

I can sympathise, but it’s interesting as one of the only books to depict a truly terrible person being summoned to a fantasy world. IMO it has quite the slow burn character arc over the series.


I can sympathise, but it’s interesting as one of the only books to depict a truly terrible person being summoned to a fantasy world. IMO it has quite the slow burn character arc over the series.


The solution is education not bans. This is crazy. Regulating social media access has some major privacy concerns, will make parents more complacent and will only cause kids to seek other more dubious means of communicating. It also places a major wall in front of the development of new social media platforms.


I know parents who successfully regulate their kids access to social media, games, tv, movies. Pushing this regulation is not the solution. Does more damage and will only make parents more complacent.
The key for any successful politically and economically equalized system… Is circular oversight. Committees arranged to observe and contribute to each others decision making. Shared and necessarily equal responsibilities.


You actually have an insane person leading your country. What are you doing.
Leela: Uh, Professor, are we even allowed in the Forbidden Zone?
Prof. Farnsworth: Why, of course! It’s just a name! Like the Death Zone or the Zone of No Return. All the zones have names like that in the Galaxy of Terror!
Nuke it from orbit… It’s the only way to be sure.
Yeah. Overshoot then overcorrect, then overshoot again. Only we’ve got our priorities skewed and now we’re tuning using ‘engagement metrics’. Numbers representing human happiness and contentment just aren’t important in the face of capital.
You will DEFINITELY not regret getting extended lungs.


Yes, ive had zero issues with it 👍
OST - Fav Song


The writing is excellent. I enjoyed examining all the mundane things in the world to read descriptions that always seemed to start from a novel perspective.
Here’s the description of a Wide Brimmed Hat; “The crown is crushed by wear into a hundred papery creases, and the brim is stained in the fractal signatures of sweat and salt.”
The first think is crossed out because you’re not supposed to think. You’re supposed to feel… feel bad about using your phone. It’s like it’s designed to turn any opinion against any other opinion.
Problem: Seems like the point of this game is victory. The absence of defeat on all fronts. Victory in business ventures and creative undertakings. Victory in love and over other people. Political victory. Ideological victory. Hell, even sexual victory. Definitely a lot of object-based victories, too - having things and not losing them. One problem, though: not a lot of victors in sight. Everyone’s mostly losing. Why is that? And how do you not lose?
Solution: How not to lose? It is impossible not to. The world is balanced on the edge of a knife. It’s a game of frayed nerves. You’re pushed on by numbers and punitive measures: pain, rejection, and unpaid bills. You can either play or you can crawl under a boat and waste away - turn into salt or a flock of seagulls. Your enemies would love that. Or you can fight. The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.


Thanks for the information!
Of course! We force cigarette manufacturers to put the dangers of smoking on the package.