Car Crash: A Story
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Death is such a great character in the series. It's a shame he had to collect Sir Pratchett. For that matter, it's a shame that his daughter, Rhianna, has decided to end the series.
I can understand why authors don't want to take the chance of having their creations ruined by some other writer who isn't nearly as good. I still wish that authors that have created great settings like the Discworld would find some young author that they trust and let them play around with the world.
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At most it might gain a few horsepower.
I hope electric cars will provide more bang for the buck. First accelerate then switch phase to rip the motors apart. If done right, they might even go up in flames.... Then short the battery by closing the fat breaker that was installed for just this purpose to be remotely triggered. The future will be good.
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Oh the failure mode can still be interesting, throw a rod, shatter a piston, blow out the crankcase, lots of awesome "holy crap the energy involved to destroy a full inch of steel" stuff
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as good
Is not the problem. Part of the difficulty with continuing a series is keeping the same tone and style, which is very nearly impossible. Some people realize that this is the case, and write more books as part of Dune.
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And you're not the only one
You two are like the Hatfields, or the McCoys, about this.
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Part of the difficulty with continuing a series is keeping the same tone and style, which is very nearly impossible. Some people realize that this is the case, and write more books as part of Dune.
That's true, but I think that would be more of an issue if a different author tries to continue a specific story (e.g. Wheel of Time). As much as I would miss all of the great characters that Pratchett created, a different author could create their own characters and stories in the Discworld setting. I guess without those specific characters, though, there wouldn't be as much reason to use Discworld as a setting.
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Chalk up another win for Discourse. [spoiler] breaks right click, so no (easy) GIS.
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Doesn't drag&drop work?
EDIT: Apparently not ...
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Even if it did, I'd have to open GIS in another window to drag-and-drop it to. While this is not at all difficult, it is rather less convenient than right-click, click.
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Prolog says: no.
Based on my experience with Prolog, that's its only feature.
Filed under: I have
False.
burned into my retinas by now
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For that matter, it's a shame that his daughter, Rhianna, has decided to end the series.
Better than keeping it going like some lurching zombie, clamouring for undead rights when not trying to keep it's body parts sewn on.
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edit: aww, it doesn't like the Microsoft Hardware Mouse and Keyboard Center gesture training theme song (4 of 5)...
@aliceif said:Doesn't drag&drop work?
The spoiler plugin creates a brand new (inline) SVG image, which just happens to have the original image inside it. There's no URL for the SVG, so what's to drag?EDIT: Apparently not ...
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@codlnghorror: "Principle of Least Surprise? What's that, my favorite brand of toilet paper?"
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My rental car has a "powered by Microsoft" emblem next to the shifter.
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My rental car
@Yamikuronue said:powered by Microsoft
I know car manufacturers are looking at alternatives to internal combustion, but I didn't know they'd managed to harness the power of multinational software houses
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@Yamikuronue said:
My rental car
@Yamikuronue said:powered by Microsoft
I know car manufacturers are looking at alternatives to internal combustion, but I didn't know they'd managed to harness the power of multinational software housesMicrosoft does produce a lot of hot air.... good to put it to constructive use!
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Your web browser/operating system doesn't change context when you hover over the other tab?
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My rental car has a "powered by Microsoft" emblem next to the shifter.
So what are you going to drive when it refuses to start?
Do you qualify as a third-party extension? If so, it will be all your fault.
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At least you're guaranteed it won't crash
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I still wish that authors that have created great settings like the Discworld would find some young author that they trust and let them play around with the world.
Don't know if you've seen it, but I recently (re-)read Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, which is an authorised sequel to (H.G. Wells's) The Time Machine. Introduces some modern science into it but also has callouts to a lot of Wells's other work.
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(Authorized by the Wells' estate, not by H.G. Wells himself. I think that's a pretty important distinction to have here.)
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Since H.G. Wells died 11 years before Stephen Baxter was born, not to mention 49 years before he wrote The Time Ships, it seems to me that anyone β or at least anyone who knew enough about Wells or Baxter to care β would be rather unlikely to think Wells himself had authorized it.
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Well duh, I'm just pointing out that Wells' estate has exactly one concern when approving an official sequel, and it can be spelled "cha-ching!"
It says absolutely nothing about the quality of the work.
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I read that recently. It's been a long time since i read the original, so I don't remember if the main character was that annoying, but I seriously doubt it. But it was a fun read anyway.
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Perhaps, but it also possible that whoever is administering his estate also cares about the quality of literature officially associated with Wells's name, if for no other reason than to avoid harming the value of his name by associating it with offensive piles of . No guarantee, of course, but probably a safe bet that an official sequel is at least going to be better than, say, typical fanfic.
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Sorry, but can you please shut up? You may not care about Dune, but the rest of us do. You'd have to look long and hard to find a worse fanfic than the books by his son.
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worse fanfic than the books by his son
I'll take your word for that. I think I stopped reading somewhere around God Emperor or maybe Heretics, so I have no first-hand knowledge of Brian's output.
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I'm a bit odd in that God Emperor was my favorite in the series; it seems to be the least popular.
But basically, after all that, probably in Heretics, you get introduced to several interesting characters, one of whom being [spoiler]Miles Teg[/spoiler]. Well, the last thing that Frank wrote [spoiler]involved him dying and being cloned[/spoiler]. So then you start on the kid's book, and next thing you know, the amazing [spoiler]Teg is now a whiney, brooding teen[/spoiler].
I mean, I was able to laugh off his childish prequels, since they're set 10k years before Dune or something. [spoiler]But then the ending is 100% based on those prequels. As in, "Check it out, all of Dune is less important than the awful bit I wrote!"[/spoiler]
Part of what I liked about Dune, and even the old Star Wars movies and such, is that there's a bunch you don't know. That perhaps no one knows. It's all legend now. Then you have these pathetic children writing exactly what happened, badly tying it in, and passing it off as canon. Now all the cool mystery is just some mundane teen power fantasy.
So, Baxter did a good job, for the most part, except that he made sure that the main character was a thoroughly unlikable person. Sanderson did a good job, by actually making the plot move, and writing interesting things about the good characters, and stopping with the incessant catfights that plagued the entire rest of the series. But the exception only proves the rule.
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I see you're going for the high bar thereβ¦
Apparently, even that is too high for some authorized sequels.
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Now all the cool mystery is just some mundane teen power fantasy.
Yeah. It was cooler wondering about what happened. I think it would have been better to have had something more like what Tolkien's son did and basically dressed up and published his dad's notes. I was really interested to see what other ideas Frank had, so I read the other stuff.
The writing styles are so different that it's hard to put the pre/sequels into the same universe. And so it's difficult to figure out what were the original ideas and what the embellishments were. Because let's face it, Frank came up with some really out there shit.
Heretics is my favorite, BTW. I'm sure I'm weird in that.
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I'm a bit odd in that God Emperor was my favorite in the series
+ . Though I thought Heretics and Chapterhouse were interesting in that they explored changes in the underpinnings of the society, a recognition that fundamental change is inevitable, which you don't get in a lot of cases where the writer has set up his universe and just tells different stories against the same backdrop.I haven't read any of Brian's sequels and I don't intend to.
So, Baxter did a good job, for the most part, except that he made sure that the main character was a thoroughly unlikable person.
Hmm. I didn't view him like that; I saw him more as a product of his times, becoming aware of his limitations but ultimately unable to break free of them. Which is not so different from most of us. Baxter couldn't really give him a more modern sensibility; it would have been too much of a difference in tone with the original.
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