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started cryptonomicon today, can i skip past all the dot com bubble current day stuff, because it feels like a chore i have to read through to get more delicious Alan Turing fanfic
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yeah i already read those parts and now theyre planning on building a data haven BUT IN A BLOCKCHAIN or something and everyone is the whiny grandchild of the characters I actually give a poo poo about idk ill just read it straight through but goddamn everytime I get to a current day chapter I groan a little
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May 19, 2014 01:56
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lol vid's already gone
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May 19, 2014 23:51
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why the gently caress does he keep calling it nippon
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May 21, 2014 00:14
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watched brazil last night, absolutely loved the "future as seen from 1955" aesthetic, but the whole time I kept feeling like there was some kind of deep metaphor I wasn't getting and I felt kind of dumb by the end
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May 23, 2014 21:37
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its pretty simple: youre either the kind of person who would donate all your material wealth toward the creation of a sentient ai or youre not. that ai is conjectured to be so powerful it could simulate an exact copy of you and determine which of the 2 you are. if you are the kind that would not donate, it will torture you(r simulation, which is identical to you yourself being tortured because reasons) for eternity for not contributing to its creation. so yeah its basically pascals wager for singularitarianisterites
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May 24, 2014 00:52
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finished cryptonomicon. beginning and end were really good but the middle slogged and i really couldve done without the chapterly Waterhouse Family Boner Status Updates in fact still think you couldve cut all the present day poo poo and had a perfectly good novel about Waterhouse forrest gumping his way through wwII and shaftoe shaftoeing it up read that and snow crash, is there any other good neal stephenson, I heard most of his newer stuff is bad
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May 25, 2014 13:46
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every ep of poi ive seen has been stupid poo poo straight out of Yet Another CSI Ripoff, is there some overarching plot that comes out if you dont just watch random episodes or something?
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May 27, 2014 03:49
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we are all united in that one day we will be meat rotting in the ground, we just disagree about what happens after that
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May 27, 2014 22:56
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Cocoa Crispies posted:speak for yourself, I want to be burned to a crisp and turned into smoke that goes up into the sky and turns in to stars sry but the smoke of your burning corpse will not escape the earths atmosphere, youre stuck here with the rest of us maybe one day you can be recycled into a new babby though on an personal note: back when I was in high school I went to a play with my best friend and her family, who were very serious evangelicals. the main character in the play kept talking about how cool it was that the atoms in her heart might have come from stars or diamonds, and my friends mom later said "How sad that that girl had to wonder if her body had once been part of a star, and not even realize that Jesus was in her heart all along!" so yeah thats how literal irl people think i guess
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May 27, 2014 23:46
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wow homophobic
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May 30, 2014 00:42
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Kenny Logins posted:kith supremacy
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May 30, 2014 22:56
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finished excession today, that was my first culture novel and I totally wasn't expecting the whole "this is the story of a bunch of incomprehensibly vast computer minds and also theres a bunch of humans around if you're into that sort of thing" aspect, it was different so the sleeper service just used getting genar-hofoen to talk to zreyn tramow as an excuse to get him on board to talk to dajeil, right? so why did the grey area beam some of zreyn's memories into his head?
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Jun 2, 2014 00:23
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BARONS GAMES WHINER posted:What are some cool sci-fi future drug names zydrate
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Jun 5, 2014 03:03
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raruler posted:good news friend im the chainsaw dilz
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Jun 6, 2014 00:18
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speaking of which does anyone have that quote about kids these days "sipping candy flavored nicotine water from a robot's dick" i need it for a friend
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Jun 6, 2014 00:19
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I remember reading hitchhiker's guide when i was in high school and laughing my rear end off through the whole thing. naturally i started in on restaurant at the end of the universe and it was funny but not as funny. then i read the next two and they were just sort of ok. i got about 3 chapters into mostly harmless (about to the point where he and the one girl fly while loving) and just gave up. what happened douglas adams.
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Jun 11, 2014 19:55
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haveblue posted:the sky loving is in so long and thanks for all the fish and you ignored the warning adams gave you that the next chapter would be about loving so gj wow you seem really mad about scifi, calm down and if i warn you that im about to take a dump on your kitchen table does that make it better when i plop a fat turd right on there?
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Jun 11, 2014 20:17
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haveblue posted:no I think it's funny that you read the part that said "there's going to be loving in the next chapter, if you don't want to read about loving skip ahead" and then nodded and kept reading and then got angry about the loving in the next chapter yes, i, a reader of science fiction, was offended and disgusted that someone would write a sex scene in a book it was a stupid part of a stupid book and adams should have quit writing while he was ahead
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Jun 11, 2014 20:23
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that david byrne book looks intriguing
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Jun 12, 2014 00:16
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started canticle for liebowitz last night and its so good i got through the first third already. Poor brother foster 
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Jun 12, 2014 22:18
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he and charlie stoss collaborated on a sort of sequel to accelerando and it was really bad and I was mad because I liked accelerando thats all i know about cory doctor
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Jun 13, 2014 21:01
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good omens owns bones but the curse it has seems to be real, ive bought 2 copies lost one and the other got ruined wonder what happens if i buy it on kindle
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Jun 15, 2014 21:43
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kindle daily deals has the first 5 game of thrones books for $20, worth it or no
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Jun 16, 2014 22:49
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Jun 17, 2014 01:00
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a friend is recommending the expanse trilogy, but i told her i refuse to read any scifi not vetted by yospos, anyone else read it?
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Jun 17, 2014 22:02
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garak was originally supposed to be gay for bashir but then who isnt 
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Jun 19, 2014 02:20
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:ok i spent some time with gis so here are your tng men in skirts and fancy boots. roddenberry thought he was progressive, but, uh.... yeah well let's just let the images stand on their own ok would
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Jun 19, 2014 19:20
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We're sorry, we could not complete your purchase. Nick, the Kindle Store on Amazon.co.uk is for UK customers only. To shop for titles available for your country, please visit Amazon.com. what a load of bollocks
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Jun 20, 2014 01:22
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the nice thing about physical books is you can go to the library book sale and get a dozen for under  
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Jun 20, 2014 20:43
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sorry it looked fine on my phone v vfixt now
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Jun 20, 2014 21:45
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I read childhoods end, then breakfast of champions why does all scifi have depressing endings
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Jun 26, 2014 11:33
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do what i did and get a previous gen model off ebay for $20
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Jun 26, 2014 23:41
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srsly is there any good scifi that isnt depressing as gently caress
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Jun 27, 2014 01:01
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but dubstep doesn't squeal, it wubs 
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Jun 27, 2014 19:39
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yospos writing clinicol qwerty bastard posted:guys i wrote a thing; tell me if it sucks it reads very much like a fragment of a story. right now the whole climax/twist of the story is "hey relativity exists," if you went into more detail about what happens to the old ship it would be better. they gave the better part of their lives only to end up being obsolete and now are basically out of the fight so what happens next? Heresiarch posted:also my posting has been lovely enough recently i might as well just go all-in and goon the gently caress out you obviously have an idea for a world, but that world needs characters in it. there is not a single line of dialogue in this piece, it is all telling and now showing.
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Jun 29, 2014 18:02
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not scifi but you should all watch crossbones starring john malkovich as blackbeard and richard coyle as not-stephen maturin
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Jun 30, 2014 01:29
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ive never understood buying book versions of online content, you can see it for free anytime you want already especially homestuck, thats like half animated gifs and flash animations how would you even make it a book
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Jul 3, 2014 00:10
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FMguru posted:you dumbass rude
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Jul 3, 2014 00:36
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theflyingexecutive posted:you stopped reading halfway through as i do with most of yospos, to be fair
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