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seeing hechshers on things that are inherently kosher is always funny. thank you for notifying me that my plain, unflavored, additive free bottled water is pareve, but i’d be pretty concerned if it wasn’t
Kashrut requires that a Jew be involved/monitor every step of food preparation, a legacy of not being able to trust the Christians not to adulterate it with tref.
First play of Nucleum using my LED glowing power plants. Also first play including Mrs. Porcupine, who is finally starting to be well enough to play things again. (Image includes Court of Progress expansion.)
i kinda felt like I should read some Culture novels so I started Consider Phlebas and like. um. I thought there was gonna be a utopia and some nice ships fucking around. nobody gave me any goddamn content warnings for this thing. I mean look I am not someone who needs many content warnings, I enjoy plenty of #problematic content, but that was a little too much grisly detail in the description of torture-cannibalism for me. somebody tell me if the rest of these are less... that... and I can read them? please?
I took the common recommendation of reading Player of Games first, loved it instantly.
Read Inversions, Excession, they didn't have That, and what little I've gotten through of Matter hasn't been like that either.
The “coziest” Culture novel is Look to Windward. The most “needs a content warning” one is Surface Detail, for realistic treatment of (simulated) Hell. ( Runner-up is probably Use of Weapons. )
WTF happened to Tyler Cowen? Is it just Twitter-poisoning?
I recently finished Nicholas Ruocchio’s Tales of the Sun Eater heptalogy, and I have to recommend imagining Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt playing softly in the background for the last few chapters; it is fucking incredible how well it fits this story.
Side note: I have been listening to Cash’s cover of Hurt again, as one does, and that song hits a little harder every time. Nothing about the words or the melody changes, but you get older, and everything else about the world does.
ALT
ALTI liked the new Frankenstein, but, relevant to an argument we had on here a year or two ago, I want people who haven’t read the book to understand that GdT decided to really hammer the “the real monster is the doctor” message here by changing the plot. In the book, the creature hunts down and carries out separate, premeditated killings of both Victor’s brother and the object of his affections, to pressure him to create the companion. Their deaths are not accidental (nor is Victor involved in killing his brother), as portrayed in the film.
Reminder that multiheaded blocked me for saying that I didn’t find Tara Reade credible.
I got a fitness tracker recently. This is a pretty typical sleep for me, which explains why I’m always perfectly mentally alert but often tired (REM in ideal range; way too little deep sleep).
Bleg: Need a link to the original Tumblr post on how talking about a type of person inevitably leads to that exact person showing up in the notes to argue.