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earlier somebody pointed out that the writings of "locke and demosthenes" from ender's game are basically a blog. it just now dawned on me that peter's blog exists in real life the internet's anonymous leading light in anti-democratic, anti-enlightenment ideals is Mencius Moldbug the original blog: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/ someone else's index by topic: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ it is fuckin awesome that we basically live in the cyberpunk future, where governments wage secret computer wars and anonymous figures post volumes of reactionary polemic
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NoneMoreNegative posted:You should look at Richard Kadrey for similar tat, only not as highbrow as Stross oh god quote:Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim, star of this gripping, gritty new series by Richard Kadrey this is the laziest loving poo poo right here and no force on earth could get me to read it
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Heresiarch posted:oh god lol is that a novelization of a cancelled tv series or something
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Cocoa Crispies posted:lol is that a novelization of a cancelled tv series or something More like a novelization of something that only got a pilot and never saw the light of day  Total trash, but I got them for 99p apiece and at least got my eye roll muscles a workout.
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i feel so much better about the horrible thing i'm writing on and off right now because at least it's sort of vaguely original and not literally the plot to an fps game
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Heresiarch posted:i feel so much better about the horrible thing i'm writing on and off right now because at least it's sort of vaguely original and not literally the plot to an fps game you should try working for a publishing company and having the sometimes job of reading through the unsolicited manuscript pile, it really makes you feel like a genius also it's depressing because you keep hoping for a ray of sanity, much less a truly great thing, or an even marginally good thing gl with you're endeavor
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 i wonder how upset stross was when he saw this cover for the first time
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syscall girl posted:you should try working for a publishing company and having the sometimes job of reading through the unsolicited manuscript pile, it really makes you feel like a genius i used to have a friend who was a small-press comic book publisher and she would have get-togethers where everybody would help her go through her slush pile and share the "best" ones. if you think it's bad for manuscripts, now imagine the terrors you discover with unsolicited comic book pages sent to a publisher with a nonspecific target market also i assume you've read "slushkiller" already?
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my posts heading towards this thread at 100m/s, my periapse is set to poo poo
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Heresiarch posted:also i assume you've read "slushkiller" already? no, link? google suggests this
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syscall girl posted:no, link? yep it'll probably not be anything new to you but it's a good piece
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Heresiarch posted:i used to have a friend who was a small-press comic book publisher and she would have get-togethers where everybody would help her go through her slush pile and share the "best" ones. if you think it's bad for manuscripts, now imagine the terrors you discover with unsolicited comic book pages sent to a publisher with a nonspecific target market also, this reminds me of helping my brother edit some straight up porn for a local 'zine it had an ok twist at the end and got published i guess i had to actually talk to him about some of the problems with the writing and my suggested fixes and just eww, had to drink quite a bit in an attempt to forget all the  material theremakes me wonder for the sanity of who or whatever approves gross goonporn for amazon
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syscall girl posted:also, this reminds me of helping my brother edit some straight up porn for a local 'zine i forgot to mention that she published porn comics too, which made the slush pile even more hazardous on the other hand some of it was loving hilarious, and this was before digital art was so common, so it wasn't so easy to find that kind of spectacular incompetence "this guy appears to be drawing breasts with a compass" etc
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syscall girl posted:also, this reminds me of helping my brother edit some straight up porn for a local 'zine I see an apparent lack of empathy. tell me about your father. No, I'm not Han Solo, just posing as your friendly neighborhood Scientology auditor. Now cough for me. . ..
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fyi riddick is on itunes but the new extended cut isn't as good as the theatrical cut which basically makes it the same poo poo as blade runner but without a foray into lazer disks or vhs
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Cocoa Crispies posted:fyi riddick is on itunes but the new extended cut isn't as good as the theatrical cut sure you don't mean aliens or dune or w/e? because the theatrical cut of blade runner has this phoned-in scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKSr3vb32U
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MancXVI posted:sure you don't mean aliens or dune or w/e? because the theatrical cut of blade runner has this phoned-in scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKSr3vb32U That pumped me up so hard. Can you find the happy end to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, now? I might be able to dig up the scrip to the deleted ending to the Shining to raise ya.
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Shaggar posted:I've never seen the theatrical cut. is the narration that bad in the rest of it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpROah79qcs full disclosure: i haven't seen the theatrical cut either but these youtube clips don't make a good case for it Wikipedia posted:The 1982 American theatrical version released by the studio included the "happy ending" but with the addition of Harrison Ford's voiceovers.[1] Although several different versions of the script had included a narration of some sort, Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott decided to add scenes to provide the information; but financiers rewrote and reinserted narration during post-production after test audience members indicated difficulty understanding the film. It has been suggested that Ford intentionally performed the voice-over badly, in the hope it would not be used,[1] but he stated in 1999: "I contested it mightily at the time. It was not an organic part of the film."[6] Later in a 2002 interview with Playboy magazine, he clarified: "I delivered it to the best of my ability, given that I had no input. I never thought they'd use it. But I didn't try and sandbag it. It was simply bad narration."[7] MancXVI fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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MancXVI posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpROah79qcs I DONT KNOW WHY HE SAVED MY LIFE
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Metal Pink Babble posted:That pumped me up so hard. Can you find the happy end to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, now? I might be able to dig up the scrip to the deleted ending to the Shining to raise ya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3YMaxqjfoQ 
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yeah i watched the theatrical version by accident once and it's really, really bad i didnt realize it was the theatrical i just thought it was like, rose colored glasses or something i watched it with my girlfriend and the whole time i was saying things like 'wow i dont remember it being this bad' and 'i'm really sorry i used to love this movie but it's been a while' DONT THREAD ON ME fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Dec 19, 2013 |
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dude, she didn't get it because she was ONE OF THEM!!! man, that movie rocks in a cyberpunk noir kind of way, but you could see no inference through your rose-colored glasses - you were rused!
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poo poo maybe thats what happened i remember watching blade runner somewhat recently and just thinking meh the entire time and now i barely even remember watching it maybe i got a lovely version
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Metal Pink Babble posted:dude, she didn't get it because she was ONE OF THEM!!! man, that movie rocks in a cyberpunk noir kind of way, but you could see no inference through your rose-colored glasses - you were rused! totes mcgotes
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Metal Pink Babble posted:That pumped me up so hard. Can you find the happy end to Terry Gilliam's Brazil, now? I might be able to dig up the scrip to the deleted ending to the Shining to raise ya. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqKWxAmOLaM my favorite alternate ending liek if you cry every time also, the happy end to brazil is turning it off right before it goes back to michael palin's cooling tower of pain
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Just finished Ds9. Took a minute to hit its stride but man it owned big time. Super enjoyed it
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not readin that post because i'm on season 6 still because i am forcing myself to watch one episode per month 3 more years of ds9 
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It turns out sisko was a robot
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hubris.height posted:
also c windup girl s: poo poo got real book suddenly got interesting beyond a world building perspective
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SynthOrange posted:It turns out sisko was a robot turns out nog was a sexy cardassian lady
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im glad i wasnt the only one concerned with the psychological effects of being transporter chief
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Smythe posted:im glad i wasnt the only one concerned with the psychological effects of being transporter chief they could at least give the dude a fuckin chair or something, i mean God, is he supposed to stand at that console the whole 8 hour shift or whatever? i realize the writers never put any thought into his character in tng other than having someone to exposit that their beaming down, but common
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Can-O-Raid posted:they could at least give the dude a fuckin chair or something, i mean God, is he supposed to stand at that console the whole 8 hour shift or whatever? I thought 'Standing Desks' were a good thing?
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the lack of chairs in TNG never made sense because every time the ship shakes slightly they go flying across the bridge
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