Mal-3
Fun Tyrant
I was thinking more along the lines of Roddy Piper and Keith David's legendary fistfight in They Live, tbqh.
You Needed Opponents With Gravitas (Redux)
- Thread starter T.R.E.A.M.
- Start date
- Crossover
divabot
KILL ALL THE HUMANS
- Location
- London
- Pronouns
- They/Them
This is really good but it is starting to feel like ever other canon worm characters in actually from the Culture and that's a bit much to me.
Me too. Greg is one thing but Bakuda too? There's more but I can't remember who else. Like did Special Contact kidnap a bunch of humans a decade ago? Adopt them? Feels like too many names characters.
Edit: I love the middle name as an obvious signifier or being Asian American, and it even tells you they're Vietnamese American without giving them non English first names.
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Mal-3
Fun Tyrant
So far, three named characters from the source material are secretly Culturniks: Greg, Assault and Bakuda. I really don't get where this whole thing is coming from.
Jim Starluck
CO, ICS Vanguard
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH
Time to play Where in the World is Sarah Livesy. Do it, Rockapella!
- Pronouns
- she/her
Weld is a drone with really weird metallic-looking fields.
- Location
- Void
"Various elements that were unique to every individual served as a signal that the passenger could reach out to in an attempt at reconnecting with a host. DNA, electromagnetic patterns, patterns she could barely measure with instruments, all contributed, none was absolute. Once the connection was established, powers were possible as well. A moment of trauma sped the process along considerably."
To clear up the misconception of Shard connections being solely dependent on DNA. Still a major factor admittedly, but it's not the sole one.
Also wouldn't the Culture literally taking out Broadcast that's apart of the very much alive and active Zion Network effectively prompt a major response in retaliation? Considering that Zion is literally the Guardian of the Cycle, regardless of pseudo-depression about Eden, and another thing all Shard's are Zion the Enity Collectively. Which make it weird that they want to try to personify a Shard, but want to 'deal'(as in kill) with Zion, despite the two being capable of being synonymous.
Granted I still need to read the story in full, but that's what glaring issues I found with some discussion based around the story.
To clear up the misconception of Shard connections being solely dependent on DNA. Still a major factor admittedly, but it's not the sole one.
Also wouldn't the Culture literally taking out Broadcast that's apart of the very much alive and active Zion Network effectively prompt a major response in retaliation? Considering that Zion is literally the Guardian of the Cycle, regardless of pseudo-depression about Eden, and another thing all Shard's are Zion the Enity Collectively. Which make it weird that they want to try to personify a Shard, but want to 'deal'(as in kill) with Zion, despite the two being capable of being synonymous.
Granted I still need to read the story in full, but that's what glaring issues I found with some discussion based around the story.
- Location
- Missouri
"Sufficient, do me a favor?"
"That will depend largely on the favor, but most likely. What do you need?"
"Manifest a face for me so I can punch you in it."
- Location
- California
All discussion of shards vs entities is character perspective, largely from Minds who are going to categorize them in broad terms they're familiar with until they get a more detailed understanding by inserting into their network - and that's what the Broadcast interaction is. Less of a severing, more of "reboot this server off the USB I've just plugged into it."
Consider too that from the Culture's perspective, "the Cycle" is probably the most horrifically offensive Excession that the Entities engage in, and their ethics only have room for letting any shards survive if they're severed from it.
(Removing Zion doesn't mean killing him either - SC has no qualms killing people, but subverting or disabling is so much more useful for the future, especially if they're something unique. The total list of people we've seen killed in the text so far is only five names, after all - four if Lung's personality was extracted before he got diamondized.)
- Location
- Omniverse #1345
Scion turned off the radio as a result of being depressed, so he isn't hearing the screaming.
- Location
- Canada
Hecatonchires
Just an H-class cyborg with an octopus brain stem
- Location
- The Gong, NSW, Australia
What an odd description. Not just 3300 pounds, but specifically of sugar.
- Location
- Software
One could say that the author of that study was sure it was going to appear in the BBC, well known for their "interesting ways of measuring things"
Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Whiile I'm here, did Sufficient get any new information from looking at Eden/Cauldron shards? It seems like it's something they'd want to look into if possible.
Contact-Media Top Threads 02/25/11
- Location
- California
Well, the next chapter has ballooned like I should have expected, but here's a Proof of Life that will hopefully add to the concept at least
COMMUNITY ADJUDICATION: Chuck Farwell is a fucking Nazi! said:
AUTHORITY: The cops are framing me - Marcus North said:
WORK OPPORTUNITY: Harbor Hydroponic Gardens said:
UPHEAVAL:We took down Lung. Are we going to let Nazis hide? said:
LOCAL LIVING: Crop yields are low said:
POLITICAL:Kansas State Senator Wayne Barton has proposed a bill making Contact membership an act of treason against the United States said:
PERSONAL: I got powers. What do I do? said:
WORK OPPORTUNITY:Switzerland said:
GEOPOLITICS: Contact-San José Established said:
GEOPOLITICS: Civil War in China? said:
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
So I guess the CUI collapsed. That seems like a mess.
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- Location
- Omniverse #1345
They were basically entirely reliant on 3 parahumans. Remove them and the CUI would fall apart with certainty.
Kaernetron
Feuergeist
- Location
- Weit, Weit dort Oben
Good to see a chapter, notifications about one word replies by OP are quite scary otherwise.
Mal-3
Fun Tyrant
It's a quirk of how XenForo doesn't count stuff in quote tags towards wordcount combined with what happens when OP updates (and I think also threadmarks?) leading to stuff like this.Message: Author replied with 1 words to thread...
Two things: First, that is a little few, especially considering how many words there truly are...
Second: Well, someone did not expect this possibility
It is if nothing else a testament to how fragile it turned out
Some generalized notes:
- Nice to see deradicaliztion as the topline entry.
- Also nice to see Contact not being 100% buddy-buddy with the cops regardless of their mutual feud with the PRT. (Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more, no less.)
- "We took down Lung. Are we going to let Nazis hide?" SOON[tm]
- Of course it's some nobody yahoo from Kansas pulling a media grandstand stunt. I propose an action item that we terraform some interesting terrain into Kansas ASAP. Maybe they'd be less prone to this kind of bullshit if they had something other than wheat to look at 24/7/365.
- De-Simurghing operations in Switzerland? Oh man, I can't imagine that's not going to get the feather bitch's attention right quick. And in all honesty, the tension of waiting for the Hand of Wildbow to show up and try to ruin the party is starting to get to me.
- Location
- California
Yeah, I'd definitely rewrite along those lines if I was going to revise this.
I jotted down "Contact China POV section?" then took a look at what I felt I'd need to at least skim:
• Dengism
• The Chinese Civil War & Maoist guerrilla organization
• and then see how they'd be different in the
So that's probably not happening.
They will show up with a number of representatives at the Contact World Congress in Chapter 3.X, though.
At this point probably mostly normal, with some slight brain drain. I see Contact-Media as a more ostensibly free forum, with hundreds of open votes at any given time guiding moderation and numerous subforums with different protocols (and a couple Culture digital volunteers discretely monitoring and nudging the stuff PHO doesn't allow, like secret identity speculation).