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Lodespawn

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If you cook in 5-10l of water you will dilute the starch and the pasta won’t stick. Also if you mix the sauce through the pasta post cooking and let it rest for 5-10 mins it will soak up the sauce

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You say fantasy, but while technically sci fi, I’d like to suggest the galactic milieu series by Julian May. It starts out sci fi and I guess constantly has sci fi elements but leans pretty heavily into bridging the gap to fantasy (elves, dwarves, shapeshifting monsters, magic etc)

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I know he said specifically no heavy politics, but Thomas covenant is pretty heavy and dark. The tale is good, it can be hard reading in parts though given the protagonist. If you like the exploration of the antihero, the gap series by Stephen Donaldson is pretty solid too.

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Is it safe to assume you’ve read the name of the wind and wise man’s fear? HURRY UP AND FINISH YOUR SERIES ROTHFUSS, please

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I don’t really agree with this pitch. Each of the two books tell a great story that could be argued to be complete in its individual telling. Yes there is an over arching story that ties their telling together and remains incomplete but that doesn’t matter given the the told tale in each is complete. I’ve read through each multiple times and will read them again regardless of whether or not the third is completed.

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Oh also the Demon Cycle series by Peter V Brett was a fun romp. I like the way the author built a pretty unique world with a lot of different aspects to it. He did a good job of switching the point of view across characters to challenge perspective.

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Bombing a building filled with civilians just because some arsehole who help do (or did) a terrible thing is hiding in there certainly sounds like collective punishment …

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“The other guy is doing it” isn’t a justification for committing war crimes. You are also considered a war criminal regardless.

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It’s really confusing that a soulless husk like Suella Braverman can actually get voted into parliament.

What kind of psychopath looks at this lady and says “yeah she’s got my best interests in mind and totally wouldn’t sell me as pig food if she could get away with it”?

Or is “would sell me as pig food” a selling point as an English politician? Like she can make the hard choice required by the office or something?

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I honestly would have thought that in a modern country like the UK, the number of people who get off on the thought of other people being sold as pig food would be less than the number of people who don’t …

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