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October Book Club Voting (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Spluk42@sh.itjust.works to c/printsf@lemmy.ca
 

Hey everybody! Sorry I missed last weekend was busy with work. Again this is voting for the book to discuss at the end of October. I'll post the runner up from last month and otherwise post your selection. Don't forget that we will be discussing Winter World by A.G. Riddle at the end of the month / next weekend!

Looks like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" wins by default! Since engagement is dropping off here I might defer to the !sciencefiction@lemmy.world book club.

 

Game Thread for today. Let's go Lions!

Lions 0 - 0 Seahawks

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Game Thread - KC vs Det (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Spluk42@sh.itjust.works to c/detroitlions@sh.itjust.works
 

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Lions 21 - 20 Chiefs

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Wake Up! It's Game Day! (cdn.vox-cdn.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Spluk42@sh.itjust.works to c/detroitlions@sh.itjust.works
 

It's finally here. Woo! We should get a game thread going later. How's everyone going to watch the game? Double checked last night the antenna is getting NBC just fine.

 

First discussion thread for the book club. This is for August's book Player of Games by Iain Banks.

Upcoming events: September ~15th: Voting for October's book September 30th: Discussion Thread on Winter World by A.G. Riddle

 

Team needs to be down to 53 by Tuesday.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Surprisingly I think TV/Movies got this more right because of the want to show the actors. If you had a sci-fi movie or show it was probably in there. 2001 A Space Odyssey and Star Trek both in the sixties had an, albeit clunkier, face time or zoom. I think with novels with less of a need to show who was talking radio and messages were more common.

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Books missing something (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Spluk42@sh.itjust.works to c/printsf@lemmy.ca
 

What sci-fi books are missing something that seems obvious to us today (and is somewhat central to the story / setting)?

My first thought was Dune with the ban on thinking machines. If you asked just about anyone today they would say the far future would involve computers everywhere. But Frank Herbert wrote Dune in 1965 when computers were huge, specialized machines and we hadn't even landed on the moon yet. And he saw a future where not only computers became ubiquitous but we're then rejected.

So what books jump out as missing something that we would find inconceivable today?

 

Lions have the nationally televised 1pm est game today. Why is there only 1 one o'clock game and tons of evening games? Don't know, don't care. Because the Lions play at 1!

Who's everyone excited to see do their thing today. Personally I want to see how the rookie WRs are today. It's looking like we're gonna need at least one of them at the start of the season. So can Drummond, Cota, or Green make a case it should be them? Defensively I got nothing, maybe the DB depth?

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Did some Googling and found this article: homebrew academy

Reading it it might make sense to kill off the yeast before trying to boil off the alcohol. Maybe use a still so all of the water vapor is captured and flavor retained?

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not too late to start the drinking game. Soooo good.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Seconding that that'd be fun. I'd also be down if we wanted to try and put together a race season depending on the number of people, time, and program (ACC, Automobilista 2, etc.)

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As of the other day the series was on sale at GOG. ~$30 for 0 though 6.

New to the series and started with 0 and been enjoying it.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Haven't played but from another thread I saw about that game awhile ago was to try and play co-op to start. Was told it can be very difficult initially playing solo.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

World of Tanks is similar too. A little faster paced perhaps but doing the right thing in the right place is a 1000% more important than reflexes imo. Never played in clans and it might be different at that level.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

What about automobilista 2?

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Stonemeier always has excellent production values.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've had a similar issue trying to get to !printsf@lemmy.ml in jerboa. Haven't tried online.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I didn't do the whole game in one sitting but I was glued to my chair for hours when I started Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Remember looking at them time on my phone and going, "huh, it's after midnight". Then again later and finding out it was the beginning of daylight savings time. Went to sleep, woke back up, and played all day again. Fantastic game.

[–] Spluk42@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

That's a good point. EGG is basically guaranteed to have it available for the foreseeable future.

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