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DACK FAYDEN posted:Neuromancer (and the other Gibson books set in the Sprawl) are pretty explicit that all the wealth is concentrated in corporate zaibatsus who compete with each other on the open market and the occasional black ops operation - a plot in Count Zero involves a Blackwater-esque professional who takes contracts to poach staff who want to defect from one company to another - but never actually escalate into any sort of combat. The actual dynasties in his world start out big (Tessier-Ashpool is the main mover in Neuromancer) but end up dying to basically the same thing that always happens to inherited wealth, when someone gets a hold of it who's not as good as the main accumulator and then they get eaten by a corporation, etc. It flips the power dynamic between corporations and dynasties, and also ignores the whole bit about how corporations farm goodwill to cash it in for scams until they get liquidated to make debt vanish while the profits go to the dynasties. Which, again, happens far less than cyberpunk setups would assume. It's less about being good at making profit or dirty tricks, and more just being born with the right skin color and last name. Also given what's been happening to inherited wealth past 100 years - nah, the dynasties get eaten by other dynasties wearing the corporations. ... and also have you seen what governments around the world are doing now. If it's "evaluated" by humans the results are promptly ignored by everyone except when it comes to legitimizing harassment, and everyone knows as much.
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Nov 15, 2019 16:13
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Krankenstyle posted:you forgot Kant "if we live in hell and no rational being should want to be in hell then ending all life on Earth is a categorical imperative"
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Nov 15, 2019 16:22
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Paramemetic posted:"if we live in hell and no rational being should want to be in hell then ending all life on Earth is a categorical imperative" This checks out imo
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Nov 15, 2019 17:14
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Colonel Cancer posted:This checks out imo 
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Nov 15, 2019 17:22
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https://twitter.com/elijahdaniel/status/1195374584804990976 the dreamcatcher in the background really makes it *chefs kiss*
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Nov 15, 2019 17:29
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what the gently caress
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Nov 15, 2019 17:52
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actionjackson posted:who is YT and YT's mom YT is a young woman named "Yours Truly" and she works as a pizza delivery driver for Papa John who owns a country
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Nov 15, 2019 18:45
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Fried Watermelon posted:YT is a young woman named "Yours Truly" and she works as a pizza delivery driver for Papa John who owns a country this is just mean EDIT: I mean I'm assuming you're giving wrong information on purpose
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Nov 15, 2019 18:55
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YT isn't a pizza delivery person, she works for an Amazon next day delivery service. the pizza boy is the other main character, the half-black half-japanese hacker who helped design the matrix and dual wields katanas, hiro protagonist
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Nov 15, 2019 19:02
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Just read Snowcrash
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Nov 15, 2019 19:06
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:YT isn't a pizza delivery person, she works for an Amazon next day delivery service. the pizza boy is the other main character, the half-black half-japanese hacker who helped design the matrix and dual wields katanas, hiro protagonist He also helped design the Matrix, and in fact the fact that people can sword duel in the matrix is all because of him.
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Nov 15, 2019 19:07
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With all this Snow Crash posting, I really am surprised that some startup hasn't created an Uber for holding cells yet.
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Nov 15, 2019 19:07
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snow crash is all right if you remember that its a satire of the hellish world of cyberpunk. the pedo poo poo is inexcusable tho. really neal stephenson shouldn't be allowed to write sex scenes, along with 99% of all other people to have ever written anything
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Nov 15, 2019 19:09
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Tashilicious posted:this is just mean Can confirm it is 100% accurate.
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Nov 15, 2019 19:31
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withak posted:Can confirm it is 100% accurate. She's a courier not a pizza deliverygirl
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Nov 15, 2019 19:33
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Serf posted:snow crash is all right if you remember that its a satire of the hellish world of cyberpunk. the pedo poo poo is inexcusable tho. snow crash owns otherwise but yeah Serf posted:really neal stephenson shouldn't be allowed to write sex scenes, along with 99% of all other people to have ever written anything fat pink mast
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Nov 15, 2019 19:33
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Tashilicious posted:She's a courier not a pizza deliverygirl gently caress I am humiliated. edit: She did deliver a pizza once, so technically
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Nov 15, 2019 19:44
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drat, hiro protagonist (is that greek?) sounds fuckin' awesome
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Nov 15, 2019 19:50
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RaySmuckles posted:drat, hiro protagonist (is that greek?) sounds fuckin' awesome It's not Greek, it's a joke. Hero Protagonist.
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Nov 15, 2019 20:22
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ulmont posted:It's not Greek, it's a joke. Hero Protagonist. 
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Nov 15, 2019 20:29
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Gyro Protagonist would be a good username
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Nov 15, 2019 20:33
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gyro "zeppelli" protagonist
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Nov 15, 2019 20:37
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Thank God.
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Nov 15, 2019 20:38
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Overly cute/goofy/dumb/implausible names in fiction (juvenile and adult) used to bother me but powerful people in real life having loving ridiculous names too so  .
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Nov 15, 2019 20:40
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Tubgoat posted:Overly cute/goofy/dumb/implausible names in fiction (juvenile and adult) used to bother me but powerful people in real life having loving ridiculous names too so major double edged sword though *sheds a tear for Reality Winner*
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Nov 15, 2019 20:42
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loving news going on about "whistleblowers have federal protection." Yeah? Then why is Chelsea Manning in prison? Why is Reality Winner in prison? "Good question," my parents reply. YOU FUCKERS KNOW THE ANSWER, GOD loving drat IT.
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Nov 15, 2019 20:46
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Tubgoat posted:loving news going on about "whistleblowers have federal protection." Yeah? Then why is Chelsea Manning in prison? Why is Reality Winner in prison? "Good question," my parents reply. YOU FUCKERS KNOW THE ANSWER, GOD loving drat IT. whistleblowers only have federal protection if they report stuff to their boss, their boss's boss, the relevant regulatory agency (if any), or a member of Congress in other words, the only kinds of whistleblowing that are protected are the ones that allow the government to do nothing and simply cover it up if the misconduct was actually an intentional policy leaking to reporters or the public isn't protected
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Nov 15, 2019 21:24
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yeah if you arent contacting an inspector general it's a crime pretty much.
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Nov 15, 2019 23:19
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Serf posted:snow crash is all right if you remember that its a satire of the hellish world of cyberpunk. the pedo poo poo is inexcusable tho. really neal stephenson shouldn't be allowed to write sex scenes, along with 99% of all other people to have ever written anything I literally can't recommend the rest of the book without feeling like a creep! Good job, Neal!
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Nov 15, 2019 23:23
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Milo and POTUS posted:I literally can't recommend the rest of the book without feeling like a creep! Good job, Neal! What's the one set decades later where the skater girl cameos as an old lady and there's data exchange orgies where the processing power causes a lady to heat up and burn to death after a guy downloads the info via his penis? Police sound scanners could pick up the distinctive sound of aluminum nunchuks too!
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Nov 16, 2019 01:56
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The Diamond Age. also owns.
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Nov 16, 2019 02:21
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Serf posted:snow crash is all right if you remember that its a satire of the hellish world of cyberpunk. the pedo poo poo is inexcusable tho. really neal stephenson shouldn't be allowed to write sex scenes, along with 99% of all other people to have ever written anything He crossed a lot of lines for that triple entendre. There's another part where he burns through a lot of words just to end with, "Magic Hooverpoon." One of my favorite parts is when he's getting shot and his extremely expensive, top-of-the-line bulletproof motorcycle jacket is giving him exact real-time feedback through the integrated HUD on just how badly he's being injured and he has to turn it off. Taintrunner posted:https://twitter.com/elijahdaniel/status/1195374584804990976 how is this elf maiden complaining about how white she is Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 has issued a correction as of 02:33 on Nov 16, 2019 |
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Nov 16, 2019 02:28
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The first chapter of Snow Crash is so loving fantastically good it makes you trudge through the rest of that garbage pile. If anyone's never read it, read the first chapter and stop exactly at the point where Hiro stops delivering pizza and the novel continues.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:38
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autism ZX spectrum posted:The first chapter of Snow Crash is so loving fantastically good it makes you trudge through the rest of that garbage pile. If anyone's never read it, read the first chapter and stop exactly at the point where Hiro stops delivering pizza and the novel continues. No way. Before you bail out, read the 3 paragraphs of Chapter 36 (page 271 of the kindle edition), which open with: quote:Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.
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Nov 16, 2019 03:47
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Just read the whole thing cuz it's not that long and not that difficult and really it's the world building that shines. I guess you can skip the bicameral mind poo poo
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Nov 16, 2019 04:02
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i will never read a book
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Nov 16, 2019 04:05
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Shear Modulus posted:i will never download a book into my dick
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Nov 16, 2019 04:06
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Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3 posted:how is this elf maiden complaining about how white she is
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Nov 16, 2019 04:15
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autism ZX spectrum posted:The first chapter of Snow Crash is so loving fantastically good it makes you trudge through the rest of that garbage pile. If anyone's never read it, read the first chapter and stop exactly at the point where Hiro stops delivering pizza and the novel continues. Stephenson is good in short bits but it's always chained together with long, forgettable stretches where nothing nearly as interesting happens only read Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon all the way through, the latter has a cool scene where the protag is applying irl-theoretical van Eck phreaking, or listening in on someone's terminal session by analyzing the radiation given off by their CRT, in the next room over- that was neat but it's the only part of that book that stuck with me couldn't finish Anathem, Diamond Age, or Seveneves guy should write RPG sourcebooks
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Nov 16, 2019 04:24
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Cryptonomicon is okay to read until it isn't and should then be thrown out a window. Guy can't write a consistent novel for poo poo
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