jenz's recent activity
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Comment on The 100 best fantasy books of all time in ~books
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Comment on Steam Key Giveaway Thread, September 2019 Edition in ~games
jenz Link ParentSword & Sworcery is an amazing game, I recommend to use headphones.Sword & Sworcery is an amazing game, I recommend to use headphones.
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Comment on Quora: 31,000 scientists who denied Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) in ~enviro
jenz Link ParentAnd this petition with 30k people, is from 1998 (snopes.com).And this petition with 30k people, is from 1998 (snopes.com).
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Comment on One Punch Man is awesome! Suggest me similar animes please in ~anime
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Comment on What are your top three favorite games of all time? in ~games
jenz Link ParentWell, I'd say yes. It is chess that deserves credit as a game, while stockfish does a very good job at playing that game with you.Well, I'd say yes.
It is chess that deserves credit as a game, while stockfish does a very good job at playing that game with you.
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Comment on What are your top three favorite games of all time? in ~games
jenz Link ParentStockfish is not a game. The game would be chessStockfish is not a game. The game would be chess
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Comment on What are you reading these days? #18 in ~books
jenz (edited )LinkI just finished the fourth and last, of the books of the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. And damn, it is amazing. Initially, my thoughts ran along the lines: this author is obsessed with John...I just finished the fourth and last, of the books of the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons.
And damn, it is amazing.
Initially, my thoughts ran along the lines: this author is obsessed with John Keats, and sure he is, and I'll say this: there is way, way, way too much going on here, way too much, all in all, I guess it is silly, though amidst the gorge of thousands, ripped to pieces by the shrike so terrible, the more people hanging, suffering but living, on a spike on the "tree of pain" ─ "silly" is silly; and the story, it is amazing. In the first two books, Hyperion and the The Fall of Hyperion there's what, 7-8, 9 ─ 10 main characters that the narrator is constantly switching between? Simmons seems to enjoy writing about pain. Though in the third and fourth books, he's pretty much only going about love. Which by the way has become a primitive force of the universe, according to him, it's a bit stupid really, but what the hell isn't, which also is a point he makes.
Nothing makes sense, they are within ruins hundreds of thousands of years old; and they're from the future? Obviously through the use of "anti-entropic fields". Well, every story has their nonsensical parts. This is Sci-Fi, this is war, or, I won't spoil. Quoting a goodread review (which gives 2 stars. Personally I'd rate it 4,5176M⊙):
borrowing from nearly every possible resource from Dante to Robinson Crusoe to Asimov to the Matrix to Star Trek. There are Martian Palestinian Refuge camps, time travel, backwards aging, superheros, space battles, giant trees in space, bioengineered butterfly people, androids, artificial intelligence, holodecks, crusaders, regeneration and rebirth, human sacrifice
─ that is, forgetting about everything, especially the countless Keats-references. And yes, that is way too much; and it is amazing, would recommend.
It's Sci-fi, mad Sci-fi, I reckon. Good night.
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Comment on What are you an "expert" on? in ~talk
jenz Link ParentYou’re welcome, while you’re at it I can recommend «Jazz på Ryska» by the same guy as well. I’ll also just mention «Jazz på Svenska» and «Jazz på Ryska» is swedish for respectively «Jazz in...You’re welcome, while you’re at it I can recommend «Jazz på Ryska» by the same guy as well.
I’ll also just mention «Jazz på Svenska» and «Jazz på Ryska» is swedish for respectively «Jazz in Swedish» and «Jazz in Russian»
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Comment on What are you an "expert" on? in ~talk
jenz Link ParentWell, doesn’t that make it: not the Dunning-Kreuger effect?I was gonna say I'm an expert in spotting when I'm falling victim to the Dunning-Kreuger effect
Well, doesn’t that make it: not the Dunning-Kreuger effect?
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Comment on What are you an "expert" on? in ~talk
jenz Link ParentI see "Jazz", I must respond: Jan Johanssons "Jazz på Svenska" ─ it's amazing!- Jazz
I see "Jazz", I must respond: Jan Johanssons "Jazz på Svenska" ─ it's amazing!
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Comment on What are you an "expert" on? in ~talk
jenz (edited )LinkI am an expert at being an idiot. I'm a serious polymath. Suddenly I started loving everything (probably way too much), and therefore I feel I must get to know everything, which makes me an idiot...I am an expert at being an idiot. I'm a serious polymath. Suddenly I started loving everything (probably way too much), and therefore I feel I must get to know everything, which makes me an idiot ─ and I love it!
I've yet to complete high-school so I haven't really had the time to become a proper expert in anything, though I dunno where that places me when it comes to my idiocy.
However that and whatever may be, therein ─ in the idiocy ─ my expertise lies.
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Comment on Shootings at Christchurch mosques in ~news
jenz Link ParentOh my god, I've never heard a stupider quote in my whole life (and please, don't link me to stupider ─ this' bad enough for me)Feminism - like environmentalism - is about reducing white Christian birth rates. Kinda Satanic when you think about it.
Oh my god, I've never heard a stupider quote in my whole life (and please, don't link me to stupider ─ this' bad enough for me)
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Comment on What have you been watching/reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
jenz LinkI've re-read Drifting Dragons for the nth time :D, it's the drawings that gets meI've re-read Drifting Dragons for the nth time :D, it's the drawings that gets me
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Comment on Whats the most important alias or function in your bashrc file? in ~comp
jenz Link ParentAs a fan of [Crystal][cr]: alias cr=crystal And why don't people use syntax highlighting? [cr]: https://crystal-lang.orgAs a fan of [Crystal][cr]:
alias cr=crystalAnd why don't people use syntax highlighting?
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Comment on what creative projects are you working on? in ~creative
jenz (edited )Link ParentBook of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe, has a great unreliable narrator, it's really interesting to read.unreliable narrator
Book of The New Sun by Gene Wolfe, has a great unreliable narrator, it's really interesting to read.
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Comment on What programming language do you think deserves more credit? in ~comp
jenz Link Parentlife←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } ⍝ John Conway's "Game of Life". That's Conway's Game of Life in one line 1, APL is amazing.APL
life←{ ↑1 ⍵∨.∧3 4=+/,¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽⊂⍵ } ⍝ John Conway's "Game of Life".That's Conway's Game of Life in one line 1, APL is amazing.
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Comment on Whats the most important alias or function in your bashrc file? in ~comp
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Comment on Jan Johansson - Jazz På Svenska in ~music
jenz (edited )Link ParentJust kidding, hehe. It definitely has been a hit, not sure about current popularity Yes!Blah blah
Just kidding, hehe. It definitely has been a hit, not sure about current popularity
Well worth a listen!
Yes!
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Comment on Jan Johansson - Jazz På Svenska in ~music
jenz LinkAs I don't see very much jazz here, I thought I'd share this favorite of mine :DAs I don't see very much jazz here, I thought I'd share this favorite of mine :D
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Jan Johansson - Jazz På Svenska
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If you have the slightest interest in reading books in general, you undoubtedly should give Arabian Nights a go. Judging by your critique of the article you seem to have an open mind -- being even more reason to read it. I read it first sometime around age ~12 and it resulted in my fascination for traditional arabian culture, which since then has expanded into fascination for culture, folklore and history in general!