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General Battuta posted:Knew it wouldn't go unloved. Banks fo lyfe Am i misinterpreting this or are you involved with Destiny in some way?
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Yeah, they hired me as a writer to help close the game. I got to write a bunch of the in-game text (not mission scripts but stuff like weapon and armor descriptions) and a lot of the Grimoire, their companion app with backstory and stuff. Couldn't ship it without a Banks tribute  You even spend the whole game running around in the company of a tiny floating robot. I wish our mission scripts had played him more like a knife missile or a drone.
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Jul 24, 2014 04:24
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Ah, cool. Congrats. I've been kinda interested in the game but all my video gaming takes place on a 5 year old mac or a 3ds at the moment so I had kind of forgotten about it for a while.
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Jul 24, 2014 04:48
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Haha hot drat I wasn't expecting a response from the person responsible for that. You're good people, General Battuta.
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Jul 24, 2014 12:13
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If anyone hasn't seen it yet, there's a knife missile in Guardians of the Galaxy, and it is awesome.
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Aug 11, 2014 08:33
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Avulsion posted:If anyone hasn't seen it yet, there's a knife missile in Guardians of the Galaxy, and it is awesome. It was pretty cool! I thought of it more like a mix of a knife missile and a whiphound from The Prefect.
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Aug 11, 2014 10:27
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BastardySkull posted:I've posted my Banks images on Redbubble for those that are interested. The markup will all go to a charity helping survivors of sexual abuse, of which Banks was patron. I love your art style and I love Iain M. Banks so this is basically a Christmas gift to me. You own.
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Aug 11, 2014 10:37
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How does RedBubble handle shipping? I don't want to buy a 140€ print and then have it come in the mail all screwed up, and I'm in Portugal, so it's a long distance. Is there a distribution center in Europe or something? E: There's this info on their website 
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Aug 11, 2014 17:37
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BastardySkull posted:I've posted my Banks images on Redbubble for those that are interested. The markup will all go to a charity helping survivors of sexual abuse, of which Banks was patron. Pretty sure this is going to be my dad's Christmas present. Cheers 
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Aug 12, 2014 00:18
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I am having A LOT of trouble deciding whether I want the GSV Exterior or Interior. I like the style of those more than the style of the Player of Games / Excession ones (my two favorite culture books). Maybe I need to read Look to Windward and then get that one.
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Aug 12, 2014 03:25
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I think the GSV exterior was originally entitled 'Sleeper Service', if I'm recalling correctly, so hey, get that and love on Excession.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:32
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And away we go. Those metal prints are really snazzy.
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Aug 12, 2014 04:36
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These paintings make me feel so much stuff... I love the Culture
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Aug 12, 2014 08:29
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Updated the OP for the first time in too long, added his final book to the bibliography. 
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Aug 13, 2014 16:11
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Entropic posted:Updated the OP for the first time in too long, added his final book to the bibliography. This post actually made me hugely , way more than it logically should.
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Aug 14, 2014 11:10
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Hedrigall posted:It was pretty cool! I thought of it more like a mix of a knife missile and a whiphound from The Prefect. Well a whiphound is basically a primitive knife missile with a tail anyway.
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Aug 14, 2014 11:30
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I recently read this review of Surface Detail, which is a book that I haven't read for ages. (The review is spoiler heavy, by the way.) Because it's been so long since I read Surface Detail, I've forgotten about this bit (as described by the review):quote:The forces who actually achieve the novel's triumphant conclusion, in which real war is prevented while the hells are destroyed, are an alien race we've never heard of before. Their sudden appearance as all-knowing, all-powerful parent figures who, with rather a bit more force than the Culture would have exercised, chastise the errant children and send them off to bed without their supper feels more than a little like a deus ex machina. Can anyone explain to me what this is about? Who is the author referring to? What's the climax they're referring to?
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Sep 4, 2014 01:02
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Those On My Left posted:I recently read this review of Surface Detail, which is a book that I haven't read for ages. (The review is spoiler heavy, by the way.) Because it's been so long since I read Surface Detail, I've forgotten about this bit (as described by the review): That reviewer didn't read the book.
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Sep 4, 2014 01:06
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pseudorandom name posted:That reviewer didn't read the book. Yeah, I really don't remember any last minute intervention by some sort of higher-than-Culture level civilisation but wondered if I was just misremembering it. I went to the wiki page that lists all the societies in the Culture setting and looked for anything that sounded like a candidate, but couldn't come up with any. I wondered if I was just misremembering it.
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Sep 4, 2014 03:26
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Yeah, that's crazy, it's like they didn't like the actual end and just fanfictioned one up and then proceeded to review the book. e: a fanfictioned up ending that they didn't actually like all that much. 
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Sep 4, 2014 03:28
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Deus ex machina is kind of the whole point of the Culture anyway.
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Sep 4, 2014 03:32
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It's talking about those guys who interrogated the soldier. I don't remember them actually doing what's discussed, but I think that's who it's referring to. awesmoe fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 03:37
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Weren't at least some of those guys Culture?
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Sep 4, 2014 03:40
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Snapchat A Titty posted:Weren't at least some of those guys Culture?
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Sep 4, 2014 03:42
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awesmoe posted:It's talking about those guys who interrogated the soldier. Can you elaborate on this please? Like I said, I don't really remember the ending.
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Sep 4, 2014 03:50
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It's been a while since I read it too, but I thought the gist was that The GFCF and Veppers conspired to nuke the Hells by taking over the manufacturies. The GCFC likes to think they might out-Culture the Culture by doing cool wetwork operations and then letting the big guys take the credit/blame, but there are hints that they may have been subtly pushed towards this action by some SC Minds.
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Sep 4, 2014 04:07
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Hang on, are they referring to the GFCF using communication crypto from some civilization that had mostly sublimed and the bits of that civilization that did not sublime had buried some code that allowed them to eavesdrop. Then they turned up and were all "You shower are a bunch of shitheads and we are passing on your communications because you are shitheads".
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Sep 4, 2014 04:11
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rejutka posted:Hang on, are they referring to the GFCF using communication crypto from some civilization that had mostly sublimed and the bits of that civilization that did not sublime had buried some code that allowed them to eavesdrop. Then they turned up and were all "You shower are a bunch of shitheads and we are passing on your communications because you are shitheads". That's what I thought.
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Sep 4, 2014 04:16
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Was going through Destiny related stuff earlier because I'm overwhelmingly hyped for that game and there's a challenge/achievement/whatever thing called Use of Weapons. General Battuta 
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Sep 5, 2014 10:46
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sinking belle posted:Was going through Destiny related stuff earlier because I'm overwhelmingly hyped for that game and there's a challenge/achievement/whatever thing called Use of Weapons. General Battuta Welp, this fence wasn't all that comfortable to sit on anyway.
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Sep 6, 2014 06:10
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Did General Battuta work on the game?
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Sep 6, 2014 20:35
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Top of the page. Please don't expect a Culture game, though, you'll be so let down.
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Sep 6, 2014 20:49
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General Battuta posted:Top of the page. Please don't expect a Culture game, though, you'll be so let down. Hah, of course. Is there even a way to visualize some of the stuff covered in The Culture?
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Sep 7, 2014 18:29
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fookolt posted:Hah, of course. Is there even a way to visualize some of the stuff covered in The Culture? I occasionally replicate GSV battles by spinning round really fast and then staring into a lighbulb while I poke myself in the eye.
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Sep 7, 2014 18:32
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I occasionally replicate GSV battles by spinning round really fast and then staring into a lighbulb while I poke myself in the eye. Fortunately you only have to do that for about 2 seconds start to finish for a large fleet engagement.
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Murgos posted:Fortunately you only have to do that for about 2 seconds start to finish for a large fleet engagement. That seems like a long time, does it include sending snarky messages to your victims' next of kin?
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Sep 8, 2014 21:40
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I imagine .1 second battles happening. Then I get sad because no one is ever going to put something like that on a screen. gently caress I wish I had a billion dollars. But that's what books are for, imagination.
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Fragmented posted:I imagine .1 second battles happening. Then I get sad because no one is ever going to put something like that on a screen. gently caress I wish I had a billion dollars. But that's what books are for, imagination. I don't think the Culture is likely to wind up on screen, but they could use "oh, that was a slow-motion replay" as an excuse to show ship battles, like in Surface Detail (I think).
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Sep 17, 2014 19:47
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Just show crazy poo poo happening, while including an 'elapsed time' thing. or show it happening, then go back and show it in mind-time. Would work well with the ROU Killing Time going on a rampage in Excession. Doubly so if it's from his perspective. "That was fast, let me show you how it looked to me." Then it includes trash talking and insulting. MISSED FUCKERS! E: also you're good people general battuta, if only it was a good game SpookyLizard fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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I can totally see a battle happen in the blink of eye while making it a 2 or 3 minute scene, constantly switching between the superfast stuff happening and a character slooooowly blinking just once.
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