I have read many classic books. In Les Mis, I just stumbled upon what is easily the most powerful chapter I have ever read.

I have read many classic books. In Les Mis, I just stumbled upon what is easily the most powerful chapter I have ever read.

The prose is so beautiful, but also the content of the chapter is so heartbreaking and heavy that it made me cry. And I'm a man from a middle class family who does not have to go through any of the struggles Fantine did. But it hit me like a truck. Never have I ever read a chapter that is so beautiful yet so tragic. Some of Dostoevsky's writings come close, but this just won the trophy from me. And from where I'm now at in the book it just got a little better for her but my point remains. And the imagery about "a saturated sponge" just goes to show how incredible of a writer Hugo truly was. What a book.

u/Open-Insurance-234 — 5 days ago

Having my first college-homework coffee shop experience and none of the laptop people are doing ANYTHING.

I was always under the impression that the laptop people in coffee shops were authors, programmers, business people, students, etc working hard. Turns out the people here with a macbook or a book or something are all just scrolling social media on their phones, scrolling social media on their computers, or playing wordle. Not one person who clearly came here to work is doing any work lol

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u/Open-Insurance-234 — 12 days ago

[fully lost] Relatives were on an Oprah episode in either 1988 or 1989 about something like "parents harming their children" (their words).

I know most of these old episodes are just locked away somewhere and not really possible to find online, but as the family computer guy, I told my family I would try. My cousin's grandparents (on her other side of the family) were on an episode in 1988 or 1989. From my research it's almost certainly season 3 or 4. They were on because they had accidentally caused the death of one of their children in a tragic accident. They're now trying to locate it but nobody appears to have a tape or anything.

I've tried hard to look for some kind of "episode list" just so I can find the exact date they were there and track down the video but there doesn't seem to be any complete list, which was to be expected. I know this is a long shot and it may just be gone, but does anyone know any resources that might make any progress at all in my search? Any help is greatly appreciated.

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u/Open-Insurance-234 — 17 days ago
▲ 441 r/FCCincinnati+2 crossposts

FC Cincinnati is currently averaging 5.0 total goals per match in MLS play this season (2.5 for, 2.5 against), the highest of any club in the world's top 15 most-watched leagues

u/FishOnAHorse — 28 days ago
▲ 89 r/tolstoy

I just finished W&P for the first time.

Wow. That's all I have to say. What an incredible novel (if I can even call it that; it feels like a derogatory term to this book) with realistic characters that make you feel like it's a real world with people you like or dislike and amazing plot twists. I don't know if I will ever enjoy a book more. But I haven't ever read Dostoevsky and after reading a few Tolstoy books that I loved I'm going there next.

And to be honest, this book should probably be called "Peace and War and Peace and War and Peace and War and Peace and Absolute Destruction with Lots of Death and Peace Again and Then Some Essays on the Philosophy of History".

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u/Open-Insurance-234 — 1 month ago

My Uncle loves 3D modeling and 3D printing, and he designed and made us some of these Gary rubber ducks!!!

🦁🟧🟦

u/Open-Insurance-234 — 2 months ago

This happened to anyone else before?

I got this random event (I've played a ton and have never seen it) where it kept saying go to sleep all over my screen in little flashes. I was trying to decide what item to use because it let me use several, but I guess I took too long and "choose an item" or whatever it says at the top went away and I couldn't use any items for like 5 seconds. Then I got jumpscared by this creepy ghost woman that looked like the girl from The Ring. And it instantly killed me when I was at full health. Guess I'll know to be fast next time I see that. It was such a good run too, I had like 17 food left and 5 bait and all the items I wanted and my stats were in perfect shape...

Edit: For those who haven't seen it, it seems the right choice is just to speedily go back to sleep in less than like 5ish seconds.

u/Open-Insurance-234 — 2 months ago

Laurel is the best character and the row glazers need to be put in their place before they take over the sub

Laurel's random events are the most useful by far. Not sure if other people do this but Fred and Row have never done anything close to it for me. Laurel has randomly given me items, healed me to max health out of nowhere when I was 1 hit, given me random food she had that put my stomach to max when I was about to starve, made bait for me, fixed broken items, stayed up at night so I get a guaranteed peaceful night, etc. All just from keeping her happy. She has the most aura and I will stand my ground. The other 2 will just give you a free item at the start or very occasionally give 1 food somehow. And yes, Row is part of the debt ending but we are talking about survival world record runs here. Laurel is just the goat.

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u/Open-Insurance-234 — 3 months ago