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  • Book Review: The Hero of Ages by Sanderson, Brandon
    The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars It was ok. Some tropes turned around. Kind of frustrating how a lot of stuff just dragged out until the end. The identify of the Hero of Ages pretty much given away early on by the flavor text at the start of each chapter. I finished it in two sittings so that’s something View all my reviews
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  • Book Review: The Final Empire by Sanderson, Brandon
    The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Great book. The story’s pace was a bit slow at first as Sanderson was doing his excellent worldbuilding and introducing us to the magic system in his world (he’s good at that sort of thing!), but it picks up about a third of the way through. A lot of the plot twists and character developments are handled very well.

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  • Book Review: The Well of Ascension by Sanderson, Brandon
    The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I finished Well of Ascension only two days after finishing The Final Empire. I think I enjoyed it a bit less than the first book - mainly because there’s a lot of self-doubt here among the protagonists, a lot of paragraphs of “why am i doing this? I’m not good enough, etc”. The plot also takes longer to solidify.

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  • Compartmentalization
    I had been looking into a software performance problem for a few hours now and had decided to call it quits for the day. I turned off the lights and climbed into bed, hoping to get to sleep early for a change. I hadn't been in bed five minutes when I thought about something I hadn't tried yet. I picked up the tablet that was beside my bed and did a few google searches and soon I was back on my desktop trying out some parameters I hadn't tried yet.

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  • Thirty Nine
    I haven’t had much time to write recently. Been busy. (I’ll write about that some other time.) But I’ve kind of been posting regularly on this date for a while, so here we are. Ah, time. And the inexorable passage thereof. There’s some kind of big milestone for me in around three hundred and sixty-five more solar cycles. Well, I don’t personally consider it big, since that’s kind of arbitrary. But as people are wont to say, life begins… maybe I’ll save that for next year.

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TIL there was a second Eraserheads tribute album
Spoilers for DEFENDERS
DEFENDERS spoiler-free review and episode guide: (Okay, maybe a teensy little spoiler in that image - but I couldn’t resist lol) this series moves forward each of the four protaganists you get to see most of the supporting cast come back and maybe even get a teeny bit of development in the plot is reasonably tight, i had a few minor nitpicks but now i can’t even remember most of them Maybe it’s just the fanboy in me, but I was really excited when they met each other for the first time Jessica Jones still the best character Iron Fist still the weakest point (see the image), but it’s not as bad as it was in his own series.
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary that was disappointing
Found out from reddit that these are $6.59 a pop. Good times #mtg
Twinferno! #transformers
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