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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  I've been wanting to write this immediately after reading SoS, but there never was a spoiler thread (it probably got lost in the Dream Roads), thus I'm saying it here. "Oh, I wouldn’t say that,” George said grimly. “What do...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Here's a thing I have been wondering a lot about: Aren't we all Large Language Models? The learning process for humans is exactly that: you hear and read a lot of things and someone tells you to rinse and repeat...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Hello Charlie, what about the Season of Skulls spoiler thread? Was it evicted from our universe due to time-travel shenanigans?...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Also, what poor schmuck became Fabian Everyman & how did that happen? You should read Season of Skulls....
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Of course. And cultists are notorious for not understanding who or what they worship and getting eaten for that. But Angleton really should know better… and Iris is shown to actually know better (some books later). This is a bit...
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  One thing that always bothered me is the Sleeper's role in The Fuller Memorandum. Iris and her cultists want to summon the Eater of Souls because he knows how to dismantle the Wall of Pain around the Sleeper, and they...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  (On a completely different note: will there be a spoiler thread where we can discuss Season Of Skulls?)...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  I am actually surprised nobody tought to mention The Order Of The Stick. (https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html) Yeah, I know it doesn't update much currently. But it's just one of the best webcomic (and story altogether) around....
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  We are not in spoiler land yet, thus I won't say what I'm talking about. But... well played, Charlie. Well played. Record Scratch....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I just wish to express lots of Kudos to Bob (and, by extension, to Charlie) for having the wits to draw an Eternal Golden Braid when one was appropriate....
• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  Thanks Charlie, I know the SCP foundation universe. I just didn't know about the Antimemetics Division. Which, of course, makes perfect sense....
• Commented on New guest blogger: qntm
  Reading some qntm stories now, I didn't know him before this blog post. I'm hooked. Also, the whole antimemetics setting shows... interesting similarities with the Laundryverse (most notably "everybody knows vampires don't exist" and elven warfare, but also adult equoids,...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Posting form Italy here. We think our government is even more idiotic than yours. And we are fully aware your government managed to collapse in 45 days and has just established a new record about that. And we are also...
• Commented on Yokai Land Q&A
  I'm quite sure I already said several times I love your writing style, but I feel the urge to say it again....
• Commented on Coming soon: Escape from Yokai Land!
  Back on topic: In "The Delirium Brief", first chapter, page number... tends to change with font size and ebook reader. Anyway, Bob mentions "the incursion at Puroland that I was sent to help deal with". Will this become a continuity...
• Commented on Coming soon: Escape from Yokai Land!
  Coming out here: I had been reading your books as a pirate, by looking for them on the interwebbytubes™. Then, some years ago, I acknowledged I actually like them so much that I bought all of them as ebooks. And...
• Commented on Quantum of Nightmares: spoiler time!
  Couple of tales from Italy: The switch from landlines to VOIP has been going on for a while, mostly without even telling customers about it; but this is perfectly fine, because customers don't actually care about it, and most often...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  I'll just add this comment to the current discussion, and then I'll back off because I really don't want to get involved: I'd really like to be able (or for people in general to be able) to talk about Israeli...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  So many questions, so little answers......
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  How far are you going to dwelve in the depths of paradoxes? How many time has history been rewritten? By whom? How much can Forecasting Ops understand about this before being forced to self-unestablish? How and how much is actually...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
  I found the description of what happened to Imp and Eve's mother GENUINELY DISTURBING, although it was to be expected since we all know what GPM was up to (even before they escalated to TDB levels). It's different when you...
• Commented on Submarine coming through!
  Charlie, just logging in to remind you (amongst all this crazyness) that you still didn't publish a crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index. You asked me to remind you about this on another thread, so I'm just complying, no pressure...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Never read "Palimpsest" until now. Now I did. I understand (for varying definitions of "understand") you much better....
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  OTOH: Charles, what about the crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index? I thought I already did one? If not, well, remind me next week. (Right now, am writing.) Reminding. But please do it only if it would not interrupt...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend anyone? Where does exactly a "quantum system" ends? If I observe you observing a cat in a box, who exactly is collapsing the wave function? The concept of "observer" is totally tricky......
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Charles, Opticians Dentistry England/Wales only GP appointments, hospital visits, ambulances, surgery, hospital stays ... nope, no co-pays This we take for granted. Here in Italy too. And I think that's good, but who am I to say this? :-/ In...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  OTOH: Charles, what about the crib sheet for The Labyrinth Index? It has been out for a while now, and the next book in the series (for variable definition of "next book in the series") is out now. Time for...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Guys (and girls if any), please don't forget about a basic thing that anyone tends to ignore. This planet is several billions years old. Our species is several hundreds millennia old. And yet, we only know anything at all about...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Safari under Big Sur still behaves in an interesting fashion with sign ins here Same thing with Edge on Windows, being logged in or not seems to be quite random....
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  If "Case Nightmare Green" is what happens when "the stars come into alignment", doesn't that suggest that someday they will again go out of alignment? If so, they must have come into & gone out of alignment previously and...