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Yeah. Butcher's other books don't have the same misogyny issues so it's usually agreed upon that it's a Harry Dresden issue and not a Butcher issue...

It's also very hard to verify this Lara Raith stuff online (or at least I haven't managed to find anything about it).. almost as if it's not such an open secret.

That plus the fact that Murphy and the ex-wife look nothing alike and Murphy dies 4 books and 7 years after the divorce, in a series of books in which everyone knows the main character has never been allowed to be happy and keeps reminding himself that a villain once cursed him to die alone...

Then there's Molly who got shut down by Harry pretty hard and there's been no more tension since that one scene, so... Yeah, pretty meh stuff.

If they've never heard of slayer that means they don't really listen to metal so of course they wouldn't know what to do with it. Metal is very hit or miss with non metal people. Even when talking about one specific band. I know plenty of people that have like a handful of metal songs in their playlists and it's usually just one song per band and they dislike all the other songs that they've heard from those bands.

Tried asking them what they like about the songs and stuff when they asked for recommandations but the conclusion is always the same. People's tastes are weird and make no sense.

My oldest source for that is Supernatural. I don't remember the exact episode, but in one of the early seasons the two brothers were in the car listening to music and Dean plays some Bon Jovi and Sam is like "Bon Jovi?! Seriously?!" And the reply goes something like "Bon Jovi rocks... On occasion"

Obviously not a serious source and obviously they don't say Bon Jovi isn't metal, just more of an amusing anecdote that I still remember almost 15 years later, for some reason.

But more seriously, Wikipedia lists genres there even if a band doesn't belong in a genre. Simply because they have some elements of that genre. And in Bon Jovi's case that was only on the early albums. You can go to the wiki page of their first 2 albums, for example and you'll see that the genr e listed are "glam metal / hard rock". Which means that even early on they weren't really metal. More like metal adjacent. Obviously beyond that they went more and more towards rock.

But I do agree that the definition of metal has changed a bit. But mostly when talking about the early days, not anytime recently. For example bowling for soup has a line in one of their songs that goes something like "when did motley crue become classic rock?!" So you might be onto something.

Beyond that... There's always gonna be silly purists that will try to gatekeep stuff. And metal has plenty of those. You can see it easily when there's talk about the more commercial or experimental bands like sleep token or whatever.

People usually do a lot more than sext with their ai companions, I'm pretty sure.

I think it's a great rec. Rothfuss's style is amazing and everyone should experience it. (And more people need to feel the pain of knowing they'll never get to read the end :p) It's true that it doesn't fit with what op wanted, but well... They just need to go into it with the proper expectations so as to not be disappointed.

It's not just that it's not the main plotline..

Pretty good book, but doesn't fit with what op needs.

I know that feeling, tree.. I know that feeling.

That's Loid Forger's kit, obviously.

Oh...dunno. Mine's not that reactive to objects. I just tried touching my screen with a piece of cloth, even wrapping my finger in one and I still can't make it react.

You do get to choose. That's what the settings are for. Someone commented the solution to the issue.

That's so wrong.. on so many levels..