Took a short break from #TheCultureSeries to read #Graeber 's #PirateEnlightenment.
It's about figuring out the truth behind the Pirate Utopia myths of Madagascar, as well as the confused Europeans and con artists that spread them.

"Thesis, Antithesis, Dialysis."

I am HOWLING.

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Update:
HOLY
FUCKING
SHIT!

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Ok, yeah, that is pretty traumatic. Amazed he decided to live hundreds of years after that.

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Holy fucking shit.

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I recently started Use of Weapons and have no idea what's going on, but I like whatever that thing is.

Like that one dude's "story time" thing was awesome.
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#considerphlebas 's ending had me pondering what I thought about Horza's Bizarre Adventure, whereas The Player of Games (PoG!) had me hooting and cheering at the final ending.

BTW, if you listen to the audiobook, the narrator makes sure the characters all have distinct voices so that last bit? *chef kiss*

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Almost done with The Player of Games.

Holy fuck, this ending.
Like, wow.

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Looking at an empty patch of sky and imagining a General Systems Vehicle rubbing against temhe atmosphere. Drones pouring out and displaced.
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#iainmbanks

When told a about the secret police:

“… But how can you have a secret policeman? I thought one of the points of having a uniform for the police was so that they could be easily identified and act as a deterrent.”

Class act!

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So The Player of Games is about a particularly weird member of #TheCulture: a cishet dude.

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So I finished #considerphlebas over a week ago, and I finally looked up what others thought about it. It really seems a lot of folks were way more confused about it than I was, but I got some good insights. Like it's either a black comedy, a tragedy, andor a satire of space operas.

The more confused takes couldn't understand that the protagonist can be a walking disaster that sides with the baddies most of the story.

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#considerphlebas is basically a comedy of errors, only it's taken extremely seriously by everyone involved.

Horza could at any moment (except very early on), just choose to abandon his crusade against #TheCulture and AI in general, but he'd rather ally with a genocidal bucket of religious murdernuts. Folks around him die absurd deaths due to very specific decisions he makes. He trips over analogy after analogy and ignores them.

It's great.

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#considerphlebas is basically a comedy of errors, only it's taken extremely seriously by everyone involved.

Horza could at any moment (except very early on), just choose to abandon his crusade against #TheCulture and AI in general, but he'd rather ally with a genocidal bucket of religious murdernuts. Folks around him die absurd deaths due to very specific decisions he makes. He trips over analogy after analogy and ignores them.

It's great.

#TheCultureSeries #iainmbanks

I like how #TheCulture spends vast resources to essentially prank a single man.
Like, it's a beautiful tactic, but it's like ship are laughing as they pull it off.

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I like how #TheCulture spends vast resources to essentially prank a single man.
Like, it's a beautiful tactic, but it's like ship are laughing as they pull it off.

#considerphlebas #TheCultureSeries

Horza: Yeah, these unhinged cannibals are totally like how The Culture sees religious folks, but here's why my support of expansionist Space Racists in opposition to the generally chill freedom lovers is totally different. What are analogies?
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Horza: Yeah, these unhinged cannibals are totally like how The Culture sees religious folks, but here's why my support of expansionist Space Racists in opposition to the generally chill freedom lovers is totally different. What are analogies?
#considerphlebas #theculture #TheCultureSeries

So enemies of #TheCulture include: weird anti machine fanatics, space racists on an eternal expansionist Holy war, and Actual Cannibals.

Good company, eh?
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So enemies of #TheCulture include: weird anti machine fanatics, space racists on an eternal expansionist Holy war, and Actual Cannibals.

Good company, eh?
#considerphlebas #TheCultureSeries