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If it’s replies to a post of mine I upvote virtually everything. If something is so incorrect is borderline misinformation or so off topic that there’s no connection to the thread, I downvote. If it’s really insightful that I think more people should read it, I upvote.

Something else just occurred to me, you might try the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman or This Quest is Broken series by J.P. Valentine too. They are a newer genre called LitRPG where the conventions of gaming (like things being “quests” or health/mana bars are directly apparent to the characters and it makes for some interesting moments.

I don’t read a bunch of strict Horror, but I have enjoyed the ones I’ve read by Grady Hendrix.

Otherwise, based on your answer, here are a few books I’ve read that line up for one reason or another. I’ve placed them in a specific order but they are all enjoyable:

Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi John Dies at the End by David Wong Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

How many consumers who are buying phones at the non-pro levels use their port for anything other than charging more than 5-times a year?

I’d bet those that do would be buying the Pro line of phones which are faster.

What media do you watch? Favorite games? Movies? Tv?

Upton Sinclair once wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” He was mostly right, this is also true about personal identity.  From spending a bunch of time hanging around in anti-conservative libertarian spaces, I met a bunch of people in the early years of this movement (and in the spirit of full disclosure, I did occasionally use the spirit of communism as a repudiation of thoughtless defenses of capitalism). It’s absolutely about anticapitalism and a reactionary swing 100% in the opposite direction. And when anti-capitalism is the only motivator, you haven’t argued yourself into a position based on reason, and therefore, your chosen position is unassailable by reason.

That was my take too. Their overall point wasn’t bad but the start was a complete non sequitur that made me question if I wanted to finish because it’s a bad foundation for their actual argument. 

Apollo… (Too soon?)

Turbo Teen is reborn

What is R Eddit, some sort of online text program?

The book that really got me started reading fantasy is also arguably a “school for magic” book from long before it was a trope. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin is a classic.

Gladstone is definitely still writing stuff. The Craft Sequence series is done at 6 books, but there is a new trilogy called The Craft Wars that is meant to wrap up the whole universe. The 1st book Dead Country came out in March with book 2 slated for April 2024 per fantasticfiction.com