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Dreylad posted:Now gen z, or whatever. You're starting to see articles about how they'll change the world now that we Millennials have failed. Good news everyone, pressure's off we no longer are humanity's future. The oldest millennials, using the definition given earlier, were born in 1983 and are therefore 31. Not even old enough to be President yet. 
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Agents are GO! posted:Revelation Space is loving amazing. Oi, I got your Steam message but my roommate hasn't let me use his computer to answer. My monitor should be here tomorrow or Saturday, thank God. Arthmoor can eat a dick and hopefully the people he 'takedowned' are telling him so.
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Blindeye posted:I thought Rendezvous with Rama wasn't bad. Just make sure to absolutely never read any of the sequels.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:06
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The Baby Boomers are people born during a certain period of time. The Millennials are their children, born during a certain time in their lives. Gen X are the people born in between.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:21
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Just make sure to absolutely never read any of the sequels. I thought the computer game was pretty rad.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:40
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zoux posted:I just saw Gravity and I watched Sunshine last night so D&D posters recommend me good space exploration novels where everything we do out there is fraught with peril and we're not zipping around with artificial gravity or warp drive. I trust yall more than book barn, don't let me down. Stephen Baxter's Manifold trilogy. Confidence is high.
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Jul 25, 2014 04:53
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razorrozar posted:The oldest millennials, using the definition given earlier, were born in 1983 and are therefore 31. Not even old enough to be President yet. Well yeah we're not old enough to earn poo poo like Nobel Prizes.
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DemeaninDemon posted:Well yeah we're not old enough to earn poo poo like Nobel Prizes. So wait, I'm of the last year of Generation X? DAaamn. (Voted in 2000. For Ralph Nader. Florida absentee ballot)
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razorrozar posted:Arthmoor can eat a dick and hopefully the people he 'takedowned' are telling him so. What did he do now?
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Technogeek posted:What did he do now? Tried to c&d some mod authors, according to Agents Are Go.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:10
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razorrozar posted:Tried to c&d some mod authors, according to Agents Are Go. Was this a recent thing or just a reference to Gategate?
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Jul 25, 2014 05:14
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Something new, I think. Agents knows the story more than me, but he's AWOL 
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Absurd Alhazred posted:So wait, I'm of the last year of Generation X? DAaamn. How does it feel to be personally responsible for the crimes of the Bush Administration?
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paragon1 posted:How does it feel to be personally responsible for the crimes of the Bush Administration? 
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Dreylad posted:Now gen z, or whatever. You're starting to see articles about how they'll change the world now that we Millennials have failed. Good news everyone, pressure's off we no longer are humanity's future. thank gently caress. now i dont have to worry how History Will Judge my lifestyle of just smoking weed all the time. its cool, everyone. just another place-holder generation. nothing to see here.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:34
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I don't know the details but I think the Nixon administration did some good things for Tribal Sovereignty. That probably has some long lasting effects. Also I think Jerry means Indian as in south Asian because natives are hella dem, actually
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Jul 25, 2014 05:47
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These are some fairly basic scfi reqs yall.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:48
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zoux posted:These are some fairly basic scfi reqs yall. We don't work for you!
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Jul 25, 2014 05:49
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Read Ursula LeGuin
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Read Ursula LeGuin Oh? Is that a new one never heard of that?
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Jul 25, 2014 05:53
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zoux posted:Tbh I don't like reading old scifi because it gets dated real fast. The zeerust is half the appeal for me. It's fascinating to see what people in the past thought about the future.
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razorrozar posted:The zeerust is half the appeal for me. It's fascinating to see what people in the past thought about the future. No one saw the internet coming. Vernor Vinge who was like in the vanguard of computer tech in his prime in thr early '90's thought we'd be using usenet 5000 years from now.
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Jul 25, 2014 05:58
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my favorite badly aging scifi thing is still the Wiggin siblings taking over the world by blogging real hard
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zoux posted:No one saw the internet coming. Vernor Vinge who was like in the vanguard of computer tech in his prime in thr early '90's thought we'd be using usenet 5000 years from now. I read a novel in the 90's that had a dystopian future where they created weather by building huge asphalt domes and one of the main characters made his fortune selling stuff through a computer system. Most of the U.S. was a wasteland. It wasn't very good but it pegged the Amazon/internet sales model pretty well. Have no clue what the name of it was. edit: I can't even say it was the 90's because this was even before the AOL craze so that's as close as I can get to the timing of when I read it. Desktops had barely advanced beyond the Radio Shack box that you could play pong on. radical meme fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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zoux posted:These are some fairly basic scfi reqs yall.
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zoux posted:Maybe I'll just reread Blindsight. If you're willing to wait, the sequel to Blindsight is coming out in a month or so.
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I'm a fan of Stranger in a Strange Land. It's really interesting to see a classic American Sci-fi author write the precursor to harem anime. For the record, I am not an anime fan, I blame goons for teaching me those words. Bradbury's still a better short story writer. But Zoux, the Foundation series is a really good space exploration scifi series. I've only read the Trilogy though.
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paranoid randroid posted:my favorite badly aging scifi thing is still the Wiggin siblings taking over the world by blogging real hard And then Peter Wiggin blogs so hard he gets elected President of Earth, but then he's a dick so everybody votes for Achilles instead (after he manipulated India into trying to take over Southeast Asia as a ploy to weaken them for an invasion by China), but then Bean shows up and is like "no really Achilles is a dick" and shoots him, so Peter gets to go back to being President of Everything. And that'a after (or maybe at the same time) the Muslim battle school kid secretly becomes Caliph of the Middle East and marries the Indian battle school girl to achieve world peace. God, those books are dumb.
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Chantilly Say posted:And then Peter Wiggin blogs so hard he gets elected President of Earth, but then he's a dick so everybody votes for Achilles instead (after he manipulated India into trying to take over Southeast Asia as a ploy to weaken them for an invasion by China), but then Bean shows up and is like "no really Achilles is a dick" and shoots him, so Peter gets to go back to being President of Everything. I thought the very first, Ender's Game, was a good read and a cool look into a weirdo child's mind who saw everything as intense social politics  I also liked the characterization of the manipulative generals. Just a fun read overall IMO.
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I would like to point out that when I lived in North Carolina I waited on Orson Scott Card more than once and he ate more bread dipped in olive oil than I thought was possible and is a lovely tipper, thanks.
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Joementum posted:2001 and Solaris would also fit the bill, but those are two books where the movie version* is so much better than the book that they aren't even really worth reading. I was going to come in and recommend some Lem, only to find this  Joe, I thought you were cool! Seriously though, Solaris isn't one of Lem's best; it's perhaps the story that deals most heavily with man's inability to cope with his own feelings and emotions, let alone communicate them to alien intelligences. His other works that focus on other aspects of the impossibility of contact with alien species deal more with practical concerns in communication and the extent of alien-ness of non-human beings. The Invincible is more or less a straight-played adventure/mystery novel, His Master's Voice is... Well, a lot of things, I enjoy the brief discussions on philosophy but there's also a bit of a thriller plot-line as well. Eden is a fairly straight-up adventure story, and also a fairly blatant criticism of totalitarian governments. Fiasco might best fit the bill for what Zoux was asking along with Invincible.
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razorrozar posted:The oldest millennials, using the definition given earlier, were born in 1983 and are therefore 31. Not even old enough to be President yet. I was born in 1981 and I fit the Millienial model perfectly - broke, aimless, and a drain on my parents' financial resources. Most of my friends are burnt out and disillusioned just as badly, and we aren't even Americans. Therefore I humbly petition for the inclusion of everyone born in 81 and 82 under the Millienial umbrella. Thanks for your consideration.
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Was watching King of the Hill tonight from the beginning and modern GOP stances are verbatim Dale Gribble
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Wasn't Dale supposed to be a guy you could seriously believe would blow up an IRS building early on and not just a wacky crazy guy?
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http://youtu.be/gw_6b3nXabA
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yeah, Indian as in South Asian sometimes when I see poo poo like this I just 
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That's som'n t'thank about, mooyashi.
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zoux posted:Maybe I'll just reread Blindsight. You could read Echopraxia if you had the ARC like me. (Spoiler: it's good.) 
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Yeah I'm hype as gently caress about it. Still gonna reread it before the new one comes out, even though they are only loosely connected?
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