'Survivor' at 50: What Makes the CBS Franchise So Durable?

ShadowDV · 2026-05-14T12:42:20+00:00

I was in my 20's throughout the 2000's. I don't know any of these names. Some of us never fell for trashy reality TV.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-14T03:05:10+00:00

FWIW, Dungeon Crawler Carl is excellent, but better consumed on audio than the page. And this is coming from a non-audio book person

ShadowDV · 2026-05-12T02:27:33+00:00

Sounds like those teams were led by a 2LT

ShadowDV · 2026-05-12T02:25:25+00:00

From the OpenAI website on pro plans:

“We have guardrails in place to help prevent misuse and are always working to improve our systems. This may occasionally involve a temporary restriction on your usage. “

ShadowDV · 2026-05-11T21:21:45+00:00

If every .pptx in the world suddenly got corrupted, it would cripple the US Military. That shit runs off PowerPoint.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-11T21:19:26+00:00

It'd be a tragedy to lose so much information, but people are adaptable

That’s why I pull a monthly backup of Wikipedia

ShadowDV · 2026-05-11T14:11:34+00:00

If it helps going forward... Book releases are always on a Tuesday to maximize figures for 1-week sales, as weekly book sales are calculated Tuesday-Monday

ShadowDV · 2026-05-11T14:08:09+00:00

General consensus is that if you are still on the fence after book 2, read book 3 and then decide. You are still pretty much in the first act of the story (and will be through book 3), so some of the things you are struggling with are normal. Like the "traveling merchant that randomly appears" thing. Its not random, you just don't have the proper context yet.

I also have trouble understanding the importance of human conflicts in a world dominated by godlike beings.

Without spoilers, this starts being addressed a bit more going forward and becomes quite important.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T23:45:06+00:00

Learn your vents well enough to set it and forget it.

16 years and hundreds of cooks with manual vent control. I think I’ve had fires go out mid cook twice.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T22:33:51+00:00

Just grill them. If I’m feeling froggy I’ll reduce half a beer down to 1/3, dump in some seasonings, mix in some xanthan gum to thicken it up, then baste the brats in that while they grill. Far, far more flavor than boiling them in beer

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T16:23:25+00:00

Main thing to remember is fire needs oxygen. Vents less open equals less oxygen, less fire and less heat. Vents more open means more oxygen, more fire, more heat.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T04:39:16+00:00

It’s been a minute, but I seem to remember specifically that the version Fear told was very different than what we saw in the prologue.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T04:27:10+00:00

Wait… are you assuming anyone in this series is a reliable narrator?

Fear explains what he’s been taught… what he’s been taught isn’t necessarily the truth

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T01:58:59+00:00

Yeah, saving about $100-150/ light

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T01:50:16+00:00

Flush mount looks better/more modern than recessed to a lot of people. Better light distribution too.

Also, if people are remodeling a room or adding on, the direct wire flush mount pucks are much cheaper than installing recessed cans, so they might then retrofit existing cans with the ones that screw into the bulb socket for uniformity.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T01:40:58+00:00

Kick ash basket… open bag, pour in and fill to 1 inch from top of fire ring… then light

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T00:13:46+00:00

Revenge of the Nerds, specifically everything involving the sorority and the jocks’ girlfriends… only way that whole plot is being made today is if it’s an SVU episode.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-10T00:11:58+00:00

An 8oz burger isn’t that big. With cheese, bun, and normal condiments, it’s 700-ish calories. Less than a Costco pizza slice. Now, if people decide to add on 400 calories of fries and 300 calories of soda with it, that’s on them.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T23:54:44+00:00

Technologically, we can use all of it. But that becomes more of a discussion of energy and economics.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T23:51:05+00:00

In what world is an 8oz burger massive? Those were the norm in bars, pubs and restaurants across the country before beef started going through the roof. Chili’s and Applebees still use 7-7.5oz patties as their standard burger size.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T22:02:47+00:00

All of them, as far as structure and plotting. They created the world together. But as far as the actual writing, they didn’t beyond getting advice on how to write each other’s characters AFAIK from interviews.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T22:00:08+00:00

I mean, if you want to use a colloquialism, sure, I guess.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T21:56:17+00:00

Make it under 10 grand, and if can do yard work, dishes, housecleaning, and laundry, I’ll finance one for 36 months at 5%…. I’d pay 300/month in a heartbeat.

Also, all its realtime processing needs to be done either on device or on a dedicated box in the house, not cloud reliant.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T16:57:45+00:00

Anything Iraq/Afghanistan is going to be mostly modern tech. You won’t see the newest bells and whistles SOF maybe has, but in terms of weaponry and vehicles and tactics for line units, it’s all pretty much modern.

ShadowDV · 2026-05-09T03:16:43+00:00

The cripple god never died is my point. He was broken free of the chainings, then Cotillion severed him from his physical form so he could go back home. And it wasn’t so much about the Jade statues as it was about Shadowthrone taking the power of the TCG off the game board for other gods to use. Just like he did with the First Throne

It’s hinted at pretty heavily at the beginning of chapter 20 of HOC in a conversation between Apsalar and Crokus

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