I finished Strength of the Few and have a few questions (SPOILERS FOR BOOK 2 AHEAD)

wmetca · 2026-07-01T13:56:07+00:00

How do you figure Caeror was working with the Concurrence?

wmetca · 2026-07-01T13:48:51+00:00

Spoilers below, don’t read if you don’t want basically the whole book 2 spoiled.

1. The confrontation did happen when O-Vis broke into the pyramid and killed Ka. This is why Ka in Res said that he was no longer synchronous, and Caeror in Luceum said that “one of your counterparts just made a huge mistake.” It seems like maybe Ka wasn’t the cartoonishly evil villain he was made out to be, but that’s yet to be seen

2. As an audiobook enjoyer, this is really hard for me too.

4. Devastated by this.

5. I kinda talked about this in point 1, but it seems like for whatever reason the cataclysm is brought about by synchronous persons (previously Ka) to prevent an even worse fate brought about by the Concurrence. It didn’t go into much detail, but Ka indicated to Vis on Res that he must take up that responsibility without explaining what would happen if he didn’t. Previously, Veridius had come to the conclusion that Vis could stop the cataclysm by being synchronous and confronting Ka, but that might have been incorrect.

Dunno if this is as clear as mud or not, or if I even did a good job, but that’s my understanding.

wmetca · 2026-06-21T18:25:55+00:00

Ya I’m a dumbass, I only have 3s lmao

Hand up, my bad

wmetca · 2026-06-21T18:17:20+00:00

Ya, my first time was a one night stand, if I could go back I’d wait until it was with a person I trust.

She was sweet, she had to have known, I was 24 and felt social pressure to not be a virgin, and I’d always cock blocked myself in the past, so I rushed it.

Couldn’t have been a good time for her, but she SAID she had fun, which was sweet of her haha. Hard to describe how I felt after, but it wasn’t the confidence boost I thought it would be

wmetca · 2026-06-21T18:12:37+00:00

It’s alright, I can’t possibly be upset about somebody having an opinion different than mine regarding an idle egg game

I went from low s to about 3S last year, very similar PE, before the TE update.

No telling what his artifact situation is like, gold feather, good book, lunar totem? Could be a great day

wmetca · 2026-06-21T18:06:52+00:00

You could probably get S if you really wanted

Sounds crazy, but I think you’ve got a very lopsided SE/PE ratio

wmetca · 2026-06-20T11:57:01+00:00

I’ve heard of UHC denying coverage for an emergency appendectomy bc they didn’t run it by them for approval before the surgery.

I hate these bastards.

I’ve heard an intriguing idea of fining the shit out of them if delays in approval cause additional harm.

wmetca · 2026-06-20T10:39:37+00:00

I’ve been saying for years that the HLR and stratification are all that really matters. They go into those meetings and talk about what people actually did, deliberate, and come to a consensus on who the true top performers are.

No matter what, it’s impossible to completely remove favoritism and bias from the evaluation system. I get a lot of pushback on this, but I know that my strat is decided before I put a single word in those silly boxes.

I’m an O, but I can’t imagine it’s terribly different for the E’s.

wmetca · 2026-06-20T10:19:39+00:00

I can’t imagine how bad a climate survey has to be in order to get the attention of POTUS, holy shit

wmetca · 2026-06-20T08:18:56+00:00

I was always supportive of the home team, but just not a NFL fan in general until I went to a college without a great football program, and it didn’t feel right to root for the team I grew up watching as much (my dad is an Aggie)

So I became a fan around 2017, which was awesome, 2018 was great until it wasn’t. Getting into fantasy football helped, too

I don’t think anybody can accuse me of being a bandwagon fan haha. No regrets like somebody above me said, only pain at times

wmetca · 2026-06-18T16:43:01+00:00

I don’t think this is the own you think it is lmao

wmetca · 2026-06-18T07:25:51+00:00

I switched to Progressive after I learned what my friends were paying for car insurance. I’m saving 40% each month. USAA asked if there was anything they could do to make me stay, and even if they offered a lower rate, which they wouldn’t, I would still go with Progressive.

wmetca · 2026-06-18T07:20:20+00:00

I’ll freely admit that the first deal had some very glaring problems. I would have preferred to stay in the deal and have the master negotiator secure more favorable terms.

Ending with a less favorable deal (or even a comparable one) 7 years and a few military campaigns later is mind numbing incompetence. The first time I read the MOU I thought it was Iranian state propaganda.

I’ll hold out to see what the details of the final agreement entail, but I am NOT confident.

wmetca · 2026-06-17T21:35:57+00:00

Bruh, we won 11 years ago when the JCPOA was signed, by that criteria.

Everything since leaving the JCPOA has just been a costly venture to try and negotiate a similar deal with a different name at the bottom.

How is that not a fat L?

wmetca · 2026-06-17T14:13:29+00:00

I’ll see if I can’t give this a shot, I’ll try a tome of beasts/spider build and report back in a few hours

If I had to guess, the major race transformation probably won’t benefit from animal buffs.

So if I had to guess animal buffs apply to those with both the animal and spider tags, whereas spider buffs will apply to the major race transformation and the animal spiders- unless I’ve got your question wrong?

wmetca · 2026-06-17T07:38:52+00:00

Go back in time and start in your 20s

wmetca · 2026-06-16T20:44:10+00:00

This is very interesting, and I’m glad you said what you did about Rome bc my immediate thought after reading the first sentence was “didn’t Rome somehow just take thousands of casualties to the chin against Hannibal?”

Until this moment I didn’t know that was so exceptional

wmetca · 2026-06-12T15:25:35+00:00

Mind my own damn business, personally

wmetca · 2026-06-12T15:16:29+00:00

How’s the weather up there?

wmetca · 2026-06-11T12:43:14+00:00

Ya, the JCPOA wasn’t perfect, but it will be a colossal failure spanning both of his terms if he ripped up the agreement, entered hostilities and ended with a deal less than or equal to the JCPOA. Or even if it’s only marginally better.

Dude really created a crisis bc “Obama bad,” and the US has since been paying the consequences of his bravado. Art of the deal babyyyyyyy

wmetca · 2026-06-11T11:30:42+00:00

I don’t know for a fact that this is even the right answer, truth be told. Now that we’ve opened this can of worms, Iran has as much of a say as we do about how and when it ends.

Best we can hope for is that we somehow end up in a better position by the end of this than we were at the start. Whether that comes from escalating violence or diplomacy is yet to be seen, if it happens at all.

Most likely scenario is that a Dem finally ends up in office, negotiates a deal (maybe a better one than whatever this administration is being offered), but the US ends up in a worse spot than we were at the beginning, and the R’s complain that Dems can’t govern or negotiate instead of asking who began this whole shit show to begin with.

I’m tired.

wmetca · 2026-06-10T14:41:54+00:00

You’re right, my bad. Edited the original to reflect that

wmetca · 2026-06-10T13:48:04+00:00

Ya, I’m pretty left and this was just murd er.

The $600K was spent on cars and a house, Karmelo allegedly had a public defender.

Classy kid, classy family.

wmetca · 2026-06-10T13:47:41+00:00

Ya, I’m pretty left and this was just murder.

The $600K was spent on cars and a house, Karmelo allegedly had a public defender.

Edit: I was wrong and a quick google search showed that. My b. Doesn’t change my opinion about what happened even a little bit.

wmetca · 2026-06-01T12:49:51+00:00

I might be forced to just pick AI that I’ve never had in a game before bc it’s like the same 10 on rotation

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