So not much has changed since then…

Top tier post. These guys just keep nailing it.

Aren’t these are literally called thumb screws? Like if you need a tool for them maybe you’re over torquing them?

Pegged

The Internet has ruined me.

Welcome back. Was wondering what happened

Wtf did I do to you?

Whoops

Wow. This is digging deep in forgotten memories for me

Asked for comment, a Discord spokesperson told Ars that the platform “takes situations like this seriously, especially when they involve teens and account security.”

More like Discord only takes these things seriously when an article drags them. Probably only banned the kids account because she dropped this on them and they handled it badly.

Crazy how far this company has fallen, but that’s expected I guess when $$$ are on the line.

Note: I just reread your post mentioning you read Hitchhikers and Dungeon Crawler Carl and started Discworld. Leaving those in anyway because idk maybe someone else will benefit from the recommendations. Plus I’ve already taken the time to write this.

The Expanse by James S A Corey has to be my favorite sci-fi series. Fantastic space drama about humanities spread among the stars in a galaxy left behind by an extinct alien civilization.

We Are Legion (We Are Bob), aka Bobiverse by Dennis E Taylor is a very light and silly sci-fi about a nerdy dude who becomes a sentient AI and spreads out like a god among worlds.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a very detailed sci-fi written by a guy who loves entomology. It’s about humanities rise up to its space exploration and terraforming peak, and subsequent fall back to the Stone Age, and the simultaneous evolution of new life on the worlds it abandoned.

Dune by Frank Herbert of course is a must if you’re into heavy world building, deep lore, and discussions about politics, religion, and government.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, and the follow up sequel by Eoin Colfer (author of Artemis Fowl) is also of course a wonderful satire on sci-fi and space. Easy read you won’t want to put down.

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Discworld by Terry Prachett is a massive “series” that can be read in no particular order. Books all exist in the same world but are independent of each other, but there’s a timeline to them for people who read a lot of them. Personally I liked the first two books, The Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic, but many say not to start there as the author was still figuring out his writing. Probably Guards, Guards would be a better choice. Maybe other people have different opinions. He’s the best satirical fantasy author out there.

The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, and finished by Brandon Sanderson (author of the Cosmere novels) is a massive series that has a similar feel to Tolkien at its start. Every book has you wondering how the next one could possibly get any better. 13 books and my only regret is that I can’t experience it for the first time again. Sanderson does a decent job of wrapping things up based on Jordan’s notes, tho you can tell where Sanderson adds his own touches (and characters).

Mistborn & The Stormlight Archives aka The Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson is a bunch of different series of books that all tie together as they exist within the same universe. Sort of a Marvel style setup where at some point they will all come together for a massive conflict. You don’t actually have to read all the different series, but they’re really enjoyable and make you want to read the others. Each has its own unique setting and writing style and each world he creates has its own unique magic system. Definitely recommend. Great for light reading.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. Absolutely read these. High entertaining. Absolutely fantastic on audiobook as well. Soundbooth Theater does such a great job on these that they will ruin you for audiobooks. Next book comes out in May and it’s being adapted into a TV show, which I’ve always felt it was really written for. Humanity is gone in the blink of an eye, aliens mine the Earth for resources, and the survivors are given a choice: live on an Earth wiped clean of all traces of civilization, or participate in a game show complete with powers, leveling, and loot for the entertainment of the wider universe.

——————- Other mentions, because I’m actually supposed to be working so I’ll be brief:

American Gods by Neil Gaiman Good Omens by Neil Gaiman Both are great for interesting fantasy’s about gods, devils, and angels.

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis If you want something that predicted the current dystopia we are living in over 60 years ago

Have Space Suit - Will Travel by Robert Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein Enjoyed them all for their world building.

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein note it’s very different from the movies

Armor by John Steakley Interesting to compare with Starship Troopers, but it takes a very different approach. A great sci-fi.

Vampire$ by John Steakley the $ is important in the book title do not buy a copy that doesn’t have that. Some bs with royalties where a publisher stripped that out. Spaghetti western with vampires and vampire hunting. Think there was a movie adaptation of this too, tho I never saw it.

Throwing my back out because I picked up a baguette wrong

Me: au pain!

Wait a minute, this isn’t a repost from another site. This is OC. This is a high quality shitpost.

Lol millions of years ago trading and selling rocks. I think I remember seeing a documentary about this once.

Is this from Da Ali G Show?

Is it? Fuck. Now that I look closer you are correct

Man, I read Armada, why? Because it was free. I mean I’d heard it wasn’t good, but holy shit I was not expecting just how bad that novel would be. Ernest Cline is a one trick pony and the fact that it worked out so well for Ready Player One, and that a lot of people loved it, was pure luck, but it likely won’t hold up to time.

Cline desperately wants everyone to like the 80s as much as he apparently does and he really wants to show off his 80s trivial knowledge so badly, but no one will sit still to listen to him blather on so instead he wrote this book. It is got more 80s references packed in pound for pound than there is sawdust in chicken McNuggets. Like at first it’s just a quirky ha ha ok this character really likes his dad and his 80s memorabilia and crap, but then the action starts and the 80s references just don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming and they don’t stop coming. He can’t even make it 5 minutes without dropping a reference. “Tense” (yeah, using that real loosely here) moment? Drop a reference. Character bleeding out? Drop a reference and one liner. Major character just died and you’re supposed to be sad? You guessed it, drop a fucking reference.

I only finished that book just so I could fully appreciate how fucking bad that novel was. This had to be the first time I’ve genuinely hate read a novel.

Fuck Cline. He should have kept his shitty writing in the dark so I could have continued to appreciate Ready Player One as a fun little read that I enjoyed so much the first time around I killed the book in one day. Now? I doubt I’ll pick it up again. Especially after that god awful movie.

What’s wild is they don’t get what’s wrong about this. “It was meant to be complimentary” “was in no immediate danger”. Fucking what?

1: that phrasing directed at an underage student your responsible for 2: the follow up with “what school do you go to?” As if he’s gonna look her up later