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This news hits hard. I am blessed to have met Tim, gamed with him a few times, and had several chats with him over the past few years...

Ok thanks, that is good for my expectation management for the upcoming books. I especially like Nynaeve! I am really glad we get now...

I see. I guess I'm kind of the opposite way, I really don't like lickspittle/fainting/damsel-type female characters in cis-hetero stuff...

Wait people hate Nynaeve and Egwaene? I had no idea. I guess both of them can be wet blankets at times but honestly a lot of the...

For me its more a bug honestly. I read tons of manga/anime and a) I dont need these tropes in novels b) these kind of tropes are only...

I still havent heard it! I dont listen to radio and most of my presents were ordered online. I was on one Christmas market, but it was a...

I don't know of any system that does wargame-esque set-piece encounters really well (in the sense that they are tactically complex, fun...

I first read Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rudyard Kipling 40 years ago - we somehow had a great edition with the original drawings and I loved...

I think that the series that’s been made into a bad film which would really benefit from being made into anime is Philip Reeve’s Mortal...

I think a lot of those authors are pretty influential on sort of Japanese writers who basically created the shonen genre too, though...

It's also a funny comparison, considering thst I tend to doubt Robert Jordan knew what Shojen even is. His influences are kind of...

I've been saying this for years too but yeah @Retros_x explains with words what I only had as a vague instinct. I think there are...

I love the books, but those are all fair takeaways. The meandering nature of the plot is a very real issue...but when the threads...

Modern western society deals with improbable events in half measures - we use insurance, for example, to spread risk for improbable...

Thats true but its not just the outcome, the calculation itself happens with values that can't be measured. With cars we at least could...