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creamyhorror: Mar 11, 2006; the incredible adventures of superworm across America

Graviton v2 posted:

It had wrestled with the Mind at Pittance and pressed it when it had insisted it would die rather than yield (but it had had no choice!); it had allowed the human on Pittance to be destroyed (but it had fastened its effector on his puny animal brain when it had seen what was happening to him; it had read the animal's brain-state, copied it, sucked it out of him before he'd died, so that at least he might live again in some form! Look! It had the file here... there it went...). It had fooled the surrounding ships, it had lied to them, sent them messages from... from the ships it could not bear to think about.

I also hadn't realized it was an induced suicide. Now the bolded bit about the human's brain-state makes sense - I was wondering where exactly the file was going - and further confirms that it was the ROU's doing.

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creamyhorror: Mar 11, 2006; the incredible adventures of superworm across America

Notahippie posted:

The Culture really are a bunch of bullies who cheerfully impose their will on anyone they come across, and in all the culture novels there are very few villains who don't have some kind of clearly explained and at least marginally sympathetic motivations.

Kind of like the colonial British, eh? (Mainly because of the "cheerfully")

# ¿ Sep 13, 2010 05:21

creamyhorror: Mar 11, 2006; the incredible adventures of superworm across America

First Pratchett, now Banks. What the gently caress, world.

Pay those drat medical research scientists more, society. What the gently caress.

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