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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:58 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2019 01:19
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sincx posted:It's like the pizza delivery van vs the magnetic skateboard courier from Snow Crash, except much, much dumber. it was a pizza delivery supercar actually
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Aug 1, 2019 02:34
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The Deliverator’s car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator’s car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, poo poo happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car’s tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the thee asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator’s car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady’s thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.
Platystemon has issued a correction as of 04:27 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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Aug 1, 2019 02:37
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Platystemon posted:The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters. When the Deiverator puts the hammer down, poo poo happens. You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the thee asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta. This is indistinguishable from the actual book.
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Aug 1, 2019 03:43
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MokBa posted:This is indistinguishable from the actual book. thats cause its directly from the book. Doesnt he end up putting the car into a swimming pool
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Aug 1, 2019 04:18
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ya hes trying to make his delivery in time but fails, pissing off the mob
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Aug 1, 2019 04:27
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sincx posted:It's like the pizza delivery van vs the magnetic skateboard courier from Snow Crash, except much, much dumber. You called
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Aug 1, 2019 04:37
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sincx has issued a correction as of 05:58 on Mar 23, 2021 |
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Aug 1, 2019 04:42
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sincx posted:Wrong sci-fi dystopian novel the protagonist from the literal novel being discussed is from the wrong dystopian novel yes
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Aug 1, 2019 05:06
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MokBa posted:This is indistinguishable from the actual book. sincx posted:Wrong sci-fi dystopian novel shameful
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Aug 1, 2019 06:23
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Lmfao have none of you nerds read snow crash for real. It has a real distinct tone and come on how do you not remember the protagonist literally being named protagonist
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Aug 1, 2019 06:35
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Larry Parrish posted:Lmfao have none of you nerds read snow crash for real. It has a real distinct tone and come on how do you not remember the protagonist literally being named protagonist that is literally written so blandly you can't remember it
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Aug 1, 2019 06:45
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Larry Parrish posted:Lmfao have none of you nerds read snow crash for real. It has a real distinct tone and come on how do you not remember the protagonist literally being named protagonist hiro protagonist, the best samurai hacker pizza deliverman in existence. who helped create the matrix and also added in swordfighting to the base code because he's a giant loving nerd.
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Aug 1, 2019 06:47
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Its distinct because it reads like the post about the celebrity youtuber mecha fighting over ad reads, or the Ron Paul one about paying the Verizon bill in bullion but takes itself completely serious
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Aug 1, 2019 06:52
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Goa Tse-tung posted:that is literally written so blandly you can't remember it What, don't you like reading hundreds of pages of detail about the nam-shub of enki?
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Aug 1, 2019 06:53
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Aug 1, 2019 07:32
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I do love me victorian nanopunk
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Aug 1, 2019 07:33
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sincx posted:Oh gently caress I misremembered Cryptonomicon/ Baroque cycle will always have my heart.
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Aug 1, 2019 08:07
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exmachina posted:Cryptonomicon/ Baroque cycle will always have my heart. Musings on the ideal wank frequency for optimal productivity vs. dude with half his penis chopped off getting prostate massaged to orgasm. Tough choice.
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Aug 1, 2019 08:16
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Yeah but that is just to provide relief  from the pages on Van Eeck Phreaking and early modern financial theory
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Aug 1, 2019 08:29
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I often think about Snow Crash just because it was trying to be a parody but ended up being far more prophetic than serious cyberpunk
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Aug 1, 2019 11:05
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I like the part of snow crash where the protagonist is in a gunfight with a bunch of apartheid enthusiasts, and his augmented reality goggles are giving him such detailed information about the threats and specific gun calibers facing him that he finds it distracting from the business at hand (cutting off heads and escaping).
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Aug 1, 2019 11:22
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Asimov posted:I like the part of snow crash where the protagonist is in a gunfight with a bunch of apartheid enthusiasts, and his augmented reality goggles are giving him such detailed information about the threats and specific gun calibers facing him that he finds it distracting from the business at hand (cutting off heads and escaping). The part where he splurged on to taking a premium poo poo was pretty good too.
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Aug 1, 2019 11:28
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Asimov posted:I like the part of snow crash where the protagonist is in a gunfight with a bunch of apartheid enthusiasts, and his augmented reality goggles are giving him such detailed information about the threats and specific gun calibers facing him that he finds it distracting from the business at hand (cutting off heads and escaping). And when he gets shot several times in the back of his extremely durable motorcycle jacket the goggles immediately give him the exact details of how badly he's just been injured. Also the part where YT harpoons the harpooner with her poon. Or the magic hover poon. Lotta poon jokes.
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Aug 1, 2019 12:48
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Really could have stood to lose a few hundred words near the end concerning the dentata, though.
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Aug 1, 2019 13:28
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Powered Descent posted:What, don't you like reading hundreds of pages of detail about the nam-shub of enki? somehow even the dumbest fiction predicts reality edit: oh cool they got sent back last year
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Aug 1, 2019 14:34
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Man says 'I feel foolish' after learning mother's body was sold to US army, strapped to chair and blown upquote:Jim Stauffer donated his mother's corpse for medical research when she died in 2013 after suffering with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Aug 1, 2019 14:57
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 pissing into the wind venture capitalist style https://www.engadget.com/2019/08/01/birds-latest-rideshare-scooter-is-designed-to-thwart-vandals/
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Aug 1, 2019 15:49
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/01/tech/robot-racism-scn-trnd/index.html techbros treat black robots worse than whtie robots
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Aug 1, 2019 17:55
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ekuNNN posted:Man says 'I feel foolish' after learning mother's body was sold to US army, strapped to chair and blown up quote:The centre’s owner Stephen Gore pleaded guilty to running an illegal enterprise in 2015 and was sentenced to serve probation. He has been named in the new law suit.
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Aug 1, 2019 18:50
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bring back old gbs posted:
From the article: quote:The Bird Two comes with autonomous damage sensors, seamless screws, anti-theft encryption, puncture-proof tyres and an industrial-grade anti-tipping kickstand -- so they're far less likely to end up scratched, battered or at the bottom of a river. How does any of that poo poo stop someone from throwing it into a river?
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Aug 2, 2019 00:44
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Someone left a drat scooter on my neighbor's lawn and it was there for several days because they were out of town. I live in a neighborhood that people like to scoot TO but rarely FROM.Jonny 290 posted:thats cause its directly from the book. Well I got really Poe's Law'd with that. Even my memory of the book isn't quite as insane as the reality of it. That said the future predicted in that novel is indistinguishable from the contents of this thread.
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Aug 2, 2019 01:09
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MokBa posted:Someone left a drat scooter on my neighbor's lawn and it was there for several days because they were out of town. I live in a neighborhood that people like to scoot TO but rarely FROM. Hiro Protagonist posted:When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
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Aug 2, 2019 01:20
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Movies? Real debatable that one
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Aug 2, 2019 01:27
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is there a single musical style that hasn't either originated in the us or heavily heavily influenced by one that did that said all the musical heritage of the us is built on black people. its blues and rap that are hugely influential, not arena rock and the kind of bullshit easy listening they put in fallout games
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Aug 2, 2019 01:32
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Larry Parrish posted:is there a single musical style that hasn't either originated in the us or heavily heavily influenced by one that did Heroic ballads sung by viking skalds? Also everything else from before the US existed.
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Aug 2, 2019 01:50
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silentsnack posted:Heroic ballads sung by viking skalds? Also everything else from before the US existed. THERE WAS NO SUCH TIME, CITIZEN NOW PLEASE RETURN TO POSTING ON FACEBOOK, WE MUST FEED THE ALGORITHM MORE DATA
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Aug 2, 2019 01:57
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Larry Parrish posted:is there a single musical style that hasn't either originated in the us or heavily heavily influenced by one that did music was invented by elvis
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Aug 2, 2019 02:03
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nobody listens to sagas anymore. dont be a dumbass. i meant stuff thats actually listened to today. and its not entirely corporate imperialism either, why does basically every language have its own underground hip hop scene if its only popular because of hollywood? also, elvis specifically is basically the original example of white people stealing black music. dont be a disingenuous shitstain tia.
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Aug 2, 2019 02:06
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Larry Parrish posted:dont be a dumbass. 
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