I tried punching in 243 and it gave me an equation that resolves to 235.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=(lim+((x^2-100)%2F(x%2B10))%2C+x->13)^5+-+([lim((e^(8x)-1)%2Fx)%2C+x->0]+-+[[lim+((x^2-36)%2F(x-6))%2Cx->-5]+-+lim(cos^2+x+%2B+sin^2+x)%2C+x->36])

Tried it a few other times and it seems to sometimes like giving something that results in 3^5 (which would be 243 on its own) followed by subtracting a bit from it, which ends up making it the wrong answer. In the link above, it basically goes (3^5) - (8 - (1 - 1)), so if you only keep the first brackets it would be correct.

It’s a 14 book series. It’s generally acclaimed for its world building and depth, but understood to be a bit of a slog in the middle. The original author, Robert Jordan, died while writing the 12th book, and Brandon Sanderson was chosen by Jordan’s widow to finish the story using notes left by Jordan for his successor. I never finished it myself but I understand these final works were very well received, and Sanderson is a great author himself.

I spent a few months in Germany years ago, and “Americans” (Amerikaner) tended to be used to refer to people from the Americas (either NA specifically or NA and SA collectively) in my experience. If you wanted to say someone was from the US, you’d say something more like “aus den USA.”

The Founders Trilogy (book 1: Foundryside) by Robert Jackson Bennett uses a system of magic called Scriving wherein objects have written upon them instructions that sort of convince the objects that the laws of physics work in different ways. Over long ages engineers found ways to build engines for scriving that had commonly used instructions and essentially allowed more advanced technologies by creating “programming languages” of a sort, if you will, that work in proximity to the engines. So you get this very advanced society with technology built over this magic system, and a main character whose MacGuffin allows for messing with others’ scriving as your setting.

I quite enjoyed the trilogy, and they seem to fit the kind of vibe you’re looking for. Over the course of the books they dive a lot into both the way the magic functions and the history behind how it came to be as it is.

I use Downpour. They all kind of have the same pricing service. $12ish for a monthly one credit, buy more at the same price. Downpour lets you either use their app for syncing or just download the MP3 and/or M4B (a format similar to MP3 but with chapter stops for books) to use however you’d like.

Though I’m not sure it supports gifting. Someone else suggested Libro.FM which is very similar but I know does have gifting.

I avoid Audible personally, they’ve historically taken a huge cut from authors. I can get basically the same deal everywhere else. If you’re curious check out Brandon Sanderson’s various posts or media releases about the topic.

After Jones Soda did the six-pack of Thanksgiving dinner themed sodas (including Turkey & Gravy), this kind of thing just doesn’t surprise me any more. I guess it’s meant as more of a novelty thing than something people would actually use in seriousness.

I picked Caithe’s Bloom (I think it’s called, the dark purple dagger), since it fit my ele outfit. I got the reading glasses skin which a couple weeks before I’d been complaining about being unavailable in the gem store, so I guess for once the RNG gods chose kindness lol.

Spiritfarer is an absolutely wonderful experience that is somehow both a casual open world chill game and a game that delves deep into the topic of death, being prepared for it, and leaving people behind. Really special game.

I feel like most of the time it’s smaller things that bug me most.

For example, if I click the location link on an achievement, let the map stay open and be scrollable. Currently it shows you the spot and, if there’s a waypoint there you can use it, but if not you can’t scroll around to the nearest one and it just closes the map on you, forcing you to reopen it manually and find the spot again. It seems like such a silly and unnecessary design choice.

The other is builds. If I have a build saved, but I need to swap out a trait or utility for a fight, I wish that change didn’t automatically save to the build. It’d be nice if the build only updated when you hit a button to do so.

I do agree, multiple saved cosmetic sets would be amazing. I wonder if they see that as a way they sell gear tabs though.

Dug back into Dragon’s Dogma (2016) recently. Still really enjoy that game. Maybe the best character creator in a non-soulslike single player game, which I think is the itch I was trying to scratch. Currently C$6.39 on Steam (so I’d guess probably US$5 or so).

In A Realm Reborn, flying for all zones unlocks immediately after the end of the 2.0 quests, so you’ll have flight during all the patch quests.

In the expansions, flight is unlocked by a combination of doing certain side quests and finding a certain number of aether currents in the zone. Once you’ve done all of them, you get flight in that zone. Typically, the last quest you need to get flight is locked behind completing most of the story in that area.