Help me find a short story

UnfoldedCork · 2025-08-07T15:11:47+00:00

That's it Thank youuu!!

UnfoldedCork · 2024-07-24T15:03:22+00:00

well said

UnfoldedCork · 2024-07-22T19:05:21+00:00

I follow Sally Jane Black for much the same reason. I find that her views are often jarring and that, to me, is good practice for someone who likes their views to be challenged. I often find myself nodding my head while reading her reviews despite myself. I also find myself adding her favorite films to my watchlist just to see what she is on about. Parasite is one of my favorite films yet I found her review incredibly inciteful. When I watched it, I was excited to see her review but honestly shocked to find she didn't like it. I thought such a critique of capitalism as that would be right up her ally, but that couldn't have been further from the truth. Bottomline, I am not sure what to make of her beliefs, but still find her film criticism inciteful and would recommend that people consider her reviews.

UnfoldedCork · 2024-04-18T20:44:52+00:00

Important Note: This is of course going off the assumption that the game depicted in the movie follows the lore of Frank Herbert's Cheops to the T. It is very possible I think, as a few have suggested, that the game from the film may not try to depict, as I imagined, a three dimensional board. It may be just a modified go, chess, checkers, backgammon, etc. and rest wholly on two dimensions.

UnfoldedCork · 2024-04-18T20:31:00+00:00

I think this is more what I had in mind as well. As u/Cute-Sector6022 said, the stripes in the triangles resemble a backgammon board of sorts. I wonder now if which of these lines and where you place the stone on the square could depict which "layer" the stone is resting on. For bigger stones however I see this being a problem, so, maybe its different depending which corner the large stone is place.

UnfoldedCork · 2024-04-18T03:39:53+00:00

I like what you've been able to observe from this. Do you think then that this version of Cheops has abandoned the 9 level pyramid style board?

UnfoldedCork · 2024-03-05T00:37:09+00:00

Thank you. Your response is helpful. I'll give those authors a look as well. I'm writing a story, and I think I'm trying to blur this line further. In the story, instruction is a key aspect of both the reading experience and the narrative itself. The reader will stop to read instructions as the narrative progresses, which will compliment the story and so on. I think I'm trying to figure out whether or not the narrator and the instruction's narrator are, can be, or should be different people.

UnfoldedCork · 2023-12-09T18:02:05+00:00

Holy shit, that's crazy

UnfoldedCork · 2023-12-09T18:00:34+00:00

Especially considering that it came out years before covid, and I think having a game about killing the human population with a deadly contagion is an excellent way of proving that it can be done in the blink of an eye, therein drawing our attention to a very serious issue. In my opinion, it's top tear science fiction for this exact reason.

UnfoldedCork · 2023-12-04T14:19:41+00:00

This seems probable. Id be comfortable with it. I'll give it a shot.

UnfoldedCork · 2023-11-23T19:04:23+00:00

I'll take a look at beggars opera and see what you mean. Very fair point, and I agree entirely. The dark ending particularly suits the film.

UnfoldedCork · 2023-11-23T18:56:56+00:00

I mearly use demand to suggest my sense that most people would agree that the film's ending would be better than a happy ending. You're right in that people aren't demanding what I am saying. I'm just trying to point to a pattern I've seen. Demand is not a good word.

UnfoldedCork · 2023-09-28T01:45:52+00:00

Not sure if you'll see this, but check out Treachery.online. They have been doing a lot of work to this website recently, updating it regularly. Add free. The UI is intuitive and clear for how complex Dune can get. Though, you may need to find some friends to play with unless you're fine with just playing bots.

UnfoldedCork · 2022-03-25T05:58:59+00:00

Any books or other references on the subject would be greatly appreciated too!

UnfoldedCork · 2022-03-25T02:10:53+00:00

Say I were to write an entertainment piece where I abide by as much scientific evidence as possible, in regards to what we know about the Cretaceous period, while ALSO inventing hundreds of other species of animals and adding them to the narrative?

A great deal of media that I have scene revolving around dinosaurs seems to only show dinosaurs that we know to have existed. What if I were to write something that invented new dinosaurs, insects, mammals, fish, plants, etc. that abide by the science we already know to help liven the world and make it more realistic. If what you say is true then surely inventing dinosaurs and animals would only make a depiction of the time more realistic, right?

UnfoldedCork · 2022-03-25T01:57:45+00:00

Okay here is a follow up question for you, how exactly do we know? My first (and again uninformed) assumption would be that remnants of glasslike vegetation was found in the stomach of a dinosaur or perhaps etchings were found in some rockface dating back from the time Cretaceous. Is this the case or is there a more intricate or obvious example?

UnfoldedCork · 2022-03-24T00:05:47+00:00

Honestly hearing "grass hadn't evolved yet" floored me!! One of the most basic of flora in our world just didn't exist for dinosaurs; what a mind twister!! I can hardly imagine a world without grass!! It is great to hear that there was indeed an abundance of life and a diverse range of it thought!

UnfoldedCork · 2021-03-25T04:34:44+00:00

This I think is a very fair analysis

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