nxdefiant @ nxdefiant @startrek.website

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See, Rothfuss made a Mary Sue. Since the story is being told by the guy the story is about, after the fact, to someone who the narrator has no respect for, Rothfuss has an out: He can let Kvothe keep telling his story and then out it all as complete bullshit, or he can let it be just an embellished truth and then let us learn exactly why Kvothe is essentially in hiding after living such a fantastical life - either way Kvothe gets his punishment / redemption and we learn about what real tragedies have befallen him. This story is deep and good.

What he cannot do is pretend that all that ACTUALLY happened, and that Kvothe went on to kill a king and retired to an easy life as an in keeper. That story would suck hard ass and make everyone's eyes roll out of their heads.

I'm convinced he wrote #2 and is basically waffling over how to turn it into #1, or arguing with his publisher over it, because he knows it's inherently bad.

Holy shit WE CAUSED THE GEK?!

Don't forget murder and homelessness!

Plot twist: Adam's earthlings were probably mostly Golgafrinchans.

He Godwin'd his own rant. Incredible . It's like watching an LLM devolve until it starts repeating numbers. Are we sure this guy isn't riddled with brain parasites, or perhaps is just a parasite himself?

It's even easier than that. A consecrated spigot produces holy water.

Depends, do you have an unscratchable itch in your Halleryeriperactiam?

As Jod intended.

Those might be .38 specials, but your point stands.

If you've ever interviewed at Google, you know why this is happening. They hire people who are as much like the people they already employ as possible, to the point that employees don't know who they're interviewing or even for what. The person getting hired is pre-screened for all sorts of "desirable traits" before being matched with a team. The people who succeeded there all think the same, and so they all end up having the same ideas, and the number of novel ideas nose dives.

IBM has an internal motto that they really push when you get hired there: "Treasure wild ducks". Beyond the regular buzz word bingo of 'think different ' and 'move fast break things' it means "when someone else has a crazy idea that might just work, fucking listen to them", and it's what's kept them in business for literally a century. I don't think Google has that fundamental non-self-centered DNA. Every product they've ever put out was a result of their intellectual monoculture and the hyper competitive mire of sameness it breeds.

The P in Prod stands for "It'll be Pfine"

CEO == Carbon Monoxide.

Facts.

The Deliverator belongs to an elite order...

You blew right by creating the universe first. Your apple pies probably come out terrible.

10 minutes for a process is essentially infinity

I love when: "This is tedious and should take a few hours, so I spent 40 hours designing and fabricating this huge hyper specific jig that I made from the 80 square feet of 'scrap' MDF i had just lying around the shop, and will require at least 16 cubic feet of space to store!"

Oh. I think I'll be just fine.

THIS is how you protest vote. Bravo Michigan Democrats. I hope they still vote for him in the general, but I'm still glad they're making the DNC sweat.

Fun fact, the last person drawing a pension from the Civil War died in 2020.

I think that was an attempt to call me out for giving zero fucks about Android spellcheck dicking with my comment.