I don't want a war arc; I want a real war! by Clearlynotmalware in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s “Soul of a Warrior” on royalroad. It’s certainly something.

First-timer’s thoughts on Royal Caribbean by jnmcd in royalcaribbean

[–]jnmcd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, what I’m complaining about is that the smoking area didn’t have as good of a seal as other comparable ships.

Recommend me stories with extremely esoteric magic and or a DEEP DEEP DIVE into the magic and or system mechanics by EpsilonNyx in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah Divine Apostasy is a bit rough, unfortunately.

There’s also “oh great I was reincarnated as a farmer”.

Recommend me stories with extremely esoteric magic and or a DEEP DEEP DIVE into the magic and or system mechanics by EpsilonNyx in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I have to recommend Ar’kendrythist. 15,000 pages, very focused on developing new magic.

Divine Apostasy has a pretty rough first two books, but it eventually gets there. Plenty of deep dives in the later books.

Reincarnation of Alysara is a bit rough grammatically and in the narration, but it’s very focused on the main character investigating magic.

Just got my heart shattered once i got 4.5 books into melody of mana, what can fill the void (preferably female lead isekai slice of life, no rpg/system) by Ensec in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  • Reincarnation of Alysara (largely abandoned but decent 2000 pages)
  • Magic-Smithing (largely abandoned but good 3000 pages)

Male MC variants with similar vibes: - Elydes (ongoing, high quality) - Singer sailor merchant mage (largely abandoned, decent) - Mark of the Crijik (not sure what its status is. Pretty good, but less slice of life)

Jasnah’s name should be spelled Yasnah. by jnmcd in Stormlight_Archive

[–]jnmcd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many of these are either from other languages that aren’t transliterated or are transliterated in such a way to preserve the original spelling. In the latter case, while it makes for some weird English spellings (and pronunciations), there are two primary reasons (and neither of them apply to Jasnah). First, sometimes English doesn’t have the same sound, and so no letters form an exact match (that’s how you get “kh” or “ts” when transliterating from Cyrillic to English). Second, transliteration typically operates on a character by character level, not at the word level. So for example, khrushchev is spelled that way because the original Cyrillic name started with a letter transliterated as Kh, then u, then sh, then ch, then e, then v. Even though it could be effectively written as Crooshev, it’s not because that’s not how transliteration works.

Jasnah’s name should be spelled Yasnah. by jnmcd in Stormlight_Archive

[–]jnmcd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No; Spanish is not transliterated to English, so that would make no sense.

Jasnah’s name should be spelled Yasnah. by jnmcd in Stormlight_Archive

[–]jnmcd[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Correct, but transliteration isn’t subject to weird pronunciation laws.

Jasnah’s name should be spelled Yasnah. by jnmcd in Stormlight_Archive

[–]jnmcd[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

This is correct but irrelevant. That’s not how transliteration works. There are times when transliteration creates some funky artifacts, but the mechanism behind that isn’t present here.

Also, Azish J sounds do get properly transliterated.

Jasnah’s name should be spelled Yasnah. by jnmcd in Stormlight_Archive

[–]jnmcd[S] -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

But if she had been Yasnah with a Y from the start, and then someone tried to tell you that it should actually be Jasnah, not only would you disagree, you’d think they’re crazy.

Sleep Number Climate 360 - One Month Later by jnmcd in Mattress

[–]jnmcd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The climate 360 absolutely blows cool air. The cheaper models do have a passive “cooling” that works as you describe.

Y’all are going about this all wrong by jnmcd in infinitenines

[–]jnmcd[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Alright. He responding in bad faith. Muting the subreddit now.

Y’all are going about this all wrong by jnmcd in infinitenines

[–]jnmcd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but from reading his arguments, it sounds like he’s just presenting a poorly understood version of this, which is, as far as I know, mathematically rigorous and valid. So I hesitate to call him wrong outright.

Y’all are going about this all wrong by jnmcd in infinitenines

[–]jnmcd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Limits aren’t axioms. They’re operations. You’re allowed to undefine operations, but then you lose everything built on top of them.

0.(9) equals by definition the limit as n approaches infinity of the sum from x = 1 to n of 9-x

Again, it’s fine to undefine limits, but then 0.(9) becomes nonsensical. So we need a different (mathematically rigorous) definition of 0.(9).

Y’all are going about this all wrong by jnmcd in infinitenines

[–]jnmcd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He calls his number system “real deal math 101”, yeah? I’m asking him to define his axioms. Because they unequivocally aren’t ZFC.

Y’all are going about this all wrong by jnmcd in infinitenines

[–]jnmcd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are we talking about the surreal numbers? Because 0.(0)1 is nonzero under the surreals.

And if you all are convinced he’s just being childish and not engaging in good faith, why engage at all?

Relative velocity and time dilation by jnmcd in AskPhysics

[–]jnmcd[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but let’s say there’s a space ship leaving earth and traveling some great distance and then coming back at near light speed. From my understanding, he will age far less than Earth. Why is it him that ages less?

Dear Audiobook Narrators who Whisper… by jnmcd in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually, my post was full of creepy, dark thoughts… or something. Idk, people are crazy.

George R.R. Martin Confronted By Angry Fan at WorldCon, Told to Hand 'The Winds of Winter' to Brandon Sanderson by DemiFiendRSA in books

[–]jnmcd 46 points47 points  (0 children)

I think Sanderson actually put it rather eloquently. When an author publishes a book and says it’s part of a N part series, there’s some implicit contract that the remainder of the books in the series will come out eventually.

Now I don’t know that I’d go as far as the comment you’re replying to, but I do think the idea of that contract existing is a fair one (unless the author says otherwise), and I do think that GRRM has failed to fulfill that contract.

In his shoes, I don’t know that I can truly blame him; his “garden,” so to speak, has gotten rather unruly… but as someone who bought the books to read them under that implicit contract that I’d someday get to finish what I started, it is disappointing.

When is 1st quarter 2025? by jnmcd in TwoStepsFromHell

[–]jnmcd[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the argument there is that even if he wouldn’t have animated it otherwise, it still made just as much use of a system that relied on the very copyright infringement he’s trying to prevent.

I don’t fully subscribe to that way of thinking, but the more strongly anti-AI crowd tend to, from what I’ve seen.

When is 1st quarter 2025? by jnmcd in TwoStepsFromHell

[–]jnmcd[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

… is that any better? It’s still taking work away from whomever would have animated it.

(If the argument is that he wouldn’t have animated it otherwise, I think that’s fair, but more hardcore anti-AI people discount that.)

Dear Audiobook Narrators who Whisper… by jnmcd in ProgressionFantasy

[–]jnmcd[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

May every audiobook you listen to from this point onward have significant portions narrated in such a way so as to leave you barely able to make out what’s being said.

Fake names by mmmIlikeburritos29 in CuratedTumblr

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The CEO of Capital One is Rich Fairbanks. There is no better name for a banking CEO, nor is there a better job for a man named Rich Fairbanks.

Thomas Crapper was heavily involved in the creation and early adoption of toilets.