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I wouldn't mind seeing him take another crack at it, if for nothing else but to see how or if he would change the formula.

As far as I remember most of the negatives you mention have been from the POV of the opposite gender, ie. the male/female view on things. I don't remember exactly, but I don't think he ever used the third person to do that. A lot of the examples you mention are always diametrically opposite depending on who's POV you are reading. A good example would be Mat trying to save the girls in book 3 and his view on it as opposed to the girls view on it. Some things are not even due to gender but simply the age of the character, most of them are barely out of their teens and as such are inherently naive and dumb in their thinking. There is also the fact that the world has been destroyed by men and there is a lot of distrust there that is essentially inborn at that point. Women, girls especially, are obsessed with how they present themselves and their perceived flaws, the success of the cosmetic industry can attest to that (have you ever met a women who doesn't own makeup?). I have not met a women who is happy with every aspect of their body and who would, given a magic body morph wand, not change something about it. I do not see a big disconnect there between the WoT and real world women. Also, I would say the world today is fairly obsessed with bosom and behinds. On the topic of everything being described in terms of beauty, although I would define it more as outwards appearance, I don't see an issue there. When you see a person do you not first think about how they look and how they are dressed. I doubt your first impression is going to be about how smart they are or on their opinion on political situation in South Africa. This seems perfectly human to me. I googled with a fairly neutral query and the results I'm seeing is that there are just as much if not more women who were able to identify with the female character/s in the books. Don't take this the wrong way, but we tend to surround ourselves with like minded individuals, so I am not surprised that the women, who's opinion you value enough to ask, share and confirm your beliefs. I laugh thinking about how the readers would have reacted if he wrote the female characters through a lens of a male dominant society. That's what I heard too. Which makes it doubly funny.

I mean he was no Ivo Andric but his writing was ok for the genre. (Who would you say is a good fantasy writer? I'm curious.) The characters were a feminist's fever dream, but I still found them enjoyable.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-easing-venezuela-oil-sanctions-response-election-deal-official-2023-10-18/

Even without the voice change the show went downhill a couple of seasons ago. The first couple of seasons had the shock value to carry the show and once I got used to the characters the rest kind of petered out. Although to be fair they did have a couple of pearls later on.

I never could get in to it and I got pretty far with it (season 3 or something) I even "watched" the movie and I got the same felling as when watching the series. The new VA for Rick (Rick and Morty) sounds like it's AI generated.

@majestic Our sarma look like this: (My mouth started to water when I was looking for pictures I kid you not) On the topic of induction cooktops I got this one It has 4 zones that you can combine, but if you want real freedom and have countertop space and money to burn you can get this: With this one you can put the cooking pot anywhere you want and it will find it and heat it. The biggest drawback with induction is that you can not remove or shake your pot/pan otherwise it will turn off, but the positives are POWER and really good temperature control that you cannot get with any other type of cooking.

How does that work in a populated area though?

@Keyrock

Seem there is something happening on the border with Lebanon or at least Israel is preparing for something.

https://bnn.network/world/israel/chechen-leader-kadyrov-proposes-peacekeeping-mission-in-palestine-amid-arab-israeli-conflict/

Color me interested.

The UN/NATO should send peace keepers to stabilize the situation.

Tbh, I didn't mind the SW prequels either, there were some things that I didn't like but they are still miles better than the hot garbage coming out of Disney.

The sequels were always fine. The cgi didn't stand the test of time, but they were a fun watch. I'm not counting the 4th one. I would have to rewatch it to give an opinion as already forgot pretty much everything about it.

New season of Loki started, for those who are interested.

Until it's your turn to die.

I don't think Biden is making any of those decisions if it makes you feel any better.

Equalizer 3. I don't know... It's not bad when compared to the sequels maybe even better than the second one, but too much propaganda for my taste in this one. Indiana Jones has been out for "free" for a couple of weeks now. In my opinion it's ok but nothing special, then again I don't think the originals were all that either. The deaging special effects are still in the uncanny valley territory.

Ustase were worse, but that may be a tad subjective. They may not have had the impact the Nazis did, but the things they did were worse.