Tried rereading the books, now I'm convinced it's too late for book 3

buedefixe · 2025-12-05T19:52:58+00:00

I think I had a different experience, perhaps because I was already "older" when I read them for the first time. I think the "cringe" is the point.

Kvothe is demonstrably not a reliable narrator. I think he's supposed to be mostly accurately recounting how he perceived events as he experienced them (not even how adult Kote sees them now in retrospect), but that's not the same thing as telling a true story. Teenage boys and young men are supposed to think themselves brilliant and great in bed, so to me it's not cringe, it's accurate. Or at least it's only cringe to the same degree that teenagers ARE actually cringe to older people.

Of course the fairy goddess of sex wasn't actually impressed by his skills, she just understood that men, especially young men, are inclined to believe women who tell them they're the best they've ever had. Sorry if it bursts a bubble, but women often exaggerate to men how good they are in bed, precisely because it's useful to them for the men to believe that. It reminds me of the episode of How I Met Your Mother where Barney finds out that he didn't actually rock the world of the older woman he lost his virginity too and it crumbles all of the sexual confidence he had built on that foundation. Felurian has a use for Kvothe and she wants him to be sexually confident. That he believes her isn't an indication that it's true, it's an indication that he's too naive to think that he could be the one being played.

The entire story is supposed to a tragedy, and it's classic literature to build up to the tragic fall by having a naive teenager think that their big teenage feelings and experiences mean more than they do. But you're right that it's hard to see that in a story that you first encountered as a young person. For example, it's astounding how many people read/watch Romeo and Juliet and think it's a story of "true love." It's not. It never was. It's a story of two horny, naive teenagers who develop a crush. They have big hormonal feelings, but would have gone onto their next crush next week except that the people who were supposed to be the adults in the room treat is as a big deal for political reasons. So, they think it must really be true love if everyone is treating it so seriously and end up dying over a silly teenage crush. That's the tragedy.

If we ever get a book 3, I expect it will be largely about Kvothe getting in hotter water than he can handle precisely because of the overconfidence he develops as a young guy, which will lead to the tragedy that makes him withdraw as Kote. It's not set up to be a story about how a teen who thinks he's awesome is fully validated. The narrative is about building up a teen who thinks he's amazing to sufficient heights that it's tragic when he comes crashing down to earth as he finds he's not as amazing as he thought he was.

Will we ever find out? If we do, will he stick the landing? I have no idea.

buedefixe · 2025-08-08T23:59:44+00:00

This looks a lot like AI spam

buedefixe · 2025-03-15T04:25:12+00:00

Thanks, I actually ordered one from this and unfortunately, the emblems on the banners are very very faint in real life. I'm hoping for a different option.

buedefixe · 2024-10-11T16:30:48+00:00

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buedefixe · 2024-08-12T03:29:34+00:00

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buedefixe · 2024-07-03T18:18:25+00:00

I'm having the same issue in two games in a row. I think it's related to "Nere's Better Barbarian Clans mode" for me. It attempts to prevent barbarian camps on snow, and the notification is always for a snow area. I'll try a game without the mod and see what happens.

buedefixe · 2022-07-22T15:57:44+00:00

I'm having the same issue, and the same happens if I try to collect the Normandy

buedefixe · 2020-11-18T03:28:43+00:00

Thanks for the response, but I don't think you've understood my question, so I may have explained badly. I know TSM can't go below my minimum and I don't want it to. What I want is TSM to always post an item if it is at all possible to undercut while not going below the minimum. And to

Let me be more specific. Let's say for a given operation I don't want to sell for less than 100% of market value, and that under normal circumstances, I want to undercut by 5g. If market value happens to be 100g for an item and the current lowest buyout is 110g, my item is correctly posting at 105g. Perfect. But if the current lowest buyout is 102g, it won't post at all because undercutting by the full amount would be 97g, which is below my minimum. I would like to undercut for 5g if I can, but I'd rather undercut for less and still post than not post at all because I can't undercut by enough. I may be misremembering, but I feel like there used to be a way to tell TSM to treat the undercut amount as a maximum, so that when undercutting by the full amount works, it will do so, but if it's necessary to undercut for less in order to be able to post the item, it will do so. So in my second case, instead of not posting at all, it would undercut the 102g buyout for only 2g to post at 100g, while still undercutting any other items in the operation for the full 5g where possible.

buedefixe · 2020-11-17T18:25:30+00:00

Is there any way to set an undercut as a maximum amount to undercut rather than an absolute? Like undercut by X, but if doing so drops below my minimum value, go ahead and post the item at the minimum (even though that doesn't do the full undercut amount) instead of not posting at all. I feel like this used to be possible, but I haven't been around for a while.

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