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1) I have occasionally seen people claim that everyone should calm down about the US elections because the US government is so big that whoever's voted in as president, it doesn't really matter much as to what's going to happen.
Then I think about when El Loco was elected president in Ecuador, and just how much damage he did to that country before he was kicked out. That, in a country where you could pretty much assume that all presidential candidates would be doing some embezzling anyway.
So I don't much buy that argument.
2) I'm enjoying Discount Armageddon quite a lot, but I'm a little bemused at how many people call it fluffy. The protagonist is someone who, in chapter one, tracks down a serial killer, and tells him that he'd better go murder people in some other city, or she'll actually stop him. And then lets him run off, because, hey, if he's not murdering people in her city--which he might yet do, depending on how seriously he takes her--why should she care?
That's...not...fluffy. That's something I get past by viewing the protagonist as having a fundamentally alien type of morality, or at least the type of morality one gets with people who want to keep tigers who have slaughtered a dozen people from being killed, even if in this case the tiger is sentient and fully aware that its prey is, to the point of being able to seduce them into a place to be murdered.
I'm liking the book, but, really, folks. Fluffy? This protagonist has some of the most inhumane rigorously applied ethics I've seen in a book I'm actually willing to read since...man. I can't remember the last one.
3) I've been playing too much Pokemon, and wondering why in the world I keep wanting to buy more Pokemon games when they're all essentially identical. Cute monsters, lots of grinding, fairly identical-looking cities with identical-sounding townsfolk and a vague plot of defeating near-identical evil groups who spring up rarely. And yet I find myself going, "I should buy Pokemon White so that I can get through that plot and then buy Pokemon Black 2 to see what happens next" when I'm playing Pearl right now and never finished Soulsilver.
Cartridges laced with crack, maybe.
4) I've come up with a wildly ambitious project to implement via the Failbetter Games card-based story-game system. Because what I really need right now is another project, right?
5) I wonder if I like real paprika. I want to try a recipe that calls for Very Good Paprika, but I'm reluctant to invest if I don't know if I'll even like the taste at all.
Then I think about when El Loco was elected president in Ecuador, and just how much damage he did to that country before he was kicked out. That, in a country where you could pretty much assume that all presidential candidates would be doing some embezzling anyway.
So I don't much buy that argument.
2) I'm enjoying Discount Armageddon quite a lot, but I'm a little bemused at how many people call it fluffy. The protagonist is someone who, in chapter one, tracks down a serial killer, and tells him that he'd better go murder people in some other city, or she'll actually stop him. And then lets him run off, because, hey, if he's not murdering people in her city--which he might yet do, depending on how seriously he takes her--why should she care?
That's...not...fluffy. That's something I get past by viewing the protagonist as having a fundamentally alien type of morality, or at least the type of morality one gets with people who want to keep tigers who have slaughtered a dozen people from being killed, even if in this case the tiger is sentient and fully aware that its prey is, to the point of being able to seduce them into a place to be murdered.
I'm liking the book, but, really, folks. Fluffy? This protagonist has some of the most inhumane rigorously applied ethics I've seen in a book I'm actually willing to read since...man. I can't remember the last one.
3) I've been playing too much Pokemon, and wondering why in the world I keep wanting to buy more Pokemon games when they're all essentially identical. Cute monsters, lots of grinding, fairly identical-looking cities with identical-sounding townsfolk and a vague plot of defeating near-identical evil groups who spring up rarely. And yet I find myself going, "I should buy Pokemon White so that I can get through that plot and then buy Pokemon Black 2 to see what happens next" when I'm playing Pearl right now and never finished Soulsilver.
Cartridges laced with crack, maybe.
4) I've come up with a wildly ambitious project to implement via the Failbetter Games card-based story-game system. Because what I really need right now is another project, right?
5) I wonder if I like real paprika. I want to try a recipe that calls for Very Good Paprika, but I'm reluctant to invest if I don't know if I'll even like the taste at all.