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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:40 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052425) |
Date: August 7th, 2026 8:41 PM Author: (Cyber)Bellevue therapy dog (Tp.) Many such poasters! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052427) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:46 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) ?
I need names |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:11 PM Author: Frutiger Aero Poetic_dreamer tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052505) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:13 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052512) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:15 PM Author: Frutiger Aero ngl, i imagine him dressed up/cosplaying as an Adeptus Mechanicus techpriest while poasting (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052521) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:19 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) No one has written a top tier original IP sci fi novel in like 30 years. These things used to be ubiquitous in the 80s and 90s. Really need a jolt of cyberpunk in my life. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052532) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:26 PM Author: Frutiger Aero just re-read Neuromancer, Starship Troopers, and Ender's Game this year but they didn't exactly age well to the present day
but I do recommend cosmic horror titles by H.P. Lovecraft, Forever War, Dune and Dune Messiah, and the lesser known stuff like Man After Man or tv shows/vidya like The Expanse (terrible dialogue and filler stories in between but probably the most 'realistic' or practical depiction of space combat) and Homeworld series |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:34 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) I think Dune is wildly overrated. It's like an early attempt at complex intrigue and world building but it doesn't have the tight thriller writing and believability of ASOIAF. It's just like a bunch of random crap happens. I think it's really famous because Frank Herbert was really just the first ever do do space opera. But it's not that good.
Neuromancer I think is underrated. It has some silly elements but it's also like literature. It's got some poetic lines and amazing themes even if it's not the most tightly wound thriller. It gave us so much lore that influenced other IP kind of like how Nirvana launched Grunge. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:50 PM Author: Frutiger Aero Great pushback on Dune. But for me, I really just see it as a cultural artifact on what really started the whole notion of Hyper-Deterministic Gothic Futurism (like in Alien(s), Warhammer 40k, games like StarCraft, etc.) or the concept of technology in the far, far future as being either terminally regressive from 'progress' or so advanced to the point that its pinnacle at the surface looks ceremonial or ornate like almost medieval.
Nothing is shiny, new or 'Cyberpunk' anymore, because nothing else is new under the Sun in the future. It's all been done already. Technology is either a legend/myth or considered something completely 'mundane' because its so ubiquitous.
And for the rest of society or humanity, 'technology' is just so used up and busted to the point that it's no longer even salvageable because the technical knowledge is a "black box" (so over-specialized and technical that it's virtually only understood by the gestalt few) in other words, to them it looks no different than magic. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:02 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) Yeah modern tech is definitely a problem for sci fi because of phones the idea is that the future isn't going to have any problems, in fact nothing will ever happen. AI is sort of the end of history. We're just going to have robots do all the work for us and we'll sit around on the computer and consume slop and that's the end point of history. Computers have killed all human ambition. What will the conflict of the future be? We're gonna own nothing and be happy.
My pushback on Warhammer is that I've always felt it was too cartoonish to be cool. There's an element of over the top ness to the style that's unserious. The pieces make me think of Gwar or like Kristi Noem's husband's boobs. It's like the bimboification of sci fi. I want it dark and gritty. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:03 PM Author: Mamdani's Produce Aisle it was always supposed to be unserious overkill that's the point
the actual real grimdark stuff is so ponderous and tedious |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:05 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) You don't even like sci fi. You're a horror geek. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052606) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:06 PM Author: Mamdani's Produce Aisle guilty as charged
i like some of it like asimov or willis |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:09 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) Cyberpunk is the patrician's choice imo. Gibson is king.
There's nothing wrong with Warhammer it's just not that deep. Like what you like but I am never painting those figurines. |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:10 PM Author: Mamdani's Produce Aisle oh i don't give a shit about the lore lol
it's a fun game tho
gibson is 1893283298328932894990 |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:12 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) I've met him a bunch of times. He's a yuuuuuge shitlib lol. I'm pretty sure Twitter broke his brain. He seemed like a normal guy until the day he started tweeting nonstop. Absolute genius writer though. No one comes close in the space.
Random Q. Where do you rank Pynchon? DFW? |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:19 PM Author: Frutiger Aero Yeah, the problem with Warhammer is Games Workshop. It’s an extremely litigious (Jewish) company, and despite decades of lore, the setting ultimately exists to sell overpriced resin-and-plastic miniatures to a relatively small base of high-spending customers that are also reaching Boomer age like the owners of GW. This also explains the comically exaggerated look of its setting (giant pauldrons, perpetually complementary color schemes, overembellished physical figures and sizes, etc.) because you're supposed to be able to identify them easier over a giant game board with an even more autistic GM nasalling/DnD'ing the scenario.
As a result, the commercial reality shapes the lore's 'reality'. You get absurd scenarios where ancient spacefaring civilizations invade planets via orbital drops just to fight hand-to-hand on the surface. The setting offers explanations—advanced armor, shields, restrictions on AI (obviously like from Dune) — but strategically, many factions could simply bombard the planet, use nukes, or deploy some black-hole, antimatter, or bioweapon and end the conflict immediately (which is what they end up doing anyway). |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:51 PM Author: Mamdani's Produce Aisle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052577) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: Frutiger Aero (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052580) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:47 PM Author: Frutiger Aero (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052439) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:49 PM Author: mentally ill shut-in blank bumps are Hell's only currency (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052441) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 8:58 PM Author: spiritual aliens (Prestige Feuds) https://youtu.be/3HUWUtTZvK4
I listen to this before every poast |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:27 PM Author: have you ever looked at a quarter dont think they had relaxation herb tincture in ancient ruins so not me definitely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052547) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:34 PM Author: dont run libs the crystal wardens see you vonoskar (while wearing the kingdom of heaven mask, though i can only assume you believed that detail to be so patently obvious as to lend no additional context to the question) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052555) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:51 PM Author: Frutiger Aero tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052574) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 9:52 PM Author: little fish in a big Online pond (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052579) |
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Date: August 7th, 2026 10:26 PM Author: Frutiger Aero (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2:#50052665) |