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Incitatus posted:hes a nerd Neil Gaiman has some good work and anyone who travels across the globe during a pandemic to escape Amanda Palmer is alright with me, but he also has the vibe of someone who cosplays being an author in addition to actually being one. Like, I bet he uses a typewriter and has multiples of the same leather jacket so he's never caught without it. Also, biiiiig poly, superwholock, PostModern Jukebox vibes from that guy. EDIT: LMAO, of course: "Bradlee struggled for years as a jazz musician in New York City before one of his videos ("a medley of '80s songs done ragtime style")[5] became popular in 2009. He received a message on Twitter from author Neil Gaiman.[4] "
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The character Sutter Cane in "In the Mouth of Madness" is obviously a Steven King stand-in, but when he finally appears in the film my reaction was "oh it's Neil Gaiman"
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May 11, 2023 14:17
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Incitatus posted:hes a nerd most intelligent, talented, hardworking nice people are and they make the world a better place to live
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May 11, 2023 14:25
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naem posted:most intelligent, talented, hardworking nice people are and they make the world a better place to live Glad to have you on the forums, Neil. I have to disagree though, and think the "nerds are nice" thing is an absolute fallacy and that the unspoken collerary to what you posted is often "people like ME make the world a better place to live." Loads of nerds range from just unpleasant to be around as they screech Firefly quotes and Tenacious D to each other with poor personal hygiene, or irritating, sarcastic, superior pedants to genuinely dangerous people like Elon Musk or "b...b...ut I'm a nerd!" predators like Joss Whedon or Warren Ellis. Passion is cool. Knowledge is cool. Craft is cool. But you don't have to be a social maladept to have these things.
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I just think some of the stuff Neil writes is fun and good and it makes me happy and I’m glad of it
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naem posted:I just think some of the stuff Neil writes is fun and good and it makes me happy and I’m glad of it I agree and im happy for you. I'd go as far as saying he helped shape the direction of my life as he was a big influence on me becoming a "literate" teenager and subsequently a near unemployable University graduate, but he's still a nerd.
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Disco Pope posted:I agree and im happy for you. I'd go as far as saying he helped shape the direction of my life as he was a big influence on me becoming a "literate" teenager and subsequently a near unemployable University graduate, but he's still a nerd. I am at least 87% sure that you and I right now are also nerds fyi
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naem posted:I am at least 87% sure that you and I right now are also nerds fyi Yeah, but I'm ablaze with self-loathing.
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Disco Pope posted:Yeah, but I'm ablaze with self-loathing. same and who isn’t? at least a little
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Disco Pope posted:Yeah, but I'm ablaze with self-loathing. Lmao, just lol
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In Sim City 2000, if you click on the details of a library, then click "ruminate" you get this meditation on cities written by Neil Gaiman:
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May 11, 2023 16:25
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Ok i take it all back this nail guy needs a swirlie
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I think Neil tends to agree he needs a swirlie. Gaiman is really good at narrating dreams which works best in short or contributor type formats like Sandman or Good Omens or The Ocean At the End of the Lane. Novelist Gaiman is exhausting; I don't understand how people make it through half of American Gods and don't say "I want to wake up now."
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Extra Large Marge posted:In Sim City 2000, if you click on the details of a library, then click "ruminate" you get this meditation on cities written by Neil Gaiman: For now cities sleep. Like everyone reading Neil's books XD
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Tomorrow is spelled wrong in that 
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tom morrow would be really upset to learn that neil fudged his name 
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Disco Pope posted:Neil Gaiman has some good work and anyone who travels across the globe during a pandemic to escape Amanda Palmer is alright with me, but he also has the vibe of someone who cosplays being an author in addition to actually being one. Like, I bet he uses a typewriter and has multiples of the same leather jacket so he's never caught without it. He has a tumblr that is very lame and self-important
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That's all of Tumbler tho
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If you're a ""creative"" and not huffing your own farts 24/7 what are you even doing with your life?
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feelix posted:Lolrandom British garbage for nerds to quote forever until it becomes even less funny than it already is I am sorry that you have a bad opinion, these things happen
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I am sorry that you have a bad opinion, these things happen You're a real hoopy frood mumps
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May 13, 2023 23:26
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Smugworth posted:You're a real hoopy frood mumps don't make me read you Vogon poetry, Smugworth. I'll do it. I got nothing to lose
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Smugworth posted:You're a real hoopy frood mumps Look I already explained this Jesus christ its like some of you are shitposting or something
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May 13, 2023 23:49
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Look I already explained this yes. of course. where do you think you are?
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This is the serious about English scifi humorists thread
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:This is the serious about English scifi humorists thread Philomena Crunk is real and my spirit animal
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Oh man I just discovered her last week, really life changing stuff
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When she says the Greeks created theater for stupid people, also known as sports I cackled a lot
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Philomena Crunk is real and my spirit animal https://youtube.com/shorts/sBlRc6ZlhDg?feature=share
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:This is the serious about English scifi humorists thread *nose completely out of joint* well I guess humor isn’t for everyone.... 
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Semi-unrelated, but "Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers" feels like a spiritual counterpoint to HHG, and I'm surprised that it's taking years and years for them to still get a movie made of it. At this point, I would have figured some serialized show like Outer Limits or Twilight Zone over the years would have gotten the rights to adapt it. Kid works at an all-night diner in the middle of nowhere, discovers the location is a landing spot for multiversal travellers who are constantly on the move, and he debates leaving his boring life to join them. It's an absurd premise, but the story itself is not really a comedy.
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Disco Pope posted:Also, biiiiig poly, superwholock, PostModern Jukebox vibes from that guy. Neil Gaiman can reasonably be credited with helping invent a good chunk of that I'm p sure
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I'm on to the Restaurant At the End of the Universe now and a thought occurred to me. The Total Perspective vortex sounds an awful like a psychedelic experience. Maybe something like salvia or dmt. Maybe just mushrooms or acid. Anyhow, the idea of being shown the whole of the universe compared to yourself, in just a few seconds time, and dealing with that for a lifetime after kind of is the same concept as the time dilation and dissociation from a pretty deep trip. I bet douglas adams did some psychedelics from time to time. Do you think he would have gone on Joe Rogan if he was still alive?
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was actually very good op
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Neil Gaiman can reasonably be credited with helping invent a good chunk of that I'm p sure I don't know. Do doughy 43 year-olds with "normal people scare me" t-shirts, wireframe glasses and dogs named "Captain" come first or does Neil Gaiman come first. I feel like that archtype will always exist and a Gaiman or a Moffat or a Whedon just kind of hovers into their orbit.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I'm on to the Restaurant At the End of the Universe now and a thought occurred to me. The Total Perspective vortex sounds an awful like a psychedelic experience. Maybe something like salvia or dmt. Maybe just mushrooms or acid. Anyhow, the idea of being shown the whole of the universe compared to yourself, in just a few seconds time, and dealing with that for a lifetime after kind of is the same concept as the time dilation and dissociation from a pretty deep trip. the concept of a travel guide to the galaxy came to Adams while he was wasted and lying in a field in Innsbruck looking at the stars so you're on the right track here
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The first two books were fun then they got increasingly worse. This is because Adams grew to hate Hitchhiker's but people kept sending him very large checks to write more, and hey, booze ain't gonna pay for itself. His best stuff is his other stuff. Like this: Douglas Adams posted:I was in England at the time. I could tell I was in England because I was sitting in the rain under a wet blanket in a muddy field listening to some loving orchestra in a kind of red tent playing hits from American movie soundtracks. Is there anywhere else in the world where people would do such a thing? Anywhere? Would they do it in Italy? Would they do it in Tierra del Fuego? Would they do it on Baffin Island? No. Even in Japan where national pastimes include ripping out your own intestines with a knife, I think they would draw the line.
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Howard Beale posted:the concept of a travel guide to the galaxy came to Adams while he was wasted and lying in a field in Innsbruck looking at the stars so you're on the right track here I thought the story is that he was just drunk, but now that I think about it maybe that's just his  version of the story.
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Here's a funny line: "Ford Prefect's consciousness snapped back like elastic, making his brain smart."
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