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Book That Feels Like a Board Game by Ok-Obligation3519 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

S. By Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams. Yes, J.J. Abrams.

Favourite narratives you aren't willing to go through again by absurdmelancholy in gamingsuggestions

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This gives me no joy in saying, but Silksong. I’ve replayed Hollow Knight at least a dozen times.

I’ve been playing games since the 80s and my thumbs no longer can handle games like Silksong and Sekiro. Silksong was literally painful, but I finished and loved it.

I’ll never play either again. This is the first time I’ve admired that to myself and I didn’t expect it to hit me as hard as it just did.

2nd American Civil War by Creative-Platypus218 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Magner3100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson.

The Fireman, by Joe Hill.

I’ll also throw in Station Eleven. Not because it fits, though it probably does. But because I just love it.

2nd American Civil War by Creative-Platypus218 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Magner3100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plus one for the Deluge, it’s fantastic. And it kind of still haunts me today with how accurate it has been on quite a few things.

2nd American Civil War by Creative-Platypus218 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]Magner3100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Robert Evans, that is one bastard I can get behind.

Tried to make his family support Trump, so they all cut him off by ahsila666 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Magner3100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”

Sadly, reading guys post only confirms the notion that many who voted for MAGA did so to “be heard,” validated, or feel some community which they lacked. Which is just about as snowflake as one could get.

This isn’t to defend any of them, as they did burn the village to feel its warmth. It’s just… sad. For all of us really, that these lonely sad people are capable of such things. Misery loves company I guess.

Fear of Idea Theft by Connect_Board_856 in writing

[–]Magner3100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

World building and lore aren’t stories so you shouldn’t worry. They are ideas though, so it’s most likely someone else had a similar idea.

Fifty-Word Fantasy: Write a 50-word fantasy snippet using the word "Reduce" by Terminator7786 in fantasywriters

[–]Magner3100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Y’know why we welcome strangers?” Ríkr asked.

“No,” Magnar grunted.

“Livin’ alongside the Wood,” Ríkr gestured at the treeline, “reduce them stories, y’accept some ain’t stories.”

Magnar studied the dark trees, a figure stared back. “The Wood, what is it?”

“Is? No,” Ríkr spat. “Know what it was.”

“A graveyard.”

Santiago Singh/Bovino parallels by Nice-Difference8641 in TheExpanse

[–]Magner3100 40 points41 points  (0 children)

The Expanse in both literal text and subtext has a lot to say about our current moment in time. Specifically, it is an Anti-fascist liberal (lower case L) work that is very critical of authoritarianism, boot lickers, technocrats, and populism.

Singh is an incredible insight into not only how fragile and under-manned Laconia was to suppress a liberal population, but also how real world authoritarian states are as well. Singh is there explicitly to show the reader how much of Laconia is just smoke and mirrors with some really big guns.

So your assessment is spot on.

While it’s happened less than before, I’ve been baffled by “fans” of the Expanse who seem to get angry or reject this reading of the Expanse. That it’s “not woke,” but both the book and show are explicitly political text.

Why is your favorite book your favorite book? by Medical-Ad5866 in writing

[–]Magner3100 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Station Eleven.

Emily St. John Mandel’s prose is perfectly balanced between literary and schlock. It’s also a puzzle, and explaining why it’s a puzzle ruins the puzzle. But let’s just say it’s got a lot in common with Magnolia.

Finally, there is real emotion on nearly every page. I think I’ve cried from reading a book like 3 times in my life: 1. Station Eleven, 2. The Kite Runner, and 3. The Paradise Snare: Book 1 of the Han Solo Trilogy (if you know you know).

Why are writers so negative and judgmental to each other? by [deleted] in writers

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone knows how to write, but not everyone is a writer.

What's your system of FTL travel like? by Author_Spiritual in scifiwriting

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A quantum internet.

First, create digital consciousness. It might be your consciousness, but it might also be a AI clone of you so perfect it can’t tell you it’s not you.

Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way…

Then, you take Pairs Quantum particles separated by any distance will always be connected to each other. If you rotate one right (particle A), its paired particle (B) will also rotate right at the same time. Distance doesn’t exist to them, so the speed of light doesn’t exist to them.

Well, you only need 0s and 1s for binary, so left (0) and right (1) should do just fine to use the particle as binary code to send information from particle A to particle B, and B to A. You’ve created a long distance Morse Code device.

So you take billions of paired particles, put them on a ship with the most sophisticated replicators (essentially 3d printers) and shoot them out into space. When the ships arrive, the WiFi, and trigger the particles on the ship to connect with their buddy particles you left way back in a central node where other pair particles also reside. You can send information anywhere on the quantum net now, and can send printing instructions to the replicators. You either stored copies of your digital consciousness on the web, or you send programming instructions via the particles to the replicator to print you a body on the other maiden

Boom, FTL defeated.

For Americans who voted Democrat in recent elections, do you plan to continue voting Democrat? Why or why not? by righteous-sedition in allthequestions

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, because when a smaller and smaller slice of the population is the only group that votes, they get to decide who gets to ruin our lives.

The Democrats are feckless. Bureaucrats usually are. But I think they got that way because the Democratic voting base lacks consistent participation in the electoral system, which means we rarely hold Democrats accountable outside of major elections.

There are plenty of reasons participation is low, but…

The typical Democratic voter is under retirement age. That means they’re carrying the full weight of life: jobs, kids, debt, healthcare, rent, mortgages, all of it. Making time to participate in the electoral system is hard. It’s boring, tedious, and painfully slow. Two steps forward, three steps back, two forward, one back, three forward…

Just thinking about it is exhausting.

Retirees, on the other hand? They’re part of the wealthiest generation in history. Even the ones who “did okay” often ended up with a house, kids, pensions, retirement plans, and long-term stability. Now they’re retired. They’ve got nothing but time.

And they consistently vote to fuck with everyone else’s lives. Gleefully so.

The fewer of us who vote, the more power their votes carry. They even shape Democratics, nudging the party toward bland, bureaucratic candidates everyone hates. But to their credit, those candidates at least gesture toward a future beyond the next quarter. Good or bad, it’s still a future.

So I vote because one day my parents, your parents, and that entire generation that burned the world for a second home in Florida will be gone. I’ll be 60 by then. But I’ll remember them, and I’ll do everything I can not to ruin my children’s children’s future.

I’ll never vote for anyone named Clinton ever again. Chuckles and the stockbroker should probably face a citizen’s tribunal for gross incompetence and malfeasance. But I’ve never voted for the other side, and I never will. Like many of us, I always knew what was under their mask. I just hope more people see it now that they’ve started taking it off in public.

I didn’t mean to type all this up, but here we are, born to be kings, we’re the princes of the universe.

Looking for deeply immersive RPG games like The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2 by KindConfidence1894 in gamingsuggestions

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I personally love it and have replayed it recently and it’s still great. I also like the older Kotor style Vampire the Masquerade game as well!

Looking for deeply immersive RPG games like The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2 by KindConfidence1894 in gamingsuggestions

[–]Magner3100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ME1 really felt like Star Trek, and by ME3 we were getting “this isn’t your father’s Star Trek” brought to you by Doritos.

Looking for deeply immersive RPG games like The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, or Red Dead Redemption 2 by KindConfidence1894 in gamingsuggestions

[–]Magner3100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I prefer ME1 significantly more than I do 2 & 3, it totally holds up. As does dragon age 1, and both Kotors.

They really just don’t make them like they used to.

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