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lol is that loving real?
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Condiv Link to Ozy posted:
What the gently caress? What does this even mean? What's the point of bringing this up?
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:37 |
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ate poo poo on live tv posted:lol is that loving real? no player of games is by all accounts a really good book and Iain M. Banks is a serious and well-respected author. what i quoted was written by a goon
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:38 |
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Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skillful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life. The Culture's Special Circumstances inquires about his willingness to participate in a long journey, though won't explain further unless Gurgeh agrees to participate. While he is considering this offer, one of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from Special Circumstances due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his matches in an attempt to win in an unprecedented perfect fashion. The attempt fails, but Mawhrin-Skel uses its recording of the event to blackmail Gurgeh into accepting the offer and insisting that Mawhrin-Skel be admitted back into Special Circumstances as well. Gurgeh spends the next two years travelling to the Empire of Azad in the Small Magellanic Cloud, where a complex game (also named Azad) is used to determine social rank and political status. The game itself is sufficiently subtle and complex that a player's tactics reflect his own political and philosophical outlook. By the time he arrives, he has grasped the game but is unsure how he will measure up against opponents who have been studying it for their entire lives. Gurgeh lands on the Empire's home planet of Eä, accompanied by another drone, Flere-Imsaho. As a Culture citizen, he naturally plays with a style markedly different from his opponents, many of whom stack the odds against him one way or another, such as forming backroom agreements to cooperate against him (which is allowed by the game's rules). As he advances through the tournament he is matched against increasingly powerful Azad politicians, and ultimately the Emperor himself in the final round. The final contests take place on Echronedal, the Fire Planet, which undergoes a natural conflagration fueled by native plants that produce huge amounts of oxygen. The final game is timed to end when the flames engulf the castle where the event takes place, symbolically renewing the Empire by fire. However, faced with defeat, the Emperor orders his men to kill all the spectators, and then attempts to kill Gurgeh, but he is himself killed by a shot from his own weapon, deflected by Flere-Imsaho (who later refuses to tell Gurgeh if it was coincidental). Flere-Imsaho reveals that Gurgeh's participation was part of a Culture plot to overthrow the corrupt and savage Empire from within, and that he, the player, was in fact a pawn in a much larger game. Although Gurgeh never discovers the whole truth, in the final sentences of the novel the narrator is revealed to be Flere-Imsaho, who had been disguised as Mawhrin-Skel to manipulate Gurgeh into taking part in the game.
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Stein/Putie 2020–????
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:41 |
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lmao how is this real
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:42 |
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etalian posted:Jernau Morat Gurgeh, a famously skillful player of board games and other similar contests, lives on Chiark Orbital, and is bored with his successful life. The Culture's Special Circumstances inquires about his willingness to participate in a long journey, though won't explain further unless Gurgeh agrees to participate. While he is considering this offer, one of his drone friends, Mawhrin-Skel, which had been ejected from Special Circumstances due to its unstable personality, convinces him to cheat in one of his matches in an attempt to win in an unprecedented perfect fashion. The attempt fails, but Mawhrin-Skel uses its recording of the event to blackmail Gurgeh into accepting the offer and insisting that Mawhrin-Skel be admitted back into Special Circumstances as well. Isn't this basically Yu-Gi-Oh! In SPACE
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Gurgeh/Deez Nuts 2020
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:45 |
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/889142106513698818
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:47 |
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not gonna be left wing breitbart for real until one of these guys dies of cocaine induced heart failure
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:49 |
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Yinlock posted:i like to do both those things!!! rude, you 🥀! except they're defending the status quo, they dont want to change the world bold move by joy to admit she's an enemy of justice
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:51 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i can see how zuck would relate with the main character (gurgeh) who is a bored guy, and who is basically uber-rich since he lives in a full-automated post-scarcity economy with unlimited resources. That's not actually what happens.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 17:54 |
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lmao, I like this overused argument, you must leave corporation loving centrist in power or the right will win! quote:If Chapo Trap House and its political brethren are the rising stars of Democratic politics, they bring anxiety with them. The battle within party could echo the fights of the 60s, which pitted the New Left against cold war liberalism, contributed to the chaos of the 1968 convention and helped open a divide that ushered in nearly a decade of conservative government. Dishonest failed bad dems had their chance but now must be removed from power.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:01 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:Isn't this basically Yu-Gi-Oh! In SPACE The Game of Azad is really a metaphor for meritocracy, and like real life "meritocracies" it relies on a lot of hypocrisies and institutional bias to maintain the dominance of the empire and its ruling classes, including racial prejudice against non-Azadians despite nominally being a game that anybody could participate in.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:03 |
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Because calling your congressman is so 20th century.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:03 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:The Game of Azad is really a metaphor for meritocracy, and like real life "meritocracies" it relies on a lot of hypocrisies and institutional bias to maintain the dominance of the empire and its ruling classes, including racial prejudice against non-Azadians despite nominally being a game that anybody could participate in. So pretty much, yeah. If you're not an eccentric dragon-obsessed billionaire, some degree of magically empowered maniacal supervillain, the literal maker of the game or possessed by an ancient ghost who has the superpower of cheating, you ain't winning poo poo no matter how good you are and how much you talk about friendship.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:06 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i can see how zuck would relate with the main character (gurgeh) who is a bored guy, and who is basically uber-rich since he lives in a full-automated post-scarcity economy with unlimited resources. it was a bad society
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:07 |
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This is actually a good article
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:09 |
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Venom Snake posted:This is actually a good article i've never seen an instance of an otherwise reasonable article being given an inflammatory or provocative headline, having lived my entire life up to this moment in a damp, lightless cave
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:16 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:So pretty much, yeah. If you're not an eccentric dragon-obsessed billionaire, some degree of magically empowered maniacal supervillain, the literal maker of the game or possessed by an ancient ghost who has the superpower of cheating, you ain't winning poo poo no matter how good you are and how much you talk about friendship. The climax of Player of Games is a really cool sequence that deals directly with this, because Gurgeh plays against the Emperor the way that the Culture would organize its strategies fighting another space empire. He becomes crestfallen once he realizes that it's impossible for the Emperor to win, because the machine minds who run The Culture had already gamed out the probability of Gurgeh winning the tournament, and practically knew in advance that he would win. The reality was that from the beginning, there was never a contest.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:18 |
this huckster should be pelted with rotten fruitsquote:The phrase “bend the knee”, a historical gesture of deference, was interpreted by some critics’ terms of gender and identity politics – realms into which Chapo hosts often throw grenades.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:24 |
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The New York senator said the new Democratic agenda, set to be unveiled on Monday, would include proposals to "just go after these drug companies when they raise prices so egregiously and people can't afford these drugs" and a plan to "change the way companies can merge," mentioning the cable, airline and gas industries. flashback: Question: On the Amendment (Dorgan Amdt. No. 2793 ) Vote Number: 377 Vote Date: December 15, 2009, 06:45 PM Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Amendment Rejected Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 2793 to S.Amdt. 2786 to H.R. 3590 (Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009) Statement of Purpose: To provide for the importation of prescription drugs. Vote Counts: YEAs51 NAYs48
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Willa Rogers posted:The New York senator said the new Democratic agenda, set to be unveiled on Monday, would include proposals to "just go after these drug companies when they raise prices so egregiously and people can't afford these drugs" and a plan to "change the way companies can merge," mentioning the cable, airline and gas industries. A lot has changed since 2009; and I'm only saying that because chuck at the very least seems to realize that the party is going to get hosed if it doesn't wake up
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SKULL.GIF posted:this huckster should be pelted with rotten fruits how dare the guardian publish criticism of My Perfect Chapo Boys
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:27 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:how dare the guardian publish criticism of My Perfect Chapo Boys He was referring to the quoted person from All The Single Ladies I think
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:27 |
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Venom Snake posted:A lot has changed since 2009; and I'm only saying that because chuck at the very least seems to realize that the party is going to get hosed if it doesn't wake up Schumer could also simply be stating the obvious so that he doesn't get primaried, while not seriously pursuing anything resembling justice.
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Bend the knee gets read as an ableist reference, further revealing the Chapo Trap House dirtbags as these who would spit upon the less-advantaged of us. Shame on them!
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Venom Snake posted:A lot has changed since 2009; and I'm only saying that because chuck at the very least seems to realize that the party is going to get hosed if it doesn't wake up what *hasn't* changed is the dems' willingness to promote popular public policy only when they're out of any kind of power to pass it. And their recruitment of blue dogs for 2018 ensures that these proposals will never ever come to pass even if dems retake congress.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:31 |
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ah yes slightly tightening up regulations on the mergers of mega-corps. this will surely drive people to vote for us
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:31 |
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the clinton/obama wing needs to get on their knees and suck bernie's dick
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:32 |
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SKULL.GIF posted:this huckster should be pelted with rotten fruits When confronted by the left bad dems accuse reformersof sexist or racist behavior
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:33 |
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also amusing is chuck's statement that single payer is "on the table" rather than an integral part of tomorrow's policy release
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:33 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:i've never seen an instance of an otherwise reasonable article being given an inflammatory or provocative headline, having lived my entire life up to this moment in a damp, lightless cave death to all headline writers imo
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:38 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:also amusing is chuck's statement that single payer is "on the table" rather than an integral part of tomorrow's policy release That's what Eddie Huang is gonna stuff his face with at OZY.
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# ? Jul 23, 2017 18:39 |
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Fallen Hamprince posted:how dare the guardian publish criticism of My Perfect Chapo Boys Another great joke from the hampurse
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Schumer could also simply be stating the obvious so that he doesn't get primaried, while not seriously pursuing anything resembling justice. You could very well be correct but for some as previously indebted to wall street to be saying these things really does show fear of the left (where previously it had been the other way around). Idk thats just my "endless optimist" take
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