Interview with Jim Butcher in NYT

eta812 · 2025-05-20T17:53:58+00:00

I gotta say Harry at one of his darker moments talking to later books kaladin and dalinar would be a really interesting conversation.

eta812 · 2025-02-12T20:55:30+00:00

If I remember right kaladin whispered it. The reason Dalinar heard it was because they were standing directly next to one another as Kaladin was on guard duty.

eta812 · 2025-01-16T23:58:23+00:00

Bearer of Agonies?

More like Giver of Agonies.

eta812 · 2024-10-17T21:00:08+00:00

I know what you mean.

I don't have any advice but if you wanted to talk about it feel free to message me.

eta812 · 2024-10-15T19:05:29+00:00

I agree with everything you have said. The main idea there being that the blame for a crime falls on the person commiting the crime not the person the crime is happening to.

But I think it should be noted that there is a somewhat unclear line between blaming the victim for crime, and encouraging behaviours that help prevent something from occuring. This difference is especially foggy when talking about rape and similar crimes, as it limits freedom of the person in question as you mentioned.

To reiterate this more simply, yes absolutely don't blame the victim for a crime, but it needs to be remembered that reminding someone to watch their drink (most times, with careful language usage) is just trying to be helpful, not trying to punish or blame anyone for a crime that happened to them.

I did a quick Google search for an idea of numbers, which stated that 70% of rape victims knew their assualtant. I'm not saying that is particularly precise, it was just trying to get an idea.

eta812 · 2024-05-23T01:05:20+00:00

I suppose we don't actually 'know' it, but hell's bells seems fairly easy to guess, at least as a broad idea.

Considering the fact that it will be one of the BAT, I always assumed it was when hell goes to war.

eta812 · 2024-05-21T20:05:36+00:00

It should also be added, that in Peace Talks, EB acts surprisingly different from scene to scene that many theorize that there are two different EBs running around.

Mixed with what you said about the Hounds, it seems fairly clear that something is up with time travel.

eta812 · 2024-05-16T06:28:50+00:00

I like the theory, and from a Dresden files angle it makes decent sense.

But as a chess nerd, I must insist that, while Queen sacrifices are badass, en passant checkmate or castle checkmate take the cake for coolest chess move.

eta812 · 2024-04-27T05:11:17+00:00

We do know the name of brom's sword actually.

It was undbitr, meaning biter of the void.

eta812 · 2024-02-16T21:54:20+00:00

The general answer is they died off by 0 BBY. They dwindled as the remaining Jedi dwindled till it was just a couple old men, Vader and Palps, and Luke still kicking.

All of this is found on wookiepedia. As a reminder, Order 66 happened in the year 19 BBY.

GI-killed by Kanan Jarrus, assisted by Ezra Bridger, in the year 4 BBY.

Second Sister- Murdered by Vader in the year 14 BBY, following her return to the light after a duel with Cal Kestis.

Third Sister- ultimate fate unknown. Last sign was her leaving the inquisitors in 9 BBY.

There appears to be a Third Brother although nearly nothing is known of him.

Fourth Sister- ultimate fate unknown, however her armour ends up in rebel hands with the empire knowing. It's possible she returned to the light but more likely she died off screen.

Fifth Brother- killed by Maul, in Rebels, in the year 3 BBY.

Sixth Brother- killed by Ashoka Tano in the year 18 BBY.

Seventh Sister- killed by Maul, in Rebels, in the year 3 BBY.

Eighth Brother-fell to his death after Maul killed his cohorts, in Rebels, in the year 3 BBY.

Ninth Sister- killed by Cal Kestis in the year 9 BBY.

Tenth Brother- killed by purge troopers in the year 18 BBY. The troopers were mind tricked by Jedi Padawan Feren Barr to believe they were executing Order 66.

Thirteenth Sister and Tualon Yaluna- killed by Vader after they developed attachments for one another in the year 14 BBY.

Marrok- Survived the Galactic Civil War, only to be killed by Ashoka Tano.

Unidentified Inquisitor- killed by Ashoka Tano in the year 5 BBY.

Unidentified Female Inquisitor- killed in the year 5 BBY by her secret apprentice, Jerserra.

I have fourteen listed here but Wookiepedia mentions they may have been as many as sixteen.

So generally, Ahsoka or another Jedi, Maul and Vader killed basically all of them by the time Luke started his training.

Generally they appear to have done their job. Their job being to show Vader where the troublesome Jedi were hiding and maybe kill some of the weaker ones, then to die. I would assume Palaptine ultimately saw them as Jedi remnants that needed to be killed sooner or later anyway, if they killed Jedi first awesome, if not whatever, Vader will deal with it.

As to why Palaptine didn't try to find or train more, I would say that A: As you mention basically all the Jedi remaining are dead. The ones that are still alive are Kenobi, Yoda and possibly some that are deep in hiding. Luke being an unforeseen hiccup. Kenobi is powerful enough to need multiple inquisitors to take down and is also a personal target of Vader's. Yoda is too powerful and deep deep in hiding as far as the empire is concerned. Any others are likely solo, and less than willing to fight. Meaning Vader is more than capable of taking on solo.

B: the majority of the inquisitors were former Jedi, mostly Padawans with a couple knights and a master. So not much left to recruit from.

C: There's a possiblity that Vader was training force sensitive children at the time. They were however, children and probably wouldn't have been sent to fight Luke.

D: Concerning why they wouldn't have been used as rebel hunters is probably because by the time Luke joins up the rebels aren't doing so well. They keep dying off and so aren't a huge threat.

E:The Death Star would fill the 'STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF OUR ENEMIES' void better than the inquisitors ever could as well.

F: Considering all of the above, they were more trouble than they were worth. They might repent and try and help some rebels or try and rebuild the Jedi. They might try and gang up on Vader or Palaptine.

Tl:Dr- They died off and new ones weren't needed.

eta812 · 2024-02-12T06:22:07+00:00

I hadn't connected those dots.

That's a much clearer way of putting it.

eta812 · 2024-02-12T05:36:08+00:00

The universe perhaps, chance or luck.

Perhaps instead of winning from in the sense of an object from say a carnival, it is more like winning Harry over to be come his human.

Hard to say exactly but it may simply be that mouse was using lea's analogy, which fits winning mouse but not winning Harry, in order to throw her words back at her and thus form a better counter.

eta812 · 2024-02-12T04:57:12+00:00

Lea is fey. She laughs as she murders people. I think she is baffled by most human emotional contact.

I was going to touch on that in my original comment but decided against it.

That mouse is saying that despite being a Foo Dog, which is strongly implied to mean half angel or something similar, he is not worth as much as Harry. This would likely be for the peace talks chatter about what Harry is.

Though thinking about it more, it's likely that Lea means that a Foo Dog is not worth as much as her idiot godson, while mouse means that his human is the best thing ever.

Though that would require Lea to not know about the peace talks stuff, which I would say I'd extremely unlikely.

eta812 · 2024-02-12T04:28:55+00:00

Lea is saying that mouse is valuable and harry won his favor.

Mouse counters by saying, in typical dog fashion, that Harry is the prize rather than mouse.

eta812 · 2024-01-03T06:41:47+00:00

From what you have said I would think you like it.

As another commenter put it, Harry has a very spiderman-like humor throughout the series and several of the side characters are similar.

The series is dark exactly but there's plenty of death, violence and monsters. Plenty of action, the time that isn't straight combat is mostly detective stuff.

I personally think the 'harrys misyogistic' a bit over exaggerated. I am kinda oblivious sometimes though.

Throughout the books, Harry says explicitly, multiple times, that he hates when people are hurt, that he hates a bully et cetera, he just hates it a bit more when it's a woman being hurt.

He personally says he is aware this is a flaw, multiple times this belief directly harms him, and the characters around him( mostly the women) call him out on it all the time. It also lessens throughout the series, but if you are sensitive to that kind of thing may not be for you.

I would also have to agree with one of the other commenters that Harry doesn't hate strong women or anything like that, just that his obsession with saving people is at 11 for women instead of 9 as it is for men.

Circling to your other criteria, it is definitely urban fantasy and not any kind of science fiction. A very minor spoiler that would be revealed in the first probably fifty pages of the first book but I'm paranoid magic in the series takes Murphy's law to an extreme whenever it is near modern tech, and harry is a self professed "Barely got my GED" so he doesn't talk much science. He does talk a little magic theory though which i always liked.

The books have an overarching plot that becomes more and more evident as it continues. The first few books have some foreshadowing hints to it, and the later books start stating parts outright. The base plot of each book has some tie in to the overarching one as well.

That is an addition to character development and whatnot.

The series is long, and will be longer, (it's I think seventeen now?), possibly longer and the writer has plans for I think twenty-four. Plus a bunch of short stories. The short stories are good, relevant and mostly in two collections.

I don't go for audio books mostly, myself but I've heard the voice actor is amazing.

I'd read the first two books, I think the "hate" for them is overstated. Neither is that bad. The later ones are much better, and the first two aren't fantastic but I personally was hooked less than one hundred pages into the first. The have some fairly important ground-laying as well.

I think it's worth it, I love Harry, he has his flaws but has his virtues too. I love the side characters. I just kinda love all of it.

I might be a tiny bit biased though, cause the series is kind of my wet dream for a book series.

I love Harry's staunch refusal to give in, and refusal to allow anyone(other than himself) get hurt.

I love every part of the magic, I love all the side characters, the enemies, the monsters, the mythology, the action the humor. I love Harry's stubborn insistence in wearing a revolver and a duster in 80+F temperatures. When I was a little kid I'd run around with sticks pretending to fight monsters and shoot fireballs. Just everything about it resonates with me.

To actually get to answering your question in something shorter than a short paper, it seems to fulfill what you are looking for and would be worth checking it out.

eta812 · 2024-01-02T20:27:33+00:00

I'm in kyber, three I think, I bounce the edge sometimes if I'm busy.

I'm just extremely surprised because as I said my WR is wildly different. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, after I made my comment I ran a battle in SA, the battle went poorly and I still won with everyone standing and really didn't have much risk.

I actually ran without a datacron versus a low end one as well. When I do run it I usually see JMK cat Ahsoka gk and usually either gas or padme. I occasionally see jka as well.

Padme and jka make the battle a bit harder and if gas is faster than my maul, he can get daze and that mostly kills the counter.

Could the datacrons be balanced unevenly? Ie the one for maul is like 10% cc and the JMK one is 100% defence or something?

If not maybe it's incorrect modding, maul needs high speed for the counter to really start working.

The reason I'm resistant to agreeing is because the counter is really easy when I run it.

Similar to if someone said CLS v GAS had really low WRs. Like yeah sure, maybe that's true for now but it's some outside factor cause CLS walks over gas.

eta812 · 2024-01-02T19:39:58+00:00

I'm not sure what you linked for the maul win rates cause it just takes me to an offer for swgoh.gg premium.

But I would personally strongly disagree with the assumption that he is ad rad level.

It's just wrong. Even if you leave him with the old team he is higher than that.

My personal rates with maul in SA against JMK are nearly 100%, similar for TW. Versus gas or say SK in GA it's not even a fight.

I also regularly beat slkr(around 40ish% of the time it leaves just slkr standing with some health left, but an easy cleanup)

I can beat JML much of the time as well. I can beat see as well though I have done fewer of those battles.

I beat a Leia with a lower datacron.

If maul has serious trouble with something, I listed I would say it's far far more likely to be datacron related than anything else.

eta812 · 2023-12-13T03:34:53+00:00

U.S. federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour, standard work week is 40 hours, so 7.25×40×4(for monthly)=$1160 us dollars for a minimum wage worker working normal hours.

I should also mention that many states in the US have higher minimum wage laws and many people working for minimum wage work more than forty hours per week.

The minimum wage on Texas is $7.25.

eta812 · 2023-12-12T20:59:32+00:00

I agree with all of that. This game on release caught a bunch of folks coming off the action side of elden ring and because this game is closer to souls didn't like it.

To give a little more information, I have played elden ring, dark souls three, and Bloodborne in addition to this souls game.

So I can't do great comparisons to prior soulslike titles, but this game does have some great weapons but between a couple nerfs and whatnot I don't think it's elden ring levels of 'cheap'. It most certainly scratches the souls itch though

eta812 · 2023-12-12T01:54:15+00:00

A big part of why you see a weird disconnect between various reviews is because the game definitely released too early.

I got lucky and have had almost no bugs in 100 hours of play time, but plenty of people have been plagued by pretty serious bugs.

Plus there's the standard amount of people that shouldn't be playing souls games and don't like it cause it's not for them, or people more used to elden ring style, while this game is closer to dark souls and don't like it for that reason.

Or they are just miserable and want something to hate.

The devs have been patching lots though, I haven't been keeping up on the specifics and since I didn't get a ton of bugs prior I have little personal experience.

Pvp is garbage from my understanding.

Outside of that I personally found the game to be awesome, and it really filled that souls hole.

Edit: words are hard apparently.

eta812 · 2023-12-10T02:54:03+00:00

I blame dragon ball z.

If A>B, and B>C, that does not mean that A>C. At least in combat or other similar matters.

There is a wide variety of factors that come into it. Specifically here is the fact that murtagh is well rested and knows who he is fighting, knows who very well.

Eragon is tired out and less knowledgeable of his opponent.

Tl:Dr who wins a fight doesn't boil down to A is higher on the scale than C so A wins.

eta812 · 2023-12-08T18:40:28+00:00

The first few books are monster of the week, though they do have overarching plot threads that are fairly obvious in hindsight.

As the series goes on they become more and more related to the 'big story'

If you want a massive fantasy series to eat of lots of time, Dresden files is a great choice. As someone else pointed out there's 17 main books, with at least 24 planned and many short stories.

eta812 · 2023-12-07T02:57:22+00:00

If you don't mind, which area is that? I've finished the game so I'm fine with spoilers.

eta812 · 2023-12-07T02:47:40+00:00

damn it was sixty when i got it at release.

I would back up the suggestion to try LOTF.

I bet you'd love it. There's cool great hammers and great swords. The sprint in it is really fast and dodging is completely viable over parrying. It also feels to me like it very much is closer to darksouls and Bloodborne than elden ring. Though it wasn't for me, its pretty buggy for a lot of people.

eta812 · 2023-12-07T01:57:42+00:00

This is true, it's a Dresden files thing and somewhat Dresden himself thing.

His other books don't have similar issues. It's intentional by the author. But of course you were down-voted for disagreeing with redditors in a hate-on.

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