The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP

[Enrico_sw]

18 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Finished 1/3rd of Brothers Karamazov.  

 

It is a strange audio experience.  Interesting, complicated and brilliant but also a novel that I cannot telegraph.   The structure is very non-linear and I am confused about a great many things.

 

It felt like that when I read War and Peace... I had to read some pages twice or more to understand who did what, when, why?

 

Is it good?

[Enrico_sw]

Is smoke + mirrors the best album in the past 10 years?

 

I think so

 

 

[Cult Icon]

6 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

It felt like that when I read War and Peace... I had to read some pages twice or more to understand who did what, when, why?

 

Is it good?

 

I would describe it as a big work of philosophy disguised as entertaining prose.  So it's scene after scene of generally memorable & interesting character interactions- with philosophical depth- that don't follow a linear fashion.  I think it's probably one of those books that need to be read at least twice, with scenes  re-read several times and contemplated over a lot. 

 

This is typical of great films/tv shows and books, plays, etc. Brothers K is considered one of the great works of world literature and Dostoevsky's greatest novel.

 

So it is indeed a type of masterpiece. The non-linear manner reminds me of an open-world game, like Eden Ring / Witcher 3 where you discover fragments of what's going on but it's up the reader to piece things together into their own interpretation.

 

This is why when I wiki Brothers K. and also look at book reviews- pretty much every review is different.

 

do you like War and Peace?

 

It is a novel that I should do.

 

After doing 1/3rd of Brothers I realize that I need to do Crime & Punishment and The Idiot as well.

[Matt!]

Happy Valentine's Day guys and gals! 

 

[Enrico_sw]

21 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

Is smoke + mirrors the best album in the past 10 years?

 

I think so

 

 

 

And I wonder if Daisies of the Galaxy is the best album of the 2000s.

 

@jkjk What do you think?

 

 

[jkjk]

50 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

What do you think?

 

I don't usually think anything (or anyone) is the best over any amount of time.

[Cult Icon]

this is awesome;

 

 

[Cult Icon]

The star wars prequels are getting 'reevaluated' by some of the younger generation.  Turns out that they are a lot better than the recent films LOL

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

There are estimates that suggest up to 97% of Russia's operational military strength is currently in the Ukrainian theater. I find that hard to believe but there have been some weird instances of the kind of POWs the Ukrainian's have captured in recent weeks.

 

e.g. this:

 

 

Sailors being turned into infantrymen is not something a country that still has an overabundance of men chooses to do.

 

[Cult Icon]

^

80% of the Western claims about the Russian army are BS, propaganda, and delusion

 

[SympathysSilhouette]

15 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:

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80% of the Western claims about the Russian army are BS, propaganda, and delusion

 

 

Right but even so, having a sailor repurposed as an infantryman is still very strange.

[Cult Icon]

1 hour ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Right but even so, having a sailor repurposed as an infantryman is still very strange.

 

The key figure of mystery is the number of Ukrainian deaths and how much of their command cadre is not killed and crippled.

 

Russian command cadre is 3.5-4 times larger than the Ukrainian one and it likely that they inflicted several times higher human losses on the Ukrainians.

[Anasxs]

On 2/13/2023 at 7:31 AM, GetOffMyLawn said:

I'm getting old. I slept wrong a few nights ago now if I lay the wrong way I feel like I'm gonna die. 

Are you better?

 

Today was one of the most productive days, like airport days working, and Catalan classes too. But really really happy

[Anasxs]

I am happy, full activity days, so back to climb!

[PrettyDeadThings]

41% English
24% Swedish
20% Norwegian
7% German
5% Scottish
3% Irish

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This face sculpt looks to be the most character-accurate and better than the rest of the statues.  Can't wait until it comes out.

 

[Anasxs]

It was a great day! And not ending yet!

[Cult Icon]

Finished 2/3rds of the Brothers Karamazov

 

Genius-level prose but I have completely lost track of the plot.

[Cult Icon]

like the costume for the figure and the headsculpt but dislike the bad posture and how short Geralt seems here.

 

[PrettyDeadThings]