Quality Assurance
Least accurate? Grandma’s Boy
Most accurate? Westworld (the show)
Hear me out. West World is a qa environment to test if a robot is actually a copy of a person. Grandma’s Boy is Sandler-slop set in a world without version control.
Haha that’s me. I wasn’t at all interested in dying over and over and I only tried it to prove I was right.
But damn it’s a full spectrum experience, especially all the dirty and cheap stuff that other games are afraid to do (TWO grafted scions on the ceiling!?) makes the victories all the sweeter.
This statement is something that I dont understand
I’ll try to help fam. The hungry deserve to eat and they have the moral high ground over the ownership class that would rather that person starve and the food they stole destroyed.
Me: wow we already have that? can’t wait to be approved!
The comm:
As for paleontology, I personally think it’s just a bunch of hogwash if we go further back than around 5,000 years
Me: 🤮
Ya that’s kinda what I’m trying to get at. Like Latin, Arabic was useful and so it was used.
If such Latin erased them then arguably such Arabic equally erased them. Or maybe there was no erasure but instead pragmatism 🤷♀️
Are you saying these folks aren’t Arabs?
But why would they have Arab names instead of names from their own language?
So peculiar.
Edit: on further thought maybe we’re ready for a lemmy ask history community. This could have been a great discussion if it started with a question about Latin naming instead of an assumption of cultureal erasure.
Reminds me of this
Hear me out, it’s a Big Sword conspiracy. They wanted to be the only weapon marketed to the cross-shaped-violence demographic.
Warrior pope you say? I think I read his biography once
Private Lee Lemon may well be the finest recruit I’ve seen in all my years of service. That young man fills me with hope and some other emotions that are weird and deeply confusing to me.
Alpha male Zapp Brannigan
Meanwhile, Easter 
At least the syfy miniseries dared to adapt Children of Dune.
I actually like it. We finally get an Irulan with agency and see Alia as a full character. And Leto 2 getting sandy.
Not sure how I feel about the Baron narrating in rhyming couplets though. Maybe just a tad too strange, even for Dune.
German must have its own share of disappointing terms.
Pferd comes to mind as an example. I really expected something more metal like horzdraken or comical like hoofenstreider. But no, just a boring Roman loan word.
FWIW, Moorcock discusses often in his forewords living the hellscape of post blitz London as a preteen. I highly doubt he would ever co-sign on another nazi regime.
Haha so right. My original draft lamented how the psychedelic, pansexual, spy with a little gun Jerry Cornelius only lives on in the pale echo of Austin Powers. But then I thought it was too niche.
But ya The Final Programme was my first literary introduction to homosexuality. The weird psychotropic defense towers on the Cornelius estate may have been my first introduction to mind altering states too.
The original velvet suited dandy from swinging London (imo):
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe.
I must say this recommendation is delightfully on theme, nicely done 😎
This caught my attention
A Wizard of Earthsea is one of the most beautifully written books in the English language.
I’m a total sucker for beautiful prose, especially Gormenghast.
Do you have any memorable lines that stuck with you?
Stormbringer is Elric’s famous sword. You can hear someone shout it in GoT when Joffrey is about to name his sword. It’s evil and drinks the souls of those it kills, passing some of the energy to Elric.
Anyways. Elric is a sickly inbred albino prince of a an ancient , evil, and decaying empire (aka Fantasy Britain). Without his evil sword he is a total weakling pushover.
And people think this is a white power character/symbol? Blows my mind.
That’s way harder.
There’s always his iconic anthihero Elric, or the modern incarnation Geralt of Rivia. I like The Vanishing Tower (Elric IV I think) as a standalone in-media-res story.
I personally enjoy the really weird stuff in Blood: A Southern Fantasy.
Behold the Man won him an award and I thought it was a thought provoking novella, at least for its time.
In Turkish they* say
instead of
kinda like how we say accident instead of crash
*the folks I knew at least