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Started by Martinus, November 05, 2011, 04:38:01 PM

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Razgovory

#15
November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Martinus

#16
November 05, 2011, 05:44:26 PM
It got Maria Konopnicka on second guess.  :huh:

Martinus

#17
November 05, 2011, 05:45:32 PM
It got the guy who became the first Polish gay MP three weeks ago in about 8 questions or so. WTF. This thing has huge database.  :lol:

Ed Anger

#18
November 05, 2011, 05:46:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Razgovory

#19
November 05, 2011, 05:52:26 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 05, 2011, 05:46:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.

Actually, that's what I found most interesting.  I had more sympathy for homosexuals after reading that book, where the guy comes back to earth and find out he's only straight person on a planet of gays.  They call him "the old queer", and I found the effect interesting.  I think it gave me better understanding of the alienation that real gays (not Marty), must feel.  The parts where he keeps coming back to a stranger and stranger Earth was in my opinion the highlight of the book.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

#20
November 05, 2011, 05:56:30 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:52:26 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on November 05, 2011, 05:46:36 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Too bad Earth turned into faggotland.

Actually, that's what I found most interesting.  I had more sympathy for homosexuals after reading that book, where the guy comes back to earth and find out he's only straight person on a planet of gays.  They call him "the old queer", and I found the effect interesting.  I think it gave me better understanding of the alienation that real gays (not Marty), must feel.  The parts where he keeps coming back to a stranger and stranger Earth was in my opinion the highlight of the book.

Yes. But for trolling purposes, I say let the Taurians blow up FaggotEarth.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Scipio

#21
November 05, 2011, 05:59:53 PM
Beat him with Richard Hannay.  First try.  Not hard.
What I speak out of my mouth is the truth.  It burns like fire.
-Jose Canseco

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Syt

#22
November 05, 2011, 06:02:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Both books were written at different points in time.

Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.

Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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Razgovory

#23
November 05, 2011, 06:21:04 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 06:02:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Both books were written at different points in time.

Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.

Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.

Also by to different guys.  There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII.  Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that.  Halderman was an combat engineer in a war and Heinlein was a peace time naval officer.  Heinlein was always a saber rattler as well, often depicting nuclear war as fairly minor and worth it to irradiate the Soviet Union.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

PDH

#24
November 05, 2011, 06:41:41 PM
pfft, it couldn't get Henry of Lausanne.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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Maximus

#25
November 05, 2011, 07:39:52 PM
Quote from: Martinus on November 05, 2011, 05:45:32 PM
It got the guy who became the first Polish gay MP three weeks ago in about 8 questions or so. WTF. This thing has huge database.  :lol:
It looks like it does learn. If you beat it you can enter your character into the database.

The Brain

#26
November 05, 2011, 07:43:30 PM
It's black magic it is.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ideologue

#27
November 05, 2011, 07:49:42 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 06:21:04 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 06:02:25 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 05, 2011, 05:42:26 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 05, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
Defeated him with William Mandella from Forever War.

I liked that book.  Much better then the book it was criticizing, Starship Troopers.

Both books were written at different points in time.

Starship Troopers came in the afterglow of WW2 and its "golden generation" of celebrated veterans.

Forever War came after Vietnam and the associated disillusion with war.

Also by to different guys.  There were more then a few cynical veterans of WWII.  Novels like Catch 22 and The Naked and the Dead attest to that.  Halderman was an combat engineer in a war and Heinlein was a peace time naval officer.  Heinlein was always a saber rattler as well, often depicting nuclear war as fairly minor and worth it to irradiate the Soviet Union.
Well, in the 1950s he was right.
Kinemalogue
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grumbler

#28
November 05, 2011, 08:18:02 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on November 05, 2011, 07:49:42 PM
Well, in the 1950s he was right.
I read about that.  It was on June 14th, 1953 at 2:23pm, right?
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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Maximus

#29
November 05, 2011, 08:19:38 PM
:)
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