Jedit posted:There's a text adventure thread? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3966237 It is not very active, but it is there.
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May 4, 2022 12:46
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Jedit posted:There's a text adventure thread? In our hearts, isn’t every thread
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May 4, 2022 14:12
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Isaac Asimov talks about "robutts". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9b4tg640ys
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May 4, 2022 15:14
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Levar Burton's Aftermath turned out to be really bad. Multiple ongoing race riots, NASA turbocharging climate change (and ozone layer depletion) by doing 24+ Space Shuttle launches per year, Burton predicting the first African-American president will get elected in 2012, Burton then has that same person getting assassinated 4 days later by a domestic terrorist, every race ongoing riot turns into a race war, st louis & a bunch of the gulf of mexico coastland gets vanished by climate change, black people start getting abducted and skinned alive so that rich people of every nation people can get UV radiation resistant skin grafts, the main heroine becomes a discount bin Professor Xavier psychic and also has spiderman style "danger sense" flashes whenever plot shoehorning has to happen. No longer wonder why Aftermath got memory-holed hard.
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May 4, 2022 16:43
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Great recs, thanks everyone. These look especially intriguing:Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Anything by Lem, Gnomon by Nick Harkaway. David Zindell’s Neverness.
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May 4, 2022 18:54
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Sinatrapod posted:That's exactly what happened! Sorry to poo-poo your good works, Andoh. I still don't think the book is great but that's not their cross to bear. Man, the blowback must have been pretty zesty for them to run it back that hard. Whoever made that call over at Macmillan really dumpstered my enjoyment and Scott Brick didn't even know they brought in a rando to finish the series: https://twitter.com/ScottBrick/status/493312668631957504 As far as I know they never re-recorded the third book. Bhodi fucked around with this message at 19:19 on May 4, 2022 |
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May 4, 2022 19:14
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quantumfoam posted:Levar Burton's Aftermath turned out to be really bad. ngl the way you describe it sounds kind of awesome.
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May 5, 2022 09:40
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Man, I don't think I've ever had an experience where a series changed narrators in mid-stream and NOT felt like it was a downgrade. Something about how different people voice characters and pronounce words shifting from novel to novel just absolutely shatters my desire to continue even if the later narrator is quite good; once in a while I can bear with it and accept the new voice but typically it just means the death of the series to me. I'm looking at you, Red Knight series. Also to a lesser degree at you, Malazan. I totally understand that probably nobody sets out to do this, but it has basically become the only reason I'll let go of my bloody-minded stubbornness and drop a series most of the time.
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May 5, 2022 11:00
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if you read the book yourself it never changes narrators op
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May 5, 2022 11:38
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Larry Parrish posted:if you read the book yourself it never changes narrators op That's a pretty dopey thing to say when you don't know why somebody prefers audiobooks.
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May 5, 2022 11:44
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Lots of audiobooks have multiple narrators.
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May 5, 2022 12:35
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Lots of audiobooks have multiple narrators. This was about a series changing after some number of books, that's jarring to me too.
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May 5, 2022 12:47
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silvergoose posted:This was about a series changing after some number of books, that's jarring to me too. Red Dwarf, which I think I've mentioned before ITT, shifts narrative focus over the series, and it makes total sense for each audiobook to have a different narrator.
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May 5, 2022 12:51
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I prefer audiobooks because I find I enjoy experiencing books more that way! But yeah multiple narrators can be exceptionally rad when it's done on purpose. They usually have some direction and actually pronounce characters names the same way. Substitute narrators pull this off like 10 percent of the time, it feels like.
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May 5, 2022 13:19
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Speaking of audiobooks, I'm looking for some recommendations for good genre stuff that, and that is important because me being me, has absolutely no sex scenes in it. I'm pretty close to running out of Discworld and that's about the only series I remember that fits the criteria. Any others?
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May 5, 2022 13:31
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of audiobooks, I'm looking for some recommendations for good genre stuff that, and that is important because me being me, has absolutely no sex scenes in it. I'm pretty close to running out of Discworld and that's about the only series I remember that fits the criteria. Any others? Couple pages back had some recs.
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May 5, 2022 14:08
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The narrator for Gnomon is tip top. I kept listening to a rather substandard trilogy a while back just because his voice was such a great thing to have on. Really excited to listen to Gnomon which was also a good read Oh god. Err can't guarantee there isn't sex in it though. I don't remember any but that's not really conclusive
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May 5, 2022 18:36
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of audiobooks, I'm looking for some recommendations for good genre stuff that, and that is important because me being me, has absolutely no sex scenes in it. I'm pretty close to running out of Discworld and that's about the only series I remember that fits the criteria. Any others? Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers Murderbot series by Martha Wells. Main Character is sickened by the thought of it.
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May 5, 2022 20:06
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Beachcomber posted:Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers I mean, it's all as tasteful as textually possible, but there is a nonzero amount of lizard fuckin' there.
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May 5, 2022 20:14
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HopperUK posted:That's a pretty dopey thing to say when you don't know why somebody prefers audiobooks. If you run the screenreader yourself it also doesn't change narrators
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May 5, 2022 20:47
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Beachcomber posted:Murderbot series by Martha Wells. Main Character is sickened by the thought of it. Ceebees posted:I mean, it's all as tasteful as textually possible, but there is a nonzero amount of lizard fuckin' there.
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May 5, 2022 21:07
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The King Must Die (Theseus #1) by Mary Renault - $2.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DCGJ6UO/
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May 5, 2022 22:16
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Doesn't hitchhiker have like half a book where he bangs his girlfriend in the sky after they figure out the trick to flying. But most people only read the first and that doesn't have any sex as far as I remember.
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May 5, 2022 22:39
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Ceebees posted:I mean, it's all as tasteful as textually possible, but there is a nonzero amount of lizard fuckin' there. Its only in the first and third books. The second and fourth have no loving at all, though the fourth definitely talks a lot about it.
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May 5, 2022 22:42
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Larry Parrish posted:Doesn't hitchhiker have like half a book where he bangs his girlfriend in the sky after they figure out the trick to flying. But most people only read the first and that doesn't have any sex as far as I remember. See what a piece of eggshell I have found you. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 22:46 on May 5, 2022 |
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May 5, 2022 22:44
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of audiobooks, I'm looking for some recommendations for good genre stuff that, and that is important because me being me, has absolutely no sex scenes in it. I'm pretty close to running out of Discworld and that's about the only series I remember that fits the criteria. Any others? Sanderson's stuff is definitely free of sex scenes if you like him.
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May 5, 2022 22:48
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Larry Parrish posted:Doesn't hitchhiker have like half a book where he bangs his girlfriend in the sky after they figure out the trick to flying. But most people only read the first and that doesn't have any sex as far as I remember. The scene with Fenchurch and Arthur, I think, is mostly there so Douglas Adams could make jokes about Dire Straits and the song Tunnel of Love. I only know it's that song because I emailed him about it decades ago, when he was still posting with some irregularity on Usenet, and he shared that which song was referenced in that part of the story. It's also not really a sex scene unless you're puritanical or ace, and can't even deal with foreplay. BlankSystemDaemon fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 5, 2022 |
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May 5, 2022 23:50
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It's not a scene per se, but there is also much talk of Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon-6
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May 6, 2022 00:25
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anilEhilated posted:Speaking of audiobooks, I'm looking for some recommendations for good genre stuff that, and that is important because me being me, has absolutely no sex scenes in it. That’s an uncommon kink.
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May 6, 2022 01:09
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Tiny detail but as an asexual person, 'ace' doesn't necessarily mean sex-repulsed. Else how did I read all those goddamn prehistorical romance books eh??? ...Jondalar is trash she shoulda stuck with Ranec.
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May 6, 2022 01:43
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Ceebees posted:I mean, it's all as tasteful as textually possible, but there is a nonzero amount of lizard fuckin' there. It's discussed but not onscreen, as far as I remember? Maybe that is a bridge too far.
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May 6, 2022 02:36
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:It's also not really a sex scene unless you're puritanical or ace, and can't even deal with foreplay. It's not like I know what he meant by sex-free lol. Just trying to cover the bases
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May 6, 2022 05:32
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HopperUK posted:...Jondalar is trash she shoulda stuck with Ranec. If I remember correctly, she was absolutely mesmerized by Jondalar's gigantic wang. Neanderthals just didn't compare to that pure uncut homo sapiens sapiens.
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May 6, 2022 06:06
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withak posted:That’s an uncommon kink. If it really needs clarification, graphic descriptions are a no-no and discussion and foreplay are iffy. Anyhow, thanks for all the recs.
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May 6, 2022 09:36
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tiniestacorn posted:If I remember correctly, she was absolutely mesmerized by Jondalar's gigantic wang. Neanderthals just didn't compare to that pure uncut homo sapiens sapiens. Ayla used to be - and probably still is - referred to in SF fandom as Ayla of the Cavernous Vagina, because Jondalar ("the Wonder Schlong") falls for her because she's the only woman who's ever taken all of his dick. The sex in Auel is even more terrible than the Mary Sue plotting.
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May 6, 2022 09:51
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There's a reason that that series is above any other on the "read it until you hate it" scale. The vast majority of people I know who've tried the series like the first book, but only one made it to the end of the last.
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May 6, 2022 10:12
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She writes about everything with the same level of minute detail. And she is very talented, because she can make 'grinding herbs' written about like that seem honestly interesting. But she writes about the sex that way too.
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May 6, 2022 10:36
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HopperUK posted:Tiny detail but as an asexual person, 'ace' doesn't necessarily mean sex-repulsed. Else how did I read all those goddamn prehistorical romance books eh??? It's one of the parts of Perfect Rhythm by Jae that I found interesting, and that book is a really sweet romance book that I think more people need to read.
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May 6, 2022 10:51
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Nicole Kornher-Stace is an ace author and therefore absolutely zero sex in her book Firebreak . Natural History of Dragons is the first in a five book series where I think the first has an allusion to sex, but nothing in scene and then the next four books are free of it. (Also, audio read by Kate Reading whose my favorite narrator.) And I've only read the first in the series but I believe the Binti novella series by Nnedi Okorafor is more interested in math than anything romantic in case you wanted more sci-fi.
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May 6, 2022 11:36
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And let's be honest. Even those of us that are really into the sex, very often do not want to read terrible descriptions written by authors either very much sharing their specific kink, or just absolutely ruining the physical act with terribad descriptions and words. Spurting and moist are words I can well live without in my scifi/fantasy. I'm usually very happy with a whole "fade to black" type scenario if characters are getting it on. Well written sex scenes are very rare because it's such a matter of taste. Let alone when attempted by writers that have women breastily boobing everywhere.
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May 6, 2022 12:04
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