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grittyreboot posted:Michio Kaku shows up This actually annoys me even more than Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow showing up in Ready Player One because as self-indulgent as it was at least they were consistent with the author's politics and worldview, an "I loving LOVE SCIENCE!!!" Redditor like Cline putting a flake like Kaku in his book is a ridiculous lack of self-awareness even by his standards.
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grittyreboot posted:So I just finished Armada. drat, I thought RPO was bad. Here are some random thoughts. Oh christ, did he keep doing the same poo poo he did with the Japanese characters in RPO? Even by weeaboo standards, that's bad. Every time the Japanese characters showed up in RPO it was like Krusty the Clown's Chinese impressions. Just lovely and embarrassing even by the lovely, embarrassing level of RPO in general.
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The weeb poo poo is toned down this time, but still exists. One Japanese character bows for no reason despite having only been around two westerners for almost twenty years. There's also a Chinese guy who uses his universal translator to speak in "hilarious" Engrish. Zack also expresses mild surprise that a black guy speaks with a British accent.
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grittyreboot posted:-The titular videogame was created with the help of Chris Roberts, Richard Garriott, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Gabe Newell, ans Shigeru Miyamoto with help from James Cameron and Peter Jackson. The end product is a (even by Zack's admission) generic alien invasion simulator instead of a massive clusterfuck of clashing game design philosophies. Hmm...sounds disturbingly familiar.
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That is an impressively inane webcomic, even by the standards of webcomics. Also using the Litany against Fear as part of a story about domestic abuse is embarrassingly tone - deaf
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The best response to that has always been (source)
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I love that "art" to this guy is Voltron and Transformers, and the culmination of all these great artists is the ugliest, boxiest robot ever.  Also, "Many of you probably don't know who Hayao Miyazaki is" ? gently caress off. Kay Kessler has a new favorite as of 01:58 on Aug 6, 2016 |
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I don't know why some of these people take relatively known artists like Miyazaki and act like they're the most obscure around and act superior about it. If you do know of someone obscure, don't be a smug prick about it. Tell me about them and why you like them so much. I know they get off on feeling like they've received access to some arcane knowledge that man was not meant to know, but don't be such a douche about it.
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Zen Pencils is the guy who made that comic about Robin Williams where he "defeats the demon" and "wins the game" by killing himself lmao
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Aug 6, 2016 01:57
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Babe Magnet posted:Zen Pencils is the guy who made that comic about Robin Williams where he "defeats the demon" and "wins the game" by killing himself lmao He also did one where a guy becomes so obsessed with Game of Thrones it ruins his life and he eventually goes crazy and portrayed it as a good thing.
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Aug 6, 2016 02:42
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not hilariously terrible just weirdly surreal https://www.math.brown.edu/~res/farm.pdf
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SurreptitiousMuffin posted:The best response to that has always been This comic made me smile 
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Tetracube posted:not hilariously terrible just weirdly surreal this loving rules
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I always thought the Zen Pencils dude worked on some kinda commission system where people were like "make a comic to go with this quote and I'll pay you", which explains them all being loving awful quotes
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Tetracube posted:not hilariously terrible just weirdly surreal I like this
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shelley posted:I always thought the Zen Pencils dude worked on some kinda commission system where people were like "make a comic to go with this quote and I'll pay you", which explains them all being loving awful quotes goon project: have him illustrate a quote from the racist hotdog guy
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 My review. back cover posted:Ex-cop Jake Cardigan has come back to Earth bent on revenge. Someone framed him for dealing Tek, the ultimate computerised drug.     page 261 posted:Silent images of the funeral of a public official showed on the huge screen. A black skyhearse circling a sun-bright slanting hillside cemetary, six ebony robots carrying a black coffin, a gaunt old woman, sobbing, being supported and comforted by a gleaming silvery priestbot. Everything has dumb sci-fi names like "plas-whatever" but the story could easily be set n the '80s. You'd basically just have to do a find/replace to get rid of the dumb jargon and that would be it. Also half the characters are Mexican and pepper their dialogue with basic Spanish words. In one randomly selected page I spotted two "amigo"s, "cabeza" and "nada". But all the dialogue is pretty much terrible even without that.
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"The man's arms went up and he started to flap them in a limp, disjointed way, like someone who felt compelled to complete some strange exercise." How can a simile be so on-the-nose and so off-target at the same time? That thing is pure Lyttle Lytton. Also, thanks for the Goodreads link, through which I found this bit of loveliness.
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Aug 11, 2016 04:43
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Would posting the entire manuscript of eragon be cheating?
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Arcsquad12 posted:Would posting the entire manuscript of eragon be cheating? A highlights reel maybe?
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Oh, let me! http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Star-Wars-A-New-Hope.html
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grittyreboot posted:So I just finished Armada. drat, I thought RPO was bad. Here are some random thoughts. The part that kills me is that it's not just a dumb story with terrible writing designed to pander to nerds, it's also bad at pandering to nerds. It reads like a book that was farmed out to some elderly hack who was told to bang out a story about them newfangled Nintemdoes for the kiddies; it's hilariously out of touch with basically every part of nerd and gamer culture, and poo poo like the credit list for the invasion simulator just reads like someone typed "famous videogame designers" into google and called it a day.
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Tiggum posted:
You have actually reminded me that I drunkenly grabbed the first book for like a dollar on my Kindle a while back, I might have to fire it up.
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shelley posted:I always thought the Zen Pencils dude worked on some kinda commission system where people were like "make a comic to go with this quote and I'll pay you", which explains them all being loving awful quotes This was always my assumption.
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Guy Mann posted:This actually annoys me even more than Wil Wheaton and Cory Doctorow showing up in Ready Player One People read this book and thought it was good and were happy? How? Good lord, it's worse than "it's my birthday *every character from everything ever comes and throws a huge party*"
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Neil Gaiman showing up as a character in the Severed Streets was annoying as gently caress as well. There was no reason it had to be him, but it was there so the author could write the word "squee" in his otherwise pretty excellent book.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:People read this book and thought it was good and were happy? Not only were they in it, they were the vice president and president respectively. It's serious Poe's Law poo poo, because two atheist copyleft "geek culture" internet celebrities gleefully ruling over a wasteland where people live in piles of garbage and escape it in a virtual world of 80s pop culture would be scathing satire in the hands of literally anybody else. SurreptitiousMuffin posted:Neil Gaiman showing up as a character in the Severed Streets was annoying as gently caress as well. There was no reason it had to be him, but it was there so the author could write the word "squee" in his otherwise pretty excellent book. 
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Which doctorow book is especially bad? Because I read When Sysadmins Ruled The World and I was shocked that people like his work. What do you think most exemplifies his work?
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grittyreboot posted:Which doctorow book is especially bad? Because I read When Sysadmins Ruled The World and I was shocked that people like his work. What do you think most exemplifies his work? Little Brother
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Alaois posted:Little Brother Is that the one with the girlfriend who's just so cool because she's a capsaicin junkie whose culinary preference doubles as pepper spray?
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grittyreboot posted:Which doctorow book is especially bad?
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Is that the one with the girlfriend who's just so cool because she's a capsaicin junkie whose culinary preference doubles as pepper spray? Yes, yes it is
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Anyone have a link to the LF Cory Doctorow mock thread? IIRC it was pretty brilliant. e: found it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2843583&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1 spite house has a new favorite as of 02:19 on Aug 14, 2016 |
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John Big Booty posted:The real question is "Which one is least lovely?" I recall the one despite featuring a magical pixie girlfriend, had some good stuff about the protagonist having a washing machine as a mother type of magic realist weirdness. But the whole book was about how giving free community WiFi is good and corporations are bad, so, eh
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The Saddest Rhino posted:I recall the one despite featuring a magical pixie girlfriend, had some good stuff about the protagonist having a washing machine as a mother type of magic realist weirdness. But the whole book was about how giving free community WiFi is good and corporations are bad, so, eh "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town." I read it a number of years ago, and all I remember is that it was really surreal. It's worth it for the line, "My father was a mountain and my mother was a washing machine. He kept a roof over our heads and she kept our clothes clean." Also yeah the main thrust of the plot was free Wi-Fi and also family issues. I don't remember it being all that good or particularly enjoying it.
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I used to read Cory Doctorow's books because of his excellent and important ideas on Internet freedom. His nonfiction propaganda is good polemic. Unfortunately, this is the precise style you don't want to read fiction in. I got to the end of Makers once (didn't read it a second time), skimmed through Little Brother, swore off all Doctorow henceforth. And I still don't know how "When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth" ends - I listened to the first four parts as the audiobook read by Doctorow while cleaning the house several years ago - and I don't care. I'm not so keen on the propaganda now either.
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spite house posted:Anyone have a link to the LF Cory Doctorow mock thread? IIRC it was pretty brilliant. So I started reading the thread, and my first response was that this satire was way too heavy-handed and over the top. And then I realized they were real quotes. People thought that poo poo was good? I... have no words. My dyslexic werewolf-porn authoring sister-in-law writes 10 times better than that, and I've seen her confuse dual and duel at least half a dozen times.
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Domus posted:My dyslexic werewolf-porn authoring sister-in-law
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