The more “vanilla” version of the 4th hole in a heteronormative coupling refers to the cisfemale’s cismale partner getting pegged.

We’ve got some big projects happening with work that are all coming due at the same time, so I haven’t been doing much reading. I am listening in small bursts to This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl) to prep for the book release in May and getting ready for Bingo to start back up on May 1st.

I hope people will be able to join us again! If you have questions, please feel free to ask.

First, I fully support the, “not all books are for all people and spend what little time we all have focusing on that which brings you joy in a rewarding sense.

That said, if it is DCC, you’re not seeing the heart or soul in the first couple except in brief instances I think on purpose. You really start getting it in 3 on, because the first 2 are purely survival mode for Carl and Donut. Once you progress deeper in the dungeon, the machinations of the outside universe seeps in a bit more and provides a foil for Carl, et al. to react to and in cases interact with beyond just the next dungeon battle. (Also MD has said it will be 10 books total (9 stories with the last one split in 2 volumes)).

The floors do also seem to be inspired by different types of games.

Floor 1–2: Basic Old School Dungeon Crawl Floor 3: Dungeons and Dragons/RPG Floor 4: Rogue-like Games Floor 5: MMO Game Floor 6: Battle Royal (maybe?) Floor 7: Maze/Puzzle Floor 8: Pokémon/Collectible Card Game Floor 9: Real Time Strategy/Management SIM

It’s widely regarded that the first 2.5-3 books in The Dresden Files are the weakest writing. Not bad, but immature writing skill.

The series gets very good and deeply engaging after that, but that’s a close comparison to what you mentioned.

#lifegoals

UM, ACTUALLY, if we could get some VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE in the PARLOR ROOM to MAKE SOME NOISE, This would be a GAME CHANGER. (Yes, I know that’s his son Sam, but ¯\(ツ)/¯)

While this isn’t great, it’s only applicable to talk therapy which I don’t think you can have a significant impact on without running into free speech issues which was the ruling. Any “physical” domain-type therapy is not impacted by this ruling which the headline doesn’t make clear*.

*- probably on purpose because Fuck the NYT.

That’s been pretty high on my TBR

I’m just on to book 6 (Eye of the Bedlam Bride) of my Dungeon Crawler Carl Audiobook (re)read before the next book comes out in May.

This is my 1st time through the audiobooks and while I am typically not an audiobook person (I get distracted and lose my place or I can read faster on my own); I am vey much enjoying Jeff Hayes work. I get similar vibes to when I would watch Orphan Black and forget that Tatiana Maslany was 3/4th of the cast alone. It’s almost like listening to a full cast recording.

Peter Parker is Spiders-Man confirmed.

{Awkwardly laughs in Minnesotan.}

NGL, I have thought far more frequently lately to move to Canada or see if Canada will adopt the whole state.

I have also noticed that the oldies station has stated playing pretty recent music from only like 10-15 years ago. (The 90’s)

“Brazilian women…”

That’s A LOT of women! 😳

Sounds like someone is trying to buy themselves into the popular crowd.

Ea-nāṣir strikes again!

It was a color terminal starting with my upgrade from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS 10 (and Fedora around the same time). If I recall correctly my Claris works terminal was black on white in the 90s when I was in Usenet (alt.rec.scouting, baby (and others))

But I kept it that way because of my history growing up with Apple IIs (and an old interface to airline booking software in the early 2000s as well.

Born in 80.

My terminal used to be set up such that local terminal usage was green & black and remote was amber.

What about my Fark account number being a low 6 digit number (It would have been lower, but I just lurked for a year first)?? Or how far I got in various MUDDs on my local BBS?? I need someone to recognize my internet clout!! My gmail account is my name with no numbers.

I played YAHOO! Games, god damnit, and used Dogpile to search Ask Jeeves, Lycos, and Excite, HotBot, and AltaVista!!!1!!!

We get 2 first names for the price of one!