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Worm: I should have called it Parahumans
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Aug 27, 2013 02:46
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Grundulum posted:For those people wanting to read Worm in a continuous form, my friend has found the Chrome app Readability. Took all however-many sections of the story and conjoined them into a single document. Sound about right. It was a bitch catching up on this series. Each "installment" is about 5-7k words if I remember right with Wildbow mentioning it was getting longer each update.
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Aug 28, 2013 19:39
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Dietrich posted:Out of each frying pan, into a series of slightly larger frying pans, still have no idea where the fire is. also, still have no idea what the fire is.
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Oct 3, 2013 13:45
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Grundulum posted:Thread title change request: I have yet to convince any of my friends to read Malazan. Maybe this is a good free crack sample for them...Hmmmm..
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Oct 4, 2013 02:44
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with people in real life.
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Faldoncow posted:We've had some 10+ arcs before but the last 5 or so arcs are all really short. That was a hell of a cliff-hanger to leave us on though, so I'm also gonna flip a table if it's not 29.10 tonight! Bonus Episode: Scion trapped under rubble just thinking random thoughts.
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Oct 12, 2013 04:18
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Hnrrrrrggggggg
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Oct 15, 2013 13:06
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Globofglob posted:Anyone know why the insane MRA is spamming up the comments section of Worm 30.6 and r/parahumans? Someone lost their meds....
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Oct 28, 2013 02:13
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Worm: Node is doing all the wrong things for batshit crazy reasons.
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Oct 28, 2013 04:10
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NecroMonster posted:Contessa wouldn't need two bullets to kill Taylor. So why did she use two? One for Taylor, one for the passenger
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Oct 29, 2013 13:45
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hollylolly posted:
I haven't seen this much death since the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
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Oct 31, 2013 18:52
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veekie posted:How big a book would Worm be if published? It would probably be multiple books. I dunno, 9 or so?
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Nov 1, 2013 13:57
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The more we see of Imp the more I like that character. At first I just dismissed her as a sidekick character but Wildbow has done some great things with Imp.
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Nov 5, 2013 14:26
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I'd slow down also. That was an intense loving month.
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Nov 8, 2013 19:23
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DarkCrawler posted:So, just finished with Worm. Wow. If you haven't already, you should check out the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
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Nov 15, 2013 14:42
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Fellwenner posted:Yep, really interesting so far. He got things going pretty quickly. I enjoyed the story also. I haven't read much steampunk or "biopunk" as Wildbow calls it. Is there a default series that everyone should read as their first read of the genre?
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Dec 10, 2013 14:32
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Tollymain posted:It's not steampunk. This isn't a story set in a dystopian industrial age of steam, this is a story set in an alternate timeline where mad science of the wet variety actually worked. The story is about biotechnology and the dystopian society that depends on it. Ok thanks, I'll check some of those out.
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Dec 10, 2013 14:42
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veekie posted:Current bet, bind Rose as the familiar. poo poo. I bet that is right.
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Jan 11, 2014 22:34
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I've been enjoying Caelum Lex but their website is slow as poo poo to load which irritates me.
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Jan 15, 2014 03:18
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Scorpion 3-2 posted:So if Rose becomes his familiar I'm pretty sure his implement has to become a mirror the question is what kind of abilitys does he gain from that? Unless he finds something to anchor rose to or some other shenanigans. I've been trying to figure out how Wildbow would pull that off if that was the direction the story went and I'm having trouble.
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Jan 24, 2014 15:14
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This new story by Wildbow needs "something". I'm losing interest fast unfortunately. It was a nice cliffhanger at the end of the post, but meh.
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Jan 28, 2014 14:32
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Dietrich posted:What's tangential-feeling is that it's not well explained exactly how having a hypothermia hatchet confers power. (Which is exactly what we're about to find out.) This is mainly a comment on the pacing of the story thus far. I think we're seeing foundation being laid for a great story, but the pacing means that a lot of future-interesting things seem present-boring (to me, anyway). I agree with this statement. It's a lot of world building right now. It's not that I find the story bad, I'm just getting meh about all the prologue type stuff that is happening.
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Jan 28, 2014 16:25
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Fellwenner posted:Latest interlude in Pact is great, lots of tension. Focused on Maggie who has, in all of two chapters, become far more interesting than Blake is. I agree. This was my favorite chapter so far.
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Feb 11, 2014 14:26
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I would just like to say that the eternally making GBS threads ghost was a nice touch.
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Apr 11, 2014 15:26
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Hugoon Chavez posted:Rose is a Tattletale lite, much more bearable but a lot less badass. Team Fell
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May 8, 2014 02:01
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Velius posted:Given how the pace of this thread has dropped to nothing I'm guessing I'm not the only one losing patience. Pact has just been "meh" so far to me. I'm hoping that something totally awesome happens when Blake finishes off Conquest and we can get this story loving going again. I've been hugely disappointed with the Conquest arc so far.
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Jun 10, 2014 21:36
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Grundulum posted:Treadmill is a really good way to describe things. Blake is always right on the edge of falling off the treadmill, and seems to have exhausted the list of things he can easily do during this part of the story. The constant tension seems different from the perpetual "you're-boned"ness of Worm, but in a way I'm having trouble putting my finger on. Maybe it is what someone said upthread -- that we haven't gotten any downtime for the characters to be themselves without DOOOOOOOOOOM hanging over their heads. And rose getting the house and small town. Dual storyline action would be neat.
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Jun 11, 2014 01:08
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Rose Spirit posted:Whew. I discovered Worm a while ago, but it's only been in the past month that I've had the opportunity to chew through it, and I just finished today.
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Jun 21, 2014 02:03
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Fellwenner posted:You're left with a shadow! Blake "Sandman Slim" Thorburn. I was ready to give this series up but now I need to knowwww.
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Jul 7, 2014 01:47
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These past 2 updates have really been helping my liking of Pact. I hope Blake never comes back. Maggie and Molly are best frands
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Jul 8, 2014 21:41
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"Motherfucker!" hahahahahahahah. That made me laugh out loud. P.S. New Pact is up
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Jul 15, 2014 05:05
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I think you meant Mags.
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Jul 24, 2014 13:25
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Pavlov posted:drat. I'll admit, Pact was kind of a slow burn getting there, but it's really starting to deliver. I feel like the first 7 arcs of Pact could be summarized into a quick 2 and start the story here. I'm really enjoying the story now where I was at the point of dropping it in the Conquest arc.
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Jul 29, 2014 15:48
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Namarrgon posted:Personally I prefer longer updates with more time in between. Preferably per scene yes. +1. If I had to try and keep up with reading once a day I wouldn't be interested. 2 or 3 updates a week is pretty good pacing.
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Aug 4, 2014 20:13
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Blasphemeral posted:He probably used the mirrors to get there quicker, and maybe to protect himself from an immediate attack upon appearing out of the blue. He can clearly exist outside of mirrors, as he was doing for the whole chapter so far. But being able to slip into them for the fast travel, like Rose used to be able to do, is really kick-rear end. I really hope he can step out of them at will. It's like Sandman Slim and the Room of Thirteen Doors which helps a lot with story progression.
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Aug 11, 2014 16:20
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Pavlov posted:See, my guess is it's going to skip over that level entirely. We've got a decent amount of foreshadowing about giant terrifying demon lords, multiple realities, humanity's place in the universe, whatever the hell the lawyers want, and some other big stuff going on. I have a feeling at some point it might just make a big leap up to "fate of the human race" type stakes. I really hope it doesn't go this way. It's great to know that "scary stuff is out there" but I think the Pact story leads to following the Jacob's Bell / Toronto smaller scale world out to completion and nothing more. If the universe gets to big I feel it will take away from story that has been setup thus far. I always took it that Pact wasn't meant to be an epic like worm but more of a realistic novel size book when completed.
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Aug 20, 2014 13:35
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I miss the Lawyers.
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Sep 21, 2014 01:04
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GreyjoyBastard posted:The Sopranos has tragic overtones too. I read would read The Wire fan fiction all day long.
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Nov 5, 2014 00:06
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All authors should dice roll for character life or death in battle This will only make books better.
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Feb 10, 2015 18:09
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How many arcs are left do we know? This is getting out of hand.
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Feb 23, 2015 15:34
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