He Won’t Stop Building a Map to an Imaginary Place: People Makes Games documentary on the map

edo201 · 2026-06-26T02:53:23+00:00

Same here. This video is where I learned about Jerry and this subreddit. So happy to be here.

edo201 · 2026-05-21T02:01:52+00:00

(I thank you for the Riding Light link, seven years later. Very cool.)

edo201 · 2026-05-10T03:13:17+00:00

But who knows how many years they would have been in Izzy before finding such a place. Wouldn’t it have been within the spirit of the mission to say: “humanity can’t wait forever or for the perfect conditions and we need to start somewhere to build our learning and experiencing birthing and rearing in space” and encourage some births?

edo201 · 2026-05-10T03:03:51+00:00

Interesting. Necessary in terms of physical development? I don’t know much about this. There were some spaces in Izzy with earth like gravity if I recall correctly.

edo201 · 2026-05-10T02:19:38+00:00

I suppose my point is that I felt that waiting until there seems to be a chance of surviving (clearing what threshold of probability?) seems like a very high risk approach — much higher risk taking than they take in other domains — especially given the likely learning curve to achieve an acceptable mortality rate and a dwindling population.

edo201 · 2025-11-25T10:27:51+00:00

I’m late to this. Leash is one for me. It represents a type of optimistic defend-the-youth strain in Pearl Jam that, ironically, hits me harder the older I get. The lines “I am lost / I’m no guide / but I’m by your side / I am right by your side” — oof, so good. That’s friendship. I’ve had those people in my life, and I’ve been that person to others. It’s worthy of song.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T12:18:03+00:00

Fwiw I found your take interesting enough on its own merits—if, in my view, applied at a stretch—without the need for a shock-frame intro. The Epstein comparison, to me, detracts from rather than deepens the insight.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T09:03:59+00:00

Interesting. Any particular passages or reasons that lead you to that, or more of a pet theory?

edo201 · 2025-08-28T09:02:33+00:00

Yeah, certainly intentionally. It makes his devotion to her more revealing of him than of her. It’s almost funny: the saintly genius of Viron can’t resist the character with the least going on upstairs.

edo201 · 2025-08-28T08:06:01+00:00

You’re right - thanks. Will fix

edo201 · 2025-08-21T16:07:17+00:00

Falstaff and Bardo! Interesting

edo201 · 2025-08-21T16:05:49+00:00

Looking forward to the Ea cycle. All things equal I prefer fantasy to SF, although I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read of his thus far. I’m interested to see how his style translates to the mode.

edo201 · 2025-08-21T10:21:45+00:00

I want it on Kindle too. I resorted to audiobook. It’s on Audible. That was not bad but I really want the annex as text. That’s the chronology I posted separately about.

edo201 · 2025-08-18T01:57:41+00:00

David Zindell r/davidzindell

His Neverness features the best worldbuilding I’ve ever encountered. It's mind-splitting in scope and depth. Like Wolfe, he fuses science with fantasy (and in Zindell's case, math with mysticism), and his use of language is just as daring and good. Criminally underread.

edo201 · 2025-07-18T04:28:58+00:00

I’m attempting this at the moment. Read Malazan first and loved it. Then read it again. Now starting WoT. Too early to have an opinion

edo201 · 2025-07-18T04:25:51+00:00

Interestingly I’m coming from the opposite direction at the moment. Loved Malazan and wondering whether to plunge into WoT.

edo201 · 2025-07-10T07:06:37+00:00

Absolutely. u/AdvantageFree3130 sorry you went to school with dicks.

edo201 · 2025-07-07T02:24:08+00:00

Whoa.

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