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SPOILERS: Book 18 title announced at Lexington book signing
Kindler:
--- Quote from: SerScot on June 10, 2018, 05:01:24 AM ---With the exception of the reveal of Harry’s relationship to Thomas BR was among my least favorite of the Dresden Files novels.
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Same here. I liked the Black Court side plot, but found the White Court main plot to be far, far too convoluted. A whole lot of Bond Villain Stupidity (JUST SHOOT HIM. SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD.) and too many layers of cat-paws. I get that they don't do anything directly, but come on. And I am... not a particularly big fan of the Suddenly Brothers aspect of Thomas and Harry's relationship. I would've preferred a different method of revealing that side of things.
Anyway, the White Court is part of why I like Kincaid so much. He'll just shoot you from a mile away. In the words of River Tam, "Bang, squish."
As for Body Slam, meh. I have a ton of distaste for wrestling as a... I guess it's technically sport (after all, Starcraft is a sport now). But none of the aspects of Blood Rites I disliked had anything to do with the setting. And, unless being sucked into the Mirrorverse and/or shenanigans on that side of the universal fence somehow frees Harry from the Winter Knight's Mantle, I expect Harry to be investigating on behalf of Winter.
(As far as Mirror, Mirror and losing the Winter Knight gig goes, I figure it's possible that jumping to a universe where there's already a Winter Knight (who I don't expect to be MirrorHarry) might mess with the Mantle—like, it tries to be in two places at once, and the power instead reverts to the constant from the Mirrorverse, or returns to MirrorMab. Either that, or simply being cut off from Prime Winter is enough to free the Mantle, returning it to Prime Mab as Harry gets sucked through. Or, you know, he just finds a good place to get rid of it on Halloween.)
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 10, 2018, 04:02:19 AM ---The new site (going live soon) is a clone of this one. Assuming it remains successfully running and people use it, I'd like to eventually move to a dolphinpro or oxwall forum. I like Invision Power Suite (what they're using over at 17th Shard) but it's pricey, whereas the others are free.
The dp/ow sites would allow us to have a forum, chat, wiki-like articles, pic and video sharing, and other cool features. IPS works with a Discord add-on for those that would use it; and it may be available for the others as well.
But that's long term plans, assuming everything else goes well.
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Sorry to derail further, but are you looking at self-hosting or their cloud packages?
Griffyn612:
--- Quote from: Kindler on June 11, 2018, 02:28:33 PM ---Sorry to derail further, but are you looking at self-hosting or their cloud packages?
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Right now we're using a cloud server on TMD Hosting because they support all of those (save for IPS). I'd prefer to avoid self-hosted because the plan is for me to manage things, but I can hand it off seemlessly if needed.
jonas:
--- Quote from: wardenferry419 on June 11, 2018, 12:10:50 AM ---In book 7, which was to be book 8, a magic tries to become a god.
In Book 18, maybe, a magic user kills a god.
I think the theory where first 10 book plots mirror last 10 book plots is still in play.
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See, I think the opposite, it was Halloween, EK was in the sky with the hunt... I think they meant to kill/consume an immortal, Mayhaps book 18 will be a God killing a mortal... one close to Harry.. in revenge for raiding his 'woodshed'?
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on June 11, 2018, 03:21:45 PM ---Right now we're using a cloud server on TMD Hosting because they support all of those (save for IPS). I'd prefer to avoid self-hosted because the plan is for me to manage things, but I can hand it off seemlessly if needed.
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Gotcha. Then yeah, the Invision suites get real expensive real quick depending on average active users. I suppose you'd have a better idea about simultaneous site traffic with the changeover; once Peace Talks come out, that should be a great stress test to see what peak activity looks like.
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