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Truman Peyote posted:- they call it a "medium post"
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Mar 1, 2021 14:09
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solid sensible chuckle
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Mar 1, 2021 15:21
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Truman Peyote posted:- they call it a "medium post" this is why we're here, folks
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Mar 1, 2021 16:14
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Truman Peyote posted:- they call it a "medium post" xD
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Mar 1, 2021 23:45
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I watched an extremely schlocky 1982 sci fi prison escape movie on shudder called Turkey Shoot aka Escape 2000, set in the far flung future of 1995 a fascist government throws "deviants" into prison camps for re-education with a twist. it features a bitchy crossbow horse lady, a wolfman, a fair amount of nudity and a whole lot of analog synthesizers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqu0nnhJk18 like 10 minutes in I thought "I bet ~NmN~ has this on his plex"
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Mar 2, 2021 00:48
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2 seconds into the trailer and i'm already sold
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Mar 2, 2021 01:38
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lmao at calling off the hunt and instead giving orders to kill them
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Mar 2, 2021 02:25
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watching i bought a vampire motorcycle, so far its a schlocky british version of christine but with a motorcycle, its pretty great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbvqz-nv7Zw
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Mar 2, 2021 02:40
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Wife and I were discussing what we're reading at dinner and she mentioned picking up a book on Kindle for free that was like a mystery thriller. Described the beginning and it sounded super familiar. She kept describing bits and pieces, like she didn't have a super clear picture of what was going on, everything was so secretive. I asked her what the title was and she was like, "It's got a weird title, like Tailor, Soldier, Tinker?" I've only seen the movie but I still found the whole thing incredibly endearing.
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Mar 2, 2021 02:41
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I'm reading Ministry for the Future. it starts out with a heat wave in India in 2024 that kills 20 million people. pretty bleak so far!
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Mar 2, 2021 03:42
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indigi posted:I'm reading Ministry for the Future. it starts out with a heat wave in India in 2024 that kills 20 million people. pretty bleak so far! this is an actual possibility re: climate change btw
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Mar 2, 2021 05:47
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fart simpson posted:this is an actual possibility re: climate change btw I know. this book was billed as an anti-dystopic take on climate change and I wonder when that starts kicking in. right now international capital is mobilizing against India for trying to force adherence to the Paris Accords
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Mar 2, 2021 06:10
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indigi posted:I'm reading Ministry for the Future. it starts out with a heat wave in India in 2024 that kills 20 million people. pretty bleak so far! I quite liked that book, there's a lot of interesting stuff in it, and some great lines. The bit where some ecoterrorists kidnap everyone at Davos and make them watch educational films about the climate crisis and the attendee is like "we weren't stupid, we already knew all this" made me chuckle pretty hard. I also think that he's a bit optimistic about the problem - a lot of the solutions in the book are fairly technocratic or about bending international capital to our will. I feel like the actual material changes in people's lives necessary to fight the climate crisis are enourmously unpopular though and are the real obstacle, even if they seem trivial compared to the magnitude of the crisis! distortion park fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 08:27
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lol OK what's in the cheap kindle daily deal..? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Kings-Stormlight-Archive-Book-ebook/dp/B004H4XAXO Hmm wait Print length : 1005 pages  loving fantasy authors and their doorstep-sized books man.edit: book one of a four book series; Book 2: 574 pages ok not so bad Book 3: 1241 pages lol what Book 4: 1395 pages please stop NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 14:06
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol OK what's in the cheap kindle daily deal..? it's because he gives a million random characters their own chapter, the books have a lot of filler imo i don't mind high page counts because i burn through the fuckers but it's hard to keep my interest if there are huge swaths of nothing really happening
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Mar 2, 2021 14:39
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Carthag Tuek posted:lmao at calling off the hunt and instead giving orders to kill them lmao
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Mar 2, 2021 16:50
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The new TOR freebie is up online (Download before 11:59 PM ET, March 5th, 2021.) https://ebookclub.tor.com/ quote:The Unspoken Name Gotta be honest that's some fine praise from authors I have enjoyed, even though I'm kinda off Fantasy at the moment I will give this a whirl
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Mar 2, 2021 17:01
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pointsofdata posted:I quite liked that book, there's a lot of interesting stuff in it, and some great lines. he’s very optimistic imo, we’re completely hosed
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Mar 2, 2021 19:40
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I'm finally getting around to reading the next three body problem book The Dark Forest and it's pretty okay
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Mar 2, 2021 19:41
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I'm finally getting around to reading the next three body problem book The Dark Forest and it's pretty okay i started the second one cause i didn't know what else to read and idk man
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Mar 2, 2021 19:43
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rotor posted:i started the second one cause i didn't know what else to read and idk man sophons!!!!!!
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Mar 2, 2021 19:44
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rotor posted:i started the second one cause i didn't know what else to read and idk man i did not care for it
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Mar 2, 2021 19:56
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I like it ok, why didn't you like it?
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Mar 2, 2021 20:02
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I like it ok, why didn't you like it? i just didn't, i found it tedious. i didn't enjoy half the first book either although i did like looking through various experiences at the cultural revolution since it's not something i'm intimately familiar with
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Mar 2, 2021 20:03
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i dont remember if it was the 2nd or 3rd three body problem book, but one of them was incredibly boring for the first half and then suddenly got pretty decent. i remember not being jazzed by the ending of the series, but i found the whole dark forest cosmology thing pretty interesting. maybe this is just me showing my naivete, but i hadn't thought about that before so i really enjoyed an exploration of the idea by a competent author+translator. finding that core conceit compelling made missteps in the story not matter so much for me, and the writing itself was good so i was pretty happy with the series
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Mar 2, 2021 20:28
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yeah for me the first book was interesting because of the cultural revolution stuff, then kind of right at the end it asked an interesting question but other than that it was just really tedious. The second book seems content to just be tedious all the time.
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Mar 2, 2021 20:36
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if you havent read this, its a quick read and its fantastic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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Mar 3, 2021 00:29
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it's sad chris farely died and we all got stuck with adam sandler
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Mar 3, 2021 02:00
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in a parallel universe, chris farley starred in Uncut Gems
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Mar 3, 2021 02:07
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rotor posted:yeah for me the first book was interesting because of the cultural revolution stuff, then kind of right at the end it asked an interesting question but other than that it was just really tedious. same. the end i just skipped cause it was worse than red mars
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Mar 3, 2021 02:21
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Carthag Tuek posted:if you havent read this, its a quick read and its fantastic: this is cool and makes me want to replay SOMA again
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Mar 3, 2021 02:23
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Shaggar posted:same. the end i just skipped cause it was worse than red mars lol gently caress this book too i finally started reading it last week and it's just like, constantly super racist to arabs? five pages in and the narrator is going on about the masculine wife beating arabs. i googled and found no white people talking about it but there's notably an arabic dude on the author's own website who is like jfc this is ridiculous i'm not going to bother reading any more of it
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Mar 3, 2021 02:23
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SmokaDustbowl posted:it's sad chris farely died and we all got stuck with adam sandler
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Mar 3, 2021 02:52
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Shaggar posted:same. the end i just skipped cause it was worse than red mars i liked the second book the best idk. third book was weak but the last half was kinda fun to see him have fun with the physics stuff
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Mar 3, 2021 04:24
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it's slow but in a good way, it's southern reach trilogy territory for me
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Mar 3, 2021 04:26
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it was goofy and fun to see how thoroughly and easily all the aliens can just totally waste humanity, and then to see other aliens on another level casually destroying entire solar systems and even physics itself
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Mar 3, 2021 04:36
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I may have accidentally got my wife to start reading Blindsight because I said it had a space vampire :/
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Mar 3, 2021 06:51
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Blockade posted:I may have accidentally got my wife to start reading Blindsight because I said it had a space vampire :/ 
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