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Google’s plan for one person is $20 a month. That bit includes texting and international calls and travel.
$10 a gig up to 6 gigs after which you don’t pay any more, so a bill never exceeds $80. It’s also activated and deactivated easily with no contracts.
If you don’t use much data it’s excellent. If you use moderate to large amounts it’s not amazing but relatively competitive with other plans.
Biggest drawback is it doesn’t work on every phone. iPhones notably take a little extra work for texts to work properly.
I’d be saving a lot more if I ever remembered to turn off location services.
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You can drive mine
It has no backup camera but the audio cable mostly works and the guy this well said the gear oil can be left to leak for another year
I've always heard that your tiny forgettable head was smart!
Usually I only use between 3-5 gb data, tho sometimes up to 7-8
So I’m happy with my plan and haven’t seen a compelling reason to change, now that I’ve found out the postpaid plans no longer offer phone subsidies
As a big head person, I feel your pain.
My wife has a small head, I have a large head. Both of us put the lie to that "one size fits all" shit.
Brookes family hasn’t responded which makes me glad I didn’t buy an older car relying on their mechanic help. I wonder if I said too many pro socialism things in front of them for them to like me.
That has nothing to do with my head being disproportionately small!
Also Ring Fit Adventure is pretty good.
i'm ruined
And now it's a thread about Pekora kicking ass in Rainbow Six.
...I also use that song during shooter games...
i knew something was up, her stream snipers would never allow that to happen
We also pay Comcast a bunch of money for our internet and cable packages at home. But our internet at home frankly kicks ass and I dont mind paying for it.
If I had to give up my cool car or fast internet...I'd choose internet every time.
Uh, you have the largest head and loudest voice of anyone I have ever met.
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it." -- Jack Kirby
You mean in terms of having a invented names and such? That seems kinda ubiquitous in sci-fi and fantasy most of the time.
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Your head is abnormally regular-sized. it's uncanny how usual it is in its volume.
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It's hard to invent a world or reality without using a bunch of proper nouns and made-up words.
But Tolkien was notably good at it because he was a linguist and a very strong writer, and because he would ground his made-up words with context. The aesthetics of his fictional language are so strong and consistent that it helps a lot, tbh.
I'd say that, even though I don't like Wheel of Time, that series did a pretty good job of it! Malazan books are notoriously bad for it, though.
Indirectly if anything. It's very, very much not a thing in The Hobbit and in LOTR there is surprisingly little of that for the first several hundred pages. The first exposition dumps don't really happen until Rivendell. The books ease into it.
I think it became a thing among the generation of authors who were trying to write their own LOTR and those who were reacting to it. Moorcock for example is way, way more into the fantasy proper names thing than Tolkien.
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Malazan is notoriously bad for a lot of things imo. And the start of GOTM is like notoriously bad in my experience, to the point that even the people who are really into Malazan won't defend it.
I think in fantasy most of the ones you will see held up as being good do a pretty good job on this front.
There is a very noticeable difference in the quality of the writing in Wheel of Time book 1 + most of book 2 vs the rest of the entire series. If you look at the dates of publication I think the author had many years of tinkering with that chunk of text and also, being an unknown at the time, underwent much more editing. After book 2 he was cranking them out pretty much every year and was successful enough so that he had the clout to not have editing forced upon him.
edit: even people who like the series usually put it around book 5 that things really start to drag or make a noticeable turn for the worse. But I think the falloff in writing (eg: the start of using repeated phrases, even entire paragraphs, as stock filler in the text. the "braid tugging" kind of writing) happened in the middle of book 2 but the plot kept along at a good clip and that sustained it for quite a bit longer. Also the bad writing ticks increased slowly. But book 5 was where suddenly nothing of interest was happening, the characters who were POV were dull and the writing ticks had achieved full swing. And that went on for hundreds of pages.
I only read the first couple books, and that was like 25 years ago now, but from what I recall that checks out.
Wolfe has a problem similar to Malazan in that his writing is extremely hard to parse and follow, but then dissimilar in that his stories don't seem very interesting
I mean maybe it's just so good it's hard to parse but I am super unconvinced