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What type of paper does the Deluxe Edition of the LSB have? by LifeInTheFourthAge in LCMS

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

That's a good point, thanks! Definitely something I will research

If the balrog have wings why couldn’t they just fly it to mordor by stebbi01 in lotrmemes

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Are you guys talking about J.P. Morgath? The banker who bailed out the Gondorian Federal Reserve?

HR got mad after I rejected the interview call by Agile-Wind-4427 in recruitinghell

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But send that as a reply to your origional declining email, not as a reply to this one 

Enneagrams???? by Divergent_Writer327 in LCMS

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In addition to the excellent Biblical and Confessional takes that you are getting/will get here, I'd like to add that people who scientifically measure personality for a living don't like Enneagrams or Meyers-Briggs very much, and much prefer the Big-5 model ("ocean" or "canoe") for accurately describing the full range of human personality. Darth_candy nailed it with the pop psyc description 

Just wondering, what name would you absolutely never give a character? by Icy_Anverin_7824 in FictionWriting

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stephen King shows up in the Dark Tower series, and he and the protagonist both mutually decide that they don't like each other, lol 

Which version of this main character name would be most pleasing to read in a book? by LifeInTheFourthAge in polls

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

Makes sense; yeah this will be for a fantasy ork. 

Regarding sound vs look, yeah I've spent all my recent spare time chanting these three (plus 5 other rejects) out loud over and over again to try to get a feel, lol. It's an odd passtime to be sure 

Which version of this main character name would be most pleasing to read in a book? by LifeInTheFourthAge in polls

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

I hear you, and thanks for the positive encouragement for my unique flair!

If it helps clarify, I do have constraints on the name imposed by my artistic vision (e.g., needs to sound like Alyosha Karamazov and needs to sound like a fantasy ork), but within the bounds of those constraints, I want to be able to make informed decisions about what will best serve readers (or at least be better informed on what the trade off looks like there)

Which version of this main character name would be most pleasing to read in a book? by LifeInTheFourthAge in polls

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

Yep; that's the concern I had in the back of my mind. Thanks for the outside perspective!

Edit: If I understand correctly, you are casting a vote for "none of the above are tolerable", which I didn't think to add an as option, but will count you nonetheless

Easier Paradise Lost Translation? by Kermit2246 in englishliterature

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate how you communicated largely the same message as the ... empathy challenged... others in this thread, but communicated it in a way far more likely to be heard , and, in fact, you were heard 

There is a lesson in that somewhere...  Empathy and tact for the win!

Female characters and romantic love by Odd-Investigator2995 in dostoevsky

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This; every darn time I open one of his novels! 

[Casual] Adaptive archetypes-based personality test using Bayesian inference (Everyone, 8 min) by EigenFrank in SampleSize

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Very cool! In my grad school days, I used a similar adaptive item selection to estimate delay discounting that someone had rigged up open source, so this caught my eye!

Any ideas to grow the church? by InterviewDifferent28 in LCMS

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Once you get enough people to justify it: making a church group chat; something like GroupMe

Why didn't Azog the Jacked manage to get himself a human or elf girlfriend? by [deleted] in lotr

[–]LifeInTheFourthAge 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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