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Yep, totally agree with you there. Couldn't get past the first chapter, just glazed over and gave up

I think sci-fi writers constantly make their stakes far too high, stack the odds far to heavily against the protagonists, and go for a scope far to broad. I don't need 3 people to save the entire intergalactic population from a super mega back hole bomb with .002 seconds to spare. I've seen it and read it a thousand times.

Give me the guy who thinks maybe his spaceship could take on exploring one planet, tell me what he finds and why it was wise for him to run home and call for extra resources to be redirected to that planet. Tell me how the technology of your imaginary world brought 2 characters together and allowed them to build a beautiful life together.

That's why I adore The Martian and can't get excited about Star Wars.

First, buy the services of a financial advisor. Run a very long list of ideas past them to see what's plausible, what would make a positive difference in the world, what would likely become a self sustaining positive thing after an initial investment that I can afford to go without a return on.

For myself, build a house. Pick the exact location I want. Customize and overbuild everything. Backup power and solar panels. But from the outside, make it look exactly like the majority of the houses in a 1 mile radius. Except mine is capable of withstanding nuclear war.

Also, health care to the max is high on my selfish list. I want a reputable doctor to show up at my house each month to check on things and answer all the odd questions about a cough I had one time or whatever.

For my family, buy them a few nice things, set up a trust fund that pays out an actual living wage to each person and include a standing appointment with a financial advisor as well as access to their own doctor who makes house calls.

Yes.

This mod seems familiar. They may be the offending party behind my worst experience on Reddit, and the only mod I ever blocked.

Handed me a temporary ban for responding to a post written to the wrong sub. They didn't have time to write out a redirect link to copy and paste for lost redditors, but did have time to mark me as trouble and berate me when I suggested redirecting users. Since a temporary ban "wasn't enough," they gave a longer ban so I would "learn my lesson."

Really put a damper on my whole reddit experience.

I had the same issues with chrome. The only fix I've found is landscape mode

I've had this set up for a while. It's alright.

Some comments run off the right side of the screen, is there a setting that fixes this?

Is it a benign "attack" to point out the weakness to get enough attention that it gets fixed?

Yes, a clean break is what I'm going for.

This is very much what this is like. Kbin and Lemmy do not have to confirm to reddit's norms. I'm glad it's different here.

It sounds too sketchy to the old people who make the rules.

Along with most of the people here, the damage has been done in my opinion. I'd probably check in on Reddit more often, but refuse to be invested there as I was before.