“One of a kind”

Thank goodness.

The first one looks like a map of countries where the PM shat himself at the Engadine Maccas

No not that extreme. I don’t want a bed with walls, just slightly upturned edges. More like a big dinner plate than a crib.

I walked in after 6 months away from the game, hit the guy for half a pixel of damage, died and then sulked for a week.

I was just talking about something like this with my gf last week. I want a big bed with upturned edges (but still big enough to stretch out fully on the flat part) that I can fill with extra cushions and blankets. The image in my head was a bit nicer than a giant dog bed though…

We’ll end up with a live action The Muppet Movie remake only starring humans.

I’ve started rereading The Way of Kings and The Lies of Locke Lamora in Spanish. LLL is a bit of a struggle even remembering several parts of it word for word but TWoK is much more simply-written, it’s quite encouraging getting through a few sentences at a time without needing to stop to translate something. Still working up the mental energy to start Words of Radiance, it’s been hard to get into anything new lately.

On the other hand, I have a few dozen tvtropes tabs open and, like some kind of hydra, every time I close one I somehow end up with more than I had before. I don’t even care about the outdated fan speculation for Monster Hunter games, but I can’t stop!

There are some weird choices in here. Skimming the list I can see a few things I’ve read that surprise me. Fable by Adrienne Young is just a fairly generic YA fantasy thing for example, I can’t think of anything in that that would bother anyone. Victor & Nora: A Gotham Love Story is a melancholy backstory of a Batman villain, this is insane. I see a Catwoman book in there too, but it’s by Sarah J Maas and everything of hers appears to have been blanket-banned. I’m assuming that was included because Harley and Ivy are in it and they’re probably bi in that universe.

How were these books chosen? Was it just a ctrl+f for words they didn’t like? There are some things missing that I’d have expected to see based on what I read back in high school, but I was more of a public library kid than a school library one because that’s where you could find the good stuff.

Caravan was great back at launch on xbox, the opponents didn’t play properly and you could effortlessly clean out entire inventories of shopkeepers because they’d bet their store earnings. Then I moved to PC and it was a lot less braindead & not worth the effort, it actually knew how to use the face cards.

Congrats on the three promotions mate :)

I finally finished The Way of Kings which I’ve been reading since last July. I love a good slow burn and was enjoying reading a chapter a week or so, but I couldn’t put it down for the last dozen chapters, it got so damn good. I’m taking a couple of weeks off work soon, so I might wait until I get back before I start the next one.

For tonight I’m in a bad mood so I think I’ll stick with something quick and dumb like Kissing the Coronavirus to cheer myself up a bit. Or skim through an old comfort read like The Lies of Locke Lamora.

“I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

Well, at least the advertisers know he meant it when he literally told them to go fuck themselves. That’ll help, I think.

A couple of these are interesting, but for my own sanity I have to refuse to accept most are commonly believed at all. Some are myths either way, like Satan ruling Hell or not isn’t real so it’s kind of a strange thing to include. I think the only one that really surprised me is the banana tree one, which is some interesting trivia but is so pedantic that if someone said that to me in person I’d just want to leave the room.

Insects are a “halal no-no” but there’s an insect in the halal box. Is that a mistake or another of those justifications like beavers being seafood?