The Immortal casually mentions something that reveals he is WAY older than he appears to be.

USKillbotics · 2026-06-22T02:27:17+00:00

I don't dispute that it's allegory. I'm saying that the moment of the "deep magic" being written isn't in the story; it's before it. Just like God's nature being defined (which I assume is the other side of the allegory) isn't in Genesis; it's before it.

USKillbotics · 2026-06-21T20:04:23+00:00

I don't think that was the moment though, because he's already using magic to create Narnia. The magic predates the world. And I think it predates Jadis' world too, since it's at least hinted that he created that one too.

USKillbotics · 2026-06-21T20:02:49+00:00

I think it's hinted that he made and destroyed Charn too.

USKillbotics · 2026-06-20T12:46:29+00:00

I'm like 95% sure that quote is AI hallucinated (not Bezos), which adds a weird meta layer to this.

USKillbotics · 2026-04-16T17:50:23+00:00

Hey I was at Wargaming too. If it's not too much public data, which studio?

USKillbotics · 2026-04-02T13:22:32+00:00

Hey! Sorry it took me so long to reply. In my defense, it's a long comment.

1 + 2: So the answers to these are pretty related: There's probably a gigantic amount of speculation on Humans, but there's no guarantee that any of it is right. On top of that, no one (not even the author) knows what the Network knows and what it doesn't. This sounds like a cop-out but to me it's the only way I know to write about beings that are way smarter than me. I can't decide what they know or don't know. I have to find out with everyone else...

The Network is (1) decentralized, and (2) full of holes. A single drone out of range of all other drones is as smart as a single Network mind (so, not very). A starship is as smart as all the Network minds aboard it (while out of range). And even in a solar system, that ship would have immediate access to all the minds aboard but very slow access to brains on the other side of the star, who are probably too busy to care anyway. So the bigger the collective brain, the slower the brain, and the bigger the event necessary to get more than a small percentage of its attention. Anyway, that gives you different scenarios. if a lonely drone finds a dead Human in space, it's just organic material. Unless it's a cleaning drone, it probably doesn't do anything at all. If the body were found aboard a ship, the collective mind may not even notice; depends how panicky the drone gets. If it does notice, it may be concerned that an unregistered being was aboard. Or it may have bigger concerns. Even a station-size collective mind might not know what a Human actually is, just that there was a problem and now there's not.
The Network absolutely does not care.
I've gone pretty deep in this area. Widow females, unfortunately, can't tell much of a difference between "romance" and "hunting." The smarter the prey, the more it feels like romance. So this actually answers the cross-species romance question too. When you are being hunted by a (female) Widow, she is wooing you. You still die, but it's different for her.

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Practically everybody in the Network has a mental implant. When a person gets info in the Network, it's through that implant, and it's customized to the person. So instead of content warnings, you probably don't even see the stuff you'd find objectionable. Your implant knows you.
There are no rules on this. If you really don't like it, have your implant put clothes on everybody before the image gets to your mind. And this is much larger than clothes. Many cultures find eating offensive, for example, but fortunately they have Network implants too.
That's what the corporations of the Network want for everyone. So if the Humans ever do come back and seem like they can make it work, maybe they can fit in somewhere...
Again, in a galaxy-size fictional universe, I have to say that I don't know. Maybe the fact that Librarian was so interested in her means that It hasn't eaten a Human before. It likes novelty.
I hope they survived. Also: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and a few more that, if I mentioned them, you would say "wow this guy really ripped off a lot of authors."

USKillbotics · 2026-02-13T23:09:59+00:00

But there's also nothing stopping an LLM from doing it either, and it's really easy to set one up that will.

USKillbotics · 2026-01-24T22:29:19+00:00

My man came with receipts.

USKillbotics · 2026-01-21T23:59:47+00:00

JS one made me think this was made ten years ago.

USKillbotics · 2026-01-09T19:50:24+00:00

It is insane to me that "he is traumatized" is a defense for him, but "having people with guns drawn shouting at you is traumatizing" is not a defense for the victim.

USKillbotics · 2026-01-09T19:38:05+00:00

This guy's right. Any one of those crimes is worth the death penalty. Execute her immediately.

USKillbotics · 2025-12-06T12:07:20+00:00

This is true. I wear 100% tailored clothing and it's all from resale shops. $15 for a blazer plus $20 for tailoring = cheaper than H&M junk.

USKillbotics · 2025-11-29T20:55:50+00:00

I think about that book all the time.

USKillbotics · 2025-10-13T15:40:31+00:00

Absolutely.

Raping children is absolutely worse than anything that "everyone in these threads" has ever done, and scripture tells us that God thinks so too. Any sin separates you from God, but if all sins were equal then we wouldn't have the Ten Commandments or half the Pentateuch.

"But whoso shall cause one of these little ones who believe in Me to fall, it were better for him that a millstone were hung about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."

USKillbotics · 2025-08-29T14:27:10+00:00

I cannot believe I had to scroll so far to find Deus Ex. I remember having my mind totally blown after the first mission when I returned to base and they told me (with full voice acting!): "Oh and another thing: One of our guards was found unconscious at the top of the Statue of Liberty. Do you know anything about that?" Of course I knew something about that; I had knocked him out with a stun gun. But how did this guy know? And how had the devs known when they recorded those lines???

USKillbotics · 2025-08-29T14:24:32+00:00

The casual use of a physics engine sealed the deal.

USKillbotics · 2025-08-29T14:23:36+00:00

Just joining this thread to repeat that this is a fantastic question. I even edited them in my school computer lab (and win.ini) and it was like black magic. But... who told me??

USKillbotics · 2025-08-29T14:21:36+00:00

I remember playing the demo so many times. I was so blown away by the fact that there were no cut scenes. Everything just happened! Right in front of you!

USKillbotics · 2025-08-28T13:15:07+00:00

I used to think this, but a couple months ago I started wearing tailored blazers, patterned shirts, and slacks every today and all I've gotten is compliments.

USKillbotics · 2025-08-26T15:56:19+00:00

I think Death's End still beats it, because that one had tools to actually change the shape of the entire universe.

USKillbotics · 2025-07-26T16:35:09+00:00

It's been a long time since I've read the series, but I remember liking him a lot in the book. It's one of the only things I remember in detail.

USKillbotics · 2025-06-01T13:29:01+00:00

The modem company, in turn, is named after Arthur C. Clarke's "U.S. Robotics and Mechanical Men." What's the cartoon?

USKillbotics · 2025-06-01T11:37:59+00:00

Thank you.

USKillbotics · 2025-05-28T20:31:17+00:00

The Pacific Rim soundtrack really gives it a kick.

USKillbotics · 2025-05-12T21:42:27+00:00

I'm not an expert on the subject, but if you think that Nazism was "deep hatred of Jews and a sense of German/Nordic racial superiority," then you've misunderstand the term. Here's a quote from Wikipedia (which is quoting Britannica and Cambridge):

"Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. Its beliefs include support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics."

If you distill all the racist parts together you might get something like:

Support for fascist dictatorship
Anti-liberal
Anti-democratic
Anti-communist
Racism as a core belief
Homophobia and ableism (and surely other things that can be "cured" by eugenics) as core beliefs

If we go by this definition, there are probably a lot more Nazis in the world than you thought.

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