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Sci-fi author was just one of the careers they shuffled those people off to. like disney animator
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Apr 18, 2024 21:27
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We need to outlaw porn again so horny people are forced to channel their pent up sexuality into literature and art again like in the good old days. Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:14
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Yes. And authors are only allowed to attend conventions if someone wheels them around in a straightjacket on a hand truck like Hannibal Lecter.
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Apr 18, 2024 22:50
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Children is, I think, better than Messiah, but maybe that's because things actually happen in it? There's very little actually going on in Messiah, whereas Children has beefswellings and girdershapes, and its ending mirrors that of Dune in a pleasing way.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:18
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Someone feed Brian the idea that stillsuits are named after their inventor, Stilgar.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:20
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Messiah vs Children has always been a fundamental battle of how much you value brevity. IMO Children feels about as long as a 600 page novel could possibly feel (derogatory) so I gotta give it to Messiah for getting in and out in a timely fashion
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galagazombie posted:We need to outlaw porn again so horny people are forced to channel their pent up sexuality into literature and art again like in the good old days. Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel. Literotica.com needs proofreaders if you're interested.  ----------- edit: I've read the first three Dune books so often since 1984 that they have merged into chapters of one continuous story. Just Another Lurker fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Apr 18, 2024 |
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Apr 18, 2024 23:30
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Just Another Lurker posted:Literotica.com needs proofreaders if you're interested. I am interested, what's the deal?
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Apr 18, 2024 23:35
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Tree Bucket posted:Someone feed Brian the idea that stillsuits are named after their inventor, Stilgar. And he was totally motivated by the thighpads, so he could collect scat for his fetish
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Apr 19, 2024 00:01
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fremen value wide, poo poo bearing thighs, something something, paolo breasted boobily through the bled, something something, boofing spice
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Apr 19, 2024 00:16
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Bubblyblubber posted:paolo breasted boobily through the bled, boofing spice new thread title
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Apr 19, 2024 00:18
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Gonna be real when watching TUNC I was screaming on the inside with delight whenever I saw the obvious thigh pads.
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galagazombie posted:We need to outlaw porn again so horny people are forced to channel their pent up sexuality into literature and art again like in the good old days. Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel. In general, the post "web 2" internet has made humanity worse, and every development since those days has steadily removed or deprecated useful activity and replaced it with attention span destroying material and endless dopamine pumps, and it's pretty bad the og butlerian jihad was a prophecy, a warning, and a prescription to fix the problem
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Apr 19, 2024 01:58
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galagazombie posted:Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel. The great American novel will be written entirely in the comments on a Pornhub video.
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Apr 19, 2024 02:13
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I like how the OC Bible is printed on microscopically thin paper as the logical conclusion to bibles being printed on thinner and thinner paper over thousands of years. Papyrus-parchment-paper-thinner paper-microfiche-static force paper
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Soul Dentist posted:I like how the OC Bible is printed on microscopically thin paper as the logical conclusion to bibles being printed on thinner and thinner paper over thousands of years. Papyrus-parchment-paper-thinner paper-microfiche-static force paper I love that about sci-fi. It has this knack for extrapolating things out to absurd lengths but missing the big shifts that actually change things (but fair enough, they're authors, not prophets.) But yes, it's such a beautifully tactile little detail. I can picture that book and those oil-lens binoculars so clearly! Riot Bimbo posted:In general, the post "web 2" internet has made humanity worse, and every development since those days has steadily removed or deprecated useful activity and replaced it with attention span destroying material and endless dopamine pumps, and it's pretty bad I was googling "Bluey" for my kid earlier and like twenty of the early hits were results from the one site. You know something has gone wrong when Google Search stops being useful for search but fantastic for delivering TEMU ads. Or in Dune terms, for a little while there youtube served heaping piles of AI-generated thumbnails labelled DUNE TWO TRAILER. The current web seems rather harmful to human flourishing. I guess the big question is, how do we Jihad?
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Apr 19, 2024 02:38
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Tree Bucket posted:I love that about sci-fi. It has this knack for extrapolating things out to absurd lengths but missing the big shifts that actually change things (but fair enough, they're authors, not prophets.) You need drastic measures baked into a belief system or ideology that is otherwise strong enough to drive people to act in extremes, and buddy i dont have the first idea about how to get there but we probably, as a species, need a holy war on the internet and the move to digitize everything. Moving backwards being virtuous wasn't something i anticipated but Dune Was Right
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Tree Bucket posted:The current web seems rather harmful to human flourishing. I guess the big question is, how do we Jihad? Whelp, time to start the missionaria protectiva and lay the seeds for jihad in a few thousand years. New goon project?
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Apr 19, 2024 04:41
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I don’t think I saw this here, we all hate AI, and Wes Anderson parodies are just about played out, but I laughed. Wes Anderson does Dune
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Apr 19, 2024 05:07
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Buffet'd Rautha.
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Apr 19, 2024 05:22
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Bubblyblubber posted:Snuff and Raising Steam are really bittersweet reads for me, the few flashes of old terry are great but just highlight how not really there he is for the bulk of the rest. Same, though I Shall Wear Midnight and Nation are still bangers.
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Apr 19, 2024 07:04
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I'm also picturing Fremen crusaders coming to conquer Giedi Prime, stepping out of the ship and immediately pausing with '...whoa. This explains so much.' Then a generation later they've semi integrated and the fashion scene is just wild
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Apr 19, 2024 07:05
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*remembering 2 Masters 1 Coat* It's truth!
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Apr 19, 2024 08:01
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galagazombie posted:We need to outlaw porn again so horny people are forced to channel their pent up sexuality into literature and art again like in the good old days. Pornhub is standing between us and the great American novel. What the heck was Steinbeck's kink? Dust bowls?
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Apr 19, 2024 08:01
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the only thing I remember from The Grapes of Wrath is that a young woman breastfeeds a dying man at the end
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Apr 19, 2024 08:06
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Soul Dentist posted:I like how the OC Bible is printed on microscopically thin paper as the logical conclusion to bibles being printed on thinner and thinner paper over thousands of years. Papyrus-parchment-paper-thinner paper-microfiche-static force paper I wish I could remember that book, too.
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Apr 19, 2024 14:54
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Halloween Jack posted:When I was a kid, I was given a Christian sci-fi book where the world was ruled by an AI, Christians were persecuted, so they had to hide Bibles in little cases that look like rocks. I'm pretty sure they were ripping off the Bible that Yueh gives Paul. "The Last Christian" by David Gregory According to AI
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Apr 19, 2024 15:20
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That book was published in 2010. It's been more than 14 years since I was a kid, I'm afraid
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Apr 19, 2024 15:22
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Halloween Jack posted:That book was published in 2010. It's been more than 14 years since I was a kid, I'm afraid AI failed us. Butlerian Jihad averted
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computer show me a dehydrated desert waif, beautiful, very beautiful, big breasts, huge bazongas, enourmous badonkadonks, not water fat, zero water fat, biggest honkadonkaroos, not disgusted at me, likes my murder tiger plot, gigantic boobs, nice smile safety protocols off
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Bubblyblubber posted:computer show me a dehydrated desert waif, beautiful, very beautiful, big breasts, huge bazongas,
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Apr 19, 2024 16:21
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Bubblyblubber posted:Snuff and Raising Steam are really bittersweet reads for me, the few flashes of old terry are great but just highlight how not really there he is for the bulk of the rest. Just Another Lurker posted:I felt the change in Unseen Academicals... it was not The Man.
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Apr 19, 2024 18:58
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pratchett at 25% capacity was better than most other novelists at 100% capacity, yes
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Apr 19, 2024 19:24
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Halloween Jack posted:Have you not seen Barbora Kodetova? Pause/repeat on a dvd doesn't ruin a vid like it does on vhs... i was somewhat smitten by her back in the day.  ----------------- BlankSystemDaemon posted:I used to think like this, right up until I read Michael W Lucas' thoughts, and that let them shine on their own for me. I'll have to think about that. 
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Admiralty Flag posted:I don’t think I saw this here, we all hate AI, and Wes Anderson parodies are just about played out, but I laughed. for posting ai garbage in the dune thread, the sentence is: death
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Apr 19, 2024 23:52
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i'll murder the poo poo out of this thread if it becomes an ai pit!!!!!!! That close button has been sitting there, begging me to press it since before i changed my name from the one that edgelord opioid addict admin gave me!!! don't do it. i'll use the house atomics!!!
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Riot Bimbo posted:i'll murder the poo poo out of this thread if it becomes an ai pit!!!!!!! That close button has been sitting there, begging me to press it since before i changed my name from the one that edgelord opioid addict admin gave me!!! don't do it. i'll use the house atomics!!! Well, as the old saying goes, the power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
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Riot Bimbo posted:i'll murder the poo poo out of this thread if it becomes an ai pit!!!!!!! That close button has been sitting there, begging me to press it since before i changed my name from the one that edgelord opioid addict admin gave me!!! don't do it. i'll use the house atomics!!! invoke the silence on them
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