They even had the gall to put this piece of shit in my Recommended Podcasts feed. Back to SoulSeek it is for me!
myrmidex
joined 1 year ago
I came across this quote in the book I'm currently reading, Until the End of Time by Brian Greene. It doesn't really go into what makes a great story, but rather what prevents a story from being great:
For a concept to grab hold of our attention with enough force that we remember it and transmit it to others, the concept must be sufficiently novel to offer surprise but not so outrageous that we immediately deem it ridiculous. Invisible people? Sure, so long as invisibility is the only counterintuitive feature. A river that answers calculus problems by singing them to the theme of MAS*H? Silly, and so is dismissed by most everyone and quickly forgotten. Aligning with the larger-than-life themes of mythic tales, the protagonists we encounter are larger than life but minimally counterintuitive constructs of the human imagination. No surprise that these protagonists have physical forms, thought processes, and even personality profiles that, at the very least, are thoroughly familiar, even if their powers exceed expectations based on anything we have ever encountered.
They are wasted within years, broken bodies and souls who need years to get healthy again
And then there's Keith Richards...
Hell yea! Subscribed!
It's very underwhelming. I loved the old ones, but this just feels awkward. I'm already sure this won't have one percent of the hours I spent on Streets of Rage 4.
Funny that google is one of the patrons :) Looks like a great solution though, thanks!
haha yea it sounds foreign to me too and I'm a fellow countryman of his :D
Guy Vesthoven
Do you mean Guy Verhofstadt? He's an idiot that sold out his country years ago and subsequently ran to Europe to fill his pockets some more. He just wants a larger union so his pockets can get filled even faster.
Do give Russell's History of Western Philosophy a try. It places those books into a much needed context. When I first picked up that book, it was out of a hope to learn more about philosophy, but after finishing it, I only had those three books on my 'definitely must read' list. I know there's a companion book to Das Kapital written by David Harvey, but he's not the easiest to read either. And Marx, omfg, that mofo has a way of dancing around things for pages on end through the most labyrinthine sentences, so I can definitely commiserate! It took me months to get through the whole thing. Luckily I was in the middle of a move, without TV or computer, so that helped a lot :)
Wow perfect, thanks! I'd love to join the book club but I ditched Discord. This Bookwyrm instance will hopefully cure my itch! :)
Adult-only hotels my friend, only way to travel (without losing your mind).
I was in Da Nang last month, the South Korean parent tourists there just don't give a fuck. Between their children running and screaming in the hallways from 6AM and the parents coming home drunk at 3AM, I barely slept.
Not an answer to your question, but I came across this lemmy instance focused on literature. Seems they're still new, so not many communities yet, but you might have some luck there too!
https://literature.cafe - seems !fiction@literature.cafe is the most relevant community, but they really should open up a separate sci-fi community!