Same with writing and image generation. It can give you ideas or handle little details like making sure all your commas are in the right place, the formatting is cohesive, and that you used the right your / you’re, or filling in grass or sky textures in the background or putting a bit of polish on a finished image but it definitely requires some editing to get a truly cohesive final result.

I feel like it was in the first 3rd or so? To me that counts more as setup than anything else. The rest of it has been more of the implications, how it works, and what to do about it, which I would consider more to be spoilers.

Oh thank you! I couldn’t find a sub for it but that makes sense now that I see it.

Nope! My partner just happened to read it lately and recommended it.

yeah idk if they’ll ever include that much detail in the game, and if I try to do all that I’ll be working on this for weeks and my partner is already pissed about having done both the laundry AND dishes this weekend… but I definitely appreciate the ideas! Maybe something to try after a few more generations of lifesim games!

I wonder if the fatigue mechanics would make that a less desirable strategy, but in either case idk if I want it to be that hard. In particular I’m trying to make part of figuring it out sort of realizing what those rules / constraints are, but in a way that just gets you to the solution faster rather than eliminating a total brute force solution which would require less thinking but would definitely take longer.

😂😆🤣

OMG it’s wild that you would say that because I’m actually reading (listening to really) Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson as I’m making this! If you’ve never read it a pretty big plot point is a Brown Note image that looks like noise but that will scramble people’s brains if they have enough of an affinity for computer languages.

Misskey?

tbh being more or less nonbinary I actually really love the approach to gender this book takes, and actually not because the Radch is largely gender abolitionist (although that is pretty great). Also: fair warning, this is a discussion about gender as a philosophical concept, sociopolitically speaking it’s a fact that trans people deserve to exist however they damn well please and people as a whole really need to stop acting like that substantially affects them. The fact that this has resulted in people feeling physically and economically unsafe is a huge problem that needs to be handled a lot better than we’re currently doing. To me, a big part of the reason I haven’t pursued any kind of gender changes on my government paperwork is that I really don’t think it was any of their business to begin with, and I don’t feel the need to give the government MORE information about my gender.

While the characters in the Murderbot Diaries definitely sucked me in more, the approach to gender in that one almost struck me as unrealistically subject to our current moralism around gender. Most of my interaction with gender as a concept is that it’s the way the culture that surrounds you perceives you. Not even just other individuals around you: the culture as a whole. I’m androgynous enough that while my gender tends to fall one way for most people, it’s not unusual for me to be perceived the other, both, or neither. A lot of people seem to have difficulty with the concept that I’m showing a reduced amount of gendered traits, while some just decide they don’t care altogether, and the variety of pronouns I overhear about myself is always interesting.

So while I understand the desire for self-determinism, it makes a lot more sense to me to see a world where gender is a lot more determined by things like what language the interaction is being conducted in. And while I love that the Radch is gender abolitionist, it also raises the point that just because you got rid of that one particular way people assign social standing, doesn’t mean you haven’t found other ways to do that and be shitty about it.

I have no idea but I strongly admire your spirit of inquiry. I’ve always felt it was an odd name but was never able to fully articulate why.

Man this takes me back to highschool

Man just shove that shit in your tweed overcoat where it belongs.

Library, lol

Yes, will be picking them up from the library when my holds come in.

With that background I’m surprised it wasn’t.

:)

Ooc what do you usually consider interesting? Genuine question; trying to look at this through your eyes.

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