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Holy poo poo I've tried everything, that's hard. I've seen so many titles now. "The New Vegan Torment" "The New Never Tremble" "The New Regret Trouble" "The New Secret Tomorrow" It's gonna be embarrassing if the second word ends up not being "new"
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Brawnfire posted:Holy poo poo I've tried everything, that's hard. It's longer than "The", I think it's four letters.  Maybe it's The Next _ _?
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Mar 22, 2022 16:12
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I wasn't sure if that was resized to help the typeface fit the yellow building(?) I did a number of yellow building searches that didn't help. My kid is sleeping on me, this is the biggest thing I've got going on rn
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Mar 22, 2022 16:22
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Absurd Alhazred posted:It's longer than "The", I think it's four letters. that's what I thought too also, isn't the third line two words? "in the"?
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Mar 22, 2022 16:23
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 I don't know how much this will help, but I tried.
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Mar 22, 2022 16:49
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The New Babel Tower is what I see
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Mar 22, 2022 16:55
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I want to say the third word is Review.
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Mar 22, 2022 17:28
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That’s what I see too. The new review does release collections with titles like “the new review economy” so it’s possibly one of those
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Mar 22, 2022 22:28
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The Rural Juror
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Mar 22, 2022 22:47
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maybe a screen recording could help https://i.imgur.com/uFkpMvc.mp4 man netflix is lovely quality lol
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Mar 22, 2022 23:03
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I’ve just realised the black shape is probably a gun.
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Mar 22, 2022 23:42
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It looks like there's a gun in the cover with a silencer. Maybe a rerelease of some spy thriller?
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Mar 23, 2022 01:13
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:It looks like there's a gun in the cover with a silencer. Maybe a rerelease of some spy thriller? That made me think "You Only Live Twice" but there's no cover that matches that, although one comes close: 
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Mar 23, 2022 01:28
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It's been solved in the other thread, FYI:Canteen Medal posted:Could be The new revolutionaries;: A handbook of the international radical left
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Mar 23, 2022 07:35
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Thanks guys, much appreciated.
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Mar 23, 2022 07:50
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uvar posted:It's been solved in the other thread, FYI: Holy poo poo, that's hard mode.
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Mar 23, 2022 11:38
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splitting the final word was cheating!! 
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Mar 23, 2022 11:48
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Those BASTARDS
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God I tried searching The New Revolutionary last night, because I wondered if it was a split word, but didn’t get that.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:29
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Brawnfire posted:Those BASTARDS Cheaters had higher-res images to work from. 
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Help. I've just been reminded of a book I read probably 25-30 years ago and only remember bits of. Does this seem familiar to anyone? The synopsis I remember is that the book's set in a virtual RPG where something has gone wrong (maybe people being trapped, this is late 80's to 90's so litrpg tropes before litrpg was a thing), and one of the creators who'd long left the company is called back in to troubleshoot. The points I remember most are that the character called back in was the original combat system designer, who was an olympic level fencer who's too old to be competitive now, and originally was the sole character with the 'bard' class. This is going to bug me for days, I can almost see the cover art. It was not a good book, but I read pretty much any trash fantasy/SF I could get my hands on then. It might have been early-mid 1990's, I think I read it somewhere around 1995.
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Mar 26, 2022 07:17
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The year is all wrong but it vaguely sounds like Reamde by Neal Stephenson
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Mar 26, 2022 07:35
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Is it In The Net Of Dreams by William Mark Simmons?
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Liquid Communism posted:Help. I've just been reminded of a book I read probably 25-30 years ago and only remember bits of. Does this seem familiar to anyone? "Lead character designed the combat system" is straight out of Snow Crash.
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wizzardstaff posted:Is it In The Net Of Dreams by William Mark Simmons? That's the loving thing, I knew that cover was familiar. Thanks! Robert Remington Ripley the loving third, how did I not remember that protagonist. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 26, 2022 |
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Short story involving a company that creates genetically modified mini-dinosaurs as a sort of designer pet/living toy. They're semi-sapient, and can talk. The story mainly focuses on a shelter for abandoned and neglected mini-dinosaurs. I think there's a bit where the dinosaurs sing a Barney-esque song that they're all genetically programmed to know.
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ScienceSeagull posted:Short story involving a company that creates genetically modified mini-dinosaurs as a sort of designer pet/living toy. They're semi-sapient, and can talk. The story mainly focuses on a shelter for abandoned and neglected mini-dinosaurs. I think there's a bit where the dinosaurs sing a Barney-esque song that they're all genetically programmed to know. That sounds familiar. I used to have this anthology, and on the basis that I might have read it in there it might be 'Rex' by David Gerrold. On the other hand I don't think I've still got it and can't find it online so I can't check. quote:REX - Have you ever wanted a pet dinosaur? A cute little mini-dino? The T-Rex can be very convenient. quote:“Rex” [1993 short story] quote:Gerrold, David: "Rex", the only carnivore in spoiled little Jill Fillman's miniature dinosaur collection, has been so overfed that his aggression and size allow him to escape his enclosure regularly, but the greatest toll is on the Fillmans' marriage. Jonathan feels that the main difference between tyrant-lizard and tyrant-child is that Rex eats hearts only once... Unkempt fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Mar 29, 2022 |
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ScienceSeagull posted:Short story involving a company that creates genetically modified mini-dinosaurs as a sort of designer pet/living toy. They're semi-sapient, and can talk. The story mainly focuses on a shelter for abandoned and neglected mini-dinosaurs. I think there's a bit where the dinosaurs sing a Barney-esque song that they're all genetically programmed to know. The Measure of All Things, by Richard Chwedyk
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Probably not the story in question, but Ted Chiang has a similar one called "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" in Exhalation.
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Runcible Cat posted:The Measure of All Things, by Richard Chwedyk Thanks, that's it! And yeah, I recently read Lifecycle of Software Objects, which is what reminded me of it.
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Coming in hot from the white whale thread: A low grade fantasy series that came out in short installments. One of the main characters is a Conan type (shocker I know) who ends up trapped in some spell like encasing him in amber for several years (want to say 15), and I think is rescued by his son who was an infant at the time (so very similar to Dragon Quest 5). What drives me crazy is I recall a useless passage that he is conscious while stuck in the pillar, and had an itchy nose for over a year of his imprisonment. I remember reading bits and pieces in the late 80's early 90's. It was also a multi installment book, think that happens in book 2 or 3
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Fifteen years and an itchy nose is the only thing that crops up?
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Brawnfire posted:Fifteen years and an itchy nose is the only thing that crops up? Haha Well there's also yhe infant son growing up to rescue him from the amber pillar (a wizard put him there) I think his party is stuck as well, and i want to say theres a dwarf and a mat cauthorn type character with them. Dude might have also been a prince and returned to his kingdom in ruins
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I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: the book is SF and it's told from the POV of a soldier who wakes from cold sleep or whatever in a space ship and has to go attack aliens. Him and his buddies get beaten and he's taken into the alien ship. Turns out they're humans and he's a clone or something manipulated by the aliens into finding and destroying humans.
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A National Acrobat posted:I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: reminds me of black mirror s3e5 but its not that. its an oft-used device for sure
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A National Acrobat posted:I read this somewhat recently but can't remember the name or the author: Pretty sure it's Alan Dean Foster, one of the Damned series, specifically Book 2, A False Mirror. It takes a little while to get to that scene though, I think. ulmont fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 8, 2022 |
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ulmont posted:Pretty sure it's Alan Dean Foster, one of the Damned series, specifically Book 2, A False Mirror. It takes a little while to get to that scene though, I think. no, this is a standalone and it's a newer book (last couple of years)
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light brigade by kameron hurley? if thats not it idgaf cause its super good v 2
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A National Acrobat posted:no, this is a standalone and it's a newer book (last couple of years) Oh, hell, you're right, I read that one too. Hang on. Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter.
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ulmont posted:Oh, hell, you're right, I read that one too. Hang on. Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter. yes! thank you.
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