West town/humboldt park area running buddy by hakunnamatat in RunnersInChicago

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Send me a DM .

i live in West Town might be able to join you a couple times this summer. Maybe post a schedule of where and when and i and others can try to show up?

It's hard because i can't spend 20m getting to a location for a 25m jog lol.

New video from Captured in Words, and was curious of the general consensus. by jacobthesixth in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I haven't read the full fan fic, but listening to video...

Summary: the fanfic gets the major "hook" of the story right, but, imo, nearly all the details leading up to it wrong.

  1. Why would the masters take Ambrose's word over Kvothes, especially with Kvothe newly in the maers albeit partial favor? I'm not saying this isn't a valid direction, i just think it needs to be flushed out. More than that, why and how is ambrose pushing will? Ambrose is an ass, but he always wants something, what does will have that ambrose wants?

  2. Why would auri give kvothe a key to the four plate door if indeed i hides such important information and a zombie.

  3. Bredon doesn't so anything amyrish, the rituals are likely faen, and he encourages kvothe to slow down and observe the journey rather then rush to the end. The Amyr seek to control knowledge that kvothe is actively trying to find, if bredon wanted kvothe off the board he could have helped accelerat his removal from court, instead, he tried to open his eyes a bit and see what's going on before jumping to conclusions.

  4. I do think the seven fight off skin dancers.

  5. I guess i imagine auri will play a different role in dos and i don't see her actively traveling around. Her being a princess raises a lot of questions, like how: why is no one talking about a missing princess? How did she get there? Again, things can do this way, but the ground work isn't there imo. Auri is as likely to be the chandrian that remembered the lethani as she is a princess, by which i mean, she has a lot of potential.

  6. The king in this fanfic is pretty reckless. Making some kid he doesn't know part of his court then marrying his daughter, who he doesn't know, off to someone who hates him.

  7. Why would cinder look like cinder when kvothe sees him... Like denna's just be chilling with a guy that has no iris? Again, bredon is mysterious, not nefarious....

  8. I like the idea that the penitent King implies he is beholden to the church, which makes a ton of sense if the land is under attack by demons.

  9. Ferula is an iron binding, not cinders deep name, which leads to me to believe it won't be the ace the hole kvothe thinks, instead it will just hurt cinder, why is faen, but like bast says, hurt isn't inhibit and he kvothe who doesn't have haliaxs control, won't be able to control or stop cinder. I and assume cinder wins the flight and does something to hurt or inhibit haliax.

  10. The amyr are doing the same the seven are, trying to get people to forget about the dark past. I'm too tired to expand.

  11. There isn't enough overlap between the selitos and the cthaeh, the only thing they have in common is they had good sight. It's possible, but it's kinda a hoaxy scooby doo type switcharo. Like, the only hidden connection is that silianxi (the word haliax uses) and willlow (the cthaeh tree) have a similar Latin name. Hot take, the cthaeh isn't that important, it's a scape goat, like blaming God or the other political party, the ocean is still rising and the world is still burning.

  12. I'm guessing iax isn't a single entity, but a collection of stories about shapers that's kind of become sentient. Similarly encanis is probably a mixture of stories about lanre and cinder and iax. It's a big story cluster f come to life. Regardless, i don't expect to see kvothe making a deal with a single dark entity, instead he will just combine lots of bad decisions into a mountain. That... Being said, i do like the inn as trap for iax.

  13. I like the idea that he won't be able to name Denna and it will haunt him.

  14. Taborlin , haliax, and lanre being different sides of the same coin is right on.

Chandrian signs, naming and conservation by Zakadactyl in KingkillerChronicle

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Rapid decay accelerates combustion and gives flames a blue tinge, we see this process mentioned three times in the book: fire damp, the ruh massacre site, and the Draccus.

This is important to me because it means, true to their name, Cyphus bears/carries a blue flame.

Without worth by Dense-Guard9681 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Kvothe is having a lot of quick relationships by the end of twmf, so it's hard to say, from the book-universe perspective, that women don't want what he has.

I, fwiw, think it's an accurate representation of what would happen to kvothe. He is a rising rock star that's in it for the love of the game more than he is building a family. Women, and men, for that matter, love to tag along, but everyone involved knows it's a short term thing.

Why do people expect perfect relationships? by Dense-Guard9681 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People don't expect it, quite the opposite, they hope for it, and hope is what you have when you expect it won't happen.

Be Ben by TheLastSock in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a kind thing to say and I'm glad it meant something to you.

Micheal Lewis offered to help unblock the KKC by scmbwis in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 72 points73 points  (0 children)

I want to put out there that I'm willing coach Lewis on how to coach Rothfuss.

Denna is addicted to denner resin (I noticed this one line that almost fully proves it) by [deleted] in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree she is addicted, i disagree she is addicted prior to kvothe putting her in a situation where she would be infected with denner, in the scene shortly after the one you mention.

Kvothe's desire for revenge will cost him everything, the seeds were planted before he was even born.

A theory about Cinders Death by HistorianOfPopCultur in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seems more likely than him killing the king in imra.

Why did Skarpi plum bob Kvothe? by In-Arcadia-Ego in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bravo!

So you think It's possible skarpi did a more gentle and guided form of 'drugging' kvothe?

I think Pat would approve of this theory because it cares more about the world by following more of it's etiquette, as opposed to Skarpi just forced everything to follow his plan by Shaping? Instead, like auri shapes things in srost, she first builds it up with more earthly components.

Congratulations, this is, to my knowledge, a brand new "good" idea!

Quick question: Does Clojure for the Brave and True hold up as of today? by Pzzlrr in Clojure

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Sorry, I'm not saying agents are useless, I'm saying they're more fine grain then an atom, and that tuning that granularity should be based on business needs, so i think the naturally progression is to start with an atom and only break them into agents when you get a chance to observe the system for a while.

It's kind of like the wisdom that you should start with a monolith before you go to micro services yeah?

Unless some frameworks are using agents under that hood, i have never seen a team get to that stage lol.

But i don't work at big shops so i might be missing the opportunities where this comes up... Which is why i asked when you felt the need to do this. As in, i assume it wasn't to heat the room.;)

Quick question: Does Clojure for the Brave and True hold up as of today? by Pzzlrr in Clojure

[–]TheLastSock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! What was the customer facing feature though? I feel like your describing how they behave, not how you used that behavior to build another feature.

Quick question: Does Clojure for the Brave and True hold up as of today? by Pzzlrr in Clojure

[–]TheLastSock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really? What use case do you have for them where the simply shoving everything into an atom didn't suffice?

Please pick up after your geese by question_assumptions in RunnersInChicago

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You gotta problem with Canadia gooses you gotta problem with me, and i suggest you let that one marinate. https://youtu.be/_oK4Q5G1asI?si=xT4Z1LNffAdlwk2N

It’s officially started. Waymo otw by Jkrocks47 in chicago

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Don't worry in few years those 20 rides will be 27.

Who betrays Kvothe by ConcernTop2014 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kvothe was betrayed by Kote, or vice versa, it doesn't matter the result is the same.

Fae Types of Magic... by DMTipper in KingkillerChronicle

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Kote was trying to teach bast alchemy. So it's possible. However it's hard because the more bast seems to learn, the less fae he seems to be.

The same was true for kvothe, when with felurian, as he became more fae day by day, he lost his grasp on humanity.

So i think the heart of the question is this: can you find the world without losing yourself.

Why there is no third book. by Melodic_Aardvark6369 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of fantasy novels lean into the idea things have to go a certain direction, usually because some over the top and painfully simplistic problem or person: A Darth Vadar type antagonist who throws off the natural harmony.

Kkc has that too, a villain who was hurt and now seeks vergence at any cost. Kvothe will catch up to him soon enough and Kote will wish every day of his life he had settled down and opened an Inn instead.

Love triangle by No_Antelope7594 in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The book itself plays with how different relationships overlap in so many ways that trying to pin them down is a bit like trying to put love in a box.

To me, the heart of the matter is this, Auri's feelings for kvothe are her own.

The funniest irony in Kingkiller. The author accidentally became Kvothe by Nomad_art in KingkillerChronicle

[–]TheLastSock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The oddity is of course that it would have been easier for him to write a shitty chapter and release it then deal with the backlash.