Whoops yeah, responded to the wrong comment 🤦 Thanks for answering! Have you written any historical fiction? Makes me think of that Rome, Sweet Rome thing from Reddit a while back that had a big moment and then disappeared into the bowels of Hollywood or something.

Is that how you get meme material for [email protected]? How often do you think of the Roman Empire?

Speaking of Sanderson, listening to the audiobook of Tress of the Emerald Sea. I haven’t read any other Cosmere and wanted to try out a standalone book to see if I liked the worldbuilding. Really liking it so far, even though it’s closer to a YA book than what I understand the rest of the series to be.

It does something interesting in the narration, wondering if anyone else has seen this before. It’s standard third-person narration to start, and then the narrator is revealed to be someone in the story, and uses first person sometimes when talking about themselves. I couldn’t think of any other books I’ve read that did that, thought it was a cute trick.

The userbase is small enough that hashing would be easy cracked by a determined person. Even with salting, iterating through the entire userbase and hashing each username+salt to check for a match would probably not take long