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I don't think the dogpile on Strix is necessary
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Nov 1, 2017 14:56
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https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/78xua9/mea_spoiler_the_quarian_ark_will_be_resolved_in/ TLDR Cat Valente loves Mass Effect and wishes franchise fiction was better quality.
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Nov 1, 2017 22:18
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I don't think the dogpile on Strix is necessary fun, though
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Nov 1, 2017 22:36
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chernobyl kinsman posted:fun, though 
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Nov 1, 2017 23:31
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You never answered if you were the one who recommended cherryh to me
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Nov 1, 2017 23:58
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Alaan posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/78xua9/mea_spoiler_the_quarian_ark_will_be_resolved_in/ Am I supposed to know who this is
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Nov 2, 2017 00:29
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Well, her writing Mass Effect novels was the topic of discussion about 10 posts ago.
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Nov 2, 2017 00:36
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Mel Mudkiper posted:You never answered if you were the one who recommended cherryh to me I was. That whole discussion got frustrating so I left the thread for a while. Cherryh writes some of the finest sci-fi if not the best sci-fi I've ever read, and Cyteen is one of my all-time favorite novels for how it looks at human psychology, how future tech might impact society, realistic politics, and so on.
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Nov 2, 2017 00:37
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StrixNebulosa posted:I was. That whole discussion got frustrating so I left the thread for a while. She has some interesting scenes and ideas (I liked the weird drugged out woman on man rape scene) but holy christ does she need an editor
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Nov 2, 2017 00:54
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Mel Mudkiper posted:She has some interesting scenes and ideas (I liked the weird drugged out woman on man rape scene) but holy christ does she need an editor What would you have had her cut?
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Nov 2, 2017 02:19
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StrixNebulosa posted:What would you have had her cut? The explicit world-building, the overlong dialogs that serve only to establish the rules of the world, the intricate political details of a wholly imagined world, the lethargic pace of her descriptions. I would not have cut scenes as much I would have her take Hemingway's shears to her prose in general. I feel like there was very little in the first hundred pages that couldn't have been equally accomplished in 20 or so.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:22
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The explicit world-building, the overlong dialogs that serve only to establish the rules of the world, the intricate political details of a wholly imagined world, the lethargic pace of her descriptions. I'm a sucker for world-building, fantasy politics, and her writing style, so I disagree - but thank you for the breakdown! I'm going to reread Cyteen again in the next year so I'll look at those pages again from a new perspective. 
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Nov 2, 2017 02:26
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As I've stated before, I loathe world building as a concept and as a goal. I feel sometimes like sci fi authors spend all their energy on the setting and forget that their characters are not simply vehicles for the plot
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Nov 2, 2017 02:31
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Mel Mudkiper posted:As I've stated before, I loathe world building as a concept and as a goal. I feel sometimes like sci fi authors spend all their energy on the setting and forget that their characters are not simply vehicles for the plot This is a problem that's prevalent in genre fiction, but when you can find an author who uses the world building to create genuinely interesting plots and conflicts, it's worth it. Jane Fancher's Groundties is another example of this being pulled off, in my opinion - but she writes like Cherryh so I don't know if you'd like it. Peter Watts' Starfish is in the same vein, but written very differently. Have you read his stuff? Also, if the world building is fun - like in Shadowrun - I enjoy reading it just for escapism reasons. The characters become my vehicles to see the world, and if they're bad tour guides, oh well.
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Nov 2, 2017 02:42
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I'm hoping someone here has the knowledge to help me out: I have a rather large ebook library, and I've been trying to finally get around to organizing it and importing it into calibre. I'm having trouble with regular expressions for importing the metadata from the filename, since I include the series name and index in the filename for books that are a part of a series. I have two main file name formats: Last, First - Series Name ## - Book Title.typ and Last, First - Book Title.typ does anyone know how or even if its possible to work a regular expression to ignore the lack of series name block? I have way too many books to go add a dummy series name and index, plus that'd look dumb if I had a bunch of files that went Bonerhitler, Weedlord - DUMMY 00 - Goku blahblah.420. I have a very basic knowledge of regex that I just learned a couple hours ago, and the best i can figure out right now is to somehow check for the index and use that to determine what the second grouping should be read in as, but obviously I have nowhere near the experience to figure out what that'd look like. Hopefully someone here does 
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Nov 17, 2017 14:55
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Based on what you've shown I don't think you have to solve the problem with regex. Split the string on the "-" character. In the array that produces select the first item for the author name (presumably that's what that is?) and the last item in the array for the name of the book. You can test to see if there are three items in the array f you want to collect the name of the series as well.
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Nov 17, 2017 16:28
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I'm hoping someone here has the knowledge to help me out: I have a rather large ebook library, and I've been trying to finally get around to organizing it and importing it into calibre. I'm having trouble with regular expressions for importing the metadata from the filename, since I include the series name and index in the filename for books that are a part of a series. I have two main file name formats: (?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ? seems to work with both "Last, First - Series Name 01 - Book Title.mobi" and "Last, First - Book Title.mobi"
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Nov 17, 2017 16:54
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pepperoni and keys posted:(?P<author>[^_-]+) -?\s*(?P<series>[^_0-9-]*)(?P<series_index>[0-9]*)\s*-\s*(?P<title>[^_].+) ?  you are amazing. I'm trying to wrap my head around this whole pseudo language but i just cant seem to grok it. Nowhere I can find has detailed examples and explanations for why stuff works! I get most everything in your solution, but I just can't quite figure out how it correctly identifies the author field when its not part of a series
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Nov 17, 2017 17:37
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:
+ (1 or more) and * (0 or more) are greedy and will slurp up as much as they can. Since the first - is optional (?), if it's not there, the <author> group will slurp up what the <series> groups would have matched if the - was there. I think. Regexes can get pretty gross and are horrible to read but they're very nice to write and fantastic to use. Only use them for disposable one-time stuff imo.
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Nov 17, 2017 18:14
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Hey, it's the last 24 hours for the 2017 Book Barn Secret Santa! Come and take a look if you're at all interested and email me if you want to sign up. If you want to join in but are busy today, drop me an email and I'll let you sneak in in the next couple of days.
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Nov 20, 2017 05:29
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Hello. I started a thread in BYOB about classical Chinese poetry in English translation (Li Po, Tu Fu et. al, translated by Pound/Williams/Snyder and more) because I didn't know where else to put it, but anyway, if you are interested in or know about classical Chinese poetry, perhaps you would like to give it a look? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3842584
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I just tried reading Worm, by Wildbow, the internet serial novel about superheros. It's really popular and I hear good things, but I can't get into it because it's so depressing.
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Dec 12, 2017 02:02
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Good evening TBB I have never posted here I mainly stay in my comic book filled hovel over in BSS. But I wasn't sure who to share this with as it is a new chapter in a Harry Potter novel! Also I'm procrastinating the gently caress out of my late night as I have a final in Network Security Auditing in the morning. Enjoy! http://botnik.org/content/harry-potter.html It was made by a predictive keyboard after being fed all seven of the Harry Potter novels. It starts off sort of coherent then dips in to a weird nightmare trip that's............well see for yourselves Jiro fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 14, 2017 |
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Dec 14, 2017 07:37
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"What about Ron Magic?" offered Ron. To Harry, Ron was a loud, slow, and soft bird. Harry did not like to think about birds.
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Dec 14, 2017 11:54
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Jiro posted:Good evening TBB I have never posted here I mainly stay in my comic book filled hovel over in BSS. But I wasn't sure who to share this with as it is a new chapter in a Harry Potter novel! Also I'm procrastinating the gently caress out of my late night as I have a final in Network Security Auditing in the morning. Enjoy! This is incredible. More entertaining than the normal books. "Ron's Ron shirt was just as bad as Ron himself". That is a line that should have been in the Rowling books. DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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Dec 15, 2017 02:57
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Jiro posted:Good evening TBB I have never posted here I mainly stay in my comic book filled hovel over in BSS. But I wasn't sure who to share this with as it is a new chapter in a Harry Potter novel! Also I'm procrastinating the gently caress out of my late night as I have a final in Network Security Auditing in the morning. Enjoy! You are all Hagrid now.
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BEEF WOMEN
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So after listening to the Mike Nelson podcast about rpo without reading the book I still don't understand what the theme of the book was
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Dec 18, 2017 23:23
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Calaveron posted:So after listening to the Mike Nelson podcast about rpo without reading the book I still don't understand what the theme of the book was I just finished listening to that same podcast I think Mike Nelson explained the theme excellently at one point "hey manchild look how your pop culture obsession is actually cool and you haven't wasted your life and you will get everything you want without ever having to grow as a person" It's a manchild fairy tale
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Dec 19, 2017 00:20
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My girlfriend love/hates trashy romance novels and sends me quotes from ones she's paged through at Walgreens, or wherever. Do any of y'all have suggestions for any extremely bad, trashy romance novels? I know it's a weird request, but I think it'd make a great Christmas gift/ruin our relationship
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Dec 19, 2017 05:00
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Check your local library, though may be too late to catch one of their sales. They usually have stacks they need the purge. My friend bought multiple boxes of romance novels for under $10 and proceeded to replace every book on another friends shelf with them. Vengeance for for being given the D20 Book of Erotic Fantasy.
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Dec 19, 2017 05:16
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Carl Killer Miller posted:My girlfriend love/hates trashy romance novels and sends me quotes from ones she's paged through at Walgreens, or wherever. Do any of y'all have suggestions for any extremely bad, trashy romance novels? I know it's a weird request, but I think it'd make a great Christmas gift/ruin our relationship I was going to recommend Tender Wings of Desire but I don't see it on Amazon any more.
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Dec 19, 2017 05:18
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Carl Killer Miller posted:My girlfriend love/hates trashy romance novels and sends me quotes from ones she's paged through at Walgreens, or wherever. Do any of y'all have suggestions for any extremely bad, trashy romance novels? I know it's a weird request, but I think it'd make a great Christmas gift/ruin our relationship My friend, have you heard of the romance classic Pregnesia? 
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Dec 19, 2017 05:22
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Mel Mudkiper posted:I just finished listening to that same podcast Like as I understand the book presents the Willy Wonka man’s obsession with the 80’s to be cool and good, same with the nerd man’s obsession with it and with Willy Wonka, except at the end the prerecorded message is like “enjoy reality” but it goes contrary to everything the nerd did to get there at a meta level so I don’t understand what was that supposed to mean
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Dec 19, 2017 12:54
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Carl Killer Miller posted:My girlfriend love/hates trashy romance novels and sends me quotes from ones she's paged through at Walgreens, or wherever. Do any of y'all have suggestions for any extremely bad, trashy romance novels? I know it's a weird request, but I think it'd make a great Christmas gift/ruin our relationship Pretty much any shirtless man romance is guaranteed to be pretty bad. Titles with "Duke", "Rogue", "Rake", "Highlander". All bad. And theres SO MANY of them.
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Dec 21, 2017 00:46
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Calaveron posted:Like as I understand the book presents the Willy Wonka man’s obsession with the 80’s to be cool and good, same with the nerd man’s obsession with it and with Willy Wonka, except at the end the prerecorded message is like “enjoy reality” but it goes contrary to everything the nerd did to get there at a meta level so I don’t understand what was that supposed to mean You're thinking about it much more than the dumbass who wrote it did
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Dec 21, 2017 03:52
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Reading James Clavell's Gaijin after Shogun and the plotting feels a lot worse. It also feels like Clavell cannot get his hand off his dick as he writes, and it's a lot worse than in Shogun.
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Dec 22, 2017 02:02
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Mel Mudkiper posted:The explicit world-building, the overlong dialogs that serve only to establish the rules of the world, the intricate political details of a wholly imagined world, the lethargic pace of her descriptions. IMO, Cherryh has two modes of writing; the slow, often politics-heavy building up of the characters and setting, and the fast oh-poo poo-everything-is-on-fire. Pretty much all of her books end up in the latter eventually, but most of them start in the former, including all of her longest stuff (Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Fortress in the Eye of Time, Foreigner, etc). I love both styles, but I wonder if you might not prefer one of the books that starts off with everything on fire like The Pride of the Chanur. Or Voyager in Night if you enjoy the feeling of your brain being rolled up and slowly pulled out through your eyes. ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Dec 25, 2017 |
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What are some books that are literally too dangerous to handle? I'm thinking of things along the lines of the U of Michigan's Shadows from the Walls of Death, which consists of 86 pages of arsenic-soaked wallpaper samples, or Marie Curie's still-radioactive journals. e: Shadows is sealed, each individual page is encapsulated, and you can only handle it while wearing gloves. Curie's journals are kept in a lead box, you must wear protective clothing when handling them, and the library makes you sign a liability waiver before they'll let you in. chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 00:44 on Dec 25, 2017 |
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