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Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:50 pm
by evilsoup
because you're a fucking idiot I guess
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:51 pm
by 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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 10:54 pm
by Losonti Tokash
i can understand buying one
why did you buy five
scratch that, why is there a FIRST FIVE BOOKS
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:00 pm
by 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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:02 pm
by evilsoup
actually fucking idiot is a bit harsh
sorry rabid
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:04 pm
by Oxymoron
no problem, I'm used to it. ^^
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:05 pm
by Aaron
Well you learned your lesson, now fire them in the bin.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:10 pm
by 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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:11 pm
by RogueIce
Donate them to your local school. See what happens.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:13 pm
by 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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:14 pm
by Agent Bert Macklin
Oxymoron wrote:I'm french
Get out. /The Admiral
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:14 pm
by RogueIce
Oxymoron wrote:I'm french, the books are in english, remember ?
But I could always try something like that, yeah. *shrug*
English studies classes?
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:15 pm
by Aaron
Oxymoron wrote: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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:17 pm
by Oxymoron
Nonetheless, Aaron, books are books, and I will not commit the Mortal Sin of destroying knowledge.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:19 pm
by Phantasee
you could just get some field manuals, you'd have the same knowledge there
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:20 pm
by 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."
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:21 pm
by 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 !
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:23 pm
by Aaron
Oxymoron wrote: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.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:23 pm
by Aaron
I also said to throw it out, not burn it.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:24 pm
by adr-admin
reduce
reuse
recycle
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:25 pm
by 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
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:26 pm
by Aaron
Look some godwin this so we can move on.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:27 pm
by RogueIce
Aaron wrote:Look some godwin this so we can move on.
Close enough.
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:34 pm
by 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" ?
Re: HPCAlarity!
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:36 pm
by Oxymoron
(and man I have a sensation of déjà-vu... didn't we have the exact same discussion before ??!)