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Stymie posted:if the good guys won the cold war we would all be speaking russian i think you mean german
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Install Windows posted:i think you mean german i think you mean chinese
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May 22, 2014 02:53
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i think you mean martian THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
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May 22, 2014 04:25
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Let's make it esperanto so everyone loses
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May 22, 2014 05:23
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Afinostux posted:Let's make it esperanto so everyone loses that could only happen in some kind of hosed up vault scenario and yeah, that would be the death knell of humanity
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May 22, 2014 05:34
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Gus Hobbleton posted:i think you mean martian THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE 
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May 22, 2014 06:13
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there's an lp of this somewhere and shockingly a game based on a single unfunny joke turned out to be atrocious
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May 22, 2014 06:26
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lol. how does it have a game of the year edition when it was one of maybe here games steam gave refunds for because it was so lovely?
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May 22, 2014 08:08
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i've watched two of the patlabor movies this week. they're pretty good with a lot of good exposition between the robot action. some of the writing is pretty funny too. thanks for the recommendation guys.
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May 22, 2014 12:21
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theflyingexecutive posted:lol. how does it have a game of the year edition when it was one of maybe here games steam gave refunds for because it was so lovely? Worst Game of the Year?
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May 22, 2014 15:14
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I'll be sure the notify the international game of the year committee about this
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May 22, 2014 15:39
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i just read The Quantum Thief and i liked it. the crazy technology wasn't difficult to understand and there was an actual plot instead of just weird stuff happening. the society based on MMOs was pretty 'lol' though, especially since MMOs apparently haven't changed much in however many centuries it's been. i did have a couple of questions about the ending: why does Isadore get power over the city? and how did the protagonist get the archon inside of him? those were probably explained but i missed it.
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May 22, 2014 17:33
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Action Jacktion posted:i just read The Quantum Thief and i liked it. the crazy technology wasn't difficult to understand and there was an actual plot instead of just weird stuff happening. the society based on MMOs was pretty 'lol' though, especially since MMOs apparently haven't changed much in however many centuries it's been. 1) don't remember sorry 2) at the beginning when they had just escaped from the prison. the ship was being infected by the archon and he stopped it by moving it to a little virtual reality inside of him
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May 22, 2014 17:53
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Action Jacktion posted:i just read The Quantum Thief and i liked it. the crazy technology wasn't difficult to understand and there was an actual plot instead of just weird stuff happening. the society based on MMOs was pretty 'lol' though, especially since MMOs apparently haven't changed much in however many centuries it's been. if you lost yourself in parts of The Quantum Thief, i did too, don't bother reading the second, it is utterly unintelligible. I reread it and i still have no loving idea what the book is about. It also loses a lot of the quirky secondary characters in favor of god knows what. I think it was supposed to be a 1001 nights homage but it comes out as a loving mess of made up words.
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May 22, 2014 19:28
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:if you lost yourself in parts of The Quantum Thief, i did too, don't bother reading the second, it is utterly unintelligible. I reread it and i still have no loving idea what the book is about. It also loses a lot of the quirky secondary characters in favor of god knows what. I think it was supposed to be a 1001 nights homage but it comes out as a loving mess of made up words. all words are made up 
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May 22, 2014 20:43
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have you read it? there are djinni's that are rogue AI or something and there is a lady who is a prostitute to other AI and uhh there is a parrot? gently caress i don't even know
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May 22, 2014 20:45
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nah I was just being annoyingly pedantic :/
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May 22, 2014 22:01
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indigi posted:nah I was just being annoyingly pedantic :/ just because we're on strike doesn't mean you scabs are allowed in
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May 23, 2014 01:22
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Found my copy of year's best science fiction from 2008. The thing I remember most about this book was some story about the singularity that actually turned out to be a bunch of references to slashdot followed by an itemized list of the author's fetishes. People must have really loved second life back then, huh
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May 23, 2014 07:17
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Install Windows posted:just because we're on strike doesn't mean you scabs are allowed in fishmech comes out as the union-loving commie he really is
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May 23, 2014 07:28
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"NOOOOO," shouted the space alien. Gurgeh had made the best move. He had made the best space move. The robot congratulated him, and the girl wanted to have sex with him. "Well," thought Gurgeh, "I will have sex with her. I am, after all... THE PLAYER OF GAMES."
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May 23, 2014 13:06
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Locker Room Zubaz posted:if you lost yourself in parts of The Quantum Thief, i did too, don't bother reading the second, it is utterly unintelligible. I reread it and i still have no loving idea what the book is about. It also loses a lot of the quirky secondary characters in favor of god knows what. I think it was supposed to be a 1001 nights homage but it comes out as a loving mess of made up words. fractal prince is the sf pinnacle of show-don't-tell and (apart from the giant deus ex machina at the end) it owns
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May 23, 2014 13:35
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qntm posted:"NOOOOO," shouted the space alien. Gurgeh had made the best move. He had made the best space move. The robot congratulated him, and the girl wanted to have sex with him. "Well," thought Gurgeh, "I will have sex with her. I am, after all... THE PLAYER OF GAMES."
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May 23, 2014 13:56
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qntm posted:the best space move mods just a suggestion here
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May 23, 2014 14:25
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AlsoD posted:2) at the beginning when they had just escaped from the prison. the ship was being infected by the archon and he stopped it by moving it to a little virtual reality inside of him oh i remember that now. thank you my young gnip-gnop!
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May 23, 2014 14:53
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some1 rewrite tPoG so Gurgeh is a proper Gamer.
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May 23, 2014 14:54
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Jonad posted:mods GSV The Best Space Move
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May 23, 2014 14:57
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NoneMoreNegative posted:some1 rewrite tPoG so Gurgeh is a proper Gamer. "You are dead," a crisp little voice told him. He lay on the unseen de_dust floor. He could hear distant, muffled noises, sense AWP shots through the ground. He heard his own heart beat, and the ebb and flow of his breath. He tried to hold his breathing and slow his heart, but he was paralyzed, imprisoned, without control. He craved Doritos. It was impossible to eat them. What the gently caress is up with these noob rear end teammates? he asked himself.
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May 23, 2014 15:23
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Cocoa Crispies posted:"You are dead," a crisp little voice told him.
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May 23, 2014 15:25
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there, finished the culture books. guess i need some new books
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May 23, 2014 16:38
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Quantum Thief if you're feeling clever HPMOR if you're feeling smug/are an XKCD fan Altered Carbon if you want blade runner era transhumanism the original Uplift trilogy is cool and I can personally verify that it contains no dolphin/human sex  some Brandon Sanderson is always good, he has lots of fantasy (Elantris is my favourite) or modern superhero (Steelheart) Red Mars if you're feeling patient
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May 23, 2014 17:15
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bitchin, thanks, added all those to my list except for uplift because that sounds like the biggest cocktease edit what is hpmor? google just gives me harry potter and the methods of rationality which does not sound v good
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Gus Hobbleton posted:bitchin, thanks, added all those to my list except for uplift because that sounds like the biggest cocktease with the smugness and xkcd-like "rationality" disclaimers out of the way: it is actually good. it suffers at time for the lack of editing but if you liked the books as a child i deffo would recommend it
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May 23, 2014 17:42
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I just finished the first two altered carbon books and would highly recommend, its a nice alternative to the waves of garbage spewed out by Doctorow and Stross while still being cyberpunk might try quantum thief next
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AlsoD posted:with the smugness and xkcd-like "rationality" disclaimers out of the way: no it isn't
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Draco snarled. "She has some sort of perverse obsession about the Malfoys, too, and her father is politically opposed to us so he prints every word. As soon as I'm old enough I'm going to rape her."
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May 23, 2014 17:53
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yeah all books in which a character (esp one with a hosed up childhood) rapes or threatens to rape a person are garbage
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May 23, 2014 17:55
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AlsoD posted:yeah all books in which a character (esp one with a hosed up childhood) rapes or threatens to rape a person are garbage yeah, a small child threatening rape is really good and cool
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May 23, 2014 17:57
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also the author is a crazy sperg and scammer that runs an "ai research institute" that doesn't do anything besides take donations and post about how bayesian math is the end all be all of everything ever
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qntm posted:"NOOOOO," shouted the space alien. Gurgeh had made the best move. He had made the best space move. The robot congratulated him, and the girl wanted to have sex with him. "Well," thought Gurgeh, "I will have sex with her. I am, after all... THE PLAYER OF GAMES." Cocoa Crispies posted:"You are dead," a crisp little voice told him. lol at both of these
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