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No matter how much you feel you have left to learn in your work, there's always others getting paid more than you'd think to do a worse job than you'd ever imagine, with zero plans or interest in improving whatsoever.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The first chapter of Snow Crash is amazing (Hiro’s pizza delivery). Then it goes downhill fast. Snow Crash is a Mondo 2000 fanfic. Full stop.
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Jan 18, 2024 01:18
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Snow Crash gave me big wacky monkey cheese vibes when I read it. Not a fan.
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Jan 18, 2024 01:31
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I'm guessing Legal Eagle is gonna feast on Habba for most of 2024
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Jan 18, 2024 01:36
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Tiny Timbs posted:Snow Crash gave me big wacky monkey cheese vibes when I read it. Not a fan. It’s aged like a fine 15 year old Brie. 15 years, as in how old YT is while the author openly muses about her loving the late 30’s Hiro Protagonist. It’s a mess of a book. But it also contains certain nerd shibboleths and touchstones that make it hard to just outright 1:1 dismiss entirely. Google Earth? Central Intelligence Corporations “Earth” The Metaverse? The literal loving metaverse. Terminal Capitalism? The main character is a Hacker that does literally no hacking/Pizza delivery driver with no car. If that’s not prescient it’s close enough to our lived reality to seem both more and less insane than this did in 1992. Neuromancer > Snow Crash all day every day, but you can’t completely ignore snow crash. You don’t have to like it, but it’s quickly becoming Old Testament poo poo for nerds of a certain age and almost every billionaire in America is a nerd.
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Jan 18, 2024 01:52
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The Eyes Have It posted:No matter how much you feel you have left to learn in your work, there's always others getting paid more than you'd think to do a worse job than you'd ever imagine, with zero plans or interest in improving whatsoever. life must be one incredible ride when you have that total lack of self-awareness and unfaltering confidence and entitlement
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Jan 18, 2024 01:52
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Snow Crash is a satire.
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Jan 18, 2024 01:56
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If I remember right Google Earth was directly inspired by Earth in Snow Crash.
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Jan 18, 2024 01:58
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pseudosavior posted:Snow Crash is a satire. A very awfully written, very frozen in time satire that billionaire doom cultist nerds whack it to. Like I said, it’s not everything, but it’s not nothing.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:03
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The Amiga/IBM Neuromancer game is better than chapters 2-whatever of Snow Crash. https://youtu.be/owZx2zNlyng?si=-thM5XDSoTEyI4Ue
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Jan 18, 2024 02:32
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I love the idea of Neal Stephenson books so much, but the man basically launched the gen-x libertarian techbro personality and I'll never be able to forgive him for it, no matter how much I love Anathem and Cryptonomicon.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:33
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bengy81 posted:I love the idea of Neal Stephenson books so much, but the man basically launched the gen-x libertarian techbro personality and I'll never be able to forgive him for it, no matter how much I love Anathem and Cryptonomicon. Cryptonomicon is actually his favorite book of mine. So yeah on the one hand there’s cryptonomicon, on all the other hands is Elon Musk.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:42
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I’ll admit to liking Diamond Age.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:45
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I read Snow Crash as a teenager in highschool and remember loving it. I barely remember anything about the book, but from the descriptions here I'm not surprised teenager me thought it was the coolest thing ever.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:55
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s a mess of a book. But it also contains certain nerd shibboleths and touchstones that make it hard to just outright 1:1 dismiss entirely. Similarly if you’ve never read Ender’s Game, go ahead and do that and then immediately read Speaker for the Dead. Then and only then look up OSC’s politics.
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Jan 18, 2024 02:58
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I liked the bean books way more than all the goofy poo poo 1k years down the line with the teleportation and remaking bodies with the power of belief
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Jan 18, 2024 03:00
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goatsestretchgoals posted:I’ll admit to liking Diamond Age. he had no idea how to end the drummer/hackworth storyline but otherwise good book
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Jan 18, 2024 03:01
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E: totally wrong thread
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Jan 18, 2024 03:04
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pseudosavior posted:Snow Crash is a satire. So is Idiocracy, never the less
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Jan 18, 2024 03:16
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hobbesmaster posted:Similarly if you’ve never read Ender’s Game, go ahead and do that and then immediately read Speaker for the Dead. Definitely don't go from Enders Game to Folk of the Fringe, a collection of short stories from a future where the temple in Salt Lake City is the last bastion of civilization
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Jan 18, 2024 03:18
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maffew buildings posted:life must be one incredible ride when you have that total lack of self-awareness and unfaltering confidence and entitlement I hate to relate real life to a video game, but this is reminding me how Arthur in Red Dead Redemption 2 observed "some people are rich enough and dumb enough to just enjoy their lives".
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Jan 18, 2024 03:21
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But go read some good fiction you literate goons. Gideon the Ninth Revelation Space The Traitor Beru Cormorant The Blade Itself The Library at Mount Char Three Parts Dead etc
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Jan 18, 2024 03:23
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M_Gargantua posted:But go read some good fiction you literate goons. I just finished Blood Meridian and...well it is good and a thing.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:25
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Soul Dentist posted:Definitely don't go from Enders Game to Folk of the Fringe, a collection of short stories from a future where the temple in Salt Lake City is the last bastion of civilization I will say I didn’t fully internalize “death of the author” until finding out about OSC after reading the Ender books. Just… how?! I can’t figure out what reading he possibly intended other than one he strongly disagreed with?
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Jan 18, 2024 03:26
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M_Gargantua posted:Revelation Space I finished Absolution Gap last week and man that ending felt weak as hell imo.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:26
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:It’s aged like a fine 15 year old Brie. 15 years, as in how old YT is while the author openly muses about her loving the late 30’s Hiro Protagonist. LtCol J. Krusinski posted:A very awfully written, very frozen in time satire that billionaire doom cultist nerds whack it to. I agree, however LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Cryptonomicon is actually his favorite book of mine. I stopped reading it 2/3 of the way through when I was tired of waiting for it to get good and go somewhere. Neal Stephenson wanted so badly to be a cross between William Gibson and Thomas Pynchon without having the slightest idea of why either one of them was good.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:34
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Stravag posted:I liked the bean books way more than all the goofy poo poo 1k years down the line with the teleportation and remaking bodies with the power of belief ok, not only did i not know mr bean had books, but i dont remember any teleportation or supernatural powers in the show
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Jan 18, 2024 03:36
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M_Gargantua posted:But go read some good fiction you literate goons. Mount Char owns pretty hard. Stravag posted:I liked the bean books way more than all the goofy poo poo 1k years down the line with the teleportation and remaking bodies with the power of belief The Shadow series was okay but I dropped it after the author had one of the young adult military geniuses talking about how great it was to go into battle with her husband's jizz running down her thighs. Like what the gently caress, Orson.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:49
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M_Gargantua posted:But go read some good fiction you literate goons. Seconding this; this book is phenomenal, and I would love to see/am terrified to see an adaptation of it.
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Jan 18, 2024 03:58
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A few more Blindsight Ninefox Gambit The Quantum Thief Hull Three Zero An Unclean Legacy
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Jan 18, 2024 04:17
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M_Gargantua posted:But go read some good fiction you literate goons. I recently reread all of Abercrombie's books and appreciated how well everything tied together.
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Jan 18, 2024 04:17
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M_Gargantua posted:But go read some good fiction you literate goons. I highly recommend reading Gideon the Ninth and the rest of the series beyond that (The Locked Tomb series) it's Sci-Fi Necromancy and it's awesome
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Jan 18, 2024 04:22
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hypnophant posted:A few more Quantum Thief and the two followups, Fractal Prince and Causal Angel, are also infinitely excellent.
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Jan 18, 2024 04:22
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hypnophant posted:A few more Genuinely one of my favourite books. You can read it free, too! https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
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Jan 18, 2024 04:22
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I like this sci-fi derail. I would recommend Light by M. John Harrison, which is probably my favorite book. It reads like it was written by surrealist who got tired of painting melting clocks and decided to have a go at bleak as hell hard sci-fi instead.Arrath posted:I finished Absolution Gap last week and man that ending felt weak as hell imo. Absolution Gap gets a lot of flak, and sometimes I feel like I'm one of the few people who enjoyed that book. I thought the latest book in that arc (Inhibitor Phase) fizzled out way worse at the end. I still don't think I've come across a better spaceship name than Nostalgia for Infinity.
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Lots of good recommendations  I'll add: The Murderbot Diaries A Desolation Called Peace The Fifth Season The Raven Tower Ancillary Justice The Southern Reach Trilogy I still need to read The Traitor Beru Cormorant, I know the author is a goon who posts around.
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Jan 18, 2024 04:35
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Genuinely one of my favourite books. You can read it free, too! I like some of Watts' stuff, but y'all can skip the Rifters books. Good ideas but far too many violent passages that seem like they were written with one hand.
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Jan 18, 2024 04:38
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Pine Cone Jones posted:I just finished Blood Meridian and...well it is good and a thing. Can't be topped for dark, gritty interpretation of the western genre
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My Spirit Otter posted:ok, not only did i not know mr bean had books, but i dont remember any teleportation or supernatural powers in the show Now that you mention it, not using Rowan Atkinson to portray an adult Bean somewhere is a huge missed opportunity.
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GD_American posted:I like some of Watts' stuff, but y'all can skip the Rifters books. Good ideas but far too many violent passages that seem like they were written with one hand. I think starfish is good, but i agree about skipping the last two. If it helps, the first-written ending of starfish has Lenie washing up dead on the beach, so containment failed but there’s no sequel The sequel does have the ai the government puts in charge of fighting the biosphere-ending bacteria actually doing everything it can to spread the bacteria, because it’s an ai, doesn’t have human values, and its creators don’t understand how it will interpret its mission so that part feels very torment nexus
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