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- Tue May 02, 2023 8:57 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 77717
Re: Resources Thread
Well, the Internet is not a "no-man's land" where laws do not apply. Copyright violation is as illegal "there" as in "the real world". Get used to it. it still kind of is, tho, if you know where to look. I'm just sad to see mega leave the ranks of the forces of freedom...
- Tue May 02, 2023 8:49 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 574
- Views: 683088
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
I just noticed this, because both words appeared in the same Metafilter post, from two different people: cronch (for crunch) monch (for munch) Both applied to dogs. Interesting sound symbolism here... usually a more open vowel is less cute, not more so. Yeah, it's a thing. I'm pretty sure it's inte...
- Tue May 02, 2023 8:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
I totally agree, especially when I look at clockwork mecha. mother of god that is silly. then again, it's easy to discount things as unrealistic when they are indeed possible: not clockwork mecha <or any kind of mecha, for that matter, except *maybe*, *maaaaybe* stuff like battletech, minus the magi...
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 10:00 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Resources Thread
- Replies: 99
- Views: 77717
Re: Resources Thread
mega enforcing copyright? alas, the good old days are gone.
- Sun Apr 30, 2023 9:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
I don't know tho... the telegraph was huge, and very much used, but what it wasn't was a method to connect a number of brass analog computers into a vast network such that the messages could be used to coordinate the actions of the computers (as opposed to the actions of people, which seems to me th...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
i think i agree with travis... steampunk and the other punks, i.e. atompunk a la fallout, are more side-looking that backwards-looking, at least in principle.
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
I don't think there's a lot of... carved wood scifi ? though I think I'd like to make some. I'd say there is, but we call it "RPGs". I mean, the bright idea of D&D and Elder Scrolls etc. is to treat magic as a highly predictable and exploitable new forms of physics. hmmm... disagree? ...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
I can tell from reading this that you haven't read much fantasy. :D Honestly, not that much, no. I try, honest to Tolkien I try, but I just get... the word is not bored, but I need for a book to catch me, and tbh whether a book catches me or not is as much about me as it is about the book. But yeah...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
Except that Heinlein's politics seem to be a major part of his appeal for him, judging from the conversations we've had and the types of pull-quotes from his work that he shares to his social. ah, then... if you find out how to abort someone's descent into the darkness let me know, i've lost a few ...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
Which makes it even odder that one of my gay friends, a former academician and progressive activist, has a huge hard-on for his works. (He is a Boomer, though, and seems to be unreflectively drifting toward conservatism as he grows steadily more isolated and embittered.) well, there are more reason...
- Fri Apr 28, 2023 9:32 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4930
- Views: 2346960
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
[quote=Torco post_id=69955 time=1682612341 user_id=100 Ironically, it's Chomsky who thinks that Chomkyan grammar, and the lexicon, are encoded in the genome. So you might amuse yourself thinking out what that stupid idea would predict. E.g. there should be mutants who are utterly unable to learn th...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
*and* plenty of leftist soft SF, see the very good interdependency series by scalzi. I don't know if he's a leftist, but he feels like one as a writer, or at the very least progressive. I think Orson Scott Card politics moved frankly to the right sometime in the early 2000s? His early work was a lot...
- Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:19 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4930
- Views: 2346960
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
I don't know, it gave me a good laugh: not exactly 0% at it. Can you detect the difference in practice? Yes, sequence the cat's genome. If it is the size of a solar system, it has an HLT. yes but like... we're talking about a pokemon here, they clearly are from some different, weird universe: assume...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
the weird thing about heinlein and OSC is that their works are not that conservative, though they very much are. some of heinlein's work are fascist, others are kind of borderline pro-pedophilia, certainly many have a clear right-wing vibe, same with OSC, especially in the sequels to the ender books...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4930
- Views: 2346960
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
this comic made me think... is UG unfalsifiable? like... the cat's spiel could be countered by "okay, so what if instead your name is the entire lexicon of english, and just like pikachu has the freedom of saying different bits of its name in whatever order (pika pika, pikachu, pika chu chuu, ...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:37 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Conworld random thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 172360
Re: Conworld random thread
the struggle towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. that's easy for me to say: I'm not conworlding or conlanging like to write a book or whatever but, rather, just for the fun of it: i might write one if it ever comes to pass that I have money to survive and also ample free time, which...
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: German Politics Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8226
Re: German Politics Thread
the future is now old man
- Wed Apr 26, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
We had Kay-Bee Toy and Hobby. It was a sign of progress when playbooks and modules began to appear at Waldenbooks. names don't mean anything to me, but like... are they general-purpose bookstores? here RPG material can still only be found in game shops: you know, the kind of place where there's pro...
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:41 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Speculative Fiction Thread formerly Fantasy Thread
- Replies: 178
- Views: 468624
Re: The Fantasy Thread
kids these days, taught D&D by their fathers. in my day, we had to walk *without podcasts* all the way to the copy shop and scavenge the unclaimed jobs bin for roleplaying materials. or, if we were feeling lucky, scavenge dialup internet sites for homebrew rules.
- Tue Apr 25, 2023 6:32 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: German Politics Thread
- Replies: 41
- Views: 8226
Re: German Politics Thread
it never is, brother. it never is.