Tree Bucket posted:I'm not sure how the logistics of getting people on an IRL hope rocket would work, let alone deciding who gets a ticket. I feel like it would involve something a little more dramatic than the FBI heading out to the burbs to pick up families who know about the doom comet. Does the wider world know about the Rock yet? only as a crank theory previous to San Fransico. It was purposfully leaked with bad information so it could be debunked.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 22:16 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:37 |
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Well that's not what I was expecting I appreciate the extra little bit of gruesomeness of having her see what's happened to her before she dies, rather than just painlessly, instantly die in the blast. I feel like the latter is what a lot of series would do if they were going to have this kind of character death.
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 22:17 |
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cordelia didn't even have a funny techno name, no way was she gonna make it (that was a kinda brutal scene, though, geez.)
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# ? Jan 18, 2024 22:24 |
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# ? Jan 19, 2024 01:26 |
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RIP Cordelia. Would like to see one of those Janes that Jobs mentions. Would be a fun contrast to the rest of the “future” stuff we see.
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# ? Jan 19, 2024 01:54 |
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Lmao at the pregnant marine casually puffing on a vape. Sometimes the future predictions don’t pan out, but sometimes they do.
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# ? Jan 19, 2024 16:56 |
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# ? Jan 20, 2024 05:09 |
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Yeah holy poo poo I'm kind of glad I didn't read these books as a kid, this would have absolutely wrecked me.
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# ? Jan 20, 2024 07:47 |
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And again expectations are subverted, I thought Tamara was gonna swap with doctor, but instead she's dead.
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# ? Jan 21, 2024 01:17 |
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Soonmot posted:And again expectations are subverted, I thought Tamara was gonna swap with doctor, but instead she's dead. Yeah, same - this series is really swinging into giving you named characters with backstories and motivations who immediately die. I'm kind of curious to see how this storyline is going to swerve into having kids be in charge - in Everworld it worked neatly because they were a group of 4-5 and had to make decisions for themselves, but here you've got batches of teenagers plus a bunch of adults who are nominally in charge and supervising. Is every single adult in this story going to meet with an untimely end?
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# ? Jan 21, 2024 03:19 |
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After thoroughly exploring mutation and wound-based body horror, the animorphs writing team now branches out into "heights, also confined spaces, while medical Things happen to you" e: also your mum is sad aaaaahh
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# ? Jan 21, 2024 11:46 |
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Jobs and Mo'Steel do a spacewalk
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# ? Jan 22, 2024 01:54 |
We're getting 4 chapters today because the last two are super short and that's it for book 1!quote:
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 02:02 |
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this is heavy in a way i was really not expecting, even from the premise. fascinated to see where the next book goes.
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 02:44 |
Still don't know how I feel about the names (really, Jobs?) but I loved this first book. Can't wait to see where it goes from here!
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 03:05 |
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Longer than you think, dad! Longer than you think! e: more seriously, that was a well-written asteroid impact! The initial one felt kind of abstracted- lots of superheated steam &etc, but no mention of what that actually looks like. Maybe I'm spoiled from one too many Kim Stanley Robinson books; that man will happily spend whole chapters describing the colour of a specific geological process. I think it was mentioned upthread, but murdering Cordelia after giving her an extremely "protagonist" introduction was a smart move from the authors. This book is happy to kill off characters! Tree Bucket fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Well poo poo, this series is taking some amazing and dark turns. Centuries in hibernation but still being conscious? That's a recipe for a completely broken psyche. It's also got enough aftershocks of the expectation subversion that, yeah, I genuinely was unsure if they were going to survive the space walk.
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 18:17 |
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Read this last night and have been revisiting the imagery mentally all day. What a haunting and beautiful description of the end of the world. It feels a little too pat to have the only girl our protagonist has ever kissed also be the girl made famous by her death and footage of the mini asteroid, but that's a minor complaint. Really enjoyed this book and from scanning the somewhat shoddily written wiki, have no real idea where things will go other than darker and weirder. Excited to ride the asteroid as it were. Tree Bucket posted:Longer than you think, dad! Longer than you think! The Jaunt was my first thought as well I'm sure little Billy will suffer no ill effects from centuries of consciousness with zero sensory input.
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 19:06 |
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Whew, that description of the Earth breaking apart has always stuck with me. Looking forward to the next few months rediscovering the wild poo poo ahead with y'all.
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# ? Jan 23, 2024 22:22 |
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I believe the "Earth dies" chapter was included as a preview in Animorphs #54
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# ? Jan 25, 2024 02:25 |
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Oh man, I was really into this series when I was a kid. Well, for the first 4 or 5 books, then I lost interest. A giant asteroid destroying the earth was one of my big fears as a kid, but I also loved reading and watching stuff about huge natural disasters, so I was pretty obsessed with the first book.
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 02:34 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:The Jaunt was my first thought as well I'm sure little Billy will suffer no ill effects from centuries of consciousness with zero sensory input. Little Billy was already pretty weird. I mean he can't get any worse right? wizardofloneliness posted:Oh man, I was really into this series when I was a kid. Well, for the first 4 or 5 books, then I lost interest. A giant asteroid destroying the earth was one of my big fears as a kid, but I also loved reading and watching stuff about huge natural disasters, so I was pretty obsessed with the first book. Ah! I assumed there was only one of these, for some reason. Does the series have an ending? Does this series' Visser 3 get hurled out of an airlock at any point? Are there more cool "earth gets disintegrated" chapters!!? Although I guess you can only really do that once, right
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 02:45 |
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lotta planets out there, and a lot of rocks just waiting to hit them.
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 02:54 |
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Well, once per book, I mean. There's still
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 02:57 |
There are 14 books and we will start book 2 tomorrow, sorry for the delay, have been getting hyperfocused on a couple video games the last couple days.
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 08:36 |
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14 books-! No way. I really thought there was only one. In order to get in the right headspace, I'm gonna go google up the top-selling video games for the year Remnants came out.
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 09:41 |
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Soonmot posted:There are 14 books and we will start book 2 tomorrow, sorry for the delay, have been getting hyperfocused on a couple video games the last couple days. You can admit you're running around capturing Legally Distinct Not-Pokemon here. This is a safe space and nobody will judge you. I just got into the volcano zone for some really good miners and bred an Anubis with rank 4 crafting it's amazing.
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 13:38 |
Palworld only started for me yesterday, before that it was a mix of tavern master, dave the diver, and bg3
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# ? Jan 26, 2024 16:05 |
quote:DESTINATION UNKNOWN oh what the gently caress, that is a grim start to book two. We have 62 pages and the first 10 are today. quote:
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Okay, we're in for a ride, gang!
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# ? Jan 27, 2024 03:01 |
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Coca Koala posted:Yeah, same - this series is really swinging into giving you named characters with backstories and motivations who immediately die. you jinxed em
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# ? Jan 27, 2024 11:21 |
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Welp, the sleep pod filled with fungal spores sure is an image!
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# ? Jan 27, 2024 11:34 |
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 04:37 |
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Ah there's that Animorphs body horror.
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 05:27 |
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Let’s read The Remnants: jesus christ what the gently caress
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:26 |
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oh no i don't like that at all
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:34 |
Coca Koala posted:Let’s read The Remnants: jesus christ what the gently caress I think we have our new title! quote:
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# ? Jan 28, 2024 23:49 |
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So the Janes are interesting huh? I wonder if that could be a sort of metaphor for somethings that could not be talked about in a YA book of this time peroid?
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# ? Jan 30, 2024 04:00 |
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Yes of course the giant eyeless baby has little sharp teeth, a lust for blood, and mastery of umbilical mind-control... I think this setting is bizarre enough that it kind of doesn't need a Visser/Senna/Yago character to up the stakes; I'd be happy if Yago spends the whole series thinking menacing thoughts but never actually does anything. Soonmot posted:So the Janes are interesting huh? I wonder if that could be a sort of metaphor for somethings that could not be talked about in a YA book of this time peroid? I definitely got that vibe. I was skim reading (I'm supposed to be getting some work done atm...) and even read "girls who wanted to be girls" as "people who wanted to be girls." Had to go back and check it to write this post.
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# ? Jan 30, 2024 04:31 |
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It's odd because I read that paragraph and thought "huh, this is a really interesting depiction of teenage rejection of social media" and then remembered that this was written in what, 2001? Were people really reacting that much to myspace? Maybe that's just my 2024 brain looking back and being like "yeah, social media is where poo poo really started to go downhill" and so that's what it inserts as the reason why this character is roleplaying jane austen as a form of expression. Also wow i feel like this book would have freaked the gently caress out of me as a kid.
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# ? Jan 30, 2024 04:34 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 03:37 |
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Fritzler posted:RIP Cordelia. Would like to see one of those Janes that Jobs mentions. Would be a fun contrast to the rest of the “future” stuff we see. Glad to see a Jane finally! They are interesting, I do think someone being so nostalgic for the long past makes a lot of sense in a future setting. It is something I rarely see in sci-fi tho.
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