Instead of dunking on RP1 can I continue to dunk on the incredibly explicit and unsexy writing in Altered Carbon
There's a very detailed scene and the lady's boobs are described as 'elusive globes' (because it's girl on top for a while and they're swinging around I guess?) and they are mentioned as having 'springy resistance' which is rather offputting in context.
It's just...blechhh. All his sex writing is so specific and unsensual and also gross, and I can't tell if it's because the book has elements of alienation from one's body (but I feel like he discusses those explicitly when they seem relevant to him, rather than it being something that pervades the whole book, tbh). or if that's just what happens when you apply his detailed, visual writing style to these encounters.
That said, the gross sex scene is followed by a fantastic and much longer techwear and gun shopping scene, so, I don't really mind. In general the action scenes are good and the urban decay descriptions are also well done.
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The GF in the AITA who LARPed as an elf during a Zoom call supporting her BF's relative who was undergoing chemo: Irish
Standard Received Pronunciation (and NOT Icelandic, which Tolkien wanted but the rest of the cultured world rejected): the King's/Queen's English
A culture that is a goofy relic of the past and weirdly monotonal and emotionless whilst proclaiming the supremacy of their race: 1920s Mid-Atlantic radio voice
My superior theory to reflect a greying population watching their ancient culture be sullied and ultimately subsumed by a decadent modern west: Japanese
Ceddy's inferior theory, based on a subversion of how Dwarves appear to be the ultimate drunken, hard-fighting, hard-fucking townies: Boston townie
honorable mentions:
California Stoner vocal fry (High Elves)
Icelandic/Norse (Tolkien's original vision)
French (because of course)
Australian (for the antipodean Drows)
I've been playing MHW in Japanese because it makes the Handler far easier to deal with, so the Wyverians are totally elves and totally count as sounding Japanese.
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Satan would make sure the chips were salt free, vegan, gluten free, soy free, fat free, kosher, no parabens, all natural ingredients and peanut free because Karen’s son’s friend David who visits sometimes is very allergic to various nuts.
I feel like that's actually Heaven, which is so considerate and inoffensive as to be dreary and depressing
Hell is obviously the salt-brined sea in chip form, because it's bad for you but it feels so good
No, Heaven would have one chip, where upon touching the eater’s lips would become whatever they desired.
You gotta keep in mind the Wal-Mart worker has to get the kind of chip I laid out after working a double shift and has to appear at a mandatory holiday party AT WORK, so where else is the worker gonna get the chip? Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart ain’t gonna have the kind of chip the worker requires. Torture is gonna be spending agonizing time the worker doesn’t have to go to a holiday party they don’t want to go to, to find this mythical chip in a store famous for parking lot fights and selling guns next to children’s toys
i am convinced by Eddy, the elves shall be japanese, an ancient culture that is losing to the invasion of barbaric values
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I feel like urban fantasy (as much as I love it) has gotten kinda tedious due to its complete bankruptcy as a wellspring for original visions, always sort of defaulting to a sort of postmodern "what if X in Y", but I do appreciate the idea of cyberpunk non-humans in general
I think we should also uplift cats when we reach that level of cybermancy and would appreciate a book that has this as a feature (but not dogs, who must remain pure)
Eddy on
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Metacognition is a blessèd feat in itself; meta-metacognition is vanity and hubris and will likely beckon the call of elder gods
With that being said, I render it like a mathematical function where I just keep refining a sentence in an input-output iteration until it reaches the jagged pinnacle of thought, and then I attack other noospheres with it
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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SixCaches Tweets in the mainframe cyberhexRegistered Userregular
either non existent or imagine like a couple dozen people yelling different stuff all at once
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to give into it." - Oscar Wilde
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
What's super crazy is that Spongebob visualized his inner monologue with a bunch of Sponge-munculi and kids just rolled with it, intuitively understanding The Truth that we are actually little mini-versions of our macro-selves operating a giant mecha that contains the souls of our mothers
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Is there a more powerful/exploitable human cognitive bias than "new thing is bad"?
What if all babies are just elves until society beats the elf out of them?
pretty sure that my Krishnamurti school believed this
I'm a long legged socialist doomed to a life of chasing ethereal bisexuals.
There's a very detailed scene and the lady's boobs are described as 'elusive globes' (because it's girl on top for a while and they're swinging around I guess?) and they are mentioned as having 'springy resistance' which is rather offputting in context.
It's just...blechhh. All his sex writing is so specific and unsensual and also gross, and I can't tell if it's because the book has elements of alienation from one's body (but I feel like he discusses those explicitly when they seem relevant to him, rather than it being something that pervades the whole book, tbh). or if that's just what happens when you apply his detailed, visual writing style to these encounters.
That said, the gross sex scene is followed by a fantastic and much longer techwear and gun shopping scene, so, I don't really mind. In general the action scenes are good and the urban decay descriptions are also well done.
I've been playing MHW in Japanese because it makes the Handler far easier to deal with, so the Wyverians are totally elves and totally count as sounding Japanese.
@bloodyroarxx lmao this sounds awful
No, Heaven would have one chip, where upon touching the eater’s lips would become whatever they desired.
You gotta keep in mind the Wal-Mart worker has to get the kind of chip I laid out after working a double shift and has to appear at a mandatory holiday party AT WORK, so where else is the worker gonna get the chip? Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart ain’t gonna have the kind of chip the worker requires. Torture is gonna be spending agonizing time the worker doesn’t have to go to a holiday party they don’t want to go to, to find this mythical chip in a store famous for parking lot fights and selling guns next to children’s toys
https://youtu.be/L9AJeakCa6w
Lords and Ladies - Terry Prachett
Shadowrun
Huldufólk
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I'd love it if you took a look at my art and my PATREON!
I think we should also uplift cats when we reach that level of cybermancy and would appreciate a book that has this as a feature (but not dogs, who must remain pure)
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Faries are the "don't fuck with these."
Elves are the "ancient but I guess you can fuck with these."
Like a troll is endlessly shitposting my brain
I generally try to drown it out with podcasts...so an infinite well of anxiety and self sabotage?
Dissociated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRk-DQUUlz8
but really it's more conversational
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If I hit the lottery and a telepath shook my hand they'd basically just see a pettier version of Martin Sheen in The Dead Zone
Come Overwatch with meeeee
Just my voice following whatever train of thought. Its very similar to my post here with way less typos and moves way faster.
Lying on keyboards is just the beginning
a 14 year old and a dude whose hands were partially paralysed in an accident
shit is wild
Metacognition is a blessèd feat in itself; meta-metacognition is vanity and hubris and will likely beckon the call of elder gods
With that being said, I render it like a mathematical function where I just keep refining a sentence in an input-output iteration until it reaches the jagged pinnacle of thought, and then I attack other noospheres with it
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Is the Friends theme song on repeat.
either non existent or imagine like a couple dozen people yelling different stuff all at once
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin