@littlecherry_08 I've never read a book with a less predictable ending than Hero of Ages. Maybe it's because the Mistborn trilogy was what got me back into reading fiction as an adult, but it wasn't beat by Stormlight either. I still think about it before I fall asleep at night..
Cr: Shadow and Bone. I'm pissed that the series was canceled so I'm jumping into the books. I'm anticipating this will be a fun, light read. A refreshing buffer, having just finished Empire of Silence, before continuing the Sun Eater series.
@sansacinema Sword of Kaigen by M.L Wang. Blood Over Brighthaven by the same author is popular as well, but I didn't like it nearly as much as Sword of Kaigen.
@zbogus77 I picked up the Cradle series by Will Wight after finishing Stormlight. It doesn't hit quite as hard in any aspect, but if you like hard magic systems and expansive world building, it scratches some of that itch.
@kirbystanner Warframe meets all of those requirements, it's also free to play, and with maybe the most dedicated and passionate developers in gaming at the moment.
Many of them didn't. Your great-great-grandmother was probably drinking opium for her nerves, sold at the corner shop as cheap as a pint of beer. It was called laudanum, a mix of opium and alcohol that doctors handed out for anxiety, sleeplessness, and "women's troubles." Mothers fed it to crying babies. The babies often stopped crying because they stopped breathing.
The men drank. By 1830 the average American was putting away almost two bottles of liquor a week. Whiskey cost less than coffee or milk. People started their day with a shot and ended it with another. Toddlers drank from their parents' rum mugs.
ADHD has a long paper trail. A Scottish doctor described kids who couldn't focus in 1798. By 1846 there was a popular German children's book about a boy called Fidgety Philipp who couldn't sit still. In 1902, a London children's doctor named George Still wrote a famous paper on the same kids and called it a "defect of moral control." Same kid, three different centuries.
Depression and anxiety had old names too. Melancholia, hysteria, the vapors. Treatments included bloodletting, ice baths, and chaining people to a wall. By 1937, American mental hospitals held 451,672 patients and took up more than half of every hospital bed in the country. Inside the walls, about 1 in 10 patients died each year.
Then came the lobotomy. Between 1949 and 1952, around 50,000 Americans were strapped to a chair while a doctor hammered an ice pick through the thin bone above their eye and wiggled it around inside their brain. It took about ten minutes. Sixty percent of the patients were women. About 1 in 20 died from the procedure. Many of the ones who lived came out with no personality left. The man who invented the procedure won a Nobel Prize.
Britain's male suicide rate hit 30.3 per 100,000 in 1905. The lowest rates ever recorded in British history are happening right now.
Plenty of our ancestors didn't make it. They drank themselves dead. They overdosed on shop-bought opium. They got locked in asylums and never came out. They had picks driven through their eye sockets. They killed themselves in numbers we don't see today. The conditions were always there. The treatments just used to be worse than the disease.
@El_Diagrama Fantasy explores individuality in a more interesting way imo. Like; what would an average person do if granted magic powers-what decisions will they make that they usually wouldn't, how does that interact with their personality and goals. Sci-fi looks more at society as a whole
@littlecherry_08 It's definitely worth it! The Will of the Many started a bit slow in my opinion, but it's really carefully written. The present-tense first-person perspective makes the second half of the book so exciting.
Since a lot of people dont understand the difference.
Not all AI is bad, because not all AI is generative AI.
A game (like alien isolation for example) having an AI based algorithm so a monster can track your movement isnt GENERATIVE AI
WE ONLY DISLIKE GENERATIVE AI.
valorie curry might have just given one of the best performances in the boys with this one episode, her meeting with her pastor and her genuine struggle with her faith to ultimately betray it for homelanderโฆ just to end like she did. Incredible #TheBoys
@im_Vega1@CosmereUpdates Considering that we don't learn the reason why she has that unique ability until the third book, it might be left as a mystery and explained in the second or third movie.
@littlecherry_08 I love seeing people fall in love with the Cosmere, and especially Mistborn era 1. When the reveal hits, it makes the entire trilogy fit perfectly together, like the last piece of a puzzle.