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That's good to hear Soren. I figured a major part of it is simple network issues. Some people I'd love to hear from: - Kim Swift - Roberta Williams - Amy Hennig - Jane Jensen - Rebekah Saltsman - Megan Fox And kudos again on already getting Meg Jayanth on.

I don't know what the selection process is for these guests but it's skewing decidedly male

hahahaha willst du mit mir Drogen nemen that's amazing I love both those clips/songs

Wenn ich Deutsch spreche mit meinde Deutsche Freunde sagen sie immer dass ich wie ein Nazi anhore, nur weil ich so scharf artikuliere.

I would simply create a new character, to be honest. There's so much joy for me in these games in especially the early power arc that you can get. The unstructured nature of the game also means that you can now take a different route than you did on your first playthrough and smell the roses in other places first. I'm definitely going back some time soon as well, though I've got Scholar of the First Sin waiting for me first.

Just saw The Lobster - wow. One of the most intriguing and provocative things I've seen in a while. Very, very cool

Well, most fantasy does situational drama (the world's about to end!), Kay is pretty unique in that he does character drama (like everyone has the strongest feelings and is just the best at everything, including the 'antagonists'). Adventure vs. romantic tragedy I guess? Sidestepping much of this is one of the things that makes the New Sun books sooo good for me.

I think Tigana started to warm me up to his stuff, then A Song for Narbonne got me all the way on board, and then whatever books came after (I want to say something about a middle eastern analogy?) kind of blew it again for me. The highest of high drama has a place but boy does it get wearisome at times. His Tolkien ripoff doesn't really bear mentioning.

Chicken sate is Indonesian street food.

Had a shitty fucking flu since friday evening and it's driving me bananas. Now there's a cough shown up to the party just to rub extra salt in the wound.

Er, so only US things allowed?

Holy crap the graphical fidelity is awful. It's at times worse than FC2 itself. Is this a Wii U thing?

That can't be comfortable.

Lovely episode Declan, you two had a great rapport going on. Fun listen.

I played through silver on the PC once I believe, though I wasn't too enamored of it it fit an interesting niche that was mostly unfilled on PC.

"Hast du ihn umgebracht" - nice

Short review also posted on goodreads. I really liked this one. I also liked how the racism was so much more overt and well-handled here than in Everything you never told me. A dark, depressing and funny book. I'm sure it's not as powerful to me as it would be to someone with more emotional investment in the Vietnam war (I'm too young for that). But the universal themes of revolution, war, betrayal and the inevitable transformation from revolutionaries into tyrants ring true regardless, and the theme of torture is sadly more relevant now than ever. The sly way in which the narrator portrays himself actually made me sympathise with the commandant slightly because it's clear he's spinning things (culminating in a reference to the impressive size of the author's genitals). Still, he's an extremely entertaining writer. The book highlighted a people and an experience I never thought much about (the Vietnamese refugees in the US) while showing and deconstructing all the problems with a two-party and two-side system clearly. All this while serving as a great mirror and lampoon of American exceptionalism and casual racism. Wonderful.

Just finished this. I think I'm going to need some time to assimilate this. First thought: what an amazing ride. I especially loved how the narrator managed to sneak a mention of how big his dick is into his autobiography.

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This game has been slowly consuming me. It's basically the metagame of Hearthstone (open packs of 5 cards, build a deck, play it vs. other people, there's a limited mode that gives rewards, destroy cards to get currency for creating other cards, etc). But the game itself plays out on a tactical map instead of the almost dimensionless board of Hearthstone. For those old enough to remember it, this is basically to Pox Nora what Hearthstone was to Magic: the Gathering. My name in the game is the same as here. Feel free to hit me up for a game, or some tips. You get a free pack of cards for playing against someone on your friends list once. Also, use the code 'redditpals' when creating an account for some free stuff. This game is much more generous than Heartstone, having a lot of extremely cool single-player puzzle scenarios that reward you with currency, a pretty solid starter deck for each faction that can carry you at least to rank 20 (out of 30) and in general a much better odds of getting high-rarity cards from packs. Give it a shot! There's an excellent beginners'guide here: https://forums.duelyst.com/t/dec-update-beginners-guide-to-duelyst/1016

I wormed my way through Jeff Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy, I believe on a recommendation from these forums. Pretty much what I was expecting in many ways, already having read and enjoyed several of his novels. Still, intersecting with a more current-day world adds a whole new dimension to his cordiceps-punk brand of horror. Very cool, though nothing revelatory.

I haven't read the books in Dutch (I was too old to read translations by the time these came out) but I do know that the Dutch translations did some very cool things and some very crappy things. Examples: - Hogwarts -> Zweinstein (Something like Castle Pig) - fair enough I guess) - Dumbledore -> Perkamentus ('Parchmentus' - ugh) - Quidditch -> Zwerkbal (heavenball - I love this one)

What a strange, frustrating book. From moment to moment I liked the prose well enough, and there's some quite inspired little nuggets in there, like the story of the widow and her daughter in the occupied Middle Eastern country, but overall the structure and vagueness was too much for me. If this book was trying to say something, it was lost on me. The theme of man-on-woman violence went nowhere. The fox aspect went nowhere. The allusions to Mr. Fox's past went nowhere.

What the fuck hahaha

There once was a gal from poopwater Who was such a dutiful daughter That when dad had to go and he informed her so She'd escort him down to the trotter