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"the ending was abrupt and didn't wrap up any of the plot threads, wtf?!?" - trig, in a week
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yeah i may just write this one off i liked anathem a lot, thought snowcrash and cryptonomicon were okay, but everything else of his i've tried has kinda sucked
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Dec 10, 2013 23:04
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Trig Discipline posted:yeah i may just write this one off at least ready player one managed to wrap up its shittiness in like 400 pages for big laffs, check out the trainwreck that his kickstartered swordfighting bideo jame has turned into. in short: they burned through all the money, have nothing close to a finished product, are unlikely to ever ship anything, and it turns out they could never have delivered what they were planning using ks funding as it was always an effort to create a demo that would attract investors (this little fact was curiously omitted from all their kickstarter descriptions).
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Dec 10, 2013 23:11
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i only got reamde because it was a kindle dotd for $1.99. i think i still got ripped off
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Trig Discipline posted:i only got reamde because it was a kindle dotd for $1.99. i think i still got ripped off ...reamed 
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Dec 10, 2013 23:18
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YYEEEEAAAHHHH!!!!
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i really liked anathem and unlike the rest of the 'pos had a great time with the baroque cycle i'm real wary of reamde though 
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Dec 10, 2013 23:33
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:then you probs missed this the reverse dismount is the best one
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axolotl farmer posted:The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
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Consider Phlebas isn't terrible but it's not the best intro to culture i guess i just remember it being long and rambling, and then the war with the idirans is kind of the setup to Look to Windward, but all you really need to know is that there was a war in space, between the idirans and culture v0v the ending of ConPhleb (no CP here) was weird in that it read like an over-the-top action movie setpiece, and so basically yeah read some other culture novels and if you like them maybe go back and read the first one
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Dec 11, 2013 00:17
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i need to read more stephenson because snowcrash was some great satire ...it was supposed to be satire right?
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if you cant figure out if a novel whose main character is named "protagonist" and revolves around cyberwarfare in pizza delivery is satire, idk what to tell you
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Dec 11, 2013 00:19
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i still have trouble understanding why heroes took itself so seriously w/ a main character named hiro
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:if you cant figure out if a novel whose main character is named "protagonist" and it revolves around cyberwarfare in pizza delivery idk what to tell you sci-fi authors man, you just never know but yeah im p sure it was satire also i consider myself to be a fan of neal stephenson (though i've only read snowcrash, diamond age and anathem) and even i'm staying away from reamde
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Dec 11, 2013 00:22
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Gus Hobbleton posted:...it was supposed to be satire right? Snow Crash is simultaneously the best cyberpunk novel ever written and the best parody of cyberpunk ever written.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i still have trouble understanding why heroes took itself so seriously w/ a main character named hiro it was a bad show
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syscall girl posted:the ending of ConPhleb (no CP here)
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:if you cant figure out if a novel whose main character is named "protagonist" and revolves around cyberwarfare in pizza delivery is satire, idk what to tell you i was just checking because some people don't see starship troopers as satire and i thought maybe it was like that but backwards also what can-o-raid said: sci fi authors; cant trust em
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Gus Hobbleton posted:i was just checking because some people don't see starship troopers as satire and i thought maybe it was like that but backwards starship troopers the book was dead serios starship troopers the movie was a satire and people think it was done by an incompetent idiot trying to make money, and that it was pushing a form of fascism like the book Adult Sword Owner fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Dec 11, 2013 |
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Sham bam bamina! posted:or you could call it, you know, consider phlebas. what the hell is it with internet people and needing to abbreviate loving everything? christ, "ConPhleb" saves you, what, a quarter of a second of typing and i guarantee it took you longer to think up in the first place. hey when it comes to work i'm v. verbose and my functions/filenames and whatnot are in plain english, something about scifi just makes me want to concatenate and abbrev. stuff because it's futuristic (like the Gernsback Continuum)
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c almost human s: lol at a robot rolling out his own personal hose for his partners inspection 
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Dec 11, 2013 02:24
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Trig Discipline posted:yeah i may just write this one off just click the ? next to my name and see everything yuo need to know about REAMDE; know that the dull behind the scenes mmo bits are more interesting than what the back third of the novel ends up being Dead Inside Darwin posted:starship troopers the movie was a satire and people think it was done by an incompetent idiot trying to make money, not that it was pushing a form of fascism like the book noted bad opinionhaver did has a bad opinion; noted.
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Dec 11, 2013 02:33
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:dr john crichton switched bodies w/ a lady and jilled off then told her about it anyone that says they wouldn't do this is a loving liar
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Dec 11, 2013 02:36
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Cold on a Cob posted:anyone that says they wouldn't do this is a loving liar
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Dec 11, 2013 02:38
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i mean i might not tell her about it but i'd figure she's doing the same with my body while she had the chanceFMguru posted:id just play with my boobz all the time meh already have my own to play with
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Dec 11, 2013 02:42
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starship troopers the book explained that the words 'juvenile delinquent' only meant that society is responsible for not taking proper care of children (proper care meaning public beatings) in the enlightened future of the now kids are free to do as they will with the expectation that they will be denied the rights of, while being sentenced as, an adult and put into privatized torture institutes i think both of these things are wrong and the actual correct way to deal with adolescence is by sending them off to have vision quests. upon surviving the ordeal and attaining their vision they can then be considered adults and be given suffrage and enfranchisement
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Dec 11, 2013 02:43
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PCjr sidecar posted:noted bad opinionhaver did has a bad opinion; noted. what the actual gently caress are you talking about the movie was a satire
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Dec 11, 2013 03:41
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like seriously if you cant figure it out or you know, read a drat single thing about the movie maybe written by someone smarter than you, perhaps scifi isnt for you.
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Dec 11, 2013 03:43
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"this director who is known for satirical movies surely did this one 100% straight and GOD ITS AWFUL"
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verhoeven is a good movie director man
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:what the actual gently caress are you talking about
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Can-O-Raid posted:yeah dude you got hosed, even i didnt check out terra nova and i was the guy who watched not one but two episodes of loving defiance i've watched all of defiance so far. i really wanted it to be decent. i knew it wasnt going to be but there wasnt poo poo for scifi on at the time and i needed a fix. Monkeyseesaw posted:i really liked anathem and unlike the rest of the 'pos had a great time with the baroque cycle dont do it unless you want to read a 300 page sales pitch for an MMO hacked together with a tom clancy ripoff including the brown people hatred.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:it actually looked like you were saying that it pushed fascism as a work, not within its satirical context noted bad typer did is bad at typing; noted.
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DiggityDoink posted:i've watched all of defiance so far. i really wanted it to be decent. i knew it wasnt going to be but there wasnt poo poo for scifi on at the time and i needed a fix. it hasnt been canceled yet? 
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primer was cool.
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consider phlebas was fun because there was all that action-movie-y stuff at the end and then the epilogue was like "and everyone died and it didn't affect the war even slightly" (and also the death-obsessed aliens who were curating the planet reset everything so there wasn't even evidence of the battle so it was doubly pointless) banks was so great at worldbuilding, and doing it in an interesting way. (crap it still makes me sad that i have to write "was" when referring to him) also lol @ the one dude trying an antigrav jump on an orbital and then dying
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Dec 11, 2013 07:49
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haveblue posted:it was a bad show how do writers that bad get hired by a broadcast corp was it design by committee or just some kinda comic book markov engine
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FMguru posted:id just play with my boobz all the time i'd determine the physical limits of my new genitalia much like how children play w/ a kitty also starship troppers is the poor dumb teenage version of the forever war
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