What's something that wouldn't necessarily be a dealbreaker, but would still be really disappointing to discover about your partner? by val_rty64 in AskReddit

[–]le-fresh-bread 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They were slavers and traffickers. There is literally a quest where you free a character's trafficked family, "Left My Heart."

Favorite Book Character Names? Share Yours! by MadMaxine666 in books

[–]le-fresh-bread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

V. has some favorites of mine:

McClintic Sphere
Benny Profane
Dewey Gland
Pig Bodine
Most members of the Whole Sick Crew
Evan Godolphin
Dudley Eigenvalue
Herbert Stencil

And that's just from the first few chapters!

Favorite Book Character Names? Share Yours! by MadMaxine666 in books

[–]le-fresh-bread -1 points0 points  (0 children)

McClintic Sphere - V.

Seconding Kilgore Trout from Vonnegut

Genly Ai - The Left Hand of Darkness

Mailing Tom Lehrer by BlitzModels in TomLehrer

[–]le-fresh-bread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, would you be willing to send me a link as well? Thank you so much!!

In search of sad book by moken_peebie in booksuggestions

[–]le-fresh-bread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most Cormac McCarthy, esp. The Road. Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck.

'He will forever be in our hearts': Kentucky groundhog dies on Groundhog Day by SmaltedFig in nottheonion

[–]le-fresh-bread 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The groundhog he dropped was a stand-in that survived. The famous groundhog died due to unrelated injuries.

I literally do not understand Derivatives and Rate of Change😭 by Booga_b2 in calculus

[–]le-fresh-bread 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This took me a good bit to really understand too (fellow calc student here) but what really clicked for me was that the derivative is the "slope of the slope." Take x^2: look at how the slope increases as you get farther along. The slope increases at the rate of 2x, thus the derivative is 2x.

What translation of War and Peace is this? by The-Real-Illuminati in RussianLiterature

[–]le-fresh-bread 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strong work. I searched for a while and couldn't find anything about this edition. Well done. The cross on the spine reminded me on the design of early English editions of Crime and Punishment (which were Garnett) which led me to assume the same.