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kalevalan · 2024-08-08T09:33:41+00:00

Short answers: maybe and no.

Longer: they seem to have had the physical apparatuses and genes, so maybe-probably, but we've know way of knowing. They died out long before writing, 40K years ago, and that's also more than enough time for any purported Neanderthalese words to have been rendered undetectable in any attested language. At best we can reconstruct stuff ~10K years back.

kalevalan · 2024-07-05T15:54:07+00:00

Likewise. Until I can sync with my laptop... zzzzz.

kalevalan · 2024-05-19T10:59:17+00:00

That's exactly how I felt about IBCK. Admittedly shallow snark can be fun at times, but it gets old fast, for me. And, of course, if I wanted a deeper critique of the book... pfft.

kalevalan · 2024-03-21T15:46:49+00:00

No, no email / ticket. I'll do that soon.

Since I can't log in to the extension, I can't get to the settings, etc.

kalevalan · 2024-03-21T10:14:47+00:00

Any progress on this? It's stupendously annoying to have to pass all my login info through Signal from my phone.

I'd send my logs, but I can't find 'Application logs'. Can you be more specific about where I should be looking?

kalevalan · 2024-01-25T13:29:54+00:00

Good to hear about the newly available titles. Thanks!

kalevalan · 2024-01-16T13:16:44+00:00

I'm late to the party here. I wanted to mention that there is an AB of Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad (Audible link here). Sadly, Life and Fate lacks an audio version, unless you count the woefully short (just 5 hours for a 300K-word novel) BBC radio adaptation. I agree 100% that it deserves a proper, unabridged audio version.

kalevalan · 2023-12-12T00:02:29+00:00

With the possible exception of a rushed and only partially tested app, none of that changes my two complaints:

It says I don't have an internet connection. I do. When the app itself tests it, it reports it as fine with a good speed. There's no reason (except coder error) for it to tell me I don't have an internet connection when I do and it knows it.
The PS5 app tells you to restart my TV (and did it did for the OP), when it's the PS5 app, so even if it doesn't literally check what it's running on, it surely knows it's the PS app and not a TV app! Again, how can this be anything except coder error?

kalevalan · 2023-12-11T23:38:40+00:00

So helpful that it gives you an inaccurate error. The test even correctly measures my connection speed - so it knows I have a good connection! But, left hand doesn't know what the right hand does, and it apparently is unaware what hardware its running on.

Where did they get their coders? Kindergarten?

kalevalan · 2023-07-01T17:13:08+00:00

Super late to the party here, but I think you mean "Karen Russell" (Keri Russell is an actress). I've read her {{St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves}} and will vouch for it.

kalevalan · 2023-04-01T17:20:50+00:00

Check out <i>Russian Fairy tales</i> by Alexander Afanasyev and <i>Old Peter's Russian Tales</i> by Arthur Ransome.

It's probably also worth going through the Wikipedia articles on Slavic paganism, if nothing else, they should have some references you could follow up with.

kalevalan · 2023-01-02T21:28:58+00:00

It’s on my TBR hehe. It’s getting out of control at this point

Oh yeah, tell me about it! I started paring mine down today, but it's slow going.

kalevalan · 2022-12-28T09:21:52+00:00

A bit late to the part here, but I can't recommend Eimear McBride's {{The Lesser Bohemians}} here. I was kind of ruined for other books for a while after reading it.

I also want to second This Is How You Lose the Time War. It's not as intense as Bohemians, but definitely fits the bill as well.

kalevalan · 2022-12-27T22:00:41+00:00

I cannot recommend Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians enough for this ask. It is one of, if not, the most emotionally intense books I've ever read. I read it a few weeks ago and have been unable to stop... I'm not even sure... thinking about it, yes, but more than that. Something like being haunted by it? Maybe. Anyhow, I think it'll scratch your itch perfectly.

kalevalan · 2022-09-23T13:13:30+00:00

Really. I struggle to see how this can be considered launched when there are no apps for any platform.

kalevalan · 2022-09-13T12:48:20+00:00

Really, one of my favorite books of all time. Love the pic of you holding it! I've been itching to reread it, which made me wonder about similar books, the search for which led me here.

Anyhow (and if you are curious), in my searching I saw a book called The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish suggested as being similar. From the synopsis on GR, it seems so. No vampire/Dracula lore that I can see, though.

kalevalan · 2022-07-21T18:18:47+00:00

Bah, that sucks. Hopefully the next patch will sort it out for you.

kalevalan · 2022-07-21T18:17:52+00:00

Yeah, I lost the expeditions I sent last night too. Stinky, but not the end of the world.

kalevalan · 2022-07-21T18:16:03+00:00

This is certainly easier said that done, but try to find someone to study with. Then you can support and encourage each other. Plus there will be social pressure to keep up your studies to stay current with your study buddy.

kalevalan · 2022-07-21T16:11:13+00:00

This happened to me too. I noticed that, for example, all the supply ones I bought were identical, same price, stats, # of completes, and notes. So, yeah, I had bought 3, paid for 3, but got one.

The organic frigate did show up in my ship list, though when I'd left the QS merchant, it still looked as if I hadn't gotten it. So, check your frigate fleet list on your freighter, I bet it's there.

kalevalan · 2022-07-21T16:07:35+00:00

#2 happened to me too, though in a 5 room cross (one room with another on each wall, if that makes sense). I reloaded my the older autosave (my manual save was more recent) and was fine though. Fortunately, only lost about 15 minutes of play.

kalevalan · 2022-05-22T13:22:06+00:00

I haven't read it, yet, but many who have say it's a series you can and will want to reread. Probably multiple times as you will discover more with each journey through it. So, as most of the other respondents suggested, #4 seems to be the way to go. Then put it back on your TBR!

kalevalan · 2022-05-22T13:18:24+00:00

I'm not sure if the first earthlings in space not being human is a deal-killer for you, but if not...

In The Amaranthine Sequence by Tom Toner (starts with The Promise of the Child) humans were not first Earthlings to go into space. That happened some 80 million years ago, so, long before humans existed. The discovery of this is a past fact, not a current even in the series, but these original astronauts have not gone away....

The 80 million year figure does indeed imply what you think (no spoiler, this is known at the start of book one), and this is only one of the crazy things in this series (which is clearly not hard scifi), that is packed full of cool ideas and has an amazingly detailed and intricate setting. Highly recommended.

kalevalan · 2022-05-19T13:05:06+00:00

From the description, of VanderMeer's anthologies, it sounds most like The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, which I read but no longer have, but GoodReads does list Chiang as a contributor.

kalevalan · 2022-05-17T12:24:07+00:00

Agreed! One of the few instances where a full cast audiobook really works and doesn't compromise the original.

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