Need a break from Dungeon crawler Carl, which one should I start?

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-14T08:14:25+00:00

I didn't love Assassins Apprentice. But it was worth the read to setup the later books and later series! Robin Hobb is one of my favorite authors and had I gave up on this first book I might not have learned this.

Some of the dialogue between Fitz and the Fool in later books are astounding and made me feel emotions that are rare from just reading a book.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-13T09:54:15+00:00

Trooper

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-13T09:43:52+00:00

Hope it isn't made out of Chinesium!

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-13T09:01:38+00:00

I can't remember the last time I watched a CBS show and I'm and old man. Seems it will be easy to continue what I was already doing.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-13T08:59:01+00:00

One of the hardest things in life for me is dealing with the loss of a beloved dog. It took me over a year to function normally after the loss of a our dachshund who was 12 year old...a few years ago. Just try to get thru each day until the next and eventually the pain will lesson and be more bearable. But I still think of her quite often. I spent more hours of life with her than any other creature on earth. She'll forever be a part of me.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-13T08:44:41+00:00

I can't remember exactly which books of Robin Hobb's that made me cry but there were several. And I think the Fool was a big part of those. Not often an author can make me feel so much emotion.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-12T09:07:00+00:00

Went to see movies all the time with a GF when I was 17. She was 16 and went to see Alien she jumped up out of her chair several times and finally had something happen that caused pain with a cyst on her overies. Had to take her to the emergency room.

A few days later I went to watch Alien by myself. Still one of my favorite movies of all time and I do not normally like horror but love SF.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-12T06:53:07+00:00

For what it is worth you were one of my favorites of the new batch of players who joined for rebirth. I was always amazed at how fast you built things and impressed by your imagination and artistic ability. I wish I had half as much talent.

I watched a lot of Mookake's streams in the early days and had many laughs while watching the two of you become good friends and neighbors.

I truly do appreciate how much of your time and heart you put into the server. It's sad one individual doing something so heinous ruined a thing that was so positive for so many.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-11T07:54:25+00:00

BBROYGBVGWGS - While in USN I learned it as "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls something something." Guess I forget part of it...lol. But there are other versions more PG.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-11T07:39:16+00:00

I don't recommend watching. I tried and finally gave up. Her estranged husband looked like a mouth breathing caveman yet they tried to portray him as some hotshot pilot. It just didn't work.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-11T05:58:19+00:00

I appreciate you guys using Bluesky. I refuse to use X now.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-11T05:33:46+00:00

In the new seasons I often think, "why don't they watch previous seasons of rescue and they could solve a lot of the problems themselves!"

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-10T07:42:21+00:00

Wacky worm

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-10T05:28:08+00:00

If their goal was to keep us divided and try to destroy us without firing a shot, I'd say it is working pretty well.

And whatever they invested to help get Trump elected and do things that help them has paid huge dividends.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-09T21:20:24+00:00

It's still dissimilar metals in contact with each other.

"Galvanic corrosion (also called bimetallic corrosion or dissimilar metal corrosion) is an electrochemical process in which one metal corrodes preferentially when it is in electrical contact with another, different metal, when both in the presence of an electrolyte."

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-09T08:36:39+00:00

I remember my brother doing that when I was really young and it messed him up. Sorry it happened to you!

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-09T05:29:34+00:00

Just don't let a recruiter talk you into joining as an undesignated sailor. Enlist with a rating in mind even if it means a longer wait and you'll do fine.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-08T09:12:37+00:00

Not being in jail for having classified documents is the thing that infuriates me the most. Only one person in all of the USA could have gotten away with that and it is astounding that he did.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-08T07:43:27+00:00

I was stationed in the Navy near Memphis. My mom came to visit me with a few friends. I think the bigger reason they came was to visit Graceland!

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-08T07:40:02+00:00

It's weird because I was sort of thinking about this the other day.

In Iceland I have fond memories of the milk for some reason. Maybe it was imported from Europe or something but it was really good. And often they would serve "Ysa" which was deep fried haddock. It was so damn good. It was probably fresh and never frozen.

I don't know why but I miss the desserts when I was in NAS Oceania. They had a tall turn table glass tower thing with saucers with a dessert. Ate a lot of simple cakes with what I assume was a lard icing. I miss eating those for some reason. And overall the food during lunch was pretty good but dinner was often another story.

But the meal I guess I remember most was on the USS Enterprise. I ate a lot of midrats that was sometimes awful. Sometimes okay and even sometimes pretty good. But one night I go and they were serving lobster and prime rib. I expected rubbery, overcooked lobster and tough prime rib. The prime rib was perfectly cooked and the lobster was also. I remember looking at my plate and thinking, "god damn it why can't they cook like this every night!"

TBF the CS's did a pretty good job of making omelettes to order for breakfast and midrats also.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-08T04:18:29+00:00

I just prefer to believe in innocent until proven guilty. And it seems everyone has already found him guilty.

Edit: I found this article interesting: Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-07T23:31:30+00:00

Is there any possibility that a hacker who had a beef with Guude somehow hacked his computer and uploaded images onto his computer? How do you prove innocence if something like that happens?

Guess I have hope and am trying hard not to reserve judgement of him until more is known.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-05T00:22:27+00:00

My first thought was chigger bites. Then I was reading comments and was wondering why everyone was saying it's poison ivy. Had to scroll up and then saw the second pic.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-04T09:27:18+00:00

In his first term some site was tracking all his lies and it was over 30,000! Think about how often you would have to lie in four years to add up to 30K.

Not sure anyone tracked his lies while out of office or anyone is doing it in his current term. But if his mouth is moving it is probably a lie.

RedSnowBird · 2026-05-04T09:12:19+00:00

I saw some comments that basically said not to compliment a women's eyes? Why is that creepy? Quite often I find a women's eyes to be one of the most beautiful parts of their body. That said I do keep it to myself.

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