Seeker of Carcosa

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  • Seeker of Carcosa@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.mlCommunism bad
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    1 year ago

    The good old Narcissist’s Tankie’s Prayer:

    That didn’t happen,

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad,

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal,

    And if it is, that’s not my fault,

    And if it was, that’s Western propaganda,

    And if it isn’t, you deserved it.




  • The Witcher 2, though it’s more of an exploit.

    If you get the sword from the Lady of the Lake in the previous game, you start the prologue of TW2 with two silver swords, one being the Lady of the Lake sword. Unequip the Lady of the Lake sword so you don’t lose it to the dragon.

    You now have a mid-tier silver sword that is good for half the game. You also don’t need to find a new silver sword at the start of the game.








  • I usually go to short stories, or old sword and sorcery novellas. For the former my go to stories are Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, Robert E Howard’s Conan, and Isaac Asimov’s Robots. For the latter I prefer Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. If I’m feeling uninspired or experiencing a block, knocking out a few of these stories always sets me straight. They take next to no time to read and are great fun. I don’t get tired of rereading them.


  • I’ve recently started setting myself goals. I used to read non-stop before university. During my undergraduate degree I slowed down to finishing only a few books per year. By the time I started my PhD, where basically my entire 9-5 is reading and analysing dense 40-page mathematical papers, I’d completely stopped reading for pleasure.

    Last year I set myself a 1 book per week goal and found that I was actively factoring reading time into my daily schedule, which I really appreciated. I managed to get through a lot of my reading bucket list this way, but at the end of the year I decided I wouldn’t set that kind of goal again. I ended up powering through some novels that I would’ve preferred to DNF purely because it was Thursday and starting a new novel would set me back.

    This year I haven’t set a hard goal. I’ve decided I am happy with one book per month, and if I’m reading properly then I blaze past that. I’m very much enjoying the ability to augment my main reading with other reading. I’m currently participating in a book club over at [email protected] which I find very rewarding and I wouldn’t have had the spare reading time to participate in this time last year.