5187 pts ยท June 15, 2015
6ft1 Londoner, roughly human shaped. Easily distrac
She had horrendous outdated views that she regularly aired on public platforms and tried to bring into politics. She's the type or person that you don't want anywhere near public office if you happen to be gay, non-white or ironically, a woman.
They did so well! It was a massive shock/surprise to Spaniards when they held the team to a 0-0 draw in the first game!
The worst part of Grave of the Fireflies is that it's based on an entirely true story that Akiyuki Nosaka wrote as an apology to his sister.
No worries! It definitely sounds like there's a few unresolved issues there. Professional help can be useful, and if it seems like they're giving canned responses, that's often simply because these are approaches that have worked for the majority of people in the past. I'm far from an expert but personally I'd say that it's pointless trying to reopen old wounds, and you can't rely on people to admit or realise their wrongs, and certainly not to say the things you'd like to hear from them.
It's not the wrong move to make, by the sounds of things. You've got to think of your own needs and feelings, and if the relationship is one where you're effectively a human punching bag (emotionally) that's a pretty toxic situation that you're better off without.
Hope you're ok, OP. It must be hard having to live with those memories, and your relationship with your mom sounds complicated. Hang in there
Woo! A Joe Abercrombie recommendation. He has a certain style that he doesn't deviate much from, but I love his writing and the thing I most appreciated is that he writes wonderfully complex, flawed characters. Glotka is probably one of my favourite fantasy characters ever.
It's a great novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed it - the rest of the series was good, but Children of Time was by far the strongest. If you've not read it already, I'd recommend Cage of Souls by Tchaikovsky - it's a little more high concept, perhaps, but I think it's the best of his novels so far.
I made some similar recommendations but regrettably left off Gibson. The Ann Leckie rec is a good one - I'd put her alongside Ursula Le Guin in terms of her skill and the themes that she tackles.
I wasn't a fan of The Priory of the Orange Tree, there were quite a few tired fantasy tropes, the pacing was a bit inconsistent and the simple writing fell a bit flat for me. I've heard a lot of praise from others though so maybe it's just that I didn't vibe with it. The Locked Tomb series was really fun though, and I loved the description of it (Queer Necromancers in Space)
He's a great author and very prolific. I also recommend the Final Architecture series, but I think my absolute favourite so far has been Cage of Souls (a standalone novel)
The prose is just beautiful, too, and translates wonderfully to English. "In my childish reveries we were fugitives running along the spine of a book"
I thought it was okay, and the prose can be quite nice sometimes, but Qvothe is a bit of a Gary Stu.
Night Watch is the absolute pinnacle of Terry Pratchett's writing and this is a hill I'm willing to die upon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keynes, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Dune by Frank Herbert, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and if you're feeling brave, start on Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
"I'm the best at raising my arms that ever was. Terrific. Lots of Doctors say so and they're clever guys. In fact nobody in the history of raising arms is as good. Did you ever see Sleepy Joe Biden raise his arms? Never happened."
Everything is fine as long as they submit to mandatory checks by the genital police.
In the ideal world, yes. The reality, like with most things is far more complex. The system is good but not completely infallible, and bad actors on the part of reviewers, publishers, and researchers can lead to junk science undermining the credibility of the institution as a whole. This usually ends up being corrected, but damage can be done in the meantime.
Someone who works in scientometrics here - you're absolutely right and most people don't see the complex systems that are in place to try to prevent malpractice which are often orders of magnitude deeper than folks think - things like scientific indices/databases (scopus/web of science), retraction watch, pubpeer, publishers research integrity depts., and also the sleuths that have dedicated their lives to spotting falsified data.
Because universities and various grants are publicly funded, researchers are clearly pushing a narrative set by the government. /s
Exactly this. Britain needs to get over its nationalist/populism problem before the EU even considers letting it rejoin, and I say this as a Brit in exile.
Unfortunately I don't think that's true. Kill Putin and the regime will persist - there are nutjobs among Putin's circle that are even more hardline than he is.
I did a road trip through Nevada, Arizona and California which ended up with me driving in San Fran to drop the rental off. As a European, I was absolutely terrified - and this is coming from somebody that's driven in both Spain and Italy and dealt with the crazy drivers there.
I found similar, furthermore the accounts mentioned by this Thomas Baldwin are contradicted by other sources - William Butler described the city as "filthy and blood-stained". While the British burned parts of the city in 1874, there was also a civil war in 1888 that the dude in the video completely fails to mention.
Sources seem to suggest that it was either civil war (that significantly reduced the population of the city) or simply the fact that the city sprawled beyond the original moat. It seems that it's mostly used for dumping refuse these days, which is pretty sad.
Aura farming
The forbidden hot dog. As an aside, this makes great kindling in a pinch.
Nice! Channeling her inner Chris Wolstenholme there.
I had no idea Indian Folk Metal was a thing until this link, it absolutely slaps.
No definitely not, but I reckon the UK will move towards a situation like Norway's.
She had horrendous outdated views that she regularly aired on public platforms and tried to bring into politics. She's the type or person that you don't want anywhere near public office if you happen to be gay, non-white or ironically, a woman.
They did so well! It was a massive shock/surprise to Spaniards when they held the team to a 0-0 draw in the first game!
The worst part of Grave of the Fireflies is that it's based on an entirely true story that Akiyuki Nosaka wrote as an apology to his sister.
No worries! It definitely sounds like there's a few unresolved issues there. Professional help can be useful, and if it seems like they're giving canned responses, that's often simply because these are approaches that have worked for the majority of people in the past. I'm far from an expert but personally I'd say that it's pointless trying to reopen old wounds, and you can't rely on people to admit or realise their wrongs, and certainly not to say the things you'd like to hear from them.
It's not the wrong move to make, by the sounds of things. You've got to think of your own needs and feelings, and if the relationship is one where you're effectively a human punching bag (emotionally) that's a pretty toxic situation that you're better off without.
Hope you're ok, OP. It must be hard having to live with those memories, and your relationship with your mom sounds complicated. Hang in there
Woo! A Joe Abercrombie recommendation. He has a certain style that he doesn't deviate much from, but I love his writing and the thing I most appreciated is that he writes wonderfully complex, flawed characters. Glotka is probably one of my favourite fantasy characters ever.
It's a great novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed it - the rest of the series was good, but Children of Time was by far the strongest. If you've not read it already, I'd recommend Cage of Souls by Tchaikovsky - it's a little more high concept, perhaps, but I think it's the best of his novels so far.
I made some similar recommendations but regrettably left off Gibson. The Ann Leckie rec is a good one - I'd put her alongside Ursula Le Guin in terms of her skill and the themes that she tackles.
I wasn't a fan of The Priory of the Orange Tree, there were quite a few tired fantasy tropes, the pacing was a bit inconsistent and the simple writing fell a bit flat for me. I've heard a lot of praise from others though so maybe it's just that I didn't vibe with it. The Locked Tomb series was really fun though, and I loved the description of it (Queer Necromancers in Space)
He's a great author and very prolific. I also recommend the Final Architecture series, but I think my absolute favourite so far has been Cage of Souls (a standalone novel)
The prose is just beautiful, too, and translates wonderfully to English. "In my childish reveries we were fugitives running along the spine of a book"
I thought it was okay, and the prose can be quite nice sometimes, but Qvothe is a bit of a Gary Stu.
Night Watch is the absolute pinnacle of Terry Pratchett's writing and this is a hill I'm willing to die upon
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keynes, Hyperion by Dan Simmons, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr., The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Dune by Frank Herbert, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and if you're feeling brave, start on Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
"I'm the best at raising my arms that ever was. Terrific. Lots of Doctors say so and they're clever guys. In fact nobody in the history of raising arms is as good. Did you ever see Sleepy Joe Biden raise his arms? Never happened."
Everything is fine as long as they submit to mandatory checks by the genital police.
In the ideal world, yes. The reality, like with most things is far more complex. The system is good but not completely infallible, and bad actors on the part of reviewers, publishers, and researchers can lead to junk science undermining the credibility of the institution as a whole. This usually ends up being corrected, but damage can be done in the meantime.
Someone who works in scientometrics here - you're absolutely right and most people don't see the complex systems that are in place to try to prevent malpractice which are often orders of magnitude deeper than folks think - things like scientific indices/databases (scopus/web of science), retraction watch, pubpeer, publishers research integrity depts., and also the sleuths that have dedicated their lives to spotting falsified data.
Because universities and various grants are publicly funded, researchers are clearly pushing a narrative set by the government. /s
Exactly this. Britain needs to get over its nationalist/populism problem before the EU even considers letting it rejoin, and I say this as a Brit in exile.
Unfortunately I don't think that's true. Kill Putin and the regime will persist - there are nutjobs among Putin's circle that are even more hardline than he is.
I did a road trip through Nevada, Arizona and California which ended up with me driving in San Fran to drop the rental off. As a European, I was absolutely terrified - and this is coming from somebody that's driven in both Spain and Italy and dealt with the crazy drivers there.
I found similar, furthermore the accounts mentioned by this Thomas Baldwin are contradicted by other sources - William Butler described the city as "filthy and blood-stained". While the British burned parts of the city in 1874, there was also a civil war in 1888 that the dude in the video completely fails to mention.
Sources seem to suggest that it was either civil war (that significantly reduced the population of the city) or simply the fact that the city sprawled beyond the original moat. It seems that it's mostly used for dumping refuse these days, which is pretty sad.
Aura farming
The forbidden hot dog. As an aside, this makes great kindling in a pinch.
Nice! Channeling her inner Chris Wolstenholme there.
I had no idea Indian Folk Metal was a thing until this link, it absolutely slaps.
No definitely not, but I reckon the UK will move towards a situation like Norway's.