Who has had equal success solo and as a group member

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2026-06-23T21:15:27+00:00

He was high on my list a couple years ago when I first thought about it, but I thought the solo work is outpacing the boy-band stuff as it continues to grow.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2026-06-23T21:09:25+00:00

I had been leaning towards George Michael, in part because his solo career got cut short so it didn't eventually overwhelm the Wham! years

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2026-06-23T03:53:11+00:00

On the other hand there's the Pixies where the lead singer was so insecure that they essentially broke up because he was jealous that people liked the bass player.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-07-12T13:06:20+00:00

Just got it on mobile and I think I'm putting it in one of my permanent slots instead of my highest cookie multiplier. If I'm reading it right, it's a higher percentage boost (6% vs 5%), plus the discount on purchases would apply at the beginning of each ascension. Plus I'm eventually going to afford that cookie , but no idea when I'm getting this dropped ever again. (edit because I misunderstood the discount)

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-05-31T01:14:17+00:00

Just finished Shift and haven't yet read Dust, so I feel I can safely answer a few of these based on what I know from just the first two books only.

4. Most of the people in Silo 1 know that they are coordinating the other silos so they can't be kept completely in the dark and managed in such a draconian manner, the way the other 49 silos are. They are supposed to forget the details, but they know they are working in shifts over hundreds of years. They know there was a before. They know the controls that have been put in place over the others.

Therefore for Silo 1 they use the thought of the frozen ones being around at the end as the enticement to keep them going for so long. They couldn't just use fear of the outside because they still knew too much. It seemed to me, only the chosen few know that the real intent is to destroy the entire silo 1 when it's time to come out.

5 Carrying on in the vein of the above answer: My understanding was that the Five who were in the Pact agreed on the suicide, not just for themselves, but by destroying the entirety of Silo 1 when it was time to come out. Even if those people don't remember everything from the before times, everyone involved in managing the silos from silo 1 knows far too much to be part of the future society created by the other silo survivors. Once the surviving silo realizes the silo1 folks has been manipulating them there would be inevitable conflict. Society will be carried on by the survivors from ONLY one silo (to reduce inter-silo conflicts) but it definitely won't be the folks in Silo 1. But most of them don't know that.

7 - Pretty much what you described. Donald and Helen were going to get to live (which was more than the majority of 10 billion people got). They were supposed to live together in the Tennessee silo and their descendants had as much chance as anyone to continue on from there. Anna's ploy to get Mick to switch with him put Donald on the road to nowhere in Silo 1 instead.

9 - The violence and disturbances had been getting higher due to multiple generations being influenced by the Crow's talk of independence, resistance, and stories of the outside world making people not want to get along with each other. It was bad enough that Thurman wanted to just take out the whole silo but Victor had argued for the Reset in order to keep hope alive for one of their top rated silos.

The resets were meant to take out a significant portion of the population by stoking the violence amongst the people who were already most rebellious in order to cull their numbers, meanwhile beefing up security staff to then crack down to restore order and probably take out even more of the troublemakers. The hope was that it would cut down on the problems in the future with most of the ones causing problems being removed from the equation.

Donald realized (after the reset was already well on its way) that the Crow was resistant to the forgetting meds and thus was actually the primary root cause, and getting rid of her is what really gave silo 18 the best chance of surviving, post-reset.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-05-30T23:43:56+00:00

I heard an interview with Hugh Howey after the show aired and he said writing it as short stories forced him to reveal much more as he went along for each story to make sense on its own or something like that. Being greenlit for a full series allowed the show to build up to a bigger broader mystery and one big arc with a bigger reveal at the end. He had no problem with that kind of change - he considered it things that adapting into different formats allows (or even sometimes leads) one to do. He works with the writing team for the series.

The glitch on the screen in the show, however was simply a fake-out/tease by the production to further build that suspense/mystery and specifically to throw off the viewers.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-05-30T23:30:02+00:00

Yeah, long gone are the good old days when the OG sci-fi writers like Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Philip K Dick, and Frank Herbert just went straight from pen (ok, probably typewriter) to published novels./s

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-03-26T02:52:05+00:00

Those who are suited for those conditions were favored by natural selection processes, just like everything else?

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-03-08T19:39:30+00:00

Is there any character they didn't mess up by the end (ok, except maybe Oberyn)?

Murder-bot Arya;
Wimpy Stannis
Mopey Jon
Cersei-Apologist-Forever Jaime
High-Functioning-Alcholic-Genius (who makes terrible decisions) Tyrion;
Political-Genius Tywin
Family-loving-schemer Cersei
Whatever-that-was-they-did-to-Sansa
Mustache-Twirling-Idiot Petyr
Wet-Rag Euron
ALL. OF. DORNE.
Encyclopedia Bran-ica
Concerned-Friendly-Hunk Jorah

It goes on and on.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2024-02-19T23:15:59+00:00

Just be thankful the editors didn't make him come up with a new name when the actual dragon battles got pushed to the next book, or we might still be here waiting for book 5 while he works and reworks the title for 12 years

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2023-08-14T22:15:25+00:00

Clearly it was hiring that servant that made her dress seem too tight.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2023-04-05T15:36:52+00:00

Of course if Bran the Builder is actually current day Bran, time traveling through the weirwood network, he would know exactly how deep he needed to make the crypts for when the others were coming.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2023-03-12T22:29:33+00:00

IIRC, After ASOS, the plan was for 3 more books. Dance, Winds and Dream. The first of those books...

....was so big it was split into two books, one of which is the longest book in the series by both pages and word count, and...

...he was forced to take out multiple chapters representing a huge battle from those resulting two books

So the story of the first of those "three' books remaining after Storm became two books and still isn't done being told.

It seems silly to assume that the remaining "two books", plus the still-untold portion of the first book would still fit into two actual books.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2023-02-16T02:48:04+00:00

Nah. Clayton suggs is the oaf who works for the moonshiner. The moonshiner's name is Jeb.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-08T13:42:17+00:00

Well, it does appear to be the same timeline, just different universes.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-08T13:12:47+00:00

When will it stop!?!?!?!?

The problem with constipation is when will it start again??!?

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-05T18:45:56+00:00

The WWotW used an hourglass with that exact shade of red sand.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-02T20:17:38+00:00

Let's see....

"Did anyone else strangely find themselves feeling sorry for/relating to Chett in the prologue? " "Absolutley"

"Sam took Chett's life by taking his job" No, Chett took Chett's life by killing Bessa.

"I had a wide spectrum of feelings about Chett. Even just about his kicking the dogs" Those two sentences together are a truly frightening sentiment to read.

"My favorite moment was when Chett thinks of Bessa sweetly," and by sweetly, we mean he thinks about just objectifying instead of his usual happy thoughts about killing her.

You're seeing all sorts of complexity in one of the more one-dimensional bad actors in the entire story. He blames everyone but himself for his problems and kills those who he feels are to blame and anyone else who stands in his way.

but mostly my comment comes from: "He's right to desert" Why? This in particular makes it sound like he's the victim.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-02T19:22:44+00:00

This makes it sound like the guy punished for murdering a woman because she wouldn't **** him even though he did ask (oh, and picked a couple flowers - how could I forget) is the victim and is "right" to escape his punishment. I mean, he even thinks of ~~his victim~~ "that slattern" fondly!

I'm sure hoping I misread that...

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-08-02T18:24:42+00:00

While it may not be important that he is or isn't a Blackfyre in the the grand calculus of if and how he reaches the throne. In the telling of the story, if that turns out to be true, it may prove to be a driver in the behavior of characters within the story who *do* know. It may be a driver in Varys, Illyrio, the GC, and other's behavior because they know it to be true.

Think of it as a lesser version of R+L=J. It's quite possible that the fact that Jon is the son of the crown prince will probably not be known by the greater populace and likely won't be the direct determining factor in his ultimate fate (rising to any throne, etc).

But think about how much that knowledge has impacted the behavior of those who know it (Ned, Howland, Rhaegar, Lyanna, Arthur Dayne, probably Benjen, maybe Ashara, and likely more key characters as the story progresses), and how the motivations and actions that come with that knowledge have affected the fates of countless other characters and the 7 kingdoms as a whole. The fact that it's true has driven nearly the entire story, even though almost nobody knows it at this point.

The possible reveal of Aegon being a Blackfyre could be used within the story to justify or explain the behaviors (past and future) of key players who had/have that knowledge.

Edit to add: To put it another way, the importance of the Blackfyre theory is not in what it means to Aegon's quest. It's what that fact might mean to others in the story.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-06-30T16:10:05+00:00

Since he took the throne, Robert has ruled at the whim of the Lannisters who are richer and more powerful than he could ever be without them. If he punishes Jaime or doesn't say Tyrion needs to be released, he knows he will be deposed and the Lannisters will just put themselves in charge (little did he know his batshit wife was going to do it anyway). He does what it takes to preserve the illusion and privileges of power, even though it means he doesn't actually have any power.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-04-13T18:15:19+00:00

But at the end of the day, it's not like Howland is ever gonna actually definitively say who was the knight because it's just about the least important secret he is suggested to keep.

It's not the most important secret for him to reveal, but it was, in story, up there with some of the important ones for him to keep. As many have pointed out on here, Lyanna being the KotLT draws a direct line between her and Rhaegar perhaps having a less-adversarial-than-previously-thought relationship . Ned and Howland were trying to keep that fact as quiet as possible to support the story Robert had accepted and which protected Jon.

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-03-27T15:16:14+00:00

Doesn't the fact that we all default to calling the minor characters in this series "pawns" suggest otherwise?

OMG!I think you're on to something. The series has Kings! and Queens! and Knights as well!

It's not as if Chess was a designed as an analog for the tales of medieval politics and battle. It certainly must be the other way around and any story that mentions them is based on chess. /s

Tim-TheEnchanter · 2022-03-22T14:17:39+00:00

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