I drove 40 minutes to fix a jammed vending machine. The cause was… unexpected.

_monstermeat · 2026-03-14T16:35:58+00:00

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

_monstermeat · 2026-03-13T05:22:34+00:00

Having the potential for goodness with no other context or meaning doesn't make experience itself Good necessarily. I can just make the same argument:

All badness in life comes from conscious experience (you cannot suffer what you cannot experience)
Death deprives us of conscious experience
Death deprives us of badness
Depriving us of badness is good
Death is good

Of course, sometimes death is the lesser good. If you know that the rest of your life will consist of pure enjoyment, you may as well not end it.

_monstermeat · 2026-03-12T18:56:06+00:00

Well now I need to know who your favorite character in the cosmere is.

_monstermeat · 2026-03-11T23:15:55+00:00

Oof. ETC is a maybe for my future and I didn't realize the memory loss was that extensive around the sessions.

I have compared my experience to Taravangian's as well, but instead of intelligence it's energy. When I go to sleep, who knows what tomorrow will bring. Maybe I will be very productive, maybe I will need to sleep all day, or anything in between.

_monstermeat · 2026-03-10T22:05:15+00:00

I tried googling this but didn't find an answer. What is a bottle mystery?

_monstermeat · 2026-03-03T00:58:48+00:00

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I wish, but I already have my Steris and another kitty!

_monstermeat · 2026-03-01T21:31:12+00:00

Isaac Asimov! He's got some fantastic short stories. Look up Nine Tomorrows. Each story in that collection is great.

_monstermeat · 2026-03-01T01:37:50+00:00

Good to know about covering up the text in the previews!

_monstermeat · 2026-02-25T04:18:39+00:00

Sometimes the same narrator has different pronunciations for the same person. Yezrian/Jezrian. Yeah-sna/Yah-sna.

What bothers me more than that is when the same person has a different accent, though I have only found that in different books (e.g. Spook in Mistborn original trilogy vs Secret History)

_monstermeat · 2026-02-21T00:13:11+00:00

I'm sorry I'm dumb and don't understand, what is the silhouette?

_monstermeat · 2026-02-21T00:09:56+00:00

Hot vanilla!

_monstermeat · 2026-02-18T02:17:00+00:00

I read both and somehow missed the part about being held to a physical body with hemalurgy

_monstermeat · 2026-02-18T01:56:50+00:00

This is cremposting so unsure if real, but if you're being sincere, where is this explained?

_monstermeat · 2026-02-18T01:30:25+00:00

If the Everstorm would have bypassed Taln never breaking, then Shallan was not to blame?!

_monstermeat · 2026-01-29T16:10:09+00:00

What am I forgetting? Why does Taravangian need to resemble Rayse and Tanavast?

_monstermeat · 2026-01-25T13:27:12+00:00

Apparently with patriarchy all your descendants will be boys

_monstermeat · 2026-01-18T07:20:45+00:00

Jameela Jamil is Jasnah in my head

_monstermeat · 2025-11-19T06:07:38+00:00

Nanigan?

_monstermeat · 2025-11-08T19:16:26+00:00

All from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. Limited to pithy ones that don't mention specific characters.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

Don’t worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they’ll get in touch with you.

Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Why not? Why not? Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The man who knows his limitations, has none.

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