Does anyone know where I can read the first 6 pages?
Or could someone take some pictures of them and send them to me so I can start the physical copy?
I figured a scifi subreddit - someone has it on their shelf already!
Sphere by Crichton of course :)
Long story short:
> Buy Samsung TV
> Lost my ps5 in the divorce
> Sees I can play Elden Ring on my TV, with a compatible controller
> Get controller, link it
> Says I need a "boosteroid" account, this is some gaming app locked into the OS of the TV. I buy an account for 12 bucks.
> Says I need to buy Elden Ring on steam. 60 bucks.
> I do this.
> Says I need Steam account, I make it. I download the app.
> I have all the components at this point.
> Last step, log into Steam on boosteroid on the TV.
> I scan the QR code using the steam app on my phone.
> Steam asks if I am in Omaha Nebraska. I am not.
> Says someone is trying to log in from Omaha. Asks me if I am trying to log in, yes. It asks if the login attempt is me, I say yes. It asks if I am in Omaha. I say No. Then it blocks the log in, saying it's fraudulent.
> I try just typing in my email and password for steam in the steam log in window on the TV. Same scenario.
> Go through this process like 20 times.
> I do not have a VPN.
> Tried turning the location off on my phone, obviously did nothing.
> All I can think is that my ISP is somehow pinging my TV in Omaha? Doesn't seem to make sense.
> All I can think of is I changed my DNS # a few months ago to some parental control version to try to block some websites from my router, but I asked for and it says thats probably not it.
> I don't know my original DNS#, but working on that.
Besides that, what could it possibly be?
No I can't play Elden Ring on my laptop, I already almost beat the game. This is more for my kid, for having good behavior at school and he isn't responsible enough to use my laptop.
Help?
Can't find any customer support and I'm not very "tech savvy" beyond the most basic level.
- Signed, single mom who can't afford to lose 72$ and I don't want to disappoint my kid.
Edit: I also tried telling steam I am in Omaha Nebraska and it still rejected the log in attempt every time. Lol. Why is my TV in Omaha Nebraska? I am in Hawaii.
Looking for a birthday gift, he has asked for a book called Executioner's Song, by Norman Wailer.
So I'll buy that, but I thought I'd get him something more unusual too.
I'm the scifi reader between the two of us. He put me on to Faulkner and some other things.
I bought him Cage of Souls by Tchikovsky and The Forever War by Haldeman, two I thought might overlap with his interest, but he just really can't seem to get into scifi. Like at all. He didn't like them. He started both but couldn't get past 40 pages.
Which is fair, I definitely didn't enjoy a few things he's given to me but this man reads so much and I've never been able to give him a book he likes.
He really enjoys this other book called 2666 by Roberto Palano, he's read it a few times.
What do you think?
Based on what he enjoys, do you have any recommendations?
So far I'm thinking Left Hand of Darkness, as it's rich and textured, and I really enjoyed it.
But I know others might share a more similar literary taste with him, so I'd appreciate any offerings.
When I first started playing (at night by myself in real life) when it was nighttime in the game I was so spooked ...
Something scared me horribly in the first hour or two, after night fell in game.
I was so spooked that I ran to the nearest bonfire *every single time* it started getting dark and skipped until morning.
Besides places like Nokron, Dungeons etc where it's already "night" or dark, I literally played only in the day time.
When I was about 200 hours in, nighttime came on and I didn't run. I realized there were whole knight classes, and items, things I had never seen because they only happen to show up at night.
It was just funny.
I'm not hardcore or anything, I stopped playing at about 280 hours just before Melania.
This was years ago. Makes me chuckle because I imagine I might have been one of the few people on earth who played it as an absolute scardey cat.
In my defense, I stopped being spooked by every moving breathing thing about 80 hours into the game.
After a lot of yelling, cursing, jump scares, panics hahah. I just kept up with it out of habit. I was convinced it would be even scarier and I'd pee my pants.
I actually missed Patches entirely and some other minor stuff, and I wonder if that maybe has something to do with it? Because I was in every crevice of that map eventually and found out later I missed some things. I jacked up Ranni's questline so bad (I don't even know how) I had to back track like 20 hours of lollygagging. I only realized when I became confused I couldn't access a certain plateau in Liurnia no matter what I did, and realized there was a whole subterranean area I'd never been to. Lake of rot I think?
I was playing Princess basically collecting butterflies and crystals and mushrooms and talking to jars, crafting, playing with my mimic, generally goofing off, antagonizing a certain samurai, dragon tipping, getting chased by wolves and lobsters and trying to find cute outfits for longer than I care to admit. All in the day time, of course. I actually avoided Caelid for almost 80 hours because I thought it was too horrific.
If I'm the only one, it's okay.