And it has a surprisingly low amount of bad stuff in it. Carpe Jugulum is the only book I can think of offhand which was just not good.
never read it, but I couldn't get into Monstrous Regiment
Monstrous Regiment wasn't bad but yeah it really never grew on me. I didn't care about any of the characters and the ending was sort of bleh. Vimes also seemed shoehorned into the story.
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AWWWW the thread where we were talking about the new chinese fighter jet got closed before i could make a racist joke
Flying cars are stupid and you are stupid for thinking it's 'the future'
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Flying cars are stupid and you are stupid for thinking it's 'the future'
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Fuck you and your silly idea of 'the future.'
Smart Hero, making serious posts.
You are cramping my style.
But seriously flying cars is cool.
ITT I would rather fly around than talk to people.
Flying cars are stupid and you are stupid for thinking it's 'the future'
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Fuck you and your silly idea of 'the future.'
Smart Hero, making serious posts.
You are cramping my style.
But seriously flying cars is cool.
Do you really believe the general populace is capable of operating a vehicle that includes an additional dimension of movement.
The only way flying cars will ever be a reality is if they are controlled by an autopilot.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Flying cars are stupid and you are stupid for thinking it's 'the future'
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Fuck you and your silly idea of 'the future.'
Have you ever considered that maybe this is awful?
This is a time in human history when it is really easy to not be ignorant, and frankly the internet has done a really good job of making people more ignorant. It's made people less capable of intelligent discourse (which is more or less why I enjoy the schadenfreude when people get mad on a forum). It's proven that the human mind has absolutely no limit to the extent it is willing to convince itself of its own worldview, and that factual knowledge is a wikipedia entry.
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A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Yeah why tell you assholes I'm taking a shit when I can beam to your house and ask if I can use yours when my john is clogged.
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edited January 2011
We're starting to get into the realm of self-navigating cars so I would imagine by the time flying cars were the norm they would be driving themselves.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
There's quite a leap in skill necessary to go from car to flying. I'm frightened by the drivers that come to PA from New Jersey. I could only imagine those assholes flying.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Faster travel means teleporters
I am totally okay with teleporters
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edited January 2011
I like that nuclear power airplanes were at one time considered a priority of the US Government.
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A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Faster travel is fine, but that '50s mentality that everyone would have a flying car and a robot maid by now is just dumb nostalgia. The logistics of having something like an affordable and easily operated flying car is so staggering that it's almost out of the question.
A high-speed rail system (like the one that's been on the books for a while now) is a hell of a lot more effective and environmentally friendly than a shitton of flying cars (powered by fossil fuels)
Flying cars are stupid and you are stupid for thinking it's 'the future'
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Fuck you and your silly idea of 'the future.'
Smart Hero, making serious posts.
You are cramping my style.
But seriously flying cars is cool.
Do you really believe the general populace is capable of operating a vehicle that includes an additional dimension of movement.
The only way flying cars will ever be a reality is if they are controlled by an autopilot.
Do people ever realize just how complicated driving a car is and how quickly a human adapts to doing it? Yes, yes I do believe the general populace is capable of operating a vehicle with an additional dimension of movement especially if roads and driving laws are adapted for flying as well as they are for regular driving.
Roads and road laws are incredibly complex and do an astonishingly good job, overall, of keeping people from getting fucking killed every single day. And people take that for granted constantly. Of course we'll see accidents and all sorts of damage, but not by any substantially higher amount if they take the same level of care and safety into the design of the laws and cars themselves as they do now.
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I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT
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Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Faster travel means teleporters
I am totally okay with teleporters
This would be awesome because we would end up with laws that prohibited against the discrimination of people with differing understandings of physics.
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A magician gives you a ring that, when worn, will let you see the world as it truly is.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Faster travel means teleporters
I am totally okay with teleporters
Teleporters would be awesome.
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I wish that someway, somehow, that I could save every one of us
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Why the fuck are flying cars being put down now? I mean yeah smart phones and the internet are goddamn amazing if you put any thought into what they mean at all, but what exactly is wrong with thinking about faster travel? Especially if you have friends/loved ones that live far away.
Faster travel means teleporters
I am totally okay with teleporters
Teleporters would be awesome.
yeah, until you got stuck in one with a fly and were forced to fuck gina davis. blech.
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Monstrous Regiment wasn't bad but yeah it really never grew on me. I didn't care about any of the characters and the ending was sort of bleh. Vimes also seemed shoehorned into the story.
EDIT: how fortunate
for you
You had a pretty good setup with my post.
People have tiny handheld devices that let them communicate with anyone in the world through a simple to use service and can share photos, videos, voice recordings and other information in seconds.
Fuck you and your silly idea of 'the future.'
Steam
It's like a game of Civilsation. Humanity just needs to put a couple of turns into flying cars instead of twitter!
waaaaaah
Smart Hero, making serious posts.
You are cramping my style.
But seriously flying cars is cool.
ITT I would rather fly around than talk to people.
Steam
fuckin' everybody predicts flying cars and jetpacks and space stations and moon colonies
but the shit that is going on with internet and smartphones and such is so much The Future that nobody saw it coming
Chinese jets flying in formation, suddenly one of them veers off to the right without signaling.
If an F-22 shot one down, the pilot would just want to shoot more down in like an hour.
Please tell me it was about 'frying'.
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Steam
Do you really believe the general populace is capable of operating a vehicle that includes an additional dimension of movement.
The only way flying cars will ever be a reality is if they are controlled by an autopilot.
flying cars would be the single most deadly human invention ever
Well it is the most efficient way of powering a colony.
Free (market) energy.
Yeah, I was thinking this too. I can barely drive as it is, god knows what'd happen if you put me in the air.
Have you ever considered that maybe this is awful?
This is a time in human history when it is really easy to not be ignorant, and frankly the internet has done a really good job of making people more ignorant. It's made people less capable of intelligent discourse (which is more or less why I enjoy the schadenfreude when people get mad on a forum). It's proven that the human mind has absolutely no limit to the extent it is willing to convince itself of its own worldview, and that factual knowledge is a wikipedia entry.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Then...Skynet.
Steam
There's quite a leap in skill necessary to go from car to flying. I'm frightened by the drivers that come to PA from New Jersey. I could only imagine those assholes flying.
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Haha I just had the image of a drunk driver flying a car into a stereotypical perfect suburban home and it just fucking explodes.
What spring does with the cherry trees.
Faster travel means teleporters
I am totally okay with teleporters
Well, you are a woman and come from a country that doesn't even drive on the right side of the road.
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However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
i know it's been two pages but i just wanted to say that i read this book the other day and it is actually quite enjoyable
it has some fun ruminations with that omnian priest, and it has agnes nitt, who is a delight
Faster travel is fine, but that '50s mentality that everyone would have a flying car and a robot maid by now is just dumb nostalgia. The logistics of having something like an affordable and easily operated flying car is so staggering that it's almost out of the question.
A high-speed rail system (like the one that's been on the books for a while now) is a hell of a lot more effective and environmentally friendly than a shitton of flying cars (powered by fossil fuels)
Do people ever realize just how complicated driving a car is and how quickly a human adapts to doing it? Yes, yes I do believe the general populace is capable of operating a vehicle with an additional dimension of movement especially if roads and driving laws are adapted for flying as well as they are for regular driving.
Roads and road laws are incredibly complex and do an astonishingly good job, overall, of keeping people from getting fucking killed every single day. And people take that for granted constantly. Of course we'll see accidents and all sorts of damage, but not by any substantially higher amount if they take the same level of care and safety into the design of the laws and cars themselves as they do now.
This would be awesome because we would end up with laws that prohibited against the discrimination of people with differing understandings of physics.
However, the ring will never leave your finger, and you will be unable to ever describe to another living person what you see.
Teleporters would be awesome.
Also be careful with teleporters, Doom told me they are always a portal to hell.
yeah, until you got stuck in one with a fly and were forced to fuck gina davis. blech.
it's the future, there's no need to argue