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Peter Watts is a bit of a nutcase, but not a sex pest afaik
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Feb 1, 2024 04:02
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RAH later books were totally gross but is there any evidence of pestery? He seemed pretty devoted to his wife, reportedly threw Ayn Rand out of bed
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Feb 1, 2024 06:26
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ulmont posted:Like Asimov and Heinlein! Wait, poo poo. both of them are soft scifi hacks op The Oldest Man posted:didnt peter watts lose to vernor vinge's google glasses book idk what you're talking about but ok
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Feb 1, 2024 06:52
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tokin opposition posted:idk what you're talking about but ok Blindsight was nominated for the Hugo in 2007 but lost to Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End which is a book that I think is quite bad and contains an original thought that amounts to "what if subreddits, but irl" e: There's an entire subgenre of sci fi that I think can be summarized as neither hard sci fi or soft sci fi but "gee whiz" sci fi that consists of extremely detailed cutesy digressions on relatively obvious ideas. like the part in hyperion where dan simmons forgets what he's doing for like a page and writes a detailed description of how space binoculars work for absolutely no reason, except the entire book is that. I read Rainbow's End like ten years ago but I remember: - people scanning books by shredding them and then sucking them with a giant shop vac through a scanner, a stupid technology innovation that might just be called the Google Books Bad Question Mark Machine - a guy whose cyberpants pants got hacked so he had to have them washed which means getting rid of all the bad hacker stuff on the computer that is built into the pants - people brought their fandoms into real life with augmented reality, oops i forgot to tell a The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 08:42 on Feb 1, 2024 |
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Feb 1, 2024 08:32
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tokin opposition posted:both of them are soft scifi hacks op If you only read Heinlein's Juveniles or his dirty old man phase, sure. Even then Have Spacesuit... is pretty good science for the time.
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Feb 1, 2024 09:07
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The Oldest Man posted:Blindsight was nominated for the Hugo in 2007 but lost to Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End which is a book that I think is quite bad and contains an original thought that amounts to "what if subreddits, but irl" I need to correct you on something, which is that the title is ”Rainbows End”—plural, not possessive. I say this because that wordplay is the high water mark of the book. The Oldest Man posted:I read Rainbow's End like ten years ago but I remember: - the center of the action is the hosed up Seuss library at UCSD.
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Feb 1, 2024 09:10
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quote:"A majority of Vernor Vinge patrons operate under the fallacious assumption that the plural is 'Rainbow Ends,'" Safire told a woman standing in line behind him. "This, of course, is a grievous grammatical blunder, akin to saying 'passerbys' or, worse yet, the dreaded 'attorney generals.'" Last week, Safire patronized a midtown Apple Store, ordering "two Visions Pro."
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Feb 1, 2024 09:43
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I forced myself to read A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. I am not a Vernor Vinge fan, couldn’t get into either book. e: I thought the idea behind Deepness was cool, it’s just his writing style.
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Feb 1, 2024 09:48
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Reading? You mean that gay poo poo from school???
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Feb 1, 2024 11:05
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I never read and look how smart I turned out
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Feb 1, 2024 12:03
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Milo and POTUS posted:I never read and look how smart I turned out I steel donut, my smart assist ant reeds them two me and I post by voice recognition
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Feb 1, 2024 13:58
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the concept of a fire upon the deep as very cool, but the book kinda sucked.
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Feb 1, 2024 16:21
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the concept of a fire upon the deep as very cool, but the book kinda sucked. "The concept was cool, but the book kinda sucked" describes a lot of genre fiction.
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Feb 1, 2024 16:39
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Platystemon posted:I need to correct you on something, which is that the title is ”Rainbows End”—plural, not possessive. I am going to keep writing it wrong on purpose. JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:the concept of a fire upon the deep as very cool, but the book kinda sucked. goatsestretchgoals posted:I forced myself to read A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. I am not a Vernor Vinge fan, couldn’t get into either book. Deepness is a good book if you can get past the Vinge-eyness of it, at least in my opinion. It's got much more interesting takes than pretty much anything else he's ever written. The core premise is basically just wish.com three body problem written from the perspective of the invaders but there's enough going on there for it to be entertaining at least, and it's got better character writing than both Fire Upon the Deep and Children of the Sky which were both just tedious as gently caress. It was also my first Vinge novel and I subsequently read most of his other stuff and was like "wait a minute, this guy SUCKS" after Children and Rainbose End
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Feb 1, 2024 18:28
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The central question of rainbow's ends question is "what if the world's biggest rear end in a top hat had his brain melted by science drugs" Anyway the books throwaway reference to discworld got me to read it so it'll always have a spot in my heart for that alone
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Feb 1, 2024 18:32
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We have a pretty good old thread about sex-pest authors. Please no one say anything bad about Alastair Reynolds.
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Feb 1, 2024 21:21
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I liked Deepness a lot, main weakness IMO was that Vinge is just dreadful at writing romance plots. I actually really liked the sections he wrote from the spider perspective. Fire was ok, Children was...kind of bad? I didn't really hate it but it kind of went through me. I think one of the worst scifi books I read was probably the hardest scifi book I've read, The Killing Star by Pellegrino and Zebrowski. Really kind of just a lovely book. IDK, adding bad fiction to unimpressive nonfiction is worse than just having nonimpressive nonfiction in the first place.
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Feb 1, 2024 23:14
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tokin opposition posted:Peter Watts isn't a sex pest afaik I only read the hard stuff. SCP entries and such
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Feb 1, 2024 23:16
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6qFCdHvYuI
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Feb 1, 2024 23:39
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Desert Bus posted:We have a pretty good old thread about sex-pest authors. Authors who were bad people, and why they were bad people https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3866011
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Feb 1, 2024 23:43
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25k Standing nap tube for your office. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952C2MoccXw
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Feb 3, 2024 07:47
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Pitcher Witcher posted:25k Standing nap tube for your office. They should replace cryogenic hibernation pods in sci fi with these things, get silicon valley to figure out how to cram more torment in this nexus (make it play ads while recording you)
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Feb 3, 2024 11:56
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from the Bicycle repair thread:Withnail posted:Can you plug the new shimano 12 speed derailleurs directly to a pc or do you need some type of box in between? Withnail posted:It's loving ridiculous. I'm literally password locked out of my rear derailleur right now.
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Feb 3, 2024 12:21
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webcams for christ posted:from the Bicycle repair thread: There's a bike repair thread? How do we get it moved to cspam? I can't deal with all the so called "sub forums"
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Feb 3, 2024 13:21
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The car hate thread sometimes serves as the bicycle repair thread.
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Feb 3, 2024 13:22
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pygmy tyrant posted:They should replace cryogenic hibernation pods in sci fi with these things, get silicon valley to figure out how to cram more torment in this nexus (make it play ads while recording you) 
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Feb 3, 2024 14:33
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The sponsor read is longer than you think, Dad
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Feb 3, 2024 15:00
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Taco Bell won the cryonic wars
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Feb 3, 2024 15:31
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pygmy tyrant posted:They should replace cryogenic hibernation pods in sci fi with these things, get silicon valley to figure out how to cram more torment in this nexus (make it play ads while recording you) you can do better than this, it records your brain activity to synthesize new NFT dreams via AI
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Feb 3, 2024 15:35
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Ruffian Price posted:The sponsor read is longer than you think, Dad
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Feb 3, 2024 15:38
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webcams for christ posted:from the Bicycle repair thread: cyberpunk: there's got to be a way to hack my bicycle os
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Feb 3, 2024 15:44
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webcams for christ posted:from the Bicycle repair thread: lmao i will never plug in my bicycle. $2 steel cable supremacy
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Feb 3, 2024 15:51
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SniperWoreConverse posted:you can do better than this, it records your brain activity to synthesize new NFT dreams via AI Somehow worse than the real matrix
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Feb 3, 2024 15:59
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You can get paid to rest at establishments where they harvest your dreams via various branded pods. Pod companies compete to sign famous dreamers hundreds of millions, and most people can get upwards of like ten dollars a year: your dreams are ofc ranked on quality and popularity as well as by genre etc. All of these ofc are fed into the the nft dream algorithm and you can purchase dreams. Organic free range dreams are ruinously expensive. Your brain still has dreams normally if you don't do any of this. It's just that you won't ever remember them. Something like if there was a prequel or sequel to inception and someone blew up the dream chems factory and everyone got a messed up dose
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Feb 3, 2024 21:48
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im going to corner the market on dreams where you're being hunted by lobsters through the halls of your highschool and you're late for an exam but the lobsters keep cutting you off around every corner and they speak french for some reason
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Feb 3, 2024 23:52
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Check out Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind if you want a fascinating novel about the intersection of dreams and capitalism, it's an extremely CSPAM book.
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Feb 4, 2024 00:23
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blatman posted:im going to corner the market on dreams where you're being hunted by lobsters through the halls of your highschool and you're late for an exam but the lobsters keep cutting you off around every corner and they speak french for some reason as long as i can’t remember where my locker is, the locker combo, or what room I’m supposed to be in - I’m interested
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Feb 4, 2024 02:57
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Hell yeah time to monetize the flashback nightmares
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Feb 4, 2024 08:58
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blatman posted:im going to corner the market on dreams where you're being hunted by lobsters through the halls of your highschool and you're late for an exam but the lobsters keep cutting you off around every corner and they speak french for some reason Check out Stella Mare Assaut de Homard if you want a fascinating novel about the intersection of dreams and lobsters, it's an extremely CSPAM book.
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Feb 4, 2024 12:20
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https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1753974240888402381?t=XbvZaQB84ZkrNOwy6Wz0YQ&s=19
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