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oh man, that's my favorite liam gibson book. i think i paid like 14 bytes for it back in the day
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Nov 28, 2023 07:53
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lmfao
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Nov 28, 2023 07:55
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"how do you like them onions bitch?!?"
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Nov 28, 2023 09:42
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well-read undead posted:oh man, that's my favorite liam gibson book. i think i paid like 14 bytes for it back in the day liam gibson read it. this plot has k dick written all over it
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Nov 28, 2023 09:43
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I would 100% play this cyberpunk DLC
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Nov 28, 2023 09:44
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Armitag3 posted:liam gibson read it. this plot has k dick written all over it if it's PKD then the book will be called something like Closing Down Sale At The Cyber Warehouse, and it was probably made into a movie called Cerebral Disclosure Sweevo fucked around with this message at 13:51 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nov 28, 2023 12:44
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lmao
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Nov 28, 2023 17:19
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lol I want to know the original liam gibson quote they lifted that from. assume it's not even about this book edit: gently caress https://twitter.com/Jackapedia_/status/1631272347687682050 ymgve fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nov 28, 2023 17:32
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there's no way yall thought that was real it was funny as hell, though i looked up the isbn to see if it was a different joke, but it just goes to this: https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?225585
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Nov 28, 2023 18:23
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everything from "and they do sex stuff up there as well" is very obviously a joke
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Nov 28, 2023 18:42
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all of it is very obviously a joke
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Nov 28, 2023 18:44
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yes but what's initially unclear is whether it's a parody book or a nonexistent one
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Nov 29, 2023 01:31
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This reminds me of the first chapter of snowcrash, which is incredible. Unlike the rest of snowcrash, which is awful
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Nov 29, 2023 05:59
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I like snow crash but i dont give a gently caress about babylon or the nam shub of enki poo poo
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Nov 29, 2023 09:28
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ADINSX posted:This reminds me of the first chapter of snowcrash, which is incredible. Unlike the rest of snowcrash, which is awful this is also every other neal stephenson book ever
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Nov 29, 2023 10:30
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I read the baroque cycle god help me
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Nov 29, 2023 11:58
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I enjoyed anathem but I don't want to go back and read it again because I'll probably hate it, like when I read cryptonomicon a second time having the nerds they weren't allowed to talk to called IT Admins was dumb as hell though. I feel like Diamond Age might be worth a re-read but now I spend all my time posting because my brain has rotted
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Nov 29, 2023 11:59
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Sweevo posted:if it's PKD then the book will be called something like Closing Down Sale At The Cyber Warehouse, and it was probably made into a movie called Cerebral Disclosure the movie would be called Murdercyde Chips bought off a book about a British serial killer who poisons potato fries
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Nov 29, 2023 12:53
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I read the baroque cycle god help me i never finished that one, i got like halfway through book 2 at some point it has its good moments but it's a little too much about neal stephenson feeling like he needs to shout to the world how much smarter he is than everybody else anathem kinda got me interested in philosophy and metaphysics so mission accomplished there i guess
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Nov 29, 2023 21:55
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Toadsmash posted:this is also every other neal stephenson book ever the man cannot end a book to save his life if someone was to make a play out of one of his books, there would just be a point where the main character turns to the audience and says "ok, well, i guess we're done" and then everyone comes out from back stage and takes a bow to confused, scattered applause
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Nov 29, 2023 22:13
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Toadsmash posted:neal stephenson feeling like he needs to shout to the world how much smarter he is than everybody else Toadsmash posted:this is also every other neal stephenson book ever
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Nov 30, 2023 08:30
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seveneves could have ended after part two and been fine or even after part one and been better and still a full-length novel. instead there was an incredibly tedious part three that made you forget there was anything good in the first parts
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Nov 30, 2023 09:05
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rotor posted:the man cannot end a book to save his life boy was that ever my experience with the diamond age. six hundred pages building up this girl's story, which was fine tbh, a little overcooked but it kept up a decent pace mostly and then like thirty pages of "uhhhh and i guess now it's ten years later and she's an adult and uhhh she takes over the world, i suppose. yeah. she was helped by all those other girls we talked about in chapter 2, remember them? yeah they were there too. ok see ya"
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Nov 30, 2023 09:50
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The Neal Stephenstop™
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Nov 30, 2023 09:57
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big scary monsters posted:seveneves could have ended after part two and been fine or even after part one and been better and still a full-length novel. instead there was an incredibly tedious part three that made you forget there was anything good in the first parts what part 3 was there, i remember everything up to the end of the world as part 1, everything after as part 2 i assume your part 3 is my part 2 post apocalypse was an ok standalone scifi story but it had no right being part of the same story then you would just kind of  over all these made up tribal names or whatevers and just kind of giggle hysterically at very tropey typical fanficy scifi
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Nov 30, 2023 10:25
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NoneMoreNegative posted:The Neal Stephenstop™ more like Neal Stephensoff 
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Nov 30, 2023 10:44
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Reamde was an even more self indulgent circlejerk i preordered it on kindle back in the day, got like 5 minutes into it, dropped it like a hot potato and didn't come back to finish it till just like last year his ridiculous diatribes about how mmos and their economies work and how this guy got rich off of one reads like neal's dream of how he wished his own life was
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Toadsmash posted:what part 3 was there, i remember everything up to the end of the world as part 1, everything after as part 2 maybe i'm not remembering right, it's been a while since i read it. the space stuff was cool, the far future stuff was weird and yeah seemed like it should have been a different book
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Nov 30, 2023 10:53
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yeah reamde was dreadful. must have been something about the very early 2010s because it came out just after a rare miss from greg egan with zendegi, also about mmorpg bullshit e: lol ready player one came out the same year
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Nov 30, 2023 10:56
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a certain subset of sci-fi became absolutely fascinated with these virtual worlds and attendant social hierarchies, which had only existed for 20-something years previously you don't see gibson going entirely up his own rear end over mmos in the 2000s because they were old hat by then
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Nov 30, 2023 13:36
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part 1 is discovering the world is going to end and making preparations. it ends with the world ending part 2 is living in LEO in the immediate aftermath of the world ending. it ends with orbital society collapsing and humanity being reduced to the seven eves (and one dude) part 3 is the far future
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Toadsmash posted:his ridiculous diatribes about how mmos and their economies work and how this guy got rich off of one reads like neal's dream of how he wished his own life was that certainly adds to my understanding of his overly-wrought sword fighting kickstarter like his books, it also ended suddenly without resolution. this bit from the last update could be the afterword for so many of his stories quote:The prototype was technically innovative, but it wasn't very fun to play. This is for various reasons. […] I probably focused too much on historical accuracy and not enough on making it sufficiently fun […]
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Nov 30, 2023 13:55
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Agile Vector posted:that certainly adds to my understanding of his overly-wrought sword fighting kickstarter oh my god I forgot about that
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First dog is the gently caress, man!? https://files.catbox.moe/f5y013.mp4
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Nov 30, 2023 14:15
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Agile Vector posted:that certainly adds to my understanding of his overly-wrought sword fighting kickstarter he wanted to make the game he described in snowcrash. turns out it was a terrible game
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Nov 30, 2023 14:16
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infernal machines posted:he wanted to make the game he described in snowcrash. turns out it was a terrible game he should have just made the virus in snowcrash
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Nov 30, 2023 14:29
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haveblue posted:humanity being reduced to the seven eves (and one dude) aww yeaaah
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Nov 30, 2023 17:22
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Alan Smithee posted:he should have just made the virus in snowcrash if neal stephenson snowcrashed a bunch of tech idiots I'd buy all his crappy books and even recommend them
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RAIDEN. WINS. https://files.catbox.moe/2jmya1.mp4 
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