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Wheel of Time Season 2 - First 3 Episodes Discussion Thread [Spoilers all Books and Show] (lemmy.ml)
 

The first 3 Episodes of the show were released earlier this evening. This thread is for discussion of all 3. Book and show spoilers may be posted unmarked in this thread.

No spoilers for episodes past episode 3 may be posted here.

What's some really unpopular opinion you have? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would argue that if there's a product that nobody knows exist that's not necessarily because we need to allow constant intrusive ads, and more indicative that people don't actually need the product.

I want to say that in any given day, 60% of the ads I see are from big, well known companies who don't need me to see them to know they exist. Shit like Liberty Mutual (I swear I see more of their ads than anyone else and THEY ARE ALREADY MY INSURANCE PROVIDER), Coke, Pepsi, etc. 39.9% of the remaining 40% are advertisements for shit that I just don't care about. I don't care about the newest tech toys. I don't care about the newest car mods, or random shit I can put on my desk, or stupid extra kitchen gadgets. Fully 40% of the ads I see are trying to convince me that I should buy a product that I straight up don't need because the ad looked cool. Why should those ads be allowed to exist? Why should I be constantly bombarded with ads for services that I either already know plenty about or for things that are trying to manufacture a reason for their existence?

Only about 0.5% of the ads I see are actually for things I did know know about and that seem useful to me, or like something I would like. Probably even less than that, I'm drunk rn and estimating.

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Wheel of Time Season 2 Trailer (Spoilers All) (www.youtube.com)
 

Lots to talk about in here!

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Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts (lemmy.ml)
 

Why does every small appliance or useful home electronics item have the BRIGHTEST LEDs in them?

I bought a new fan for our bedroom Sunday. It has 4 speed settings, and LEDs to display which setting you're on.

Just like every other electrical device in our bedroom, I had to cover the LEDs with electrical tape because they are TOO DAMM BRIGHT. That one light was more than bright enough for me to see in the room with all the lights off.

I can't sleep well if there's a lot of light like that, especially blue light, and it's like every fucking electronics manufacturer used the same extra bright blue LEDs.

All of our power strips have them. Same brightness.

The fans have them.

Don't even get me started on digital clocks and the plague of bright LEDs that they bring about

Many charging plugs have them built into the plug itself.

Even some fucking light switches have them now!

I have about 6 different things in our bedroom that have electrical tape over their completely unnecessary LEDs.

Why has this become such a common thing? Is this really something most people want? To have a room that is never actually dark even with the lights turned off?

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The Wheel of Time Is Getting an Animated Prequel Film Called The White Tower (www.ign.com)
 

Curious to see what this will be about; I'm not going to judge it too hard until I see it.

Why are there no "adults only" places anymore? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Individual selfishness is responsible for... People having children, raising them, and bringing them places?

Am I insane or does that just on its face not make any sense?

Your first paragraph is the actual reason here. It's too expensive for a lot of parents to get a babysitter, so they need to bring their kids with them if they want to go do something. And for many people like me who work from home (I don't have kids yet but the point stands) that one night every week or so that we go out to dinner is basically the only time I go to do anything fun outside the house that isn't working out. When I worked in an office (which I ever want to do again) I'd go out to lunch with coworkers and occasionally do a happy hour after work, but that isn't an option anymore.

If I had kids we'd be bringing them with us when we go out because it would be significantly cheaper than hiring a sitter for a few hours.

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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The thing is that liberals feel the need to obsess over "fairness."

If you really ban hate speech from a place, then it will appear to mostly be inhabited by more left leaning people. The vast majority of hate speech comes from the right.

But at forms WANT those right WI gers to drive engagement, so they don't enforce their TOS on open racism so long as it's a conservative doing it. But if you're on the left and repost it to criticize it you get dinged.

It's bullshit that shows how many companies are run by fascists who don't bother hiding it anymore. But the liberals eat it up because it wouldn't be "fair" to ban conservatives "for their conservative views."

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Natasha O'Keefe is officially playing Lanfear! (twitter.com)
 

I think she's a solid choice, curious to see how she does!

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How WOT fans recommend the Wheel of Time (youtu.be)
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Things that Wheel of Time Fans Never Say (www.youtube.com)
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Shabbat Shalom! (lemmy.ml)
 

I suppose if you're more orthodox then you won't see this until after Shabbat, and that's fine. Is anyone doing anything fun tonight and tomorrow?

We didn't go to services- my Fiancee and I are both feeling a little ill, so we didn't want to risk spreading anything. Tomorrow I'm going to set up a new bird feeder post so I can hang more feeders and hopefully attract more birds!

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What's everyone's favorite book in the series? (Spoilers all) (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm personally a huge fan of Lord of Chaos. It's always a high point when I re-read the series. I really like all of the subtle foreshadowing of what's coming up, all of the careful politics and groundwork that RJ laid for the latter half of the series, and then of course Dumai's Wells is such an incredible moment in the series.

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Some Useful Links for Information About the Series (lemmy.ml)
 

Nobody seems to have posted here yet, so I'll start with some useful resources for readers and show watchers alike.

I personally think that TarValon.net's Library is the best Wheel of Time resource for people who are currently on their first read-through of the series. They have excellent chapter summaries for helping you remember what happened 5 books ago, and their chapter summaries are, in my experience, meticulously spoiler-free. They are very careful about marking spoilers on TV, and hiding them so that you don't accidentally find yourself reading them.

The Wheel of Time Wiki is generally well maintained and accurate, but be warned- it is extremely full of spoilers and spoilers are often not tagged and in introductory paragraphs of pages. I hate that it is indexed so high on google, because a lot of the search results for main characters immediately show end-of-series spoilers.

Brandon Sanderson is very active on Reddit, and sometimes talks about the Wheel of Time. His username is u/mistborn. Be warned, his comments contain spoilers for all of the Wheel of Time, as well as for all of his other currently released books. He interacts with fans quite a bit, and has some great discussions with them- but many of them are very full of spoilers.

For TV show news, The Wheel of Time Twitter Account is a good go-to. They may occasionally post mild book spoilers, but nothing serious. Rafe Judkins's twitter is also a good place for news.