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Exmond posted:Nyralothep the crawling chaos where nyralothep is an "Alien" (read 15 year old girl) who falls in love and just wants to watch anime and buy manga. Heck, who doesn't?????
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Is book 16 ever going to come out? Is Jim Butcher actually GRRM in disguise?
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Waltzing Along posted:Is book 16 ever going to come out? Yes. When it's done.
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Waltzing Along posted:Is book 16 ever going to come out? Is Jim Butcher actually GRRM in disguise? No. Dresden actually died in Dead Beat. The books up until now have just been the dying impulses in his brain, with subjective time dilation to account for so much poo poo happening.
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Kinda think Jim Butcher is lost without his secret stash of Rifts supplements* to crib ideas from. May the house building finish soon for him. * Mechanoids given the Butcher treatment would be...interesting.
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Sep 26, 2017 01:57
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biracial bear for uncut posted:No. This is actually true for every work of fiction, ever. Makes you think.
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Just got to see Jim Butcher talk at a meet the author event and he is a hilarious turbo nerd in person. Which is to be expected, really. I asked him how he does so well with the technical details of firearms, and apparently he got into shooting to some degree.
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The Rat posted:Just got to see Jim Butcher talk at a meet the author event and he is a hilarious turbo nerd in person. Which is to be expected, really. I asked him how he does so well with the technical details of firearms, and apparently he got into shooting to some degree. He's American. We are all born clutching a gun
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The Rat posted:I asked him how he does so well with the technical details of firearms Does he though? I mean, he hasn't said anything super-egregious about them but I seem to remember Dresden being extremely stupid about the "technology" of firearms.
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My girlfriend asked for a recommendation for something to listen to on her commute. Her last book was a bit of a downer so I recommend Dresden. She's loving it so far. Just finished the demon encounter in book 1.
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Sep 29, 2017 14:55
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Does he though? Having mistakes pointed out might have been the reason for him to seek practical experience in the first place.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Does he though? He admitted to being bad about it in the first few books, but learned since then.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:21
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Please - I'd rather have a writer bad with firearms than read more Larry Correia.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Does he though? Murphys special gun has been talked about at length a few times I believe.
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Wizchine posted:Please - I'd rather have a writer bad with firearms than read more Larry Correia. Authors that get things wrong about guns are buried under the tidal wave of complaints they get from gun people. It's worth the small amount of effort needed to pick up some basic knowledge just to avoid that shitstorm.
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Sometimes too little knowledge can confuse people. I just watched a movie review where they didn't understand why the main character filled hollow points with mercury fulminate. They thought he was trying to give them mercury poisoning. Mercury fulminate is what's in primers, it explodes on impact.
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Now I'm imagining a book where an author starts a car chase scene with saying the protagonist shifted into 5th gear from a dead stop and flooring to go as fast as possible.
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Yeah, I want to say it was Dead Beat where Harry "thumbs back the trigger" on his .44 Kudos on him for trying to get better though. The two craziest groups for accuracy are gun people and horse people. Get their stuff wrong and they'll string you up.
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Oct 2, 2017 19:26
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Hence the high mortality among writers of westerns.
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Mortanis posted:Yeah, I want to say it was Dead Beat where Harry "thumbs back the trigger" on his .44 I was going to protest this sentiment, being a recreational marksman, but it's true. I'm also extremely unpleasant to watch historical movies with as I tend to nitpick those as well.
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Biologists get annoyed, too, though we tend to be able to give them a pass since no one ever gets biology-related things right. The one glaring example that stands out to me in Dresden is how he detects a cottonmouth snake on Demonreach, despite extreme southern Illinois being the northernmost point of their range (snake nerd).
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My brother gets up-in-arms about stuff relating to climbing and cycling (racing) but not too many movies feature those pursuits. As a kid, I used to yell all the time about dinosaur-related stuff, but Hollywood has done a pretty good job with them since Jurassic Park.
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OneTwentySix posted:Biologists get annoyed, too, though we tend to be able to give them a pass since no one ever gets biology-related things right. The one glaring example that stands out to me in Dresden is how he detects a cottonmouth snake on Demonreach, despite extreme southern Illinois being the northernmost point of their range (snake nerd). I caught that one myself, and I'm not a biologist. Ultimately, this kind of stuff rarely bothers me a lot. A factual error or two? Fine. There's really only one that pisses me off, and it's when media suggests taking cover under a bridge during a tornado. You're far better off in a ditch or even just flat on the ground than up on a slope in an area where the air gets compressed (and thus moves at greater speed).
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Oct 2, 2017 21:46
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try watching/ reading about computer related stuff as a software engineer
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BabyFur Denny posted:try watching/ reading about computer related stuff as a software engineer I refuse to watch the show Scorpion (or whatever it's called) because I KNOW I would be raging at the TV in 30 seconds. In fact the only show I didn't roll my eyes at was Mr Robot. There was also minimal eye-roll at Person of Interest because FUTURE TECH A.I. 
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Oct 2, 2017 22:41
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Honestly, where setting realism is concerned, we should probably be happy that Butcher even seems aware that Chicago is a city in Illinois.
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BabyFur Denny posted:try watching/ reading about computer related stuff as a software engineer My go to for that is still the NCIS hacking scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msX4oAXpvUE
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MildShow posted:My go to for that is still the NCIS hacking scene. I'd like to submit the entirety of Swordfish but here is my favorite part ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ds9CeG-VY
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MildShow posted:My go to for that is still the NCIS hacking scene. The saddest thing (besides that I know this, which I blame on a hospital visit last year and being too groggy for anything but the finest of dumb television), is that it isn't even the only time they've done the doubling-up-on-the-keyboard thing. I just want to know how something like that gets to screen without somebody in the writers' room, one of the actors, somebody saying "Wait, this is dumb as gently caress." I can understand an author making a dumb mistake. A show that requires something like a hundred people to create, not so much.
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What do you mean? That's how hacking works. And two people typing at the keyboard means you can type twice as fast. I think you've just been doing it wrong all this time.
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Proteus Jones posted:I refuse to watch the show Scorpion (or whatever it's called) because I KNOW I would be raging at the TV in 30 seconds. Mr. Robot was so refreshing. Like when they wanted to bring down a server farm for a bit, and they break into the place, crack open a thermostat, plug a rasberry pi into it, then later, remotely they turn up the temperature, causing the servers to overheat. I remember thinking, "Silly TV shows, that....actually, that could work." Or when they want to hack into the police station, so they drop a bunch of thumb drives in the parking lot to the station, with something on them saying they're advertising some free music promotion. Then an officer picks one up, is curious, plugs it into a computer, and malware installs on the computer, allowing the hackers a way in. This not only happens, it happens so often that companies train employees against it now in security training. The only thing it plays with is how long things take, like how he'll brute force a password in a pretty short amount of time. But I forgive that for sake of story telling.
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thrawn527 posted:Mr. Robot was so refreshing. Like when they wanted to bring down a server farm for a bit, and they break into the place, crack open a thermostat, plug a rasberry pi into it, then later, remotely they turn up the temperature, causing the servers to overheat. I remember thinking, "Silly TV shows, that....actually, that could work." thrawn527 posted:The only thing it plays with is how long things take, like how he'll brute force a password in a pretty short amount of time. But I forgive that for sake of story telling.
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ClydeFrog posted:Not much has topped the terribleness of this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNtcWpY4YLY
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Blasphemeral posted:This sounds like my kinda jam. I'll need to check it out at some point. Honestly, I can't remember this was first season, so you may be right, and this isn't really a complaint. Mr. Robot is really loving good, you should check it out.
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My wife is coming up on the end of Changes for the first time, I'll try and have a camera ready.
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Jxforema posted:My wife is coming up on the end of Changes for the first time, I'll try and have a camera ready. Be sure to tell her that the none of the following books have anything that comes close to all of the poo poo that goes down in the final battle of that book.
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I just reread the Aeronaut's Windlass again, and I really can't wait for the Olympian Affair. Butcher really is stronger when writing an ensemble cast.
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Finished off Atrocity Archive the other day. It wasn't bad, but I way preferred the ideas to the execution. I found some scenes a little confusing, found a few parts of the story in need of a little punching up, and then it just sorta... ends. Not a huge fan of the huge battleship paragraphs. Was the author an IT guy? Parts of it read like an insert. I feel like the story after Atrocity Archive ( The Concrete Jungle ) is more interesting, and I kind of find myself wishing it was the first story for a couple of different reasons. ClydeFrog posted:Not much has topped the terribleness of this Someone has never basked in the horrible glory of SVU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FljQ2HEJkP4
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:Was the author an IT guy? Parts of it read like an insert. Yep. The books get better, though the second one is divisive among Stross's fanbase; you either love it or hate it.
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