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[SkyBubble]

Compound interest is basic multiplication once you understand the principle. But I've never had any use for calculus, trigonometry, or algebra.

Algebra is just teaching logic in numeric form.

 

[SkyBubble]

Coffee is better than tea.

A friend in college said he could "prove" that a ham sandwich is better than sex.

 

[iwatchus]

Compound interest is basic multiplication once you understand the principle. But I've never had any use for calculus, trigonometry, or algebra.

I have used trig and algebra in real life many times. They are just part of my everyday toolkit. Calc less so. Of course, that was all high school math as well.

I have also used group theory, abstract algebra, and linear algebra multiple times outside of school, but mostly because of doing technical work.

I would be satisfied if everyone in the public sphere was competent at basic algebra (I have no idea how you get through a day without that) and stats, but they aren't.

On a somewhat related note, my son's partner just nerd sniped, my son, my SO and me, getting us to spend a half hour proving why some art trick worked.

 

[SkyBubble]

There are a lot of authors who, when they write, they seem to be writing with some kind of idea in mind about "what writing sounds like,"

True. It's true that we write differently than we speak, but storytelling should sound natural and not "writer-y."

 

[SkyBubble]

It can be, but it doesn't have to be. Character A forcing character B to do something they don't want to do by taking control of their mind is not the only option. The mind controlling entity could be a third party that knows character A and character B secretly desire each other, and gives them a push to get them together. Or there is the "sex pollen" trope where the mind alteration is a result of a chance environmental exposure and not a malicious sentient being.

Puck in A MIdusmmer Night's Dream.

 

[SkyBubble]

Alright, I think we can call the thread here. It cannot possibly get any more controversial than that.

I'll interject my own opinion here: Hot coffee is better than hot tea, but iced tea is better than iced coffee.

 

[iwatchus]

The Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy is over-rated.

 

[SkyBubble]

See... you lost credibility saying lemon anything taste good. Not that you were right on root beer, anyway.

Lemon meringue pie?

 

[SkyBubble]

If a character happens to be racist or abusive, putting tape over their mouth and hands just so no one gets hurt is nothing short of outrageous.

Sometimes that's a key to the story.

 

[SkyBubble]

Yeah, hot chocolate is the way to go!

Chocolate, period.

 

[SkyBubble]

You’re definitely no Guido Reni, but even you can manage this:

And it should be fun.

I'm not so sure about that.

 

[PennyThompson]

I'm no0t so sure about that.

Skybubble, dude, you just wrote 18 of the last 22 posts in this thread. Please, please, I beg you, start using multi-quotes when you catch up on a thread, making a different one-sentence reply to so many people is super spammy

 

[MelissaBaby]

If I ran the AH there would be a one year moratorium on any mention of Star Wars, Tolkien, Pratchett or Stephen King.

 

[StillStunned]

If I ran the AH there would be a one year moratorium on any mention of Star Wars, Tolkien, Pratchett or Stephen King.

We should have elections.

 

[TheLobster]

If I ran the AH there would be a one year moratorium on any mention of Star Wars, Tolkien, Pratchett or Stephen King.

…Fine, Star Trek and Harry Potter it is.

 

[Actingup]

…Fine, Star Trek and Harry Potter it is.

JK Rowling’s principal weakness is that ever since the first book she hasn’t had a powerful enough editor to constrain her.

 

[lovecraft68]

As I just stated in the thread for the 750 word event, there should be a limit to how many can be posted. The site is already having publishing delay issues and they're going to blow up the file with dozens of 'stories' that by and large the readers don't respond well to and most comments are the participants fluffing each other.

Its story file padding and unfair to all the other authors here.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

I feel like quoting myself

Stories under 3k words aren't stories.

 

[PennyThompson]

JK Rowling’s principal weakness is that ever since the first book she hasn’t had a powerful enough editor to constrain her.

JK's principal weakness is that she was a moderately talented childrens' writer who happened to connect with semi-literate adults who felt good reading a thick hardcover book for the first time in their lives, and then she cooked her brain with TERF panic but by then she was too rich for anyone to tell her to calm down

*Runs away*

 

[Bloodandglitter]

I liked the 2005 Fantastic Four more than the new one.

 

[SimonDoom]

JK Rowling had a great imagination and deserves credit for her world building and a fun story. My objection is to the idea and the prevalence of "young adult" fiction. There was too much of it in the 2000s. When I was 14 I didn't read young adult fiction. I read adult fiction. In the 2000s adults were reading young adult fiction, like Twilight and The Hunger Games. Reading expectations have been dumbed down.

 

[SmilingLez]

The covid-19 toilet paper hoarding is proof positive that humanity needs to be wiped out.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

JK Rowling had a great imagination and deserves credit for her world building and a fun story. My objection is to the idea and the prevalence of "young adult" fiction. There was too much of it in the 2000s. When I was 14 I didn't read young adult fiction. I read adult fiction. In the 2000s adults were reading young adult fiction, like Twilight and The Hunger Games. Reading expectations have been dumbed down.

And if you want some proof of how dumbed down they are, read Heinlein's "Juveniles" and read modern "YA" stuff.

 

[Statius]

JK Rowling had a great imagination and deserves credit for her world building and a fun story. My objection is to the idea and the prevalence of "young adult" fiction. There was too much of it in the 2000s. When I was 14 I didn't read young adult fiction. I read adult fiction. In the 2000s adults were reading young adult fiction, like Twilight and The Hunger Games. Reading expectations have been dumbed down.

By comparison my dad had me reading 'Catcher in the Rye' at 13 or 14.

 

[Britva415]

The word "decidedly" is absolutely asinine.