Orlion Blight

Actual game, came out last Thursday. I only got a couple hours in, but my initial impressions are that: 1) It's faster, progress wise. You pretty much fight a large monster in your first mission. Not sure how I feel about this. 2) Voice acting is fine 3) Crafting is more streamlined. So, for example, it used to be that you needed a herb and a blue mushroom to make a potion. Now, you just need an herb and you can set it to automatically make it into a potion once you collect it. I miss the old system for some reason. 4) You have infinite whetstones! And you don't have to make pick axes or bug nets! What sort of witchcraft is this? Despite all this, it is still very much a Monster Hunter game, and definitely one that would be great as an introduction to the series. We'll see if it is as good as Monster Hunter 4.

I compare Toll the Hounds with Lord of Chaos from Wheel of Time. It's something of a slog, but the end event is arguably one of the most important in the series. Toll the Hounds is also the "key" to the series. Mainly because of its post modern meta bull crap that Erikson likes to indulge in sometimes. Dust of Dreams is great. I have seen people that don't like it because it is essentially part 1 of 2. Of course, what they seem to forget is that it is also part 9 of 10. You are reading a series where reading order matters and you are complaining about having to read book 10 after book 9.

Finally got Monster Hunter World!

A lot of the characters are rip-offs of classic fantasy characters. That's what you get when everything is based on some Dungeons & Dragons sessions.

It's like Bakker's Second Apocalypse series! Mwahaha!

I don't think there's much to their back story at the moment.

Facebook spat out this status from 2011: I also complained that Kiska was only around for two paragraphs, so I must have been talking about Bonehunters. I still think Crokus kinda sucks.

Currently reading Metro 2033 for a friend and after only 25 pages I want to ask him why he hates me so much.

It's ending at the end of March I hope it's a long hiatus, but I must prepare for the worst.

Firefly was not that good and its cancellation was not a travesty.

There are two main considerations you want to have: 1) What's your budget? How much does it cost to have fun? How much to be competitive? 2) Do you have a thriving local community? Can you consistently get games? FFG has a few LCGs that are fun and alive and don't cost as much long term as Magic, though the initial buy in can be quite expensive.

I'll be re- reading this soon because of the movie coming out. Figure I'll post my thoughts here.

Will be snowed in for a bit, so I'm making an Epic Scum Squadron that will hopefully do well against my friend's Epic Imperial squadron. He has the Raider, and we decided on 150 points, so hopefully I'll just be able to throw more stuff at him.

There's an FAQ in the first post that addresses this question

Got Grace of Kings for Christmas, so will be starting it soon!

B-but they're books, not radio dramas!

Oh boy! Terns! Also:

That's exactly the sort of cliched family life scene that I want avoided!

I thought Stormlight 1-5 took place before Era 2.

Shallan has enough arcs to resolve without adding generic child/parent scenes. To be sure, they can have children without ruining the series, but there needs to be some development first. Even a generic "how can we bring children into this world" arc would serve to prepare the way.

I honestly think Memories of Ice is his best book because technology forced him to do a rewrite

That's my main question, too. We all ready have at least two different forms of Lightweaving, can that be extended to Surgebinding? And if there is a difference, would that difference address environmental dangers?

Meyers-Briggs is just terrible. Mostly for the reason Maxal pointed out, also because you might as well post your horoscope sign. It does not really give useful insight into your personality like any label/name. I'm a melancholic Sagittarius, by the way

That's some good advice, @Ammanas. I will only add a bit more. You should assume that you will not ever be able to make things "better" or "easier." So do not make that your goal. If your friend open ups to you, let her, but be a compassionate ear, not a dispenser of platitudes and tired aphorism. Be there for her. Try to read the situation. Things are going to get real stressful for your friend, recognizing when you can help her and doing so will be appreciated. It's hard for me to come up with an example, since it's circumstantial and I don't want to get personal.