I did a north american archeology course once. The thing that struck me most was how primitive the Native Americans were. The height of technology before Europeans arrived was having simple copper tools. Fish hooks and needles and such that could be made from raw unprocessed copper that washed up on a shore somewhere. No wheel, only basic wood and skin structures all while China was at the height of the Ming Dynasty and Europe was going through the Renaissance and even the middle East was experimenting with new and creative gunpowder formulas. Meanwhile in America having a crummy raw copper fish hook is a big status symbol. And even then, Australian Aborigines were somehow even more primitive.
It's contemptible when wokies want us to take these people's "science" as somehow equivalent to our own.
Also the traditional name thing reminds me of when they renamed Barrow, Alaska to something unpronounceable that I can't remember.
Very different tone then the books I normally read. The werewolf fight was very brutal, and frankly the injuries the MC takes and keeps fighting are brutal enough to be a little silly. On the other hand that means that the author did an excellent job choreographing and describing the fight making it easy to follow and understand.
The MC does seem a little OP with a ridiculous amount of skills and training for an "Accountant" but it feels like that's mostly so the monsters can ramp aggressively in terms of threat. Oh well this is a fun action romp, it's not really that important, and it serves the plot to have a hyper competent MC, as it's easy to power creep monsters to keep the stakes up.
In stark contrast to Heinlein, the characters here are wacky and ooze personality. No forgetting who's who here.
A lot of this is due to the lighter nature and tone of the book. In any case it got me invested, and I was a little annoyed waiting for this discussion topic to be posted as I am eager to read more. This one might not have as much to say as my usual fare, but it certainly accomplished its goal of setting up the world, the protagonist, the antagonist, and hooking me into reading more.
You're thinking too small. All of this is shitty now, yes. But think about after things start to crumble, how quickly these people will check out after the standard of living plummets. In such a situation Canada is in a much better situated to rebuild it's society from within rather than descending into the hellscape of starvation and pestilence that await the more densely populated parts of Europe. We can spread out. We aren't dependant of food imports. Alberta has oil.
Yes SJWs suck, but they are the small evil. It's the big evil that replaces the small evil that truly casts a shadow of death.
Depending on how you're counting you've probably got Canada too high.
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it has enough space and low enough population that it's not really in danger of being overrun outside the hive cities.
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It's big enough to survive a breakdown of government and subsequent decomposition into it's constituent parts.
So sure Canada is pretty high up on the lower scale definitions of screwed, it's much better situated to resuscitate itself after a larger collapse. It's not in danger of being remade as an Islamic shithole like Sweden, Germany or the UK at the very least.
Hence why I suggested Trolly busses. If they were first to build the infrastructure of overhead wires for busses, perhaps smaller trucks could use them in cities too. Pulling electricity right from the grid solves the weight and efficiency issues with batteries at the very least. You still need to scale the grid to meet increased power demands, but it's less ridiculous than everyone driving a Tesla or battery powered big rigs.
The transport Tycoon player in me is grinning at the thought of a rail rush and covering north America with rail lines, but your right it probably won't happen. Maybe if society crashes back to the 1920s, but trucks would still be indispensable for for the last leg to retail.
These last 8 years have really brought into sharp relief how much delusionaly optimistic fantasy I was sold about technology in the early 2010s. If they weren't predicting the end of the world due to population growth or global warming/climate change, they were predicting technological marvels like instant housing, infinite clean energy and the achievement of global harmony and equality.
I guess it's a sort of carrot and stick approach. Do what we want and you get all this neat stuff, continue on the current path and suffer. Like a religion. Hmm.
I suppose in some respects its encouraging that they seem to have lost their carrot and are now the utopian future includes eating bugs, living in pods within dystopian hive cities and driving vehicles that are unable to transport you to the next hive over.
These days whenever I hear that all vehicles will be electric in the future, I assume that the person speaking is an ignorant city dweller who has never had to leave it for any of their needs.
Why don't you ignorant fucks start with some trolley buses or something. At least those are cool. economically viable. and would rejuvenate our rotting public transit systems.
Leftist fantasy world:
Takes elderly cat to be put down.
Vet: I'm sorry but Mittens disagrees. The authorities have been called and will be here shortly. Mittens is very hurt by your betrayal and wishes to press charges.
Note that Thunderbird now operates out of MZLA rather than Mozilla Corp directly. While Mozilla does own MZLA, the arrangement gives Thunderbird a degree of insulation and freedom from Mozilla.
I use it occasionally. It's really just an email client with a calendar and newsgroup client. It's a little old school but it works fine. Far better than the ad infested clients most companies are putting out these days.
Widows is rapidly becoming unfit for purpose. This event is relatively minor in the grand scheme.
Other than circumstances like your work needing it, you should actively be transitioning away from Microsoft products.
If you don't take control of and ensure that you own your technology now, do not be surprised when you turn around and your tech owns you.
Too often it's just unattractive looking guys geting bad body image problems that are preyed upon. They get sold on some fairytale magic that will make them a beautiful princess.
This is not the case. Transitioning does not make you less ugly. What it does is make whatever positive masculine traits you do have into something deeply unsettling.
Any counter example of an attractive TIM was already quite feminine and attractive before transitioning. This is very rare. If there is any doubt as to wether one would be pretty after transitioning, they are ten times more apparent if one was to go through with it.
All people have an innate ability to identify an unhealthy person. Historically it helped us avoid disease. Nowadays it's why the uncanny Valley exists, and why trans people who don't pass look so goddam creepy.
In any case good for him. I don't know what kind of damage he's incurred, but here's hoping he's managing to pull himself back together.
Yes, the limitedness of well supported jellyfin apps is one of it's biggest weaknesses in my opinion. Making things like this pick up and play is important for people trying to administer it for others.
Jellyfin on Roku was basically perfect and no harder than any other streaming app aside from perhaps slightly clumsy controls during login. Web and computer App were also nearly perfect. Android app worked fine most of the time but occasionally did something weird. Minor stuff easy enough to troubleshoot, but not ideal if your mom is trying to binge watch her British soaps.
I'll just point out that the fight choreography is very good and easy to follow. Werewolf boss scene is still the best one so far, But I was able to follow all of them so far.
I have a feeling that we'll learn more about Vampire psychology as the book goes on, they very much feel like they are on the rational agent side of pure evil, and there's the off chance we may encounter a sympathetic vampire later on, but i don't feel like this is that sort of book.
Feds definitely have a secret, but so does everyone else. Tattooed guy might be up for a psuedo team up if the Hunters stay out of his way and let him have the relic, but I am suspicious that the hunter code might forbid that.
Still having no trouble keeping up the pace, very easy read for me. 8 books in the series and aparently the earlier stuff is weaker. Might be worth reading further.