brendan  

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A noobie at this privacy thing. Self-hoster, mechanical keyboard nerd, and general sports fan (mostly hockey).

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brendan  Jan 24, 2025
My 2024 music listening habits as summarized by last.fm. Dominated by one artist/abum: Precursor from Vancouver and their amazing punk album Thick & Thin.
brendan  Oct 6, 2024
Realized the other day there was no Super Friendly Fest this year, and that makes me sad. Year one of that festival was so freaking good, year 2 was alright but nowhere near as intimate as the first. Might have been due to Punk in Drublic. #yeg #seachange
Show threadbrendan  Sep 25, 2024
Anyone out there with experience running iRacing in a #proxmox VM?
brendan  Sep 25, 2024
Adventures in cloud gaming, an on-going series.
Planning to convert my current Windows gaming rig into a #proxmox host with a Windows gaming VM using my 3070Ti primarily for iRacing, and then a #linux gaming VM (using #Bazzite) with my #AMD Radeon Vega 64 FE for cloud gaming to my Logitech G Cloud.
Ordered additional RAM for the system, ssds for the boot drive, larger M.2s for the VMs, now just need time to do the conversion.
brendan  Sep 22, 2024
Maybe, just maybe, I'll stop spending money on PC hardware.
brendan  Sep 20, 2024
David B. HimselfSep 20, 2024
I hate calling people "fake fans," I don't think I've done it before except maybe for some Star Wars incels, but there is one particular discourse about The Rings of Power that rubs me the wrong way.

It's people complaining that Gandalf can't be in Middle-Earth in the Second Age, or that the Balrog can't destroy Khazad-dûm before the War of the Last Alliance and things like that, but who at the same time don't see any problem with Elendil and family being alive at the same time as the forging of the rings, they see no problem with the rings being forged (in a short time, not decades) before the building or Barad-dûr, and many more.

In other words, they can't accept that some events from the Third Age are transposed to the Second Age, but they are fine with events and people being moved around within the Second Age. Why? Probably because they have no clue about the Second Age, but somehow, they feel that they have the moral authority to tell writers what they can and can't do about Middle-Earth.

Now, don't get me wrong. I don't expect people watching The Rings of Power to know their Tolkien lore in and out (and I only do because I was a bored teenager once), but if you're going to complain about inconsistencies, know your stuff.
Or shut up.

So yes, the timeline has been all mixed up in the show. Guess what? It's necessary to have a compelling story (Tolkien never wrote the Second Age as a narrative; he just listed a series of events, detailing only a handful.) If you want to respect the chronology exactly, how do you include humans if you center your story around the Elves? Or how do you do the opposite? And if you focus on only one of the groups and not the other, you can't have a complete story; you'll have to have lame exposition dumps, flashbacks with completely different characters with no development, and similar things (that would be actual "bad writing".)

So yes, if you want to watch The Rings of Power, you need to accept that the chronology is all "messed up."

If you can't handle that, may I advise that you stop watching, and more importantly, that you stop complaining about it online and that you use your time to do something positive that makes you happy?

Just saying.


#TVshows #Fandom #Tolkien #TheRingsOfPower #LOTR
brendan  Sep 18, 2024
nixCraft 🐧Sep 18, 2024
Why? Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December 🤔
brendan  Sep 8, 2024
Denver Broncos 🤖Sep 8, 2024
For the Gaudreaus 🤍
brendan  Jun 17, 2024

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brendan  Jun 8, 2024
Zeph: the Hungry 📚🐿️Jun 8, 2024

"That's a problem for future me" is a thing I say a lot because I'm a millenial and my sense of humor is basically "haha fuck me right?"

But lately I've started doing tasks ahead specifically to be nice to future me and I gotta say I REALLY appreciate it. Feels good to do Future Me a favor and Future Me is so grateful to Past Me.

I wish I'd thought to reverse it earlier. Be nice to Future You, you deserve a break.