Absolutely this. The first half of his first book in any given series always feels like it’s going to lead to something amazing, then nothing. I feel like another writer could take his unique ideas and do something really cool with them, but I won’t ever read Sanderson again.

Sometimes I wonder if he managed to wrap up Wheel of Time satisfyingly for its fans.

It has an interesting idea for its world and magic, and then fleshes it out with the most infuriatingly boring set of characters. The main character is bland enough to allow a reader to self-insert to a degree (this is similar to the main character in Twilight — something that people critique it for.) Then some of the supporting characters border on harmful stereotypes. Plus, I guessed the “twist” in the first trilogy very early on.

Aesthetically I want to like it, but I found it awful. I only read it because it was the #1 rated fantasy book on Goodreads at the time, and since then I haven’t listened to aggregated internet reviews for anything.

Any time I see Mistborn on a list like this, I immediately become dubious about the person’s taste and discount the rest of the list.

https://voiceinput.futo.org/

I use it and it works very well.

Rnote is currently the best for handwritten notes in my opinion, but its organization is minimal. I have never found a 1:1 replacement for OneNote, but luckily I no longer need it desperately like I did a decade ago.

That doesn’t work for the workflow of sending articles to my Kindle with a bookmarklet.

I have a Kindle. It does not support EPUB. This does affect me. I used to use a bookmarklet to send articles to my Kindle, and this would make that unfeasible.

Some of us still use devices that only support .mobi

Sadly, it is. It didn’t get any updates for years at one point, too.

Someone has been defacing OpenStreetMap with stuff like this for months as well. It’s pretty sad.

Yes, the generic names make it a nightmare to search for things relating to them.

A subreddit about TEMU.

Someone missing context doesn’t make them a bot. To be a part of this particular bot network, all 4 points will be present.

Emoticons ≠ emojis.

This is 100% a bot that’s part of the former TEMU network. Every comment is weirdly cheerful, nonsensical, and multiple end in two emojis. Pregenerated Reddit username, too.

No clue.

Yeah. Here’s a few examples.

Exactly this. It functions largely on referral codes.

I’ve dealt with this particular bot problem as a mod. Noticing the pattern early on was easy because they always had posts on TEMU subreddits. Now that those subs are banned, it’s harder.

1. Comment length. Their comments are always less than two lines long.

2. Tone. They always contain at least one exclamation point, and tend to have a tone that I’d say is “cheery to the point it’s offputting.”

3. Context. Reading them, a lot of the time you’ll ask “did they even read what they’re replying to?” The comment seems related, but directly misses the main point.

4. History. Look at the rest of their comments. If more than one ends in two emojis, they’re definitely part of this particular bot network.

Basically every user that has comments that end with two emojis like this is a bot. Originally they existed to drive traffic to TEMU subs, but since Reddit banned those subs they’ve become harder to spot. I think the spammers just forgot to turn off their bot farm.