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# ? Jun 21, 2019 22:45 |
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LanceHunter posted:Reading the Cyberpunk 2020 history of what happens from 1990 to 2020 is...pretty weird. Well, it certainly is eventful. Francis Fukuyama was clearly wrong, but I kind of wonder if there was some merit to the general idea of an end of history.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 23:09 |
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SwitchbladeKult posted:EP is one of my favorite tabletop settings. Too bad the mechanics are dog poo poo. never played a game and not enough of a dork to try but reading about the setting in all the source books was rad as hell
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 00:50 |
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Skyscraper posted:Well, it certainly is eventful. Francis Fukuyama was clearly wrong, but I kind of wonder if there was some merit to the general idea of an end of history. Francis Fukuyama being as wrong as possible about literally everything has been one of the highlights of the last 30 years
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 00:53 |
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vodkat posted:never played a game and not enough of a dork to try but reading about the setting in all the source books was rad as hell yeah same I found a site with all the pdfs on a while back (a flashback in itself, remember when you could download pirated things directly off a website, often in multiple zips? lol) and they make for interesting browsing. Of course I can't put the link here in my post for legal reasons.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 01:09 |
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vodkat posted:Francis Fukuyama being as wrong as possible about literally everything has been one of the highlights of the last 30 years i listened to a piece about him a while ago, apparently he's done a hell of a mea culpa and goes around owning up to being wrong on things, with the caveat that "well at the time it seemed reasonable but i missed a couple of things"
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 01:16 |
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uncurable mlady posted:"i missed a couple of things"
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 01:18 |
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haveblue posted:if your eyes freeze, blink once, then blink again two seconds later, then blink eight seconds later, then two seconds again, then
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 03:12 |
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FMguru posted:oh, word? word up
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 05:05 |
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any good* cyberpunk books lately? * entertaining is acceptable i guess
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 10:41 |
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Richard Morgan is still coming out with new stuff and it's....okay A memory called empire by Arkady Martine is good, and maybe qualifies? It's like cyberpunk but not particularly grimey. maybe veers too into regular scifi? idk gonadic io fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Jun 22, 2019 |
# ? Jun 22, 2019 11:40 |
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gonadic io posted:Can't wait to have the company that manufactured my eyeballs go out of business and stop releasing software updates so my eyeballs start mining bitcoin this is basically insulin pumps now so yeah
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 11:55 |
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gonadic io posted:Richard Morgan is still coming out with new stuff and it's....okay thx kinda soured on Morgan cause of his gross sex scenes and also hating the gently caress out of Market Forces I'll check out memory tho!
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 13:15 |
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Krankenstyle posted:any good* cyberpunk books lately? The new York times
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 20:24 |
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Captain Foo posted:The new York times i suppose thats entertaining rather than good
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 20:45 |
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 04:17 |
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I listened to half a Richard Morgan audiobook and turned it off part way through a creepy sex scene
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 05:23 |
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https://twitter.com/papapishu/status/1142646706724573184
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 05:25 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:yeah same I found a site with all the pdfs on a while back (a flashback in itself, remember when you could download pirated things directly off a website, often in multiple zips? lol) and they make for interesting browsing. Of course I can't put the link here in my post for legal reasons. I’m pretty sure all the eclipse phase books are CC licensed. They link to epub conversions on their website.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 08:23 |
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:I listened to half a Richard Morgan audiobook and turned it off part way through a creepy sex scene i've kind of wondered how that sort of thing works in audiobooks is the narrator attempting to keep a neutral voice, but keeps cracking and showing audible revulsion at the creepy poo poo that happens to be in this book? or can you definitely hear them getting weirdly into it? no i'm not gonna listen to an audiobook with creepy sex scenes to find out
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 09:07 |
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isn't cstross's non-cthulu work series cyberpunk? I think there's parallel dimension hopping too but idk I've not actually read it
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 09:43 |
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gonadic io posted:isn't cstross's non-cthulu work series cyberpunk? I think there's parallel dimension hopping too but idk I've not actually read it Accelerando sounds pretty wild tbh: quote:They discover that they are being hosted in a Matrioshka brain, the builders of which seem to have disappeared (or been destroyed by their own creations), leaving an anarchy ruled by sentient, viral corporations and scavengers who attempt to use newcomers as currency. The crew finally escape by offering passage to a "rogue alien corporation" (a "pyramid scheme crossed with a 419 scam"), virtualised as a giant slug
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 11:17 |
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lol well this sounds p. drat cyber https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kailo-the-future-of-pain-relief sorry ‘cyber quackery’ I guess it would at least look futuristic to wear
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 13:55 |
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gonadic io posted:isn't cstross's non-cthulu work series cyberpunk? I think there's parallel dimension hopping too but idk I've not actually read it accelerando and glasshouse are probably the most, but halting state and rule 34 are as well. just about all his non laundry files stuff is some form of cyberpunk.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 14:10 |
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Midjack posted:accelerando and glasshouse are probably the most, but halting state and rule 34 are as well. just about all his non laundry files stuff is some form of cyberpunk. I wouldn’t call the Merchant Princes books (the dimension hopping ones) cpunk, but they are entertaining and build to a good, nuke-slinging finale. The ‘Empire Games’ books which are like ’Merchant Princes:TNG’ are also fun and are finally expanding on some weird parallel earth tech that’s been teased for like five books I also don’t remember any sexy times in any of either series books so they are fine to read for the lights-off hole-in-sheet yospos krewe me, entering the Gentlemen Loser Hacker Bar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6CL3gcCPMI
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 14:24 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I wouldn’t call the Merchant Princes books (the dimension hopping ones) cpunk, but they are entertaining and build to a good, nuke-slinging finale. The ‘Empire Games’ books which are like ’Merchant Princes:TNG’ are also fun and are finally expanding on some weird parallel earth tech that’s been teased for like five books good point, i haven’t gotten to merchant princes yet.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:04 |
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:I listened to half a Richard Morgan audiobook and turned it off part way through a creepy sex scene saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:39 |
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Agile Vector posted:saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals loving lmao
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:56 |
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Agile Vector posted:saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals big curse if true
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 16:24 |
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Agile Vector posted:saaaaame. i think it was the third kovacs novel and the narrator kept doing a south tough lady voice and it was overwhelming when they started talking about their genitals ahahaha hahaha gross
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:28 |
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Jabor posted:i've kind of wondered how that sort of thing works in audiobooks https://vocaroo.com/i/s1pE1mPN7Zqw
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:39 |
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Accelerando is great cyberpunk mixed with futurism, and also happens to have the most absurd sex scenes in sci fi.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 19:04 |
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e: nm, wrong guy
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 19:33 |
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infernal machines posted:e: nm, wrong guy
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 19:43 |
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TimWinter posted:Accelerando is great cyberpunk mixed with futurism, and also happens to have the most absurd sex scenes in sci fi. the orgynism in k.w. jeter’s Noir is gonna be hard to beat. that and Dr. Adder are a couple of other good cyberpunk reads, as are his blade runner sequels.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 22:00 |
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communism bitch posted:Accelerando sounds pretty wild tbh: yeah Accelerando is some good poo poo
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 00:18 |
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Midjack posted:the orgynism in k.w. jeter’s Noir is gonna be hard to beat. noir is such a weird book, I came across it as a teenager and it think it scarred me a little. combination of weird sex stuff and a very nineties view of copyright: “KW Jeter completely unironically” posted:There’s a hardware solution to intellectual-property theft. It’s called a .357 magnum. No better way for taking pirates off-line. Permanently. Properly applied to the head of any copyright-infringing little bastard, this works.
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 02:51 |
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:noir is such a weird book, I came across it as a teenager and it think it scarred me a little. combination of weird sex stuff and a very nineties view of copyright: i always took it as being super satirical of intellectual property rights and megacorp behavior in general.
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 03:25 |
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accelerando is pretty good except for the weird sperm-stealing scene
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 06:01 |
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I'm spermjacking in to the network
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# ? Jun 24, 2019 13:58 |