As for telling rather than showing, I'm doing that for a few reasons:
there's a 1500 word limit.
certain aspects of his character can't be adequately expressed without outright stating them, at least within the context of this particular story.
the long spiel about his luck has to be there because of the implied divine intervention at the end is supposed to provide an ironic counterpoint to what is said of him at the beginning.
I'm sure I told a bit more than what was necessary, but I feel like some telling is necessary.
I can do all of that in fewer words, as can you.
Like so.
Hroldi Pikes drew his cloak over his head and bore on through the rain. He wore a stately soldier’s uniform in addition to the worn, ragged coat. The uniform and cloak were not his; his clothes were lying discarded in the mud a mile back, near the naked corpse of the unlucky soldier who’d made the mistake of recognizing Hroldi’s face from a wanted poster and attempting to trail him. Hroldi was a swaggering brute whose cruelty and pettiness were only matched by his stupidity. Hroldi never had second thoughts. He would always blindly seek whatever he thought would benefit him the most, going through anything that got in the way of his shortsighted goals in the most straightforward manner possible, with no regard for the consequences of his actions. He was also extraordinarily lucky. Without any sort of plan, he would break into a mansion and find that its occupants were on vacation and hadn’t taken their possessions with them. Or he would be hanged on the gallows only for the rope to break as soon as the trapdoor opened. On one occasion, he was sentenced to a beheading, but the headsman stumbled as he swung his axe and severed Hroldi’s bonds rather than his head.
...becomes...
Hroldi Pikes drew his cloak over his head and bore on through the rain. He wore a stately soldier’s uniform in addition to the worn, ragged coat. The uniform and cloak were not his; his own clothes lay discarded in the mud a mile back, near the naked corpse of the soldier who had the misfortune of recognizing Hroldi’s face from a wanted poster and had attempted to trail him
Hroldi never had second thoughts, either of himself or others; with his luck, he did not need them. He could break into a mansion on a whim and find that its occupants were on vacation and had left all of their valuables behind; or if apprehended, he might be taken to the gallows only for the rope to break as soon as the trapdoor opened. On one occasion, he was sentenced to beheading, but the axeman stumbled and severed Hroldi’s bonds rather than his neck.
Ach, it's embarrassing to me how much better of a job you did.
So I saw a rather nice quote about religion on my dashboard today which, after a bit of investigation, turned out to be from a priest named Ron Rolheiser. I didn't look at much of what he wrote, but he seems okay.
So I saw a rather nice quote about religion on my dashboard today which, after a bit of investigation, turned out to be from a priest named Ron Rolheiser. I didn't look at much of what he wrote, but he seems okay.
So I saw a rather nice quote about religion on my dashboard today which, after a bit of investigation, turned out to be from a priest named Ron Rolheiser. I didn't look at much of what he wrote, but he seems okay.
The thing about Girl scout cookies is, everyone know they're terrible, you become a sales representative trying to peddle a horrible product on poor unsuspecting citizens.
That's certainly more real life experience than learning calculus.
Also @The Heresy Hunter, the first page of it compares Google and the Olympics to Hitler, If that is serious, than there's some seriously messed up people visiting and maintaining that site.
Firstly, girl scout cookies are generally considered to be delicious. Secondly, calculus has many "real life" applications, and is just plain fun in it's own right.
I like being able to go to websites that are of my religion (you know what I mean, I just don't know how to say it) and feeling secure there, sort of a private place where, you know,I just really don't know how to say what I'm trying to say here.
I guess what I'm saying is that I like having websites that are specifically religious in nature that are of my religion; and I would feel inappropriate going on one of those websites of another religion unless it was supposed to be a thing where you can come in and look around. I guess it just feels like looking going into someone else's room and reading in someone else's journal.
Not my place to look, not my place to form opinions or interpret or anything.
Note: (when it comes to respecting religions and accepting/tolerating them and all that, I count agnosticism and atheism as religions in that they deserve the respect, toleration, acceptance, and all that that other religions deserve.)
Firstly, girl scout cookies are generally considered to be delicious. Secondly, calculus has many "real life" applications, and is just plain fun in it's own right.
Firstly, girl scout cookies are generally considered to be delicious. Secondly, calculus has many "real life" applications, and is just plain fun in it's own right.
People generally visit walmart and mcdonalds for their fashion choices for the former and their dietary supplement for the later (except Lady Gaga who visited the later for both) this argument has no bearing on the quality of girl scoot cookies.
While calculus has many real life applications, the way in which calculus is taught does not actually impart that, Two ants are at a common point at time t=0, the first ant starts crawling along a straight line at the rate of 4 ft/min. Two minutes later, the second ant starts crawling in a direction perpendicular to that of the first, at a rate of 5 ft/min. How fast is the distance between them changing when the first insect has traveled 12 feet?
Unless you somehow think you're ever gonna be a real life Ant biologist.
I can't form an opinion on anything said at that site because reading that site feels like going into someone else's house while they're out, going into their room, and reading their journal. I'm not supposed to be there in the first place!
I can't see that synth video on my phone, so I guess they're taking about analog/subtractive synths? Those are fun because they invite tinkering; you don't necessarily have to know how it works, you can just twist knobs until you get a sound you like.
Firstly, girl scout cookies are generally considered to be delicious. Secondly, calculus has many "real life" applications, and is just plain fun in it's own right.
People generally visit walmart and mcdonalds for their fashion choices for the former and their dietary supplement for the later (except Lady Gaga who visited the later for both) this argument has no bearing on the quality of girl scoot cookies.
While calculus has many real life applications, the way in which calculus is taught does not actually impart that, Two ants are at a common point at time t=0, the first ant starts crawling along a straight line at the rate of 4 ft/min. Two minutes later, the second ant starts crawling in a direction perpendicular to that of the first, at a rate of 5 ft/min. How fast is the distance between them changing when the first insect has traveled 12 feet?
Unless you somehow think you're ever gonna be a real life Ant biologist.
Describing the distance between the two ants (t>=2) as a function of t can be done as so:
f(t)=sqrt((8+4t)^2+25t^2)
Then it's just a matter of deriving that function in terms of t at the point where t=3 and 4t=2. Thus we get f'(4)= (41 t+32)/sqrt(41 t^2+64 t+64) = 31/5
^^ I'm about five years your senior. I have had more time.
Also you probably know a lot more minutia about the Elder Scrolls series and things of that nature than I ever will. Whether or not it is "useful" does not matter: You have the capacity to learn and retain a lot of information about things that you love. So long as you keep your mind open to new things, your horizons will expand over time.
Thank you. It's not usefulness that matters though; it's things like importance or difficulty of learning them. TES lore isn't important or difficult to learn, and that doesn't really bother me. But it does bother me that I don't know nearly as much about math, politics, science, history, and literature as I want or may even be capable of knowing. I mean, I already pretty much know my ability to retain knowledge about math is very low for one thing. I know I have to keep my horizons wide but I can't help but feel like I'm interested or at least want to know about more than is manageable.
Thank you. It's not usefulness that matters though; it's things like importance or difficulty of learning them. TES lore isn't important or difficult to learn, and that doesn't really bother me. But it does bother me that I don't know nearly as much about math, politics, science, history, and literature as I want or may even be capable of knowing. I mean, I already pretty much know my ability to retain knowledge about math is very low for one thing. I know I have to keep my horizons wide but I can't help but feel like I'm interested or at least want to know about more than is manageable.
Dude, trust me, that urge to learn that completely outstrips your ability to learn is the best thing.
Thank you. It's not usefulness that matters though; it's things like importance or difficulty of learning them. TES lore isn't important or difficult to learn, and that doesn't really bother me. But it does bother me that I don't know nearly as much about math, politics, science, history, and literature as I want or may even be capable of knowing. I mean, I already pretty much know my ability to retain knowledge about math is very low for one thing. I know I have to keep my horizons wide but I can't help but feel like I'm interested or at least want to know about more than is manageable.
Dude, trust me, that urge to learn that completely outstrips your ability to learn is the best thing.
^^ Just read about stuff that you want to know about because you enjoy learning about those things. Feeling obligated is not going to help you.
^ This, too.
You're probably right. I just wish I had at least working knowledge of things like higher mathematics.
As for politics that mainly serves my absolutely never ending interest in being right so even if it's not something I can be incredibly engaged in learning about the need to learn about it is more than an obligation for me.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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What exactly is it about tradition that absolves harmful things from being changed?
Do you
Mr. Jones.
Maybe it's best to try to avoid stuff like that (danged if I know how, though).
...
Is that site, "The Heresy Hunter" sincere or satire or something else or what? I just really cannot tell, and I don't know how to interpret it.
That's certainly more real life experience than learning calculus.
I guess what I'm saying is that I like having websites that are specifically religious in nature that are of my religion; and I would feel inappropriate going on one of those websites of another religion unless it was supposed to be a thing where you can come in and look around. I guess it just feels like looking going into someone else's room and reading in someone else's journal.
Not my place to look, not my place to form opinions or interpret or anything.
Note: (when it comes to respecting religions and accepting/tolerating them and all that, I count agnosticism and atheism as religions in that they deserve the respect, toleration, acceptance, and all that that other religions deserve.)
While calculus has many real life applications, the way in which calculus is taught does not actually impart that,
Two ants are at a common point at time t=0, the first ant starts
crawling along a straight line at the rate of 4 ft/min. Two minutes
later, the second ant starts crawling in a direction perpendicular to
that of the first, at a rate of 5 ft/min. How fast is the distance
between them changing when the first insect has traveled 12 feet?
Unless you somehow think you're ever gonna be a real life Ant biologist.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
if anything, I'm behind in learning stuff...some of it, anyway, like math.
~sulks in a corner~