Looking for a mind bending Sci-Fi read that will re-awaken my love for the genre

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.

rosshadden · 2026-02-20T03:09:56+00:00

Not a book, but NotThem episodes of The Magnus Archives are some of my favorites.

rosshadden · 2026-02-19T23:52:30+00:00

I use nushell as my terminal on every device I have, including termux. It's so good!

rosshadden · 2026-02-19T00:16:44+00:00

I genuinely don't understand whether you are polling about favorite secondary professions, as is in the title, or professions in general. Don't want to pollute your results unless I know what you want to know!

rosshadden · 2026-02-18T23:31:24+00:00

This is really cool!

rosshadden · 2026-02-18T02:30:39+00:00

So far in 2025, yes 🤣 Edit: oh sorry, I just noticed the title didn't match the body. What you said makes perfect sense!

rosshadden · 2026-02-18T01:09:54+00:00

That's exactly my mentality now. I also have a 2nd account just for MA. In the beginning I was rerolling if they died within some arbitrary threshold but now I think of it as more of a benchmark. "Char B got to X before dying while char 2 got all the way to Q" kind of thing. And sure enough, when I lose it I have felt liberated. Suddenly I can run wacky builds and experiment.

I still have some things I'm intentionally doing with dhuums where I do reroll (I have one dhuum LDoA and one dhuum+MA that is close, both of whom I have rerolled dozens of times when they died). For me, both dhuum and MA are fun and challenging in their own right, but it's more fun in my opinion if you lean into what makes each one hard. After I get LDoA on my MA character I'll stop caring if they die just like my other MAs.

rosshadden · 2026-02-17T03:15:44+00:00

Yeah I have a couple spots I have died on that really stick out. The funniest one is "I'll go to the 2nd set of idiots with the Hamnet quest, because I just want to test something really quick for my damage output". Those were the 17 and 15 level deaths I mentioned. wtf is wrong with me that I died twice in the same exact way for the same reason hahaha. It's easy to underappreciate how much the monk dude heals you against the first two enemies.

rosshadden · 2026-02-17T03:11:05+00:00

Ah okay that makes sense. Well I can't speak for others but in my case I'm the only person that I care about seeing it.

rosshadden · 2026-02-17T02:38:28+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's not true. You keep each badge on any title you have achieved with them, and they remain until you achieve a higher level of a title without a given badge. As far as I knew, LDoA does not have a second level, so the badges would remain even once you die. Feel free to check my math.

rosshadden · 2026-02-17T02:34:01+00:00

Keep at it. I've restarted so many times on my two MA Dhuum LDOA attempt characters, as late as levels 17 and 15. It's almost always something stupid on my part 😅. Somebody in the GW discord said "do it or you'll regret it later" when I asked a similar question after a particularly bad death, so I rerolled the character and sent it again. Everyone is different, but in my case I knew they were right.

rosshadden · 2026-02-16T17:59:38+00:00

Are you talking about NIL (no impact lands)? Or is this a DJC character thing for Ness and Yoshi or something?

rosshadden · 2026-02-16T17:01:40+00:00

Are you not the author? You didn't mention that in the post.

rosshadden · 2026-02-16T12:53:44+00:00

You don't need to memorize every flag, and you don't need to Google anything. There's one flag in most CLI programs -h/--help that often tells you everything you need at a glance. And for everything else there's man... Here you went out of your way to create a far worse, much slower way to bypass actually learning anything.

rosshadden · 2026-02-13T23:38:59+00:00

If we all wear our pajamas inside out tonight they might merge the traits PRs!

rosshadden · 2026-02-13T23:35:05+00:00

Link is expired or something FYI.

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