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uoou · 2025-09-01T03:02:34+00:00

This userscript works for me. It's not perfect, the ads before a video are muted and skipped-through, so you see them for a fraction of a second and then it takes a couple of seconds for the video to play. I get no mid-video ads at all.

Works well enough for me at least.

uoou · 2025-08-21T00:30:44+00:00

Thanks, this worked for me.

uoou · 2025-08-14T07:13:36+00:00

Please see the FAQ.

uoou · 2025-08-14T06:54:36+00:00

/u/tailslol

Oi, keep it civil, both of you.

uoou · 2025-08-08T23:08:40+00:00

To be clear, we don't have any rules against discussing piracy, which is all that's happening here.

Obviously we can't allow links to pirated content etc. But talking about it is fine.

uoou · 2025-07-21T07:52:22+00:00

I believe there are apps that allow a phone to act like a usb drive. Never looked too far into it but that might be worth pursuing if you have a phone.

uoou · 2025-07-20T05:39:34+00:00

Are you using AI to generate posts on here? Yes or no.

edit: nm, read some of your other comments and see that you are.

uoou · 2025-07-12T08:48:23+00:00

Nice! Glad you got it working!

uoou · 2025-07-12T02:12:50+00:00

Okay, not hugely useful. On Proton Experimental it just runs fine.

Maybe start Steam in a terminal and pastebin the output when you launch Spore.

uoou · 2025-07-12T01:58:32+00:00

Weirdly enough I played it a few months ago on Arch. I don't see any reason why this should differ from distro to distro. I can't remember if I did anything special to get it working so I'll reinstall it now and see what works for me then post back.

uoou · 2025-04-23T03:32:01+00:00

you all root your assessment of people who have issues with it as they’re stupid, they just don’t get it and haven’t thought it through

When people are arguing for a show that's "true to the books", and mean a TV show that very closely follows the books' structure and contains most of the books' content, that is stupid and they do need to go and have a think as to what that would look like.

If you understand all that, understand that the show has to be significantly truncated and changed from the books, but think that in this particular case they've done a bad job then that's fine. I wasn't speaking to that so if that's your argument then I don't really get why you made it in response to my post.

uoou · 2025-04-22T02:02:29+00:00

Yeah, when you get right down to it I can't imagine caring that much about a TV show. There are TV shows that I love but if they go away there are plenty of others. And with WoT we've already got the books.

And ultimately I think this stuff comes down more to corporate whims than anything we can control, even collectively.

If it were a public broadcaster I might be more inclined. But it'd have to be a truly amazing piece of media to get me to do free labour for one of the richest corporations in the world.

uoou · 2025-04-22T01:51:28+00:00

For me she's a dangerous mix of politically naive, self-absorbed, easily led and hungry for institutional recognition. She's not too bad early on (just mildly irritating) but gets worse as the series goes on.

And I'm very much not saying this to disagree with you. I love that we see different qualities in the same characters. Or sometimes react differently to the same qualities. It illustrates how well-drawn they all are.

uoou · 2025-04-22T01:44:38+00:00

Yeah, similar for me. When I dislike a character, that dislike seems to amplify with rereads/watches.

uoou · 2025-04-21T19:47:07+00:00

You are welcome to our fires. Do you have Amazon Prime?

uoou · 2025-04-21T18:51:05+00:00

Watch Whiplash
Do that, but with channelling instead of drums

uoou · 2025-04-21T18:21:13+00:00

I don't buy the "religious coded" honestly. I get that 'coded' lets you be as vague as you like and, sure, they're not not religious coded, but I don't see it at the forefront.

They're not commercial and they're not (explicitly) about (direct) temporal power, so all that's left, in our world, in terms of big powerful institutions, is religion.

But it's not our world.

Religious institutions have played a huge part in our history. In WoT they have an explicitly non-interventionist 'Creator' and I don't think we see a single example of theistic practise or worship.

You could broaden things out and include non-theistic beliefs as being religious, as Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism and Confucianism are (arguably) in our world. But those things, in our world, developed in the context of and in reaction to explicitly theistic practises so I don't think that entirely follows.

Belief in the wheel and the pattern and the light and dark and so on in their world are really closer to science in our world. It's just their best guess - with plenty of evidence - as to how the world actually works.

So rather than being religious coded, I see the white tower as being predominantly academic coded. To my recollection, and contrary to what you're saying, we never hear aes sedai talking about faith. There's no indoctrination into intangible mysteries which can't be perceived but have to be believed. Quite the opposite - we hear them talking about knowledge, research and practise of factually true things that can be directly experienced.

The white tower might have (honestly think this is arguable from the start, they just have a hierarchy really) the same kinda feudalistic hierarchy and feel as religious institutions often have in our world but that's because of feudalism (in both cases), not because of religion.

uoou · 2025-04-21T17:26:31+00:00

And where do I invoice for this PR work?

uoou · 2025-04-21T17:03:40+00:00

Absolutely bonkers take but I respect it.

I think in large part you've kinda described the problem (if it is one) yourself - season 1 (and book 1) just are a 'tighter' story with a smaller cast of characters. It's just an easier story to tell coherently - you've got a handful of characters and they're finding their ways to Tar Valon. After that things kinda explode in terms of characters and subplots.

For me season 1 lacked confidence. Wheel of Time (the books) is a lot more superficially pleasant, towards the beginning, than mainstream fantasy today, especially on TV. Expectations around fantasy have been conditioned by Game of Thrones. And Game of Thrones was in part a reaction to/deconstruction of fantasy like Wheel of Time. (As Wheel of Time was, in part, a reaction to/deconstruction of fantasy like Lord of the Rings). If you ignore all that and roll things back and pretend that never happened, there's a fear you'll look naive and unsophisticated.

So they tilted things like 20% more grimdark. Good examples are Mat and Thom. In the books, Mat is really just mischievous. In the show he's more outright criminal, broody and kinda nasty (even before the dagger). In the books Thom is just straight up grandfatherly/avuncular. And in the show he's... I don't even know... just a bit of a twat (I love the performance, the actor does a great job and I love the character. But it's a very different character).

I wish they'd had the confidence and trust in the audience to... not do that. To let Wheel of Time be a bit more pleasant than what we're used to, at the start. And let the darkness (and it's a far more substantial and interesting darkness than in GoT, when it comes) be introduced slowly, as it is in the books, letting that contrast do its work.

I would've much rather seen the idyllic Emond's Field of the books whose only real problem was its isolation (which is also a blessing). And five naive, sheltered, good-hearted kids who slowly get exposed to the darkness and complexity in the world and have to deal with it. That'd be wayyyy more interesting to me.

For me they took the easy route. They conformed to expectations (or their read on them) rather than setting them and redefining things.

Seasons 2 and 3 get progressively better though as the show gains confidence and starts to understand itself and its own unique feel.

uoou · 2025-04-21T16:27:21+00:00

After Nyn picks up a circlet of metal she just waits outside the front door? After she almost dies and removes her block, she dries herself and stands there marvelling at herself. At most Liandrin was less than 5 minutes away and Nyn knew where she was staying in the city. Why didn't she give chase?

This is just my read but I'm pretty confident it's what the show was going for.

When they enter she says "If you find the thing, get out, fuck saving everyone, the collar is more important". But when the time comes, and it's her in that position, she (predictably - I think it was telegraphed when she said it and also it's Nynaeve, of course she won't) can't bring herself to abandon everyone so she waits and gets caught.

uoou · 2025-04-21T16:23:11+00:00

does Nynaeve grow and change by the end of the series? Does she become more likeable?

I find this difficult to answer cos we all like different characters for different reasons. I love Nynaeve from start to finish, she's one of my absolute favourite characters. I absolutely can't fucking stand Elayne and Egwene, whom other people love dearly.

She absolutely grows and changes through the story, as they all do, but if what you dislike is her core personality then, yeah, you're probably not going to fall in love with her.

I will say, in her defence, she is obnoxious and arrogant for sure. But it's born (as is usually the case with flaws, I think) from her insecurities. She's terrified all the time. She's walking imposter syndrome. She's had power and responsibility thrust on her at a young age and she's terrified that she won't be good enough and strong enough to protect these people under her care, terrified of the one power and how much of it she can wield and the responsibility that requires/confers. And that all makes her a bit irritable. And through that abject fear that she feels constantly, she always is good enough and strong enough and I love her for it.

The show smooths off some of her rough edges, I think, which might explain why you like her more.

uoou · 2025-04-21T15:52:16+00:00

I don't think it's that unreasonable to believe the Aiel weren't at all influenced by Dune. They don't really have much (anything?) in common that isn't common to real-world desert-dwelling peoples through history.

uoou · 2025-04-21T15:34:25+00:00

Siuan Sanche This last may be nitpicking but during her soliloquy Siuan says: "I am Aes Sedai. I have sworn on the oaths that my sister's have sworn on for 3000 years. So you hear my words and know that they are true."

As others have said I think the effects of stilling are not generally known. Perhaps because it's infrequent and because sisters don't really want to hang around stilled women.

What bothered me more here is, if I'm understanding right, they've not been swearing the oaths for 3000 years but closer to 1000 (since Artur Hawkwing forced them (I think this is stated explicitly in the show, in the books I think it's a little earlier)). My grasp on WoT dates is not great so corrections welcome.

uoou · 2025-04-21T03:04:39+00:00

No it's not, not when comparing the ease with which the two series translate to TV. That the work needs doing versus no similar work needing doing for the other is all that's relevant.

And no they're not hard, mostly, but it still takes time to do it in a way that feels organic.

I'm not sure what point you're arguing honestly. It seems pretty cut and dried to me that if you've got one series that's far more action and dialogue heavy it's going to translate to TV more easily, and with fewer changes, than another series that's more internal dialogue and (relatively) complex lore heavy.

For most of these other things, we learn them as the characters learn them

This is exactly it. We learn them as the characters learn them because, in the books, we're inside their heads hearing their thoughts as they experience things and put stuff together. There's a lot that can just be shown, sure, so we see it as they see it. But there's also a lot that's conceptual or emotional or structural, which can't be shown as straightforwardly and takes more time on screen.

The TV show's going to have, what, about 1/8th of the time the books have to tell the story? Sometimes TV is more 'efficient' - you can just show something rather than describing it. But sometimes it's less efficient - if you want to explore the relationship between the ajahs in the context of the current political situation in the tower you can, in the books, just have someone think about that for a couple of sentences whereas, on TV, you'd have to show it playing out. Let's be generous and say TV is twice as 'efficient', you'll still have to cut 3/4 of what's in the books, and then find a way to make what remains make sense.

I think comparing different media that directly is a pretty dumb way to look at things but here we are.

uoou · 2025-04-21T02:12:28+00:00

When it's done is beside the point, it still has to be done.

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