In a wonderful turn of events: Captive’s War is narrated by the cery same narrator!

I’m currently listening to Livesuit by James SA Corey. It’s part of their new series that released this year called The Captives War. It’s a Novella/Interquel pretty typical of their release style.

It takes place in an incredibly unknowably distant future for humanity. We follow a squad of Livesuit infantry who have fused their bodies with technology to fight an unfathomable legion of alien conquerors. An enemy that has never lost a war then uses the best traits of conquered races to continue their war.

Why it’s so good is because the author(s) have an incredible way of describing people and the world they interact with. Images are vivd and believable. While being so alien, and futuristic Corey manages to write a world you can imagine yourself in.

Additionally, their novellas always take place in the same world, but are completely stand alone stories from the main series so the depth of world building is just… chef’s kiss

Both writers were originally working on writing RPGs and TTRPGs so their style just brings me back to sitting at a table with friends, some drinks and a Character Sheet for a hopeful lvl 3 wizard.

Ahhh I see. Thank you!

I’m OOTL. What Linux thing are you talking about?

I’m pretty sure votes like this require a certain percentage of the population to vote anyway. Like… the vote wouldn’t count if there was only 15% voter turnout.

ultimately, a majority of the country had a chance to vote and a majority decided (by a slim margin) that they wanted in.

The other issue as you stated was authenticity. Of course you’ll have natural dissenters. But a lot of evidence does indeed point to interference. Like people asking the poll watchers where to collect their money and becoming upset they won’t get payed for voting no.

Why would you like to see a supermajority in order to join an economic union?

I’ll just add that according to modern Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) the current definition of a military target may include schools, hospitals, religious sites and culturally relevent monuments should they be used by enemy forces.

Even in WW1 and WW2 when these rules were being written, if your enemy was hiding in a church, that was okay. But if they stored munitions or fired from the church, it and everyone in it would be considered valid military targets.

It was designed that way in order to stop soldiers from hiding in hospitals and schools saying “You can’t shoot us, there are women, children and the sick in here” while they used that amnesty to kill countless others.

Just a distinction a lot of people tend to miss when they talk about “The Geneva Convention.”

So because the show ends at an actual great point in the series. You know, like an actual break-off point the show is all bad?

I’m confused. It’s a great show. We’re all sad that it ended early but the point that it ends is perfect.

As a huge fan of the books before the show was made… Wot?

They had a pretty faithful adaptation of the show. Even character changes were acceptable. They even had the writers of the books writing and producing so like…

What was wrong with the shows again? They cancelled it at a perfect breaking point where the main characters would have aged 50 years? That’s what we don’t like?

Bro. Bro.

Belle province, all dressed steamies and an “Italian” Poutine. My god.

Sure as fuck ain’t Italian or a good meat sauce but as a combo that shit slaps.

Define authentic taste for me.