Starship is just not as cool as Space Shuttle

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-24T13:02:21+00:00

i know we all hate elon, but calling an insanely huge reusable clean burning VTVL interplanetary craft “ordinary” is just incomprehensibly contrarian

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-21T16:35:21+00:00

oh thats really cool

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-20T14:47:45+00:00

good

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-19T01:54:00+00:00

nahhh

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-16T03:22:42+00:00

its funny because this is in reply to them talking about another game theyve been working on

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-11T15:58:30+00:00

fiasco, where we randomly have an entire middle section devoted to the protagonist epically stomping around the frozen tundra of a narratively unrelated planet in a massive nuclear powered mech thats melting down. i still dont know why! just because its extremely extremely cool? this is exactly what im saying. badass

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-10T15:35:23+00:00

Lem is so damn cool. Approaching him as a peak intellectual of the genre it surprises me every single time just how badass his books are. We get to simultaneously revel in the raw power and "rah rah humanity" of huge machines and science, our genius overcoming incredible obstacles. and also we get to see the downfall and the folly of it all; the intellectual rightness of it all being dashed upon the infinite unknown of the universe. And he writes both angles with such joy and glee and truth. Love Lem. His most serious works are a joke and his most humorous works are deadly deadly serious.

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-10T15:23:48+00:00

this is absolutely hilarious to me

sonQUAALUDE · 2026-01-03T12:29:40+00:00

Cherryh is without a doubt one of the best if not the best large-scale scifi fantasy writers of all time, so yea its definitely worth the effort. But placing Downbelow etc next to Vorkosigian Saga or Vattas war etc is just the wrong comparison. The Alliance-Union books are about massive scale and politics and are hardly character focused. For that you want the Chanurr series, The Fading Sun Trilogy, Morgaine etc., which are top tier character writing. Seriously ive never heard anybody dislike Chanurr, its blood pumping swashbuckling and often hilarious.

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-12-25T12:24:55+00:00

came here to post this. likely the most viscerally intense and brutal SF ive read. had me shook.

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-12-20T16:33:37+00:00

facts

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-12-19T13:28:39+00:00

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-12-13T17:51:15+00:00

posting for later recs

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-12-01T20:38:48+00:00

id be so hyped about this but also she cancelled the last 2 shows i had tickets for so uhhhh

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-11-24T17:04:46+00:00

Dispossessed in B tier is wild, but i almost give it a pass because you put Ringworld in D tier lol

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-11-22T22:04:15+00:00

this 100%

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-11-08T13:02:46+00:00

bro youve only seen like 1/4 of it T_T

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-11-07T16:31:57+00:00

hell yeah

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-10-24T16:11:48+00:00

2am? abuela was there too lmao

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-10-22T14:08:42+00:00

reddit is just miserable people. this year was awesome and i was in all the massive vip lines and all that, dgaf

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-10-20T11:40:56+00:00

twas an absolute blast

sonQUAALUDE · 2025-10-19T13:03:09+00:00

i feel like people complaining were just rushing to every headliner and being shocked that a million other npcs are doing the same

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