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McCracAttack posted:See this is why you should never have in-house systems and applications with exactly one IT guy who understands them. But then you get to hire back the old IT guy as a contractor at 4x what he was making before.
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ILL Machina posted:https://twitter.com/AWDubreuil/status/1536502891778920449?t=350tXH-YBLZasvbE--WBGA&s=19 This is triggering me because I obviously know what the joke is and wish I thought of it first, but it doesn't actually match the lyrics properly
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Splicer posted:The book has some Nedry point of view chapters and his complaints are pretty reasonable. He's understaffed, overworked, and his boss keeps yelling at him for things he just doesn't have the man hours to fix. Oh yeah one of those good situations where both the movie and book are excellent and compliment each other. Movie has spectacular effects and fun, book has way more details on chaos theory that I remember being interesting.
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Sir Lemming posted:This is triggering me because I obviously know what the joke is and wish I thought of it first, but it doesn't actually match the lyrics properly Yeah, it's stuttering the wrong word. Supposed to go p-p-p-powerbook. Wait, no
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Splicer posted:The book has some Nedry point of view chapters and his complaints are pretty reasonable. He's understaffed, overworked, and his boss keeps yelling at him for things he just doesn't have the man hours to fix. Also John Hammond gets eaten alive iirc
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Seth Pecksniff posted:Also John Hammond gets eaten alive iirc He gets a heart attack, I think? His grandkids are loving around and trigger the T-Rex scream on the speakers. After the whole dinos get loose whoopsie-doodle. So he panics, thinks he's about to get eaten, and dies in a ditch of a heart attack. Basically, Creighton felt like Hammond needed to traumatize his grandkids one last time. EDIT: No, you're right. All that happenes, but no heart attack. He just gets eaten after falling down. BirdOfPlay has a new favorite as of 14:53 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah one of those good situations where both the movie and book are excellent and compliment each other. Movie has spectacular effects and fun, book has way more details on chaos theory that I remember being interesting. 
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This is still the best Crichton take: https://twitter.com/JShooke/status/1527632115239735296?t=S3ZK_oKLOQ-4IGR1c6RYeA&s=19
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https://twitter.com/isawken/status/1536136382032363521 https://twitter.com/ericsmithrocks/status/1536512245190037504 https://twitter.com/horseysurprise/status/1536557352748556290
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Oh poo poo y'all reminded me I got about halfway through the Jurrasic Park audiobook but got distracted and never picked it up again. I remember it being pretty drat good so I'll get back to it.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah one of those good situations where both the movie and book are excellent and compliment each other. Movie has spectacular effects and fun, book has way more details on chaos theory that I remember being interesting. It works by typing in how many dinosaurs they expect to have and it counts unique dinosaurs until it reaches that number or errors out. An absolutely awful interface but also exactly what an overworked programmer would write in a situation where they're absolutely positive there'll never be too many dinosaurs. Spoilered for the guy above me
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The Lone Badger posted:This has never happened to me. I guess my bile ducts are just good at denaturing that specific protein? Huh. Do you also not get explosive diarrhea when you eat at Taco Bell? These are memes after all.
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Splicer posted:I also like the bit where the dinosaurs have been breeding for ages and there's a bunch of extra dinosaurs but nobody notices. This is because the dinosaur counting system isn't a dinosaur counting system, it's a missing dinosaur counting system. I absolutely loved this plot point, as it’s a realistic programming oversight that also gave young me some good perspective on understanding programming - knowing what your code does and does not do, vs. what you’re intending it to do. There’s a ton of good parts of the book that are missing from the movie. But then you rewatch the movie, and it holds up so goddamn well independent of the book. Truly, both are great even with their differences. Only problem with the movie is Hammond doesn’t get his comeuppance.
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I read the book after the movie, and I remember being gobsmacked because in the movie, four raptors are a nearly insurmountable foe. In the book there are dozens of them! Also they tranq a Trex with a dart mounted on a rocket launcher!
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just uhhh... don't read anything else he wrote because holy poo poo Especially not Rising Sun. I think he also got one out about how climate change is a hoax and the bad guys are eco terrorists that make a lightning bolt magnet and assassinate people with venomous animals before he died after a battle with
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A Moose posted:just uhhh... don't read anything else he wrote because holy poo poo Crichton is a guy who could tell a great story but he was absolutely just terrified of technology but, weirdly, without being a total Luddite.
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Nottherealaborn posted:I absolutely loved this plot point, as it’s a realistic programming oversight that also gave young me some good perspective on understanding programming - knowing what your code does and does not do, vs. what you’re intending it to do. Splicer has a new favorite as of 16:36 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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Didn't he also write in a critic of his work as a pedophile with a micropenis, in Rising Sun? Or was that a different book?
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Splicer posted:The film also doesn't really emphasise how much of a poo poo Hammond is. In the book he's much more blatantly Elon Musking his way through things, in the film he's portrayed much more sympathetically (while still doing all the same dumbass things that caused all the problems in the book). Part of that is the pure unadulterated charisma of Richard Attenborough and the fact that he sounds (obviously) so very much like his brother David, who we all associate with kindly grandfather who just fuckin' loves animals.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't he also write in a critic of his work as a pedophile with a micropenis, in Rising Sun? Or was that a different book? His anti-global warming book State of Fear
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Captain Monkey posted:Crichton is a guy who could tell a great story but he was absolutely just terrified of technology but, weirdly, without being a total Luddite. Captain Monkey posted:Part of that is the pure unadulterated charisma of Richard Attenborough and the fact that he sounds (obviously) so very much like his brother David, who we all associate with kindly grandfather who just fuckin' loves animals.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't he also write in a critic of his work as a pedophile with a micropenis, in Rising Sun? Or was that a different book?
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Splicer posted:It's been a bit since I read it but IIRC Jurassic Park's central theme was that rich people being able to effectively buy other people's skills/knowledge without having to put any work in themselves means the people with the least respect and understanding of technology are the ones with the most power over its use. Yeah they make a big deal out of Hammond being really effective at raising funds and making their successes seem like more than it was. He had a pygymy elephant that they had created as a showpiece (before the dinosaurs, as a demonstration of what they could do) and he'd obfuscate the truth of all the problems they were having so their backers would continue to fund them. Very indifferent to the animals as well, unless they weren't "performing", if I am recalling correctly. I totally agree that the movie and the book act as great companions to each other, but book Hammond was very interesting to me.
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I really loved his books when I was a kid. Timeline was great, Sphere was terrifying, I reread JP and Lost World multiple times. I remember even liking Prey. Too bad he turned into a climate change chud.
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Splicer posted:It's been a bit since I read it but IIRC Jurassic Park's central theme was that rich people being able to effectively buy other people's skills/knowledge without having to put any work in themselves means the people with the least respect and understanding of technology are the ones with the most power over its use. Shirec posted:Yeah they make a big deal out of Hammond being really effective at raising funds and making their successes seem like more than it was. He had a pygymy elephant that they had created as a showpiece (before the dinosaurs, as a demonstration of what they could do) and he'd obfuscate the truth of all the problems they were having so their backers would continue to fund them. Very indifferent to the animals as well, unless they weren't "performing", if I am recalling correctly. I totally agree that the movie and the book act as great companions to each other, but book Hammond was very interesting to me. Sure a bit, but he also levied that complaint against Wu - a PhD who is literally a leader in the field he specializes in. And the way he writes Malcom's takedowns sometimes leans anti-Capitalist (and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it) - -but at times just sort of comes across as anti-science or is anti-making-dinosaurs. Or maybe I was just so excited by the idea of making dinosaurs when I was a kid that I haven't been able to get over the idea that it would be a bad thing to do, even in my old age.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Didn't he also write in a critic of his work as a pedophile with a micropenis, in Rising Sun? Or was that a different book? It was Next, but yes, yes he did. He added the penis detail specifically so the critic couldn't argue defamation without referring to himself as the "micropenis guy." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule (Legally you can absolutely still sue for libel, but the critic elected not to, arguing that writing a plot-unrelated child rapist into a novel out of sheer pettiness far more efficiently damaged Crichton's career than a lawsuit ever could)
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The second novel, The Lost World, is basically a character assassination of John Hammond. Turns out, there was another island where the actual industrial dinosaur reproduction happened (and it was of course terrible in every way), that Hammond had hidden away from everyone, because he wanted to project the whole "I participate in every single birth on the island because I am a good capitalist and I care" image instead of "I'm a ruthless capitalist who doesn't give a poo poo about anything other than making money". Michael Crichton had issues, but boy could he write a book when he wanted to.
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An annoying book is Timeline which specifically states early on that what they're doing is not time travel where instead they're visiting alternate universes where it is the year that they want to travel to. Except then everyone (and the plot) treats it like time travel.
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muscles like this! posted:An annoying book is Timeline which specifically states early on that what they're doing is not time travel where instead they're visiting alternate universes where it is the year that they want to travel to. Except then everyone (and the plot) treats it like time travel. And they affect their own timeline in the end
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I thought it was more of them telling the characters that things are fine and they couldn’t do stuff like kill their own ancestor and cause a paradox as a confidence thing, but really they had no idea what they were doing when it came down to that aspect of it. But it has been some time since I read it
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also, Rising Sun was like... REAL weird about Japanese people. and he had a book about a false rape accusation that I thought was also Rising Sun but I think it was a different one now
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The whole 1980s was weird about Japanese people.
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Well yeah they slotted into the role China is in now. The fact they are Allie’s makes it kind of weird
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Splicer posted:There's a point with some people where you realise that oh no their brain got old in the bad way and they are now A Shithead and you kind of need to accept that they're effectively a different, much worse person who has stolen their younger self's reputation and experience. I mean, he was always kinda a shithead. After Jurassic Park his next two books were the super racist/orientalist Rising Sun and the super sexist Disclosure.
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zoux posted:The whole 1980s was weird about Japanese people. There was definitely weirdness but it was mainstream to predict Japan as the next economic superpower. It was all over pop culture in the 80s and the 90s until the big crash.
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Lobok posted:There was definitely weirdness but it was mainstream to predict Japan as the next economic superpower. It was all over pop culture in the 80s and the 90s until the big crash. Yeah, but the reason was because people thought that the Japanese were a subhuman hive mind that suborned every scrap of individuality in service of industry.
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The most weird racist anti-Japanese thing of the 80s that comes to mind is probably the urban legend that the Vapors’ one-hit-wonder “Turning Japanese” was about masturbation because apparently you squint just before you cum. It’s actually just a song about a breakup.
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