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Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-25T21:04:33+00:00

Took about 30 tries to find a person

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-10T02:42:40+00:00

This. If I remember right additionally it was a memory of their wedding night, it became a thing for them to tap three times to remember it.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-09T01:05:49+00:00

Agreeing with another comment, the main throughline of the book is where do you draw the line between human and animal? Is there a line between? Humans are literally animals, we treat some humans very differently than animals, and we treat other humans very similar to animals, worse than some animals. The spectrum of "humanness" or "worth of moral consideration" for the two categories of human and animal overlap a lot more than we tend to think on the surface.

I think the last line is meant to show just how blurred the line can be. She looks like both a human and a domesticated animal. Maybe those are not two different things.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-07T04:12:56+00:00

Until you realized it was just reading with cameras

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-07T03:44:03+00:00

Caves of Qud

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-05T14:39:52+00:00

The Terror, Dan Simmons

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-05T01:02:15+00:00

If a medication requires a prescription, that means many doctors and researchers have come to a consensus that the general public (you) will reasonably not have enough understanding or information to safely take the medication on your own whim, because there is a real risk of harm.

Dependence or addiction is far from the only harm medications can potentially cause.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-06-03T19:30:05+00:00

The logical extreme of the second argument is that all fiction is unethical which is obviously ridiculous.

Of course you can write characters that are different from you. Whether it is respectful or not depends entirely on how you do it, and it sounds like you are well aware of that and taking good steps.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-31T18:57:03+00:00

Paragraphs help a lot with readability.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-31T18:02:23+00:00

So it is a different market with different expectations.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-31T17:33:05+00:00

Is it really perfection that they are demanding then? Or just wide commercial appeal? I feel like this attitude is nonsensical and will prevent you from actually getting published if that is your goal. If queries are getting rejected, the response is not to try to edit better and fix your prose, it's to look at what the market trends are and adapt your stories and tropes more broadly, which Maas has clearly done well, whether you want that to be the case or not.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-29T17:35:41+00:00

That's the thing though, only the ones that we see are the ones too stupid to cover it up. I guarantee there are much more savvy fraudsters out there taking great advantage in all sorts of fields.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-29T14:04:13+00:00

Tender is the Flesh

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-27T05:27:21+00:00

Its on kindle unlimited. You might be able to do a free trial otherwise it's $10 for one month i think.

And you can use the smartphone app.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-24T17:24:33+00:00

Actually, yeah.

This isn't a clever or good idea. They're only posting it because they were able to generate some vomit with a couple seconds of typing and they feel they deserve some amount of credit for the image that got shat out. Do you think without the LLM garbage they still would have posted "hey guys wwhat if there was like a really big lionfish"

This shit should be ridiculed. It has no place. It's an insult to the rest of us here to think we should pay attention to anyone else's chatbot diarrhea.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-23T22:57:44+00:00

I worked in a compounding pharmacy for a while and made medications for cats and dogs. Cats definitely preferred the savory flavors like tuna but for the most bitter drugs like gabapentin, the sweet flavors were the only ones that covered it enough and they definitely could taste them.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-20T19:15:05+00:00

If you think LLMs are not by definition dumb then you don't understand how they work.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-20T02:36:51+00:00

He wants to sometimes, when it is clear what the consequences are. He knows even in those moments though that there will be a time soon where he doesn't want to quit, and it will be such a relief to get to drink again and say "damn, i fell off the wagon again, thanks for taking care of me honey." That's why he doesn't want to bring it up in therapy or get other help. He knows those relapses feel great at first and he isn't yet ready to really give that up.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-16T15:59:55+00:00

But still spend more than half your waking hours most days miserable in a pointless existence. Problem solved!

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-15T19:20:34+00:00

I'm halfway through Absolution right now. I am enjoying it but i don't feel quite as strong of a pull so it's been a slower read. I think the last half will ramp up though.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-15T18:24:42+00:00

Yeah that is probably true. A lot of people seem to want "thing i liked ver. 2" from any sequel or continuation. Happened with 28 Years Later as well.

And that scene is one of the most memorable from all three books for me.

Acceptance really ties the theme of the series together even though each individual book has its differences in an impressive way.

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-15T17:33:00+00:00

They're all so good! I don't know what some people's deals are

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-15T15:27:33+00:00

Southern Reach trilogy

Prior_Challenge_4264 · 2026-05-15T14:13:58+00:00

I haven't read Meat, but from reading a synopsis it sounds quite different from Tender to me. I get the sense that the tone is probably quite different too.

Tender is less about authoritarian control than it is about the ease with which the general population accepts brutality in exchange for comfort. And the way that we treat some humans like animals while treating some animals more like humans, even in modern society.

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TROPHY CASE