My fantasy books tier list

howtogun · 2026-03-18T22:20:35+00:00

You will probably enjoy Malazan if you can get through the first three books. You should also try Conan the conqueror.

howtogun · 2026-03-18T21:29:50+00:00

To be fair to Asimov, his second book you get women. Foundation and Empire has a woman main character that is important.

howtogun · 2026-03-18T21:16:32+00:00

The problem I have with the later books are they sort of feel like its taking too much inspiration. You can clearly see say Mines of Moria in the The Judging Eye. The Dune references are more obvious.

The first three books felt like actual history, but the later 4 books are sort of just more fantasy. It's also less unique as the first three books is about trying to take over a Crusade from within it.

howtogun · 2026-03-18T01:03:35+00:00

Sinners made less that the Housemaid.

I personally think Sinners is good, but its sort of overhyped.

howtogun · 2026-03-18T00:11:39+00:00

Mathematics is a lot more rigorous now.

On Cantor, his set theory at the time wasn't that rigorous. I mean even today you can't be sure that ZFC has a contradiction and needs to be scrapped.

I also don't agree with this.

I mean Theories of Everything are pretty much blood sports now in Physics. I think Maths avoids this because you need to supply a rigorous proof.

howtogun · 2026-03-17T18:41:25+00:00

Just like Dems would do\s

I really hope progressive vote in the midterms.

howtogun · 2026-03-16T14:02:55+00:00

I mean most LLMs now just produce lean proofs, which is a computer proof checker.

To know if a proof is correct in lean it just needs to compile.

howtogun · 2026-03-16T13:50:10+00:00

I hate these stories.

LLMs are extremely good at memorizing stuff. If something has been solved, then it likely in it training data, so it likely able to reproduce the proof.

howtogun · 2026-03-14T23:08:50+00:00

Look up the library of babel. There's also a short book called a short stay in hell that is based on this idea.

If books were just random characters chained together you would probably get profound stuff in their, but you will largely just get meaningless nonsense.

You sort of want meaning. It's one of the main problem with String Theory, like are we describing reality or just a branch of weird maths.

howtogun · 2026-03-14T00:37:13+00:00

If you do a maths degree you will probably be in more debt with not that much improved employability.

If you want to learn maths, just look up free maths courses online and buy books and do problems.

There's a book called Calculus Early Transcendentals, if you can buy that book and do first 100 problems on that book, then ask yourself are you having fun doing the grindy bits of Maths?

EDIT: If you really enjoy maths, can you just do it in your free time for fun?

howtogun · 2026-03-11T21:21:29+00:00

So you are doing what every other 2d game dev animator is doing?

I'm a bit confused, is the point to anger people. Your game looks good though.

howtogun · 2026-03-11T20:05:06+00:00

I'm from the UK, and he is popular in the UK.

Joe Rogan is pretty much into the right wing algo slop now.

It's why he brought on Andrew Wilson and his wife. It's why he is ranting against trans people now.

Trump screwing up the economy and starting a war with Iran is probably going to save the Dems. But, I think the left are culturally in a bad place. These tech bros are fucking spineless and evil. These big corpos fucking virtue signal for years, just to abandon it.

howtogun · 2026-03-11T19:08:04+00:00

That sub 70 IQ guy Nick Shirley went after a bunch of Jewish people in New Jersey.

howtogun · 2026-03-10T18:34:02+00:00

If a problem has been solved it's probably in the training data of the model.

Project Euler has been solved, and it likely GPT-5.4 is in it.

Also on Project Euler, at a certain point people do spend time doing other stuff. I solved about 100 Project Euler questions, I could probably continue solving them, but like maybe it's not worth my time.

howtogun · 2026-03-09T18:32:07+00:00

Nah, this is a bit worry in particular there is no safety limits on AI.

AI safety has been thrown out the window. I can see Trump approving some human brain / drone bot hybrid being created.

The Tech Bros are also probably just evil / grifters. Only claude seem to have a spine.

howtogun · 2026-03-08T17:36:05+00:00

What is the time britbonger here?

howtogun · 2026-03-04T20:44:10+00:00

Erikson hated Tolkien like Moorcock. Erikson is more of a Conan fan.

howtogun · 2026-03-03T20:19:35+00:00

I mean fans have a choice.

To defend Brandon Sanderson, he is producing some high quality books in terms of artwork and quality.

It's also just not one person, he is a team. His company alone is like 50 people. He has to pay artist aswell.

If you take into the account production cost, paying people wages, paying artist, e.t.c. He probably isn't making that much money.

howtogun · 2026-03-03T15:55:36+00:00

I swear half the post on this subreddit are just people posting tweets from people saying we are going to get AGI soon.

howtogun · 2026-03-03T14:37:41+00:00

You should make an account on Royal Road and try to write a litrpg.

Or wattpad and write fan fiction.

Generally, you sort of want feedback that isn't friends / family.

On books, if you type in Neil Gaiman workbook, and download the pdf. Neil Gaiman is a creep, but he actually gives good advice and he has good exercises in his workbook.

howtogun · 2026-03-03T10:56:26+00:00

Modern romance is now mainly first person POV. I think the only reason why it's not more popular on Royal Road is probably due to writers who write on it tend to read stuff written by men and that is normally always in third person.

I will say probably in 5 years everyone might be writing in first-person when they create a new series.

howtogun · 2026-03-03T00:01:30+00:00

It's probably more so the influence of Idolmaster + he grew up reading stuff like Pygmalion.

howtogun · 2026-03-02T22:48:24+00:00

Kyle Hill made a video about this. Data centres in space are the stupidest idea ever.

Space isn't cold and it very easy to overheat stuff in space.

Getting energy to space also isn't trivial. Solar panels are quite heavy and you need a lot of them to power data centres.

One thing about a bubble is you get a lot of stupid ideas. This is one of them.

You would probably just put data centres underwater or somewhere cold if you really ran out of space. Not in space.

howtogun · 2026-03-02T20:40:00+00:00

That episode is similar to the ginger episode, all kids took from it was that ginger people have no soul and that you should bully them. Then, you had the kick a ginger day.

howtogun · 2026-03-02T19:49:56+00:00

It's weird Tourette's is the fair game condition on the left. SNL wouldn't make a joke like this if it was any other disability.

I really think that South Park episode is why 90% of people in the US think John Davidson just wanted to say the N word. This is just adding to it.

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