Beholder
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Going to install a Zombies, run! app Any suggestions for music for running, ahem, walking somewhat fast from zombies?
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Well, what I am trying to do now is to eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm not and pay attention to how food makes me feel. Rating it not in terms of good food, bad food, but whether it was a good idea or bad idea. What contributes to it being a good…
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That is indeed an interesting story, and Belit is rather hard to peg to "okay/not okay" as far as implicatins are concerned. A white queen of a black tribe, a "Shemite soul" and so on - that is more than a little racist. Also, the way she is Stuffed…
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That would contradict the characterisation established in other stories where he is much more clear about consent from his women thannthe civilized men. He could hardly learn it from them. And it might be that she could not cancel whatever she was …
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And the final paragraph, that explains what Atali is: "It was Atali, the daughter of Ymir, the frost-giant! To fields of the deadshe comes, and shows herself to the dying! Myself when a boy I saw her, when I lay half-slain on the bloody field of Wo…
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I think he was motivated more by stubborness and spite at that point. And the early sentenses rather clearly allude to a charm, to a kind of ghost story of a siren luring people to their death. "Am I not beautiful, oh man?""Like Dawn running naked …
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Well, as far as Unfortunate Implications are concerned, it seems rather clear for me that Atali the Ymir's daughter is using some sort of charm and Conan is hardly in his sences. Also, she was leading him in a trap, deliberately, so that her brother…
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Everything is better with cheese :) Also, it looks like I shouldn't be afraid of adding proper sugar to bread - it is mostly for the yeast to eat anyway
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That's how I want to look when I'm old. Only fatter. Thing is, I want to already be there, skipping the 30-50 And yes, I do feel that if I am not moderately successful at 25, I fail at life, period. So, I already did
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I rather liked that story, because for once we get a decent Bond Conan girl. Olivia is not a badass, but she is not annoying in a "girly" way - she needs protection more because she is a civillian unused to fighting than because she is a girl specif…
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But you still have to work, be professional and successful. Heck, you are supposed to buy that proverbial midlife crisis car
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Dread getting older, as in, to my 30-40. 25 now, and feeling way too old Strangely enough, looking forward to the actual old age, that is, about 60, the age of retirement. Then I would no longer be pressured by society to work, to be pretty or to g…
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Okay, I've done with food restriction. Just done with it. Will see what kind of pattern I'll settle in eventually.
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Big fancy wedding here usually implies that everyone gets dead drunk and fights and property damage follow. I think I'll pass :)
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That being said, I am in favour of marriage contracts to decide beforehand who gets what
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The intent is to not leave the homemaker screwed and economically dependent on the working partner with no way to leave the situation.
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Indifferent. It might happen one day, though extremely unlikely, as I have little interest in romance or sex, yet to fall in love by 25, and besides, my country would not allow me to marry a girl. I do not invest my happiness into it.
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So, the Rogues in the House Right from the beginning we get a sense that this story is going to be amusing. Indeed, just how mighty Conan got captured in the first place? Well, he was severely drunk when the guards arrived, and "Waking to stupefied …
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Oh yes, it would devinitely make a better plot. Also, it seems that Sancha was naked during all the events on the island. I mean, it is mentioned that she undressed to swim ashore and it is never mentioned that she got any sort of clothes back there…
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And, blast it, I still have no idea about the formatting on this board
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Conan's social skills are not limited to punching. He effortlessly wins over the crew and implies great familiarity with specifically how such things are done. He correctly accesses the mood, gets the pirate customs very well, and is actively workin…
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Yeah. With speed. If it was available over the counter I would have done it
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So, the Slithering Shadow, the story probably written for the sake of getting on the cover, and featuring the most annoying Bond Conan girl ever. Speaking of cover, I've read somewhere that Howard himself was not too fond of sex scenes nor of delib…
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Another random point - we never learn what happened with Yasmela's brother, even though him being held captive was a major plot point. Poor guy, nobody seems to care about him including the author
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Id gladly remain very fat if people stopped giving me flak for that. I've been quite alright with it And you have no idea how much I envy the people whose metabolism allows them to have nice things and not get fat. I think I might hate you :( And …
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Not sure about whether I like it. I did like the explosition in the beginning, but Yasmela is very annoying and the fight is anticlimatic
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So, the Black Colossus, the first story to make it to the cover. It starts with a long, long, long lesson in the Conanverse geography. Looks like the 'verse has everything, especially the things that were not supposed to appear at the same time. Fo…
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Another random thought - the previous story featured an evil flower from Yag the Accursed - which is probably the same Yag. Yet the Eldritch abomination in this story is rather benevolent - and forced to flee its homeland. Was it after that when Yag…
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So, the Tower of the Elephant, the story in which Conan undresses and a spot check is failed This is one of my favourite stories, mostly because of how it subverts the usual Eldritch Abomination theme - just how often does the hero get to rescue one…
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There will be more to say about Conan's rather inconventional attitudes towards Eldritch Abominations when we'll get to the Tower of Elephant
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First of all, that's about the best summary of the stories I've heard. Many thanks Some things I have noticed:Both of the first stories have a rather heavy-handed political commentary about the fickleness of the masses By the Scarlet Citadel Conan s…
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The most interesting things is that it appears that dietary preferences actually drift depending on what you've been eating during the last several months. Over the last year, mine seems to have shifted in the following ways: It is actually possible…
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Frozen pizza is delicious if warmed up in an actual oven as opposed to microwave And, honestly, stress eating is much better than just unmitigated stress
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So, trying both low carb and low fat at the same time is unfeasible with my current schedule, as I do need something to eat during the day. Guess it's back to low carb then, although this time I'll also stay clear of bacon, as I do need result fast…
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For me, it does not work at all. Constantly telling me that it needs to iron some kinks
