Hello, I am on the hunt for a book or three with a protagonist who is a warlock or dark magic user, it can be a traditional fantasy, litrpg, etc, it doesn't really matter. This doesn't have to be a redemption arc, preferably not as I am not a fan of the reluctant hero stereotype. I am trying to scratch an itch and I haven't found anything that really fits. Thank you very much!

Does anyone have any good recommendations of books or resources for step-parents of an autistic child (as in getting the hang of parenting your autistic step-child)
My boyfriend is a great dad but doesn’t have any frame of reference for an autistic child (which I have) and how you have to parent a bit differently.

In the book there are 3 sisters, that if I'm not mistaken with their screwed up life, here comes a man to tell them that they are heiresses or something like that, he takes them to this place for them to learn to control magic, there they use some kind of magic, one of the things I know is that there is a guy with dragon power, in this case his family has that power, and the 3 sisters have all 4 elemental magic, and then they are separated for each one to go for those families or guilds. This book could be a dark romance, there are 8 books with around 1000 pages, and the last book has not yet been translated into Brazilian Portuguese. If anyone knows or has an idea what book it is, I'd appreciate it!

It's that time of week again! I'm looking for active players to join my realm. Every week I post there are more improvements and farms to make life easier for us. I've got a villager trading hall with all the gear and books you could need at great prices so it's easy to get you set up with everything to help us build and explore.
I am looking for people to join a community. We share our resources and are connected within the city. This isn't an economy based server or anything. I just like to build with others and I want other people to be able to enjoy all the hard work I put into the machines and farms I build.
If you like learning and exploring, this server is for you. We have people from all skill levels and we're always teaching and explaining things along the way. Don't be shy if you're new to the game!
Please have a discord and mic. We are all on different platforms so this is the easiest way for us to get together and communicate. Dm me for details.

Hello everyone. I noticed a problem with my CPU voltages. It turns out that during idle voltage is about 1.37v reading from ryzen master and under maximum load it drops to 1.25v. Is this behavior normal?
I recorded a short video of the curve optimizer calibration in ryzen master. Notice how the temperature rises (and cpu load with it) and how the voltage changes. LINK:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uXrvMjAN32Fi_ftUSTN1nYAJrEKO4wj6/view?usp=sharing
It seems to me that something is wrong.
Previously, processor was getting 1.37v all the time, but now voltage under load dropped after installing the latest bios and agesa 1.0.0.7a Only changes in bios I made: -sata raid mode -ram set to 6000mhz 1.35v (after update to latest bios is 4800mhz) Every other settings is stock.
Motherboard: asus rog x670e-f

Hi!
My (F26) sibling (F32) wants to meet after 3 years of NC. Last time we 'spoke' she spent 3 hours berating me for taking time and space for my mental health (as a frontline EMS worker at the beginning of COVID - while I was living and working in the local epicenter).
They have a long history of berating, belittling, breaking trust, pushing boundaries, and accepting credit for my (step)mom's work of raising me. Our parents have even tried broaching this subject with them, but it fell on deaf ears.
Now she wants to meet to have a "very long, hard, honest" conversation that l'm "not allowed to walk away from". I agreed for the sake of our parents and siblings. She gave me all of 2 times to talk (while she's here on vacation and I'm school, working 3 jobs, and taking care of my own household). I agreed to one but it'll have to wait till I get out of work that night (I never know my release time till l'm out the door). I offered to book a therapist to mediate, she refuses. She wants to meet somewhere private or vacant. refuse. I want someone else there, preferably someone willing to step in if she goes for my throat verbally.
Where would you meet someone like this and who would you have hiding in plain site to step in?

I remember reading somewhere that players can buy anything of a certain price or lower without needing to worry about Night Markets, but anything above a certain price, you either need a fixer or to get lucky with a Night Market.
I can't find this rule anywhere in the book, though; am I misremembering? If anyone can tell me a page number I'd appreciate it.

I have hours of high-res GoPro footage (roughly 1GB per minute) I want to store in the cloud (I’m uploading to GoPro cloud as well, but they throttle uploads and it takes forever), pull down individually and edit/process, then save to an external drive or two and eventually send back up to one of these two clouds. Basically I want them off my pathetic 2020 Intel MacBook Air with 256GB storage.
I spoke to a senior tech at Apple yesterday who explained how to import the files to Photos. He said they would appear "in time" in the cloud, but it’s been 30 hours, with multiple syncs, and not one of these files (including some as small as 2GB) have made their way to iCloud.
Do I just wait longer and they’ll start appearing in iCloud? I’ve hit a brick wall now because I’ve got about 5GB free. And even if they appeared in iCloud overnight how do I keep them there and off my Mac?
I just fundamentally don’t understand.
I’m reminded of the song “From Both Sides Now”. Am I looking at iCloud as a storage/synchronisation tool when in fact it’s just a synchronisation tool? Could it be that simple?
And why are a third of my apps on my iPhone being bumped up to the cloud when I have 90GB free space?
Please help. I’m at the end of my rope.

Hi! 29M from Canada here. I'd love to find people who would like to voice chat and be friends. I just moved to a new city recently and I would love to have someone new to talk to on a regular basis. I'm a bit bored alone in my apartment and I have a lot of free time when I'm not working. I'm down to be friends and vc with anyone since I'm only looking for friendships :)
We can talk about pretty much anything. I have a wide range of interests and hobbies like books, horror movies, paranormal stuff, music, podcasts, sports, video games, YouTube, history, playing with my cats, working out at the gym, traveling and outdoor activities like hiking, biking, and camping.
We don't need to have the same interests! I will be so happy to learn more about your hobbies while we talk. So, just PM or send me a chat if you would like to voice chat.

I already have a book list I'm Notion but I thought of having another template for the books previously read.
I'm thinking of like a calendar-like template where I can put the cover the book on the day I finished that particular book.
Can anyone suggest a good template for my book read history?

Chapter 18

Another tightly interwoven chapter this time around, with Erikson's pacing and plate-juggling kicking into overdrive. I'll slightly disentangle them for summary/observation pacing and coherency, but as always, the effect is wonderful in narrative prose form. We finally get a reunion between the Captain and the Bridgeburners, some major revelations regarding the background machinations of the former 2nd, and the Tyrant is awakened. Additionally, this chapter had a few loose ends (hopefully) click for me, as well as provide several "file for later" moments. So without further ado...

Epigraph

Another excerpt of The Conspiracy and continues the tradition of excerpts of ostensibly the same work sharing nothing of their formatting in common. It also continues the tradition of Blind Gallan ruining my life by being by far the most cryptic author quoted. There is a reference to an "eight-limbed Paralt-" so whom or whatever that is is likely the same as the spider mentioned in the previous Conspiracy Epigraph. It also helps that they're/it's explicitly referred to as a spider, lol. But to my recollection I have no knowledge of who or what a Paralt is, but am on high alert for the term moving forward. Most interesting is that it "dives home Power's//gentle balance" The capitalization of Power seems significant, but again IDK what to make of it.

The Chapter Itself -

- begins with Sergeant Whiskeyjack on edge, awaiting the upcoming fights, increasingly aware of the mounting complications and still wrestling with his forced ambivalence. The other Bridgeburners are preparing as well, Fiddler and Hedge inspecting and tweaking an arbalest, Quick Ben attempting and failing to scry (the presumably dead) Sorry, and Kalam doing everything in his power to accelerate the healing process. The ex-Claw is preparing for one last ditch effort to draw out and contact the cities assassins, but it's a long shot. To do so, he will enter the same Inn as before. If this doesn't pan out, they'll default back to plan A with the intersections. Given the situation, Whiskeyjack is as desperately callous as ever, and Fiddler calls him out on this. While encouraged, WJ does not regain his optimism on a dime. He sees Kalam out, and orders the others to get back to work; not without some good humor.
Coll, meanwhile, is getting worse by the second, his leg swelling and seeping blood. Considering what we learn later regarding the severity of his injury, it's a wonder Coll manages to endure as long as he did. The former lord and Captain received some small measure of help, but far, far less than Coll needs. As they approach Worry Gate Coll informs Paran of the need to reach the Phoenix Inn. When they reach the gate itself, Coll has gone comatose, and Paran rejects their offer of a surgeon, trusting Coll's request. One of the guards recognizes Coll, despite the city's records insisting he's dead, and is thus able to order a cart for the dying man. We don't get any indication of who this guard is, other than the fact that he's one of Coll's former guards.* Getting Coll onto the cart, he notices a flash of movement along a distant, square platform. In a moment, the movement subsides, and Paran moves on. They quickly rush to the Inn, getting observed by Irilta on the way in. Paran then sends for a medic and sits down to eat. Upstairs, Meese, guarding a sleeping Crokus and Apsalar, is informed of the development. Irilta notes Paran's good looks and abnormally good Daru, but can't make much sense of the man. The two converse about things getting tense, even for the Eel, and oddly, complain about catching glimpses of individuals within their periphery. I'll get back to that note in a moment.
* I'd entertained the idea that this was Circle Breaker, helping even after his duties were technically done. The gate is incredibly close to Despot's Barbican, per the map of Darujhistan, so it's not inconceivable that the gate is one of the last stations along his rounds. Additionally, if Kruppe is the Eel, it would fit that he'd recruit from Coll's staff. So while we, again, get no indication either way, I'd like to think so. The biggest point against this, however, is CB's history as a privateer, so there's likely a narrow window wherein that'd even be possible.
The flash of movement Paran observed was the clash between Rallick Nom and Ocelot. Rallick had climbed up the back (or depending how you look at it, the front) way, draining most of his strength to even approach the Clan leader. This drain winds up being a critical weakness in the upcoming fight. The sorcery of Ocelot and the exhaustion of RN manage to open a window for the Clan leader to retaliate. Fortunately, the powder Baruk gave still works, and the conjured bolt dissipates on contact. The two knife fight, quickly adapting to one another's counter strategies, and each receiving fatal wounds. Even with all of his magics, and RN's weakened state, Ocelot losses, or perhaps the fight ends in a draw with him succumbing first. As RN fades out, the blood spilled in the temple once again invigorates K'Rul. Between the Elder god's attention and the now proven potency of the "changes you" powder, there is some hope for RN's survival, but it is unlikely to be pretty.
Speculation Time: Could it be possible that the battle K'Rul is preparing for is against the Jaghut Tyrant? Is Oppon steering the nearly-impotent elder god towards the Tyrant? While that sounds like a fantasticaly dumb idea, if Rake, the Cabal, and K'Rul were to come out swinging, none of the three parties could come out seriously weakened, rendering Laseen's three-birds-one-stone strategy worthless. Or worse yet, the Tyrant subsumes K'Rul, someone he remembers as immensely powerful, but is suck with a weak thrall and one with cultivated weaknesses and exploits. One produced as a "back door" of sorts to get at the monster. I'll admit, this is likely my least grounded guess yet, mostly because it's pure motive speculation, but at the very least, I feel good guessing K'Rul is on a collision course with the Tyrant.
Meanwhile, Serrat got jumped, preventing her interfering with the Coin Bearrer's escape. We don't learn who did so, only that it was unlikely to be a god and especially unlikely to be Oppon. I'll just shelve this for now, but find it interesting that, in the chapter, it's revealed immediately after blood is spilt within the temple.
Paran sits eating and drinking in the Phoenix Inn, contemplating his options. He suspects his luck has turned, as foretold by Anomander Rake, but is unsure of what to do with that information. He notices a chance spill of beer dripping into a crack in the counter, and wedges Chance within it, resolving to destroy the blade. He fears that despite being freed from Oppon, Chance is a sufficent conduit to the Twins that they're continuing to shape him, destroying and alienating those he loves. Live a life the gods don't notice. Just as he reaches for the sword, Kalam enters the room. He catches a glimpse of of the Captain, and intercedes before the blade can be destroyed. He somehow managed to peice together what it was Paran intended to do, speaking to his experience. I'm not quite certain how he managed it, but I can speculate. One such clue was a series of sensations being observed, "four times in quick succession." Either it was repeated glances from Oppon, or four individuals. If I had to guess, its the Twins, along with Meese and Iralta, still watching the street from the attic. How he picked up on two of them being gods, (or one composite god?) I still don't know.
Paran, once he recognizes the corporal, demands he fetch Mallet. He then moves upstairs, with the surgeon the Inn retrieved being unable to save Coll. For whatever reason, I found the interaction between the surgeon and the Captain particularly affective. "Why, nothing, sir. I failed." Says so much in so little time, particularly when we find out how poor of a physician he is. In a story with dozens of hypercompetent characters, seeing someone profess their mediocrity stands way out. Ganoes then rests by Colls bed, practically willing the man to hang on for a few more minutes.
Eventually, Whiskeyjack, Kalam, and Mallet barge in. Coll is so far gone even the healler breifly mistakes him for a corpse, then shoos them into a distant corner. They debrief each other on their goings on, and asses how dire things are. After getting Paran's version of events, Whiskeyjack uses a K'chain Che'Malle relic to page High Fist Dujek Onearm. Dujek provides an update for the Bridgeburners (and the audience) regarding the goings on in Pale. Tayscheren is practically self destructing trying to catch up with the plot, Hairlock apparently killed someone in Nathilog (for reasons or lack thereof I cannot even begin to speculate) and Laseen is growing more intense in her attempts to undermine Dujek. He'll likely be moved to Seven Cities to put down the brewing rebellion mentioned earlier. It's to late, however, as the situation on Genebakis has deteriorated so far that anything could set off what little remains of the 2nd, likely the disbanding of the Bridgeburners. Whiskeyjack vouches for Paran, and we get some updates on Toc and another hint that Dujek and his father were close. It seems to be accepted that he died from Hairlock's attack. I'll hold my reservations for meta reasons, but I really don't have any method or explanation to anticipate his survival.
It is accepted that no one present could accept the continued authority of Laseen, and while Dujek hints at some potential openings, things aren't looking good for defection either. The Crimson Guard continue to make headway, the formerly free cities are on the verge of revolt, and something is eroding the Moranth alliance. What's worse, the Pannion Seer* is some big looming threat, preparing to make moves of their own. The conversation ends, and while I didn't bring it up, it is noteworthy that GP chose not to mention Silverfox. Paran defers command of the BBs to WJ, experience superseding rank via necessity.
*Who's been mentioned maybe twice, if we don't count the map. Like I literally keep forgetting this guy exists.
Kalam asks Whiskeyjack what had changed the High Fist's mind on revolt, and WJ points out that it was obvious someone intends to torch the Genebakis campaign to do away with the remainder of the Old Guard. This doesn't quite jive with Laseen's current needs for certain members of the OG, so I'm curious as to who. WJ convinces Paran that Lorn needs to survive at the very least long enough to draw out the Jaghut Tyrant and waives away the Captain's concerns regarding their use of explosives in a gas powered city. (On a review, Paran doesn't even know that much, and I can see why the Sergeant would like to keep him in the dark) Paran leaves to retreive Chance once he learns Coll is safe, and refrains from updating the BBs regarding Sorry.
We end the chapter with a brief update in the Barrow. Tool explains to Lorn that she needs to find what's called a Finnest, efectivly a "self contained Warren" because that's a thing that makes sence. I'm growing increasingly sympathetic to the template model of Warrens. Any Warren built like Omose Phellack is Omtose Phellack. She finds it, in the form of an acorn, betraying once again the Jaghut's pacifism. Tool admits that they had to be goaded into warfare and self destruction. They quickly leave as the Tyrant stirs.
And there we go, one more chapter and we're likely in the climax proper. No where to go but further into the tightening mess, waiting eagerly to see how it all unfolds...

I get a lot of calls, everyone seems to call rather than online book/text/FB message/email as I've indicated on my page, most of the time when I am busy, and I often don't like calling people back unless they've left a message etc. Looking at using Goodcall or something similar. Any one have any success with this? More or less, I hate talking on the phone, and work multiple jobs, and just want to simplify the booking process. The bot can answer basic questions based on parameters you set, and they can either patch it thru to my personal phone (I have 2 but dont always have the 2nd one with me) or direct them to my calendar to look at my availability online.

At the end of the book, we have a women led society with inverted things like Male genital mutilation and Neil becoming Naomi to be take more serious. What else about this society do you think is inverted?
Are beauty and fashion standards still the same? Are beauty standards now harder on men? Would LGBTQ rights be more accepted or would it be the same as today? Are men expected to “stay with the children at home” while Women use electricity to defend the home?

I’m a longtime fan 2006-2008 was my introduction. Seen the boys last time in Sydney but doing 2 shows this Friday & Saturday. Weekend of my favorite bands and beers in some hipster breweries is the goal. Still not booked my hotel yet as undecided which part of city to stay. Downtown was a bit downtrodden last visit. 1 more day of work then a weekend of the national!

What sorts of things need to be booked in advance? I know we want to do a boat tour, maybe rent a boat, cooking class, Pompeii visit.
We already booked transfers as well as the ferry to Capri. I'd like to be able to go with the flow and not be too rigid with schedule as well as do the things we want to do. Also don't want to lose any potential bargaining power by booking ahead of time.
Any help/opinions is appreciated!

I unsubscribed from this subreddit after Book 2 was releasing because I'm afraid of spoilers. So I was wondering if there's been any recent updates on that?
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