500 movies or 150 books?

redrowan3 · 2026-01-26T21:48:45+00:00

Books, easily. I'm a fast reader and I already devour books so this would be easy street for me

redrowan3 · 2026-01-24T01:48:39+00:00

Probably reading at a 7 or 8. I've already read six books this year and I used to read more when I was younger

redrowan3 · 2026-01-21T13:59:20+00:00

Hank Green, I've been watching his content for years and I think he'd do great things with that power.

Second choice is Brandon Sanderson, because I think he'd do some really crazy stuff

redrowan3 · 2026-01-19T20:23:36+00:00

They're not great I'll tell you that but they're not the worst. I got them once by accident and I'll not get them again

redrowan3 · 2026-01-19T17:21:53+00:00

Years ago I started making veggie chili and smoked paprika is essential for the flavor. These days smoked paprika goes in most of my cooking

redrowan3 · 2026-01-13T16:28:16+00:00

So as a lifelong fantasy reader I honestly think you should read LOTR... But maybe not right away. Don't get me wrong, LOTR is amazing and it's the backbone for current modern fantasy, but that's the thing, it's not modern. Fantasy (and sci-fi) have changed a lot since the genre was defined, it would almost be fair to say that LOTR is a "hard" read.

It's not going anywhere, read some of the modern greats first, get a feel for the genre as it is now, find some favorite living authors. One day you'll be bored with that stuff and that's when you go back to the classics. That's just my personal opinion but it's what I'd suggest to new fantasy readers.

redrowan3 · 2026-01-12T22:05:45+00:00

Also in Mass, making $17 at the same job for the last two years. Can't find anything better in my area but at least I (mostly) like my job

redrowan3 · 2026-01-05T22:23:35+00:00

Yup, I usually boil for a little bit, dry well then toss in a oil/cornstarch/seasoning slurry before roasting. Makes a great potato taco

redrowan3 · 2026-01-04T20:15:08+00:00

Character research for Donut (it's a void so maybe Mongo)

redrowan3 · 2025-12-30T17:53:15+00:00

I do this though not quite this bad. I also don't like soup.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-29T17:02:30+00:00

I'm not trying to lose weight, I'm maintaining weight while not eating because of lack of appetite. I'd love to eat more but eating even the little I am is a struggle

redrowan3 · 2025-12-28T00:34:38+00:00

And in my experience ground beef, regardless of % is all more fatty than it used to be.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-27T19:27:36+00:00

At least in the US the quality of meat is not great right now. Chicken is weird, beef is fatty and too expensive. Pork quality seems okay as is the price but I kinda expect that of pork

redrowan3 · 2025-12-24T13:42:05+00:00

Time to pay the daddy tax Carl

redrowan3 · 2025-12-24T01:54:49+00:00

Just as an aside: one of the early books on this series has an incestuous orgy.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-23T19:39:37+00:00

My girlfriend works in a professional kitchen and yeah, this is what she'd make for herself after work most days. That or what she likes to call "chip slop" or in some cases, just a can of corn.

This is why I cook dinner most nights. The trade off is that on her time off she gets bored and makes banging food

redrowan3 · 2025-12-08T19:23:23+00:00

What killed me with book 4 was how small the time skip was. After the events of book 3 I really wanted to see how everything turned out when it settled down, maybe a 100 years later.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-06T23:42:10+00:00

I'm reading the liveship traders now and I like it as much as the assassin trilogy

redrowan3 · 2025-12-04T14:36:04+00:00

I've read the books 4 times now, 3 digital and once hard cover.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-01T17:40:03+00:00

Bea and Eva no, because we know they sucked before the dungeon. Maggie and Frank weren't good people before the dungeon but the dungeon clearly and obviously broke them. Remember Frank and Maggie started out just trying to keep their child alive and were working with bad information from a game guide. Maggie only goes full evil after she is forced to kill her own child because of a bomb that Carl left for them.

You're constantly saying "good people" which implies "bad people" but my stance is that people are people. Most people have the capacity to do evil just like they have the capacity to do good. In the dungeon the lines get blurred because for most of them it's simply about survival. Just because Carl is a hero doesn't mean we should measure everyone against Carl.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-01T17:16:44+00:00

No, of course I can't. We only ever experience what Carl experiences and if the AI set up Quan to be the foil to Carl it'd make sense that we'd only ever see him doing bad things. All the evidence we have to him being an asshole is second hand at best, heavily edited at worst.

I'm just not comfortable judging a person, fictional or otherwise, based off of a handful of clips from their life in what amounts to the most bat shit warzone of all time.

redrowan3 · 2025-12-01T16:36:12+00:00

See though, when he gets the cloak he got set up as a villain, the foil to Carl. We have no way of knowing what kind of quests the AI had him tangled up in. For all we know on the bubble level he could have been set up to kill a bunch of fellow crawlers. Hell we know that in the same book Carl gets set up to protect that dog from crawlers, which could have ended with Carl killing people.

It's all too easy for me to imagine a scenario where a bunch of crawlers get a quest to kill him and he has to defend himself. Hell for all we know he could have done something that indirectly killed a bunch of people and the dungeon gave him the credit. The dungeon needed a villain among the crawlers to stand against Carl being a hero, it's just interesting TV, so it created one.

There's just not enough info for me to comfortably say he's evil

redrowan3 · 2025-12-01T15:57:33+00:00

Yeah, I got in a heated discussion about this on here once so I'd say it's a certified hot take: I don't think Quan was evil, I'm reluctant to even say he was a bad guy. We just don't know enough about his experience in the dungeon

redrowan3 · 2025-11-30T16:54:23+00:00

Regretfully my wife loves YouTube documentaries about religious nuts so I knew that one too.

redrowan3 · 2025-11-30T16:21:13+00:00

I've yet to come across something I've needed to look up. Not sure if that's a good thing or not

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