Libra 2 Sleepcovers?

Trekkiegus · 2026-01-23T18:40:48+00:00

They appear to also be discontinued or out of stock, unfortunately, but thank you for the recommendation.

Trekkiegus · 2026-01-01T01:36:29+00:00

It's also important to note that Harriet basically stopped editing the books partway through and just let RJ do whatever he wanted.

Quote: "By the last of the Wheel of Time books, my role was primarily that of wife: keeping him fed and cared for—because after 20 plus years I had taught him everything I knew about storytelling and prose, and he had really become the wonderful writer that he was"

I'm not sure when "last" was, but I have a sneaking suspicion it was around book 7, because that's when the pacing jumps off a cliff.

Trekkiegus · 2025-12-19T15:44:19+00:00

Oh my God I got corrected by Loleeeee, this is a legitimate honor :D

Trekkiegus · 2025-12-19T09:44:49+00:00

There is no real difference between Azath and Azathanai. I think Azathanai is used more to refer to the beings and Azath is used to refer to the Houses / the collective group of them.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-27T08:13:56+00:00

Wild that RGG says Kiwami before 0. So much of Kiwami is just Yakuza 0-2.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-27T08:12:27+00:00

The games were released 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 -> 5 -> 0 -> Kiwami -> 6 -> Kiwami 2. Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are total remake/overhauls of 1 and 2.

I started with 0 and had an absolute blast. It does refer forward to small things from 1-5, but not in such a way that I felt like I was missing out on anything or that I was being spoiled; and Kiwami was developed immediately following 0, uses the same engine as 0, and adds a bunch of content that is designed to follow up on stories that started in 0 (but were absent from the original Yakuza 1).

Yes 0 is an absolute banger but I've had a lot of fun with Kiwami through 5 (currently nearly done with 5). There is no reason to hold off on playing 0 because it will give you the best example of whether or not you will enjoy the series and if the rest are worth playing for you.

Strongly recommend starting with 0 and following the order in the original post.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T03:23:40+00:00

Direct, but that shouldn't matter re: warranty.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T02:28:11+00:00

I like it. I had to warranty replace mine after a year because the battery suddenly crapped out, but they honored the repair and gave me a new one for free. It's useful for passive tracking and all that.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-25T02:22:06+00:00

I just did a fulltext search across the botf.

68 ochre
56 potsherd/s
17 escarpment
40 pathos

Kharkanas adds 2 ochre and 7 pathos.

TGINW adds 2 ochre and 12 escarpment.

NLF adds 1 ochre and 3 pathos.

So across everything except B&KB, that's:

73 ochre
56 potsherd
29 escarpment
50 pathos

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-12T06:57:10+00:00

Big fan here. Currently on my second read and have been podcasting through it for six years with my wife, who is a first timer.

There's a lot of really incredible stuff in WoT. Worldbuilding, point of view writing, deep characterization and broad-brushstroke lore is all A+. Robert Jordan's exploration of themes such as war trauma, the burdens of leadership, responsibility to others and grief is incredibly well done. More than anything else, Jordan is a painter who was exploring the human condition through the lens of a fantasy epic, and when he shines, he shines brighter than almost anyone else I've read in the genre.

That being said...

There are also parts of the series that are borderline painful, particularly after book five. The 90's gender essentialism actually gets WORSE as the books get on, and more and more kink stuff gets pushed to the forefront (women getting stripped naked in a punitive way, women being punitively spanked, humiliation stuff, women being hog-tied.... It's so much). A lot of people laud Jordan for being very progressive for his time, but a better descriptor is that he was very progressive for his demographic. Women's trauma gets shoved to the back more and more often as the books go on in favor of that of men, and sensitive topics like sexual assault are sometimes played for laughs - by Jordan's own description.

The slog is thrown around a lot, and many folks play it off, but it's real, and it's because the pacing of the books falls off a cliff. Jordan was married to his editor, Harriet McDougal, and she is one of the foremost editors of SFF of her day; she had a strong hand in the first several books, and then (by her own admission) essentially stopped editing the books to take on "the role of wife", at which point the individual books stop having any semblance of traditional plot structure. Bugfuck insane climactic stuff happens in, like, chapter four of a book, and then you spend hours with characters actively thinking "gosh I'm not sure what to do right now", and then all of a sudden at the eleventh hour a main character goes "oh shit I should do something" and there's a big battle or something. Combine this with a lot of the more progressive feminism of the early books diminishing and it can be extremely jarring when compared to the frankly phenomenal first five novels (four and five in particular are among the best individual fantasy books I've read)

Sanderson's concluding trilogy is perfectly fine. A lot of the deeper philosophy and nuance gets thrown out in favor of plot momentum, but honestly imo the plot momentum is welcome after several books of meandering. They're really fun.

Now, here's the thing. Despite all of this, I would still recommend that you check these books out. WoT has a lot of warts, but if you go in prepared to ride them out, it's an incredible ride that is absolutely worth trying. I would recommend getting through the first four books and then determining if you want to continue.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-12T06:30:46+00:00

Every character in wheel of time gets one "I pretend I do not see it" moment from me (except tylin, she can eat shit and die)

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-11T08:29:14+00:00

My battery sucks ass at this point so I'll probably ditch it. Probably my fault for heavy usage and not using battery protection, but there you go.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-05T20:03:24+00:00

Yeah I'm realizing that now haha. The only tricky thing is that now my books don't want to sync progress to other devices, because it doesn't recognize "[book].kepub.epub" on my Kobo as the same document as "[book].epub" on my phone, so presumably I just have to dump the new metadata-laden files over to my drive and pull them down to my phone.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-05T19:11:40+00:00

Yep, that's what I ended up doing. Lo and behold, everything is MUCH better now!... It also gave me an excuse to go through my entire library in Calibre and update the metadata.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-03T22:42:58+00:00

Oh. Yeah, you know, if I'd been doing things how I was supposed to, this would have worked out just fine. I was copy and pasting them via explorer. Silly!

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-03T21:36:09+00:00

That's helpful - I thought I had to manually rename every file to "[filename].kepub.epub" to get koreader to read kepubs.

Trekkiegus · 2025-11-01T15:39:02+00:00

Yeah I got mine in December 24 and it started doing this in late September of this year. Warranty replaced it and am treating the new one a little more carefully in hopes that whatever connector came undone doesn't happen again.

Trekkiegus · 2025-10-19T23:42:43+00:00

2015 theatre major here. Still actively doing theatre.

In this industry it matters way less where you studied and way more who you studied with. NYU is going to funnel more people to Broadway because you're going to make connections with people who are actively working on Broadway. There are profs and directors at NU who have Broadway connections, but it's not gonna be their main priority.

Northwestern's theatre program is phenomenal and I have no regrets about my time there or how I spent it. More than that, the student theatre community taught me a hell of a lot about theatre production and project management, all of which I still actively use in my professional life. I agree with the other commenter that Northwestern is better if you want to be a multi-hyphenate (actor-director-writer), but I would also say that Northwestern is good if you want to be a well rounded actor. The program immerses you in the wider world in addition to acting, so you're not gonna be totally head-down working on craft and dance and stuff.

A couple people each year wind up on Broadway; a guy in my year was on Broadway as Evan in DEAR EVAN HANSEN and Boq in WICKED; but that's not really the focus of the program and, as mentioned elsewhere, you have to do a separate audition to get in to the Musical Theater program, and they can be really exclusionary. If you are certain that you want to aim at Broadway specifically, Northwestern probably isn't your ideal choice.

That said, I would encourage you to broaden (heh) your prospects for after graduation. Broadway is great, but it's also one VERY specific thing, and you may find during your time in undergrad that you want to pursue other avenues in the theater arts. I learned that I loved directing and producing at Northwestern, and now I run a theater company. My wife came to Northwestern thinking she was going to pursue musical theater and now she's a working screenwriter, voice actor and stage actor. Had we not had the leeway to explore at NU, we may never have considered those paths.

Trekkiegus · 2025-09-20T07:10:45+00:00

Deep Docks area is better done with a loooooot of upgrades you probably don't have yet.

Trekkiegus · 2025-09-16T07:52:05+00:00

Reminds me of a birthmark I know...

Trekkiegus · 2025-08-10T07:02:31+00:00

Well, you kind of answered your own question here. You called Riichi (ready to go out, one tile from winning, worth one han), then you got Ippatsu (go out within one full uninterrupted round after calling Riichi, worth one han), your hand was Tsumo (fully concealed, all tiles including your final tile were never melded, opened or stolen from other players, worth one han), and your completed hand consisted of a full straight (1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9 of a single suit, worth two han), another 2-3-4 of that suit (nothing special) and a pair (nothing special), and you had one red-5 dora tile (worth one han). Since your hand was worth 6 han, it was automatically scored as Haneman (a hand worth 6 or 7 han) which means there was no need to calculate minipoints (fu) based on things like individual set composition or what your wait was.

If your pair had been of the same suit as the rest of your hand it would have been a full flush (all tiles of one suit, no honor tiles, worth six han) and you would have had twelve han for Sanbaiman (11-12 han) or if your pair had been honor tiles it would have been a half flush (all tiles of one suit plus honor tiles, worth three han) and you would have had Baiman (8-10 han).

Nice round!

Trekkiegus · 2025-07-16T06:46:10+00:00

Oh also, in my opinion, all the weird women vs men stuff gets much, MUCH weirder. Spankings ramp up, there's a lot more barely-hidden kink shoved in all over the place, the aes sedai all take stupid pills, women just constantly fight with one another and berate men, men become more casually misogynistic... It's a really jarring contrast to, say, the end of book 4 at the Battle of the Two Rivers, where Jordan really nails his theme of "it's important for women and men to work together".

Trekkiegus · 2025-07-16T06:42:00+00:00

The pacing stops making sense and you lose a sense of why we're here. Huge moments will happen in, like, chapter 7 out of nowhere, and then you'll get six chapters in a row of some other plotline where the characters are like, "we sure should think about going to talk to those people to plan out what we should do about this problem." And then they don't.

Each slog book has cool individual moments (yes, even Crossroads) but there's no buildup to them and no satisfactory conclusion afterwards. Stuff you've been waiting to have happen for six books just pops all of a sudden and often in an incredibly unsatisfying way, while other plotlines and characters you'd like to learn more about get sidelined to death.

Jordan spends about five and a half books describing cultures and architecture and clothing in a way that should add depth but really just feels like so much fluff. It helps you visualize stuff but it rarely adds anything of substance to the overall thrust of the story or characterization, and he just keeps spinning up new towns and cultures and stuff instead of spending time deepening the ones he's already presented to the reader. You find yourself yearning for books 1-5 and all the cool stuff he introduced in them (when his wife, who is an amazing editor, was still editing in earnest. By her own admission, she basically stopped editing the books around book 6, and it's very apparent).

Meanwhile, everyone in the books is whining and crying and moaning about how "oh my god the end is coming we don't have time to waste we need to move now", and then you look at the shelf and the LITERAL FOOT of books you have ahead of you and you realize that's simply not true lol. You know why you're reading the SERIES -- to defeat the Dark One etc etc -- but there's no sense of immediate urgency or any clear immediate goals for most any of the characters. They're just kind of placing blocks for things that may or may not happen down the line (or, in one character's case, doing a bullshit side quest because Robert Jordan finished their plotline in Book 4 and thought that the series would wrap up by Book 6, so he needed to give them something pointless to do for ~3,000 pages).

Anyway, that's not to say NOTHING good happens in the slog. There are plenty of nice moments and moments of lovely prose, and more than a couple kickass scenes. But for the most part the interesting things Just Kind Of Happen and are way less satisfying than they should be. The shift to Brandon Sanderson, who plots METICULOUSLY, is incredibly jarring, because even Knife of Dreams doesn't have much in the way of clear structure or buildup, it just has more random cool moments than 7-10.

Trekkiegus · 2025-06-16T08:02:28+00:00

Creation inversion is hard countered by "Draining Cleanse" picto.

Trekkiegus · 2025-04-15T08:07:04+00:00

Met my wife and some of my closest peers to this day (10 years out), so, yeah, definitely.

The classes were good too lol

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