New comic 01/07/08

TankHammer

I read it on my own time. I never got to read 1984 in school. I haven't read Lord of the Flies either.

But they made me choke down The Scarlet Letter twice. Fuck that book.

ThatDudeOverThere

I read Lord of the Flies.

I didn't like it.

YaYa

Wrong thread!

Me Too!

Say what

Dakal

I bought and read 1984 in Amsterdam during the day between the nights of

DrZiplock

I can't get through 1984 without falling asleep 2 pages into it.

Lord of the Flies was great though.

Big Red Tie

I read lord of the flies and 1984 on my own time

timster

Veretas wrote: »

I AM CONTEMPLATING ON SENDING THIS TO MY ASL 3 TEACHER

What should I do [strike]goons[/strike]SE++ers?

Sure, send it to your teacher, with a note asking her if she could make some coffee.

Flyingman

Veretas wrote: »

I AM CONTEMPLATING ON SENDING THIS TO MY ASL 3 TEACHER

What should I do [strike]goons[/strike]SE++ers?

You talk too much.

Gavin

I don't know if I'm the only one who caught it, but at the end of Deaf gone wild,

Spoiler:

when the brunette is sandwiched between two fat men in a shower,

right before it cuts out, she signs:

"We are both going to jail, soon."

So, yeah.


Awesome.

YaYa

Gavin wrote: »

I don't know if I'm the only one who caught it, but at the end of Deaf gone wild,

Spoiler:

when the brunette is sandwiched between two fat men in a shower,

right before it cuts out, she signs:

"We are both going to jail, soon."

So, yeah.


Awesome.

So I didn't imagine that.

Kazhiim

1984's a good book to read but a bad book to discuss

because anything you have to say about it has been said a thousand times over

#pipe

Man, I am listening to the most recent podcast and Mike using the "liquidation sale, everything must go" metaphor for puking and shitting all night is probably the funniest thing I've heard in weeks

Defender

The Scarlet Letter was shit.

Animal Farm was great, Lord of the Flies was great.

Butler

Animal Farm was great. A little too allegorical for my tastes, but I found it very darkly funny.

1984 was the most utterly horrifying book I've ever read. It basically illustrates how homo sapiens could end up shedding every last scrap of its humanity forever, and you can see how completely possible it is. It's like swallowing just a teaspoon of the mind-breaking cosmic horror Lovecraft was always going on about.

Ten

So, does anybody know what 'Petra Ad Infinitum' on the new Rock Band shirt translates to? I've already ordered one because it looks awesome (despite Rock Band not being out here yet ), so I hope it doesn't say 'Cocks Forever' or something.

Munkus Beaver

I read animal farm three or four times in the fifth and sixth grade.

1984...my God, you get to the middle of that book and you're done with life until you finish that book.

Butler

Engage inductive reasoning module:

"Petrify" means "become a rock" or "become like a rock"

Therefore "Petra" probably means "rock"

Probable translation:

ROCK FOREVER

Do you wish to make another transaction y/n?

Shorty

1984 was good but it was too surreal for my tastes. I had the same problem with Neuromancer.

Butler

Fuck I need to read Neuromancer. Actually I just need to read some fiction in general, I've been reading plenty of non-fiction but I keep getting stuck on the second part of Day Watch otherwise.

Ten

Butler wrote: »

Engage inductive reasoning module:

"Petrify" means "become a rock" or "become like a rock"

Therefore "Petra" probably means "rock"

Probable translation:

ROCK FOREVER

Do you wish to make another transaction y/n?

Ahh, I figured that's probably what it was, but I did not make that etymological connection to confirm it, thankyou!

> n

^D

Shorty

Neuromancer was great because it was a great setting, not because the writing itself was that wonderful. That's a problem with most of Gibson's writing. The Difference Engine is another good example. Great setting, awful writing.

Knob

really, you think neuromancer was poorly written?

are you sure you aren't thinking of phillip k dick

Shorty

Neuromancer had decent writing. Not great, but good. Like I said, it's far too surreal for my tastes. William Gibson can only write well once in awhile though. He did a good job in Virtual Light.

Dynagrip

I think Virtual Light is one of his worst written books, but I still liked it.

Also, PKD writes fine, damn it.

sarukun

Comic is tits.

Orikaeshigitae

Dynagrip wrote: »

I think Virtual Light is one of his worst written books, but I still liked it.

Also, PKD writes fine, damn it.

haha, no he doesn't

at

all

but neuromancer's writing is really sweet, especially neuromancer's virtual reality and dixie flatline's character

Dynagrip

shut pu

Rankenphile

I'm having a damn hard time getting into Neuromancer. It just feels way too dated and long-time-ago-dude-writing-about-shit-that-already-happened-pretty-much-but-not-anything-like-how-it-actually-is-hyphen

Defender

Arguably, 1984 should have that same problem. I mean, 1984 clearly came and went and that shit did not happen.

I think Idiocracy's similar. That would never actually happen, but the exaggeration is needed to make the point.

jwalk

Some of the "lingo" sounds a bit dated now, but that's only because it's been overused by every hack to ride Gibson's coattails. I still love the descriptive writing style, definitely one of his strongest points.

Also if you've never read it, I loved Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars.

Scribemite

Ah yes 80's cyberpunk.

Read Bruce Sterling's "Schismatrix". You may need to get it at the library because its been out of print (published in 1986 I think). It doesn't feel dated because it expands the solar system.

Sterling was cyberpunkqueer friends with Gibson, but I think he was a better and more concise writer. Schismatrix hard cover is about 200 pages if I remember correctly, but there are like 5 new ideas on every page.

PiptheFair

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

lostwords

PiptheFair wrote: »

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

Yes, million times yes. I still page through my second edition source book just for poops and giggles. Also, best Genesis game ever.

Dynagrip

Schismatrix is pretty much Sterling's only decent book.

cruciverbiete

PiptheFair wrote: »

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

Anyone play the snes game? With the white soul-guide dog?

Wren

cruciverbiete wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

Anyone play the snes game? With the white soul-guide dog?

genesis version was better

Der Waffle Mous

Wren wrote: »

cruciverbiete wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

Anyone play the snes game? With the white soul-guide dog?

genesis version was better

And we've stumbled upon one of the oldest still-going internet arguements ever...

jwalk

I remember playing Neuromancer on the Amiga, and the only way I was able to finish it was read the executable file in a hex editor and search for strings, looking for the passwords to computer systems you had to hack into. I still to this day have no idea if that's what you were supposed to do or not. I played the game for hours and hours looking for the passwords but I swear to god they were NOT IN THE GAME ANYWHERE.

I still find that pretty amusing.

Theidar

lostwords wrote: »

PiptheFair wrote: »

know what awesome 80's cyberpunk is?

shadowrun

shadowrun is awesome

Yes, million times yes. I still page through my second edition source book just for poops and giggles. Also, best Genesis game ever.

Shadowrun sourcebooks are the greatest RPG sourcebooks. Just as Shadowrun is the greatest pen and paper RPG.