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The Great PlanetCrap Writing Experiment VIII
January 8th 2007, 18:50 CET by chris That's right kids, I'm unilaterally deciding to resurrect the Great PC Writing Experiment, because it's time for me to write a new short story anyway, so why not let everyone else get in on the fun? So this is the thread for "PCWrite 8: PCWrite Takes Manhattan" (no doubt to be followed by "PCWrite Goes to Hell," "PCWrite X," and "Freddy vs. PCWrite"). Because I'm acting as a power-maddened dictator in this endeavour, there will be no voting for themes, and anyone who bitches about my choice of theme has the following options: shut the fuck up and participate, or shut the fuck up and don't participate! This, my friends, is what democracy looks like. We'll have until the end of February -- a nice long time, but not TOO long -- to contemplate the theme and draft up our stories. I hate long topic descriptions so I'll wrap this up. Here's your theme: Twists and Turns. Simple and open-ended. Go nuts. |
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The last wheel of time book is pretty good. Looks like he's out of his rut and working towards finishing this bitch. In like 3 more books, tops. I hope. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Robert Jordan is never worth checking out. Never. Never. No. you're wrong in the head, because his conan books rocked. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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Is Jordan going to live that long? |
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I'm not making the same mistake with it that I did with George RR Martin. I'm waiting for the whole thing to be done before I start the first one. At the speed I read, by the time I get to book 6 (the most current one, I believe), the whole series will be finished and out. |
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Jordan is a hack. Drow are elves but evil. And you know they are evil because of their black skin, and because they are run by women. --Foodbunny
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And...? You are a fucking tard, bago. -Greg
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It had to be said. Drow are elves but evil. And you know they are evil because of their black skin, and because they are run by women. --Foodbunny
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Raymond Elias Feist was awesome. I loved his ability to inject the atmosphere into your veins. And of course, Frank Herbert 4evar! Another boring blog. INTERNET IS SERIOSE BUSSINES. Nigerian princes will tell you.
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I got a cat. His name is Jack. World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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Gifs plz. - words and stuff -
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I'll have to find my digital camera... its somewhere in the apartment, I just don't know where right now. World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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Ok, now I have to find the appropriate USB cable... I think it is somewhere in the dreaded "Box of Many Cables". World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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"Box". Heh. Try "closet". Which reminds me, I really need to re-organize my tech closet again. Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Feist wrote some great shit... though he now spends his time regugating the same story over and over, but the first series he did and the series he did with Janie Wurts. SO GOOD. I'll try Malazan Book of the Fallen. Sounds interesting. As for Jordan... OMG. The first book was really really good. The second? Better. The third? Somehow better. My wife and I read each one wondering how he could keep making them better. The Fourth? Better. After that? They went slowly downhill. At about the 6th or 7th book, they had completely derailed, though because your so invested in the characters, you keep reading. The last one did get some stuff done and though it's not going to end when he promised (at said a max of 10, then 11 books), it did get a lot better. Will he finish it though? I don't know. It's selfish of me, but I really hope he doesn't leave us hanging. I've been reading these Jordan books forever. |
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Lord of Chaos was fucking excellent. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
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I only read the first four Jordan books and I enjoyed them, but ultimately their length kept me from continuing. What is it that you guys don't like about him? I figure I'll pick them up again at some point. World of Warcraft is a pie eating contest where the reward is more pie.
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There's a mascohistic aspect to me that has forced me to read every WoT book so far even though they started to get annoying around book 7 or so. The most recent one was a lot better than the previous few but it still suffers from some of the same problems. The main one that springs to mind is that there are just too many characters to keep track of. That would be fine if the secondary characters only made an appearance in one or two consecutive books but Jordan has an awful tendency to introduce a character (and associated sub-plot) in book 4 and not revisit that character and his/her subplot until book 8 when I've forgotten who they are and what they're doing. I also find it frustrating that with all of the new abilities that Rand and Egwene and so on have learned (Travelling, in particular), it has never occurred to them to somehow meet up and go 'so, this is the shit that I know, what shit do you know?'. I guess some people also have issues with Jordan's prose but it's never really bothered me. |
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A side-effect of the too many characters thing is that there are entire books in which Rand barely features at all and the main arc (Tarmon Gai'don or whatever it's called) isn't advanced in any meaningful way. |
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On the other hand, one of the strengths of WoT is the abundance of characters. You're more or less guaranteed to like at least one or two of them. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
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"I think it is somewhere in the dreaded 'Box of Many Cables'." Been there! Congrats on the cat. It's my estimation that… every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another.
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Does anyone have suggestions for email based games only requiring 3 players? I've googled for these Play By Email games, but they mostly seem to be community based, rather than standalone things. Also, I don't know which ones are fun. - words and stuff -
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#66 McBain I only read the first four Jordan books and I enjoyed them, but ultimately their length kept me from continuing. What is it that you guys don't like about him? I figure I'll pick them up again at some point. Jordan is completely incapable of writing realistic female characters. Without exception, they're all scheming, manipulative shrews who spend every waking moment tugging their braids and bitching at the male chracters (yeah, yeah, they're that way in real life too, blah blah blah). Of course, his male characters aren't a whole lot better--they're mostly wishy-washy idiots who can't make up their minds about anything. Lastly, his prose is leaden. Drow are elves but evil. And you know they are evil because of their black skin, and because they are run by women. --Foodbunny
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Don't forget the skirt-smoothing! Only some female characters have braids to tug on, but they all smooth their skirts. You are a fucking tard, bago. -Greg
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Oh, god, the skirt-smoothing. I can't believe I forgot that. Drow are elves but evil. And you know they are evil because of their black skin, and because they are run by women. --Foodbunny
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Crossing arms beneath breasts. Sniffing. Snorting. Anyway, appleTV eh? every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
and it's your face I'm looking for on every street |
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And here's iPhone... Interesting. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
and it's your face I'm looking for on every street |
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Wow, so they did the iPhone? There was a lot of doubt about that. My Apple stock is smiling... |
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Yeah, and they put an accelerometer in there. Finally the fans can gently, and accurately, simulate stroking their apple product to climactic ejaculation. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
and it's your face I'm looking for on every street |
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your apple stock is more than smiling, warren. Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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You have to admit, it looks incredible. Internet access so you can use Google maps on the road ... brings a tear to my eye. I won't be getting one when they first come out as I'm sure it'll be a $600 phone but eventually I definitely plan to pick one up. |
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Leslie Holy shit, I just checked it again. Up $4.14 so far... good got. |
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grin Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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I just wonder what they're naming policy is these days? They get rid off the ibook to call it macbook instead, goes with appleTV, but names the phone iPhone. They only rationale for it must be to tie it in closer with iPod. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
and it's your face I'm looking for on every street |
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Yowza, that iPhone is a pretty thing. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP Johnsen Family
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Sell sell sell! Quick before the price is announced! "Games are not novels, and the ways in which they harbor novelistic aspirations are invariably the least interesting thing about them." - Steven Johnson
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I just did the they're/their thing, didn't I? Fuck, I almost never do that. I know the difference. It's just... I don't know. Fuck you all! every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
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Sell sell sell! Quick before the price is announced! I could do that ... or I could not be retarded. Yeah, I'll go for the "not retarded" option... |
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iPhone = sexy. iTV? Any details? It's my estimation that… every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another.
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US$299, called Apple TV. all kinds of streaming awesomeness. Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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iPhone; 10:47 am available: shipping in June 10:47 am 8GB model - $599 10:47 am 4GB model - $499 Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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$499 is an expensive phone but I was really expecting it to be more. That's not bad... |
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June? Fuck you Jobs. Fuck you running. $499? $599? Fuck your family too. every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
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i must have one... Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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It costs as much as a PS3. "Games are not novels, and the ways in which they harbor novelistic aspirations are invariably the least interesting thing about them." - Steven Johnson
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Fourth quarter in europe? Are you fucking kidding? every victory has a taste that's bittersweet
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i must have one... Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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It costs as much as a PS3. Well, when you consider that it's a video iPod and a phone and a tablet computer combined ... that's a pretty fair price. I won't be buying it at that price but it's still seems completely reasonable to me. Plus it'll have more games than the PS3 at launch. |
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Yeah, seems in line with most PDA phones. The Treos are popular in this office and they're four or five hundred. "Games are not novels, and the ways in which they harbor novelistic aspirations are invariably the least interesting thing about them." - Steven Johnson
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don't care about apple TV, it's not really doing much more than I can already do on my Xbox360. But that phone is cool. More phone than I'd ever need, but cool. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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with AAPL @ +5.25, they probably just bought one for you. Jean-Robert Bourdage ... Hot dog vendor
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