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• Trottelreiner commented on "The next big thing"
  Can we assume that NSO has reached the MILF/Silverback/Polar Bear stage of things; the bling-bling of youth has gone away (OK, in some instances, there is more bling-bling, but, err, let's just say it's a tricky issue), but true beauty is about to stay. ;)...
• SFreader commented on "The next big thing"
  Agree! (re: - Basically every 5 to 10 years a new cultural generation of adolescents... ) This is well-established/researched for marketing to youth /teen markets... the generation cycle is about every 5 years in this age cohort. As for some of the hot-new-trends ... what is the stand-out/central technology that the story characters either refuse to use or completely rely on in the first hit story of a hot genre? Somewhere there's got to be a fit between new/hot technology and the mythos adopted by that youth/teen cohort. Which brings me to the real reason why vampires are on their...
• scott-sanford commented on "The next big thing"
  The Bolo is a self-driving car with the dial turned up to 11...And what would the code for a self-driving car also do in the world of the Laundry? Brains may well still have an OGRE game on the shelf from his teen years. (Pinkie doubtless spent his doing something more flamboyant.) So it's not at all unreasonable for the idea to be floating around among the Laundry's mad scientists. They'd need a decent budget, although the lack of one leads to the amusing idea of an unstoppable robotic fighting machine mind installed on the chassis of a low performance...
• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkXhEBZQ9TAal4iR5wdj96tbxocKqEer5k commented on "The next big thing"
  For example: I noticed around 2005 that there was an eerie shortage of near-future SF—as if millennial anxiety intimidated everyone into tip-toeing away from that area. Hence "Halting State" and "Rule 34". IIRC, you recently discovered why "everyone was tip-toeing away" from where you'd boldly rushed in.......
• Keybounce commented on "The next big thing"
  Lets also not forget that the other extreme of long lead time exists: South Park takes 7 days to produce and air an episode. Yea, they can make their shows turn around that quickly. The cost? Hit-or-miss -- you like some, you hate others. They are the only people doing this, currently, that I know of. So it's certainly not common....