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Was it Bradbury or Heinlein who went on the cousin-loving kick late in their career. Cause that was a hell of a thing
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Thaddius the Large posted:Was it Bradbury or Heinlein who went on the cousin-loving kick late in their career. Cause that was a hell of a thing Heinlein is the dirty old man, and only his early work is any good anyway. Like all gimmick based sci-fi, there are no deep truths to be found in Heinlein stories, but they can be fun.
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Oct 10, 2017 07:15
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Schwarzwald posted:He said Fahrenheit 451 was about how television culture harmed literacy. That's hardly maniacal. there was a bunch of stuff involving him turning hardcore conservative and supporting the homeland security stuff. he basically said 451 was in no way about over reaching governments or survallance states, which ya know, isnt true
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Oct 10, 2017 09:50
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Young Ray Bradbury: quote:I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time. Old Ray Bradbury: quote:Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.
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Oct 10, 2017 10:00
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TheAceOfLungs posted:Where's my Rich? Is that my Rich? It goes "The next part will be text only". It's a Balder! That is not my Rich! Where's my Rich? Is that my Rich? It goes "Murder the Gods and topple their thrones". It's an Abbadon! That is not my Rich!
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Oct 10, 2017 12:20
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PMush Perfect posted:Young Ray Bradbury: These aren't contradictory
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Oct 10, 2017 14:09
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I mean if nothing else I can buy an old writer looking back on his old stuff and thinking, huh, this is actually way different from what I thought I was writing about at the time. e: look at Rich. Thought he was cracking some harmless RPG jokes, actually reinforced sexist stereotypes of the fantasy genre, only recognized it years later, has been making up for it ever since. My Lovely Horse fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Oct 10, 2017 |
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Oct 10, 2017 14:25
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Bradbury also had a complete flip-out at the thought that somebody might be reading one of his books on an e-reader.
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Oct 10, 2017 14:34
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PMush Perfect posted:Young Ray Bradbury: Television features incredibly prominently in the book, and the manner in which people's interest in television (and idle consumption in general) is correlated with reduced attention and literacy is a significant theme. The book is absolutely about government censorship, but it is also about television.
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Oct 10, 2017 14:37
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A rich a Rich, my kingdom for a rich!
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Oct 10, 2017 16:37
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Schwarzwald posted:Television features incredibly prominently in the book, and the manner in which people's interest in television (and idle consumption in general) is correlated with reduced attention and literacy is a significant theme. No, I'm sorry, books can only have one theme, which is why 1984 is about socialism.
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Oct 10, 2017 16:42
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ikanreed posted:No, I'm sorry, books can only have one theme, which is why 1984 is about socialism. It was actually about ethics in game journalism.
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Oct 10, 2017 17:34
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Rand Brittain posted:Bradbury also had a complete flip-out at the thought that somebody might be reading one of his books on an e-reader. Edit: Also, Bradbury didn't say it was about both. He stormed out of a lecture because the students he was giving it to said it was about censorship. And I mean, yeah, having students tell you what your book is about must be frustrating as hell, but if he felt that it wasn't just about censorship, don't you think he would have said so?
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Oct 10, 2017 23:44
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Schwarzwald posted:Television features incredibly prominently in the book, and the manner in which people's interest in television (and idle consumption in general) is correlated with reduced attention and literacy is a significant theme. he denied it was about censorship in order to avoid dissonance with his support of Bush's post-911 stuff, that was the contradiction i was talking about, not all this crap about television destroying literature, obvs that was fine
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Oct 11, 2017 01:31
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http://www.laweekly.com/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted-2149125 here is the interview i'm talking about, i should have linked it first to show what i was talking about i guess
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Yeah, young Bradbury would not have been a Republican.
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AriadneThread posted:honestly, i'm terrified a still-alive douglas adams would turn out to reveal him as terrible given his heavy leaning into the burgeoning new-atheists and where that whole mess has gone since then For me, "Is there an artificial god?" (printed in The Salmon of Doubt) is a nice lecture/essay on how to reconcile being an atheist with understanding why people believe in religions and how religious traditions can still be an effective way to organise things. Its ultimate point being "just because science shows us things are bottom-up rather than top-down, doesn't mean you can't think there's something at the top". Paul.Power fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Oct 14, 2017 |
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Oct 14, 2017 19:47
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 #1102 - For the DurationHa ha, this is going to be an interesting bit of trouble.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:
So V didn't get level drained? If V was level drained I figure that would've been more of an oh poo poo.
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Oct 16, 2017 16:37
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Can V not dismiss that at will? I thought that was a thing with force cage.
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Oct 16, 2017 17:10
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Raenir Salazar posted:So V didn't get level drained? If V was level drained I figure that would've been more of an oh poo poo. He might have cast both his Mind Blank spells already, and so have nothing left in the higher spell slot to have lost.
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Oct 16, 2017 17:13
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Can V not dismiss that at will? I thought that was a thing with force cage. Yes. The (D) in the Duration field means it can be dismissed at will by the caster.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Can V not dismiss that at will? I thought that was a thing with force cage. http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/forcecage.htm SRD posted:Duration: 2 hours/level (D) Not sure what D means. Does it stand for dismissable?
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Silver2195 posted:SRD posted: Varsuuvius posted:"...it will last thirty-four hours" V is level 17!
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Oct 16, 2017 18:32
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Or 16 now, depending on the exact timing of the spell and the vampire attack.
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Oct 16, 2017 18:34
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Dog Kisser posted:V is level 17! 16, actually. Remember that V has an IOUN stone.
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Silver2195 posted:16, actually. Remember that V has an IOUN stone. Ah yes, good catch. (I was about to type a longish paragraph about how it was weird that he must have lost a prepared level 9 spell but didn’t think it worth mentioning to Roy)
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Can V not dismiss that at will? I thought that was a thing with force cage. Unless it's funnier if they can't.
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Oct 16, 2017 21:18
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Or V just didn't dismiss it because Roy immediately issued a perfectly valid order that they would wait until it expired, then only afterwards made an enquiry regarding how far in the future that would be, which V felt obliged to answer first. Next page is probably going to start with V offering to dismiss the cage, unless one of them comes up with a better alternative that gets them out of there while leaving the cage in place in the meantime.
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Oct 16, 2017 22:07
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Negative levels aren't actually... negative levels in 3.5 They just give some modest penalties and can result in lost levels if you fail an easy fort save 24 hours later if you haven't gotten them removed by then. I think the naming convention is a holdover from 2e where you could actually lose levels at the drop of a hat.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:19
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Depending on whether that's a Spawn or a true Vampire, that was either one or two of V's highest level spells that just got flushed. By comparison, the hit points and sundry penalties are insignificant.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:26
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Colonel Cool posted:Negative levels aren't actually... negative levels in 3.5 I remember Pool of Radiance just drowning you in Restoration scrolls right around the time it sends you into the graveyard.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:31
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The bigger loss is the cast of forcecage: It's a great spell to isolate tricky enemies in their own personal time-out box.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:39
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Silver2195 posted:16, actually. Remember that V has an IOUN stone. I thought Blackwing had that.
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TheAceOfLungs posted:I thought Blackwing had that.
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nothing to seehere posted:The bigger loss is the cast of forcecage: It's a great spell to isolate tricky enemies in their own personal time-out box. One trick was to make Forcecages with small holes to shoot out of. Make it into your own spell bunker. Which would be extremely handy here. But I doubt that is what happened.
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A forcecage with holes in it sounds like the perfect PC trap for a bunch of vampires that can turn gasous
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^  The Question IRL posted:One trick was to make Forcecages with small holes to shoot out of. Make it into your own spell bunker. Which would be extremely handy here. Well, in this case, that would have been a blunder, as vampires can just turn into mist and flood into the cage through the murderholes.
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^ ^^ The Question IRL posted:One trick was to make Forcecages with small holes to shoot out of. Make it into your own spell bunker. Which would be extremely handy here. Vampires can gaseous form in to that though.
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the grognard parade continues to waddle down the thread
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