Is there a possibility for electricity to go through a computer screen?
The AI must have sent something tiny enough, like electrons or something conductive, into the computer screen. Before sending in the conductors, it made tiny holes through the screen. The AI temporarily implanted very tiny...
@JDługosz I think I've finished the question I don't necessarily need any feedback I just don't think it will be a good fit for the site and want to sleep on the whole issue. It has been my impression that the Sandbox is for questions one feels still need work. Is that wrong, can I just park unfinished material there too?
@JourneymanGeek Not sure it constitutes a Sandbox question, I'm still a little unclear on the role of the Sandbox.
I enjoyed it. There was a bunch of cool sciency things, and luckily I didn't read the back of the book so I didn't really know what was going on for most of it
@DaaaahWhoosh I've read Hyperion, but it was a very long time ago. It felt very disjointed, and now I'm curious if it's like I remember. I read the first harry potter book, so now I'll try the others
@AndyD273 I thought the first book was great because the Shrike didn't really factor in all that much. The second book did start getting inconsistent though
or, at least, it got weird. I felt like it ended strangely.
@DaaaahWhoosh The Shrike was the only thing that tied those stories together even a little. You got the anthropologist that come to study the people who worship the Shrike and have the crosses implanted under their skin that rebirth them. You got the guy that gets seduced by the Shrike pretending to be a woman... It was never the same from story to story... It really started strangely too. I'm curious if 15 year older me will make any more sense of it.
@AndyD273 yeah, I mean, the Shrike stuff was confusing, but what I mean was that that's not the part I focused on. In the first book at least, I was more interested in the worldbuilding, and how each character had a different perspective on the world
the soldier, the detective, the diplomat, the artist, the priest. They all saw different parts of the world, which made it feel so much more alive
@DaaaahWhoosh I'll give you my thoughts as I read them. The first book was interesting. I don't mind reading YA as long as it's well written, so I won't hold that against it. I think it started pretty strong, introducing the characters. Some bits were a little silly, but not enough to really bother me. Over all it held up enough for me to check out the others
@AndyD273 I think it definitely gets better as time goes on. I was looking through the first one for an answer on SFF, and was surprised how bad the writing seemed to be
(the question was "why didn't Ron make Harry the king" and my answer was "because he never intended to actually finish the game")
Yeah. It wasn't the greatest thing I've read. It wasn't terrible. Maybe listening to it helped somewhat.
The thing that turns me off of a book the fastest is foreshadowing. I don't mind spoilers all that much, but foreshadowing when I can predict what is going to happen and know I won't like it is hard sometimes
I don't know why it is. I'd almost rather have someone spoil the whole plot than drop some ominous single line of dark foreboding. Mostly I think it's because foreshadowing is usually about something bad happening, while spoilers are more general
Heh. I think the only spoiler I've caught over the years is the "Snape kills Dumbledor" one, but by and large I've avoided most of them just by not knowing (or really caring) who the characters were up till reading the first book. So we'll see
I will say that spoiler did shape my view of Snape in the first book, of course thinking he was the bad guy, but I think that's what you're supposed to think anyway, so it probably didn't change things much
yeah, I actually remember exactly where I was when I read that part. For some reason I was in a bank.
I was probably like 10 years old at the time, I think my dad was doing bank stuff and I was reading to keep myself busy, but then I got to that part and it blew my mind
Hmm... I’ve got a question in the sandbox that I genuinely can’t decide whether to post or not, as it’s either really stupid or painfully difficult, and I can’t work out which...
If anyone has any thoughts i’d Love to hear ‘em (the question about living on a god)...
We live on the body of a god. How does gravity act?
We live on the skin of a cosmic being, fleas being transported through eternity. The being (variously called The One, Allfather, The Lord of Days and Barry) is a gigantic human, mysteriously held against it's own gravitational pull by what we c...
@DaaaahWhoosh Thinking of making it more obvious that interesting points and general reasoning around the concept are acceptable answers. Reckon that will make it too broad or more appropriate?
@DaaaahWhoosh Fair. General reasoning leads to interesting points, I suppose. I’ve got to admit I’ve done an inordinate amount of wondering about whether or not you there’d be a lagrangian point below the.. erm.. gusset...
@dot_Sp0T : I generally say things like that in sandbox if I’m stuck on how to ask a question in a way that will get meaningful answers or I’m worried it’s too broad for general acceptance (given that it’s mostly subjective), but may be interesting in a slightly pared down format.
@JoeBloggs well it's alright in the sandbox. The sandbox is a testing ground for potential questions. But people posting questions and even writing in the question body that they do not expect the question to stay open. What's the intention behind that?
@DaaaahWhoosh I am not sure what disturbs me more: The fact that her parents carried her to the toilet and made her pee while she is asleep, or the fact that they couldn't themselves think of just making her take over and walk to the toilet instead of being carried...
I still do wonder what Daenrys would be thinking if she got picked up and plopped into the modern world (probably out in the countryside somewhere, tho -- not going to completely blow her mind from jump ;)
Does anyone have an idea for an app that would be really useful for world builders? I’m thinking of creating an iPad app that allows users to upload a map and plot points on the map, at different points on the timeline. This seems quite obvious to me, but are there other ways of thinking about co...
on a different note...going back to the counteroffer from a few days ago, which of the Westerosian nobles do you think'd be most receptive, and which the least?
@Shalvenay Hmm... That's... A good one... A Meister would be pretty receptive, so I suppose Sam counts for that one. Although Euron Greyjoy would probably be up for it. Least might be Theon. I think he's done with adventuring
@Shalvenay It depends on how it's phrased and when it occurs really... At the right moment (when he's told no-one cares about him kind of thing) he'd probably be receptive, but right now, he just wants his sister back and (I think) to sort his own life out, but he's not a nasty person, so probably just a 'not interested' unless pushed. I'm really guessing now though
@Mithrandir24601 yeah, "not interested" wouldn't bother the lass in question much. I'm curious as to who'd be most inclined to get angry/nasty about such though
between "Don't pick a fight with someone who buys their thermonuclear warheads by the production lot" and "I don't duel." -- I think both Cersei and her champion of choice would be in a heap of trouble -- her best fate would be her waking up next to the Mountain in someone's tender ministrations, wondering what the heck happened to them both
her worst? my character coming home with some green, glassy trophies
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