[Rhythm of War] The Boot, the Rat, and the Spren by Pam Hage
Relevent book quote (lifted from deviantart):
“I don’t think he ever gets excited. Not even when I tell him I have a fun surprise for him.”
“Your surprises,” Kaladin said, “are never fun.”
“I put a rat in his boot,” Syl whispered. “It took me forever. I can’t lift something so heavy, so I had to lead it with food.”
“Why in the Stormfather’s name,” Lirin said, “would you put a rat in his boot?”
“Because it fit so well!” Syl said. “How can you not see how great the idea was?”
- Rhythm of War, chapter 18
I do recommend the stormlight short stories, they are both quite good.
What info are you specifically looking for?
Mistborn and Stormlight all
There are shards that represent certain concepts, ruin, preservation, honour, cultivation etc. people hold these shards, but are, influenced by it's intent the longer they hold it.
Generally, each shard has picked a planet/solar system to settle and create/enhance their population.
Each systems magic tends to end up mirroring in some way the intent of the shard that created it. Honours require oaths, Ruin's requires stealing power off others etc.
Some magic systems work for their users off planet (you have seen this!), others are more difficult.
The F1 icon keeps appearing and disappearing too, there is someone desperately turning things off and back on again! 🤣
Edit: they fixed it!
Is their lap number graphic broken? Not sure I have seen it the entire race?
That is an awful colour scheme, shouldn't the royal domains be a recognisable colour?
[Words of Radiance] Eye of the storm - Eshonai by Connor Chamberlain (animated version available in source link)
Fancy animated source
[Mistborn: The Final Empire] Vin by Maria Arteta
Sorry, have been away for a bit, back now and testing out how hotlinking to Cara works.
If you were single and earning an MPs salary it could be a bit of a no brainer - could you get a other equally or better paying job within a few months? Considering you have been a politician for the last 5 years not an SME in whatever field?
If you had a family on that salary, unsure. If you agreed it with your other half as a planned move, maybe?
Think of it as a safety net, if you lose the election you lose your job.... But the winnings of that bet would then help you out.
If you win, you keep your reasonable lucrative job, no problem.
If you have lots of tabs up top you can't see the names, vertical tabs lets you see more/all of the tab titles.
I have been using the tree style tabs add-on for years, it's amazing for a tab hoarder.
Isn't this functionality already built into the default web UI?
Link to the original blog post by the developer: https://medium.com/@julianmckinlay/total-war-rome-ii-and-creative-assembly-my-statement-ten-years-on-d964f65b0a8f
There should be options for hard difficulty that are due to the AI being better, not just getting massive buffs.
Some of the examples given were about the AI not even knowing about certain game mechanics!
But when you have a problem, you complain to your representative that represents your area and knows all the details. That's a powerful thing.
In the UK at least there are a lot of seats that are swung by those holding them rather than their party.
That way still ends up with candidates that you didn't vote for though, the ranked choice method means you always have a vote in each round.
In any round though you only have 1 vote still, it's just collecting the votes ahead of time? The only thing you lose is knowing who is in each round in advance?
In your example, wouldn't the same candidates have been knocked out in each round regardless?
Direct link to patch notes; https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-1-1-5f1.1687527/
Or this one if the above doesn't work? https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2.1147/
I was more thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deccan_Traps
More than 1 million cubic kilometres of lava. Enough gasses to cause a mass extinction event.
Not sure why they had problems doing the ride with an anti-gravity bike!?!
Ugh, life took ages to get started. Lazy bacteria!
It's still a hell of a long time if you consider that the entirety of recorded (ish) history is only a few thousand years long.
Updated comment to remove an order of magnitude.
It's not X turning into Y when it comes to evolution. There were all kinds of different dinosaurs, that evolved I to all kinds of different niches. Most of those then went extinct due to rocks falling from the sky, or the entirety of India turning into a huge volcano etc.
So it's not that a T-Rex turned into a chicken, it's that T-Rexs lived alongside other dinosaurs that developed feathers and filled more niches etc. those that survived eventually became birds. (Have you ever seen an Emu up close?!? No wonder the Australians lost to them 🤣)
Disclaimer: I have no specific knowledge. Also, remember this happened over (billions? hundreds of millions) of years.
Other comments about just not noticing feathers are valid too.
Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2's hype and subsequent disappointment.
Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time
Suggested Defederation list
This site lists (and allows votes on etc) fediverse sites that should probably be de-federated, either for illegal or hateful content. It lists why each one is suggested to be banned, so you can just ban the illegal ones if you want.
Bringing it up because we are theoretically federated with some hideous instances.