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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 25, 2023, 01:46:24 PM »
Merry Christmas




... and happy birthday, Dina!

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DF Books / Re: Approaching the third of the total
« on: December 25, 2023, 01:57:47 AM »
38% now

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 24, 2023, 07:50:38 AM »
LOL, I have such a fun imagining that. But I am glad you will cover it so the kitten would not be in danger.

Did I ever tell you I play Pokemon Go? (I know I spoke about that here in Weird but I do not remember if you, Regen, were present. I comment it now because it is so fun these days. The pokestops and all the backgrounds are sporting Christmas' decorations and...snow. Lots of snow. There is also a Winter event featuring ice pokemon. Problem is here is Summer, we are having around 32 C and we even have a pokemon who has a form for each season and it is now wearing his Summer form. So...contradicting and funny.
Yes you told us about Pokemon Go. How cute they decorate for the season.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 24, 2023, 12:05:41 AM »
LOL. I'm the only one still awake. And I just found Mr da Vinci near the top on the tree, looking at me with innocent cat face. Like: I really have no clue, how I got up there. One moment I was on the floor and the next... just like magic!  ;D
And some of the decorations on the floor. We chose a non poisonous tree with soft needles and only wood, straw, plastic and wool as decorations. And we attached it to the ceiling which we never did before with other cats, but I had a feeling, this time it would be necessary.
Before I go to bed, I'll put some cloths around the tree with some spray on them which should keep them from going near, though it never worked with any of our other cats.
I wonder what I will find in the morning. Very exciting. 8)
I don't worry. They should not be able to hurt themselves. We even shut down the electricity for the lights.


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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 23, 2023, 08:14:29 PM »
Happy Holidays for everyone

@PilgrimDan:
Is this a new movie? Where did you stream it? Or did you see it in a cinema? Sounds interesting.

@Dina:
Star Trek fan club!!! I would have joined you. I knew nobody who liked Star Trek. But I have realised a few years ago, that I was just unlucky to know too many people who didn't share my interests, be it Fantasy or science fiction. It was just a bubble and later I got introduced to other bubbles, so I knew I wasn't the weird one. THEY WERE.  8) ;)

I hope your cousin's son talks a lot about his experiences in Brno. And also sad about the dog. :(


Today I have prepared the dips for our fondue tomorrow. My mother will come and maybe my brother-in-law. I have invited him, because his girlfriend broke up with him at the beginning of December and he will be alone at Christmas. But he told us, he already has a new one and not yet sure if the will spend the Holidays together. Ok, he is living his second youth or so, lol. He is 60.


We put up the tree today. The cats are extremely interested and I had to spray them with water several times because they would not stop trying to eat the branches and jump on them, lol. Now they are tired and my husband and the kids are starting to decorate the tree.


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DF Books / Re: Approaching the third of the total
« on: December 23, 2023, 07:52:54 PM »
36% for a while now. I'm sure there will be more after Christmas. May his pets inspire him a lot.  ;D

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 22, 2023, 12:39:02 PM »
Just came back from my violin teacher. He is satisfied now that we have finally finished the book with the Christmas songs.
But he had to play almost blind, because he couldn't find his glasses, lol. He asked if it was normal for old people to forget for example where they have put their glasses, and I said sorry but yes, this kind of knowledge is widespread. ;D
He sometimes is confused, but he has only two students at the moment. His partner and me.


Mini and I have watched the first two episodes of Percy Jackson and we liked it a lot. Most of it was almost like in the book. The new episodes will be out every Wednesday from now on. It looks like they are doing one season for each book, which I think is the best way to go about it. Also the actors will age with each season, which will be a bit like the Harry Potter cast aging with each film, just like in the books.


I have still not yet finished An Inheritance of Magic. It will definitely take me until after Christmas, because the days before there is usually not much time for reading, though I can do a re-listen of the DF while preparing for the holidays. I'm at Death Masks right now.

Today there will be one last pre-Christmas dinner with my husband's computer club, which is every year. They don't do much except this one dinner once a year any more, lol. But the club still exists officially recognised since their youth. It's funny, because I knew some of the members or their wives before.

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DF Books / Re: Approaching the third of the total
« on: December 19, 2023, 12:28:30 AM »
Yay. It's 34% now.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 18, 2023, 12:56:23 AM »
The first book is definitely a little bit of Early Installment Weirdness like most people think Storm Front and Fool Moon do. I listened to the audiobook with I think Michael Kramer and Kate Reading? I definitely didn't love it, but I had free Audible credits and wasn't sold on the series yet. :P
LOL. I have mentioned this before. I could not continue listening to it. Kate Reading is great. She did the Codex Alera and I liked it a lot. But I did not like Kramer's way of talking. It didn't fit this kind of story and I was too annoyed with him so I could not bring myself to listen to more. I also had a free Audible credit. I guess Kate Reading does the female parts? Maybe I'll try again.
I also have the ebook. They synchronize with the audible version. So sometimes I switch between reading and listening, depending on where I am and what I do. I could read the male parts and listen to the female ones.

@Dina:
I noticed the similarity to Banderas at first sight, but then I wasn't sure if I was correct until he looked directly into the camera.
You told us about the Spanish actor in WoT. I liked him, but didn't know him before.

On the 20th there will be the new Percy Jackson series on Disney+.
Mini and me are very excited. We both loved the books but were disappointed by the movies. The author wasn't thrilled either, so he decided to play a more active role in a new adaption. In an interview he said, he was happy with the outcome. I'm looking forward to it.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 17, 2023, 11:45:46 PM »
The one thing I will say about that character
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There is one thing I'm really, really hoping the show doesn't do. I'll know early next season if they are planning on doing it though.
Ok. I plan to continue reading the first book once I have finished An Inheritance of Magic. Looking forward to it.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 17, 2023, 11:43:21 PM »
We just watched Indiana Jones. Dina, you were right. It felt like one if the old movies. I also liked it. Funny: once they entered a building at night, didn't stay long and when they got out, it was day. LOL. May have missed something in between, but my husband also said: "didn't they go in at night?"
Did you notice Antonio Banderas? At first my husband didn't believe me, but it was him.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Justine DuMorne is Kemmler (Theory)
« on: December 17, 2023, 12:14:44 PM »
I think once they reach 50s/60s it's about a decade per century ratio. Ancient Mai's in the equivalent of her late 90s. Ebenezar and LtW are unusually fit mid to late 70s. Rashid 80s. etc
And I also believe that there are ways to gather life-force via black magic rituals, which surely are used by wizards like Kemmler to extend their life span. So maybe a warlock using black magic can be 700-800 years old, but appear "only" 300 due to stolen life-force.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 17, 2023, 12:06:08 PM »
Ah, good, I'll see where I can find the film. Definitely want to watch it. Harrison Ford !!!  ;D

WoT:
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I just came home from a meeting with my violin teacher. Most of the time, he doesn't teach anymore, we just meet regularly to play together. We didn't manage to play all the Christmas songs yet, so we decided to meet again on Friday to play the rest. Because he said, they need to be played before Christmas, lol.

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The Bar / Re: New Weird
« on: December 17, 2023, 07:51:16 AM »
There is a new Indiana Jones? Oh, I'm so not informed.

The windows guy was here and he appeared trustworthy, unlike the other candidates we had in the past years. We have not decided yet, but will do so this week.

@DC
Oh, it is usually bad, when they change important things in the TV adaption. Someday I'll read all the books, but by now I only know the TV version, and I felt it was a cool scene.
I hope this will not change the plot too much in future. As long as I haven't read the books, I won't notice, so probably this is a case of best first watch then read.

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DF Spoilers / Re: Justine DuMorne is Kemmler (Theory)
« on: December 17, 2023, 07:41:59 AM »
@Regenbogen:

Upon what do you base that?  Wizards still age… just more slowly.  It makes more sense for the “good copy” cell replacement to break down over time for wizards as they age… since they do age and will eventually die of old age… just a lot later than normals.  Consider River Shoulder’s worries about Listens to Wind because of LTW’s age…

Yeah, probably with extremely old age the process of cell renewal would be slowed. But we are talking about a wizard in this prime.

My theory: wizards age more slowly than vanilla humans. According to Butters, Harry's cells renewed themselves to more exact copies than usual. This means that the healing process of severe injuries appears quicker compared to vanilla humans, because a vanilla human doesn't heal completely.

Take severe burn scars for example: they never go away completely and patients often loose at least part of the function in the burned areas, which never heals completely. So they are never again near as healthy as they were before. Harry by now has full functionality in his burned hand. So severely burned that a doctor tried to convince him to let it amputate. If he wasn't a wizard, his hand would still lack a lot of functionality.

Wizard in his prime:
According to the impression I have from the books, young wizards seem to age at the same speed as vanillas up to let's guess their fifties or sixties. When they reached that age, they seem to age more slowly than before and stay in this phase of appearing 50/60ish for centuries until they slowly reach the 80/90 years and show signs of old age. I guess this is as individual as with vanilla mortals. Some age faster and die sooner than others. Only with wizards, the difference is counted in centuries not decades.
So a wizard in his centuries lasting 50s or 60s (one of those, I guess, Kemmler was) who ages more slowly than at a younger age, will therefore heal faster than a younger wizard, because his cells regenerate faster. Once he has reached a wizards old age after maybe 5 to 7 centuries, the healing speed will decline.

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