Glitch in the system! 😉
jordanlund
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Funny you should ask, I'm just re-doing mine with new shelves.
The books are sorted by genre, then alphabetically by author, except for series, which are in either publication order or correct series order.
So, for example, The Narnia books, publication order:
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Prince Caspian
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Horse and His Boy
The Magician's Nephew
The Last Battle
Yes, yes, "but Lewis' preferred order..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Narnia
"much of the magic of Narnia comes from the way the world is gradually presented in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—that the mysterious wardrobe, as a narrative device, is a much better introduction to Narnia than The Magician's Nephew, where the word "Narnia" appears in the first paragraph as something already familiar to the reader. Moreover, they say, it is clear from the texts themselves that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was intended to be read first. When Aslan is first mentioned in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, for example, the narrator says that "None of the children knew who Aslan was, any more than you do"—which is nonsensical if one has already read The Magician's Nephew.[26] Other similar textual examples are also cited.[27]"
If you read Magician's Nephew first, you learn things that you should not otherwise know if you go in publication order.
Same with the Doc Smith Lensman books:
Galactic Patrol (1937-1938 / 1950)
Grey Lensman (1939-1940 / 1951)
Second Stage Lensmen (1941-1942 / 1953)
Children of the Lens (1947-1948 / 1954)
Triplanetary (1948)
First Lensman (1950)
The publication dates are decieving because they were originally printed in pulp magazines before being collected as books. As with the Narnia books, reading them chronologically "leaks" the reader information they should not have.
Triplanetary was originally an unrelated story in 1934, it was modified in 1948 to fit the Lensman chronology.
But, OTOH, Stephen King's Dark Tower books are in chronological order:
The Little Sisters of Eluria (1998)
The Gunslinger (1982)
The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Waste Lands (1991)
Wizard and Glass (1997)
The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
Wolves of the Calla (2003)
Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower (2004)
You don't gain or lose anything reading the proper chronology as with Narnia.
Edit: Also tempted by these cool shelf tags I found on Etsy, but I'm pretty sure I can make my own, cheaper:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4369077622/book-tavern-signs-handcrafted-bookshelf
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4376754893/vintage-tavern-sign-bookshelf-divider
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4309270493/personalized-wooden-book-shelf-dividers
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4399636750/book-shelf-dividers-set-book-genre
Looks like you're right, it used a password system for saves.
Wait, the CDC still collects data? Somebody ought to do something about that!
Only games with save features and I believe Star Control was one of them.
Pretty sure you meant this for one of the Venezuela threads...
Did you mean to post this 5 times?
He's just pissed that his painted gold crap keeps getting rejected by Antiques Roadshow.
Reported for not being in English, but that's not against the rules.
Translation is readily available. I'm actually very impressed with how easy it is on Android now.
"Tense Night in Burkina Faso After Suspicions of Coup Attempt
In Burkina Faso, the night of Saturday, January 3rd to Sunday, January 4th was turbulent in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso. At the call of the Citizen Vigilance associations – supporters of the military regime – hundreds of people took to the streets to block "an attempted coup."
The amount of my taxes going to PBS is insignificant.
As noted the last time this was posted, Lemmy is NOT a place to advocate violence.
We've all seen how Costco, Target, and Walmart have eliminated their Xbox sections, looks like Best Buy is not far behind...
I saw this tonight at the local Fred Meyer store (now owned by Kroger).
When we bought this lovely mid-century modern house a few years ago, my only real complaint was "I hate that fucking wall!"
Short term solution was to bury it behind bookshelves, but it's still there... LURKING. It irks me just knowing it's still there, that half-assed wainscoting made of plywood strips and blue paint.
At a minimum, my plan is to pull the plywood off and re-paint before putting the bookracks back, but there has to be something nicer.
Maybe something like this above the bookracks where the wall is exposed? I dunno. I'm open to ideas.
I had been talking with my wife about long term organizational plans... The bookshelves in the library are 30 year old, bending, crappy plywood that need to be replaced, and my plan was:
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Clean out the back bedroom.
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Get new bookshelves for the library that are taller, wider, and will add over 200 linear inches of shelf space.
Current library:
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Figure out how many of the old bookshelves can be moved into the back bedroom (four! four bookshelves! Ah ha ha! Maybe 5 if I get super lucky.)
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Put the empties in the back bedroom for more DVD storage, then fix the wall they sit in front of because I hate that wall treatment (long story).
Ugly ass-wall:
(It was like that when we bought the house, loved the house, HATED that wall. I need to pull down the plywood slats and re-paint to get rid their janky ass-wainscoting.)
- Put together the new racks and re-assemble the library.
All told, a lot of work. My plan was to do all this a little at a time over a period of months.
WELL... Our kid asked my wife what he should get for Christmas.
Turns out... 5 new bookshelves show up TOMORROW.
I can't be mad... it's a gift. But holy hell... I wasn't ready to start the project TOMORROW.
2 PM showing, 15 minute intermission, back to the car just before 7 PM... that was an experience!
The changes are actually pretty minor:
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The anime sequence that provides O-Ren's backstory is extended, showing how she got her revenge on the assassin who killed her parents, not just the boss who ordered it.
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In the original fight with the Crazy 88, she does an eye pluck and the rest of the fight is in black and white, this cut remains in color for the full run of part 1.
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Part One ends right after The Bride's speech to Sophie, "And I want them all to know they'll soon be as dead as O-Ren." Break for intermission. No cliffhanger.
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Part 2 opens with the Church scene, a recap of part 1 not being necessary.
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Added material after the end credits including a new scene set after the killing of Vernita Greene showing the end of the Pussy Wagon. Gogo's sister flies to L.A. for revenge.
That whole sequence is weird as it's, not kidding, animated in Fortnite and seems to follow Fortnite violence rules. Uma Thurman does return to do the voice of the Bride though.
Overall, it's a good flick, but I think I like the original versions better.
First, the second movie also has sequences in black and white, and because the big fight scene is now in full color, there's no precedent for the B&W footage, it just kinda comes out of nowhere.
Second, the cliffhanger at the end of part 1 is epic, it seems criminal to cut it.
Third, Fortnite? Seriously? They couldn't even be bothered to call the Pussy Wagon "Pussy Wagon", it's "😸 Wagon".
Edit The Fortnite clip is on the Fortnite YouTube channel:
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