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raruler posted:Currently reading a detailed space/naval battle with heavy references to "old earth". all of them? raruler posted:So I've been reading Jack McDevitt novels lately. The Alex Benedicts ones are so formulaic you'd find them on the side of a Bisquick box. Chindi was OK in kind of a Rama way but I'm not going to bother with the rest qirex fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Nov 22, 2011 |
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raruler posted:So I've been reading Jack McDevitt novels lately. The Alex Benedicts ones are so formulaic you'd find them on the side of a Bisquick box. I have no idea how Jack McDevitt wins awards. I assumed it was some kind of Canadian patriotism thing, but it turns out he isn't Canadian.
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Nov 22, 2011 00:03
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pseudorandom name posted:I have no idea how Jack McDevitt wins awards. I assumed it was some kind of Canadian patriotism thing, but it turns out he isn't Canadian. Please, our valuable awards go to Robert J. Sawyer. Or as I like to think of him, the poor man's Canadian Doctorow: 
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Nov 22, 2011 00:06
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raruler posted:Please, our valuable awards go to Robert J. Sawyer. Or as I like to think of him, the poor man's Canadian Doctorow: cory doctorow is canadian
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Nov 22, 2011 00:06
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ahhh spiders posted:cory doctorow is canadian 
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Nov 22, 2011 00:08
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qirex posted:lmao someone spent $40 on this pos
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ahhh spiders posted:cory doctorow is canadian we like to pretend he isnt
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Nov 22, 2011 00:11
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alanis and cory are canadain psy-ops except they're targetted at everyone
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Nov 22, 2011 00:15
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qirex posted:all of them? nah these are the ones where aliens periodically scour the galaxy to exterminate sentient life, and the protagonist from a high tech civilization is forced to build a tall ship and conduct naval battles
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Nov 22, 2011 00:27
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NINbuntu 64 posted:we like to pretend he isnt dont mean to derail and i realize this is a pot and kettle situation but why the gently caress would you have a pluto nash av at least i didn't choose mine
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Nov 22, 2011 01:03
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Wilhelm_Scream.wav posted:dont mean to derail and i realize this is a pot and kettle situation but why the gently caress would you have a pluto nash av Don't mean to derail just going to make a few test posts and check with the mods to see if it's ok to post a thread about this. Cheers from GBS and well met good sirs.
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Nov 22, 2011 01:05
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raruler posted:nah these are the ones where aliens periodically scour the galaxy to exterminate sentient life, and the protagonist from a high tech civilization is forced to build a tall ship and conduct naval battles is it a mass effect novelization
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Nov 22, 2011 04:39
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aliens (often machines) scouring the galaxy of all life was an established trope before mass effect
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Nov 22, 2011 05:02
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raruler posted:nah these are the ones where aliens periodically scour the galaxy to exterminate sentient life, and the protagonist from a high tech civilization is forced to build a tall ship and conduct naval battles Read one Berserker book, read em all.
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Nov 22, 2011 05:05
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pseudorandom name posted:aliens (often machines) scouring the galaxy of all life was an established trope before mass effect yeah but before mass effect games forum posters didn't convert thousands of dollars into stupid emoticons and avatars
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Nov 22, 2011 05:10
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Wilhelm_Scream.wav posted:dont mean to derail and i realize this is a pot and kettle situation but why the gently caress would you have a pluto nash av because i have an unhealthy obsession with the decline of eddie murphy's career
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Nov 22, 2011 05:24
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NINbuntu 64 posted:because i have an unhealthy obsession with the decline of eddie murphy's career I'd hardly call quality falling off a cliff a "decline"
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Nov 22, 2011 05:25
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BonzoESC posted:yeah but before mass effect games forum posters didn't convert thousands of dollars into stupid emoticons and avatars for those of you who were curious like me, there are no less than eleven mass effect emoticons
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raruler posted:nah these are the ones where aliens periodically scour the galaxy to exterminate sentient life, and the protagonist from a high tech civilization is forced to build a tall ship and conduct naval battles wait is this the one where the moon is a secretly a space ship and theres another, evil space ship underneath the antarctic
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pseudorandom name posted:for those of you who were curious like me, there are no less than eleven mass effect emoticons and a shitload of really creepy avatars about female characters and to think i just thought it was a game about blasting robots and aliens
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BonzoESC posted:and a shitload of really creepy avatars about female characters it is but dont tell that to games.
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Nov 22, 2011 05:39
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it is also a game about having poorly written sex with aliens
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pseudorandom name posted:it is also a game about having poorly written sex with aliens 420 never have sex with anyone in mass effect games everyday
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Nov 22, 2011 05:54
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actually i had sex with the secretary because it was the easiest way to have somebody take care of my videogame fish
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raruler posted:nah these are the ones where aliens periodically scour the galaxy to exterminate sentient life, and the protagonist from a high tech civilization is forced to build a tall ship and conduct naval battles It's not Berserkers, that's Saberhagen.
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First of all this, gently caress those fish:NINbuntu 64 posted:actually i had sex with the secretary because it was the easiest way to have somebody take care of my videogame fish sticky wizard posted:wait is this the one where the moon is a secretly a space ship and theres another, evil space ship underneath the antarctic Probably and it's a great 2/3rds book (it's an omnibus of three books, where the first two are great and the third is poo poo) just kidding it's all poo poo but it's a great airplane read
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Ulf posted:Ulfwife wants to know what this is, she's read all the honor harrington books but that doesn't sound like it. She's a glutton for trashy sci-fi. Also she says hi. Tell her I said "enjoy"  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77733.Empire_From_the_Ashes honestly though, tell her to read this first because it's some pro cheesy sci-fi. Basically it's a war between earth/mars and the asteroids with zombies. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8855321-leviathan-wakes Optimus_Rhyme fucked around with this message at 06:07 on Nov 22, 2011 |
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Nov 22, 2011 06:05
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Ulf posted:Ulfwife wants to know what this is, she's read all the honor harrington books but that doesn't sound like it. She's a glutton for trashy sci-fi. Also she says hi. Tell her I said hi and I haven't checked WWF yet today.
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BonzoESC posted:yeah but before mass effect games forum posters didn't convert thousands of dollars into stupid emoticons and avatars wrex
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Luigi Thirty posted:wrex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uINq9gHtB-w
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:Tell her I said "enjoy" quote:honestly though, tell her to read this first because it's some pro cheesy sci-fi. Basically it's a war between earth/mars and the asteroids with zombies.
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uINq9gHtB-w Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow
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Ulf posted:excuse me i am having a conversation with raruler here It's actually not that bad (for a trashy sci-fi airport novel)
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Nov 22, 2011 06:34
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Ulf posted:Ulfwife wants to know what this is, she's read all the honor harrington books but that doesn't sound like it. She's a glutton for trashy sci-fi. Also she says hi. Please return the sentiment for me  The joke here is that it's several David Weber novels. The first is the end novel of the Dahak series, which as sticky wizard said, the moon is a space ship. The second would be part of the Empire of Man series. The last would be in the Safehold series, which is actually pretty decent. I haven't read the Empire of Man, and I doubt I ever will, because it was co-authored by John Ringo, so you know it's completely out there. I'll let this bit from the plot summary stand on it's own: quote:In fact, Roger's father, the Duke of New Madrid, and his ally, Lord Jackson Adula, have framed Roger, whom they believe dead, and taken the Empress captive, using a combination of cybernetic tampering, sexual slavery, and drugs to control the normally ironwilled Empress. The conspirators plan to put a son of New Madrid and the Empress, grown in an incubator, on the throne.
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Ulf posted:
I read too much sci-fi to have an objective opinions these days, but it wasn't that bad.
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dont read socialest sci fi
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Ken MacLeod manages to squeeze an interesting story in between his socialism.
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Ken MacLeod's version of the Singularity (from The Cassini Division et al) is a lot of fun because it focuses on the people who weren't the "upload myself into a computer" guys.
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Now I'm reading a Larry Niven novel where a colony runs into problems because it's lacking an essential element.
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