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Shadow Games is back to par with the first 3. On to Dreams of Steel.

Finished the Silver Spike. So far the weakest book for me. Although I liked the epilogue very much.

Ah, I'm ways off from that but yeah I imagine I will be grouchy too.

Still an empty spoiler. Now you can add the spoiler title and spoiler content. That got me the first time too and I had to edit.

@Malcador I think the forum ate what you wrote, or I don't understand it. I started reading the Silver Spike and am not feeling it so far, but everyone says it's better to finishing before starting the books of the south.

The ssd (samsung 9100 pro w/ heatsync) arrived aaaaaand it doesn't fit. So now I'm waiting on an aliexpress special for an extender, which was not cheap (60 eur).

Book spoilers The cop-out ending, where everyone lives? Or something else?

Finished the second book and the story is getting better and better. Ended up buying the whole anthology. I guess I wasted 20 bucks, but still a lot cheaper then getting them all individually.

That does indeed solve it. Thanks again @SChin !

Another change I don't like (I'm assuming it's a change and not a bug) is that clicking on a thread no longer brings you to the first unread reply. That is very useful. I can live without the page numbers next to thread names, but I don't like that the only choice now is to navigate to the first page when clicking a thread and clicking the last page icon next to the thread name.

Better now!

Text is tiny.

Finished book 1 of the black company. On to book 2. Considering when these were written I can see the influence they had on more than one author.

Oh wow, so Steven Erikson was very inspired by Glen Cooks writing style in The Black Company.

Thinking about starting Black Company or Broken Earth. Also want to get this https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/collections/leatherbound-books/products/the-eye-of-the-world-leatherbound. But I don't want to pay something like 350 euros for it... Need to find a mule to get it to me from the US.

New Dresden Files book "12 Months". It's alright, I would compare it to Ghost Story quality wise. Like Ghost Story this one wasn't planned originally, but due to some big things happening in Battle Grounds he wanted to have a book where Dresden could recover and reflect. The good news is that Mirror Mirror should come out relatively soon at least according to Jim, writing done by March and book out probably beginning of next year. Here's hopping.

We had a bunch of fog here too around the same time. The issues come when the air starts to smell when you open the windows... I promptly went and bought a couple of more air cleaners.

Rereading the Dresden Files before the new book comes out.

Was undervolting a new laptop (asus proart p16) with a AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 cpu and when I was stress testing I did a benchmark to see if there was any performance gain (minimal) and for ****s and giggles I did a benchmark on my PC to compare. I was kind of floored to see the laptop get a 2.5x better result...

Isn't she in Russia?

Some evil hearts will spin this story as Trump having done this to bolster Russian economy, as China is now more dependent on Russian oil.

Was poking fun at some people here. Not really serious. I doubt they can switch from Canada that fast as pipelines beat boats for delivery and it's not like Canada is propped up by it's oil industry (as far as I know).

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt?post=asset%3Aea9f1475-6c65-4930-8370-04be588ee845#post Oh wow. This is a first time a US president just right out said they did it for the oil... Wonder how Canada is going to survive this shift in oil export. Maybe sell to China? Also a good chances that the rest of South American countries start arming themselves as fast as possible after this. Wonder who they will buy their weapons from?

So the US will occupy Venezuela, this wasn't a hit and run. Will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of weeks.

Apparently the US captured Maduro and his wife.