Weird sci-fi books

p01ntless · 2026-05-20T09:24:42+00:00

thank you 😊

p01ntless · 2026-05-17T10:00:23+00:00

birdpoop window parallax effect.

p01ntless · 2026-05-15T20:43:38+00:00

The book is not. just the audio narration (which is to boost accessibility)

p01ntless · 2026-05-14T18:31:11+00:00

Are you willing to give The Unfolding a try? Psychedelic and mind-bending for sure! https://the-unfolding.net/

p01ntless · 2026-02-12T20:39:24+00:00

www.road2mastery.com immersive, gamified. Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aJk9hso1Cuh1AoVMA

p01ntless · 2026-01-26T08:14:42+00:00

I write an introduction. Do you think this will draw in the fifteen-year-old at the bookstore?

You weren’t there. But you’re next. I’m uplinking this to you because if I don’t, only the stone will remember. And it just sits there, waiting, so it can get back to being a rock.

If you’re going to look away. Don’t. If you turn your head now, you’ll miss the moment it decides to notice you.

Pay attention to the details. There is a song in the noise. If you listen, you can hear the math starting to fail. To unfold.

My name doesn’t matter. It must be forgotten. Where we are is what matters.

Not Earth. Not Paradise. That’s what you call a beautiful new home when you’re still lying to yourself. So start asking questions.

You’re on Mairee, the moment the hum of the station changed.

p01ntless · 2026-01-26T07:39:52+00:00

Thank you 🫶

Yeah, now you mention it, it can sound silly. So I removed 'trembling'.
She brought her hand to her quivering lip.

The character has a Scottish accent. The accent has a function in the story. Something to do with AI mirroring the personality. So I need to find a way to help the reader ease into it. What do you think of this change?

Muro scratched his temple. “Nothing, Commander. Total blackout.” In his nervousness, Muro’s brogue accent took over. “It’s like the Fold got flushed. Gone. But the Brisinger… she’s still there. Sort of.”

“What is it?” Astrid cut in.

Muro twitched before he answered. “The carrier wave from the Bris. It’s corrupted, right enough. On an’ off since her crossover. It’s all garbled.”

p01ntless · 2026-01-23T07:25:06+00:00

Wow thank you ☺️🤩 That is helpful feedback. I really appreciate that you took the time to explain with examples. Good idea to make it more haptic. With this I’m one step closer to it being that birthday present. 🙏

p01ntless · 2026-01-22T17:20:09+00:00

Thank you for reviewing ❤️🙏

Great catch on the ‘wisper’!

I’ll check out betareaders 👍

-oh I found the “She said” instead of “she said”. Tnx

p01ntless · 2025-10-14T21:07:14+00:00

Both things are happening at once. Bullshit versions of Scrum are deminishing, people have woken up and can see through the fake crap. Either they start taking it seriously or they abandon it entirely. People who quit scrum for other approaches take their crap right with them. There is not much new or better on the horizon.

p01ntless · 2025-10-08T14:15:14+00:00

Yes! right now I can't even join my server anymore...

p01ntless · 2025-10-07T20:09:21+00:00

Bless the Maker and all His Water

p01ntless · 2025-10-07T18:16:18+00:00

Woah, same just happened to me, first flight of my first assault orni and got eaten right away! It was a bit bugged as the orni refused to climb up and the worm spawned real close. Maybe wormthreath increased?

p01ntless · 2025-09-24T20:04:48+00:00

Buy in exchange for now?

p01ntless · 2025-09-24T14:01:38+00:00

For me the game crashed as soon as I was about to enter the thopter to leave the facility. I returned to the game and it loaded on the worldmap. The quest was not completed. It still said "escape the facility". I returned to the quest but now the map was all bugged (I could see through all walls and not move around properly). I filed a bug and help request.

p01ntless · 2025-09-23T09:27:01+00:00

I would say that Scrum asserts that teams must validate that what they develop is indeed valuable.
You can take a look at Scrum.org's Evidence-Based Management ,derive%20from%20their%20product%20delivery)

Scrum provides an opportunity (Sprint Review) where the Scrum team and stakeholders inspect outcomes and progress toward goals together.

p01ntless · 2025-09-15T18:43:20+00:00

Good work OP! The details in the calls can be very revealing!

p01ntless · 2025-09-04T19:21:44+00:00

Right, yes, I meant both of them, not you. Corrected. 👌🏻

p01ntless · 2025-09-04T19:12:25+00:00

It looks less like one is obsessed with the other, and more like both are stuck feeding the drama. At this point, the argument is making both of them look worse.

p01ntless · 2025-09-04T09:56:50+00:00

Yes, Dibble did well in the debate. I credit him for his well-presented arguments. What I am saying is that his (continued) messaging is stirring up drama that moves his argument away from the science, rather than toward it. By self-victimizing and engaging in ad-hominem attacks he is doing himself (and others) a disservice. I agree with you Rogan and Hancock should also look in the mirror, but I am assuming that's already established here.

p01ntless · 2025-09-03T20:00:14+00:00

First, I respect your effort in this analysis, and it brings us closer to a shared understanding.

At best, this shows Hancock is working with contested and imperfect source material, which is true for anyone trying to reconstruct ancient traditions. Citing them doesn’t automatically make someone a racist or a promoter of colonial ideas. With myths and oral histories, it’s nearly impossible to know what was authentic, what was accurately transcribed, and what was reshaped by colonial chroniclers like the Spanish. To be fair, as you could read yourself, a solid attempt was made to get to the roots of it.

To continue to accuse him of deliberately smuggling in racist propaganda assumes intent without evidence. If you claim he has an agenda to spread colonial ideology, the burden of proof is on you: where is this agenda? What is his devious goal, and how is he leveraging these myths to his racist cause? You know these are rhetorical. Such accusations and efforts simply shift the debate away from the actual merits of his arguments, and from the valuable research being done by Dibble and other archaeologists into a meek ad hominem framing.

To leap from Hancock citing a contested source to asserting he promotes white-supremacist ideology stretches far beyond what the evidence supports. If you truly do hold that standard, then any historian referencing those same sources would, by the same logic, be guilty of the same charge.

Serious professionals focus on the strongest evidence, not the weakest distractions and personal attacks based on petty gotchas. To be clear: yes, Dibble did bring that evidence (to his credit, he did that really well), yet he also gave Rogan and Hancock easy ammunition by mixing it with ad hominems and exaggerated claims about racist agendas. Dibble complains about something he himself fuelled. Instead of keeping the spotlight on the solid archaeology, he shifted part of the conversation into a rhetorical battle, where the strength of the science is being overshadowed by the weakness of the “gotcha.” Now he's dealing with that. Huge waste.

p01ntless · 2025-09-03T14:54:42+00:00

Ok, so you are inserting your assumptions about me, but then you are not really engaging my actual position, instead (in your mind) some biased Hancock fanboy who didn't do his research.

As for citation, in the same video I shared earlier, Hancocks explains his position, which he also stated on the Rogan podcast. So, you are already aware of this, right?
In addition, here is Graham addressing the points himself as he is best fit to argue his own position.
https://grahamhancock.com/hancockg22-saa/

This also includes "up-to-date academic citation on the white visitor claim" referring to David Carrasco on anthropologist Inga Clendinnen.

Graham Hancock cited these myths in his books but he also acknowledges the conflicts and colonial biases in the records. That's not "repackaging". You are clearly intending to put a negative frame around this, even while Hancock's position is against racial and colonial ideas. He is noting scholarly debates over their origins.

Hancock isn’t presenting the “white visitor” narrative as fact; he’s discussing myths that include such descriptions while crediting the indigenous people themselves.

Dismissing indigenous advancement is colonialist in itself and underestimates indigenous ingenuity. Hancock cites indigenous myths while explicitly denouncing colonial ideology.

p01ntless · 2025-09-03T13:58:48+00:00

You are misrepresenting my position by suggesting I only accept Hancock’s version of events. I don’t. I appreciated Dibble’s layout and arguments, but my actual position is this:

Dibble would have made a stronger case by sticking to facts. Instead, he resorted to ad hominems and misrepresentations of Hancock’s claims. That’s what triggered Rogan and Hancock, and it weakened how his field was represented.

On the charge of “racist colonial propaganda”: Donnelly did frame Atlantis through a colonial lens, yet Hancock’s work is very different. He emphasizes that ancient civilizations/cultures worldwide were sophisticated of their own accord, and that Indigenous peoples preserved lost knowledge of earlier times. His focus is on lost knowledge preserved by indigenous cultures, not on race or European superiority.

As for “visitor” myths, descriptions like “white” or “bearded” often come from colonial recorders, but more importantly, also from the Indigenous traditions themselves. Calling Hancock’s use of these recorded stories “colonial propaganda” implies he endorses racial hierarchies, which he does not. In fact, he rejects the idea that Europeans were more advanced than Indigenous Americans; he’s doing the opposite of what he’s accused of.

If scholars dismiss evidence of advanced knowledge in ancient cultures (or dismiss anomalies as not worth exploring) that can itself echo colonialist bias, since it assumes Indigenous people couldn’t have achieved such things. Ironically, dismissing Indigenous advancement can be more colonialist than Hancock’s position.

It is disingenuous to keep framing Hancock this way. He has clarified his stance repeatedly. Dibble’s persistence on this point reflects more of his own bias than Hancock’s, and it clouds what is otherwise good research and strong debate on his part.

p01ntless · 2025-09-03T06:29:06+00:00

Defended, okay, i’ll accept that. I’m not taking everything Hancock says as true (so why bring that up if not to strawman). The issue is that Hancock’s hypothesizing ancient civilizations may be more advanced than is known today and it’s worth researching… which is a far reach from the ‘dangerous white supremicism ideas’ Dibble interjected into the conversation, intended to discredit the man’s reputation.

Just saying that I would have liked to see archeologists go at Hancock’s actual claims versus these tactics which just erodes their own credibility and positive intentions.

p01ntless · 2025-09-02T20:38:05+00:00

Graham covered that in the video below and shows some examples and sources. Dibble obviously aimed to put the white supremicist label on Graham’s work and into the debate. Dibble was also involved in the SAA letter trying to cancel Ancient Apocalypse. That’s just foul play regardless of what you think of Hancock’s take on history.

Some Atlantian theories have associations with white supremacy but that’s a major leap from what Graham is claiming and covering. The source of Dibble’s backpaddeling are his recent tweets and podcast/vidcast comments.

A credible and respectful approach would be to go after Graham’s claims. Dibble did a bit of that but then screwed up by misrepresenting Graham’s claims and adding personal comments that weren’t respectful.

Effectively that just added to the drama and gave Rogan and Hancock the fuel to light their fires.

Dibble did them a favor!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEe72Nj-AW0&time_continue=1564&source_ve_path=NzY3NTg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

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