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"we are not things" - a nippley babe, 2015
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If women weren't objects, I wouldn't be able to pick them up. Check and mate.
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Larry Parrish posted:If women weren't objects, I wouldn't be able to pick them up. Check and mate. well you can't, so this holds up at least
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Nov 18, 2015 04:44
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what's extremely sexy and goes OOOEEEEOOOOOOO charlize theremon
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Hey. Let me start by saying that I'm completely new to this sub and to reading scifi. I just started reading again after a looong (8 years) hiatus and I thought I'd read some SciFi classics since I really like the genre. So I read Neuromancer and it was one of the hardest books I've read, and not in an engaging way. The story seemed to be all over the place, and was progressing really slowly among walls of description text. I had to re-read pages on multiple occasions because it had jumped locations and didn't realize, so I had to go see if I missed something. I could never keep a clear visualization of the environments in my head at any given moment. The main character was uninteresting and I didn't connect with him at all. He seemed empty to me and his drug use was the only character development I ever saw from him. It is said to be genre defining etc etc, but my enjoyment of it was contained withing certain chapters (near the end) while most of it was mostly tedious. I got through it though because I wanted to see if it would get better. Honestly I don't know if I like it. I'm left confused (not by the story) and wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if I'm missing something. Is it one of these books that gets better the second time you read it? Is it just harder for a new-ish reader like me and that's why I didn't enjoy it as much as I though I would? What are you guys' opinions of the book? Should I read the next two of the Sprawl Trilogy or are they more of the same?
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Nov 18, 2015 05:45
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:The main character was uninteresting and I didn't connect with him at all. He seemed empty to me and his drug use was the only character development I ever saw from him. its u
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Nov 18, 2015 05:55
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i think gibson's writing style settles down a bit in the later novels, but they're structured much the same. if you found neuomancer to be a slog, you probably won't enjoy the others much
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Nov 18, 2015 05:56
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it's a reddit post you rubes
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Nov 18, 2015 06:01
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how could you tell in a thread like this?
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Nov 18, 2015 06:06
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mona lisa overdrive's writing is a lot more in check than the other two
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Nov 18, 2015 06:12
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"The Time Dissolver" is a cool account name
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Nov 18, 2015 06:58
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More like Timed Dick Solver.
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Nov 18, 2015 07:05
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http://gizmodo.com/seiko-is-re-issuing-the-futuristic-watch-ripley-wore-in-1742998200
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Nov 18, 2015 07:15
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I'm a huge gibson fan, but I've been reading The Peripheral and for whatever reason it's just not clicking like most of his other stuff.
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Nov 18, 2015 08:36
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lol, key and peele are detective partners on fargo
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Nov 18, 2015 09:06
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Amethyst posted:"The Time Dissolver" is a cool account name yeah too bad about his loving posts
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Cocoa Crispies posted:scifi discussion thread: straight outta gibson yeah it's time
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just started the new GITS movie cause smoka said it didnt suck and i appreciate his anime opinion. but as a broken body, every time i watch anything involving cyborgs i just dream of the day i can get a robo-back. i would literally give everything i am and own to be able to have a body that isnt crippled
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Nov 18, 2015 10:35
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Trig Discipline posted:what's extremely sexy and goes OOOEEEEOOOOOOO
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Trig Discipline posted:what's extremely sexy and goes OOOEEEEOOOOOOO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MI0nslrYo
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infernal machines posted:how could you tell in a thread like this? because he called the thread a "sub", which is short for subreddit. DiggityDoink posted:just started the new GITS movie cause smoka said it didnt suck and i appreciate his anime opinion. I watched it in theatre a few days ago( a strange experience for a millennial). I will agree with the fact that it didn't suck, but I feel like it's about time to put GitS down and go to some new IP, or at least try something with different characters in a different part of the setting. I feel like the more detailed scifi gets, the worse it is, and the best thing about scifi is that process of exploration of a concept that isn't (yet) real. GitS is getting to the point where the characters are flanderizing and the plot has run out of places to go. Amethyst posted:the robots in star wars are clearly sentient painted bird posted:you can't deny that we automatically gender both R2D2 and C3PO as dudes though Larry Parrish posted:If women weren't objects, I wouldn't be able to pick them up. Check and mate. oh baby, you wanna instantiate? I think we could try some of my private methods, if you know what I mean Oh yeah, and if you haven't read it already, read True History , a piece of ancient roman scifi. It's not terrible.
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syscall girl posted:lol, key and peele are detective partners on fargo
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forgot to convert house of suns to mobi before leaving the house, so starting on wasp factory instead first impression: 
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Heresiarch posted:the sprawl trilogy (neuromancer etc) all hold up okay as long as you can manage the obvious reverse anachronisms (like payphones). i re-read neuromancer and count zero this year and they're both still really good, i started mona lisa overdrive and it was also still good but i had a headcrash and never went back to it what's a headcrash?
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Nov 18, 2015 18:51
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Moist von Lipwig posted:what's a headcrash? brain broke
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Moist von Lipwig posted:what's a headcrash? this sub-forum is sad brain central, you figure it out
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Keldoclock posted:The chief problem is of course, that these are characters, and so they are actually just a subset of literary humans, rather than being a good predictor of a theoretical real robot. Star Wars droids are an interesting case r2 is a boy he has a metal penis he uses to do sex on big busty computer babes
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Gus Hobbleton posted:forgot to convert house of suns to mobi before leaving the house, so starting on wasp factory instead now there's an interesting novel!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZERYyFxc0lg&hd=1 watched this last night, holy lol
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DiggityDoink posted:just started the new GITS movie cause smoka said it didnt suck and i appreciate his anime opinion. what happened, if you don't mind me asking?
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Tanith posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZERYyFxc0lg&hd=1 why has no one told me that this exists
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Dodoman posted:why has no one told me that this exists 
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Dodoman posted:why has no one told me that this exists I only found out about it last week
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Jonah Ray is the star of the new MST3K: I don't know much about him, does anyone here? I still don't know if the show will work without the original creators.
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joel is pretty good imo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hidden_Fortress#Influencewikipedia posted:Influence isnt this why c3po and r2d2 are defintely guys?
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Tanith posted:I only found out about it last week they did a rifftrax of it fairly recently so that may be why i only recently saw robot jox for this reason
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Moist von Lipwig posted:
poor genetics and lovely medical care for the most part. i was getting out of a car one day, blacked out in pain and woke up in the ER. i had ruptured 4 discs in my lower back, S1 to L2. everyone on my mom's side of the family has a hosed up back and i managed to get the full level of poo poo. ive tried to look back and see if there was a specific injury that lead to it but i have no idea. i got to wait around for almost 2 years for surgery, unable to walk, because i had no insurance at the time. when i did get the operation, they just took out the hosed up chunks of disc instead of actually replacing them so im still in pain but not nearly as much. i cant run, jump, dance, lift anything over like 20 pounds, do the job i went to school for and sex is painful in the not fun way this was 6 years ago if im remembering right DiggityDoink fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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DiggityDoink posted:poor genetics and lovely medical care for the most part. i was getting out of a car one day, blacked out in pain and woke up in the ER. i had ruptured 4 discs in my lower back, S1 to L2. everyone on my mom's side of the family has a hosed up back and i managed to get the full level of poo poo. ive tried to look back and see if there was a specific injury that lead to it but i have no idea. why the gently caress didn't they repair/replace the damaged discs, i assume you went in knowing they were just going to pull it out?
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