In fact, I do prefer to buy generics. There are dozens of us!

Lots of great recommendations here. I’d also add Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold. Her Penric novels are quite fun, too.

The Hornblower stories are also excellent. They might hit a bit simpler – the characters are a bit more heroic, a bit less complicated. IMO both are worth reading, but they hit a bit different even though they sail through similar waters (I was going to say ‘covers the same ground’, ha!)

They don’t exist

You, sir, are a punk.

Take this upvote and carry on.

I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. My neighborhood isn’t the best for walkability – there are definitely better areas in this city in that respect.

To the nearest convenience store: 1.5km To the nearest chain supermarket: 1.9km To the bus stop: 140m To the nearest park: 480m To the nearest big supermarket: 5.8km To the nearest library: 1.9km To the nearest train station: 800m

Straight-line distance to Big Ben: 6450km

I had the opposite experience. Once I started working full time after college, I felt like I had SO MUCH FREE TIME!

I did have a part-time job during college, though. That might have skewed things for me.

I wanted to like the game, but one game where the other players adopted the ‘backstabbing’ style ruined it for me.

I was sad when AOL started sending demo CDs instead of the floppy disks :(

Perfection.

From the thumbnail, I thought there was a bench there. Something about the planter, I think.

Yeah, that’s fair, especially in software work.

I see what you’re getting at – hinting at a sense of serenity?

The phrase still annoys me for some reason.

😆

Fair point, but something about the tautology of the phrase has always grated on me :\

You just reminded me of this

Those who champion “brutal honesty” are more interested in the brutality than the honest

I use this, and I struggle a little to disengage when the person I ask interprets it as “help me figure out how to solve this” when they don’t actually have the “short answer”.

life isn’t fair

It’s not as pithy, but I think “Just because you didn’t get your way, doesn’t mean it’s unfair” would be a better sentiment for adults to tell children.

Or “I don’t fucking care what happened, I just don’t want to hear you whine about it”. Hardly an acceptable way to talk to children, but I think it’s what adults in my life meant when I was a child.

“it is what it is”

If it weren’t what it is, well, it wouldn’t be anything at all, would it?

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

So you’re saying copyright infringement is on par with speeding or parking past the meter’s end? Eh, fair enough.