Want to wade into the rainbow-ridden surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating
in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go
forth and be mid. Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning
fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret. Any awful.systems sub may be
subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no. If your sneer seems higher
quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post —
there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high. > The post
Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no
appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged
“culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking
about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re
inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should
be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t
be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each
and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I
would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting
this. Also, happy Pride Month, peeps)
In continuation of the recent dune stuff stubsack subthread so anyone interested doesn’t need to go spelunking in the hundreds of posts superthread that’s already halfway out of the main page.
There’s one thing in Dune that I find Actually Revolutionary and that extremely few books series have succeded at
It give the impression that tech actually advance. At a glacial pace, but also in ways that fundamentally change the settings.
Face dancers and synthetic spice are the two big one, in that they change the Dune world very significantly, and also relatively gradually. Compare and contrast with 40k, where they talk about new techs all the time but they never change the balance of power or really do anything, or Star Wars where it’s unclear if any technologies actually get more advanced in the story.
There’s one thing in Dune that I find Actually Revolutionary and that extremely few books series have succeded at It give the impression that tech actually advance. At a glacial pace, but also in ways that fundamentally change the settings.
Face dancers and synthetic spice are the two big one, in that they change the Dune world very significantly, and also relatively gradually. Compare and contrast with 40k, where they talk about new techs all the time but they never change the balance of power or really do anything, or Star Wars where it’s unclear if any technologies actually get more advanced in the story.