Lit MACLUNKY -- The Lit Forum Maclunky Thread, v3

You've... completely changed my mental image of a dignified Caesar. Well done!

--Adm. Nick

 

Veni. Vidi. Bibi?

I'll defer to you if the Latin is grammatically correct.

--Adm. Nick

 

That looks fun, what are some of the other NPCs?

 

Is Edifis/Numérobis among them?

 

I think we need a new computer so I can play that ****

 

Wait what

It's anybody's guess whether this will ever actually exist (remember that supposed Ringworld miniseries? Me neither), but still.

 

Hi guys off topic again I know but after reading this article and what this guy has said, am I the only one who thinks he sounds certifiable
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/22/nra-wayne-lapierre-gun-control-cpac-speech-2018

 

No, it's not just you.

The Onion has already made their short joke.

 

Speaking of podracing games:

Yeah, when I saw this my immediate thought was, "This is a strange thing for Amazon to do alongside Ringworld."

But I'm not worrying for Ringworld yet. It's only been a few months since Amazon announced they were working on it, so it's not like it's entered "swept under rug following years of development hell" there yet like it endured at Syfy (where it was in limbo for over a decade); and with the Culture series it could focus a lot more on the politics and, well, culture rather than the Big Dumb Object aspect that Ringworld mainly is.

That being said while I love both Culture and Ringworld... Ringworld is a book that is very special to me, one of my cousins gave me her copy when I was a kid when our grandfather died and I've read it almost every year since, I've been waiting almost decades by this point for one of the adaptations to actually continue beyond the announcement, so if it comes down to one or the other, I'm rooting for Ringworld.

 

Well, huh - I actually had no idea this had happened and was referring to the Syfy development hell.

 

Hey, so, you know Iris West? Pretty famous, she's on a tv show, dates the Flash? You want to know what ends up happening to her?

Forced to watch the bloody execution of her own children as resisters to a despotic regime.

Damn, DC. You harsh.

 

Earthgov? You telling me that President Clark had them executed? Were they working with Captain John Sheridan?

 

I'm sure the official word out of EarthDome is that they were deranged monsters who, each night for fun, would strangle ... uh ... pah! What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet…go "quack"?

 

Cats.

 

Cats. Deranged monsters who, each night for fun, would strangle cats.

 

I think that's called playing the bagpipes.


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Nah, pretty sure that's what we call Narn Opera.

 

I’m missing the reference.

 

I’m not sure which one is the parody and which one is real

 

Ok changing subject, Iv finally started watching The Expanse and it is good fun but I noticed the Jamaican accents in Space can be a little bit selective depending on who the Belter is though ?

 

I guess Belters are supposed to be diverse (lots of slightly different cultures & communities strewn around far-flung rocks), and with Ceres being a major port you'd expect different accents. (The patois itself with its way-too-clean loanwords from too many different languages never really made sense to me, though.)

I'm reading the books the series is based on right now, and they're really good. I like how each volume goes so much farther than the one before, and for the most part they're extremely well paced & condensed while still being atmospheric. Space opera at its best.

 

Please tell me there is a character named Maelcum