You shouldn’t repeat rumors you heard without any actual evidence at hand to back them up. That’s just baseless gossip. It’s poison spewing from your mouth to the ears of anyone who hears you.
You shouldn’t repeat rumors you heard without any actual evidence at hand to back them up. That’s just baseless gossip. It’s poison spewing from your mouth to the ears of anyone who hears you.
I’ve also read convincing theories that he was on the spectrum, which could explain a lot of his challenges interacting with people, as well as his obsessive tendencies.
3 comedy points.
Who sneezed on my beans?
That’s how a lot of marketing astroturfing works though.
You let people post things organically, then you signal boost the shit out of them, and nobody can claim it’s false or contrived, because OP really did just post a thing they like.
sigh
Yeah I think I’ll just light a match.
There was a post the other day about a “powermod” from reddit who was doing the same thing with lemmy communities - snatching up dozens of names and squatting on them. Folks are rightly asking for restrictions on the number of communities any one person can mod, along with other safeguards to prevent power-tripping.
Loved this game as a kid. I probably spent more time playing it than almost any other computer game.
I’ll be checking this one out. Thanks.
I’m hoping this thread can provide some good alternatives for keeping a running “want to read” and “have read” list, because that’s all I use GR for, and I do like that it syncs with my kindle and updates that automatically when I finish a book. The reviews are typical social media junk, not very useful for finding books to read.
However, I do enjoy how they do the occasional giveaway. I got a free copy of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower that way.
I just recently learned that OpenLibrary.org has a similar “want to read”/“currently reading”/“already read” feature, so I may migrate my lists over there when I have time.
Learning about his actual history is honestly one of the things that bounced me out of that series. I just couldn’t keep rooting for a character who was essentially a genocidal monster, when the narrative clearly wanted me to be sympathetic toward him and believe he had reformed. I didn’t feel like he had anywhere near the level of remorse or even justification for his atrocities that he should have, and it was even worse that nobody around him seemed to care much about them either.
Once the magic of the worldbuilding wore off, the series started to feel like a clockwork mechanism that I was merely watching unspool after winding up its intricate gears for two thousand pages.
In theory I agree with the sentiment, but then I imagine the same people who’re supposed to be keeping oil pipelines from rupturing put in charge of nuclear materials.
One causes more of the other.
Coming down from the trees was a pretty big blunder. Nothing but losses ever since.
Don Quixote was apparently begun in prison.
It’s also not really very good. Worth reading for its historical value, yes. For its artistic value, though? Heck no.
Except it just goes in a circle.
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