XK posted:

I wonder, when EightAce referred to whale as "Wales", was there intentionally on ulterior meaning?

Also, as to EightAce's credentials: I had a couple of PMs with Derek a few months back about EightAce's identity. I asked him about a few specific completely circumstantial pieces of evidence I discerned. Without giving any real details of our 3-4 message conversation, he denied my wild conjecture of it being a certain person I suggested, but he did back EightAce's legitimacy in an absolute fashion which I believed. That, along with the track record of his predictive posts in this thread, and the fact that such a large dysfunctional operation would likely have disgruntled leaks, leads me to believe EightAce is very likely legit.

ManofManyAliases posted:

He's not great. But there was a specific part of the book that was fantastic at getting you to think. I'd prefer not to ruin it for others here, and a spoiler's too long. If anyone's interested, pm me and I'll tell you.

ewe2 posted:

Alas! I have not 4k in disposable income so was unable to buy jpegsbring you this feast of parp until now! But perhaps it was for the best, for I laboured upon the parp and parped more of it. Given the travails of late, I joined the healing power of reggae with the stark beauty of Neil Young's songy stuff, and there was much desperate stabs at humourrejoicing.




* There are 17 parps in the lyrics but the song has more, how many can you count?
* SPECIAL FEATURE: Taking back it back for goondom, a royalty-free personal goondeyadda parp singalong WITH HANDCLAPS for Mr Derek Smart Esq, safe from internet supervision. Sing it for your favourite goon or SC shill! The list is so long...
* Said singalong contains an awful attempt at toasting, I sound like Grover the muppet doing Billy Rasta Skank. It's the thought that counts, and I laughed a lot while doing it.
* ManofManyAliases: learn to laugh at yourself. It will set you free. You've already lost the money.
* Hey paid CIG reader: play this in the office, get a singalong going.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I've never read Forever War, I'll try reading it this weekend

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

I dunno. EightAce is awesome, but he's got some real quirks in his writing that I'd usually explain with dyslexia

Some of it is so odd though that I half suspect he's consciously doing it, like him always writing "Stimporer" and such

I'm a supporter of any conspiracy theories you guys think up so go ahead

1500 posted:

God I hated Hyperion, that guy is just in love with the words and not the story. Words should be for enhancing the story and the world, not for word vomiting onto the page, read a poem if you want that.

Edit: and this is coming from someone that loves reading shakespeare.

Eonwe posted:

is anyone else savoring EightAce's post

I don't mean think its a good post, I mean actually savoring it

1500 posted:

“Since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief…”

Has always been rather ironic coming from Shakespeare.

Edit: perhaps a better explanation is required. Perhaps its the difference between someone that knows how to tell a story, and a person that likes to hear himself tell one.

1500 posted:

“Since brevity is the soul of wit / And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief…”

Has always been rather ironic coming from Shakespeare.

Edit: perhaps a better explanation is required. Perhaps its the difference between someone that knows how to tell a story, and a person that likes to hear himself tell one.

ManofManyAliases posted:

Track belts have changed my outlook on life.

El Spamo posted:

Hyperion is strong, but I think there are better sci-fi novels out there. The Expanse, for example, is the new hotness. Well deserved hotness.

quote:

Ty Franck began developing the world of The Expanse as an idea for a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. After a number of years the idea shifted to become the setting for a tabletop game. Abraham, who had already written several books on his own at this point, noticed the depth of the world that Franck had created and thought they should make a book series out of it, saying, "People who write books don't do this much research".

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Ender's Game is pretty good, but the memory of it's spoiled by reading the sequels

G0RF posted:

I have read and re-read it several times, Eonwe.

There is so much there to chew over, but what I appreciate most is EightAce shining light on internal communications and the organizational dynamics between CIG and Foundry.

I feel like I have a pretty decent understanding of the cultures at CIG LA and Austin but Foundry UK/Germany are more opaque to me. I take as a given that they are much better run operations and have long assumed that CIG LA has been an affront and embarrassment to them professionally and source of ongoing grief and frustration.

Yet this begs a lot of questions. Most notably, "How long will they put up with this?"

Foundry is, among other things, the heatsink to CIG LA. Yet even heat sinks have limits to how much they can displace. So EightAce's periodic updates-- especially this latest one-- help shine light on a mysterious area.

On of the many terrible ironies of all this is that Erin could probably turn Star Citizen into a pretty neat Lego Game if given the chance. Destructible environments? DONE. Build your own ship and fly it? Easy. Procedurally generated lego environments-- a neat new challenge for the team. Flying lego ships in space and shooting at other players-- blowing off wings and screwing up their flight physics? Could be hilarious...(Of course, Lego would demand their pound of flesh-- if anyone was going to make bank selling in-game super-ships as DLC, it would be them...)

Star Citizen: Other than that, it's business as usual...

Mr.Tophat posted:

How do you feel about stretch goals now?

Sundowner posted:

I seen posts in here earlier bout a book series and it reminded I really fecking need to get back to reading, I bought a kindle a few months ago and legit haven't finish a single book on it yet so pls give me some recs for good sci-fi exploring space and meeting aliens and colonizing space or some pulpy cyberpunk future with psychedelic android trans girls and shadow runners with green mohawks or whatever

i think i'll sit down and actually finish neuromancer.

G0RF posted:

I have read and re-read it several times, Eonwe.

There is so much there to chew over, but what I appreciate most is EightAce shining light on internal communications and the organizational dynamics between CIG and Foundry.

I feel like I have a pretty decent understanding of the cultures at CIG LA and Austin but Foundry UK/Germany are more opaque to me. I take as a given that they are much better run operations and have long assumed that CIG LA has been an affront and embarrassment to them professionally and source of ongoing grief and frustration.

Yet this begs a lot of questions. Most notably, "How long will they put up with this?"

Foundry is, among other things, the heatsink to CIG LA. Yet even heat sinks have limits to how much they can displace. So EightAce's periodic updates-- especially this latest one-- help shine light on a mysterious area.

On of the many terrible ironies of all this is that Erin could probably turn Star Citizen into a pretty neat Lego Game if given the chance. Destructible environments? DONE. Build your own ship and fly it? Easy. Procedurally generated lego environments-- a neat new challenge for the team. Flying lego ships in space and shooting at other players-- blowing off wings and screwing up their flight physics? Could be hilarious...(Of course, Lego would demand their pound of flesh-- if anyone was going to make bank selling in-game super-ships as DLC, it would be them...)

Star Citizen: Other than that, it's business as usual...

peter gabriel posted:

Star Citizen is terrible you guys

peter gabriel posted:

Oh yeah I forgot about that
Star Citizen is amazing you guys

ManofManyAliases posted:

They're adjustable 1/4in at a time.

ManofManyAliases posted:

"Speaker for the Dead" (which actually came out earlier) and "Xenocide" were fantastic. Xenocide is almost philosophical.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

grimcreaper posted:

Hyperion has been my favorite set of stories for a very long time.

Now... were you talking about the same book, or Hyperion by John Keats the poembookthing?