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  1. Comment on Tracking who US President Donald Trump has named to serve in his cabinet and administration in ~society

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    You gotta go cabbage, not lettuce or it's too easy even in this admin

    You gotta go cabbage, not lettuce or it's too easy even in this admin

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    I did a publishing order re-read last year. The later books are overall better. It's definitely "of its time" in for example portrayal of a sympathetic gay character but also having that character...

    I did a publishing order re-read last year. The later books are overall better. It's definitely "of its time" in for example portrayal of a sympathetic gay character but also having that character have a tragic end. By the Owlknight era, the queerness was more casual/accepted and a lot of the weirdness had been dealt with. The Collegium Chronicles just felt very Harry Potter and quidditch except Valdemar.

    But I love the Mage Wars/Gryphon books and the ripples into the "present day" post Cataclysm stuff. The recent Founding of Valdemar trilogy is the story I wanted even if I suspect a ghost writer due to the much more modern language/slang used throughout.

  3. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

  4. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    Thanks, I hadn't read but it was on my list and I didn't know much!

    Thanks, I hadn't read but it was on my list and I didn't know much!

  5. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    You're right, I had my numbers off. It was like 10% who made it outside the school though, right?

    You're right, I had my numbers off. It was like 10% who made it outside the school though, right?

  6. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    On acid and shrooms and maybe visited by real space aliens. Scholomance but if you the reader are the POV character from The Yellow Wallpaper Scholomance if it was built in the tower/tunnel...

    On acid and shrooms and maybe visited by real space aliens.

    Scholomance but if you the reader are the POV character from The Yellow Wallpaper

    Scholomance if it was built in the tower/tunnel staircase thing from Annihilation (the book)

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    6 votes

  8. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    The Valdemar Collegium Chronicles subseries in particular are also very YA. Still have a lot of love for Valdemar but they definitely do feel their age sometimes. I'm adding the others I read to...

    The Valdemar Collegium Chronicles subseries in particular are also very YA. Still have a lot of love for Valdemar but they definitely do feel their age sometimes.

    I'm adding the others I read to my list because then my ranking is there 😅 not trying to steal your thunder

  9. Comment on Book recommendation request: Fantasy book about university similar to The Name of the Wind? in ~books

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    I've Read (with emoji for ranking) ❓Vita Nostra: I have no idea what happened in this book, but magical school 👎🏼Ninth House: Yale but magic secret society 👍🏼Legendborn: Regular college but...

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    ❓Vita Nostra: I have no idea what happened in this book, but magical school
    👎🏼Ninth House: Yale but magic secret society
    👍🏼Legendborn: Regular college but magical secret society
    👍🏼👍🏼Scholomance: Magic school, not college, with a 50% survival rate, and 0 teachers. Still better odds than outside
    😐Atlas Six: Magic secret society that I truly don't remember if it's in college or just "dark academia" vibes
    👍🏼Wizard of Earthsea: wizard school on islands
    👍🏼To Shape a Dragons Breath - not college but excellent story about an indigenous dragon "rider" (the dragon is very small) in a colonial European school by an indigenous author.
    👍🏼💜Discworld's Unseen University subseries - I love discworld but mostly these don't deal much with the academic day to day, or the students.
    👎🏼The Magicians: Magic college. I found this miserable with miserable characters.

    Not read:
    Tam Lin: A retelling of the ballad in college
    Super Powereds: superhero college slice of life (web novel)

    4 votes

  10. Comment on What does the word "cancelled" mean to you? in ~talk

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    I used to hear canceled used in that way, And now I only hear it in association with cancel culture in the way you describe, like woke. I'll admit I've not heard Gen Z use it in a long time. But...

    I used to hear canceled used in that way, And now I only hear it in association with cancel culture in the way you describe, like woke. I'll admit I've not heard Gen Z use it in a long time. But also genuinely not really seen it used by millennials in conversation either.

    It always seemed more millennial to me anyway but also when Gen Z talks about people they just say all the bad stuff. I heard a teen explain who Mr Beast was to her mom and other than using "SA" for sexual assault, she actually gave a very good summary. Canceled never came up. (I work with Gen Z so I hear them at a lot)

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Is there a site where I can check if a game has multiple endings or missable stuff without spoilers? in ~games

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    Considering Google's Gemini just lied to me again today, I'm not sure you'd want to trust the link or the answer. You might be fine, but you might not

    Considering Google's Gemini just lied to me again today, I'm not sure you'd want to trust the link or the answer. You might be fine, but you might not

    7 votes

  12. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    Sure but everyone has their line, and that line is generally set by a complex weighing of the company itself, the politics around it nationally and locally, the personal beliefs of that...

    Sure but everyone has their line, and that line is generally set by a complex weighing of the company itself, the politics around it nationally and locally, the personal beliefs of that individual, the level of inconvenience to their lives, and the awareness of and the amount of importance placed on each.

    I don't shop at Hobby Lobby due to their bullshit at banning coverage of birth control just to sue over the ACA and then generally being very Christian and like, stealing artifacts IIRC. I also have multiple other local craft store options and need craft supplies less often than I used to.

    There are people with the same general values as me that do shop at Hobby Lobby, because their other option is basically Amazon, and that's worse for them. Or because in the manager at their local Michael's failed to fire the homophobic employee that called a friend a slur. Or because the issues that bother me about HL have never registered to them because they're younger than me. They may also feel that their business doesnt matter in the scheme of things and they express their values in different ways. It's all weights on a scale but none of our personal little weights to each are identical.

    It would be difficult for an American living in America to boycott all American companies. But they might try I suppose (probably for a YouTube video). Someone elsewhere may feel that Russia's existing fake elections and war for territory are still currently worse than the US's fragile elections and war for all the other reasons we do war things. Or it may be that they can easily avoid Russian products, but less so American ones.

    It's not all or nothing for most people. And probably never will be.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Is there a site where I can check if a game has multiple endings or missable stuff without spoilers? in ~games

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    I just learned today too! I looked through BotW as an example and it was pretty good I think. Much smaller sample of games than shows or movies

    I just learned today too! I looked through BotW as an example and it was pretty good I think.
    Much smaller sample of games than shows or movies

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    Probably depends how popular they are in Russia or how popular Kagi is for the sort of people who also upload military documents on discord to prove which tanks aren't being correctly started out...

    Probably depends how popular they are in Russia or how popular Kagi is for the sort of people who also upload military documents on discord to prove which tanks aren't being correctly started out in a video game.

    Or, maybe, mostly, Russia doesn't care about it. Idk.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    Oh sure, I really like Broadway musicals and musical theatre in general. This just isn't my thing. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be other people's thing or I'd want to ban it because it makes me...

    Oh sure, I really like Broadway musicals and musical theatre in general. This just isn't my thing. Doesn't mean it shouldn't be other people's thing or I'd want to ban it because it makes me personally uncomfortable with my squishy gender.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on How To Train Your Dragon | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    It'd be really awful to do that to Nico Parker who's receiving all sorts of hate for not being Scandanavian. I mean she's also multiracial, and some people think it's fine because she's like,...

    It'd be really awful to do that to Nico Parker who's receiving all sorts of hate for not being Scandanavian. I mean she's also multiracial, and some people think it's fine because she's like, "mostly white" but she's not blonde so, it's really about the "authenticity." (Just because /s)

    No other actor is Scandanavian either, but that doesn't come up. TBH I bet they're not even hiring real dragons.

    (I'm annoyed at this fandom rn)

    5 votes

  17. Comment on The Lonely Island - Here I go (ft. Charli XCX) (Uncensored version, 2024) in ~music

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    "My Dad's not a phone!" "A big blue watery road" Lyrics do that to me too.

    "My Dad's not a phone!"
    "A big blue watery road"

    Lyrics do that to me too.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    I'd not actually call those reasons - less privacy, not having regulation - wins personally. But I just wonder if that same algorithm basically opens data up to the government. And to be fair...

    I'd not actually call those reasons - less privacy, not having regulation - wins personally.

    But I just wonder if that same algorithm basically opens data up to the government. And to be fair that's true everywhere, but I can at least pick which governments get my info. (I don't use Kagi, so this is just academic for me)

    3 votes

  19. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    It's not financially/location-wise an option for me right now to go to their live shows. I'm pretty sure if I met Brennan or my favorite author (Seanan McGuire) or anyone I'd be speechless and...

    It's not financially/location-wise an option for me right now to go to their live shows.

    I'm pretty sure if I met Brennan or my favorite author (Seanan McGuire) or anyone I'd be speechless and embarass myself.

    I met the guy that played Marcus in Babylon 5 and while this was like... 15 years ago, he was still older than he'd been in the show and seemed like life had been a bit rough. I was still toungetied and made a fool of myself.

    I just live vicariously through others mostly while trying not to be parasocial about it.

    2 votes

  20. Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv

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    (FYI, "cis" isn't an acronym) Yes, I don't really enjoy loud concerts and stuff either. It's a combo of things. But man I wish I could play at a table with Brennan and Aabria (and Ericka!, and ...)

    (FYI, "cis" isn't an acronym)

    Yes, I don't really enjoy loud concerts and stuff either. It's a combo of things. But man I wish I could play at a table with Brennan and Aabria (and Ericka!, and ...)

    3 votes