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mvmarcz replied to your post:sombras gonna be a stealth hero yassss

did they announce something? DID I MISS SOMETHING?! I mean I knew there were rumors

yeah its just rumors for now. but the fact that like every hero has a "i sense an invisible person nearby" line in the PTR files is pretty solid evidence for me

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mvmarcz replied to your post “I want to be excited about SDCC but it’s tinged with disappointment....”

Did you try for the frankie online? I was able to get her this morning and they've had cedar consistently

i probably will try for frankie, but robecca/hexiciah are the ones i really want

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If you don't mind my asking, why do you say elsevier is the devil?

I don’t mind at all. :-)Elsevier has a number of rather…INTERESTING business practices, shall we say. They charge extremely high prices to libraries for their journals (with profit margins up to 40% in some cases). Often, the only possibility for libraries to afford them is to buy huge package deals, or “bundles” and have no say over what gets included. (Think of it like a cable package–you might pay a lot of money to watch the three channels you want.)As is standard in scholarly publishing, Elsevier pays its authors….nothing. They therefore get their content for free and proceed to sell it back to the academics and institutions that produced it at absurdly high rates. (Other scholarly publishers do this as well, but Elsevier has the most notoriety because it’s kind of a behemoth and its prices are even more insane than the rest.)This, as you can imagine, is not terribly good for research. When libraries are struggling to afford the materials that academics produce–sometimes academics that their very own universities–it puts a huge strain on the library budget. But the library can’t just decide to not get these journals, because you can’t, for example, be a leading scientific research institution whose students and academics have no access to the important journals in the field. So the publishers, most notably Elsevier, have a captive audience that they take full advantage of. There have been petitions and protests from academics for years regarding Elsevier’s business practices.In summary, they’re profit-seeking leeches who take advantage of the fact that universities need their product (the content of which is provided to them, for free, by the academics of those same universities) to survive as research institutions.I hope that helps explain things! Feel free to ask if you have any other questions.

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You previously recommend the series to me. In light of these events do you still? I was going to pick it up when I got paid at the end of the month for some summer reading (I'm moving atm) so I'm curious to see if you have changed your recommendation.

i don’t know, i’m so conflicted??? the first 8 books are marvelous still - book 9 has sort of poisoned them for me, but maybe i can learn to look past it at some point and be able to enjoy the stuff that came before again.

i say read the first 8 books and ignore 9. i can give you a link to epubs of all 8 books if you want, it would be best if you didnt pay for them.

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