HPCAlarity!

[evilsoup]

because you're a fucking idiot I guess

[Oxymoron]

a likely possibility

I didn't know at the time, and was suckered by the promise of the concept


plus I had never read any kind of alt-hist story before



fact : I discovered SDN with TSW, and I liked Armaggeddon when I read it.

[Losonti Tokash]

i can understand buying one

why did you buy five

scratch that, why is there a FIRST FIVE BOOKS

[Oxymoron]

indeed, that's what happened


I figured I'd read them all anyway, so to save on delivery costs I bought them all at once.

[evilsoup]

actually fucking idiot is a bit harsh
sorry rabid

[Oxymoron]

no problem, I'm used to it. ^^

[Aaron]

Well you learned your lesson, now fire them in the bin.

[Oxymoron]

Burning books is against my ethics

plus I like to keep them, as some kind of remainder

of what I'm not sure though


Though if someone here wanted to read the books I'd be okay with mailing the package to them.

[RogueIce]

Donate them to your local school. See what happens.

[Oxymoron]

I'm french, the books are in english, remember ?


But I could always try something like that, yeah. It's true I live in a big academic city.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I'm french

Get out. /The Admiral

[RogueIce]

I'm french, the books are in english, remember ?


But I could always try something like that, yeah. *shrug*

English studies classes?

[Aaron]

Burning books is against my ethics

plus I like to keep them, as some kind of remainder

of what I'm not sure though


Though if someone here wanted to read the books I'd be okay with mailing the package to them.

Those are not books, they are a sin against literature.

[Oxymoron]

Nonetheless, Aaron, books are books, and I will not commit the Mortal Sin of destroying knowledge.

[Phantasee]

you could just get some field manuals, you'd have the same knowledge there

[Gands]

I read four of them when TimothyC was distributing all of them via .txt files.

I wasn't good at picking good from bad writing, but by the end of Crusade I was like "fuck this."

[Oxymoron]

but but

if I burn a book because I do not agree with its message

or even if simply by considering it "bad"

I'll be no better than them !

[Aaron]

Nonetheless, Aaron, books are books, and I will not commit the Mortal Sin of destroying knowledge.

This isn't a farming manual or how to fix a car. Its fucking fan fiction.

[Aaron]

I also said to throw it out, not burn it.

[adr-admin]

reduce

reuse

recycle

[evilsoup]

I agree with you oxy
I know slippery slope is a fallacy, but I would feel deeply uncomfortable burning any books ever
even when it is 100% shit

[Aaron]

Look some godwin this so we can move on.

[RogueIce]

Look some godwin this so we can move on.

Close enough.

[Oxymoron]

let us never speak of this again

or not

feel free to throw that back to me anytime it would seem appropriate




so, anyway, there's a question I've been asking myself for a while... what's HPCA's stance on transexuality ?

I mean, I'm pretty sure they see any kind of transexual as weirdos, but do they see them as "weirdos to kill/maim/burn", or just "weirdos to ignore/look down upon" ?

[Oxymoron]

(and man I have a sensation of déjà-vu... didn't we have the exact same discussion before ??!)