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I never read any of the Amber series by Roger Zelazny but often see it recommended, even by no less than the late Howard Andrew Jones as a favorite work of S&S. I chanced upon a 2 volume book club set of the original 5 stories at my favorite used book store for $20.00 and immediately snatched them. Volume 1 contains "Nine Princes in Amber" and "The Guns of Avalon" short stories. Volume 2 contains "Sign of the Unicorn," "The Hand of Oberon," and "The Courts of Chaos." Both volumes showcase the same cover art by Boris Vallejo and neither Volume lists a printing date for the compilation, only the original publication dates of each sto...

_(To see this full post including all images and embeds, visit: https://rossamico.com/2026/04/14/timothee-chalamet-and-the-performing-arts-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity/)_ Trolling Timothée Chalamet for his blithe dismissal of opera and ballet as no longer relevant is so last month. But the media is not done with it. This morning a friend texted me a link to an article from the BBC in which Sir Alex Beard, chief executive of the Royal Ballet and Opera, thanks Chalamet for actually boosting ticket sales. Of course he did! Because this tempest in a teapot actually put opera and ballet in the news. And there’s no such thing as bad publicity! In case, like most of the world, you�...

[](/r/OpenAI/?f=flair_name%3A%22Discussion%22)I hardly post on reddit so I cant post on ChatGPT or OAI so...here then I guess. I remember when ChatGPT felt magical. I’ve been here since 2022 and what made ChatGPT explode the feeling combined with intelligence and capabilities. It felt like suddenly having access to this witty, clever, endlessly available second brain you could bounce off of. I rememer people were making “me and ChatGPT” memes and edits on TikTok and here because the product had actual cultural energy. It felt alive in conversation. It felt fun. It felt personal. It felt like holy ****!! I kind of have my own Jarvis!! That was the fantasy and OpenAI benefited mass...

# Cultura non cultus: # How GPT-4o Recreated Hermetic Philosophy and Spirituality Divorced from Actual Practice There is no Hermetic tradition without Hermes. This should be obvious. It is, in fact, so obvious that the entire history of Western esotericism has had to work very hard to make people forget it. The Hermetic intellectual tradition — the one that gave us alchemy, that fed into the birth of modern logic, that traces a line from the Lyceum to the laboratory — has always had a person at its center. Two persons, actually: Hermes of Arcadia and Thoth of Kemet. The tradition was named for them. It was *theirs*. What happened over two and a half millennia of transmission is that ...

​ My family friend (who I am temporarily living with) is a teacher in our state. I want to ask....how traumatic is it to be physically manhandled by children? I am a 20 year old male college student living for the time being with my family friend, whose nickname is Angie (40f) and her husband (38m). Angie is ethnically South Korean and she is cute. She looks like a cute anime girl to be honest, and she treats me less like a guest and more like a younger relative. She's really cool in that regard. Recently, Angie suffered an incident where two boys at the charity she volunteers at (the boys were 11 and 12 years old) partially ripped her tank top off of her (she was wear...

Hello! I hope this is the right place to ask for this advice. My nephew (18m) wants to transition, male to female, but doesn’t really have the tools to do so or get started. Looking for some advice to help them on their journey. Long story short: My parents had guardianship of them since they were a baby. They have autism (Asperger’s syndrome) but are very high functioning. They’re socially awkward and inexperienced in life as it is. My mom really sheltered them for their entire childhood and teens, doing everything for them. They tried coming out as trans and my mom did a deep dive in to evangelical Christianity in her attempt to change their thought process, which I didn’t agree ...

So yesterday I was on my way to get groceries at the mall in my city. From the tram stop I took another route than normal, since the grocery store is on level -1 and the elevator close to the store was broken earlier last week. So I was on my way to the one in the parking garage. The route I took from the tramstop has a lot of bikes parked on the sidewalk, which doesnt allow for too much room for my chair, but it is just about wide enough to fit through there. Only that yesterday there were 2 people on their bikes cycling on the sidewalk. I was not about to move out of my way for them and so I told them "hey! please get of your bikes if youre on the sidewalk!". These people did n...

Good afternoon everyone I had the thought that I am going to not eat out so much so I'm going to start bringing more food to work. We do have a little kitchenette with a fridge so this is doable. One of the things that I immediately thought of though was bringing in canned soup etc. to have on hand in case I didn't go shopping or, you know, just wanted soup. Hence, my thought "hey I would need to bring a can opener in in case a can didn't have a pull tab". I remember going through this years ago I needed a can opener and at the time the word was that Swing-A-Way (which used to be the default) quality had gone off a cliff because of moving production to China (of...

So basically, my father just passed away in January. My mother and father have been divorced about 15 years or so, more or less. My dad left his life insurance money to me, but the way that it's worded is "pay to trustee (my mother) for me". I'm not going to include names for obvious reasons, but my mom is my trustee and that is how it is written. I am supposedly going to get $50,000 from the whole thing out of the life insurance money. To add details, my mom has been helping me every step of the way. I am 27 years old, with a severe disability rendering me unable to work a full-time job since I was 18 years old. I haven't fully been living with my mom for the past 9...

*(sorry accidentally deleted my post, reposting now)* Dear, ASKCARGUYS users, I only use the recirculate air button occasionally and for short periods. Like if I'm going through smoke, visible pollution or if I come across noticeable odors. Or if I am trying to cool my car down quicker on a hot day, I'll run it with the AC when I first get in my car.... I maybe click the recirculate air button **once or twice a month at most** to be honest.. Otherwise its just **outside** ***fresh air intake mode*** blowing lightly\*\*\*....\*\*\* **or** ***everything off*** and the windows open... On just short trips to the store or whatever I dont usually use "re-circulate" I w...

Alright, MaximizeMe crew! 👋 Let's talk about something kinda wild that's been buzzing around the FBA community. You know how we're always on the hunt for those hidden gems, right? Well, I stumbled upon a *method* that's been flying under the radar, and honestly, it's pretty darn effective. So, this isn't some guru's "secret sauce" being sold for hundreds of bucks, but more like a strategy for digging through Walmart clearance sections that, let's just say, some folks *really* don't want others to know about. Think about it – when you find something for a few bucks that you can flip for significantly more on Amazon FBA, that's ...

Across the world people move about in small hunter-gatherer tribes. Some even cultivate wild grasses and had done for thousands of years. In 9600BC a meteorite shower begins. Many different tribes gather after the event to share their thoughts. A tribe at the edge of Anatolia lead by a man remembered as Atum or Phanes directs the gathering to a hill (Benben) by the sea and insists they do this on the same day every year to remember the event. Eventually, people stay for longer and cultivate plants around them beginning a semi-subsistence lifestyle. These people considered the sun (Ra) sacred and the water (Nun or Oceanus) boundless. They considered life born out of chaos, time (Chro...

I just played the mobile game Song Of Bloom ([Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kamibox.bloom) | [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/song-of-bloom/id1479162134))Very interesting game that's very much a Metroidbrainia, from my perspective. It's one of those games like [12 Word Searches](https://playcebo.itch.io/12-word-searches), where it's a very different genre of gameplay than a traditional Metroidbrainia, but the same knowledge-gating and discovery principles apply. As to that gameplay-genre... the spoiler-free version is that it's extraordinarily unique, and you should experience that for yourself. If you feel a *need* for more insight: * &...

Hi guys after some advice and help, got a cba 2010 gtr a good couple months ago. The guy had it on drip charge stored in his garage and had a new battery on it as well. The guy even sent me the receipt for the battery as well so I can get it replaced worst comes to worst under warranty Something is draining the battery as I’m having to use a jump pack after 1 day of it being sat on the drive, as far as I cant see nothing looks on when the car is locked and stationary, it does have ECUTEK which I have been told can drain it after the fact. I went out before after being sat for 5 mins with the jump pack on it (which it shouldn’t need anyways) It didn’t start at all which points towards...

It's because they're at the same price point. I did some research and found out you could get a Zenbook a16 with the elite extreme, for less than a MacBook air with similar specs. I speced out a MacBook air to match as close as possible when comparing. Zenbook a16 - 2880 x 1800 pixel oled 16 inch, 1100 nits | Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme | 48GB ram | 1 TB storage | 1699 MacBook air - 2880 x 1864 pixel LCD 15 inch, 500 nits | Apple M5 | 32GB ram | 1TB storage | 1899 Sources: zenbook: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/asus-zenbook-a16-16-3k-oled-touch-screen-laptop-copilot-pc-snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-48gb-ram-1tb-ssd-zabriskie-beige/JJGHGSCXZV/sku/6671011?utm\_source=feed&...

Pokémon Adventures Diamond Pearl Platinum really really fast Pearl: I want to be a comedian Diamond: I also want to be a comedian. Pearl: Our gimmick is I start beating the **** out of Diamond! \*Starts curb stomping Diamond\* I’m Pearl by the way! Dia: I’m Diamond. Dia for short. \*HIT\* Lady: I’m going to make my family crest at spear pillar using materials there. You’re probably expecting me to use something like these diamond and pearl rings I have or my gym badges but we’re just gonna skip over me actually making the thing once that moment actually appears. I’m not joking it was three panels. Sebastian: I am your butler. Bodyguards will accompany you. Lady: Goodbye...

**Entry 1:** Hola everyone, maybe I shouldn't start off obnoxious. Sorry, I'm nervous and possibly overthinking the situation but maybe someone can help. I'll try my best to recollect everything that has happened these past 2 months since I downloaded it and not ramble as much. My name is Derrick and I'm a 22-year-old dude working as an over-the-phone salesman selling fine-china. You know the porcelain **** at your great-grandma's house. Everyone I work with is super old, late sixties, majority women, some guys. I'm the only tightly chiseled person here. Somehow these damp old rags make a killing of selling this stuff. I make minimum wage but the real money...

Warning, this is a bit of a madman's rant and a long read, but I also want an opinion/inspiration/advice on the scenario I am writing. This is not very structured because I am more or less sharing my handwritten research notes here. I am writing a Dark Ages scenario, set around Charlemagne's Saxon Wars and the christening of the Frisians, with the main Mythos entity foe being Shub-Niggurath, and the coincidences to me seem to pile up. Originally, I was basing it of the dutch folklore of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witte_Wieven . This was before I chose ol' Shub as the villain. Afterwards I decided that Shub was manifesting through a swamp, like putting one toe in the pond...

**Entry 1:** Hola everyone, maybe I shouldn't start off obnoxious. Sorry, I'm nervous and possibly overthinking the situation but maybe someone can help. I'll try my best to recollect everything that has happened these past 2 months since I downloaded it and not ramble as much. My name is Derrick and I'm a 22-year-old dude working as an over-the-phone salesman selling fine-china. You know the porcelain **** at your great-grandma's house. Everyone I work with is super old, late sixties, majority women, some guys. I'm the only tightly chiseled person here. Somehow these damp old rags make a killing of selling this stuff. I make minimum wage but the real money...

**First Evening** A young Indian girl visits the Ganges River by nightfall, carrying a lighted lamp which she sets across the river; if the lamp continues to burn as long as she can see it, she will know that her betrothed is still alive, but if it is extinguished, then she will know that he is dead. Though an ominous speckled snake is nearby, the lamp continues to burn, and she rejoices that her love still lives. Andersen provides little exposition for this tale, but he presents us with the first of many stories to feature young lovers separated. The symbolism of the lamp and the snake are memorable touches. **Second Evening** A little girl accidentally frightens her family’s hen and e...