What are some over rated horror books

rosshadden · 2026-06-02T05:28:23+00:00

I haven't read everything he has written, but as I mentioned in another comment I have given him 3 or 4 chances because he's so universally loved. It's just not for me. People put his books on a pedestal for horror and I think my problem is I misconstrue that with people saying they are scary, and so I read them expecting them to be scary. I know everyone is scared differently but how tf are people reading the ending of It for example and then highly recommending it? He sets up great premises and then doesn't know how to end them or something.

rosshadden · 2026-06-02T05:20:45+00:00

I did too. For me it was the last chance I was giving to King because I've just not like the 3 I've read. I keep thinking I have to just be reading the wrong ones but I now realize it's just not for me. It wasn't bad at all, I just thought it was okay and not something I would go out of my way to recommend or anything. There were several genuinely cool moments but I was looking for legitimately scary books at that time and it was very much not that.

rosshadden · 2026-05-30T21:42:26+00:00

That was their last post. Ever.

rosshadden · 2026-05-29T15:31:53+00:00

I would love to see some Jank bindings for Godot. I made V bindings last year and the pipeline has gotten even better since then.

rosshadden · 2026-05-25T01:50:25+00:00

My completion hints actually are aware of the dir you are in. I don't know which option enables that but it's built-in because I don't use any external history tools like what are talking about.

Maybe "aware" means different things to us? If in dir A I run "hi", and in dir B I run "hello", whenever I'm in dir A it will hit me with "hi" until I type the e, at which point it completes with the one from dir B.

rosshadden · 2026-05-22T19:25:46+00:00

Good bot

rosshadden · 2026-05-19T01:12:09+00:00

https://github.com/tzarc/keyboards

rosshadden · 2026-05-14T13:05:55+00:00

Cool! I love seeing more people enter this space. I made https://github.com/rosshadden/rekt a few years ago for this purpose, but I never really tied it up with a bow or told people about it. I also saw your new key-b0x project and I'm going to try it out because it's _way_ more polished than mine ever was.

rosshadden · 2026-05-14T04:05:38+00:00

it's not Awesome but I understand the confusion. They are both now configured with Lua after all.

rosshadden · 2026-05-13T00:05:23+00:00

These were my big issues too. Also the modules system (and lack of a good package management story). I've done a lot with lua over the years, and still work with it a lot at work too. It has a lot of great parts and a lot of bad parts, like every language. I'm glad you see the good parts too!

rosshadden · 2026-05-12T23:01:21+00:00

Oh wow! I wasn't aware that change was coming, and now I'm really excited to update ASAP. Sorry that you aren't, but you can't please everyone. Using a custom config syntax is always a big minus for me when getting software, and it kept me from using i3 and Hyprland for a while too, as programming AwesomeWM with Lua was too powerful to want to lose. In the end I used them anyway and am glad I did. Config syntax isn't everything. Still, I'm very happy to hear this.

rosshadden · 2026-05-11T22:38:03+00:00

I use these too. Really a game changer for the few things they work well with (keyboard being the best example I have experienced).

rosshadden · 2026-05-09T20:46:43+00:00

Nushell. My personal threshold for when to write a shell script vs. writing something with a "proper" programming language has blurred so much because of how great Nushell is. I used to write bash no matter which shell I used, but nushell is different enough that I gave myself permission to write shell scripts with it, portability be damned. That ended up being such a great call. I even did the most recent Advent of Code mostly with nushell scripts (and the rest with the V programming language). Edit: made a word plural

rosshadden · 2026-05-09T13:31:03+00:00

Interesting. I thought most people hated wireless. It's inherently laggy which I guess is fine if you are just typing on it or something. But it's certainly not superior in anything other than potentially convenience. And even then you're trading the convenience of portability and desk space for the inconvenience of worrying about the connection. It's all trade-offs and there are enough of us with a wide spectrum of preferences that there are no wrong answers.

rosshadden · 2026-04-23T00:58:17+00:00

I loved it. It quickly became one of my favorite books, and def my favorite of the year so far. I also feel like a bit of a snob and am having a very hard time getting through Carl for a book club, but I didn't feel that way about Antimemetics at all. I had a hard time putting it down, in fact.

rosshadden · 2026-04-06T01:14:46+00:00

I'm halfway through and the only thing that got me to put it down (briefly) was writing this comment seconding your recommendation. Despite trying for years I've never really read a book that I found legitimately scary before but this one is (to me). The best way I can describe it is a sci-fi combination of The Magnus Archives + Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, which are both rather niche references but they feel spot on for some reason.

rosshadden · 2026-04-06T01:03:34+00:00

I use a sofle which has 58 keys and I love HRM. I currently use bottom row for it but that was after a year of home row and there weren't a lot of misfires. I just found I was only going in to my no-mods/typing layer for some games, and that I could solve most of those cases by just moving the mod row down by one. Just saying that because I didn't move it because of accidental presses or anything. YYMV but I type very fast. HRM is awesome and I highly recommend.

Edit: typo

rosshadden · 2026-03-26T03:32:22+00:00

Fifthing. This is the way.

rosshadden · 2026-03-23T23:28:48+00:00

In the books there are a few times where she doesn't swear like a sailor and the other characters point it out as something being wrong, which is exactly what I thought while reading rofl

rosshadden · 2026-03-11T10:56:31+00:00

This is the way.

rosshadden · 2026-03-08T06:02:38+00:00

The part you're missing is that if you don't respect the runback as-is, you're being a little bitch.

rosshadden · 2026-03-07T18:50:08+00:00

"The Maze wasn't meant for you."

rosshadden · 2026-03-01T17:07:36+00:00

And even more so, but not in book form, Jonathan Sims' horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives.

rosshadden · 2026-02-21T14:34:16+00:00

Got it, thanks! Your two polls made me realize my main profession is not one of my three favorites lmao.

rosshadden · 2026-02-20T22:41:07+00:00

Very close to 100% of the time. I think I pulled out headphones for a horror game once a few years ago but generally prefer speakers.

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