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Realm of the Mad God
Realm of the Mad God Overview
Realm of the Mad God or RotMG is Co-op fantasy adventure MMO set in an alter universe controlled by the Mad God Oryx. Players are summoned by the evil lord to become food for his minions. Fight for survival by using various weapons and spells. Complete dozens of quests. Explore large dungeons and slay thousands of monsters. Go against the Black Spotted Den Spider, Pink Blob, Flying Brain, and the Demon Warrior of the Abyss. Battle solo or with friends killing challenging bosses like the Cube God or raging Pentaract. Wage combat in a retro arcade-style world similar to Metal Assault or classics such as Pac-Man and Space Invader. Players unlock new classes as they level up and beat their previous scores. There are 11 different classes available in RotMG.
Rouge – Uses speed to deliver heavy damage at medium range while avoiding attacks. They are equipped with the steel dagger and the Cloak of Shadows.
Archer – Notorious for their long range attacks. Archers are armed with short bows and the Magic Quiver.
Wizard – Masters of magic these warlocks zap enemies from far distances using energy staffs and powerful spells.
Priest – Are able to take out opponents at long range using their magical fire wand. Priests possess the ability to heal themselves and fellow allies.
Warrior – Warriors deal the most amount of damage to foes. They have an arsenal of swords and defensive armor.
Knight – Is the second most powerful class next to Warriors. Knights have the highest defense of any other character.
Paladin – Perfected the art of close range combat. Similar to Priests they also have the ability to heal.
Assassin – Equipped with Centipede Poison to damage enemies over time. Assassins perform best when taking out opponents within medium distances.
Necromancer – Has the ability to drain life from adversaries in order to heal or save others.
Huntress – Lays various traps and shoots arrows to defeat opposing threats.
Mystic – Fights with energy staff and uses a magical crystal ball to confine enemies to a distant plane.
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Realm of the Mad God Full Review
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Realm of the Mad God or RotMG is a browser based fantasy themed MMORPG shooter that takes place in an alternative realm. Players have been captured by the Mad God Oryx to become live food for his hordes of minions. Trapped in a world of endless dungeons it's up to each player to fight for their survival. In order to escape thousands of monsters must be killed along with their mighty leader Oryx. Fight solo or get help from friends in Co-op combat against evil chickens, gelatinous cubes, slimes, pit snakes, hobbits, and demon warriors. Loot creatures, chat, and trade valuable equipment with other players. Find a way to make it out of the treacherous dungeons without becoming lunch.
When Evil Chickens Attack, the Gameplay
This is a unique game. Instead of the flashy 3D graphics of most RPG shooters Realm of the Mad God features a pixel art design that's reminiscent of the Golden Age of video arcade games. Heroes appear as blurred Lego figures similar to popular classics like Pac-Man and Space Invaders. Summoned by the wicked tyrant Oryx players must navigate and shoot through various challenging dungeons overflowing with monsters. Users have to blast away at a gang of evil chickens in the tutorial before entering the main world. Majority of the gameplay involves completing quests and killing enemies. Tasks vary from taking out the Scorpion Queen to battling Dreadstump the Pirate King. A larger amount of XP is earned for completing quests. There's a wide assortment of foes similar to Ninerift. Each creature has a different personality and power making them difficult to conquer. Some monsters only attack in groups while others hide behind objects and hit when least expected. The variety and massive number of enemies in any given area makes the game challenging. These minions mean serious business. Monster grinding in RotMG is surprisingly fun. Whether you're solo chasing a Goblin Mage through the forest or participating with friends in Co-op combat fighting off a horde of Elf Wizards it's engaging.
Dungeon Mayhem
There are massive dungeons to explore and conquer in RotMG. At the top of the screen is the dungeon map. These maps are very basic only displaying enemies, friends, and the hero's current location. Only a small portion of the dungeon is shown. As players navigate through the terrain more of the map becomes visible letting players know what's coming a short distance ahead. Fight off thousands of monsters in the Spider Den, Sprite World, and the Pirate Cave. New dungeons can only be entered through a portal. Portals appear after a player kills a particular monster. Similar to Metal Assault heroes move through grasslands to abandoned deserts. Using designated keys on the keyboard to maneuver through dungeons can be tedious at times. It often conflicts with the fast-paced gameplay. As players are bombarded by an army of scorpions reaching to press the letter A while clicking the mouse to shoot can be exhausting.
Shoot-Out Free For All
Players are re-incarnated when they die. Similar to arcade games their stats are accumulated. A character's number of shots, accuracy, tiles seen, kills, party member level ups, base fame, and new rank achieved are added to produce a total fame earned score. Once a player dies their hero has to start back over from square one. This makes leveling up to the max rather difficult. When a player successfully kills 2,500 monsters Oryx will summon one of his three event bosses. To have an opportunity to face off with the Mad God himself players must defeat Skull Shrine, Cube God, and Pentaract first. After they've all been defeated every player with the same stats will be instantly transported to his secret lair. It requires a team to take him down. Players shoot and strategize via the in-game chat interface to synchronize attacks. Oryx uses hordes of demon warriors as a shield. Players get to have fun in an intense shoot-out free for all to gain their freedom. Massive loots are left behind for the courageous heroes able to destroy the evil lord.
Seek & Ye Shall Find
There are no item shops in RotMG. Players gather weapons, armor, potions, and clothing from looting their dead enemies. Slaughtered monsters will disappear leaving a brown sack containing a special item. Find weapons like the Poison Fang Dagger, Bow of Innocent Blood, Staff of Diabolic Secrets, Wand of Deep Sorcery, Dragonsoul sword, and the mighty Saber. Other accessories include Wolfskin Armor, Robe of the Moon Wizard, Silver Chainmail, Stingray Poison, and Cloak of the Planeswalker. Although there's a large selection of customizable items to collect looting usually generates them randomly making it hard to acquire certain accessories. Enemies often drop items meant for another class rendering them useless. Players have an option to trade among each other. The game doesn't have a set system for it though. Players have to depend on friends in chat to agree to swap items.
Final Verdict: Great
Overall Realm of the Mad God is a great game. It's a nice change from the typical Co-op shooters available online. Players get zapped back in time with the retro arcade style graphics and oldschool sound effects. Slay thousands of monsters solo or with friends. Complete quests, chat, and loot. The challenging dungeons and tough scoring system make RotMG down right addicting. Players will find themselves obsessed with their quest to defeat sinister Oryx. Blasting away hobbits, dwarfs, goblins, ghosts, and demons with pals is fun. The game has immense replay value. There's always a higher rank or score that can be achieved. Shooter fans will definitely enjoy this unique MMO experience.


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July 2nd, 2012, 04:25 PM #1
Existence by David Brin
Half a century in the future, the human race has survived several brushes with extinction. True AI has been created but - so far - has been benign and helpful. A terrible nuclear incident has taken place, but humanity has endured. As each bullet is dodged, so mankind's chances of survival to a brighter future appear to be growing...until an ancient alien artefact is recovered from Earth orbit which harbours a terrible truth about the nature of the universe.
After almost twenty years as an important and relatively prolific voice in the hard SF field, David Brin dropped out of the genre in 2001 after the publication of Kil'n People. He's remained active, penning non-fiction and the occasional short story as well as working in comics and doing consulting work, but no more novels have appeared, either stand-alone or in his Uplift universe. Now he's back with Existence, a self-contained, epic SF novel about mankind, our place in the cosmos, why we seem to be alone and where our destiny lies. Certainly if you're going to mount a comeback, there's no better way than doing so with your most ambitious work to date.
Existence revisits the Fermi Paradox, that familiar problem of how, given the sheer size and age of our galaxy, it is implausible that intelligent life has not arisen elsewhere and left visible traces of its presence. Brin's solution to the paradox is both intelligent and, initially, deeply depressing: that the minefield of threats that each race must survive to reach the starts is so extensive that very, very few make it. The novel's opening sections dwell deeply on the threats to mankind's own existence, from climate change and the threat of nuclear war to the possible 'threat' of super-advanced AI. The discovery of the alien 'guidestones' then provides a possible answer, but one which is not to our liking.
The novel unfolds on a large scale, with characters in America, in undersea habitats in the Gulf of Mexico, in floating bases above drowned Pacific island nations and in ruined mansions in Shanghai having their own part to play in the global mystery that unfolds. Our protagonists include a spoiled rich kid who races suborbital rockets for fun, a Chinese sailor who lives on the salvage he dredges out of the sea, a hotshot reporter caught up in a horrendous disaster and a self-obsessed, politically-motivated novelist who slums it as a Hollywood script writer (any similarities to the late Michael Crichton being presumably coincidental). Brin's skills with characterisation - something that set him apart from his fellow 'Killer Bs' back in the day (the Gregs Bear and Benford) - are on full display here as he develops his characters through the unexpected events that engulf them whilst keeping his thematic and philosophical musings integrated with the plot.
In fact, this is what sets Brin's novel apart from Kim Stanley Robinson's recent and equally epic portrait of the future, 2312. Where Robinson seems to have wanted to create a mood piece and then felt compelled to tack on an undercooked thriller plot, Brin keeps his plot, characters and musings all on track simultaneously, developing them all in tandem. This is helped by Brin's prose which has always been above average for hard SF, but in Existence hits new heights. His skill to move between harsh pessimism (the universe is cold and empty and we are a fluke who will soon splutter and die) and tremendous optimism (we can do whatever we want with the universe, if we try) is particularly impressive.
For a novel more than 500 pages long in hardcover, Existence has verve and pace. It's hard SF but done with a light touch and a sense of humour. It's not set in the Uplift universe but Brin drops in parallel-universe versions of some elements of that setting just for fun (those who enjoy Brin's depiction of futuristic dolphins will find some more that on display here). Some of Brin's moments of whimsy backfire - 'Awfulday' seems like an odd nickname for the anniversary of a terrorist attack - and some plot elements feel left behind when several time-jumps take place late in the novel, propelling us decades further into the future. But these are less than niggles.
Existence (****½) moves between being exuberant and fun and serious and contemplative (even maudlin). It asks big questions and proposes a variety of intelligent answers but doesn't resort to over-simplicity. It's definitely as good a comeback as we could have hoped for from Brin. The novel is available now in the UK and USA.
July 2nd, 2012, 07:13 PM #2
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I usually do not have strong negative opinions as I tend to put aside books that do not work for me, but Existence just rubbed me the wrong way almost end to end from the sf writer as guru to the cliched other (non-Western based characters) to the "couldn't get to space on rockets, will get on silicon chips" theme that is the worst kind of retro-sf stuff imho and so on, while the author's postface just put David Brin in the never ever read a word from him as it triply annoyed me.
The only redeeming quality of the book is ambition. If I ever have the time and energy i will expand on my semi-coherent Goodreads review with text examples and all...
July 2nd, 2012, 08:38 PM #3
Talk about dissenting views, wow. I've got a copy of Existence on Mount Toberead, it might be next for me, or at least my next SF novel.
July 3rd, 2012, 05:02 AM #4
I loved Existence. This is my review (originally published on my blog.
Many of my favorite novels are first contact or alien artifact stories: classics such as Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke or Gateway by Frederik Pohl and more modern books like Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds, Marrow by Robert Reed or Blindsight by Peter Watts. To them, I now have to add Existence by David Brin.
Existence is the first novel by Brin in ten years (in 2002 he published the also wonderful Kiln People). It was one of my highly anticipated books of 2012 and it has been worth the wait. In Existence you will find many of the most important themes in the science fiction of the last thirty years: virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the singularity, global warming, and, above all, the Fermi Paradox. Oh, and intelligent dolphins, of course.
The novel starts with Gerald, an astronaut whose work is collecting space junk. In a routine mission, he discovers an alien artifact that reacts to his touch and greets him. This will set in motion a lot of different events that we witness through the eyes of a pleiad of characters (some human, some not so much) with very different agendas. Each chapter is devoted to one of these points of view and some of them could work perfectly as stand-alone short stories or novelettes (in fact, it seems that some of them were previously published that way), with characters and sub-plots interesting on their own. The result is a complex tapestry and an extremely interesting story that is very difficult to put down.
One of the strongest points of Existence is the excellent worldbuilding. For instance, at the end of each chapter we find a fictional article, piece of news or extract from a book, which really help adding a solid background to the story. Also, Brin creates dozens of new words (aissistant, skutr, aixperts, virmersion...) and adds references to past events (The Big Deal, Awfulday, The Basque Chimera...). Only a few of them are explictly explained and the reader may feel at bit at lost in the first few chapters, but it really gives a feeling of a vivid and dynamical world. Brin also mentions a lot of science fiction authors (Bear, Benford, Stross, Asimov, Wells... once, he even has of one the characters saying 'Expecto simakus cliffordiam') and plays with their ideas, making Existence a book clearly in dialogue with the history and evolution of the genre.
But what really stands out in this novel is the number of scientific, philosophical and sociological ideas. The future that Brin depicts is, at once, believable, alluring and frightening. A world full of technological wonders but also on the verge of doom. Because Existence is, mainly, a book about changes. Changes in society. Changes in technology. Changes in the way we perceive and understand ourselves as human beings. The alien artifact is only but a piece of the puzzle of existence, of our present, our past and what lays ahead of us as an intelligent species living on a hostile universe.
The book is not without its flaws. The final quarter of the novel is, in my opinion, a bit weaker than the rest (although the ending is very satisfying) and parts of it feel a bit rushed. Some chapters (for example, the ones devoted to Hamish Brookeman) could have used some editing. Also, at least one of the main plot twists is quite evident (I saw it coming several chapters before one of the characters figured it out).
Despite this minor problems, Existence is, so far, my favorite science fiction book published in 2012 and one of the best of the last few years. It is full of sense of wonder, with top-notch worldbuilding and dozens of cool sfnal ideas. This is the kind of novel that I love to read and I can't recommend it highly enough.
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July 3rd, 2012, 04:33 PM #5
I took me 2 weeks to plow through 260 pages. I put it down this past weekend without finishing. I thought that my reaction to it might have been unfair, as I read sci-fi very rarely. That having been said, I'm inclined to agree with Liviu's review of it.
July 4th, 2012, 05:08 PM #6from the sf writer as guru
the "couldn't get to space on rockets, will get on silicon chips" theme that is the worst kind of retro-sf
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As for what he means, he clearly came as the author wannabe's post-writing (when his interviews and wannabe advice to presidents and such make him famous) career more than a Crichton or Scientology fun image which was much better represented by professor Noozone
As for how species travel to stars, well it's not in the flesh; now it may not be our humble silicon chips but advanced alien crystal, but it's the same idea imho and where any pretense at hard sf breaks down as human consciousness downloadability into chips (whether advanced alien crystal or silicon chips is irrelevant) is as conjectural as ftl, wormholes etc
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July 8th, 2012, 02:59 AM #8
As for what he means, he clearly came as the author wannabe's post-writing (when his interviews and wannabe advice to presidents and such make him famous) career more than a Crichton or Scientology fun image which was much better represented by professor Noozone
As for how species travel to stars, well it's not in the flesh; now it may not be our humble silicon chips but advanced alien crystal, but it's the same idea imho and where any pretense at hard sf breaks down as human consciousness downloadability into chips (whether advanced alien crystal or silicon chips is irrelevant) is as conjectural as ftl, wormholes etc
July 10th, 2012, 02:33 PM #9
I'm about halfway through this tome right now and I am enjoying it quite a bit. Some of the focal characters are more interesting to me, but that's bound to happen with a relatively wide cast.
In fact, that might be my only criticism at this point - maybe one focal character too many though I can't say at this point which one could be cut.
I seem to be reading this one a little more slowly than my normal reading pace, but I think that's working in my favor, helping me to appreciate the novel more.
I appreciated in one of the debate chapters involving Noozone, his debate opponent cut him down a bit.
July 18th, 2012, 11:36 AM #10
Here's a bit from my review:
Brin casts a fairly wide net of viewpoint characters in Existence, the first of which is where the events of the novel are set in motion - Gerald Livingstone, a space garbage collector, happens upon a strange crystal that is much more than it initially appears. When he hauls it in, he and the world come to realize it is an alien artifact that allows humanity realize it is not alone in the universe.
Part of this world-building is achieved through snippets cushioning each relatively short chapter. These snippet chapters range in content from debates about the artifact between two prominent figures, journalistic entries from Tor, and other such passages to give an authentic feel to the world. For my reading sensibilities, this structure worked well to impart authenticity and keep the pace of the novel at a nice level. The structural element that was a bit jarring was the abrupt leap in time in some sections, particularly from the first ¾ or so of the novel to the chapters that conclude the novel.
While Brin did cast a wide net and painted the story and a grand epic canvas, at times I felt a tighter focus may have led to a greater enjoyment for me. Maybe there was just one too many characters in the novel, but I honestly cant saw which character should be pulled.
September 1st, 2012, 03:23 PM #11
Finally finished reading this book yesterday. Something nagged me the whole way through, something that kept tempting me to stop reading it all together... Brin's insistence on sticking 'ai' into hundreds of words to make them mean something enhanced by ai! I seriously hope we don't start doing that in real life. Putting an 'i' or 'e' in front of words is bad enough, but sticking 'ai' in the middle somewhere is ridiculous. After a while I gave up trying to ignore it and just changed it to something better (to me) in my mind.
Other than that it was a great read! Brin shows us a miriad of ways one might explore the Galaxy along with the pros and cons of some of them.
I found the idea that probes we send out may run into other probes sent by others very intriguing. I loved the way he expanded on that idea to have the probes go into direct competition with each other.
Also was anyone else disappointed by the ending sequence with Seeker? I was really into the earlier chapters concerning the 'Lurkers'Spoiler:Seeker was just waking up and about to do something!!! The Bam, we fast forward to us reincarnating him into a body. I was really looking forward to something exciting happening!
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This charming, carved stone garden statue once adorned the lush gardens surrounding the Austrian castle Schloß Hueb Oberösterreich. It depicts a young Bacchus being fed grapes by a playful Silenus. Similar stone ornaments have been used to enhance the natural environment since the eras of ancient Greece and Rome. European castles, Italian villas, English estates and French chateaus have all beautified their gardens with outdoor sculpture for hundreds of years. Echoing the classical era through its subject matter, this statue is the quintessential ornament for any garden, and its rich history further enhances its appeal.
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Thread: What do we REALLY know?
August 22nd, 2008, 03:27 PM #1
What do we REALLY know?
Okay, we know lots of things. Or we think we do. But what do we REALLY know? Let's hear your thoughts?
August 22nd, 2008, 03:29 PM #2
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Nothing. Every piece of knowledge is provisional.
August 22nd, 2008, 07:59 PM #3
Do you really KNOW that?
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No, I REALLY believe that reality is a working hypothesis subject to further revision. I come to this conclusion from personal experience. Everything I have ever been taught is absolutely true has turned out to be absolutely true under the correct circumstances. For example, when I was taught plane geometry I interpreted it as a plain geometry and no teacher managed to discover and correct this mistake. This allowed the axioms of plane geometry to appear to me to be truth incarnate. I was not devastated but I was disappointed when I discovered that it is possible for triangle to have more than 180 degrees, just not in plane geometry.
I was taught that Newton's Law of Gravity accounted for the motions of all the planets. A year later I encountered the three-body problem.
I was taught that democracy is the finest form of government possible and at 18 years of age I encountered a coup d' etat in South Korea, teaching me very quickly that it ain't necessarily so since the putative democracy had treated the people a whole lot worse than the new dictator.
I'll spare you the details of my religious upbringing and the contradictions encountered.
I encountered S.I. Hayakawa's linguistics in the 70s and then Chomsky's in the 90s.
I read the history of Einsteinian physics and the history of quantuum physics and the history of string theory and I patiently await the next revelation.
I read Campbell's take on mythology and then discovered professors such as Elizabeth Vandiver who informed me Campbell ain't necessarily so.
Every field of 'knowledge' including and fascinatingly so philosophy has posited truth only to have that truth over-turned and a new truth posited.
Concluding that all knowledge is a working a hypothesis subject to further revision including this hyphothesis.
August 23rd, 2008, 05:17 PM #5
So let's start with the simpler things. What do you really know about your self, in the epistemological sense, not the psychological sense?
A la Wittgenstein if you will....
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Define "we."
Then, and only then, can the question be examined. As I am not you and you are not me, do we constitute the "we" in question? Whom do we include in this nebulous "we"? If "we" choose to render the plural in singular, have "we" over generalized?
In an argument that's based on semantic hair-splitting, "we" must determine the mathematical limit of the thinnest possible hair.
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For myself, I can construct three possibilities:
(1) I am the figment of another entitys imagination equipped with a body occupying space/time and a conscious continuum ranging from totally incompetent at birth to practically competent as an adult,
(2) I am a unique entity in the cosmos consisting of a body occupying space/time exhibiting a conscious continuum ranging from totally incompetent at birth to practically competent as an adult,
(3) I am a symbiote consisting of a body occupying space/time and an externally supplied conscious continuum ranging from totally incompetent at birth to practically competent as an adult.
Since I cannot prove or disprove any of the three until I can answer the question how it is I think and determine that it is, in fact, me doing the thinking then functionally, it doesnt matter which, if any, actually pertains as it does not change anything about the way I conduct my life. Psychologically, one is more satisfying than the other two.
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One of the most important things I have learned over the last few years is to question everything. It gets me into a lot of trouble. Ha. But, the, I see the people who don't, and who blindly follow without thinking about anything like this, and I'm encouraged. I don't ever want to be like them!
August 25th, 2008, 11:13 AM #10
this thread reminds me of descartes' quote "i think, therefore i am"
meaning that for example, the only thing i can be know is that i exist, because even though what i see may not be real, the fact that i AM seeing means that i'm real (apparently). but i cant be sure that anything i am seeing/hearing etc is real.
so that still really means that you cant really know anything...
just thought i'd throw that in there :P i dont know if it's completely relevent.
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August 25th, 2008, 12:57 PM #11
Totally relevant!
That's my point. Do we really know anything at all? I guess I need to qualify what 'to know' means here, so let's say it means 'To know something with certainty'.
What does it mean to be certain then?
August 25th, 2008, 02:09 PM #12
even that doesnt really help...i could have no doubt whatsoever that tomorrow the sun will rise, and yet for some bizarre unknown reason it might not (not a great example i know)
so even if you believe you know something with certainty, you might not
i hope that made sense
this is a very hard thread to answer haha
August 25th, 2008, 03:04 PM #13
We assume we understand what it means to be certain about some things....until we question what we're really saying.
Today many scientists are claiming that free will is an illusion. That we aren't making the decisions we think we're making, but that we're recognizing them as our decisions after the fact.
When it comes to knowledge, we depend so much upon words, and words often bestow meaning and certainty. Tell me what 'now' means? Is there such a thing as now? Yet we are certain when we use the word that we're talking about something real and understandable.
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No, we're certain we are saying something comprehensible which is a different world altogether from "real" and maybe from "understandable." When dealing with beliefs and certain knowledge -which is another name for beliefs - we are not concerned with what's 'real' but in provinding a communication that is comrephensible.
October 14th, 2008, 08:57 AM #15
Who dies early is longer dead!
> What do we REALLY know?
You can be dead certain that you will be dead some time in the future.


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At about 5:30 a.m. Monday, an employee of the Blue Moon Tavern, 310 N.E. Third St., arrived for work and discovered the business had been ransacked.
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Thread: What is (qualifies as) Sci-Fi ?
October 5th, 2012, 09:46 AM #46
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October 6th, 2012, 12:02 AM #47
Nothing in the scientific principle requires that the results scientists obtain by exercising it must be retroactively "plausible" to people of earlier ages. By stating that to be "science fiction" a tale must be constructed round science that is "plausible" to the folk of our age, you are creating your own definition of "science", and it is at considerable variance with the consensus definition. The Lewis Carroll character is a classic, well-known metaphor for folk who use words by will in a manner materially different from the norm; invoking it is gentle reproof, not dire insult, but frankly, have it as you will.
When trying to describe the science in much science fiction, you encounter things like positronic brains, hyperspace, cloaking devices, downloading brain patters, and various ESP abilities. None of these things exists in the realms of real science or even theoretical science. So, for science fiction, I refer to these and plausible science; meaning that they are treated as future developments of science that sound like they could happen. Vern and Wells did a lot of this and it is usually the arena that inspires scientists to expand our horizons. As I said before, because of Star Trek, warp drive has migrated form plausible to theoretical, as has the transporter. In other words, it has migrated from pure science fiction into real world science, at least on the theoretical level.
October 6th, 2012, 02:24 AM #48
This is my last try.
The genre (especially particular sub-genres) is chock full things that make real scientists cringe. The definition I gave, that you have complained about, is for what to consider as science (or sciencey enough) to separate science fiction from fantasy.
Last try: science is a generation's best understanding of the impersonal laws that regulate the cosmos, and is necessarily educible by application of the scientific principle. Nobody give a flying wahoo whether or not it makes anyone "cringe" in the way that Einstein's work made most physicists of his day cringe.
None of these things exists in the realms of real science or even theoretical science. Yeah, and . . . ? Did curved space exist in the realms of real science or even theoretical science before relativity was propounded and, eventually, deomonstrated?
The only requirement on the "science" in a science-fiction tale is that it be presented as the impersonal laws of the cosmos as found by application of the scientific principle. THE END.
What in blazes is so hard to grasp there?
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October 6th, 2012, 08:11 AM #49
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Anyway, why should SF strive to teach kids about science? If people want to learn about science they should read science fact (many of which are written in interesting ways). If you want science fiction to focus purely on the scientific aspects instead of things like character development, that's your own personal opinion, and there's plenty of "hard SF" out there, but not all science fiction has to be held by whatever laws Clarke or Asimov came up with.
To answer the question, science fiction is a story where something that vaguely resembles "science" (as opposed to explicit magical/supernatural phenomenon) is used to drive a story. It doesn't matter if the science is accurate or even theoretically possible, but ideally it should stay within its own established rules (then again fantasy should do the same).
October 6th, 2012, 09:35 AM #50
SF does not strive for anything. SF is an abstraction. What a particular SF writer strives for is his business.
I provided a link to a video with Cold As Ice by Charles Sheffield and an explanation of von Neumann machines. Sheffield uses the term quite often but he is referring to what John von Neumann called Universal Constructors. But the term has another meaning. I don not think it was John von Neumann who created the term. Other people did and gave it two different meanings.
But if you do a little research you will find that most computer science books today do not use it at all.
I have never suggested that ALL SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS use or describe good science. But it does seem that most SF discussed by so called sci-fi fans does not.It is like Gibbson's "Golden Ghetto" comment. The Liberal Arts people invaded SF and took over for the money and kicked the science out.
October 6th, 2012, 09:47 AM #51
In my personal opinion a book is SF if I say it is......and noone will convince me otherwise. All of my opinions are facts. I have a teeshirt that says so, so it must be true.
(where's a tongue in cheek smiley when you want one?)
October 6th, 2012, 10:30 AM #52
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
I once asked a PhD economist to explain how a piston engine worked. He could not do it. He did own a car. For him, his car was magic. Of course he would not admit that and would regard himself as intelligent and educated.
That is what is so absurd about today's society. Computers everywhere. People using computers to access the Internet to say science is unimportant in science fiction. Oh, the Irony!
October 6th, 2012, 04:33 PM #53
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Just because I don't think science fiction needs to have accurate science to be classified as such, it doesn't mean that I think science itself is unimportant. In fact I'm doing my masters in human genetics, so don't presume that I'm some sort of anti-science loony.
Also there's no more reason for an economist to know anything about physics, than there is for a chemist to know anything about the history of Pakistan. What you're saying is that scientific knowledge is the only form of intelligence. Do you consider that not everyone is interested in learning about the same things? How many physicists are interested in economics? How many people here do you think have any knowledge of computer programming? Not everyone chooses to be "educated" in the same subjects. Believe it or not, most people can live perfectly normal and productive lives without knowing anything about how their television works.
Like I said, if I want science I'll read a text book or a science website. I look for other qualities in fiction, such as plot, character development, explorations of humanity, and maybe even just plain ol' shallow entertainment. I don't know why someone who's apparently so intelligent can't understand that. I'm not talking about being ignorant of basic facts (like the pointless video you posted), I'm talking about not needing a science lesson in our fiction. Many "soft" SF writers have science degrees as well, but they don't feel the need to be bound by current scientific understanding in their works.
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October 6th, 2012, 05:10 PM #54
This thread is starting to go off the deep end with various conversations all on the verge of becoming heated because our opinions differ. That's the whole point, a discussion of opinions. I think we all need to take a breath, calm down, and remember that WE DON'T HAVE TO AGREE (or can agree to disagree).
October 6th, 2012, 11:11 PM #55
People talking past each other, people (including me) tilting at windmills, Psik being Psik. We seem to have this thread over and over and it always devolves. To the same base arguments. Sigh, entropy in action.
I suppose I just don't see the value in defining SF so tightly as to force out the vast majority of the SF that is enjoyed by the majority if whatever fans still remain. Keep going and we can define our genre out of existence save a few self published physicists. We have even had people on here complain about the lack of science in the works of that notorious hater of all things scientific, Alastair Reynolds. It has gone too far. Can't we all just get along? (not, of course, at speeds faster than the speed of light. That would be science fantasy)
October 7th, 2012, 12:48 AM #56
Blether.In my opinion Arthur C. Clarke came up with the perfect quote for people like you.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
That our opinions do not agree. What is so hard to grasp about that? Why must my definition and yours be the same?
We live today in an age that has extended the idea of equality and entitlement too far: into the zone of the actual.
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October 7th, 2012, 01:56 AM #57
But no one even said they read all three stories to make comparisons. Without categories then the worst and dumbest stuff that meets some definition must be included. But what good does such a definition by itself do us?
October 7th, 2012, 11:40 AM #58
That is quite enough of this conversation.
October 7th, 2012, 12:56 PM #59
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I hope that I am not making a point that has been made by many posters earlier but there do seem to be two different types of science fiction.
To illustrate one type, we can note that if you read Egan's Quarantine, you encounter an interpretation of quantum mechanics that no one has ever seriously considered but you might be drawn into trying to understand the issue of the observer in QM. If you read Watts' Blindsight, you might feel tempted to read about scientific theories of consciousness. If you read Vinge's Fire upon the Deep or Stross' Accelerando, you might look at ideas of a singularity while if you read Rainbow's End, you might become concerned about possible developments of biotechnology. Thus all of those fairly recent novels could cause a reader to use Google to look for further information or even possibly visit a library.
Another type of science fiction, for example one of Roger Zelazny's novels, might be equally enjoyable but is not so likely to cause a reader to search for information about the science mentioned (although they might look up Hindu theology).
I suspect that Psik feels that reading the first type is more likely to lead to our society having a better understanding of its technology and that this should be encouraged.
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I like to divide it into three types (a variation on Asimov's proposal) - "hard" SF, classic/adventure SF and "literary"/social SF. I'm more likely to read works from the latter two types (both for different reasons). That's not to say that all hard SF is bad, but works that have no merit apart from the science factor are not worth my (and probably several others') time. That says nothing about my opinion on science itself. I don't think you'd find too many SF fans tell you that they don't read much hard science fiction much purely because they hate science.
I don't know what's the fuss is about anyway, while the hardest of hard SF may not always get high praise from some of the more prominent professional critics, user reviews on sites such as Amazon are generally in favor of such works, and almost every SF forum seems to have people who praise works solely for the hardness factor. I've seen too many amateur reviewers dismiss entire works purely because they contained inaccurate science. Not counting the more household name authors like Card, Herbert, Asimov, etc., you're more likely to find people discussing Egan and Vinge than Zelazny and Harrison on non SF forums as well. You're also far more likely to find forums and websites dedicated to hard science fiction than forums that exclude it.
I suspect that Psik feels that reading the first type is more likely to lead to our society having a better understanding of its technology and that this should be encouraged.


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"My jaw was on the floor when I saw the export to PowerPoint functionality. Users always need to re‐purpose existing content. Exporting from PDF to Word, PowerPoint, or Excel without concerns about formatting will immediately save time."
— Bill Lunsford, database administrator and graphics manager, BBDO Atlanta
Don't just settle for pictures of slides. Use the new Save As Presentation feature to turn your PDF into a high-quality PPTX file that you can edit and update in your PowerPoint application.
When you convert your PDF to PowerPoint, your formats are saved, too — so you'll spend far less time reformatting bulleted text, tables, objects, and master layouts.
If you only need some of the information in your PDF presentation, it's fast and easy to select and export just the portion of the slide you need.
You can copy and paste select parts of your PDF file into any application file — including a new or existing PowerPoint presentation.
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wine week: intoxicating fashion
We're celebrating wine week here at tarte! If you've ever a had sip — or spilled a glass — of any of the red variations of this delicious libation you probably know two things for sure: the flavors are often complex and tantalizing, and the color is distinct and intense. To kick off the celebration, we've broken down a few of our favorite varietals by taste and color.
Pinot Noir
Aug 7th