u/typish

Nope

My most pleasant quarterly ritual is looking at RandomCuriosity's season preview

https://randomc.net/2025/12/22/winter-2026-preview/

I don't think so. Sanderson has been huge for years now, but the "widespread" (many quotes :) ) negative turn in comments from within the fans seems pretty recent, and fwiw centered on/triggered by WoT.

But more cat! (Unless mine is recency bias)

Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik.

It's arguably her most epic, even though the best moments are the most homely ones - and to me certainly her best.

Jesus, I'm in IT, and it felt like reading an RFC for a new protocol

Not sure it counts, but I have fits every time I read "every personality is unique".

What does it even mean? And how would you go about proving it?

I don't speak Spanish, but you highly underestimate German's phonetics complexity

I read somewhere that you can make a complete system with only radians (or whatever planar angle measure) as base unit.

Just a tradeoff with convenience and history.

Not in the same league as several of the other recommendations here, but I have fond memories of The Age of the Five, by Trudi Canavan

Not a math symbol unless you want it to be, but when hunting for symbols for energy in a course with plenty of e's already, we went for the euro sign. Feels appropriate

The show was a constant crescendo for me, so maybe I had too high expectations, but I find the finale a bit underwhelming and confusing (and I'm ok with happy endings, but retroactively resurrecting everyone ever?).

Also, not sure I understand the zenshu thing. From the last scene in the office, it seems the message is "learn that you don't have to do everything yourself", but when did she learn that? She did fix everything herself in the end.

They at least offer several free teachings.

Other options around here seem even worse... https://dzogchen-switzerland.jimdofree.com/english/international-community/the-swiss-community/

https://tulkulobsang.org/en/tourplan/15-switzerland/g-512-switzerland-tour-2025-03-12-11-12-52

Apologies if this has been discussed already. I looked a bit but didn't find much.

I'm a newby very much interested in Dzogchen, from a secular point of view. I now discovered evolvingground.org, which I just joined with the intention of getting to know them with time.

But I also found out they have a 5-days retreat closeby (Germany), and I'm considering going, but before deciding (they are closing reservations soon!) I wanted to know if you know them, and if you would recommend them.

It would be my first retreat afterall :)

"it's famous and respected: it must be heavy"

I checked twice today was by any chance April 1

Most of the stuff from my adolescence.

I tried rewatching, say, from Versailles no Bara to Saint Seya, to Daitarn, or even Macross or sailor moon, and though I still love them, I don't seem to get into them anymore.

I will watch specific clips of each compulsively though, especially when I feel down or tired.

Evangelion Is the odd exception that comes readily to mind (although I will probably never watch again EoE when they gang on Asuka).

My not thorough experience with humanist nonfiction has mostly been underwhelming (they typically seem vague, hand-wavy, feel-good and slim in details).

I would recommend instead going for fiction. How about "Cat's Cradle" by Honorary president of the American humanist association, and Humanist of the Year 1992, Kurt Vonnegut? If it has to be vague, it might as well be a good, thought provoking novel.

I found it completely unconvincing. It seemed to be summarizable as "we can't yet reduce morality to science. But eventually we will". No good reasons given.

Disclaimer: read it a decade ago

Is it me or the visual quality is getting worse?

Pity because I'm digging it otherwise.

Till we have faces

Memoirs of a geisha

Silmarillion

The enchanted April

A wizard of earthsea

Hyperion

Spinning Silver

Mind goes immediately to every time I tried reading the Silmarillion in Italian.

I think there's no good way to translate the Ainulindale, but certainly the solution they tried in my Italian edition isn't one.

I wish there were a global automatic lint that matches /\d,\d\d\d/ and yells at you