I'm currently listening to TItus Groan by Mervyn Peake, after struggling to find it in book shops.
I'm using XigXag as it's not Amazon owned and it doesn't require a subscription. Really great app, though it is mobile only and I'm not sure if it's available outside the UK.
I get the same. Writing up my thesis currently and people definitely ask me about my research just to be nice.
I start out by saying how on a clock, if you add 12 hours to the time then, ignoring the AM/PM part, you get the same time out. So you’re essentially adding a rule to the arithmetic of the clock that adding 12 is identical to adding 0.
I then say I work with number systems that have some manner of clock rule to them. I like to see how we can build up big examples of spaces with this logic from some smallest building bricks.
I think that’s just about the most coherent way of describing my research area. I just get blank stares and “it’s all Greek to me.”
There currently is no way - and in my opinion should be no way to prevent duplicate communities across instances. One community will eventually become popular enough to be considered the de facto community, though we shouldn’t force interaction with an instance simply because they have dibs on a community name.
Less discerning users can subscribe to both communities.
Thanks for the info. I also hadn't considered just messaging the owner.
Jack Vance (namesake of Vancian magic) introduced two interesting concepts in his Dying Earth series. In earlier books magic was essentially invented by the ancient masters who were expert logicians and scientists. Each spell was essentially a proof of concept that a sequence of actions compelled reality to act in a certain way.
By the time of the first short stories in the Dying Earth series, mankind has long since deteriorated due to an overreliance on what is essentially magic to the layperson. Even the wily magicians of the modern time are only capable of rote learning a few arguments at a time; hence the fire and forget Vancian magic system of old D&D.
In later books, magicians have returned to near godly power. They've somehow found a link between djinn-like creatures capable of controlling portions of reality, and the rote rituals of old. They've learned to essentially cut out the middle-man and directly enslave these djinni to do their bidding.
I'm looking for community engagement without the homogenised superculture. I'd like to be able to discuss books on a small book community without someone jumping in with "I also choose this guy's dead wife" or "not my proudest fap" because it's a low effort way of garnering meta-points. I also like the lack of an account-based point system.
So far Lemmy is delivering and so I'm engaging here a lot more actively than I ever did on Reddit.
I found this as well. The audiobooks in particular have a soporific effect on me. Love Roy Dotrice as a narrator but the content is extremely dry, and that is coming from someone who rereads the Silmariliion regularly.
The site defaults to sorting by active posts. There are options for hot, new, and top over the past day. I tend to sort by new.
You could try HorrorBabble on Youtube. It's a bit better quality.
Currently Reading The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie. Also trying to get a Lovecraft book club off the ground over at [email protected]
Yes. I use a projector screen for maps. I do the background GM stuff via my laptop. Players can choose to either connect to the instance and roll there, or just roll in person.
The same for me. One of my favourite settings.