If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
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@mwop that one’s such a bummer i feel like i always mentally edit it out of the series
@hannah I mean, it does a great job of wrapping up a bunch of loose ends, but it also lacks so much of his trademark whimsy and fun.
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
Politicians forgot to put lemon juice in their brain
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
DNA did write that. What do you mean? For example, the radio scripts are full of cyberpunk avant la lettre.
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@hannah I mean, it does a great job of wrapping up a bunch of loose ends, but it also lacks so much of his trademark whimsy and fun.
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@Nickiquote @hannah I have refused to read that one. I purchased it when it came out in a fit of excitement, but then the realization sunk in that it wasn't Adams... And that was a non-starter.
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah not even half an hour ago I was mentioning to a student the B Ark passage and how mathematicians, programmers and engineers are being treated just like the telephone sanitizers: if those people delegate their thinking and learning to the AI, we'll be stuck with a population who cannot maintain and develop technology
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah Sorry, what? I can't hear you under this flaming dumpster the Vogon ship dropped on me.
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@hannah with lots of Vogons.
@doctroid @hannah "I'm afraid you're going to have to accept it," said Mr. Prosser, gripping his fur hat and rolling it round the top of his head; "this data center has got to be built and it's going to be built!"
"First I've heard of it," said Arthur, "why's it got to be built?"
Mr. Prosser shook his finger at him for a bit, then stopped and put it away again.
"What do you mean, why's it got to be built?" he said. "It's a data center. You've got to build data centers." -
@Nickiquote @hannah I have refused to read that one. I purchased it when it came out in a fit of excitement, but then the realization sunk in that it wasn't Adams... And that was a non-starter.
@mwop @Nickiquote @hannah I read it after reading all the Adams ones in sequence. It is not bad, I enjoyed it.
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah I'd have made clear it's more like his infocom games than his books though...
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah Where's a Terry Pratchett cyberpunk dystopian future when you need one?
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DNA did write that. What do you mean? For example, the radio scripts are full of cyberpunk avant la lettre.
Or not even avant la lettre, come to think of it.
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@mwop @Nickiquote @hannah I read it after reading all the Adams ones in sequence. It is not bad, I enjoyed it.
@stsp @mwop @Nickiquote @hannah it's okay, but it reads more like a Hitchhiker's fanfic than an actual Hitchhiker's novel.
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah This is like that scene in Fight Club where dudes are awkwardly attempting to start fistfights with strangers.
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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more
@hannah Every morning I wake up feeling like a bowl of petunias.
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