The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

One must wonder why one would invite people to comment on one's game, if one were enjoying it.

"Im having way too much fun! Come and spoil it and take my enjoyment down a notch" Cant say I see that sentiment very often.

 

[prabe]

"Im having way too much fun! Come and spoil it and take my enjoyment down a notch" Cant say I see that sentiment very often.

TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG

 

[Mannahnin]

Is that the one I might think of as The System of the World?

Ja; the three volumes (I have the hardcovers, so I think of the series primarily divided this way, not as the sub-books) are Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. So you were working on the latter part, sounds like.

In a past life, I worked as a button-pushing monkey recording engineer recording those. Whatever pleasure Stephenson's books may provide was lost (for me) in that process. No novel (or other book built around a narrative) is likely to come across well if one reads ~40 pages, then comes back ten days later and reads a different~40 pages with no real connection to where one left off. On the scale Stephenson was working, what tends to happen is one picks up in one thread, mid-digression; then reads enough to get out of the digression and either into another or to skip to another unrelated narrative thread. One never really sees anything one understands, resolve.

Alas. That sounds very sad.

 

[prabe]

Ja; the three volumes (I have the hardcovers, so I think of the series primarily divided this way, not as the sub-books) are Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World. So you were working on the latter part, sounds like.

We recorded all three of those. Three hardcover books of 1200, 800, and 800 pages, in order, IIRC.

Don't feel too bad. First it was a paid job; second, it was for a free program open to blind/handicapped. I know of other studios doing roughly the same thing who have engineers record the whole book; the place I worked for did not. At least the narrators (the voice talent) got to read the whole book, if slowly.

 

[Ryujin]

False, none of those sound good. Tuna pancakes? Tuna short pie pasties?! Come on.

But I can imagine at least one that isn't terrible. I'm imagining a tuna salad sandwich situation, where the slices of bread are replaced with crispy, savory waffles. That might not be terrible, I'll have to let you know.

EDIT: Apparently this is already a thing.
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So there you have it: canned tuna + frozen waffles, in a format that looks edible.

 

[payn]

 

[prabe]

It seems clear to me that people prep what they're not comfortable improvising, and they buy what they're not comfortable prepping.

 

[Cadence]

Rufus: "Mankind got it all wrong by takin' a good idea and building a belief structure out of it."

Bethany: So you're saying that having beliefs is a bad thing?

Rufus: I just think it's better to have an idea. You can change an idea; changing a belief is trickier. People die for it, people kill for it.

from Kevin Smith's Dogma

 

[payn]

I was just looking for some easy smoker recipe to try this weekend. I came across an article named "28 easy smoker recipe you gotta try" Half of it was stuff I'd never smoke like tomatoes and apples. The one that took the cake was... well a recipe for smoked cake. I don't even...

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[Levistus's_Leviathan]

At this point my approach is to hold off on reading a planned series until the whole thing is published. Obviously this works better for something like a trilogy than a dodecalogy; no plan is perfect.

I'm generally like that, unless the author has proven before that they can and will release their books at a regular and consistent speed. So I'm not going to read The Kingkiller Chronicle or A Song of Ice and Fire anytime soon because it's been over a decade since either Rothfuss or Martin put out a book for their series, but I'm fine with reading the Stormlight Archive and the Dresden Files, since Sanderson and Butcher have proven that they will release a book for their series very regularly.