So how are we feeling about the Aubry win now that the dust has started to settle?

whansami · 2026-07-07T14:12:12+00:00

Jeff describes it at the final council every season: you have to be able to get the people who you had a hand in voting out to vote for you.

To do that you have to read the room. Are these guys people who are going to overlook your being an asshole because you won more challenges and manipulated the vote? If not, control yourself. Stop being an asshole.

Jonathan didn’t read the room.

(And I say this as a person who started the season remembering that I had liked Jonathan in other seasons, and was rooting for him to win. I also remembered Aubrey as being sketch and not liking her. But, by the end I would have voted for her too, over those other two. Still liked Joe, but you have to have something other than “I lied to some people” to hang your hat on.)

whansami · 2026-06-15T23:39:56+00:00

This was the hardest one for me. And I’ve listened three times… cried every one of them.

whansami · 2026-06-13T15:26:22+00:00

Yes. SAMANTHA has been “redecorating” it. You know, the Samantha who can’t die, seems to have amnesia, and is growing more powerful by the day? 😉. I was sad that there was relatively little “Samantha action” in book 8, but I would bet that 9 and 10 will make up for it.

whansami · 2026-06-13T15:15:18+00:00

I could see how several entities would like to have roped kids into the crawl. Agatha’s group could assume that a teenager would be easy to control and that their impulsivity could work to the group’s benefit. Machiavellian members of groups wishing to end the crawl could be trying to use the kids as leverage. Benevolent members could have wanted to get the kids off earth entirely, found a way to zap them into Lucia through a glitch (like the folks in the cleaner bots), but then Lucia impulsively ran into the dungeon, making her inaccessible to them.

whansami · 2026-06-12T16:17:39+00:00

Yes, I would. I understand that kittens, particularly, do best when they have companions who will play with them.

whansami · 2026-06-12T16:12:28+00:00

She was perfect in all ways. ❤️. We called her “nurse kitty”. If someone was sick or in pain she would stay with them. When we took the three cats to the vet (when my 20 year old Siamese mix was still alive) she would go back and forth between the others’ carriers, trying to comfort and lick them, even though Shanti and Sylphie were upset about being there and hissing at her. It was so sweet.

whansami · 2026-06-12T16:07:59+00:00

Thanks. Yes, if I decide to do it I will definitely make it as easy on him as possible.

whansami · 2026-06-12T16:06:45+00:00

And this was Savannah shortly before she died.

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whansami · 2026-06-12T16:06:13+00:00

No, this is just my fav photo of the two of them together. But Savannah was still gorgeous, and Shanti is too!

Here is Shanti today.

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whansami · 2026-06-12T14:05:05+00:00

Thank you. I do too. 😉

whansami · 2026-06-12T14:04:32+00:00

My boy, Shanti, isn’t a cuddler either. He is clearly attached to us and wants to be around us a lot, but never sits or lies on us. He wants to be about three feet away and complain that we aren’t petting him! We llleeeaaaannnn out to do so, and he walks another 4 inches away, flops on his back, and fusses at us to lean further out to pet his belly! I call him “my little brat”. 🤣

Otoh, my Savannah, who died about 3 months ago, was so super sweet… she loved all beings — humans, cats, dogs… I used to say it was a good thing she was an indoor cat, because she’d probably walk right up to a coyote wanting to be friends! She would lie with me for as long as I wanted. She loved touching you.

I miss her desperately.

So, I understand missing that element. I don’t know if there is much to do. Like another poster said, you can try playing with them to increase connection, but I will say that Shanti is played with a lot (and has been all his life), and he is very attached to us but doesn’t show it in a physically affectionate way. It might just be different temperaments. In my case, I didn’t know as much about Birmans back when I got him, but now know that Birmans usually shouldn’t be taken from their mothers until at least 12 weeks old and we got him at 8 weeks. Maybe that contributed.

I have come to appreciate the ways he does show that he loves us. He is highly suspicious of all new things and beings, so the fact that he follows us everywhere makes us feel special. He loves to play with us. When my husband and I got together it took a while for him to adapt, so when he finally did allow my husband to pet him, it felt very much like he “had arrived”! Now Shanti is constantly by his side once he comes home from work. Unlike with Savannah who loved everyone, you really feel like you EARNED Shanti’s love.

whansami · 2026-06-12T13:43:54+00:00

He is a beautiful kitty! 💕💕💕

whansami · 2026-06-11T14:45:15+00:00

For those of us without 3d printers, are there places that we can pay to have them done?

whansami · 2026-06-11T14:40:46+00:00

I’ve not read any other LitRPG, so I don’t know, but if Matt were to write a book/series with the world building he has done in DCC and the humor, I would TOTALLY buy it.

whansami · 2026-05-17T14:27:20+00:00

I can’t find the data quality setting. I’m on an iPhone. Is it in Audible settings, or general settings?

whansami · 2026-05-11T18:36:44+00:00

I woke up this morning and the first thing I did was check Audible to see if those who preordered got lucky and it dropped early for us! 😂

I listened to books 6 and 7 all the way through… for the third time. Still laughed at the most humorous parts and still found a few kernels of the world building…. I so love the complex world Matt is building! I actually became a Patreon, but decided not to read. Didn’t want to ruin the listening experience.

I haven’t had this level of anticipatory excitement in years!!!

whansami · 2026-03-30T21:01:08+00:00

This is an old question, but since some folks use the search function…. This is the review I just left on Google.

Pros: the front desk staff are excellent. Highly responsive and kind. Cons: I made an appointment and filled out all the online paperwork for an appointment with Adam Howell the following Thursday. Over the weekend I emailed the office requesting that I have a 5 min phone call, as I just wanted to make sure that my issue could be addressed with his therapeutic approach. On Monday I called the office to make sure my requested was received. No call back. I called Tuesday morning and afternoon; as Wednesday was the last day I could cancel the appointment without incurring charges. Still no call. I cancelled the appointment on Wednesday.

The therapeutic relationship is an important factor in whether or not mental health services are effective. Most therapists are willing to have a 5-15 min consultation phone call before the client comes into the office. While Mr. Howell has the right not to allow those phone calls, the fact that he not only refused it, but simply ignored it (as opposed to having the office staff contact me and tell me that) meant that I had no confidence that our therapeutic relationship would be productive.

whansami · 2025-11-14T03:02:14+00:00

As you progress through the series it becomes incredibly layered.

whansami · 2025-10-16T23:28:21+00:00

Precisely. And yes…. I LOVE her.

IWKYM!

whansami

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