Gregmuir

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• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  Be careful of your sources. AEI is an American right-wing stink tank with the moral standards that make the Daily Mail appear fair and balanced....
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE
  The crazy thing to me, trying to understand this from across the Pond, is that Brexit is a criminal act analogous to ship wreckers who put up deceptive lights along the coast in hopes of luring ships onto rocks where...
• Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
  One other thought I had. Housing needs change over time. A young couple might need a small home and then will need more space as children occur and then those extra rooms are superfluous once the kids leave the nest....
• Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
  The basement comment fits into something I've been wondering about. You'll read about tunneling nuts who have illegally built tunnels and bunkers on their suburban property. They've created a ton of additional living space and it makes me wonder what...
• Commented on Social architecture and the house of tomorrow
  It's a great question. There's going to be a gap between what we should do and what we'll end up doing. More than likely what will happen is we have a great idea to resolve a current problem and will...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  So I've been thinking about the comment made about good eldritch gods. I don't particularly care for the attempt to try to map Lovecraftian deities by human standards of good and evil the way Derleth did. I do agree that...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  And it's dark: before Disney whitewashed him, Peter Pan was a psychopathic kidnapper ... It doesn't take much of a stretch to turn Pan into horror. Ridiculous power with a mercurial, childish temperament. Someone's getting sent to the cornfield....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  Do you consider any of the rest of the series worth reading? The Rob S. Pierre character was not so much on the nose as up it. (French Revolution parallels, I get it! Sheesh.) What killed me is when the...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  I like the premise of the show but there's only so much they could do on a budget like that back in the day. What I always thought would be interesting for the next War of the Worlds story is...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  The problem with Harrington is that she started out as a plausible, competent character with flaws and turned into a Mary Sue. "Her only problem is she just isn't aware of how awesome she is." Plus there was the tendency...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Delirium Brief
  Regarding the masquerade, it's just super easy worldbuilding here. It's just like the real world, plus zombies. Or just like the real world, plus vampires. The first time this really struck me was with the War of the Worlds TV...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  Random thoughts about all this. The first is a history of WWI where the guy spends the whole book telling you what happened and why but at the end he says that the causes presented still seem insufficient to explain...
• Commented on That sinking feeling
  Not sure if this is the correct venue to ask. I'm blocked from following Charlie on twitter and I'm not sure why because I don't think I've ever directly messaged him there, was mainly following for updates. I don't think...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  On one hand, the whole pedo obsession with the British papers is a way to sell copies because it's a universal taboo and everyone can feel good about hating on child molesters. So it's the sort of thing you think...
• Commented on What can possibly go wrong?
  Wars and rumors of wars. Having grown up in the modern age, it's hard to imagine that the mightiest kings of Earth were stuck with relying on traveler anecdotes for news of far-off lands. The bloody Mongol invasion could be...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  Re: truly getting motivated terrorists/freedom fighters. You're right, the people with imagination and smarts can usually find a way to engage with the society to get what they want. The problem comes when you have educated, bright people who want...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  RE: Unimaginative terrorists. Yup. I am forever grateful. Talk to a civil engineer about the sorts of vulnerabilities that a modern society is riddled with and you won't sleep at night. But actually you should feel better. The way I...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  That is an interesting point about the laser blinding weapons. Regarding poison gas in the light, it seems like it's just not worth the trouble of using. Laser weapons may not be as effective as we think? Terrorists aren't going...
• Commented on Silence is ending (soon)
  https://youtu.be/9CO6M2HsoIA This video got some recent buzz. Like the curious yellow killer bots. Very plausible near future extrapolation of drone and AI tech for highly targeted killing....