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Squid Ink: Lockstep
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Sunday, 26 April 2015. Apparently I'm on a sci-fi book binge all of a sudden. I blame birthday gifts. Second book is Karl Schroeder's Lockstep. I love the worlbuilding, but the actual story has a lot of bits that come off as "generic young adult dystopia". That's all awesome. Fantastic ideas. Something I've never seen before, but is also a great, logical way for a huge non-lightspeed space empire to function. But that's just a trick! The book only makes me ...
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Squid Ink: Personal blag
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Saturday, 25 April 2015. I've been running Post-Launch Reviews and D4sign for a while now. Every so often I have some thought or another that I want to write down, and never do because I don't really have a good place to do it. Well THIS ENDS TODAY! So this is just gonna be random stuff. Thoughts on books or movies, links to my other blog posts, maybe photos. I don't know. Things. We'll see. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Horizon Black: Part II.
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Squid Ink: June 2015
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Social justice and why I avoid it. Been a while since my last post here. but I did say updates would be occasional). I fully expect at least some of this to be controversial, but hopefully I can explain all this well enough that it makes sense. You don't have to agree with me, but these are my personal thoughts and interpretations on what I've observed. And, like men's rights, feminism has its less reasonable, more radical groups as...
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Squid Ink: April 2015
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Thursday, 30 April 2015. New D&D blog post: magic and tech. Some people say that fantasy worlds with magic wouldn't develop technology. I say that's dumb. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Ex Machina and a personal revelation about worldbuilding. I watched Ex Machina. Spoiler alert, this post isn't actually really about Ex Machina. So don't expect a review. I was never really drawn to fantasy, though. There are a couple of exceptions - I can't not like The Hobbit.
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Squid Ink: The Andromeda Strain
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Saturday, 25 April 2015. Finally read Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain. For the first time today on the bus back to Toronto. Blazed though it in three hours since the science was pretty easy for me to pick up due to a combination of a couple of years of university-level science classes and the book having been written in the late sixties. How did the two now-separate populations undergo identical mutations at the exact same time? When last we left ou...
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Squid Ink: Social justice and why I avoid it
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Wednesday, 17 June 2015. Social justice and why I avoid it. Been a while since my last post here. but I did say updates would be occasional). I fully expect at least some of this to be controversial, but hopefully I can explain all this well enough that it makes sense. You don't have to agree with me, but these are my personal thoughts and interpretations on what I've observed. And, like men's rights, feminism has its less reasonable, more radical groups as...
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Squid Ink: New D&D blog post: magic and tech
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Thursday, 30 April 2015. New D&D blog post: magic and tech. Some people say that fantasy worlds with magic wouldn't develop technology. I say that's dumb. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Post-Launch Review* *The Evil Within* (PC) *Developer:* Tango Gameworks *Released: *October 2014 *Played:* story complete in 13h About During a call to inv. Horizon Black: Part II. New developments and streamlining. It's been quite a while since I posted here!
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Squid Ink: Ex Machina and a personal revelation about worldbuilding
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Thoughts and links and whatever else comes out. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. Ex Machina and a personal revelation about worldbuilding. I watched Ex Machina. Tonight. It was extremely well put together and had great characters and moments, but I didn't really like it. I couldn't put my finger on why until I had a sort of mini-epiphany and learned something about myself. (I've had a few of these in the last couple of years, maybe I'll write more about them). So don't expect a review. And The Lord of the Rings.