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I don't know anything about the specs involved but it never plays on anything and jackasses keep encoding things in it and it feels like a fucking nerd conspiracy that I want no part of.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
Reminding me yet again that short fiction is the best medium for science fiction. It beats novels, and it assrapes movies.
his penis was huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge
Don't you have that on vhs?
Hmm. Let me check the list.
To Do After Getting Passport
- Stalk and molest Fluffy
- Visit girlfriend (?)
- Murder and defile girlfriend's exes
ENORMOUS!
hey fluffy i'm starting an lp in two days!
I have tried but I can't stop it. I have nightmares of the Imperial slave camps.
Google Talk: ludious83
Pretty much.
Novels and movies tend to be about world-building, so they're better left to fantasy and soft sci-fi.
I completely agree. In the short form you can have a cool idea, develop it, and then tie it off with a bow and leave the reader with an awesome experience. In a novel a cool idea is not enough, you need to have character development and a coherent theme and all this other stuff that sci-fi writers are often kind of at sea with.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
But it's Open!
That's literally the reason it was created and the only selling points those dude seem to think matters
That guy wants to be Gaga but he isn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O19a9KWxFk
Google Talk: ludious83
I like this
Imma steal this
what are you trying to play it on?
Exactly. Fecking exactly.
There are so many sci-fi authors who I think have really awesome ideas but when you read their books you can't help but notice the weak characterization (almost universal) as well as other specific flaws; Pournell gets too beardy about military stuff, Niven starts writing about sex (oh God no please stop) and when they are confined to short form, these things just don't happen.
your mom
it surprised me, since she's compatible with so much else
Hmmm. Let me check the list.
To Do Now
- Send brother X-Files "I Want To Believe" poster
- Make Post
- Don't work
- [strike]Put up or shut up[/strike] (This was a dumb idea)
Nope.
oh man, so it really is a nerd conspiracy?
thank god. that makes so much more sense.
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things
And suddnely senj has a new fetish.
"No honey twirl the sword and like change hands, god damn it you dropped it, great now I have to start the vaguely gaelic music all over again."
Really, the goal should be for the length and format of a work to be whatever works best for the content, rather than trying to cram it into a generic mold. The need for genre fiction to fit into a certain novel length or into trilogies doesn't do it any favors.
don't talk about the conspiracy
there are spies everywhere
you will be snatched up in the night by the MKVD
Feel free senj, I always type my random comments in an open format!
This is absolutely true, yeah. Unfortunately marketing marketing blah blah blah etc. And too many people seem to prefer awful trilogies to good single novels or novellas.
Jacob, make the new chat
oh, don't mind if I do
Actual Play: Mage: the Awakening - At the Edge of All Things