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It's really quite disheartening both that they got there first, and that the reaction was as bad as it was... So now I'm not sure if I should persevere and learn from the comments, or just give up and do something else...

I've been tinkering for a while with building a webapp for PbP RPG games. So many of them these days just use Discord (which is awful) or sites that feel 20 years old. And there's just been a thread on Reddit where someone else has built one and almost all the replies are how nobody needs it... ☹️

At least he's honest about totally making up his criticisms...

But does he prefer the paperback, hardback, audiobook or ebook version?

Just going to leave this here...

Assuming it was real. I've heard a number of suggestions that it either didn't happen at all, or it was an orchestrated publicity stunt...

I don't like libraries. They always want the books back... (Seriously though - libraries are awesome! Go and support your local one)

Yup. As soon as you monetize anything you're going to have people abusing it for profit, to the detriment of everyone else...

100 sales is a tiny number. If that's $5 profit per sale then that's $500. And if you can produce these quickly enough and cheaply enough then that's just easy money. They don't care about the books or the readers. They just care about getting paid...

If you can mass produce books cheaply enough, and then sell them self published on Amazon, odds are you're going to get some sales. Apparently you can get around 50% on books listed under $10, so a few hundred sales globally can quickly add up...

I remember playing this - badly - back when I was at uni. There was an extension to it as well to give more territory too...

That "one man all alone" is the whole family...

Excerpt from "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" by Brandon Sanderson, for no particular reason at all... (Good book btw. Well recommended)

I assume it depends a lot on throwing technique and quality of the item. The world record for Javelin throws is 98.48m. The world record for Discus (which I'm using here for the naan since we have a record in it) is only 75.56m. So based on that it should be possible to throw a baguette further...

The only time I've ever been skiing - if you can call it that - was on an indoor slope at an activity week in year 9 (I think) at school, because the weather was too bad for the planned activity. The boots didn't fit properly and I was in agony the next day...

Just seen one of those quizzes "Tell Us What Games You Played On The Family Computer, And We’ll Guess Your Age". Question 1 - in which decade did your family first get a computer. And it only went back to the 90s... Guess I'm just old...

It's not a difficult distinction. Boycotting is "I won't buy this because I don't agree with it/the people selling it". Censorship is "I won't allow you to have this because I don't agree with it/the people selling it". Ie ones a personal choice, the other is forcing that on other people...

The Daily Mail are inadvertently making Andy Burnham sound even better as they've run a front page headline about how he "plans to roll back Thatcherism"...

Why would it be illegal? We're talking about laws that will negatively affect the law makers and not anyone else. AOC is depressingly unusual in this regard...

The problem is that as soon as they were bribed/coerced/whatever it was by Trump into letting the US player play when he shouldn't, they can't easily ignore that for other teams... Though I have also heard suggestions about Argentina getting unfair benefits compared to other teams...