What do you mean by DRM here? Are you saying you need to be able to pirate it?

As a 6’4 insomniac, I fucking hate flying.

ICO.

28 million copies sold.

I know, they just didn’t provide any details about how or where in that comment, though they followed it up with a link after I complained.

This is much more useful, much appreciated.

Very fucking helpful, thanks.

Is it even possible to play Tribes anymore? Are there any active servers, for any version?

This has to end.

Spoiler alert: it isn’t going to end.

My 14 year old niece’s favourite band is The Cure and I couldn’t be prouder.

Good relationships are balanced, relaxed and effortless. This sounds unbalanced, neurotic and exhausting.

Yikes.

I dunno what you’re saying here. Public awareness of AI wasn’t as “mainstream” as now, but especially for people that were reading science fiction, it certainly wasn’t “space magic”. Asimov’s I, Robot was published in 1950! People have been contemplating and writing about the potential of AI for a very long time.

The concepts of AI have been around a long time and weren’t really any different back then. Even the fundamental technology that current AI is built on has mostly been around since like the 70s, its just the amount of data that can be used to train them is staggeringly larger, which has lead to the recent breakthroughs in capability.

It’s not written like typical sci-fi, it’s more like an art house (for lack of a better term) novel that happens to have a sci-fi setting. William Burroughs was a major influence on his writing and Neuromancer is perhaps the most obvious example of that.

It rewards re-reading immensely, I would advise to just go with the flow and don’t sweat the bits you can’t quite grasp, a lot of it makes more sense over time or clicks when you re-read it. It is incredibly worth it, imo, an absolute masterpiece of literary talent and prescient speculative fiction.

Having said that, if that style isn’t really your thing and you prefer more straight-forward sci-fi, then you will probably not dig it.

edit: After posting this comment I re-loaded my feed and there’s a post about William Burroughs directly above this one. Bill would be pleased.

What’s with atlatls trending atm, is there some spear throwing shit going on on TikTok or something?

Octopodes.

Just reads like a non-native english speaker wrote it.

Watching Genocyber on acid when I was 19 left some psychological scars I still carry around. Highly recommended.

These two having any kind of conversation would be fucking hilarious. Absolute opposite ends of the spectrum of narcisstic assholes, they would both go insane trying to out alpha each other while being completely unable to communicate in any way that made sense to each other.