The Bridge

Elva

21:00

Anyone have some good book recommendations? :o

Frank

@Elva Scifi? Fantasy?

Elva

Yus, those two :D

Nzall

@Elva What books have you read so far so we can have an idea of what you're after?

Elva

Wait I have Wipqozn and Ash on good reads I can just steal there lists

Yuuki

@Elise It feels so weird seeing that price after having ordered glasses online for the past two or three years.

Frank

21:02

@Elva How about a fantasy-ish take on Ocean's Eleven?

Elva

Oh sonds fun :o

Frank

The Gentlemen Bastards series, then.

Starts with Lies of Locke Lamora.

Elva

Oh I've heard that title! Yus

Frank

For some comedic scifi, there's Troy Rising.

That one starts with Live Free or Die.

Elise

@Yuuki when I saw that my wife had to pay that much, I immediately told her I'll be ordering mine online

if I had to order 10 pairs and only one of them was good, I'd still have saved money

Yuuki

21:08

@Elva I need to spend some time on reading original works.

Elva

And less on bad fanfiction

Yuuki

I read far too much fanfiction. I suppose it's because it's easy to find since they're typically in one of two places.

@Elva I mean, there's some good stuff and I've gotten fairly all right at finding "good" stuff. But yeah, there's a lot of bad stuff.

Private Pansy

@Elise But which political ideology?

GnomeSlice

@Elva Hothouse by Brian aldiss

Yuuki

Really, fanfiction is fast food literature. It's really easy to find (these days) and it's mostly cookie cutter stuff.

Elva

21:10

I might download that at some point but I don't like paying for books written 60 years ago when they're sold at the price of new books

Private Pansy

@Elva You need a library (especially one with eBooks)

Yuuki

The "fun" stuff is reading fanfiction based on a work you know absolutely nothing about.

Elva

@PrivatePansy or maybe just sail the sea for books thaaat old :p

Yuuki

Who cares about mis-characterization if you don't even know what the original character was like?

Frank

@PrivatePansy Does an actual library count?

Private Pansy

21:12

Yes? You know, public library?

What else would I be talking about? Not the iTunes library

Elise

@Elva there's a search engine / library for books. I don't think it's quite legal tho, if that's an issue for you 🤷🏼‍♀️

Elva

@Elise "sail the sea" wasn't clear enough? :p

GnomeSlice

Also recommend non-stop by Brian aldiss

But yeah they are old

Elise

@Elva I... started typing my reply before that message showed up :P And I'm also tired 😔

GnomeSlice

I got that one for like $4 on Kobo store I think. One of em anyway

Frank

21:14

@PrivatePansy No, I have an actual library.

Elva

@Elise that makes sense too :D

Frank

Not a big one, mind, but enough to fill a room.

Elise

@Frank unless you buy books just for decoration, you probably won't find any new material there

Private Pansy

Oh, that's nice. I don't think I've lived anywhere large enough that I can have a whole room just for books

Frank

@Elise Often, you don't need it.

I'm re-reading the Codex Alera by Jim Butcher right now.

Elva

21:16

I'm re-reading the wheel of time

Frank

@Elva Also a good choice.

Elva

But my sister is a bit... hmmmm over-eager with wanting lists for christmas

Frank

@Elva I know that feeling.

If you don't mind light novels, I would highly recommend Rising of the Shield Hero.

Yuuki

@Frank I liked Codex Alera, although I thought I was a little disappointed with how it ended.

Elva

Maybe a biiiit? But I thought it ended pretty well

Yuuki

21:19

Eh, I don't like the mid-series reveal.

Well, "don't like" is a bit strong, I suppose.

Frank

@Elva The anime?

Yuuki

@Frank Based on what I know of that series, having read a few chapters of the manga, I don't particularly like it.

Elva

@Frank There's an anime?

Oooh!

I was responding to Yuukis response to your Codex Alera message

Yuuki

That series (Rising of the Shield Hero) is packed with unfortunate implications.

murgatroid99

I've been reading and enjoying a bunch of Seanan McGuire books. I think I started because of a recommendation someone made in here

Elva

21:21

> The challenger bet that Butcher could not write a good story based on a lame idea, and he countered that he could do it using two lame ideas of the challenger's choosing. The "lame" ideas given were "Lost Roman Legion", and "Pokémon"

Frank

@Yuuki Eh? How so?

Elva

Hehehe

Frank

@Elva Yes. Covers the first four or five volumes of the light novels.

Elva

@Frank just for context, of Codex Alera? o.o

Yuuki

@Frank The fact that the protagonist utilizes the slave market/industry quite extensively?

Frank

21:22

I prefer the books, but the series does an exceptionally good job of making you empathize with the protagonist.

@Elva No. Rising of the Shield Hero.

Elva

Aah

I don't know that :D

Frank

@Yuuki He...pretty much sucks at being a slave driver.

Private Pansy

That's me being a Dragon Maid

Or Maid Dragon

Frank

Granted, it's a strange system, could've been called just about anything else, and would've worked the same.

Wipqozn

The World Design of Hollow Knight | Boss Keys

►

murgatroid99

21:23

I will also always recommend Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere books: Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive, etc.

Wipqozn

I want to replay Hollow knight more than ever

@murgatroid99 They're good books, Brent.

Private Pansy

I don't think I want to wear a dress ever again

Wipqozn

I'll also toss in assassins apprentice by Robin Hobb, because she's my favourite.

Elva

checks her bookcases Have that!

It's great

Yuuki

Outside of the protagonist, I had some trouble with the series's use of antagonists who are so incredibly comically evil, probably to make Naofumi's morally grey decisions look lawful good by comparison.

Private Pansy

21:27

Also I'm dealing with a CSS bug that only reproduces on hidpi screens. This is ridiculous

SaintWacko

@Elise Don't you want them to recognize you as a girl?

Yuuki

I stopped reading Akame ga Kill for similar reasons. That series was so grimdark and the antagonists were so beyond the pale that it was emotionally exhausting to get/stay invested in the story.

Elise

@SaintWacko yeah, that was a good thing. The blah thing was that my wife had to tell the lady that I was the same guy she knew from a year ago 😔

I haven't started transitioning socially and it's not something wife and I have really made a plan for, not yet at least

Yuuki

@Wipqozn It's on the Switch, plus I think the sequel's dropping next year?

Private Pansy

Literally dragging the window from my hidpi laptop screen over to the normal external monitor causes the bug to fix itself

murgatroid99

21:32

@Yuuki yeah, hopefully

Wipqozn

@Yuuki Yes. I'm tempted to rebuy on switch. Team Cherry is deserving of me tossing more money at them.

Nzall

How can I save a chatroom transcript? I'd like to save the books discussion for later reference

Elva

You can use the hover-arrow to get a permalink to a message

Or use the bookmarking feature

RedRiderX

Scroll to the top of the chat, click "Full Transcript" then click "Bookmark a Conversation"

Nzall

Okay, I made a bookmark called "Bridge recommends books to Elva"

RedRiderX

21:42

Oh yeah just fyi those get saved publicly on your chat profile

Nzall

it's probably not entirely what the bookmarking system is for, but I'd like to be able to check back in a couple months when I've finished reading the 5 books I just ordered

@RedRiderX them being public is not really an issue for me

RedRiderX

Yeah it's not that big a deal just something that's not obvious

Elise

@RedRiderX I, for one, was not aware of that :o

Yuuki

@RedRiderX Oh man, I just dug up the first thing I ever bookmarked in this room.

And what a coincidence, it's about you!

In which @RedRiderX discovers his one true love: a chatbot.

May 11 '14 at 21:53, 1 hour 40 minutes total – 89 messages, 9 users, 1 star

Bookmarked May 11 '14 at 23:35 by Yuuki

RedRiderX

Oh yeah that's a good one

Unionhawk

21:49

thanks Tasker (I set my phone down on a library book)

Elise

just saw a spam email in my spam folder from Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and it made me think - it must really suck for whoever is trying to run a legit company from Nigeria 🤔

Unionhawk

Yes it works with amiibo

Elise

@Unionhawk tasker? or nfc in general?

Unionhawk

Both I guess

It's able to differentiate too

Elise

I recommend TagMo for use with amiibo, you can scan your real ones and write them to compatible NFC tags very easily

Or you can download someone else's amiibo and write to your tags 🤷🏼‍♀️

Unionhawk

21:57

I'm trying to write something dumb like

Toon link amiibo -> play music Wind Waker Symphonic Movement

Lazers 2.0

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Q: How to pick the HQ you want in skirmish mode?

I have the game including "Jupiter" expansion (it was auto included), which means I have 6 HQs available, but when I start a skirmish mode, I can see only 4 HQs. Is there a way to cyle through the 6 HQs ? or is there a way to disable Jupiter expansion so I can train only on the 4 basic HQs ?

offworld-trading-company

Elise

22:13

@Unionhawk that seems highly impractical and awesome

Unionhawk

22:24

The main thing I'm running into is it looks like Tasker and google play music don't play nice together

Elise

22:41

@Unionhawk how so? it worked fine for me

I use tasker to max out volume whenever I connect to bluetooth and then set it back to what it was after I disconnect

Private Pansy

Wearing a dress makes me thankful for pants

Unionhawk

23:17

@Elise I can't find any files in the "play music" task

Elise

23:38

@Unionhawk do you actually have the file on your device or is it downloaded through google play music?

you could also use tasker to trigger a google assistant command to play a specific song

bit hacky, I guess, but would cut out a lot of extra work for you

Unionhawk

Yeah that'll work

In which @RedRiderX discovers his one true love: a chatbot.

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