#JF Brink

[lenalee-academy]

“…I don’t have any answers or solutions. I only know one thing. I’m not satisfied. A few years with you isn’t enough. I want more: centuries, millennia. I’ll do anything in my power to make that happen.”

Ummmm EXCUSE me?!?! Who taught Zachary Atwood Piker to finesse like this?! You can’t just go around telling women beautiful things like this sir! I couldn’t breathe when I first heard those lines because I started screaming “wait WHAT DID HE JUST SAY?!” at the top of my lungs over and over because WHAT?! Zach?! Zachary Atwood? Zach Piker? Mr. I have the worst luck with women? Mr. I can’t even see past the spatial ring on your neck. Mr. Pretends I don’t know women are fawning over me because I have goals…. That Zach?!

I’m sorry I was just not ready for such swoon worthy dedications like wow Zach! Really putting on the Mac there buddy! Not that I don’t like Catheya, how could you not like Catheya?! Ya boy was so hard to get and girl was tripping over her feet and nearly dying trying to get him to show any interest. So I’m super happy for her!….

However… I’m not going to lie I was rooting a bit for Iz Tayn. I mean come on?! Who doesn’t want to see a completely oblivious power house realize what love is and that she’s in it… with Zach. Like that would have been so interesting to read. Especially Zach’s response cause she’s so intense 😂

But realistically speaking I guess it’d be a little odd to get with your stalker, whose favorite pastime is literally watching your life play out, like it’s a honest to goodness tv show. Iz has to find someone else to realize that with now or I’m going to be upset. I need to see when this realization happens! I’ve already halfway switched them in my mind to a bff situation and can picture her going to Zach like “what is happening?! Is this what happened to you and Catheya during season 12?!” 😂 🤣 🤣

[litrpgburrito]

The best LITRPG series on Audible 2024

The Ultimate LitRPG Series You Can’t Miss on Audible

Are you ready to embark on an adventure that merges the thrill of gaming with the joy of reading? Look no further than the Literary Role Playing Game (LitRPG) genre, where every listen is a level-up for your imagination. Today, we’re diving into the best-tested LitRPG series available on Audible that have captivated listeners with their immersive worlds, intricate game mechanics, and compelling narratives.

He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon, aka Travis Deverell Begin your LitRPG journey with the story of Jason, who finds himself whisked away from his mundane life to a realm where interdimensional travel and adventure are the new normal. Narrated by Heath Miller, this series is a perfect entry point for newcomers to the genreAd1.

The Primal Hunter by TheFirstDefier, aka JF Brink Follow Jake’s transformation from an everyday guy to a formidable apex hunter in a post-apocalyptic world where leveling up is a matter of survival. With each installment, the stakes get higher, and the action more intenseAd1.

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman Narrated by Jeff Hays, this series takes you on a reality show-style dungeon crawl that’s as perilous as it is peculiar. Carl, along with his sassy sentient cat, will keep you hooked with his wit and tenacity2.

Shadeslinger (The Ripple System, Book 1) by Kyle Kirrin For those seeking a LitRPG experience that pushes boundaries, The Ripple System series is a must-listen. It combines traditional RPG elements with a futuristic virtual reality gaming setting, creating a narrative that’s rich with character development and game-world intricacies2.

Defiance of the Fall by TheFirstDefier, aka JF Brink Immerse yourself in a meticulously crafted post-apocalyptic Earth where humans must adapt and level up to survive. The detailed game mechanics and Pavi Proczko’s immersive narration will make you feel like you’re right alongside the protagonist, Zac, in his battles against monsters2.

These series are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to LitRPG on Audible. With new titles being released regularly, there’s always a fresh quest waiting for you. So plug in your headphones, hit play, and let these audiobooks transport you to worlds where your next level-up is just around the corner.

Happy listening, and may your mana never run low!

[strinak]

*rolls up 3 months late*

236 books read in 2023, which is, like, fine? there's a couple big time gaps where I don't remember what I was reading but it wasn't books

biggest fixation was the Defiance of the Fall series, a litrpg/cultivation system thing that's not even great but the author, JF Brink, is a fucking IMMACULATE serial writer. always juuust enough of a hook to make you need that next update. I read 10 books in a row, then all the stuff on RR, AND then subbed his patreon for the 50 advance chapters! it was so many fucking words.

JM Clarke (also an RR author) got me finally, after I avoided forever, because oh this guy has a chosen-by-god mark that makes him not able to fight or do magic and he runs away to be a wizard with his hot childhood friend and his cute little sister? it sounded like some terrible light-novel-inspired nonsense but it was great. lot of magic academy stuff, lot of nitty gritty spellwork. whole chosen hero arc running back home that the protag wants as far from as possible but eventually intersects with in an off-kilter way. turns out god may be evil, nbd.

found Grae Bryan, loved the Hannibal expy the most lol

Amy Sumida, I liked one book, tried a second and bounced HARD off some nonsense

had a whole het mafia romance phase towards the end of the year. Cate C Wells's Run Posy Run is the only one I see myself re-reading.

Jesse H Reign had the bones of a good book but writes some of the worst purple prose sex I've ever read and so goes on the DNR list forever

full list below the cut

[garudabluffs]

In an upstairs room in Blackpool By the side of a northern sea The army had my father And my mother was having me Military Madness was killing my country Solitary Sadness comes over me After the school was over and I moved To the other side I found a different country but I never Lost my pride Military Madness was killing the country Solitary sadness creeps over me And after the wars are over And the body count is finally filed I hope that The Man discovers What's driving the people wild Military madness is killing your country So much sadness, between you and me War, War, War, War, War, War

the military monoculture*

an invasive species on the brink of extinction manufacturing weapons stockpiling ammunition; if the price of war costs us to lose our minds - rational bipeds? or intelligent design? doesn't matter how it starts or how it ends, let the fun begin! *LIFE! LIBERTY! DEATH to those whose UNIFORMS equip the Best-Dressed for valorous conquest!!

(poem by~jf 10/09/2023)

“WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.” ― Smedley Butler, War is a Racket

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The Moral Equivalent of War[1]

"Peace" in military mouths to-day is a synonym for "war expected.The word has become a pure provocative, and no government wishing peace sincerely should allow it ever to be printed in a newspaper. Every up-to-date dictionary should say that "peace" and "war" mean the same thing, now in posse, now in actu. It may even reasonably be said that the intensely sharp competitive preparation for war by the nations is the real war, Permanent, unceasing; and that the battles are only a sort of public verification of the mastery gained during the "peace" interval."

"The military party denies neither the bestiality nor the horror, nor the expense; it only says that these things tell but half the story. It only says that war is worth them; that, taking human nature as a whole, its wars are its best protection against its weaker and more cowardly self, and that mankind cannot afford to adopt a peace-economy."When the time of development is ripe the war must come, reason or no reason, for the justifications pleaded are invariably fictitious. War is, in short, a permanent human obligation."

READ MORE https://brocku.ca/MeadProject/James/James_1911_11.html

William James. "The Moral Equivalent of War". Lecture 11 in Memories and Studies. New York: Longman Green and Co (1911): 267-296.

Written for and first published by the Association for International Conciliation (Leaflet No. 27) and also published in McClure's Magazine, August, 1910, and The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1910.

VIDEO audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdDYievODOI

Something or Someone is Not Going to Save Us from Tyranny 10/09/2023

As much as it pains me to say it (my personal urge toward salvationism is as strong as anybody else’s), nobody is coming to save us...

When the Founders of this nation signed their own death warrants by publicly taking on the most powerful army and navy on Earth in 1776, they were no doubt worried. But they also saw it as a chance to create something wholly new.

As the author of the Declaration of Independence wrote in a June 5, 1824 letter to Major John Cartwright:

“Our Revolution commenced on more favorable ground [than the foundation of English or Biblical law]. It presented us an album on which we were free to write what we pleased. We had no occasion to search into musty records, to hunt up royal parchments, or to investigate the laws and institutions of a semi-barbarous ancestry. We appealed to those of nature, and found them engraved on our hearts.”

Similarly, an optimistic Thomas Paine wrote:

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. … We have it in our power to begin the world over again. The birth-day of a new world is at hand.”

READ MORE https://hartmannreport.com/p/something-or-someone-is-not-going-8d9

War is Not an Option: War is Death

"War is wholesale murder." Charlie Chaplin was not the first to point it out. He was not the last one either.

But the point is: War is no ’cause’! War has a cause, not to say multiple causes. But they are never heroic, wonderful or sublime – whatever anyone tells you.

They are driven by interests, of lobbies, of industries, of companies, all those that will make money by selling things for those wars: The weapons The ‘units and kits’ The cars and vehicles The ships The phones and radio transmission devices The food and shelter

All this makes a lot of selling to do. A lot of money, for those who provide the goods. The jobs…

Anything you want to sell needs marketing. That’s equally true of war: They will sell it by making it the only possible way out of a ‘fix’…presenting no alternatives anymore. But that’s propaganda.

War is not a heavenly or sublime cause! Never was, never will be. War is about money. First and last.

READ MORE https://www.barzgaran.at/2023/05/26/war-is-not-an-option-war-is-death/

"Wars, conflicts - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions a hero. Numbers sanctify." Charlie Chaplin as Verdoux said that 61 years ago.

READ MORE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039631/reviews

COMMENTS "Charles Chaplin's dark vision, "Monsieur Verdoux", was released in 1947, just before the anti-Communist cries against him were to drive him out of America."

"The end of the film is set in 1937 but it's certainly the Chaplin of 1947 who tells us: "As for being a mass killer, does not the world encourage it? Is it not building weapons of destruction for the sole purpose of mass killing? Has it not blown unsuspecting women and little children to pieces? And done it very scientifically? As a mass killer, I am an amateur by comparison."

"A whole lot of people were shocked when Monsieur Verdoux came out and instead of the Tramp we got a Bluebeard murderer. Black comedy was not a genre popular in the USA at that time and a lot of people hated this film. None more so than Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper who as a good conservative Republican cheered on the coming blacklist and beat the drums for Chaplin's deportation. No accident that Chaplin was hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee at the time Monsieur Verdoux came out."

+ "Given this rather wholesale indictment of many of the West's leading institutions, small wonder he left the country shortly after under a cloud of controversy."

READ MORE https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039631/reviews

[windypenguin]

Cool dice!!!

Lol you guys agree XD

Another thing I'm hyperfixating on is a book series called Defiance of the Fall by JF Brink. I just am a huge sucker for litRPG as a genre and I'm on one of my big reading kicks again

[jafreitag]

31 Days of Dead 2020 | Day #15: “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” – Boulder, CO 9/3/72 // “Corrina” – Chicago, IL 7/9/95 // “Drums > Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain” – Portland, OR 6/12/80 // “Space” – Hartford, CT 4/18/82

December 15 • A Global Pandemic & Unprecedented Natural Disasters

Rockin’ Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu (9.3.72 – Folsom Field, U. of Colorado • Boulder, CO)

Corrina – 7/9/95 – Soldier Field • Chicago, IL

Drums > Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain – 6/12/80 – Memorial Coliseum • Portland, OR

Phil’s Earthquake Space – 4/18/82 – Hartford Civic Center • Hartford, CT

In just a few months, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) evolved from an isolated disease in a region of China to a global pandemic that has brought countries to a standstill, pushed hospital systems to the brink, and dragged the global economy into a recession. We have two COVID tracks today. The first is a cover of “Rockin’ Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu,” a song the band performed only 5 times ever, making it as rare as a pandemic. 

And then for better or worse, “Corrina” is about as close as the Dead catalog comes to Coronavirus. It’s not a favorite of mine and I’m pretty sure that is true for most people. In the 10 years I have been doing these projects I have never featured “Corrina,” but if there ever was a year to do it then I’m quite certain that 2020 is it. And, I figured that if I’m going to include it then I’d damn well better pick a good version. This one delivers the goods. Come for the angst-filled growls from Weir, stay for the soulful howls from Jerry. If you are moved by Jerry’s vocals on the version of “So Many Roads” from this show then you are in for a treat. Don’t @ me.

Ready or not, ready or not…Corrina!

In addition to a global pandemic, the new decade also brought with it a record number of devastating natural disasters. Massive wildfires ravaged Australia and the Western U.S. and a tropical cyclone boom caused the most active hurricane season ever. These natural disasters have surpassed—and in some cases, shattered—previous records.

Natural disasters are not new to Grateful Dead music. Forty years ago, the band famously performed a version of “Fire on the Mountain” for the ages at approximately the same time that Mount St. Helens volcano erupted not too far away. This was a follow-up eruption to the first cataclysmic eruption that occurred the previous month. Fans that were in attendance reported that there was so much volcanic ash in the air that it looked like snow falling. In keeping with the weirdness of my playlist, this set OPENS with “Drums > Scarlet > Fire” which happened about as often as volcanoes erupt. I tossed in “Phil’s Earthquake Space” from April 18, 1982 just for fun, because who doesn’t love Phil the mad scientist? 

There’s a dragon with matches that’s loose on the town

Takes a whole pail of water just to cool him down

Fire! Fire on the Mountain

[Hey. It’s JF. These posts are all ECM, so that’s why I’m in square brackets. Just wanted to send a treat to our new friend, The Alaskapastor, who has chimed in below the line a couple of times. May inspiration move you brightly this holiday season. And if you win the lottery, let’s chat.]

#rockinpneumoniaandtheboogiewoogieflu #corrina #07091995 #scarletbegonias #fireonthemountain #06121980 #philsearthquakespace #04181982 #gratefuldead #roberthunter #jerrygarcia #bobweir #phillesh #billkreutzmann #mickeyhart #pigpen #tomconstanten #keithgodchaux #donnagodchaux #brentmydland #brucehornsby #vincewelnick #31daysofdead #linernotesmusicblog #helpontheway #miracletheworld

MediaFire Link: 

Rockin’ Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu: http://www.mediafire.com/file/g2oa53unewfry7r/26_Rockin%2527_Pneumonia_%2526_The_Boogie_Woogie_Flu_%25289.3.72_-_Folsom_Field%252C_U._of_Colorado_%25E2%2580%25A2_Boulder%252C_CO%2529.mp3/file

Corrina: http://www.mediafire.com/file/0olt53vm7recw4e/27_Corrina_%25287.9.95_-_Soldier_Field_%25E2%2580%25A2_Chicago%252C_IL%2529.mp3/file

Drums > Scarlet > Fire: http://www.mediafire.com/file/j0x0d0nc8np3ack/28_Drums_Scarlet_Begonias_Fire_on_the_Mountain_%25286.12.80_-_Memorial_Coliseum_%25E2%2580%25A2_Portland%252C_OR%2529.mp3/file

Phil’s Earthquake Space: http://www.mediafire.com/file/430eraangs3x2kf/29_Phil%2527s_Earthquake_Space_%25284.18.82_-_Civic_Center_%25E2%2580%25A2_Hartford%252C_CT%2529.mp3/file

Re-Listen:  

Rockin’ Pneumonia: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1972/09/03/rockin-pneumonia-the-boogie-woogie-flu?source=89567

Corrina: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1995/07/09/corrina?source=100064

Drums: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1980/06/12/13-drumsflac?source=224362

Scarlet: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1980/06/12/14-scarlet-begoniasflac?source=224362

Fire: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1980/06/12/15-fire-on-the-mountainflac?source=224362

Phil’s Earthquake Space: https://relisten.net/grateful-dead/1982/04/18/phils-earthquake-space?source=93255

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[korrektheiten]

Kritik von CDU und FDPGreta Thunberg und Vermummte: Datenschutzbeauftragter wehrt sich

JF: Der baden-württembergische Datenschutzbeauftragte Stefan Brink hat sich gegen Kritik für seine Äußerungen über vermummte Braunkohlegegner verteidigt. „Die Frage ist nicht, ob wir uns vermummen“, sagte Brink. Hintergrund sind Brinks Aussagen über Vermummte beim Besuch der Klimaschützerin Greta Thunberg im Hambacher Forst. http://dlvr.it/RBC5Fd

[fireball8931]

"A century after the events of The Life Engineered, Capek civilization is once more brought to the brink... Arch-Android is a science-fiction book by JF Dubeau. Follow Arch-Android on Inkshares. " -- My Comments :