I've read a good portion of it in English. It's a good read if you like historical dramas. It's about a Bosnian village called Višegrad. In the 16th century, the Ottoman Sultan has the titular bridge built there to connect two parts of his empire. The book follows the residents of the village as the construction and then continued operation of that bridge shapes their lives over the centuries, all the way up to the start of WW1.
It's not character-centric, because it covers such a huge time period, but it's still great if you have any interest in the history of that part of the world.
You can also visit the bridge itself if you have some time to spend in Bosnia. I've not been there yet, but I imagine it's more impressive than the street corner in Sarajevo where Franz Ferdinand was shot, which I have been to and can confirm is very underwhelming.
They've moved on to generating images and videos with ShartGPT now.
This is the image Meta AI is currently using to advertise their video generation function on the Google Play Store.
I started with the Eisenhorn omnibus, followed by Ravenor. Currently I'm nearing the end of Gaunt's Ghosts (I think). I'm not sure where I'm going after that.
Cowboy Bebop. Not even the Netflix adaptation (which I haven't seen), but the original. I got told by so many people that it was the best anime series ever, but I just couldn't connect with it.
I'd maybe say it's because I prefer more optimistic stories, but then I started reading Warhammer 40k books last year, so maybe I just have trash tastes.
I wonder how long before they disable the Web Search option (udm=14). I still use that as my default search engine wherever possible, because I find it more reliable than Duck Duck Go for the things I tend to search for. Unfortunately, I can see Google killing it to funnel more people towards the slop trough.
The title of the next hit light novel.
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The goalposts will just shift. My prediction: "Kamala would have also started a war with Iran, but at least with Trump we no longer have a flood of illegal immigrants."
Slay the Spire is one of my top 5 favourite games ever, and I've probably put more than 1500 hours into it. I'm super excited about the sequel.
The only downside is that it's only on Steam right now. 90%+ of my playtime in the first game is on my phone. I mind paying twice, but I will miss the convenience while I wait for the mobile release.
I was able to read every sentence in the 1300 section with difficultly, occasionally getting stumped by individual words.
I could figure out the basic events of the 1200 section, but missed some specific details - I didn't realize that the person who saves the blogger is a woman, for example.
1100 was beyond me, or at least beyond the effort I was willing to put into it.
I feel like this has been going on for several versions now. My setting for Default sort for comments is Top, but when I open a post, the sorting method appears to be Hot instead. The image in the post shows what a typical post looks like for me when I open it.
I hesitate to call this a bug right now, as last time I had a problem like this it was user error, so I'm not discounting some conflicting setting that I've overlooked.
I'm really hoping that legislation will be in place to curb this sort of thing by the time my kids are old enough to want to watch sports. I'm not thrilled at the prospect of those ads marinating in their young brains, and I don't relish the thought of trying to explain to a credulous 8-year-old that we can't win millions of dollars betting on hockey games.
Hoping is different than expecting, unfortunately.