Have you ever read Dreaming the Eagle, by Manda Scott? I only read the series (4 books) once, when each was coming out, but I remember them being really great.

OverDrive has been improving, but also find out if your library offers Hoopla, a relatively newer digital streaming service from Midwest. They offer a different model: all items are unlimited simultaneous borrowing, but the library sets a monthly limit on borrows instead. This way nothing is ever checked out. Hoopla…

I just burst out laughing when I got to the end of your comment. Thank you for that.

Should have taken the bus...

I was so into that in FFXI. It kills me that FFXIV’s Lalafells drop the gendered conventions Square used for Tarutaru while still emulating the non-gendered ones. I assume every Lalafell I see is female because they almost always use names that in FFXI wuld have signified a female Tarutaru. At least they kept the…

I was glancing through the comments on a WaPo article (because I hate myself, I guess), and someone kept referring to him as “Don the Con” and I found myself thinking, “Huh! So this is what it’s like to not be disgusted by the use of one of those stupid inflammatory political nicknames...”

Oh my god this is amazing. Thanks so much!

San Myshuno?

I only disagree because I thought Rage Wars was better. - Only me

Really good point. I hope when Radiolab’s More Perfect comes back for another season they cover this hypothetical situation. I’d love to listen to an in-depth discussion of it.

Aww, I wish they still disemvoweled here.

God I miss that show.

“Put your right hand in the box.”
“What’s in the box?”
“A thermal detonator.”

Required.

The first part of this comment is me, and then I fail at the 50/50 part. I love listening to people tell me about themselves and their goings on. However, I have crazy anxiety and always falter trying to ask the right questions to keep things moving along once the back and forth on one topic is finished. And god…

The Rooks and Kings EVE videos are just the best. They’re every bit as interesting as the war documentaries you used to see on television with dramatized diary and correspondence excerpts and calm but somehow still impassioned explanations of strategy and reaction.

Here ya go.

I really enjoyed The Midas Flesh, but I did not enjoy the nightmare thoughts that come from thinking about the same thing happening in real life.

I’ve backed a decent handful of projects (4-5?) that have had similar issues where a majority of backers find their fund transfer has failed (almost every time for the ones I’ve seen it’s been auto-reported as a credit card decline, though it isn’t actually). I could be misremembering, but I think it’s always happened…