I read the heck out of out of Xanth in middle school.
I read the first one again recently and it was bad. Like, really bad. Way pervier than I remembered too. I started the second one to see if it got better and I couldn’t finish it. I tink they must particularly appeal to teenage boys!
Plus Piers Anthony has total TDS.
I think you're right. This is one of the reasons why the midwit meme is my favorite. It is just so true and so applicable.
I had a great English teacher in high who was a stickler for the rules of grammar when we were writing essays. He whipped us into shape. And then, he had us read Faulkner. James Joyce (not a fan). Cold Mountain. All these authors and books that are very important to the modern literary tradition and yet, the authors broke the rules of grammar like crazy!
Understanding exceptions and rules and when it's proper to BREAK the rules is very important!
School is shit meme:
https://en.meming.world/images/en/thumb/c/c4/Midwit_meme_1.jpg/480px-Midwit_meme_1.jpg
Investing meme:
etc
Bring back the corn lands and the grain dole! MIGA Make the Imperium Great Again!
Yeah! It’s controversial, but I like it too.
Yeah, I’ve never understood that. They put themselves through watching Discovery and Section 31 and all, they ought to do DS9!
I think this meme sums it up:
https://uploads.dailydot.com/2025/01/deepseek-memes.jpg?q=65&auto=format&w=1600&ar=2:1&fit=crop
I quit Discovery after S1 and hated it.
I watched I think 2 episode of SNW (and then the musical episode a year later) and I didn't like it.
Don't care about Prodigy.
Quit Picard after Season 1.
Lower Decks I have watched all of and I enjoyed the vast majority of it. I have no idea if you'll like it. I guess to me, somehow, even with modern wokeisms (and there are modern wokeisms) and all the cartoon zaniness, it SOMEHOW manages to feel more "Trek" than anything else in nutrek. There are many deep cuts and references that go back as far as ToS, and they're done in a way that makes me feel like the writers of Lower Decks actually like Star Trek.
The rest of Nutrek makes me feel like the writers hate Star Trek and would rather be writing something, anything, else, but this is the only job they got, so they're going to shoehorn their dumb shit and daddy issues into it and oh yeah, there is a klingon, but now klingons are lame and gay.
The Thaw?
Battered spouse syndrome.
Omg, you gave me a black eye (JJ Abrams Trek movies), broke my arm pushing me down the stairs (Discovery), and hit me in the gut with a baseball bat (Prodigy), threw my possessions in the garbage (Picard), but Strange New Worlds shows you still love me!!!!!! I love Strange New Worlds!!!
Yes, I could not agree more. I made the same point in a separate post. The writers of Trek today are just unbelievably shit.
Sperg out.
A Star Trek musical episode is something the younger me WANTED and thought I would love. I enjoyed the Buffy musical episode. I enjoyed Dr. Horrible. I enjoy other traditional musicals.
The Buffy musical episode, music, lyrics, and all, was written by one guy with no musical training over a handful of months. Yeah, it's Joss Whedon, and people copying him has been part of what makes entertainment shit today, but there's no denying the guy has been an absolute genius at times.
This episode was just such shit. Generic, awful, non-catchy pop. 30 seconds after the episode was over I couldn't remember a single melody or lyric. Autotune was OUT OF CONTROL. Cringe to the max.
This scene in particular drove me crazy. The premise is that some magical subspace crap, I don't remember what, was making everyone sing uncontrollably. This scene should have had one of the klingon subordinates start singing some pop ship and the captain looks at him with disgust, backhands him and calls him a petaq, and then launches into some grand Wagnerian operatic thing about blowing up the Enterprise.
Klingon opera, and Klingon fascination with Shakespeare, drama, etc., has been established over more than 30 years of Trek history, and all these piece of shit hack soyboy pop culture-dick sucking assholes can come up with "KLINGON K POP GET IT?!"
sperg over.
I watched the Red Letter Media review. Ouch.
Section 31 currently has a 20% critic and 17% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. That is legit Battlefield Earth territory.
Before Discovery, Picard, Section 31, Prodigy, etc (I exclude Lower Decks because I loved it), I was a huge Star Trek fan.
Now, Star Trek is dead. I will always have the reruns, but the franchise is dead. RIP.
A good friend of mine reverse engineered the Warcraft RTS map files (and other data files) and wrote some widely used (for the Internet of that era) editor software. This was back in the 90s/early 00s.
Blizzard was impressed with him and flew him out to Irvine to interview. He had just finished graduate school (not computer science), and he was in his mid-20s. He was already like 5 years older than the average programmer at Blizzard, and his impression at the time was that Blizzard had such a strong reputation they would bring in hotshots, work them to the bone, chew 'em up and spit 'em out. He had no interest in that.
Smart man.
So when you see a studio close down or a bunch of devs get laid off, your only reaction should be elation.
Always has been,
Not really always, but for many years at this point.
Yeah, I seem to recall there was a proposal in Germany after WW2 to allow polygamy, as so many men were dead, that allowing surviving men to have multiple wives would help rebuild the population. Don't take my word on that, though..
A lot of the things that we think about as "Islamic" -- polygamy, female circumcision, slavery -- etc., were and are most common in Africa.
Polygamy is uncommon these days in the middle east--it's actually most common in sub-Saharan Africa. I've read once source that estimates 5% of marriages in Afghanistan are polygamous, and that's the highest across the Middle East. The numbers are much higher in Africa.
There's a theory that the historical prevalence of polygamy in various Islamic states helped define (or exacerbate) their outward aggression.
Rich men can afford to have multiple wives. When rich men have multiple wives, this means that many poor men no longer have marriage options. This leads to an excess of unmarried young men. No government wants an excess of unmarried and unhappy young men. Where can young men find women? Non-Muslims, women from other countries, slaves, etc.
Slavery was very common across the Middle East through the 19th century, and there were slave markets in Istanbul up until almost World War 1. The "avret pazar" was the female slave market (bazaar).
A Christmas Carol. How was that? I haven't read any Dickens since highschool.
I just finished it as well. I think it was the worst of the Stormlight books, and the part with R+R (spoiler alert) was just .. unspeakably cringe. It felt so forced and awkward. It's also the first Stormlight book to not get 5 starts on Amazon (albeit it gets 4.5).
I think Brandon has said that those two are going to be major POV characters in the next 5 books too. Bummer.
Brandon used to be religious and socially conservative. He was never rude or judgmental or anything, he just had his values, and he wrote them. Now that he is terminally online and his success is linked in large part to his social media success and his company (kickstarter, merch, etc.), he's swung hard in the opposite direction. I think it's probably another case of TDS.
Bottomline, I've read all of the Cosmere books at least twice. I think the newest Stormlight book was the worst of all (and not just for the gay interspecies romance), but I would strongly recommend the entire Cosmere...Mistborn, Warbreaker, Stormlight, etc.
If you post it publicly, it’s public. End of story.
This guy had posted about being at a conference with Liz Fong Jones. Then I think he also used the same username on Reddit and posted on his city subreddit. And in some of his posts he mentioned something about his family circumstance (e.g., two kids, ex-wife, whatever).
So then you can take conference attendees…narrow down from where they live…narrow down by family situation.
It’s all public data. And if you use the same (or similar) names on multiple sites, especially over years of posting, there’s an awful lot of personal information that can be ascertained.
Fuck Liz Fong Jones.
Just for what it’s worth, be careful of power leveling as the Kiwis call it—sharing too much personal information about yourself.
Infamous tranny, “consent accident” rapist, and serial harasser Liz Fong Jones recently doxxed and took credit for getting fired someone who posted on Kiwi Farms. A law firm did research based on clues from this dude’s posted (geographic area, conference attended, marital status, etc.) and identified him. Liz Fong Jones took it from there and contacted his employer.
Be careful. Spread a healthy dose of misinformation. And ban the tranny.
Honestly, me too. Sad.
Dead ringer for Andy Samberg!
What's the origin of this?
Aren’t they all men and/or gay anyway.
My grandfather (and his father!) were Methodist pastors. One of them was a bishop even.
Today, my local Methodist church has a “Queerly Beloved” flag and sign out all year long, along with BLM flags, and whatever the local secular leftist cause of the day is.
So that’s why I’m not a Methodist any more.