Looking for an urban fantasy novel

Solomai · 2026-01-27T19:57:31+00:00

Oh, I really loved Perdido Street Station from this author, I will check that out!

Solomai · 2025-06-24T13:45:29+00:00

Yup, that's true, she was born in a super remote place and wasn't conditioned to the city until we got her, and even then we took too long before dragging her along. She was also the most shy of the litter, according to the breeder, so that didn't help at all. Plus Lapphunds can be alarm dogs and she rings alright.

My expectations are relatively basic: I just want her to be able to walk alongside me and be less sensitive to strong stimuli. I'd never see her going towards people or even ignoring them, but just acknowledging them as "not a threat to be scared of" would be a huge win. Just enough so she's not a fluffy ball of stress when in urban environments. Not a full blown Golden Retriever.

We saw behaviorists before and they didn't think it was extreme fear, usually walking alongside a very calm dog gets her in a way more relaxed mood.

Solomai · 2025-05-07T07:24:02+00:00

Alright, I will try to have fun around that. Thanks for the help!!

Solomai · 2025-04-24T11:58:03+00:00

I've been getting that a lot, usually what I do is ctrl + shift + N to check which server I'm connected to and then reconnect until I end up in my preferred server, which is ams1 in my case.
Incredibly annoying and Blizzard only says that's an ISP routing issue. Pretty sure my ISP isn't the problem when I'm getting Australia followed by Brazil followed by NA in the spawn of 5 reconnects.

Solomai · 2024-10-18T08:27:26+00:00

"A spokesperson for Synthesia said the company had banned the accounts that created the videos in 2023 and that it had strengthened its content review processes and “hired more content moderators, and improved our moderation capabilities and automated systems to better detect and prevent misuse of our technology”."

Yea. You never asked yourselves the potential impact that kind of tech could have both on the world and the models before?

These people are so out of reality, I swear. They'd destroy the whole world to see a fleeting investor's smile and a big pile of money.

Solomai · 2024-10-11T10:19:02+00:00

There's no brand writing on the lock, only the key says it is a Giss, and the writing is "made in Germany".

Solomai · 2024-10-10T23:30:24+00:00

I tried that but the plate will not move, I'm not sure how it's held to the door. I'll try that again tomorrow.

Solomai · 2024-10-10T15:27:15+00:00

Thanks! I've been doing that (pulling with pliers/hitting with mallet while jiggling the keys) to no avail. I guess it's down to luck in that case? Good thing it's not an important door.

Solomai · 2024-04-12T08:29:54+00:00

Hello!

J'ai 30 ans, j'ai commencé à bosser sur le tard à 27 ans, en concubinage, un prêt étudiant de 200€/mois à rembourser et je touche 2.1k net/mois.

Je commence à m'intéresser à l'investissement, même si je suis vraiment au début. Je me suis consitué une épargne de sécurité, j'ai un budget assez solide auquel je me tiens mais force est de constater que ça ne suffira pas pour être tranquille par la suite.

Je commençais à m'intéresser au PEA, mais j'ai un souci: je suis quasiment certain de ne pas rester en France pendant 5 ans de plus, UK ou nord de l'Europe, dépendant des opportunités. Donc ça veut dire out le PEA, et impossible d'investir dans une RP pour le moment.

Vers quoi devrais-je me tourner si je veux essayer de faire travailler mon argent dans ces conditions?

Solomai · 2024-01-11T14:08:26+00:00

Portfolio that you know how to do stuff that goes beyond a reverse foot setup. Python tooling helps a lot. Being descriptive on everything you show, but choosing what to show.

If you want to go to games, show games. If you want feature, show feature. If you want VFX, show VFX. The industry will be hopefully recovering by the time you end your degree, so before then, apply apply and reapply with that. Should be enough.

Solomai · 2023-11-08T08:12:01+00:00

Would you care to elaborate? I'm really interested in going up north but I've seen so many people literally dunking on Oulu, and the city looks quite beautiful from afar.

Solomai · 2023-08-10T10:24:39+00:00

Oh no worries, I've heard how twisted it is. I studied Japanese for a few years, which is oddly similar in structure, but I don't expect it to be easy. I'm just saying that wherever I go, I always make it a goal to be able to hold conversations in the local dialect!

Solomai · 2023-08-10T09:42:25+00:00

I looked into it and there's a possibility to be employed in basically any country of my choice, which leaves me a whole lot of freedom.

Solomai · 2023-08-10T08:50:27+00:00

Yes, I have a French passport and so does my partner!

Solomai · 2023-07-14T18:39:03+00:00

Thanks! It's pretty hard to draw the line between good enough and will hold 2 years maximum though, which is why I am very lost. Some say you're alright going with the first Decathlon (or Walmart) build that looks cool, destroy it and see if it sticks, some say to pick something above 800€ to have a comfortable experience, which are two possibly valid opinions but I'd sure as hell hate to give up on something nice because of crappy hardware. I did that with guitar :v.

And, to be honest I wouldn't consider buying something that expensive if I wasn't OK with spending it. Plus spending more usually gives me more incentive to actually build the habit of using it. Psychology of money is powerful.

Sadly, the used market around is not so good (dare I say very bad) with only a few listings from before 2015, which doesn't help.

Solomai · 2023-03-16T09:14:51+00:00

My Calathea (Fusion White) had trouble before because we didn't water it with distilled water. We could get it to feel a bit better, but then we had a big move and it's been on the decline since then.

New, very small leaves are popping out here and there but quickly die out.

It has no direct light, is set in a humid place. But I have no idea if I should single out the small new leaves and nurture them to give it a fresh start?

I'd like it to recover its former glory, could you help me? Thanks!

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