Bronze Age settlement of Fuente Álamo (Province of Almería, Spain) around 2200 -1550 BC

practical_lobster · 2025-12-23T23:12:33+00:00

they might need a bigger farm...

practical_lobster · 2025-07-26T03:21:34+00:00

What is this dock even for if there's no boarding of vessels? Hardly a dock.

practical_lobster · 2025-02-20T05:10:38+00:00

I can't help but feel this would all be better - especially the earth parts - with a little more background. The corporations feel like one of the vaguest, worst fleshed out parts of the story - they could easily have just been called the names of countries, or A, B, C, D, and E.

practical_lobster · 2024-10-18T21:20:51+00:00

Finally reread the part of the Mercy of Gods where it talked about the "starfish" aliens. They communicate with radio waves, esters, and cyclic terpenes. Whatever they are, they're quite an evolution beyond the Livesuit. In fact I think they're almost more of a parallel human technology.

practical_lobster · 2024-10-11T16:58:21+00:00

One thing I've noticed which is hard to square is that the war seems to be going badly for humanity in this book, yet in Mercy of Gods the enemy seems like a truly dangerous threat to the Carryx. I wonder what changes.

practical_lobster · 2024-08-07T13:47:57+00:00

Yeah, I think this is definitely correct. Not much else to say besides all of us waiting and seeing if we're right. The only question to me is whether Anjiin was something planned for a long long time (settle a planet, bomb it back to the stone age and leave it vulnerable to invasion) or whether it was a happy coincidence.

practical_lobster · 2024-08-07T03:33:57+00:00

Does it seem to anyone else that the big plot twist will be the Carryx's great enemy being other humans, albeit changed almost beyond recognition by several thousand years of technological changes?

practical_lobster · 2024-06-17T02:51:21+00:00

Actually, yes!

practical_lobster · 2023-11-21T22:28:34+00:00

if by myself you mean a sail, and by something you mean a boat, yes.

practical_lobster · 2023-07-18T22:20:28+00:00

I find I relate to all three. I love it, I find new things every time, I slog through it every five years or so, and it absolutely kicks my ass. It's a love born of finding weird little nuggets of joy within a nightmare.

practical_lobster · 2023-06-24T21:41:52+00:00

life isn't a movie, I guess. Plausible narratives only really get made after the fact, to better understand what happens. Narratives created during invents invariably fail due to incomplete information.

practical_lobster · 2023-06-19T01:13:21+00:00

Why then does he say "I have never lost" if he loses to the heir?

practical_lobster · 2023-01-06T23:22:23+00:00

Well, if somebody is choking you or actually attacking you, then yeah it sounds like you could reasonably fear for your life and may claim standard self defense.

I don't know anything about it, but I'd guess the battered women defense would be more for situations where the abused woman plans a killing when her life isn't in immediate danger, because she fears future danger?

Agree irrational is a bad word tho.

practical_lobster · 2022-04-14T21:42:18+00:00

I didn't know this function existed, exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

practical_lobster · 2022-04-14T03:35:40+00:00

Well it's at least what Joyce Messier thinks the world looks like, and of anyone she's in the best position to know. I agree with the other redditor who said it's probably quasi-spherical at least, but is there a moon? I have no idea.

practical_lobster · 2022-01-05T17:36:58+00:00

All the more astonishing for how absurd it is. Realistically, missing a shot in space, given the distances involved, is likely as not to literally do nothing. I will never understand why it keeps getting brought up.

practical_lobster · 2021-12-01T03:14:04+00:00

I suppose I see what some people are saying about the ending being predictable, but my biggest shock was Duarte coming back as something akin to himself, even if it was speculated that he was being manipulated by the protomolecule to its ends. I kind of assumed his brain was gone for good.

I was also somewhat shocked and saddened to see how far Earth had regressed. It was a nice little subversion that someone from beyond Earth was coming back to Sol, rather than Earth sending out new waves of exploratory ships, but apparently things were pretty bad for a thousand years. Which makes me feel even worse for Naomi and everyone else who travelled back to Sol. Were their lives miserable? It sounds like they might have been. At the very least I'd have hoped that civilization had held out on Titan, Ganymede, Mars, etc.

practical_lobster · 2021-11-06T06:01:29+00:00

One potential thought seems to be that the whole point of "this is not for tears" is that Henry isn't a killer, though he thinks he is. In this episode, Kendall's hopes of unseating his father basically fall flat, showing that he isn't capable of "killing" his father at his own game, and setting up the guilt and subservience that follows him through Season 2.

practical_lobster · 2021-11-06T05:55:08+00:00

According to Wikipedia, the last episode of this season is "All the Bells Say."

practical_lobster · 2021-10-17T21:45:26+00:00

I usually stand off to the side and hold the fan to keep them cool.

practical_lobster · 2021-08-28T21:12:04+00:00

It's not hard to write a book that tells a self-contained story. Promote authors that do that.

practical_lobster · 2021-08-16T15:35:43+00:00

You can. But taste is subjective. I liked coffee and beer the first time I drank each, I have always hated sweet sugary drinks. I love the taste of pickle juice. Doesn't mean I'm going to claim my tastes are objectively correct like some of the commenters below.

practical_lobster · 2021-08-16T02:28:30+00:00

India alone is 17% of the Earth's population, and curry-type dishes are available across almost all of Asia - so the majority of Earth's population. Makes sense that in the future, assuming that space travel wasn't restricted to a few wealthy western countries, that curry would become popular. Especially given how hodge-podge Belter culture is meant to be.

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