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With zany humor and zero character development?
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:11 |
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watch the movie first so you can be astounded by how much better the book is do this for any movie adaptation
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:12 |
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The protagonist is such a smart, witty, cheerful, practical, brave, down to earth, lovable, salt of the earth guy that I had to stop reading the book because I hated him so much.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:14 |
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At least give the guy ONE character flaw for gently caress's sake, instead of making him Jesus in a loving spacesuit.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:15 |
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whatas wrong with stem you long haired hippy gently caress
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:16 |
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I'm almost done with the book. It's a fun read, it goes into technical detail juust enough to be interesting but it definitely requires no STEM knowledge or any bullshit like that. The worst it ever gets is the dude thinking about how much O2 he'll need or something like that; it never gets into complicated math or anything. It's designed for your average person to read - if my coworker read it and liked it I assure you that it's not a big deal. The main character is likeable and funny. It's worth a read for sure. Pistol_Pete posted:At least give the guy ONE character flaw for gently caress's sake, instead of making him Jesus in a loving spacesuit. Eh he has flaws and I would expect a Mars astronaut to be able to do the poo poo he does no problem. At no point does it feel like he is perfect or whatever imo. He definitely fucks up a few times. I don't think NASA is going to send up a psychologically broken person or your average goon so the fact that he isn't sadbrains or whatever (aside from the normal 'poo poo I'm alone on Mars' feelings - he does break down and cry at one point) doesn't bother me. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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The people saying the science was bad are full of poo poo is all I know. The one concession the author made was making the MAV at risk for tipping in a storm which is just ridiculous for multiple reasons.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:27 |
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XMNN posted:whatas wrong with stem you long haired hippy gently caress Nothing but it generally doesn't make for good lit
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:29 |
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dude's prose was clumsy, but the story itself is engaging. i listened to the audio book while working 12 hour days because im a beta bitch fuckboy idiot.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:30 |
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Germstore posted:dude's prose was clumsy, but the story itself is engaging. i listened to the audio book while working 12 hour days because im a beta bitch fuckboy idiot. prose was whack
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:31 |
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Haven't seen the movie but the last 1/3 of the book is boring and falls flat.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:31 |
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Germstore posted:The people saying the science was bad are full of poo poo is all I know. The one concession the author made was making the MAV at risk for tipping in a storm which is just ridiculous for multiple reasons. Dude whatever. You'd have to really be a hypernerd or an actual doctorate degree holder to notice the science being bad. Besides it's a fiction book dude that's not the point. It's a short modern version of Robinson Crusoe.
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# ? Oct 6, 2015 23:31 |
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Bug Bill Murray posted:Nothing but it generally doesn't make for good lit
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:14 |
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Moridin920 posted:I don't think NASA is going to send up a psychologically broken person or your average goon so the fact that he isn't sadbrains or whatever (aside from the normal 'poo poo I'm alone on Mars' feelings - he does break down and cry at one point) doesn't bother me. NASA sends up a bunch of military test pilots, certainly a stable and normal group
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:21 |
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XMNN posted:sorry im just a bit irritable when im hungry #1 bitchbaby trait
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:22 |
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You shouldn't read The Martian because it reads like it was written by a 14 year old whose only friend is intro chemistry.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:25 |
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Moridin920 posted:I don't think NASA is going to send up a psychologically broken person or your average goon so the fact that he isn't sadbrains or whatever (aside from the normal 'poo poo I'm alone on Mars' feelings - he does break down and cry at one point) doesn't bother me. an astronaut diaper driver always slips through the cracks
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:26 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:#1 bitchbaby trait
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:26 |
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read john carter instead
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:29 |
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Trigger Warning: Contains Nerds.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:30 |
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Eat the Potato and get lost in the desert instead.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:32 |
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a scientist who writes novels? heh, take that lolberal arts failfags
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:32 |
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XMNN posted:im not really sometimes im just rude to strangers on the internet because i think its funny I forgive you
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:34 |
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Horniest Manticore posted:a scientist who writes novels? heh, take that lolberal arts failfags programmer not scientist, he a hard skill fail fag
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:35 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:NASA sends up a bunch of military test pilots, certainly a stable and normal group test pilots tend to be outrageously calm and analytical it's like the closest you can get to sending a robot man into space without actually having a robot man to send
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 00:55 |
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Loden Taylor posted:test pilots tend to be outrageously calm and analytical I don't think so Loden Taylor
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:05 |
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Germstore posted:The people saying the science was bad are full of poo poo is all I know. The one concession the author made was making the MAV at risk for tipping in a storm which is just ridiculous for multiple reasons. The movie was filled with bad science, though I imagine the book might be more rigorous. Not gonna bother to find out.
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:12 |
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There gotta be like a hunnert unquestionably good books you could read OP why read a questionably good one
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:17 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:At least give the guy ONE character flaw for gently caress's sake, instead of making him Jesus in a loving spacesuit. I don't think Matt Damon ever gets nailed to a cross or stabbed by his friend so really he's like Jesus++ if you think about it
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:19 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:There gotta be like a hunnert unquestionably good books you could read OP why read a questionably good one Cause I usually read quote unquote serious lit and I was in the mood for something fun but I'm not gonna read it if it's gonna be a repeat of my ready player one experience
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:19 |
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They should make a movie called "For the Love of loving Science" and just have a bunch of disheveled smelly nerds going nuts when their independent variables differ from their controls by .01 or whatever, like turnt up rappers going hood
gottabefrank fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Oct 7, 2015 |
# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:22 |
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I liked science fiction a lot more when it was about telling stories and exploring characters and reflecting on humanity instead of smugly fixing every problem with and then soapboxing about the author's politics and fetishes
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:22 |
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Are there any sandworms? Servo-skulls?
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:25 |
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Bug Bill Murray posted:Cause I usually read quote unquote serious lit and I was in the mood for something fun but I'm not gonna read it if it's gonna be a repeat of my ready player one experience Oh Read this it's as light as ice cream truck ice cream and hilarious http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Circle-Piers-Anthony/dp/0380018004/
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:25 |
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are we talking about h g wells im p sure theres a lot of fetishing and soapboxing going on in eg 1950s sci fi (heinlein)
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:26 |
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gottabefrank posted:They should make a movie called "For the Love of loving Science" and just have a bunch of disheveled smelly nerds going nuts when their independent variables differ from their controls by .01 or whatever, like turnt up rappers going hood I had a physics lab one time where the TA kept doing this and I fixed it by just retrofitting all my data so it matched computational expectations almost exactly
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:26 |
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the pro strategy
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:28 |
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Sleeveless posted:I liked science fiction a lot more when it was about telling stories and exploring characters and reflecting on humanity instead of smugly fixing every problem with and then soapboxing about the author's politics and fetishes STEM nerds writing sci-fi books is like liberal arts nerds doing just about anything else. XMNN posted:are we talking about h g wells im p sure theres a lot of fetishing and soapboxing going on in eg 1950s sci fi (heinlein) Wells > Verne. Yeah, nice job with all the technical details, Verne, too bad Wells ended up saying a whole lot more about humanity and the big things about how technology will affect mankind's future instead of the fiddly bits. (Verne is still good, but, no, looking back on them both Wells just kicks his loving rear end hardcore, would've pissed off Verne so much if he knew that.)
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:36 |
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XMNN posted:the pro strategy Cut my lab time down to like 30 minutes too. He was such an autistic retard that he would just look at the numbers and get a placid look on his face like this Except more South Asian
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# ? Oct 7, 2015 02:37 |
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# ? Mar 19, 2024 13:40 |
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Dear Rote Learning Wunderkinder: Obv your work hours will blow us Westerns out of the water, what with the effort and strain you put into micromanagement, results oriented thinking, and anything at all that can be petty.
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