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That is a meaning for the phrase, yes

Interesting. I generally cannot stand deus ex machina, so I’m surprised to not really be able to think of heavy examples of it for Lindon. He certainly gets out of tricky situations, but maybe to me it felt like they were either foreshadowed or somebody like Aethan gets him out of it?

I’m planning another reread soon; I’ll have to pay special attention to see why it didn’t register for me in this particular story.

This is probably my favorite fantasy book series, so I’m super curious what resolutions you’ve found annoying.

I’ll say I find the first book a bit of a slog, but that’s mostly because I can’t stand the secondhand embarrassment of Lindon’s behavior.

Once Aethan shows up, it’s a straight shot to the top for me.

I’m pretty fond of both narrators (though I do wish they had decided on pronunciations ahead of time), but I can’t stand the switching. Either have a dedicated reader for each character, or stick to one narrator for the whole thing, imo.

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I know historically “deaf and dumb” meant deaf and mute, but, at least in the classes I took in college, I was told we don’t use that terminology anymore, for hopefully obvious reasons.

Honestly forgot about chai. And I think people took my original comment a little too seriously, lol. Nothing at all against putting milk in your drinks or not. I’m just jealous because my lactose free milk costs twice the price.

If you have to add milk to it to enjoy it, then you like drinking milk. This brought to you by the lactose intolerant gang.

But in reality I actually love a good jasmine green tea, nothing added. Black is fine with some sugar.

I want to know who had the corkscrew.

Szeth-son-son-Vallano, truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king.

As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.

Isn’t that just how sponsorships work? Most every major stadium is named after some company or another, because they paid for it.

I have a vague recollection of this fence showing up on Reddit ages ago and everyone telling the owner to get a beware of dog sign instead of fixing it.

Either they followed through, or that’s a pretty good photoshop.

Wanted to not do my actual job for a few minutes, so I had time to read some Wikipedia pages, haha.

Also, Seattle should be a reference to Microsoft. It seems IBM and Microsoft started an operating system collaboration in 1985, but somebody more knowledgeable is going to have to weigh in.

Isekai is a popular genre of manga and anime involving a character being reborn in another world, or more recently as some weird item or monster. Often this is initiated by the character dying. (See “truck-kun”).

In this scenario, after incorrectly pronouncing ASCII, the American character encoding standard, as isekai, the speaker is hit by an IBM truck (a company famous for its early advances in computing, among other things), and is reborn around the time they had market dominance in personal computers.

I don’t think IBM had much of anything to do with the creation or popularization of the ASCII standard, but memes can’t all be perfectly accurate.

Hope this helps!

If only it were so easy to banish the night-spiders. Nope, suburban US has more than you think.

You get a very similar effect if you go outside at night and hold a light up at your eye level, except it’s reflecting off the eyes of all the spiders around.

This 100% My experience only mattered because I was able to really involve myself and had a great relationship with my instructor, and still do, actually. There were people who failed out, so my specific program isn’t something I’d classify as a degree mill, but I 100% could’ve coasted through and retained nothing.