Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by kridsdale3 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:35PM
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Gen Z is all in on Fortnite, where Darth Vader and Spiderman have been battling John Wick and Optimus Prime for years now.
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by titanomachy on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @07:24PM
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I keep telling people “Blindsight is about vampires in space, it’s awesome and you have to read it” but most people just give me a weird look and ignore the advice…
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by 9991 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:28PM
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It has vampires in space, but it’s not about vampires in space. It’s a strange book, but if I had to say, I’d say it’s about how intelligence can be divorced from consciousness and how utterly eldrich aliens might be.
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by Verdex on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:30AM
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Humorously enough there's a Peter Watts essay out there someplace bemoaning how the scramblers ended up as starfish aliens just like how everyone else does their eldritch aliens.
The book clearly does a lot of legwork in the 'third act' to really sell the main thesis. Which is great the first time through, but I think makes subsequent readthroughs less impactful. I however always enjoy about the first two thirds.
As a software developer, I spend a lot of time looking at the increasingly complex behavior (and even downright 'cleverness') of non-conscious entities. So my takeaway is less "life, but not as we know it" and more "YES, just like that, that's exactly what I've been trying to tell people for years." Unfortunately, explaining my day job in terms of Blindsight isn't exactly a step up.
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by smsm42 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:13AM
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Technically IIRC there's only one vampire in space there?
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by Tao3300 on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:22PM
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> crying my eyes out after Magneto-Gandalf saves the power rangers from certain death from Venom Frasier and then convinces Frasier to finally take off the black suit.
If that doesn't make you tear up, you're dead inside. That's my explanation.
Re:Frasier Fantasy: A Game Boy Color game based on the 'Frai...
by mnky9800n on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:07AM
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It will be like that episode of Star Trek the next generation called darmok.
However, I cannot help but wonder in this presumably inevitable techno future of ours, how we will ever talk to anyone about the eventually fever dream quality of media that we'll each individually be consuming in unique niches.
I'm already reading Blindsight and wondering how in the world I can even try to explain this to people in my life. Somehow I imagine that it's going to be a lot more difficult to explain why I'm crying my eyes out after Magneto-Gandalf saves the power rangers from certain death from Venom Frasier and then convinces Frasier to finally take off the black suit.