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The Animal Is Tired

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Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by zargon »

ajarmst wrote: post #354
selykg wrote: post #282

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Too bad you will never see the end of The King Killer Chronicles. It has been something like 10 years since the last book. Rothfuss is in the exact same situation as Martin for me. I won't buy any books of his until the series is complete. You may not like Sanderson's writing, but the man publishes books. He will get my money for anything he writes because I know I'm going to enjoy it (personally, I really enjoy his…

I’ve just been assuming that Sanderson will step up to finish those series when the original authors pass.

It's a good joke. Unfortunately Sanderson's writing style is really incompatible with Rothfuss and Martin's. Also, he has his own epic series that will occupy him for another 20 years.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by rchaud »

smoldesu wrote: post #26

It's a pretty harrowing thought that given my age (barely still a teen) I may not live another 50 years. Between the mass pollution tainting our world, impending global warming and increased civil unrest, I figure the odds that my animal reaches 70 are not very high.

In just the past 5 years, men and women both younger (and much older) than you have travelled by foot across multiple nations' borders, looking for one that would take them in. Yes, you may die in the events of the future, but don't underestimate your survival instinct.

Re: The Animal Is Tired

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Post by rubicon33 »

stavros_ wrote: post #147
rubicon33 wrote: post #118

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I have tried prozac. Unfortunately, it made my tiredness even worse almost immediately. Doctor said this would go away after I increased dosage, but I couldn't stick with it long enough to see this benefit. I've considered trying again but, it's a hard pill to swallow when the solution takes weeks to work, and in the meantime, you're suffering even more. If I had to be honest, I question whether I am scientifically "…

>That, or it's some terrible undiagnosed medical condition. Sounds like ADHD to me too. At least it's eerily similar to my experience and I'm in the process of getting diagnosed. https://youtu.be/WFkpICWE9DM - might help.

So, probably, yes.

I have struggled my entire life with these issues. The post you see here isn't something that's new.

Whatever is causing this is inherent to my being.

I've seen doctors, and had both depression and adhd diagnosed. The ADHD meds were amazing. They "solved" this problem. I feel better, I feel happy, I feel more motivated, I feel more natural interest and ability to hold my focus. I feel less foggy and tired.

But, I can't stomach being on stimulants my entire life. I hate that idea.

So yea, the one thing that works, I'm not willing to take. Hard to have much sympathy for me if I'm not even willing to take what is being prescribed.

I keep saying to myself I need to just man up, and take the medicine. I do it for a week, I feel great, and then I start to hate feeling different (even if different, is quite good), and I attribute it to being loaded with amphetamines, and how bad that must be for my body.

So I stop taking them and revert to feeling shitty and looking for a new solution.

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Post by CRConrad »

oldprogrammer2 wrote: post #303
SunlightEdge wrote: post #265

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At the risk of being downvoted I don't find Brandon Sanderson a very good fantasy writer. For me, The way of kings started well (even if the characters were all pretty 2-D) in book one. Interesting plot with it mixing ww1/dune computer game themes in a fantasy setting. But by book 3 it was an incredible chore to get through and I stopped after about 10% in. I even got bored reading the plot summary of the third book.…

I like Sanderson, I really do, but I wish he would aim for a bit more brevity. He has a really interesting story to tell, and built an incredibly creative world, but it's like he gets distracted by all the other stories he would like to tell. Just like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Way of Kings seems to get slower with each book as more subplots are developed and explored. But I think my biggest complaint about Way…

> Just like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Way of Kings seems to get slower with each book as more subplots are developed and explored.

Heh, now that's ironic, knowing what happened to the WoT: Jordan[1] died before he could finish it, and years later another author stepped in and finished it based on Jordan's notes. That other author was... Brandon Sanderson. So one would think he'd know the dangers of creating too big a sprawl.

(Also: Take heed, GRRM!)

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[1]: Actually Oliver Rigney, IIRC.

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Post by Elora »

oldprogrammer2 wrote: post #303
SunlightEdge wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the risk of being downvoted I don't find Brandon Sanderson a very good fantasy writer. For me, The way of kings started well (even if the characters were all pretty 2-D) in book one. Interesting plot with it mixing ww1/dune computer game themes in a fantasy setting. But by book 3 it was an incredible chore to get through and I stopped after about 10% in. I even got bored reading the plot summary of the third book.…

I like Sanderson, I really do, but I wish he would aim for a bit more brevity. He has a really interesting story to tell, and built an incredibly creative world, but it's like he gets distracted by all the other stories he would like to tell. Just like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Way of Kings seems to get slower with each book as more subplots are developed and explored. But I think my biggest complaint about Way…

> my biggest complaint about Way of Kings is that the characters often make such frustrating decisions

I find the decisions are often not predictable, which I think for some can be a turnoff because things don't go the way you expect/want them to. I find this a strength.

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Post by okareaman »

rchaud wrote: post #380
okareaman wrote: post #56

I did the best I could with my body except now that I am 63 I have one regret: I wish I had more sex when I was able. I mean, I had sex but I could have had a lot more. It's seems dumb now to deny this basic pleasure for "reasons"

I had sex, and could have had more, but those would have been with partners I wasn't attracted to. Is that what you mean? Or did you actively pursue a lot of partners and decide, for whatever reason, to do it with just a few?

No, I held out for another right woman after breaking up with the right woman. There were long periods of drought in my sex life.

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Post by okareaman »

globular-toast wrote: post #213
okareaman wrote: post #56

I did the best I could with my body except now that I am 63 I have one regret: I wish I had more sex when I was able. I mean, I had sex but I could have had a lot more. It's seems dumb now to deny this basic pleasure for "reasons"

I wonder what you really mean by this. Do you wish to have had sex with a greater number of women? Or do you wish you just had more sex with your partner/s? If it's the former, I believe this is something all men want deep down. Religion has done well to squash this desire and many deny they have it at all, but they do. But it's like chasing the dragon. I don't think you can ever really satisfy this urge. If it's the…

I would pay for it now if that was all there was. Why not? I pay for someone to fix my car. I pay someone to do my taxes. Some women view themselves as sex workers providing a service. I would take them up on that now if I were younger.

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Post by hutzlibu »

climb_stealth wrote: post #216
hutzlibu wrote: post #199

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"The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Some very powerful stories in there. The first book is pretty short so it is a good way to try it out. Though I think it hooks from the very start. " I wasn't really hooked. I think it was a interesting read, but I got no motivation to read further. Might have been, because I read a note from King before, that he also did no knew yet, how the tower worked. And he just wrote fre…

Hmmm, if the beginning wasn't convincing then I somewhat doubt that the rest of the series is going to be a much better experience. And yeah, I don't think the tower mechanics really work out in the end. But it didn't bother me personally. I haven't actually read any other books by him.

"I haven't actually read any other books by him. "

He's very good at coming up with creative plots and good storytelling - but after a while it all seems generic and kind of the same - and he is not good (or doesn't bother enough as people buy it anyway) to avoid lots of plotholes in the stories and logic gaps. Or rather to bring the story lines together in the end, he seems to use ductape.

So I enjoyed his short stories much more, as they were much more consistent, than the big, blown up "masterworks" of him.

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Post by CRConrad »

marcell wrote: post #170

I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. I do exercise and eat reasonably well, but I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. I have a desk job (programming). Am I unusually lucky? or just part of a silent majority that has nothing to complain about? Is doom just around the corner?

> I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe.

That's because 35 is fucking young. Get back to us in twenty years, or forty.

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Post by Gibbon1 »

CRConrad wrote: post #389
marcell wrote: post #170

I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. I do exercise and eat reasonably well, but I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. I have a desk job (programming). Am I unusually lucky? or just part of a silent majority that has nothing to complain about? Is doom just around the corner?

> I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. That's because 35 is fucking young. Get back to us in twenty years, or forty.

Was mentioning the other day my GF that as I get closer to 60 my doctor has gone from 'whatever he's fine' to 'cautious probing'
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