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Sternhammer
Sternhammer @ Sternhammer @aussie.zone
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Pet peeve, games that won't let you save

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  • To be fair, Kojima games are primarily vehicles for cut-scene delivery. Gameplay is a bonus.

    • Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, National Basketball Association $US1.2m by US courts

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  • How absurd. This kind of thing could happen to anyone.

    I hope Adidas cops heaps of negative publicity over its pursuit of this hapless woman.

    • I love Sci fi but I'm very picky

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  • Sorry, formatting error. Should be clear now.

    • Foundation Shattered

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  • I’m with you. I’m enjoying the Foundation series and, in a way, the departures from the book keep me guessing. But it’s not Asimov. When it stared I wondered how they were going to handle the constantly changing key characters but it seemed they just couldn’t so we have clones, uploads and hypersleep to keep people around for the long span of the stories. That’s disappointing but I’m still enjoying the ride.

    Confession: I re-read the first three Foundation books last year but got bogged down in the fourth. The ideas are wonderful and changed science fiction with their scope but the writing is rather dated and, frankly, they are quite long-winded at times. Apologies for the sacrilege.

    • I love Sci fi but I'm very picky

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  • Have you read any Iain M Banks’ The Culture novels? Incredible writing. Most of his books have interesting twists in them, some of which will fuck you up. They are the type of books that you wish you could read again for the first time. The author died in 2013 so there are no more coming.

    • Consider Phlebas
    • The Player of Games
    • Use of Weapons
    • The State of the Art
    • Excession
    • Inversions
    • Look to Windward
    • Matter
    • Surface Detail
    • The Hydrogen Sonata

    Other SF books by Banks:

    • Against a Dark Background
    • Feersum Endjinn
    • The Algebraist

    • How some people afford to travel around the world for months without working?

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  • Indeed. I’m Australian and my partner and I did a round-the-world cruise for three months in 2018. We’re not rich, I used my long-service leave to take the time off work. It wasn’t cheap but no regrets, would do it again in a heartbeat.

    • why are words like Rape and fuck only censored with one letter being omitted?

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  • It’s sounds like Orwellian Newspeak. How double-plus-ungood.

    • Scott Morrison rejects he misled government over Robodebt

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  • It’s nice to see people not putting up with his prevarication but watching Scummo just makes my blood boil.

    • Can we stop buying these stupid things? Thanks

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  • Your post certainly struck a nerve!