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Suddenly sad that we never met the GSV Necessity, which of course constructed the GCU Invention.
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:CAT's right, though - Inspiral, Coalescence, Ringdown is one of my favorite ship names, Culture or not. I, uh... I don't get it. I mean, it sounds really pretty, but... I don't get it.
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Oh, neat.
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Did General Battuta work on the game?
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Sep 6, 2014 20:35
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Kevin J. Anderson.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:48
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Seriously now: If you strapped me down and threatened to stick a facehugger on me, I'd probably pick Rajaniemi. But I have no desire to see anyone else pick up the universe.
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Sep 19, 2014 17:53
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Vinge's problem is that about a quarter of each book is really good, and then the other 3/4 is boring shite I don't care about.
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Sep 19, 2014 20:01
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Oh god, not MacLeod. I'm not interested in reading about the Culture's heroic worker's soviet.
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Sep 20, 2014 00:12
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Mousepractice, I did, but I don't see what all the fuss is about. I thought it was okay, but it didn't grab me.
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Sep 24, 2014 20:42
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You should put more Banks references in video games. It is your Destiny.
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Sep 25, 2014 15:38
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GCU Free Gravitas For Those In Need
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Oct 17, 2014 20:21
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Antigravitas Generator
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SpookyLizard posted:ftfy Thank you. I was tired and couldn't think of a suitable class, but that works well.
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Oct 22, 2014 17:04
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ROU Outside Context Solution
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Oct 23, 2014 15:47
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ptkfvk posted:this thread has encouraged me to reread all the banks i have. Thank you. Oh god, now we've caused a run on the Banks.
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tuluk posted:Sublime Culture or SIMULATION in big red letters on a t-shirt? Or something involving gravitas.
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Nov 4, 2014 18:39
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Toast Museum posted:Well, the Culture doesn't have a flag, seal, or symbol. Maybe every plain shirt you see ... Could do a visual pun, like a Reaper in a petri dish ("Culture drone").
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sinking belle posted:I think I like Matter the most. I don't think many people think that they like Matter the most. Matter matters, but Matter doesn't matter that much to me.
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Nov 4, 2014 21:46
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Hmm, or maybe a paramecium with quadcopter rotors.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I re-read Surface Detail the other day, and there's a lot of rape in it. The villain of The Algebraist was that way, too. A little too graphically so for me.
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Phanatic posted:What's the difference? Weapons are more reliable.
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Culture ship name: ROU The One Who Knocks
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rejutka posted:(D)ROU John Wick Heh. That was a suprisingly good movie.
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withak posted:Note that you can order from the UK kindle store just by changing your country under "Manage Your Content and Devices" -> "Settings". Add a valid UK address (10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA, United Kingdom), order the book, then switch back to your actual address. I can confirm that this works, but I've heard it's dangerous - a few people have reported having their purchase removed by Amazon for having falsified their location, though I haven't heard of that happening recently.
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Max posted:It was the description of the skin as the cushion that pushed it over the edge for me. Same, but then it got worse! It was specifically the fringe of public hair that was mentioned in the description that had me feeling like I might need to puke. Nope nope nope nope...
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Entropic posted:Complete with probations and bannings? Otisburg posted:I AM A HUGE IDIOT MEATFUCKER WHO MIND RAPES Ahahaha, amazing. I would love this.
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Jet Jaguar posted:The Very Fast Picket Trust Me, I Do This All The Time is totally running errands for Special Circumstances You mean the Very Fast Packet.
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Sep 20, 2015 03:58
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Murgos posted:Yeah, picket implies militarization and the Culture want to avoid reminding you that they can kick your rear end. No, I meant packet, as in salsa packet. As in a pun on the image of salsa packets with culture ship names.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:The Ancillary books are great but also not really at all like the Culture novels. Definitely worth a read if you enjoy sci-fi with themes of identity, and imperial colonialism. Unfortunately, those books have got all the wit and charm of the Geseptian-Fardesile Cultural Federacy.
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Sep 29, 2015 10:56
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Khizan posted:It was a lovely scanned version being sold by somebody other than the publisher. It literally has "Scanned by HugHug" as the first line of it.  Wow. I'm amazed Amazon let that through.
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Video games manufacture artificial scarcity as a game mechanic all the time. It could be argued that past a certain level of technological development, market-based economics should be classified as entertainment.
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Now imagine what a society with post-scarcity resources would be like if it was designed around providing entertainment for bored immortals.
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It's totally a knife missile. It's just stolen and salvaged from the Culture and they don't have an AI to work it, so they have to use a lovely off-market neural interface fin.
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