What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
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    caseyweederman
    4d ago 100%

    Ooh, if you want waste of time read the Alvin Maker series. Oh but I think he wrote another one since I read them (not that I'm willing to give it the chance to change my opinion).

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  • What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearCA
    caseyweederman
    5d ago 100%

    Me too, friend.
    After ruminating on it though, everything I liked was just lifted from better works.
    Leatherclad red-themed group of women who enjoy causing pain and are able to negate men's magic? Red ajah.
    What other examples are there?

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  • It's a Good Time To Be an Indie Game Fan
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    caseyweederman
    5d ago 100%

    Also the pop-up description on the "multiball" mechanic is that ball level increases the number of balls but as far as I can tell, that only applies to the Matryorbshka ball, whereas all other multiballs just increase attack damage or crit damage.
    That's a really minor complaint but I wonder if they rebalanced it and forgot to edit the text description.

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  • What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearCA
    caseyweederman
    5d ago 80%

    I read them all (so far anyway) and they're decent enough.
    I don't think he redeems anyone who is irredeemable or has any special insight into humanity. There are some awful people who are complicated and there are his favorites who get away with anything and come back from death multiple times. They all make good decisions and bad decisions and get good consequences and bad consequences and those don't always line up.
    I don't want to diminish your experience but I really don't see it.

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  • It's a Good Time To Be an Indie Game Fan
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    caseyweederman
    5d ago 100%

    Okay I'm hooked. Except... Runs are way too short? I just start feeling like my build is coming together (matryorbshka relic, summoning orb, damage dealing orb) and the run just abruptly stops. Are there only the three maps? Is there no looping endless mode? I want to ride that high for a while, you know?

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  • What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearCA
    caseyweederman
    5d ago 100%

    Remember when Richard defeated the evils of socialism without his magic by pulling himself up by his bootstraps really really hard by (without practice or training) carving a really really good statue and all the lazy worthless slacker librulls were like dang, I love capitalism now, and then everyone looked directly into the metaphorical camera and said "Communism: Don't let it happen to you"?

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  • What was the worst book you’ve ever read?
  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearCA
    caseyweederman
    5d ago 100%

    You didn't make it past the first book??
    Lucky.

    DISCLAIMER: Orson Scott Card is a bad person and I have since gotten rid of my collection and tell everyone not to support him because he uses his platform to hurt marginalised groups of people for religious reasons.

    Now, I would argue that you're skipping over a lot of interesting stuff.
    The Overseer (mind-controlling satellite robot) was built by humans to keep rewriting human brains so they would perpetually forget how to invent the wheel until they proved that they'd evolved beyond their barbaric nature and would not go on to invent the nuclear bomb. The satellite then dies of old age millions of years later because humans are just kind of shitty. The book ends with the main character's family hopping onto an Ark rocket back to Earth aaand... Hundreds of years have passed and all the characters you've invested in emotionally are long dead, here's some bat furries I guess.

    Some pretty cool ideas in there, despite who it was written by.

    Now, the worst thing I have ever read was also by Orson Scott Card and I refuse to speak about it.

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  • "This community has no posts" Well now it has one. What's everyone playing? I just tried out Round the Table with The Professor and I love all the multiple opponents stuff.

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    This flat square of plastic doesn't sound so bad! It came in the Bloom County comic collection shown in the picture (Billy and the Boingers), and contains two tracks performed by a fictional in-universe band. It's probably not technically vinyl.

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    My way of commemorating Day One

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