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  1. I bought some Free League's LotR RPG adapted for D&D 5E books. They've already arrived at my friend's in Vienna, now all that's left is to wait for him to get to Belgrade. It is a drag, but it's still better than having to deal with Serbian customs. If you think you know what Hell is, try explaining Kickstarter to Serbian customs officer and why you don't have a receipt as such for what you're getting in the mail.
  2. Based on the "sample" (made of my friends, family etc.), that may or may not be representative, I'd say that an average engineer is much better educated on the subjects of history, literature etc. than an average historian or language and literature major is on the subject of engineering. I'd say that's mostly because history, literature, art and so on are still considered "general education".
  3. Well, they do and they don't. Sure, they both write fantasy but they write very different kinds of fantasy. I think that you have a lower opinion of Sanderson and higher opinion of GRRM than they deserve. While I do love ASoIaF as much as the next man, let's be honest and say that parts of it are a slog. Sure, Brienne's travels with Jaime through war torn country have their purpose in the overall story but they are a drag and no amount of praise GRRM may get for "quality of his prose" or whatever will make it any easier to read. Comparing authors to other authors is just dumb. If you read Stormlight Archives and expect it to be like ASoIaF, it will be crap. Guess what? If you read ASoIaF and expect it to be like Stormlight Archives, it will be crap, too. We're talking about two different worlds, two different stories, two different styles of writing etc. We can talk about personal preference, but that's a different story. This metric is nonsense. How would you scale the duration of writing to quality of the book? Could an author say "I'll take a year longer but my book will be twice as good as it would be if I released it now"?
  4. I don't see the point of this comparison, and I like both GRRM and Sanderson. They are completely different persons, completely different types of personalities, completely different types of authors etc. It's like comparing LeBron James and Tom Brady and saying "LeBron's plays as many games in one season as Brady plays in 5". I mean, it is correct, but it doesn't mean anything.
  5. Is this your first time meeting Liverpool supporters of this board? I agree with you, team selection was quite reasonable. Konate played so VVD could have some rest, Darwin needed to get some minutes after missing a couple of games and the same goes for Salah and Szoboszlai. Liverpool doesn't have the luxury of having 2 world-class players at every position, so some compromises have to be made. It's far from certain but I'm fairly confident Liverpool can get a good result with the team Klopp has at his disposal at the minute. Gomez played at CB alongside VVD in a season where Liverpool dominated the Premier League the way very few teams have. No reason to worry about him getting back into that role if Klopp thinks Quansah is not ready to play against City.
  6. The lack of interest for engineering in general population is not a USA thing, it's worldwide thing. I'm an electrical engineer who lives in Serbia and most of my friends I've known before going to the university have picked vocations outside of engineering. My gymnasium curriculum was focused on math and science and we were THE prime demographics for future engineers. Still, out of 43 of us "only" 7 ended up as engineers (2 of which got a PhD in engineering, though). Obviously, my friends from college and work later on make my view of how many people go into engineering extremely biased.
  7. My 5 year old daughter caught some stomach bug that's been going around and stayed at home this past week. When she heard that most of her kindergarten group caught the same and were missing kindergarten, she said: "Lucky that all my friends got sick so they don't have to spend the whole week without me in kindergarten."
  8. There's a "we may be subbing on teenagers in Cup final, but at least we're not bringing on Mudryk"* joke lying around here somewhere, let me know if you find it. *Now watch him score a winner after I said that.
  9. No argument there, but I'm quite sure the design didn't include Endo being caught offside and a goal being disallowed.
  10. What a stupid play from Endo. Absolutely no reason for him to be caught offside there.
  11. I stand corrected, Salah and Nunez are not in Liverpool's League Cup final squad. I guess they really have been injured for the Luton match.
  12. I think there's been a quadruple double a few seasons ago. Though, the fourth double was in turnovers if I'm not mistaken. For the life of me, I can't remember who it was to do it.
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