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At the beginning of the year.. Ludwig, Squeex, Fuslie and I made a bet. Whoever doesn’t hit 16k in counterstrike would have to do a 24 hour stream and all the funds earned from it (ad revenue, subs, sponsors) would be split between the winners.

It was an absolutely a PAINFUL grind but with the power of my stubbornness and refusal to give Ludwig a cent, I DID IT!!!

I’ve improved and I absolutely love the game.. IM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I’m slowly working my way through my Easton Masterpieces of Science Fiction, just finishing Lest Darkness Fall, a 1939 travel-back-in-time book. The idea is “can the fall of the Roman empire and resulting dark ages be prevented by knowledge from the future”.

The Easton introduction contrasts it with Mark Twain’s more famous 1889 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, which it calls more cynical about human nature than the generally optimistic LDF. I haven’t read CYiKAC since high school, but I have enjoyed the more recent (2000) 1632/Ring of Fire travel-back-in-time series quite a bit.

1632 is a big book, over 3x as long as LDF, and the series continues on and on (and on…).

By modern standards, the pacing in LDF is shockingly fast. By page 4, the protagonist was already zapped back in time by a lightning bolt, and it was barely mentioned again. Modern books rarely throw you right into anything, and often spend many chapters on setup.

The crude character development in LDF also stands out, but on the other hand, it casually expects the reader to have quite a bit of knowledge about history and military tactics / campaigns. Apparently in 1939, it wasn’t unreasonable to expect that an educated professional might know enough Latin to haltingly communicate with late era Romans.

For pure entertainment, I would recommend the more modern 1632, but LDF is still a fun read, and I like touching content from the era of my grandparents now and then.