Someone get a box , a large mallet and a thick wooden stake for that moldering undead vampire corpse is wandering loose in the world . <| sep |> is what it actually looked like . It was shitty wet snow that melted on impact . <| sep |> nVidia ' s shadow play doesn ' t capture the tint . <| sep |> Why not ? There doesn ' t seem to be any reason to believe the brain is more than merely a machine . To imagine that there is some extra thing or task that operates outside of the physical brain is magical thinking and denies the reality that everyone is subject to . <| sep |> Something tells me plenty of people would have loved to enjoy thanksgiving at your house . <| sep |> I know for sure that if I were a beta reader I wouldn ' t spoil anything to save my own life . 1 An author trusted me with part of his career , I ' d never betray that trust . Chances are you wouldn ' t as well . 2 If I were an author in Rothfuss condition I ' d immediately take two precautions Dear beta reader , sign this contract that states that my lawyer is allowed to go medieval on your ass if you leak something , and make sure every beta reader knows that his copy has something the others lack , without telling him what it is . Rothfuss is not stupid , chances are he took way better precautions than what I would do .