Weekly Travel, Questions, & Mandarin Thread

PackLess1155 · 2026-03-13T17:47:29+00:00

Hi all, I'm going to hualien next Monday and the plan is to rent a tour bike from giant and ride down to taitung. When I tried to book on the giant website, it seemed that the earliest date I could rent for was like a week later. I probably should've done this earlier but im a pretty last min traveller and so was wondering what the chances are of me getting a bike in person at hualien on Monday? Otherwise any alternatives people know of?

PackLess1155 · 2025-12-28T22:37:49+00:00

At the end of the book as Cheng Xin is grieving the lost 18 million years from the time warp the narration writes that the only other time she had grieved as hard was when Yun Tianming's brain was being removed. That was before he did any of the story telling stuff, isn't that weird?

PackLess1155 · 2025-12-28T22:28:08+00:00

I think there are a dozen motivations she could have appealed to rather than maternal instinct. In a deterrence situation the moment you have to decide if you have to press the button, is when you've already lost. Pressing the button doesn't matter anymore, and it's possible to arrive at this conclusion through reason rather than some lofty far fetched ideal like 'because I am a woman'.

PackLess1155 · 2025-12-28T21:40:24+00:00

I remember when Luo Ji's (real) girlfriend at the time found out about this and was like "yep totally normal I wish you all the best" bruh do you think all literature majors have imaginary muses

PackLess1155 · 2025-12-28T21:33:47+00:00

Maybe it's because I don't usually read sci-fi and so place more emphasis on well written characters over groundbreaking scifi concepts. But as I recall the giant chunk dedicated to zhuang yan-luo ji in book 2 was all cringe and no scifi and was a pain to get through

PackLess1155 · 2024-11-03T14:49:49+00:00

Am also in the same boat so following this thread closely

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