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Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese On the subject of Rudolf's ghost in Legend of the Galactic Heroes, from book 3 onwards they start making a separate list for dead major characters, and Rufolf is never listed amongst the dead ones. They start listing dead characters after they mention Rudolf.
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby I have just finished reading "From the New World" (Shinsekai Yori) An incredibly strange book, gosh. I don't remember who recommended it to me, but I've had the PDF sitting in my downloads for a while. It has an anime too which is more likely anyone would know it from I suppose.
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 I've been reading principles of underwater sound, very exciting I know
Replying to TinyBomby #tinybomby Anyway, I really appreciate standalone books. So many books nowadays are massive series, especially ones that aren't finished yet, and it's nice to have a book that just has an ending with nothing else to it.
Replying to legorhin #jazardly if an author has put in the effort to make a universe to put the story in, put another story in it
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese 2 differences between the books and the OVA for LOTGH: in the books alliance troops use mirror shields to deflect lasers. Which is why Schonkopf always calls his ax a "Tomahawk" since that's a one-handed axe. The other difference for Legend of the Galactic Heroes is that since the liquid metal shell is OVA original, what you get instead of speeder-bike jousting on the liquid metal, when Walter von Schonkopf goes out for exercise in the Fortress vs Fortress episode, you get WW1-style Death Star trench warfare.
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese You can complain about the bad translations or you can use it for headcanon fodder. Book 4 seems to imply that Erwin Josef is predisposed to marry Charlotte Phillis, admiral Alex Caselne's daughter. Since there are a lot of paragraphs that talk about Erwin Josef where Caselne's name shows up. (edited)
Replying to Pyrrhic #swiss_army_cheese I had been under the impression that if you didn't bring something up it was because you didn't find it interesting enough to mention it. Like, I thought it strange you didn't mention the lard kaiser, who was the worst kaiser since Rudolf. But figured that maybe it wasn't as interesting as Rudolf naming a unit of measurement after himself. I don't want to be the guy who constantly points stuff out from the books. Which is why I reference the manga and DNT. And the musical.
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 It was fun! I got into the story. Sanderson does seem to have an annoying flaw in writing where, whichever character the MC meets first, is always the most trustworthy person or someone important. Like, you just happen to stumble upon the leader or whatever when you start exploring, c'mon now
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 My mom said Theo of Golden is really good, but the story felt like an old man's wet dream, coming into a new community and helping solve problems with all his wisdom. It felt too... contrived. Granted, I only got about 100 pages in.
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 your mom might be a 50 y/o woman at heart (edited)
Replying to Kribbles #kribbles1 My mom said Theo of Golden is really good, but the story felt like an old man's wet dream, coming into a new community and helping solve problems with all his wisdom. It felt too... contrived. Granted, I only got about 100 pages in.