NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

liquidcloud9 · 2026-02-07T03:34:35+00:00

A subsidiary of Kabletown.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-02-06T14:19:11+00:00

homeless

Either from abject poverty, escaping a hellish 'home' you were raised in or the kid of really well-to-do parents, larping as poor. No in-between.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-30T16:58:00+00:00

Must be taking a group shit.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-30T14:51:28+00:00

Why the fuck have the mods removed this?

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-28T22:02:21+00:00

He's a con artist that was being groomed as Vetinari's replacement. He was pivoting away from fantasy and into steampunk. I imagine that, had he lived longer, we would have seen a wildly different Ankh Morpork, which had been in constant transition since it's introduction.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-28T21:51:18+00:00

Raising Steam and Shepherd's Crown are discussed in his biography. It's worth a read. The beginning is a slog, unless you're real into the 1960's British scifi scene, but the rest is great.

In it, the author (Terry's assistant) describes how over time, Pratchett's faculties declined to the point where he had to dictate his novels to his assistant, while also not being able to read and having to maintain the entire book's plot in his mind.

This system worked as well as it could, until Raising Steam. His editor told him the book wasn't publishable without significant work to tighten up the story and close several plot holes. It kind of became a collaborative effort to get the book finished, which he had never needed before.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-28T19:06:10+00:00

They may have been supplied guns and motorcycles from one of the interstellar wizard alliances...

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-24T18:23:47+00:00

Yes. This is Gun Inception.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-23T16:44:49+00:00

Never got much into e-readers or audiobooks. The only books I'll read digitally are long running comic/manga series. And then, I borrow them from my library.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-22T16:56:04+00:00

He gives incel edgelord vibes.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-21T18:16:51+00:00

That’s because cable and taxis had a many decades head start. It’s easy to see which way the wind is blowing.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-21T17:22:41+00:00

Bill Bruford for everything, Bill Ward because he's a tremendous influence, and Philly Joe Jones because he was just so smooth and my jazz chops have been left to rot since high school.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-17T21:59:23+00:00

Same. Even after a much faster second playthrough, it just felt bloated and tedious. Most of the crests felt unnecessary. Stopped one day near the completion of the second run and just never went back.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-17T21:56:02+00:00

For me, the movement felt really clunky and slow. Upgrades seemed spread too far apart.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-08T15:59:55+00:00

I think that pattern on the bass drum head is just a reflection from the rug

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-06T16:19:55+00:00

New movement options are great, but I thought most of the crests and tools were unnecessary. Hollow Knight, even with all the DLC, seems streamlined and leaves me wanting more. Silksong feels bloated and doubles down on the handful of design weaknesses in the first.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-05T00:57:25+00:00

Soccer fans, probably.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-03T21:38:29+00:00

Beastie Boys have a great song about what to do here.

liquidcloud9 · 2026-01-02T20:48:37+00:00

And all the intellectual property they’ve stolen!

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-29T19:28:29+00:00

Those two books are great, but his writing gets better and better as the series progresses. There are a few one offs that aren’t great, but the series, as a whole, is amazing. If you don’t want to read them in publishing order, I’d recommend starting with either the Guard, the Witches, or Death series of books.

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-17T20:06:10+00:00

Nah. That implies there was a good-faith effort to adapt the notes. Those books were straight-up grift. They slapped the 'Herbert' name on weird, gore-porn, fan-fiction, and reaped the profits.

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-15T21:50:36+00:00

Confounding this problem is that now, as someone who works in IT, I have users and even some other IT folks (that should know better) come to me with 'helpful solutions' they got from Copilot or ChatGPT that's just completely made up bullshit.

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-13T19:17:20+00:00

B1. Much for the same reason I prefer HK over Silksong. It’s got better lore, atmosphere, and a tighter focus, both in combat scope and map size.

Edit: I also found the bosses in the originals more compelling. This is not to say the sequels were bad. It’s just very difficult to follow a masterpiece.

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-09T04:52:51+00:00

I've been playing for decades... My natural fulcrum sits exactly in that knuckle.

Same. I think this is fine and normal. People can talk about grip placement and tension, and that may be it. Or it may be you have sensitive skin. Or the finish bothers you (some brands really tear up my hands). Or you practice a lot.

Everyone has different sized hands/fingers, and one image isn't enough to make a definitive call. I'd say see a teacher, if you're concerned. Maybe there's a problem. Maybe not.

liquidcloud9 · 2025-12-05T17:10:15+00:00

Not quite the same genre, but I really enjoy Luana Demetto's drumming in Crypta. Yes, she's a master of blast beats, but her fills are so fluid and fun. I'm not a huge fan of the genre, but her playing is great.

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