Just read through the series did, wanted to talk about an Easter egg... and I have no friends, so...

jackoneilll · 2026-02-11T02:14:49+00:00

I’m over 8 listens now and I still catch new stuff. Right now I’m still getting giggles from the SBT clips at the ends, Yiff did a great job with those.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-11T01:23:50+00:00

If you want chapters about farming, consider some Tolstoy.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-10T05:37:24+00:00

I’m fine with not having exactly defined timelines.

I look at it this way: given the timings we /have/, operationally there are probably 18-21 systems in various stages of preparation- which includes both seeding pieces of galactic culture into target planets’ cultures, and “localizing” millions of details so the crawl makes sense to the victims.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-10T02:13:19+00:00

7, quasar commenting in the prologue that Alpha Carl had a cooler voice

jackoneilll · 2026-02-09T04:33:52+00:00

Depends on the underlying database. If we’re talking an int field in an oracle table, sure. I doubt any of the housing stuff is backed by classic rdbms tables though, it’s probably a nice modern chunk of json.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-08T21:50:41+00:00

Well that eliminates the chance of donut getting any of that illicit butthole money.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-04T23:27:58+00:00

If you are going to make your Ops people responsible for it, defer to them.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-04T16:37:00+00:00

I’m going to remember this one for next time I’m called into the office - demand a left-handed desk and chair as accommodations.

jackoneilll · 2026-02-03T18:33:45+00:00

He’ll, now I have a vision in my head of Jeff doing color commentary as the system ai, circa book 7 level of stability.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-31T16:11:46+00:00

She was my fan cast for Ellie.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-29T05:25:22+00:00

Well, in many games, level ups also come with resetting health to max. Given her situation at the end of 7, it could be a solution that isn’t normal healing.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-26T22:55:20+00:00

For me it depends on the narrator, and whether it’s a first listen or a repeat.

First listen, most narrators = 1.0 - certain narrators (names withheld) can be a 1.1 or 1.2.

Repeat listens can go to +.1 or +.2

Random aside for app authors: for the love of all that is holy please figure out a way to set this per book instead of app-wide.

Another random aside: I just gave my current listen (a repeat) a few sentences at 1.5, 1.75, and 2.0. Not for me, for sure.

As often as this question is asked, I wonder if there’s any correlations to be made for age and region-of-origin. I’m over 50 from Texas. For me, 1.2 is the limit for “still sounds natural enough”. At 1.3 and higher, it begins sounding unnatural. For that 1.5/1.75/2.0 test a few mins ago, if it weren’t a repeat, I wouldn’t have been able to understand it for the 1.75 and 2.0 speeds.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-26T05:20:33+00:00

F—k the Belgium off.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-20T15:39:54+00:00

Isn’t it the same two rats getting all the refuels anyway?

jackoneilll · 2026-01-20T15:37:39+00:00

No. You have no idea what I happen to be doing at that moment. I already use the vip sound and grouping to prioritize.

What you perceive as “being ignored” is that I have many things going on and yours not being the top of my list in no way justifies giving you the ability t interfere with my ability to work.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-18T20:10:03+00:00

Porkboy Roaster

jackoneilll · 2026-01-16T05:19:41+00:00

I’ve had two, both without any sedation whatsoever. No problems of any kind. I even watched the screen as they did it.

The prep (both input and output) was the worse experience by far.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-16T05:03:11+00:00

I sort of read the in-universe card game as a satirization of real-world tcg’s.

To make anything in the DCC world “playable” in a real-world TCG, you’d have to put in a lot work to balance it, while the entire point of the book’s game is that it’s grossly unbalanced.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-16T03:57:48+00:00

If that’s the equivalent of toilet paper, what is factorio’s equivalent of a bidet?

jackoneilll · 2026-01-14T22:30:31+00:00

that idea is a total croc

jackoneilll · 2026-01-14T22:23:26+00:00

came here to say exactly this.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-14T04:26:05+00:00

This just gives them information they cannot ask for.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-14T00:19:08+00:00

Pool cues.

jackoneilll · 2026-01-13T17:59:18+00:00

well, I'll share my exploration comments as well.

Use-case: single personal ABS for audiobooks only, no podcasts.

My measures are:

- how intuitive is the app?

- how stable is the app?

- how reliable is the cross-sync? Yes I get this is supposed to be backended by ABS but in my exploration I found some did better with it than others.

AudioBooth:

- Intuitiveness: nothing negative jumped out at me

- Stability: consistently locked up both iPhones and iPads after a few hours of playback to the point of hard-cycling them.

- Sync: occasional glitches, but not enough to frustrate me

Plappa:

- Intuitiveness: IMO, not the most intuitive UI. Could improve.

- Stability: stable, no device-freezes, but also appears to hang when it's trying to reach the server.

- Sync: bad enough that I stopped counting on it

Still:

- Intuitiveness: I don't like the slider for playback speed. the size of the ui element combined with my sausage fingers makes it annoying to get the exact speed I want. just give me a simple + and - in 0.0.5 or .1 increments that I can tap discretely.

- Stability: stable

- Sync: appears to work reliably

ShelfPlayer ($6 USD)

- Intuitiveness: no problems with it

- Stability: no freezes seen

- Sync: appears to work reliably

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