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Fortunately it's possible to read at least a lot of Howard via the Gutenberg Project, so no one benefits, monetarily. The comparison to...

It helps with a lot of these to get hooked on it in one’s midteens, when one is stupid and gullible less experienced in the world and...

Yes about his attitudes, no about his prose. The story I read kinda gallumphed unsubtly along on the prose level, and on the story...

Glenn Bateman taught Sociology

The best starting point for Moorcock is Elric in publication order.

Can't comment on Lieber (much, I've read some Spiders and Snakes stuff, and Conjure Wife ages ago, but I have a handful of Lankhmar...

I recently reread Something Wicked This Way Comes and I was surprised how important Charles Halloway (Will's dad) was in/to the novel...

Bradbury's writing has this strangely beautiful heartbreak. It at once captures what it's like to be a kid, aching to be an adult but...

Currently slowly rereading IT. I think i forget how well Stephen King can write about just everyday human horror, even outside of the...

Yup. That's the cause of a lot of problems people have in the hobby, one way or another.

I think this underestimates how some people deal with frustration. Over time, for some people, that's allit needs (and its easy to...

I'd prefer to believe that people would be smarter than trusting such a critical piece of infrastructure to vibe coding. :D

You have to look at other features of the "spaces available to them" to understand why they use them I've explained why I'm here when...

Oh man I love this. https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ I've got a coworker, absolute idiot, who just was dismayed that that outage...

I used to tell people, "Unless you're 8 feet tall or weigh 900 lbs., you are not "The World's Biggest Rocky Horror Fan"..."