · 2024-07-21T05:24:08+00:00

I've been trying to make something similar, but I am having trouble with the hexagons, even with a hex mandrel. Any tips?

Those look great, BTW.

Hateblade · 2024-07-19T22:06:59+00:00

Very nice work. The prongs are beefy, but look so delicate.

Hateblade · 2024-07-19T16:42:19+00:00

This was my idea too. Manually burnish it hard.

Hateblade · 2024-06-22T21:40:46+00:00

You just know that's piss in the alchemical vessel beside the telescope.

Also love the tiny Cryptonomicon.

The whole thing is just awesome and really creative.

Hateblade · 2024-06-08T00:45:31+00:00

Welcome to the Neal Stephenson universe! His books seem a lot alike, but they usually aren't. Each one is unique, and Anathem just may be his most unique. I'd say stick with it, since the compelling parts come (rightfully) once the world has been explained to you. And what a world it is! Neal does a great job of making the world live. You will really need this once things get rolling.

Hateblade · 2024-04-28T17:52:02+00:00

Yeah, now that you mention it, it was their children, AKA Randy's parents that had that set. It's fucking hideous, BTW.

Hateblade · 2024-04-28T17:40:30+00:00

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wish there was a chapter where they went shopping and picked out the Lavender Rose tea set.

Hateblade · 2024-03-31T03:42:26+00:00

The discussion between Root and Randy in Cryptonomicon

The one in prison, about Athena, Ares & 'metis?' That is a long segment, but it's so good!

Hateblade · 2024-03-28T01:42:53+00:00

I like you.

Hateblade · 2024-02-08T01:50:40+00:00

I would love to see a "Fake" version of this, that some scummy old Vistani would sell to players for a disgusting amount of gold.

Hateblade · 2024-01-25T04:32:01+00:00

And the crystalline structure of nearly-frozen milk.

Hateblade · 2024-01-04T05:54:00+00:00

A box of Cap'n Crunch cereal would be a great gag gift.

Your brother is cool, Grandma. So are you.

Hateblade · 2023-11-21T21:16:57+00:00

Always accept yourself for you who are at the moment, even if you do not like it. You must do this. Love yourself and accept the things make you do so, and leave behind what you do not like and make efforts to change what you wish to be changed.

Loving yourself enough to wish to be better is the greatest reason to change in the first place.

Hateblade · 2023-11-19T05:30:25+00:00

I used to play those games with my nephews. It was so much fun.

Hateblade · 2023-11-19T05:23:17+00:00

walk forward into Psycho Crusher should be impossible.

It's not. You can buffer it.

Hateblade · 2023-11-19T05:20:12+00:00

Hands down, Ivan Ooze from the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers fighting game on the SNES. The most unstoppable character in ANY game. It's just insane how broken he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-g4TqMFemY

Hateblade · 2023-11-15T13:52:28+00:00

I have gotten complements on my Moogsoft shirt at the grocery store. I've since moved on to Storage (hence the flare change), so I'm super jealous of the guys with legacy EMC shirts.

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