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Haven't thought about this website in a while! It's kind of weird and embarrassing that a good chunk of my teenage years were online. Might as well check-in though, I've read a decent amount of stuff since I was last here and my tastes have changed pretty dramatically lol.

I've been making my way through Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels this year and they're really quite good, I only have The Story of the Lost Child left to read and I'm looking forward to getting through it. I've found each one sort of compulsive, once I start I feel like I have to finish it without interruptions from other books. I also semi-recently read Sylvia Townsend Warner's Lolly Willowes which I thought was excellent, I'm going to start Mr Fortune's Maggot tonight or tomorrow because it was probably one of my favourite books in recent years really.

A project I assigned myself for the summer was to finally finish the complete works of Shakespeare. Been meaning to do it for a while, but I'd only got through 12 of the plays in total before. As of tonight, I've finished it all with the sole exception of Othello.

Ahhh, I've been wanting to read Shakespeare properly for ages now! I always enjoyed studying him in HS lol, loved reading his plays.

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x=0
for i in currentline:
    terrainarray[y][x++] = i
this wouldn't work in python, python doesn't support ++ to increment a variable.
x=0
for i in currentline:
    terrainarray[y][x] = i
    x +=1
would work but I don't think it would be any faster, could be wrong though, it also has the bigger issue of the fact that it's setting every terrainarray[y][X] to the same i, which is the final element of the currentline, I have a feeling that that may have been why it wasn't rendering properly but again I'm probably incorrect
tbh you might not even need the loop shouldn't
terrain[y] = list(currentline) work fine?

You get people like this who only lose votes for their side.

This was actually a bit upsetting to me, seeing people on reddit call 70% of the people I know (and tend to like) "fucking morons" was a little irritating.

I read The Great Gatsby fairly recently and really liked it. It deserves its status as a classic I reckon. I just finished A Clockwork Orange today, I don't think I really understood it haha.

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There are some cool scenes in the Three Kingdoms.  Its been a long time since I've read it so I'm probably misremembering bits, but one of the ones that stuck in my head was when Cao Cao was wandering off by himself one time and came up on a hunters hut.

The hunter of course invited Cao Cao into his home for dinner.  He had to go out and catch some meat first though.  Unfortunately the hunting didn't go well, so he came back and rather than say "Sorry, I don't have any meat" he chopped up his wife and fed it to Cao Cao.   

Cao Cao clued in that he was eating the guys wife, and didn't mention it.  In fact, he was so impressed by the mans generosity and politeness that once he arrived back in his kingdom he arranged to send the hunter a bunch of bags of rice as a reward.

It's actually Liu Bei that happens to. Cao Cao just murders a whole family on suspicion that they're planning on killing him. Apparently staying at a villagers house was a real bad idea in ancient China.

Having never read the book I find myself desperatley hoping that this cao cao is not the protagonist.

Nah, Cao Cao is written that way because he's supposed to be the complete opposite of the previously mentioned 'main protagonist,' Liu Bei. He gets a lot more writing dedicated to him then most characters, but he's clearly meant to be a foil to Liu Bei and not the one your supposed to sympathize with.

As for Cao Cao himself, well, this is what he says in the novel after killing the family I mentioned before.

You can definitely make an argument that Cao Cao's a better leader then Liu Bei, though. Cao Cao managed to take over some of the most vital parts of China in a very short period of time after all.

Damn, that video makes me wanna watch the whole movie.

People were talking about the bloody Secret and I feel like I have a duty to point out that the Chaser's War on Everything did a segment on it.

Can back that up, TIGSource is a pretty cool place. Nice people for the most part.