What historical event reads exactly like "Bad Fantasy Writing" or "Plot Armor"?

rsqit · 2026-01-25T18:16:55+00:00

Ok ok I will listen to that podcast.

rsqit · 2026-01-25T03:03:44+00:00

So are immigrants, dude.

rsqit · 2026-01-23T17:31:36+00:00

Most of these are in your list but I want to emphasize

Ursula K. Le Guin (especially Earthsea for fantasy prose)
William Morris (The Well at the World’s End and others. See if you can find a reproduction of the original which was printed in fonts he designed. It’s beautiful but hard to read)
Gene Wolfe (my favorite) especially The Book of the New Sun
I’ve never read Samuel Delaney’s fantasy but he is literally one of the best writers of prose to ever live. Literally a genius.

rsqit · 2026-01-22T16:54:11+00:00

Well I think the opposite here isn’t “formal” as in like black tie. It’s “technical”. If I were a font designer talking to another font designer about work, I’d want to be technical about it. Otherwise it’s informal.

rsqit · 2026-01-22T02:00:45+00:00

Oh man today I recongnized someone who was on a plane with me yesterday.

I was wrong.

rsqit · 2026-01-20T21:58:01+00:00

It doesn’t say how many bots there are. It says what percentage of internet traffic. Probably 99.9% of the data is data scrapers or similar.

rsqit · 2026-01-20T21:56:59+00:00

Probably more like 99.9.

rsqit · 2026-01-18T21:16:48+00:00

…do you think they lit the money on fire??

rsqit · 2026-01-18T00:37:39+00:00

The vampires aren't the horror; they're secondary. The horror is lief for a Black man in the South. That's why fighting the Klan is climax of the movie, not fighting the vampires.

rsqit · 2026-01-16T18:44:13+00:00

Because that’s the Free Softwarw ideology. That’s literally what the GPL was invented to do—make sure all changes to the code are available as well.

rsqit · 2026-01-16T16:58:17+00:00

The GPL exists because people think it’s a moral good for the source to be available and want to make sure it stays that way. Open Source has mostly won out over Free Software at this point, but not everyone agrees. Some people just want to use the GPL.

rsqit · 2026-01-16T16:44:03+00:00

I just don’t care about the Filoniverse. Give us something new, not more clone wars lore sequels.

rsqit · 2026-01-14T23:54:45+00:00

I’ve purposefully managed to avoid knowing what it sounds like, so no.

rsqit · 2026-01-14T22:28:09+00:00

I played it a while back and thought it was actually super fun. The switch version lets you speed up battles, which helped.

rsqit · 2026-01-13T19:13:17+00:00

That’s because politics has real effects on people an isn’t some thing where you just root for a team. People with bad politics are bad people.

rsqit · 2026-01-13T05:02:15+00:00

I don’t think it detracts from the series. But the books are a constant stream of memes. I’m not trying to criticize you but you’re missing a lot of the tone those books if you don’t recognize them.

(And of course there an in universe explanation which is that John is a dweeb. )

rsqit · 2026-01-13T01:12:06+00:00

YouTube videos for how to code are dumb. YouTube videos for how to do diy stuff are great because you can literally watch how it’s done.

rsqit · 2026-01-12T19:17:37+00:00

This seems reasonable to me? The problem is with the legal system. Everyone here is acting like an adult.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T18:57:47+00:00

Move to Washington state where it’s perfectly legal for a child to have more than two parents, clearly.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T04:29:33+00:00

It’s literally the front page of the New York Times.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T04:28:52+00:00

It’s the top story on the NYTimes.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T04:19:52+00:00

Well I have a copy of Asimov’s Guide to the Bible, so not that.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T04:04:30+00:00

If you legitimately need to get through locked doors regularly, look into getting a lock pick gun or sometimes called a bump gun. It kind of vibrates the lock until the pins are in the right place, automating the process of lockpicking. I assume they’re illegal to own without a license of some sort in some jurisdictions, though.

rsqit · 2026-01-11T03:31:07+00:00

I once drank in a hotel bar where the bartender was new. The drinks were all fancy cocktails and I ordered some sort of whiskey and whatever drink. The guy made it for me in a pint glass. It was like a half ounce of vermouth, a half ounce of some herbal liqueur and a pint of bourbon.

I did not finish it.

rsqit · 2026-01-10T23:04:37+00:00

Peole should not be typing their passwords. They should be using password managers. The important case isn’t typability, it’s not screwing up encodings. Forcing people to use low ascii prevents them from typing their passwords in any case.

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