I am a little sad everyone took you so seriously. I assumed you were joking around. Made me chuckle.

AssCreed3 suffered from the setting. There aren’t enough big cities and beautiful buildings in revolutionary war America. You spend too much time in trees.

Black Flag would’ve had a similar problem except you spend lots of time on the ship, so running around the cities doesn’t matter as much.

Also yes. My wife says that to her, Baroque tuning sounds basically like a half-step below what’s written (which is pretty close).

This explains, IMO, why so much well-loved Baroque music is in D major. D♭ major is such a beautiful key, after all! 🙂

I don’t disagree. But there is stuff like this:

U.S. Admits Only White South African Refugees for Seven Straight Months

Choirs are really good at being in tune with one another, but not necessarily in tune with absolute pitch. So if you’re a singer with absolute pitch, your life is looking at a note on a page, knowing what that note SHOULD sound like, but then singing a slightly off-pitch note to be in tune with everyone else. Or even a completely different note if the group has shifted enough.

Or if a group decides that a piece isn’t in a good range for someone, and they decide to sing in a different key, for most people it’s really easy. Take the new starting note and go. But if you have absolute pitch you have to transpose on the fly if you’re sight reading.

That said, I think given the choice I’d take absolute pitch. My wife has it and she can sight read so much better than I can.

He doesn’t care, they aren’t white South Africans.

Seriously though if you aren’t putting your cart in this specific spot or the corral, what is wrong with you? It’s not that much further to walk. Don’t make more work for the person who brings the carts back inside, it’s just inconsiderate. Plus those things have been known to pick up speed in the wind and smash into stuff. You might not give a shit about your own car, but some people do.

Just be considerate, life is better when we work together.

I would play that.

Black Flag Resynced is pretty much the same except that one of the islands has a bunch of dinosaurs on it now.

Dirty deeds DONE WITH SHEEP

When you superglue two surfaces together, optionally brush them with some sandpaper first, then apply the glue, then exhale on the glue before trying to stick the two surfaces together. The moisture in your breath helps the adhesive set up faster, and the roughened surfaces from the sandpaper will add surface area to create a stronger bond.

(I’ve learned these lessons from gluing a LOT of 3D printed parts together.)

I just finished the story for Black Flag Resynced on Sunday and I was thinking I ought to dig up my copies of the old games and play through them. I remember really enjoying the Ezio saga.

The OneBlade is a perfect example of how easy it is to market a good product. I happened to see a commercial for this in 2017 and all the commercial did was lay out exactly how the product worked. Didn’t have to be flashy or attention grabbing or funny. And holy shit did the product live up to the marketing. I love that thing. And it has lasted, too. Besides replacing blades, I’ve had the same one for over nine years now.

Not to mention Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians (younger audience) and Skyward (true YA audience).

Man I love how dumb German sounds when you translate it. Tankpowerwagon sounds so much less intimidating.

Bela was absolutely flawless.

I think Sanderson would be the first person to admit he didn’t do Mat justice. He’s spoken before about how difficult it was to write Mat.

Definitely give him a shot as an author. I think he’s brilliant, and he has SO. MANY. BOOKS. 😁

Wheel of Time was my favorite series, until Stormlight Archive.

He does characters quite well. The dialogue isn’t always there, especially if the character is supposed to have a clever wit like Mat, but he’s getting better at that, too, with practice. But in terms of depth of character and setting he’s pretty fantastic. His characters are flawed and relatable and feel real, wound very well into his mastery of story structure. In Wheel of Time Androl is an excellent example, as that character was almost entirely Sanderson’s.

I recommend starting with either The Final Empire (first book in the Mistborn series) or The Way of Kings (first in the Stormlight series). The series eventually begin to intertwine and crossover to one another in a really brilliant way.

Have you read any Brandon Sanderson other than the last three WoT books? He’s a pretty amazing worldbuilder. And his hard magic systems are phenomenal. He’s also a master of story structure. The only area he lacks is prose, but he’s been improving on that over time.

Nothing bad, Nebula is awesome. Kurzgesagt and CGP Grey disagreed with the direction the rest of the leadership wanted to go with it and they jumped ship. Since then it has exploded in popularity.

I liked Friends. It hasn’t aged particularly well, it’s not without its flaws, but it was popular for a reason.

More importantly, its success meant NBC continued to invest heavily in comedies, which gave us a golden age of much better shows. A golden age that eventually included Scrubs, 30 Rock, The Office, My Name is Earl, Parks and Rec, Community, etc.