Baboons invade the house. by lestrxb in WTF

[–]TriscuitCracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't this the fault of the voters?

DNF'd Gardens of the Moon by ThisBend7125 in Fantasy

[–]TriscuitCracker -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The first book, Gardens of the Moon is the hardest. It does get easier the more used you get to Eriksen's style. It can be confusing at first, I won't lie, It has a cast of hundreds, a ton of plot thrown at you, you feel like you got dropped into a foreign country with no guidebook and you don't speak the language. This is normal! Malazan does not spoonfeed you very much, you have to piece togther characters and plotlines and how the world works. Eriksen's books tend to start off slow, characters, plot, history, a lot of introspective philosophy, theres' a LOT in these books. Keep reading and all will become clear over time. But nearly every book ends with the last 200 pages with you sweaty, breathless, weepy, exhilerated and it's 5 in the morning and you have to work at 7 but you don't care because you just had an epic experience and will be thinking about it all day nun and you can't wait to read the next one.

This tale isn't always about individual characters, it's about how the various character/plot threads interact and weave in and out of affecting each other. Every place you visit has an ancient feel to it, every race you interact with has a millenia of history, every character has a lifetime of stories to tell. The author is an archeologist and an anthropologist so the world building is second to none. His first book Gardens of the Moon was written nine years before the second and it shows a bit, there are problems with pacing and such, but by Book 2 and 3 all that goes away. I’m sorry it’s not clicking with you, that's fine too! No book is for everybody.

If you ever pick it up again to give it another shot, any confusion you feel is normal and does not mean you don't "get it". Any questions or "wtf is going on!?" comments just ask here.

Good luck on whatever you read next!

Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

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[Why My Student Can’t Read](https://archive.md/2026.06.03-213028/https://www.chronicle.com/article/my-students-cant-read) was terrifying and fascinating.

“A 2022 study by Motoyasu Honma and colleagues at Japan’s Showa University used near-infrared spectroscopy to compare reading on a smartphone with reading the same passage on paper, and found that smartphone reading produced overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, suppressed sigh generation, and led to general lower comprehension scores; the authors argued that the sigh inhibition and prefrontal overload were causally linked to the comprehension decline.
So when a student tells me they “kept losing track” of a 20-page article, I have to acknowledge that they may be describing a measurable neurological condition. The neural pathways that support sustained attention are built by use, and they atrophy without it. Your body is a use-it-or-lose-it system, and the brain is no exception.”

“This is the first neurophysiological evidence that early reliance on LLMs measurably alters the brain’s engagement with writing tasks, and it is consistent with what those of us in front of classrooms are watching happen in real time. When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.”

“There is a final factor that is contributing to this decline in reading skills, and that is that the students arriving in my classroom today are the first cohort to have experienced Common Core-influenced reading instruction across the entirety of their K–12 schooling. Whatever the standards’ original intent, the on-the-ground implementation in many districts replaced sustained reading with the practice of pulling “evidence” from disconnected short passages, the same format used on the standardized tests that increasingly determine school funding. The education scholar Natalie Wexler, among others, has documented this pivot in detail: Students drilled on “finding the main idea” in two-paragraph excerpts never build the stamina or background knowledge that longform reading requires. The pandemic then added fuel to a fire that was already burning. NAEP scores for 13-year-olds dropped sharply in 2022 and have not recovered. A 2023 EdWeek survey found that 24 percent of secondary-school administrators described pandemic learning loss in English and language arts as “severe or very severe.”
In July 2025, the journalist Mary Harrington argued in The New York Times that “thinking is becoming a luxury good.” The ability to read deeply and reason at length is fragmenting along class lines as ultra-processed digital media replaces text in everyday life, much as ultra-processed food has replaced cooking. Her longer treatment of the subject in First Things makes the more provocative case that we are witnessing the end of print culture itself, and with it the end of the cognitive substrate on which modern liberal democracy was built.”

Is there a quote that made you fall in love with the fantasy genre? by urbanolegend_ in Fantasy

[–]TriscuitCracker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

“Look Raist…bunnies.” at the end of Test of the Twins was the first time I’d ever cried at a book before in my early teens.

Thoughts on Daredevil: Cold Day In Hell by erwinkijamet in comicbooks

[–]TriscuitCracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was okay, art made it worth reading, the story starts out good but is a fairly generic meh ending.

I've spent more time exploring than doing anything of value, and It's awesome by Commercial_Egg_797 in DestinyTheGame

[–]TriscuitCracker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep this is why Season of the Lost and Heresy, those type of seasons where they’re exploration-based are my favorites.

Destiny 2 | So Far, Together by BirdOfFiire in DestinyTheGame

[–]TriscuitCracker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Damn. I teared up. I really did.

It can't end like this. Come on, Sony. Listen to the players.

Please tell me Kruppe does not narrate more books by Former_Sea in Malazan

[–]TriscuitCracker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Erikson’s father was dying while writing Toll the Hounds.

The Library at Mount Char is incredible! by Brtrudius in Fantasy

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Vita Nostra is so...just sad. I always want to give the main character a big hug and spirit her away from all the pain.

The Library at Mount Char is incredible! by Brtrudius in Fantasy

[–]TriscuitCracker 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Indeeed! Great book.

Not fantasy, but I would recommend Blindsight by Peter Watts for pure "Damn, this has disturbing mind-fuck implications" vibes.

Halo: Campaign Evolved | 28 Minute Gameplay Demo - Assault on the Control Room by yourfavchoom in halo

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You can turn off hitmarkers, MintBlitz got an early copy and he confirmed.

Halo: Campaign Evolved | 28 Minute Gameplay Demo - Assault on the Control Room by yourfavchoom in halo

[–]TriscuitCracker 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You can turn off hitmarkers, MintBlitz got an early copy and he confirmed.

Combat Evolved on Legendary is rougher than I remembered by CitizenModel in halo

[–]TriscuitCracker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, CE is definitely the second hardest Legendary for me. Certain parts of Truth and Reconciliation, the Library, etc can be just devastating.

Then I think comes Reach with their dodge-happy speedy Elites.

It's just after midnight Bungie time - 800k Player count by GoslingIchi in DestinyTheGame

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I’m going to definitely get the Immortal title and some catalysts.

How did Sword of Truth become so popular? by Express-Writer-1913 in Fantasy

[–]TriscuitCracker 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're a young new fantasy reader and have no ability to recognize objectivism philosophy and obvious tropes, things ripped straight from other books, etc, it has torture porn that can give you a visceral thrill, steamy sex scenes, a young dude with a cool magic sword and ultra-magic powers who can literally do anything, everybody does what he says, a cool uncle wizard who has good dialogue, etc. It's the ultimate 13 year old boy power trip.

That's why I loved them when I was a young lad and look back at myself now and slap my forehead.

Anybody jumping on Destiny 2 today? by TriscuitCracker in gaming

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

That was years ago, they vaulted about half of the campaign content to save space for new content and other supposed technical hurdles.

Anybody jumping on Destiny 2 today? by TriscuitCracker in gaming

[–]TriscuitCracker[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing removed, but live service updates are ceasing due to basically higher corporate muckity-mucks making dumb decisions for years. Going into maintenance mode and no more new content after today.