Beyond Alpha Centauri:::::::Discussion Thread 7

[GeneralTacticus]

Ah, I see.

[Frankychan]

Go Kass-kick some a**!

Anyways, for BAC stuff, I'm working on a new post dealing with the Drone's as well as the Spartans. Since Sovereign (hiya doin?) is out for a coupla weeks, I can't touch up on UCS-GHE relations.

Also working on a "Nemesis II" post concerning the Drone's and Gaians. I'm also thinking about a long-post idea dealing with a Hive propaganda-ist and the rest of the factions. Would be pretty big tho...Mr. Prez gave me some feedback. If you guys can, tell me what you think.

("Nemesis" would be pretty gory, like borderline-cannot-post gory.)

[Kassiopeia]

Suspension of Disbelief. I think.

Right on. Anyways, I won't worry myself too much with realism. I will play with two major alternate realities ( ) added with a constant flashback dimension, which will already consume most effort. Besides, this won't be a story about Finand, science, the Enigmas or Armageddon... but a story about the human mind, the main characters and religion.

("Nemesis" would be pretty gory, like borderline-cannot-post gory.)

I wonder if it's cultural or just my inner twistedness, but I didn't consider Nemesis gory by a mile. It was human, but in no way extensively violent.

*scampers off to write Greg and Filkins *

[Kassiopeia]

http://halcyon155.friendtest.com/

[Mr. President]

I got 77%, which surprised me since we've never been within 7,000 miles of each other.

Edit: I hope no-one noticed that my new American flag only has 48 stars on it. But it looks so neat . . .

[GeneralTacticus]

81%, apparently.

[Frankychan]

Kass-Mwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!!

83% Baby!!! Raise the roof, raise the roof!

Sprayber-That map looks kinda familiar...*shifty eyes* Have I seen it somewhere before?

[Kassiopeia]

I find the fact that you are getting almost better scores then my girlfriend very disturbing.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Frankychan
Kass-Mwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!!

83% Baby!!! Raise the roof, raise the roof!

Sprayber-That map looks kinda familiar...*shifty eyes* Have I seen it somewhere before?

Considering it was generated by the program with some modification by me. Have you been inside my head again? I told you once that the other voices dont like that.


The program is Fractural Terrains. I downloaded the demo

[Kassiopeia]

Rok! New post. Since HG remains absent, I shall carry on indefinitely with my G & F storyline. I've already got some twisted ideas, I think I could use this as a testing ground for my novel.

[Kassiopeia]

Hm. For some reason I felt good writing that. And reading it, I actually like it. I rarely like my stuff immediately after writing it. Guess I should be off to bed then.

And yes, she's the gal in my avatar. She's a blatant ripoff from Neon Genesis Evangelion, all the way to the name... but considering we've had Final Fantasy X, Battlezone and whatnot involved, I hardly think it's against the universe and environment of the fic.

[Mr. President]

I haven't (consciously) plagiarized anything yet, mostly because I haven't read or seen anything worth plagiarizing recently. The last good movie I saw was X-Men and the last decent science fiction I read was I, Robot.

But wait, I hear you saying. Didn't you read that book more than five years ago?

Yes, I reply. It just goes to show what a sorry state commercial science fiction is in. We used to get Dune and The Caves of Steel. Now we get Hyperion and Prelude to Foundation.

[Mr. President]

A quick search suggests that History Guy is hooked on Civilization III.

[GeneralTacticus]

I find the fact that you are getting almost better scores then my girlfriend very disturbing.

[Kassiopeia]

Oh well. I've known you guys almost half the time longer then her (12 months / 8 months) , so I guess it's self explanatory. But it's still disturbing.

A quick search suggests that History Guy is hooked on Civilization III.

Poor man has lost his soul...

http://www.viax.cl/index_interruptor_1.htm - Anyone speak Spanish here? My basic Latin isn't enough it seems.

Now we get Hyperion and Prelude to Foundation.

The additional Foundation books were rather... sucky, I agree. Haven't read Hyperion yet, though you are the first one to have a negative opinion on it.
I haven't read new scifi for years now, the last one I read was Timeline by Crichton. I've concentrated on catching up with the classics, like Orwell, Dick, Clarke...

Have any of you read Jeff Long? I've heard of two of his books, interesting stuff.