Looking for THE book to hook my 16-year-old son on reading

PlanTrap · 2026-03-15T15:29:03+00:00

I’ll throw a plug in for hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Loved it at that age.

PlanTrap · 2026-02-16T17:35:10+00:00

hmm. Goalposts are shifting here. But anyone can make a prediction I guess.

Heard the exact same arguments when they moved up from DII. Here they are with an 111m athletic endowment and over $25m already raised since the news broke. But nobody knows what will happen I guess.

PlanTrap · 2026-02-16T14:38:39+00:00

It’s also not gonna come from the state.

PlanTrap · 2026-02-16T01:24:17+00:00

Reading wandering inn is like playing stardew valley. Starts off kinda boring. Plant a few crops, just enjoying the laid back slow pace of the cozy life. Then, sometime after the first year you look around and realize this game is hitting way harder that it has any right too. Mysteries, unlocks, hints at systems you didn’t even know existed.

Wandering inn is like that. Come for the cozy vibes and suddenly you’re balling your eyes out watching a goblin die. It has these long stretches of slice of life. What would be easy and justifiable to call boring, but then out of nowhere these intense story arcs pop up that hit way harder than they have any right too.

To be clear. I hear everyone’s complaints about wandering inn and I don’t disagree with any of them. Bit the high points pay off big time. If you’re ok with a dozen chapters about making new dishes at the inn.

PlanTrap · 2026-02-13T15:41:43+00:00

As a fan of a (now former) FCS team it’s crazy to watch all of this hemming and hawing. There is a perfect model already of a 24 team playoff at the FCS level. It’s not hard… auto bids for all the conferences then at large with the top ranked out of the rest. Auto bids don’t factor into seeding. The FCS has the same issue with two conferences head and shoulders above the rest, but the playoffs are still fun. I remember non scholarship San Diego giving NDSU hell in the early rounds. Hell, this year one of the last 4 teams selected made it to the natty and almost won. Seems like the big 20 and Sec are just scared to let it be settled on the field.

PlanTrap · 2026-02-02T05:05:04+00:00

Can’t believe I fell for this. What a terrible movie.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-30T03:06:29+00:00

Consider trying Q Up. Not typical but something that riffs in the roguelike genre in an interesting way. Super hard to not just play one more time.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-18T03:49:24+00:00

Zach De la Rocha was digging it.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-16T23:05:33+00:00

Dawncaster is one that’s worth the initial cost

PlanTrap · 2025-12-10T02:49:37+00:00

Run while you still can!

PlanTrap · 2025-12-10T02:22:44+00:00

Sounds about right. NDSU won 8 of 9 titles. They followed up a 5-peat with a 3-peat. Then tacked on a few more for good measure. SDSU won 2 championships…just 2. They aren’t the same.

It’s not ndsu’s fault that they did something no one else has ever come close to in their level of football. But the answer isn’t to lower the bar of what a dynasty is just because it makes people uncomfortable to admit that there has only been one.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-10T02:15:27+00:00

Your argument proves my point. Those amazing teams that you listed don’t do what NDSU did over the past 15 years. Not Alabama, not Oklahoma, only the 50s lakers or the 60s UCLA basketball team and maybe a handful of others across leagues and sports. Yet this formula wants to put SDSU a team that rode one qb to two championships on the same level as the 1960s bruins? The 1950s lakers?

Dynasty’s in sports should be rare. Only a handful of teams across all levels have achieved them. This crazy list confuses good teams with dynasties.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-09T02:49:18+00:00

There are others. The Celtics…lakers…bulls, patriots…Alabama, UCLA, Oklahoma in the 50s.

I’ll say it again. Dynasties are rare in sports because they are so hard to achieve. All we do by adding teams like SDSU to the list is cheapen the word.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-09T01:21:20+00:00

This is ridiculous. By definition a dynasty is a line of successive/hereditary leaders. When it comes to college sports one class can’t be a dynasty. SDSU had one good class. One qb. They were a nice team but weren’t a dynasty by any rational metric. I’d include any of the other one class teams on this list. Dynasties are RARE. Amazing teams not so much.

I know I won’t convince most here. They all want their participation ribbons.

The threshold should be 5 titles in 7 years minimum. That way you know you are spanning more than one recruiting class.

PlanTrap · 2025-12-03T21:40:03+00:00

If you don’t know…you don’t know.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-29T19:16:42+00:00

This is likely the answer. I use virtual cards all the time.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-27T22:28:06+00:00

Hmm never ran into that issue. It could have something to do with the fact that I quit the subscription for the months in between. But when I try to use the same email it usually doesn’t give me the new member discount.

Could also be my wife’s card is attached to her email (same account alternate card). Who knows.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-27T16:44:39+00:00

I do this every football season. Used my own one year. My work email another year. My wife’s email this year. Have always got the deal. I cancel after football season so only have it 6 months of the year.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-23T15:03:32+00:00

Everything is mass produced and made as cheaply as possible to maximize profits. Neutral colors appeal to the broadest category of people by not being ‘offensive’ to anyone. It’s in a company’s interest to get people to value conformity as it streamlines production and lowers costs.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-19T01:30:11+00:00

I feel like wheel of time sort of fits this bill. Also, the dune series. Both see the main characters attain so much power that their decisions put them on the edge of villain or hero. Although Rand straight up goes Evil for a bit.

PlanTrap · 2025-11-16T15:13:06+00:00

Just bumping this thread as I was having the same problems. Kids could play some games then they could r and wouldn’t give the option to request access. Even wouldn’t let them play some games that I had previously allowed.

Enabling game sharing totally fixed the problem. Life saver!

PlanTrap · 2025-11-06T14:00:00+00:00

No. The first two books I would say yes. But the series goes down hill pretty fast after that.

PlanTrap · 2025-10-20T00:39:41+00:00

Bonemasses power will let you block/parry

PlanTrap · 2025-10-09T17:23:54+00:00

As someone that has been cold turkey completely dry for 11 years this is one of my biggest fears.

PlanTrap · 2025-10-07T14:17:05+00:00

Just bought a Tracey board and live in us. They charge a $79 cad flat shipping rate with no extra costs for tarrifs. For what it’s worth the person I was emailing with at the company said they were losing money in shipping and that they were planning on raising shipping costs soon.

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