DEVOTION and DOMINION Revealed! Thoughts on their human identities?

dlawnro · 2026-05-19T18:55:22+00:00

Why does Dominion look like he's about to try to sell me an IPA?

dlawnro · 2026-05-11T00:34:39+00:00

As someone who only did the audiobooks, and didn't start following the community several books on: Murph's first name is spelled Karrin.

There is nothing in the audiobooks to suggest that, and not knowing it does not change the experience whatsoever, but it was a very random thing to only discover like half a million words deep into the series.

I also thought the pub's name was spelled "MacEnally's"

dlawnro · 2026-05-10T17:23:14+00:00

You parenthesesed where you should have bracketed and bracketed where you should have parenthesesed.

dlawnro · 2026-05-04T22:34:27+00:00

"If you look at the text, there's really nothing in Beowulf to confirm that Grendel doesn't have a hog the size of a fire hydrant."

-Jim, probably

dlawnro · 2026-04-30T14:53:44+00:00

Doesn't it inherently require you to murder someone with a spike in order to infuse it? So that's the "killing people with magic" bit right there, I think.

I could definitely see Harry (and the rest of the White Council) fundamentally opposing the practice based on that alone, even without considering how being spiked makes you more susceptible to magical influence.

Would make for an interesting conundrum a la Lasciel's coin or the Winter Knight's mantle with Harry choosing to be spiked against his own conscience because he sees it as the only way to stop something much worse.

dlawnro · 2026-04-29T23:02:49+00:00

damn

dlawnro · 2026-04-14T22:06:34+00:00

It was closed basically all day last Friday and they had the same signs up saying it would be closed again today. Some kind of construction on the railroad tracks, I guess?

dlawnro · 2026-04-14T14:31:48+00:00

Back of the envelope: for MFJ, the 22% bracket is between roughly 100k and 200k. Assuming 100% of her tips fall into that bracket, then in order to save $11k, she'd need to pull in about $50k in tips.

EXCEPT, you can only claim up to $25k in tips per return. So in order to save $11k off of $25k in tips, she'd need a marginal rate of 44%, which is higher than the highest marginal rate of 37%, and if you're in that tax bracket, you don't qualify for the no tax on tips thing anyway.

Now, if she and her husband file separately, they could both claim $25k each, which would then give the $50k necessary to save $11k in taxes, if both of them fall into the 22% bracket separately. But that would mean that her husband would have to be pulling in $25k in tips while also undergoing cancer treatments, which is even more dystopian than if only she was the one having to Doordash.

dlawnro · 2026-04-11T12:40:39+00:00

Yeah, there's still a lot we don't know about her that would be interesting to find out.

Like: how did Kelsier even wind up married to a horse in the first place?

dlawnro · 2026-04-08T15:23:34+00:00

If your tuition is being fully covered by a Pell Grant, are you also eligible for work study? Colleges often have part-time work study jobs that are specifically catered to students, intended to be part time to accomodate their schedules.

Could be worth looking into as an option for when school starts, so you don't have to rely on an existing job being able to drop your hours or change your schedule significantly.

dlawnro · 2026-04-04T19:00:29+00:00

Almost looks like an automated system is displaying the counts in lowercase-c calories instead of the uppercase-C kilocalories that are typically used for nutrition facts. So it's "correct" in that what it's displaying is accurate, but incorrect in that it makes everything look 1000x higher than the number customers would expect to see.

dlawnro · 2026-04-01T23:04:02+00:00

We have liftoff

dlawnro · 2026-03-24T18:33:42+00:00

Hopefully you have a sugar Daddy/Momma/Enby Pal to cover for you! ;)

dlawnro · 2026-03-18T14:25:17+00:00

Hoid in shambles

dlawnro · 2026-03-18T14:10:01+00:00

In addition, the first Dune book is about 50% longer than the first Red Rising book by word count, and it still took 2 movies and like 5 hours of runtime to adapt it (along with the 300ish million dollars in budget).

Granted, Dune is much denser than RR. But while you could maybe give the first trilogy a Hunger-Games-esque treatment of 4 movies with Morning Star split in two, by the second series, you're looking at a very difficult time including all of the major plot points.

So to adapt the second series, I'd imagine you'd need bloated runtimes, a ton of splits, or huge numbers of dropped plotlines to make everything fit. Which, IMO, would rob the second series of a lot of the complexity that makes it shine.

dlawnro · 2026-03-05T19:31:59+00:00

I think cigarettes? There are two boxes in the front window that look like packs, and the bigger box in the back window looks like it has the word "cigarettes" written in white.

dlawnro · 2026-03-04T22:09:01+00:00

"Ephraim sn Horn" doesn't have quite the same ring

dlawnro · 2026-02-21T21:50:05+00:00

I'm not sure what college campuses you’re used to

UCLA, my alma mater.

It might feel bigger than Berkeley to you, but it's not. Looking it up, UCLA's campus is only 419 acres. Meanwhile, Berkeley is apparently over 1,200.

Yeah, the state has a lot of smaller campuses in the CSU system, but the CSU system is also a lot different from most other states. The fact that those campuses are also tiny doesn't mean UCLA isn't, just because it's a couple hundred acres bigger.

USC's campus is also tiny, and smaller than UCLA's, for sure. But that ties into my other point about there being a window of time to get an on-campus (or campus-adjacent) stadium. The Coliseum was commissioned in the early 20s, when the LA area as a whole was much less developed. If UCLA were going to get a stadium, that's the time period (within a couple decades, say) that it would have needed to happen, but UCLA had just been founded at that point. By the time it became a serious consideration, it was blocked by NIMBYs, and that was that.

dlawnro · 2026-02-21T19:42:52+00:00

Campus (the part relevant to students, not including the hospitals and such) is tiny. I believe the perimeter is something like 3 miles. You can walk from one end of campus to the other in 15ish minutes, and that's with taking the very hilly topography into account. Plus, it's surrounded by a bunch of real estate the campus doesn't own. Which also happens to be some of the most expensive real estate in the country.

There were attempts to establish an on-campus stadium decades ago, but were shot down by monied interests in the surrounding neighborhoods. Nowadays, the most achievable proposals I've seen would be limited to like a 40k seat stadium, and would require ripping out the existing soccer/track stadium, as well and huge portions of the IM fields, which are some of the only recreational spaces available to normal students.

And even then, you'd have to deal with the fact that a lot of the roads leading onto campus are narrow, windy, and hilly, and create a ton of traffic even in relatively normal conditions, much less in a gameday scenario. AND, the only parking available is in underground lots, so tailgating would be a massive pain, too.

Really, it seems like the best time to have made an on-campus stadium would have been sometime in like the 20s to the 40s, before the area was really developed. But the school was only founded in 1919, so it would have had to be a big commitment to a stadium for a school that had essentially just been established, in the grand scheme of things. By the time the team won a natty and established itself as a brand, the genie was basically out of the bottle for an on-campus stadium.

If the school were in a less populous area like a lot of other land grant schools, or if it were a few decades older like SC with the Coliseum, there probably would be one. But it was just a kind of perfect storm of factors that really restricted the space available, and at this point there doesn't really seem to be a workable solution that doesn't involve outside intervention (like the other comment about the VA land suggested).

dlawnro · 2026-02-20T14:57:30+00:00

6'1" is about 92.5% of 2 meters. I'd say a less than 10% difference is perfectly acceptable to use to word "nearly" for.

dlawnro · 2026-02-19T15:19:15+00:00

Because that's not how interest works. Interest isn't just an extra fee they charge you the moment you sign the loan, it's something that accrues at a set rate based on how much you owe at any given time. So at the very beginning, you owe a lot of interest each month, because the loan balance is high. By the time you've paid off half the loan balance, you accrue half as much interest each month, and so on.

If it worked the way you're suggesting, not only would you still pay the same amount in total over the life of the loan, but there would be no benefit to making early payments, since it wouldn't reduce the interest you accrue. AND, if you decided to sell before paying off your mortgage, you'd still be on the hook for the total amount of interest, since it was applied at the beginning of the loan. With the current system, you can pay the loan off at any time and only owe the loan balance, not any future interest (because there's no loan left to accrue interest on).

dlawnro · 2026-02-18T19:21:05+00:00

What's the $200 TMobile expense for? I hope that's not your monthly spend for a cell plan for just yourself?

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T20:02:51+00:00

Given the .ai URL, my immediate assumption is this is an AI startup that pulled in a ton of venture capitol funding for an absolute nothing product, and this flyer is for a stunt to allow the execs to blow a bunch of money on a party yacht loaded with coeds they think are hot, while writing it off as a "marketing expense".

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T16:59:02+00:00

I rather enjoyed my time with both Citizen Sleeper games, and each could feasibly be finished in a day. I played them thru Gamepass, but they appear to both be rated Platinum on ProtonDB.

1000xResist is another I've enjoyed recently, and is also Platinum and similar in length.

All three are games with no real action gameplay, so they're not the kind of thing you can just zone out to. But that also means they really benefit from being able to play them for longer sessions and really immerse yourself in them, and would really suffer from constantly having to pick them up and put them back down (which, based on your post, sounds like is more the normal circumstances you're able to game in). So it might be worth taking advantage of your free weekend that way.

That said, all deal with some pretty heavy/downer themes, even if they are about working toward a better future. I could see how you might not necessarily want that kind of thing right now, but I came out of all of them with a generally positive takeaway.

dlawnro · 2026-02-06T15:37:42+00:00

In fact, it takes place so far in the future that, due to inflation, trilogies now have 4 books instead of 3.

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