MelodiousFunk

joined 2 years ago
[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 22 hours ago

Feeling alone, the Army's up the road
Salvation a la mode with a cup of tea

- Aqualung by Jethro Tull

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 23 hours ago

Fuck, shit, cock, ass, titties, boner, bitch, muff, pussy, cunt, butthole, Barbra Streisand!

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What flavor is it?

The kool-aid, I mean.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Penny'll start a fire.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

looks around at the state of the world

On its head? Seems to be the default.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 days ago

Sorry you had to find out this way.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago

The hexagon was invented by Pappus Alexandria, centuries before the release of unrelated Belgian techno anthem Pump Up the Jam.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Base game got boring, I recommend the Ringfarers expansion.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago

Swan Lake is my jam. Marche Slave if I want something short form.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is not what I expected when I clicked "show more replies."

 

A movie sign!

Aaaaaaaaaaaa!

 
 

I just finished Advocate, book 3 of Daniel M. Ford's The Warden series. I've been really enjoying this world. The first two books ended on cliffhangers, and the year wait between entries was killing me. Book 3 ended with a nice wrap up of one arc and a setup for another, both building up the bones of a larger story that's been looming ominously.

The problem is, it looks like Tor has dropped the series. The Warden and Necrobane were available in hardcover, but Advocate only got a TPB release. I can't find anything concrete about book 4, and according to a friend of a friend (and taken with the appropriate grain of salt) sales weren't good enough on the first book (?!?) to warrant re-upping the series.

I'm bummed. I found out about Ford's first series, Paladin, through word of mouth. I thought it was okay - a little tropey in places, but once he found his pace it was entertaining enough. Then he did some detective stuff that I had no interest in, but when I heard that he was doing another fantasy series, and that it got picked up by Tor, my interest was piqued. The result so far has been a marked improvement from Paladin, and one of the few things to poke through my deep depression these past few years. And now it's all in limbo.

Maybe I'm overreacting. I'm not going to pretend the know the machinations of the publishing world, and maybe someone else is going to pick up the series. It's just frustrating to find something nice and get it yanked away.

Anyway, rant over. I enjoyed my time with this series regardless of its future. If anyone else has read it (or has heard any news about continuation), I'd love to hear your thoughts.

 

What day is it, anyway?

 
 

This one has been bugging me for awhile, so I don't know when it started. But images in-line in the text portion of posts show at their original resolution, and do not scale down.

Example: https://50501.chat/post/19511

Etc

Possibly related, images that are wider than they are tall don't scale down in comments.

 
 
 
 
 
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