OT: HFPens Community Lounge: Everyone was forced outside to touch real grass during the HF crash of 2025 edition

[HandshakeLine]

Originally supposed to be late 2025. No idea if they're on schedule or not.

Didn't look like it last time I flew through around October, but it'd be nice if they were.

 

[HandshakeLine]

 

[Pens1566]

Didn't look like it last time I flew through around October, but it'd be nice if they were.

Yeah, that's why I said "originally". IMHO there's no way it'll be on time. Projects of that scale never are.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Yeah, that's why I said "originally". IMHO there's no way it'll be on time. Projects of that scale never are.

The project I was on and completed last June was 5 years late and $6b over budget.

 

[Fogel]

Nice. What was the original duration and budget?

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Nice. What was the original duration and budget?

Year and a half at $3b.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

The Expendables? Fast and the Furious?

 

[BHD]

Down ~10 lbs (roughly 4.5 kgs for you 'Mercans) since March. I am aiming to hit my target by June. As a "skinny fat" guy, I think I can do it. I really want to enjoy those two weeks of summer we get in my province.

 

[66-30-33]

Does this site freeze everyone elses computer or just me? only this site.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Does this site freeze everyone elses computer or just me? only this site.

It keeps going all black and white and then back to the normal theme for me.

The site is almost as big of a shit show as the Pens.

 

[66-30-33]

It keeps going all black and white and then back to the normal theme for me.

The site is almost as big of a shit show as the Pens.

Mine does the same, but it also freezes up my computer for a minute or less quite frequently.

 

[Zirakzigil]

Does this site freeze everyone elses computer or just me? only this site.

Hangs on loading a new page from time to time. No idea what that is about.

 

[66-30-33]

Hangs on loading a new page from time to time. No idea what that is about.

Switched to a different browser, seems to have helped the freezing issues. Chrome is now bad!

 

[Zirakzigil]

Switched to a different browser, seems to have helped the freezing issues. Chrome is now bad!

I have had it on chrome, firefox and safari. Mentioned it in server issues thread for the admins to check. Probably because the database is fubar.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

The honeymoon has started. We're in London waiting on our connecting flight to Naples.

 

[Pens1566]

I have had it on chrome, firefox and safari. Mentioned it in server issues thread for the admins to check. Probably because the database is fubar.

I'm guessing it's something ad related. I block ALL ads via 3 different tiers and have zero similar symptoms.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Anyone read any Robin Hobbs? I’m just starting Farseer and really like it so far.

 

[Deport Ogie]

Anyone read any Robin Hobbs? I’m just starting Farseer and really like it so far.

Oh my friend you are in for a good and miserable time. Love Farseer/Elderings, the full breadth of the series is now (I think?) 16 books split out as trilogies and one tetralogy. Hobb writes amazing characters and then delights in putting them into just repeated ****ing wretchedness. It's lovely.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Oh my friend you are in for a good and miserable time. Love Farseer/Elderings, the full breadth of the series is now (I think?) 16 books split out as trilogies and one tetralogy. Hobb writes amazing characters and then delights in putting them into just repeated ****ing wretchedness. It's lovely.

excellent, I'm cool with that He's being sent on the skill test now I'm sure it'll be a fun adventure.

Not sure if I reported in when I finished Throne of Glass series btw. Overall it's good. I know I came and reported that I made it to the smut part, but it was really just the one chapter that was over the top. It edged a little smuttier than I prefer otherwise but never for more than a few lines at a time, aside from one 20 minute audiobook section Some really solid characters, some really cliche characters. The non-romantic character relationships were all really well done actually, for sure better than the romantic pairings. A lot more depth in why two people love each other like brothers or cousins or reluctant exes who are now forced to work together while the romances were all pretty much just shared trauma turned to love like a light switch.

I really liked parts of the series, and I rolled my eyes at something about once every other chapter. She mostly setup and delivered on the big dramatic character moments well. But the actual writing is just fine, and despite the characters going through some real tough shit the overall cliche of "the main character is the best and the smartest" really starts to feel repetitive eventually.

 

[Deport Ogie]

excellent, I'm cool with that He's being sent on the skill test now I'm sure it'll be a fun adventure.

Not sure if I reported in when I finished Throne of Glass series btw. Overall it's good. I know I came and reported that I made it to the smut part, but it was really just the one chapter that was over the top. It edged a little smuttier than I prefer otherwise but never for more than a few lines at a time, aside from one 20 minute audiobook section Some really solid characters, some really cliche characters. The non-romantic character relationships were all really well done actually, for sure better than the romantic pairings. A lot more depth in why two people love each other like brothers or cousins or reluctant exes who are now forced to work together while the romances were all pretty much just shared trauma turned to love like a light switch.

I really liked parts of the series, and I rolled my eyes at something about once every other chapter. She mostly setup and delivered on the big dramatic character moments well. But the actual writing is just fine, and despite the characters going through some real tough shit the overall cliche of "the main character is the best and the smartest" really starts to feel repetitive eventually.

Maybe I'll check it out...do it via eBook so I can be surreptitious. I support this new booktok driven love of fantasy but it can be hard to separate what's something that would pique my interest. I've fallen into re-reading some old favorites which is never a bad thing, I actually restarted Hobb late last year and got through the Farseer series and Liveship. When I got to the Tawny Man series my book literally fell apart which feels like a momentous occasion for a book nerd.

I'm currently on a reread of Memory Sorrow and Thorn which is WELL worth the effort if so inclined.

 

[Zirakzigil]

I'm guessing it's something ad related. I block ALL ads via 3 different tiers and have zero similar symptoms.

Nope. Mods dont have ads running unless we are testing stuff.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Oh my friend you are in for a good and miserable time. Love Farseer/Elderings, the full breadth of the series is now (I think?) 16 books split out as trilogies and one tetralogy. Hobb writes amazing characters and then delights in putting them into just repeated ****ing wretchedness. It's lovely.

so he just got back from the skill test after the forge encounter and burich/smithy being attacked. at this rate the book is going to kill about 50 puppies by the end of this series. That's entirely too many puppies

 

[Ogrezilla]

Maybe I'll check it out...do it via eBook so I can be surreptitious. I support this new booktok driven love of fantasy but it can be hard to separate what's something that would pique my interest. I've fallen into re-reading some old favorites which is never a bad thing, I actually restarted Hobb late last year and got through the Farseer series and Liveship. When I got to the Tawny Man series my book literally fell apart which feels like a momentous occasion for a book nerd.

I'm currently on a reread of Memory Sorrow and Thorn which is WELL worth the effort if so inclined.

I have read very little honestly, so I have no idea if they are worth recommending to someone who actually reads They are my wife's favorites and I think they are pretty good even if fairly cheesy at times. Let me know if you do think about reading them, there's a prequel book that should be read between the correct two books because it gives away some info but also is the only reason you would know wtf is happening at a few points.

I need to start an actual list somewhere with recommendations because I will certainly forget those by the time I finish all this farseer stuff apparently I'm doing those with audiobook since I drive a lot, and currently about to finish the shining actually reading. I'm trying to keep the actual reading away from fantasy, doing two different fantasy at once doesn't work for me even though it tends to be my favorite. Too similar and I just stop touching one or the other though.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

 

[Deport Ogie]

so he just got back from the skill test after the forge encounter and burich/smithy being attacked. at this rate the book is going to kill about 50 puppies by the end of this series. That's entirely too many puppies

I will say, in a very non spoilery way, that the rate of puppy murders does in fact go way down.

I need to start an actual list somewhere with recommendations because I will certainly forget those by the time I finish all this farseer stuff apparently I'm doing those with audiobook since I drive a lot, and currently about to finish the shining actually reading. I'm trying to keep the actual reading away from fantasy, doing two different fantasy at once doesn't work for me even though it tends to be my favorite. Too similar and I just stop touching one or the other though.

Same, honestly. I think I said this before but I've been in re-read mode. I need to get into some new stuff. I do far less audio books than I used to now that I work from home and have no commute. My guideline for myself is that I will do audio for a book I enjoy but have already read but try to stick to physical books if it's my first time reading something.