The two issues they face are not having the rights to The Silmarillion, only the appendices and LOTR, and having to time condense thousands of years so that they don’t have a whole new cast of characters every season other than the elves. And given those restrictions, I think they’re doing great!

there can't be golden rooms filled with hate we must cut evil out by the roots and bring back rose gardens and kindness #tricube #poetry #poem

How can someone overcome the guilt of buying a book for themselves, the feeling that it's a luxury rather than a necessity, and that the money should be saved for something more useful later on? Especially when there's also the fear that they might not even end up reading it?

Since exhaustive testing is impossible what does testing everything in the system actually mean in practice? Does it refer to verifying all functionalities, UI elements, buttons, or does it mean covering every possible user scenario?

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." ~ Agatha Christie Summer (1911) 🎨 Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

me: "do this task, it will take like 3 minutes" my ADHD: "but what if ... anything BUT that, for hours? Possibly DAYS?"

Congratulations to The Rings of Power for their Emmy nomination in the “Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Season Or A Movie” category! 🥳 #TheRingsofPower