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>>164102 No.165635
>>165623I mean, yeah, retards gonna' retard.
But the genre of science fiction is defined by how the science affects the fiction. The science affecting it in distinctly negative ways (with some commonly shared focuses such as the transhumanism) makes it the genre.
I think it's people trying to strip the sci-fi from the genre because they're not interesting in "science affecting society" and just want a LARP sandbox. I blame this on the TTRPG and TTRPG being like, the nexus of all woke geekery.
It has to be some tribal culture war shit because nobody cares this much about a label otherwise. Nobody complains when Star Wars gets slapped with the science fantasy label.
I would say that there's been some unconscious bombardment against sci-fi as a genre that transcends "soft" and "hard." People want to make it basically an aesthetic cover for random bullshit instead of understanding that "the effects of science" is supposed to be the interrogative core. I don't know what to call things that have advanced technology without quasi-mystical elements (that's science-fantasy) but it shouldn't be "sci-fi." Or maybe "sci-fi" is the thing that needs to change its name since it's pretty nebulous. Neither of these things are going to happen so if you want actual sci-fi, you're going to have to go to hard sci-fi because soft sci-fi is too big of an umbrella. This isn't ideal for a number of reasons, the sample size being one of them because it's a niche subgenre and the institutional side of things seem to be propping up DEI soft, soft "sci-fi."
>watched
I don't know why I'm talking so much today.
No.165637
>>165636They don't look very intelligent, do they?
No.165638
>>165632Lovecraft is one of the most pathetic pop culture icons for you to try to claim for a myriad of reasons.
I forgot to say the other day but so is George "I'm a linguist who doesn't understand linguistics" Orwell because his writing is shit and his satire sucked so much that basically every political sphere burbles out "They're literally 1984" at their perceived enemies.
I'm not sure why you'd want to associate with either of them other than the fact that they're well-known, which is a terrible reason.
No.165640
Saw pickleball players at the tennis court.
< MFW
Some guy took his chicanx girlfriend in only a bra on rollerskates to just sort of dick around on the courts. I can't think of a more Gen-Z social outing. But I'm not trying to.
After 20 minutes of trying to serve, I only really got one good one in. It's demoralizing. I'm so washed up.
Also, the biggest flaws of tennis is that we don't make courts in-doors despite the SUN and RAIN and WIND and the fact that tennis balls die. I hope one day they make an inflateless tennis ball like basketball got.
Of course BIG
DERSITE MONEY got their special ball first even though it's far less relevant to the game.
No.165641
>>165638>Orwell because his writing is shitpyw
No.165643
>>165639The writing is bad because it's an utterly hollow narrative written with fifth-grade prose and the dystopian concept of "If we remove a word, people will forget the concept" is completely asinine; it's against all linguistic theory and common sense.
>Implying socialists and Nazis are the only people who get 1984'dIt's literally the NPC response to any political semantics. Political semantics being a thing that happens quite a bit because global democracy is retarded and loud.
>>165641This post is better written than 1984. There, go
SMURF off.
No.165644
>>165633STRONGBALD elijah wood
No.165646
>>165584I think you're wrong. Seriously
It's good to feel. Guilt doesn't serve you and semen retention is not real
If you have a legitimate problem because it significantly interferes with the rest of your life, that's one thing
But honestly you should be crying tears of joy that you can be full-body rubbernecked by a nice pair of boos
No.165647
>>165645>Genericest videogame and animeEmeowlye status?
No.165648
>>165646So long as you know guilt, you still have a heart that knows the good.
No.165650
Enough of this Boo talk.
No.165651
I am legitimately addicted to caffeine now
No.165653
>>165651>CaffeineNot easy. You're going to wind up Yungoku at this rate
No.165654
>>165652I guess I have to make Princess Rose…
No.165656
>>165648What guilt is there to have over boos
No.165658
>>165645no
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dont know
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probably not
probably not
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no
no
No.165659
>>165643You're allowed to enjoy fiction novels without using them as the foundation for a political ideology
No.165660
>>165645no
kinda
no
no
no
no
no
kinda
kinda
no thanks
No.165661
>>165656None, if a hermit manages to endure their teasing and even a full body booby press
No.165662
>>165659Well, yes, but science fiction is meant to be exploratory which often just makes it a vehicle for propaganda.
No.165666
>>165664>>165663Signing meower up for MASCULINITY lessons in Istanbul
No.165667
>>165665Madoka
TRICKSTERS get the rope.
No.165670
>>165662>propaganda is when a private individual writes stories critical of the state and of propaganda itselfI also think there's an element of the absurd in 1984/Harrison Bergeron/etc where the way characters react to these unrealistic scenarios is more interesting than asking whether or not the scenarios could occur
No.165671
>>165670>>propaganda is when a private individual writes stories critical of the state and of propaganda itselfSure, I'm using the term liberally but yes, I generally find satire distasteful artistically- if I find it especially bad, I derisively call it propaganda.
>where the way characters react to these unrealistic scenarios is more interesting than asking whether or not the scenarios could occurSure, but it's not absurdist fiction. It is written in a "grounded" way. The characters are all, also, very flat and unarguably one-dimensional.
No.165672
1984 being "critical of propaganda" is like one step away from a whole book being a guy standing on a box and saying "bad things are bad"
No.165673
>>165672Written in 1949 bwo cut him some slack
No.165674
>>165673Brave New World was written earlier and did a better job
No.165675
>>165672I was calling the book propaganda but this is also true.
No.165676
>>165672>>165674I'm phrasing this as a little overly critical. I think 1984 is, like, good, but not for the reasons people credit it for.
No.165677
REFRESH YOUR PAGE. NOW.
No.165679
>>165670>Harrison BergeronWas written about jock jealousy
> "I can't be sure, but there is a possibility that my story "Harrison Bergeron" is about the envy and self-pity I felt in an over-achievers' high school in Indianapolis quite a while ago now. Some people never tame those emotions. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald and Mark David Chapman come to mind. "Handicapper Generals," if you like." No.165681
>>165678It's good if you treat it as more of a pulp kind of thing, yeah.
No.165682
>>165679>>165680FAKE WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!
No.165683
>>165681But it's not fun.
No.165684
>>165682Sounds pretty trveweird to me, bouzu. Might see if there's a cheap as free paperback laying around
No.165686
>>165685Ai content creator begs BRICS for help
No.165688
>>165642so trve
>t. George Orwell No.165692
>>165691"Good morning, Master!"
But it feels like a bit of a waste to buy an aotume right at the cusp of LLM dolls
No.165693
>>165692aotume is less likely to murder you
No.165694
>>165693Dying by the hands of your robot wife is a pretty easy death, can't hope for more
No.165698
>>165696Why are they like this? Overreaction from the way misbehaved dersites act in public?
No.165699
>>165698Rise's ass is the key to all of this.
No.165700
>>165699It mindbreaks hood rines…
No.165701
>>165700And me. But in a different way.
No.165704
>>165702Why does he look familiar?
No.165705
>>165704That's Joe Roegan
No.165709
>>165703That afro dude and the patience for Nathan Moaku's OCs is what helped me decide on the artist
No.165710
>>165707>>165708The Koishi is ominous as shit
No.165715
Wait is that a 32yo in murder drones merch?
That seems worse than precure shirts somehow
No.165717
>>165715It's somehow more autistic.
No.165720
>>165719Rose? Rose Lalonde?
No.165721
>>165719>>165720I reckon so,
dood No.165724
>>165723Tis' slightly-past-the-season.
No.165726
>>165710Cursed sex dolls need love too
No.165730
I made the VOD public but it's not like anything exciting happens. Some fun chats though.
No.165731
Long day ahead
No.165732
No resume progress today, oops.
No.165733
Watching other people play Arc Raiders, and it seems pretty peaceful. I am tempted to get it in order to cause problems.