If you're going to big/medium-sized acts from musicians that have definitively "made it" then I think this makes sense. I've been to plenty of shows where an encore was neither expected nor desired, and others where an encore came at (what looked like) genuine surprise to the band.

So yeah, when you're selling out all your shows and the last 10 all demanded an encore, then just start baking it into your set, but there has to be some marker of when you've reached this point.

You can get some pretty great headlamps that help with light, around $75 for something with decent quality, battery and bright enough. I typically get most of my running in while the kids are asleep which means very early or late runs. I'm lucky enough to live in a place with well lit running paths all night though so I haven't had much experience with unlit roads. I do trail running with a headlamp sometimes though which works well enough.

For the sun, I'd highly recommend covering up vs sunscreen. A long sleeve lightweight shirt + a bucket hat would go a long way, or those weird running sleeves that people wear.

I don’t have an issue with bleeding nipples myself, but I’ve heard people swear by products like nut butter or body glide. I just use normal Vaseline when I’m having chafing and it does the trick.

It’s not exactly what you’re asking for, since it doesn’t have a main character and it’s not theory, but Mieville’s October reads like a novel and it tells the story of the Russian revolution. Worth a read since it’s educational and a fun read. Aside from some lame anti-Stalinism at the end it’s solid imo.

Any chance you're a lefty? That's what I blame my complete lack of ability to use scissors on at least.

Sent a little something, hope you’re ok! Amber whataboutism

Kindles suck thanks to Amazon lock in, but I pirate all my books and use Calibre to convert/manage my library, and can easily use email to send books to my device. The main reason I stick with this one (paper white) is the battery life. I go a month or two between charges, reading heavily. My wife’s Kobo needs to be charged every couple weeks and she’s a much lighter reader than me.

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It’ll be somewhat drawn out, but by the next morning it’ll be fairly obvious who’s going to win. Recounts will be called for, accusations will be thrown and court cases will follow. It’ll be months before it’s official, and it will be so boring no one will really care.

I think this is their stated reason, or at least that was part of the dialog last time around.

Pretty sure it’s been Hitlers all along, yes even before Hitler.

Not accusing you of being racist, but I have seen this same rhetoric used by libs and chuds about Chinese people in a way that certainly feels racist. Personally I’d just avoid this type of criticism that could easily be misconstrued as a cultural critique rather than a national one. There are plenty of things to call out Israel for that don’t run this risk.

The fact that I can hear this in the narrator’s voice really speaks to how awesome of a job he did.

https://youtu.be/qV8m4Cg8YTQ

I’d hate to come across as a Molyneux apologist, but at least Fable 1 was fun. SC can’t claim anything close to that.

This probably isn’t due to any good intentions from Peter himself though, he was tied to a studio that demanded a complete game be released, SC is just on a money treadmill and their “visionary” is free to just grift away.

I read HPMoR back in the day, I don’t remember any grimdark shit, but he was still writing it when I stopped reading so I’m not surprised to hear it went that direction.

It was so weird to hear the author of HPMoR come up in a recent TrueAnon episode, but not at all surprising to learn that he’s an ai grifter these days.

Grab a 5lb CO2 tank from the home brew shop, and a little adapter for sodastream canisters. Easy to fill up at home and you only need to refill the big tank every 5 or 6 refills of the small one. Super cheap as well (and te money goes to your hbs).

I found WoT to really become a slog around book 8. If you’re feeling that way I’d highly recommend finding some summaries and skipping to wherever Brandon Sanderson picks it up. Most of my friends that have read the series dropped off somewhere around book 7 - 9 so I always want people to know that it’s ok to skip some just to get to the finale.

Also lmao to that pigmobile

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I tuned in just as she was getting asked about Israel and dear god is it awful.

Trump coming in hot with saying she hates both Israel and "the Arabs", I can't deal with this.