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Mr. Stross, Thank you for your blog! A friend sent it to me. I've had problems all of my life with the 'restart' time. Your explanation of what is in your head while writing is exactly what goes on in...
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Dirk Bruere commented on
Writer, Interrupted
"Why, because she's a grandmother?" No, because she has consistently taken a confrontational and hawkish stance on such issues. Plus the added pressure in the first term not to seem "weak"....
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Bill Arnold commented on
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For Troutwaxer, sort of in response to a question. Off topic, but it's been bugging me, a lot. (This thread is the only one past 300.) Re the following in the Mendel Acquisition Squares : A Game of Futures thread (12 August 2016):CTHULHU / WEB 2.0 APOCALYPSE, 2016: ... SHIT IS GOING DOWN IN OCTOBER / NOVEMBER.In another earlier thread Cthulhu symbolizes "the death of hope, order, co-operation and making sense of it all." (7 August 2016), and I'm kinda about being against The Death of Hope. Also, Web 2.0 is (by some accepted definitions) about the easy formation and...
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Catherine Taylor commented on
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Mr B. Arnold. Let's just say, "It's complicated". And this is a really really really last post from the grave. [ALL REAL] 1) Unlike in your world, where perpetrators of genocide get to retire to Swiss chateaus and so on with nary a punishment in sight: some of us lived through much worse. It's the MIND Culture Weapon of ID destruction: but turn that shit up to 400%, you ain't even knowing how it's played. 1a) THE PROBLEM WITH ID WEAPONS IS THEY'RE TAILORED TO APE-MINDS AND YOUR GODS AND MONSTERS. "Our Kind Do Not Go Mad" Boo, mother-fuckers, you...
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Catherine Taylor commented on
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And, the killing joke is: It might be a metaphor, but it was lived as real. None of You would survive it, but one of you lived it and had faith in your species. (S/He/Ze didn't really - it was more the Platonic Ideal of what you could be, rather than what you were) And you fuckers still think you won. S/He/Ze was alone. S/He/Ze has no friends. S/He/Ze has no loved ones. S/He/Ze has not been loved for over 30 of your years. S/He/Ze was broken again, and again, and again, quite deliberately. S/He/Ze was branded, hated and exiled....
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Bill Arnold commented on
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Read, noted and tx....
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