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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (9 children)

As someone with both, it's either feast or famine, depending on how interesting my brain finds it.

I read nearly cover to cover the National Electric Code because I wanted to rewire my house and I found the standards fascinating.

I could not read through my AWS training materials because AWS is boring AF.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago (4 children)

the misery of searching for stories that catch your interest, finding a rare nugget of gold, reading the entire fucking 400 chapters in a few days, and being unceremoniously dumped back into reality and faced with the ocean of absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

absolute dogshit that people somehow find amazing

Harry Potter, GOT, Hunger Games etc... ?

Edit: Read the other comment, made me chuckle x)

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

no i'm talking about royalroad stories, though to be fair a depressing amount of them are just "what if harry potter but with a litrpg system with 0 fucking explanation, a somehow even more insuffrably inherently special and amazing protagonist, and worse writing?"

like i accept that most stories are going to be garbage because writing is hard and i'm a picky reader, but holy shit i have to trawl through the "most popular" pages to find anything even tolerable

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