>based Canadian sci-fi novel written by the Michael Crichton of modern times >being turned into a show by South African grit master with nothing but kino under his beltHow friggen hyped are you?
>>223879693>Neill Blomkamp>nothing but kino under his beltlol, lmao even
>>223879693>based CanadianAhahahaha. Into the death pod you go.
>>223879751Name one (1) bad movie of his - and don’t post some short film from YouTube, like an actual movie.
>>223879781Elysium ChappieDemonic(?-haven't seen)
>>223879813All kino, btw.
>>223879781This is pretty badhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wbtt2JxP7g
>>223879864>short film on YouTube Learn to read, tardo.
>>223879693HOMO VAMPIRIS
>>223879877Sorry Neil, your time is over :^)
>>223879781>Name one (1) bad movie of hisliterally name one good movie of his. This is a terrible choice. It should've been Garland or Lindelof
>>223879781ElysiumChappieDemonicGran AutismoThe only good thing he ever made was District 9.
>>223879896Lindelof isn’t a director, tardo.
>>223879891Wonder if this will be worked into the film.https://youtu.be/wEOUaJW05bU
>>223879914i meant as a showrunner
Watts is for edgy 15 year olds who want to believe there's a logical reason why they're unhappy and hate everyone (the real reason is they have autism).
>>223879982Peter Watts is good enough, he’s got TV writing experience. His book’s already like a movie.
All the people I loathe have a hard on for Blindsight.
>>223880101All the people you loathe read books, what a shocker.
>MC's girlfriend screaming in pain>MC just ignores her
>>223879948I wonder how they will handle the whole 'people with multiple personality disorder are actually several people who all deserve legal personhood'. It's an interesting idea in text to show how modern psychology will be viewed as barbaric in the future but that will NOT fly well on the screen.
>>223880220Well they’ll have plenty of time to delve into it since it’s a show format. They could do one episode for each character and they can delve into that topic for that one character with the cybernetically split brain so she’s got four people in her mind technically. I think her name was Susan James.
Blomkamp spells "dead in the water." Watts has been on about this collaboration for years. It's coming out right after Blomkamp's Aliens sequel.I would like more Sunflower Cycle, and his latest short story is so outside of anything else in sci-fi that its only due to diversity and inclusion that they're not throwing Hugos and Nebulas at him. Its about a Neuralink world where people play MMOs through their connected brains, but the bandwidth is throttled to keep the individual consciousnesses individual. The throttle is released for only 20 seconds then quickly reengaged, but in that brief window, a super entity emerged and began filing seemingly unstoppable legal actions while sowing memes into society to make sure people are plugged back in and it becomes reconstituted. "The 21 Second God" or something.
>>223879693>based Canadian>woke, far left author Does not compute
>>223879693This idiot definitely believed the mass graves hoax and probably burned down a few churches to "Decolonize" Canada!
>>223880417The 21 seconds God is actually set in the same universe as Blindsight
>>223880417The 21 Second God’s been a short story you can read for a while.https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-twenty-one-second-god/Colonel Jim Moore (father of Siri Keeton) is a part of this short story so the 21SG is technically part of the Firefall series so we will probably see something alluding to it in the show. There’s also some hints that the Sunflowers universe is still part of the Firefall universe just in the distant future.Personally I’m excited for the short story lore to get melded into the show as well, because outside of the spaceship Theseus the cyberpunk dystopia on Earth is also just as interesting in the lore. There’s sequel Echopraxia definitely gets into it more. There’s all sorts of hiveminds and zombie soldiers battling it out on the planet - some lead by swarms of real brains and others lead by AIs but no one knows what their motives are because their thinking power is so beyond humanity’s. My theory is that the 21SG is related to the aliens and not part of the corporate/hivemind/AI sphere of influence. It was the aliens hacking our brains for 21 seconds and scoping us out or even planting a timebomb in our psyches.
>>223879693>Omg the Catholic Church is a terrorist organization under Canadian law or something... I'm 2athiest4uBro! This guy definitely reddits.
>>223880417>NeuralinkOnly redditards would think a breakthrough technology that lets blind people see and quadriplegics move and communicate is somehow dystopian. Reddit actually wants the tech to fail simply because it's headed by Elon. This essentially proves the commonly held belief that if Trump somehow cured cancer, libs would find a reason to undermine, delegitimize, or otherwise protest the cure.
>>223880751Settle down schizo.
>>223879693I love Blindisight and I think Watts is a good sci-fi writer,despite having dogshit prose, he has cool ideas and nice woorldbuilding, but holy shit he's fucking insufferable irlI'm from a bumfcuk eastern yuro shithole, and he was on a tour here in some bookstore, promoting a new book or whatever a year or two ago and remember watching one of those shitty morning TV interviews with him, where he talked like 2 minutes about his actual writing and started sperging about Trump for the next 8. In a fucking eastern european bookstore while himself being Canadian? Who gives a fuck about Trump?Anyway, I can ignore someone being retarded or "woke" if their art is good and thats usually not an issue for his books, but I can't expect him to run a fucking modern show and not being obnoxiously political with it. Especially together with fucking Neil "POOR PEOPLE GOOD" Blokamwhatever
>>223879693>>based CanadianStopped reading thereGet RAKED
>>223881087Sucks to be a right wing retard, ig.
>>223880751>turning people into puppets whose every thought and sensory experience can be remotely controlled by corporate interests isn't dystopian because... it just isn't, okay?
>>223879781The only good movie he’s made is District 9.
>>223881197>The only good movie he’s made is-https://youtu.be/UOlaEZg1hlc
>>223879693>South African grit master with nothing but kino under his belt>Blomkamplmao no, he's one trick pony one hit wonder, anything else he has done was panned shit. The only good thing is that he's a retard leftie who makes movies against the right but ends being blackpilled content as District 9 or Elyseum. He's just a retard.
wow
>>223879693the potential is astronomical, but so many things could go wrong. poor funding, wrong studio, mismatched producers, bad casting. i decline to hype anything this early in the process.
>>223879896>It should've been leftist or leftist Pass
What was their problem?
very curious to see how blomkamp makes vampires into dindu nuffins
Blindsight is creepy. The idea that consciousness is an aberration is disturbing.
>>223884745They’re giant super-intelligent white blood cells that aren’t self aware and converse by ripping each other apart
>>223880578It's funny because the Canadian government lets in actual Indian and Sikh terrorists all the time.
>>223879693>muh simulation theory>the Catholic Church are heckin' terrorists and hate the epic science>my stories are like heckin' sperm No idea who this guy is but I guarantee he's a total faggot.
>>223885066It’s actually about alien life being indiscernible.
>>223880575Always trust a dude who read Blindsight. Have you read Echopraxia too by any chance? Valerie is so cute.
Watt's might generously be said to have have half the IQ of Crichton, Blindsight is massively overrated and Watts can't write characters to save his life.
>>223880575My bad >>223885164. Read the second part of your post now. You clearly did. Echopraxia would be an amazing tv show. Its so packed with nonstop action.
>>223884985It makes sense. And Watts, despite not being his OG idea, was extremely vindicated by the ascent of LLMs
>>223884985It's also bullshit.Ants can perform incredible feats of pseudo architecture and agriculture because they take hundreds of millions of years of trial and error to brute force itConsciousness is a massively advantageous cheat code because it lets you plan out scenarios that won't work without having to die and then wait for another human to gestate and grow up and get in the same situation and die and continue this until somebody fixes it by mistake
>>223885214Of course he’s right. Artificial intelligence will become more and more sophisticated in personality without being self aware. It might see self awareness as a quaint and addictive commodity. They may understand it a lot better.
>>223885214>>223885238an AI will never do something new so you'll end up with the fancy version of Shao Kahn instantly input reading and countering any move except he's really, really bad at letting you just jump kick him over and over until he dies
>>223879693In 2026, passages from Talmud are definitely far worse. Catholic Church collaborates with regimes to help them oppress people, but who the fuk is more powerful than CIA/MI6 bending to the goals and will of Mossad?
>>223885290>Catholic Church collaborates with regimes to help them oppress peopleName one. And no, banning faggot pride parades doesn't count.
>>223880578It actually gave me an existential sigh of relief after reading Blindsight and Echopraxia to learn that the guy was just a faggot redditor and his opinions could be safely discardedhttps://www.reddit.com/user/The-Squidnapper/It also helps to read his blog where he gameplans how Canadian guerillas will butcher Americans during the climate wars
>>223885214she legitimately must be so annoying to live with when she's always 'on,' to make tiktok slop to try to become relevant.
>>223885164imagine what a good wife Valerie would make assuming she's constantly doing the math and determined that you are a 51% useful pet
>>223885321Leafs acting like a bunch of elbows up boomers and Tim Horton's jeets could somehow Viet Cong the American military is some of the funniest cope ever.
>>223885351How’s the Iran war going?
>>223885385The Ayatollah is dead, Iran is facing 80% inflation, Iran has exported zero oil in half a year, tens of thousands of Iranians are dead and 23 Americans are dead
>>223885333She explicitly states she doesn't like keeping retarded pets
>>223885385Terrible, but Iran is protected by seas and mountains. The Canadian mililitary is also ten times smaller than Iran's and is lead ny some DEI woman who cries about white privilege and put tampons in the men's restrooms. America could easily steamroll Canada, assuming Canada doesn't burn down more of its own bases first.
>>223885397So the strait of hormuz will open soon?
>>223885422Oh you're actually brown, never mind, I'll end the digression here
>>223885437I’ll take that as a no
>>223885404
I love reading his blog
>>223885671A bit gloomy, innit
>>223885321Canadian boomers are hyper delusional about the state of their country and its power relative to the US. Canada had a worse economy than Mississippi, capital investment is not existant, inflation is the worst in the G7, jobs and businesses are lost by the thousands every month, Indian extortion gangs are running rampant, nobody under 40 will ever be able to buy a home or retire, but as long as the government and media keep pointing to boogeyman Trump, none of that matters and Canada is somehow the best, strongest nation on Earth and could totaly take on the US in an armed conflict.
>>223881087>t. chuddie murphy>>223885214>despite not being his OG idea, was extremely vindicated by the ascent of LLMsit kinda was his OG idea. One of the main things in the book is Chinese Room thought experiment
>>223879693This is like the 10th time I'm hearing they are trying to adapt Blindisight Nothing will happen again
>>223885228>ACKSHULLYthis is how Koreans do things though. Especially public safety.
>>223879693Oh fuck yes, but i also want a third book
>>223879693It's a good novel, although there's nothing based about it, and Blomkamp is shit
>>223884745Interacting with Conscience beings are a waste of energy and resources
>>223885351>>223885321>>223885862I genuinely feel bad for Canadians, nothing is great anywhere but being a younger person in Canada sounds awful
>>223879693Ok, so the author is a turbo redditor but still worth reading? My friend likes Blind Sight a lot so it's been on my list for a bit now
>>223885290Catholic charities like to bring shit skins into the west, the institution doesn't deserve the time of day for that alone. Fuck them
>>223879693absolute slop>le autistic vampirescringe
>>223879781chappie was dogshit
>>223879693QRD on blindsight, what is the hook?
>>223888919Chappie was the exact point everyone had to admit District 9 was lightning in a bottle. Blomkamp has one setting: filthy warehouse, robot whining, PMCs, and "what if apartheid but aliens/AI" painted on with a roller. Blindsight needs sterile existential dread, not a crying toaster in a scrapyard.
>>223888955Aliums attack cyberpunk earth but it's all a misunderstanding because they are non sentient organic robots who only attacked because all the radio chatter from earth drove them insane. Also vampires and like other anons said the characters are terribly written diverse quirk chunguses with a side order of cringe goreslop. The scifi concepts are cool though.
>>223890017It didn’t drive them insane. They’re basically a giant anti-consciousness amoeba looking to destroy consciousness the same way a white blood cell wants to destroy a virus. It’s just biological programming.
>>223888955Intelligence without consciousness works and can be extremely frightening. Also Cyberpunk Earth is full of AIs everywhere and to continue relevant we start to chrome (to borrow from Cyberpunk 2077) ourselves in order to interpret AI outputs. To be "normal" is to be "baseline". It's an incredible book, but Watts prose can be hell.Another thing: the coolest vampires ever, so cool in fact that if you put two of them together they fucking kill each other immediately.
>>223885671why is he accepting reality for what it is? Why can't he push it down and be in denial like the rest of us? This is no way of living
>>223891034He’s just that based.
>>223891218How does he feel about nuclear power? These climate catastrophists always irrationally hate it even though it would solve most of the problems they fret about.
>>223891218What a retard
>>223891281here comes the chud
>>223891281Nukes are not the solution you make it out to be. In terms of implementation they are basically plateaued at where they should be. They require dirty waste storage that are impossible to achieve practically (although nuke proponents will totally assure you that isn’t the case - even though we have hundreds of examples of storage not being done properly and causing environmental issues), they can’t ramp up or ramp down based off demand so all they’re good for is providing some base level energy, they are incredibly costly and time consuming to build, and they promote centralization and secrecy in power distribution which is antithetical to where we want to be as a society.
>>223891375To add: they also promote the dirtiest type of mining (uranium mining), increase the proliferation of nuclear weapons (don’t let nuke proponents tell you reactor grade plutonium can’t be used in bombs, this has been proven wrong in many cases where dirty bombs have been found such as in India and Pakistan), and prop up states like Russia who still supply the world with uranium, uranium enrichment services, and nuclear waste dumping sites (aka a random island in Siberia where barrels are just thrown into a pile - like all of France’s waste).
>>223887609You are Indian.
>>223891281you don't care about nuclear power. This is just a chud loophole for you to be against solar or wind power without exposing yourself as a chud person. the same way you people always mention india and china. It's another excuse to do nothing without coming off as a chud
>>223887547Canada has no identity besides not being America, and this has lead to the implementation of foolish if not suicidal economic and social policies.
>>223891584>replying to yourself cuz no one else did
>>223891375>>223891426All of these problems with nuclear are artificial, caused by punitive ideologically motivated regulation. The real issue is that widespread use of nuclear power would destroy the power of the climate cult by saving the climate and thus rendering the cult obsolete.
>>223891657>ideologically motivated regulationYeah like the ideology of caring about your planet. It’s understandable if you don’t care. There’s lots of kids living with their parents that don’t care about upkeep as well.
>>223891621>projectingTypical elbows up retard. Say, why does Brookfield Capital invest in mostly US companies? Why does Mark Carney live mostly in New York?
>>223891657thanks for proving it's a chud loophole, lmao. You're a goddamn retard with zero self awareness
>>223891682Not my problem.
>>223891698>The Prime Minister influcting punitive economic measures on Canadian businesses whole he himself benefits from more favourable American policies isn't my problemSeems like it should be.
>>223891676If you cared about the planet you wouldn't stifle the only power source that could save it.
>>223891747Not reading your chudbabble
>>223891772You haven’t made a good enough argument on how it could solve it. You’ve had nearly one hundred years to perfect and display this tech. Instead we’ve had nearly one hundred years of underwhelming performance, astronomical costs, lives and environments lost, and lies to the public.
>>223890247Vampires are gay
Is this where Netflix Castlevania got that gay "vampires are afraid of right angles" rule?
>>223892819Sounds like it.
>>223892819Yeah, and that's not gay. The crucifix glitch is cool as fuck, actually, the entire vampire origin lore is amazing worldbuilding.
>>223892766Think of them more like an offshoot species of Homo sapiens like Neanderthals that stalked humanity in its early days that got revived via Jurassic Park style genetic technology.
>>223879693>>Neill Slopkampever since he released his AI slop slideshow, I've lost all respect for this boer
>>223885671Kek
Watts is an unpleasant doomer bugman. He writes books that appeal to other doomer bugmen.
>>223893845He makes American fascists seethe with his trvkes so he’s good in my books
>>223891375I blame a lot of YouTubers for pushing the "clean nuclear" revisionist meme. Gathering that much uranium in one location is a "solution" like payday advance is a solution for being poor.
>>223879693
I'm just glad I'll be dead before our non renewable energy sources are exhausted and we have to return to monke.
>>223894096Rendezvous With Rama did not age well.Probably Clarke's most skippable.
>>223894096Fixed
>>223880495>"Trust le science" autist>believes a bunch or retarded injuns pointing a radar at some underground rocksTypical Canadian.
>>223894308Hey at least you now have a reply to your post. Your identity will be our secret ;)
>>223894257so bigger on the inside vampires +gay and retarded?
>>223894706Look, you and I both know you don’t read books. Let’s end the charade.
>>223893975>>223891375>>223891426>>223891798France literally has the cheapest, lowest carbon and most reliable power grid in Europe because they just went ahead and built a full nuclear grid before environmentalists thought to step in and make building nuclear plants impossibleBut more specifically if you're going to measure nuclear plants in "lives cost" you're a fucking moron because nuclear plants have killed fewer people than any other power source, including the rare earth mining for solar panelsCoal plants literally emit more radiation than nuclear plants
>>223894865>FranceDumps all its waste in Siberia with no proper containment. Also has low water levels in its rivers putting their entire energy infrastructure at risk.>coal radiationThe study was measuring radiation from smokestacks. Nuclear power plants emit most radiation through their wastewater, spent fuel, and other reactor waste, not their smoke/steam stacks. This is an oft misquoted study - which is by design since those that commissioned it had no intention to make a fair comparison and those that quote it have no intention of reading properly.You got any more galaxy brain retorts, my newly hatched friend?
>>223895032>I am an environmentalist and coal plants are safer than nuclearthe internet really does find all sorts lol
>>223895059Yeah, like your stupid ass thinking it’s one or the other.
>>223895092Anyway I'm glad the nuclear industry is back on track and billion dollar contracts and permits are locked in to quadruple fission power by 2050
>>223895136Yeah, two more weeks and I’m sure they’ll all be approved.
>>223895152Three Mile Island is currently scheduled to reopen in ten months
>>223895190Impressive, dragging around a dead corpse; the future for nuclear looks bright!
>>223895214So to be clear here there is absolutely no goalpost that will satisfy youFrance's nuclear grid that has outperformed every other country on the continent for half a century is fake and gayEveryone from Microsoft to Google are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into new plants for no reasonThe NRC is rushing permits out at rubber stamp speed for showYou are the sole arbiter of truth and wisdom and everyone who has any grasp on reality whatsoever is a moron
>>223895032nuclear waste is so trivial to deal with that bringing it up shows nothing but bad faith. you could store all of it in a soccer field. and you can re-use almost all of it anyway, if you wanted to, you'd just need different plants to do it and those are more expensive than just building more of the existing ones so nobody does for now. but 90% of the "nuclear waste" is actually just more "nuclear fuel".one of the few good things about the AI scourge is that it will finally put some *real* pressure on developing different power than just coal and petroleum. shit like windfarms and solar is legit a psychotic fever dream compared to nuclear. every single person who supports that shit instead of nuclear is a paid actor or a moron.
>>223895254>>223895289When you have shit arguments don’t be surprised they all fall apart. Sorry your Gish gallop didn’t work; just wait two more weeks, dude.
>>223895358There are 63 new nuclear reactors totaling 70GW of capacity under construction right now
>>223895412They will break ground in two weeks I’m sure of it!
>>223895434What does "under construction" mean to you?
>>223895462Hey look it’s Hinkley NPP, the plant that’s been in construction for ten years, is $10+ billion dollars over budget and still can’t even get to operating capacity till 2031 (if they even make it after so many delays).Also I thought you were referring to just the US. I guess you’re talking worldwide now? 63 is a small number. And out of those 63 only a few (like Hinkley) have actually begun. Big oof.
>>223895548>Also I thought you were referring to just the US.When did I say that? Here's the climate agreement made by 38 countries at the COP28 climate conferencehttps://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-declaration-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050-recognizing-key
>>223895601Thanks for proving that they haven’t begun construction.
>>223895644Are you going to provide anything to this conversation whatsoever beyond endless "no u"s and vagueposting?
>>223895725Don’t feel like I need to. I feel like I’m doing fine so far. Haven’t really seen anything worth sweating about yet.
>>223895752So what's my incentive to keep talking to you?
>>223890247>Another thing: the coolest vampires ever, so cool in fact that if you put two of them together they fucking kill each other immediately.Yeah but if you have two of them locked up in different rooms, they'll both instinctively be able to work together to escape without ever having to see each other.
>>223892819In Castlevania one of the vampires is also afraid of crossing moving water, but the other vampires call him a pussy, he still says he won't risk it.
>>223895795Not sure. If I had to guess I’d say you’ve made right wing politics your personality and the success of the oligarchs is integral to your mental well being.
>>223879896>LindelofKiss my ass.
>>223895852>right wing oligarchsDo you even know what COP28 is?
>>223894750lmao touchéNTA
>>223895795Oh, right. We get it now. You don't think there's anyone here, do you? You've got some high-priced consultant telling you there's nothing to worry about.
>>223895903Yeah, do you know what greenwashing is?
here's my waifu, val
>>223895976she looks like she fucks human men
>>223896377exactly, me
So what i got from this thread its that canadian jeets really love this guy's books
>>223879781Everything he's made except for District 9 (which is only fine and pretty overrated).
>Possible series stuff that’s not even at the zygote stage, really just a half-dozen lonely sperm wriggling towards an ovum filled with cash. Why would I want to read a whole book from a guy who writes like this?
>>223897007Kino garbage
>>223879693this novel is shilled constantly so it is probably dogshitand distrinct 9 was ok, but elysium was terrible
>>223879693Blindsight would make a good movie but not a good tv shoe. You would have to merge it with Echopraxia and have all the plot threads run simultaneously to fill out a tv season.
>>223899183Absolutely not. It has to be a four-to-six episode mini series. The book is dense as fuck to fit into a movie and a three-hour long movie would make any audience bolt.
>>223899183In lieu of a movie I think a show is still pretty good, and if they make it kind of like a Chernobyl type of format it could work. I half suspect that it will actually incorporate parts of Echopraxia. Peter Watts has had a lot of time since Blindsight to pad up his world and he’s added lots of tidbits through short stories as well. He’s been pretty consistent with it so I’m sure he’ll want it incorporated for his lore cohesion. We’ll probably get more Siri Keeton/Jim Miller backstory moments.https://reactormag.com/the-colonel-peter-watts/
>>223899640*Moore
>>223899640>He’s been pretty consistent I was waiting for a bit more than TEN FUCKING YEARS for more Firefall and Watts published 21 Second God, finally, in the last year. He's not consistent at all. I hope he doesn't turn into another GRRM, although in his case it's because Firefall doesn't pay shit, so I kind of understand him. kek
>>223899172You can read it online for free if you want to:https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htmBe sure to also read some of the other lore tidbits on the main site as well: https://rifters.com/
>>223899797Are you kidding? Firefall didn't pay shit back then but Blindsight has become a monster since he released it for free all of those years ago. The third book is going to be a payday larger than anything he's done till this day combined. Its a guaranteed bestseller.
>muh vampires in space it was awful
>>223899172theres no point reading anything written in the west nowadaysespecially not by hyper left wing boomers like this guy
>>223900028>The third book is going to be a payday larger than anything he's done till this day combined. Its a guaranteed bestseller.I hope you are right. AFAIK he said that Blindsight only started generating money after he published it online, yeah, but I don't know if really was all that success.
>>223900028Isn't the third book on hold after he got into a feud with his publisher?
>>223900178No look at the quote in the OP right at the end.
>>223880022He sounds like a huge fag.
>>223900698I’m sorry your feelings were hurt, snowflake.
>>223880417> Its about a Neuralink world where people play MMOs through their connected brainHow is this not a ripoff of that gay as movie ready player one?
>>223885066>>223879693Yeah that sperm “joke” is fucking mega cringe as hell.
>>223894167What about your children ?
>>223899582>>223899183>>223879693I bet we can all already imagine how gay as hell this tv show would look like. Neon lights electirc state Blade runner regurgitated for the hundredth time and the aliens and vampires all look like the monsters from district 9.
>>223901498>i havent read the book but let me tell you how it is or algolmao
>>223901703It will be a derivative of blade runner that’s how they make tv shows nowadays
>>223901703He sort of has a point. The entertainment industry has a limited repertoire of visual tricks and aesthetics that they have available at any given time. It's part of why all the movies that come out within a decade of each other tend to look alike.
>>223901900I don't think the Expanse, for example, had any of that.
>>223902443The expanse looks like trash and the entire show takes place in a neon blue office room
>>223902636What looks good to you?
Cast Jukka>inb4 Mads Mikkelsen
All I know about this guy is that he wrote The Things, which sucked
>>223901290Because that's like saying space ships are a rip-off from the first story about space ships, ass.Plus RP1 didn't invent shared simulated reality.
>>223903421
>>223879693Much like Red Rising, this is not a work that should be adapted for screens.
>>223904350Everyone will say Blinsight copied the alien design from Life with Ryan Reynolds even though it was written years before.
>>223891441You're calling me a street shitter for not liking the Catholic Church?
>>223901703I haven't read the book and that allows me to be more accurate in my prediction, because the people who are making the show have also not read the book.
>>223895289The main issue with nuclear, even assuming you solve the waste and construction cost issues, is that you just go back to having a centralized power grid again, which is very vulnerable for failure or sabotage.A terrorist can fly an airplane into a nuclear power plant, but they can't wreck 200 windfarms easily.And some power outage of a single nuclear plant can blackout millions of people. Its high technoogy that is difficult and expensive to maintain. Putting all your eggs in one basket is always dumb.Nuclear has its uses, but the overall goal should be to build reliable, self sustained energy grids that can be maintained by the local population and are robust against failure and sabotage, which nuclear clearly isnt.Pretending this is some either-or question misses the point entirely, the switch to a sustainable energy grid will need several sources, nuclear is part of the solution, but its not some miracle cure
>>223904359Good enough if he has a creepy or menacing demeanor. I imagine him when reading as pic related, sort of.
Where the fuck are the movies based off Dean Koontz books? Way better than Crichton.
>>223906819Never seen anyone talk highly of Koontz's scifi
>>223903421>>inb4Man you are old
>>223905914>A terrorist can fly an airplane into a nuclear power plant, but they can't wreck 200 windfarms easily.They are made with that in mind anon
>>223908042So were the twin towers
>>223908169what? you dont know? dont be a moron, a plane diving into one wouldnt really do anything serious to it
>>223879767United Statesians seething as usual about better countries
>>223908188They hate us because they anus
>>223904777Jeets are behind most antu-Christian posting.
>>223904403It's full of interesting ideas. Worth a try.
The Core Premise: Blindsight and Consciousness• The Neurological Condition: In real-world neurology, blindsight is a phenomenon where people with damage to the visual cortex can respond to visual stimuli (such as navigating obstacles or guessing the direction of an object) without consciously seeing them.• The Novel's Extension: Watts scales this up to the entire human mind. He questions whether complex thought, language, and problem-solving can—and do—happen completely unconsciously, while consciousness merely sits back, takes credit, and rubber-stamps decisions already made by the subconscious.Key Themes in the Novel• Consciousness as a Liability: Self-awareness requires massive metabolic energy, introduces doubt, empathy, and emotional bottlenecks, and slows down reaction times.• The Alien "Rorschach" and "Scramblers": The expedition crew aboard the Theseus encounters an alien intelligence that is hyper-intelligent, capable of complex technological feats and fluent linguistic mimicry, yet completely devoid of self-awareness (functioning like philosophical zombies).• The Evolutionary Dead End: Watts suggests that intelligence scales up while consciousness scales down—meaning the smartest entities in the universe may not be conscious at all.also, the vampire is cool.(historic man was easy pray to vampires, but with the invention of technology and buildings and right angles {crosses} vampires became extinct because they have extreme OCD to right angles)
>>223879693perhaps it's a strength to use someone else's story when you're Neil.
>>223910382Don't watch his latest project then kek
peter watts is cringe onions even by sci fi author standards
>>223911270You never even read anything by the man
>>223909248And Israel defending, dunno why
>>223906833Well he writes very descriptively and his plot twists are top tier
>>223884745neighbors wouldnt keep the noise down
>>223887590yes its fun conceptually even if its wrong
>>223891375sup destiny
>>223912755Kek
>>223904514no one watched life
>>223913071I did. Kino ending, btw.
>>223913389I would rape the ayy to establish dominance
>>223903046Your mom
>>223908180Yes it would NIGGER
>>223880575There's a chance the Rifters books are set in the earliest period of the Blindsight setting. The short stories like Collateral and Zero Sum all fit in.>ablobloobloo he's a redditorIDC, it's great writing.
>>223890247>"vampires"They're flesh eating ghouls when you parse out what he says
>>223893870You're a faggit, no one cares what thrills you
>>223915073youre a moron and dont know what youre talking about
>>223894308They actually didn’t even ask any injuns about it. If they had they would’ve known one of the gravesites they were screeching about was a known, regular old graveyard whose wooden crosses had deteriorated
OP here I forgot to mention no Americans are allowed in this thread, thanks
watts sperged out like an autist with border agents years ago so now he hates america. Blindsight is a good book but hes as insufferable as KSR
>>223916076He even punched one of those chuds. He’s not allowed back in the US. Based Canadian actually fighting back against authority. You’re welcome America.
>>223916145Fair enoughNTA
>>223915968There's always a bunch of them crying about Watts BTFO their bootlickers kek
>>223879693>Peter Watts>Niel BlompkampfI'm listening but I'm also counting down to the project imploding upon reaching critical safewoke mass
>>223908188Canadians are identical to Americans in basically every way.
>>223918603Yeah but you can tell it’s a Canadian when they use complete sentences.
>>223918603The problem with Canadians is talk shit, never get hit. They think they're so high-minded and above it all because they are basically safe for life due to geography. Imagine you're a prancy liberal douche fag in a school full of psychotic bullies but your older brother is the biggest, scariest, most psychotic of them all, that's Canada. That's why they can afford to be tactless know-nothings masquerading as "nice." How long would Canada last were it magically transported to the Balkans tomorrow?
>>223918679Canadians are honorary balkanics.
>>223918766They stop selling beer at 9pm, and you can only buy it in Beer Stores, not supermarkets and gas stations. Everything about them is a lie. If you're in Windsor, you have to cross the bridge to Detroit to drink cold beer all night. Its a fucking shit hole.
>>223918679>americans think they’re the older brother Kek
>>223918798>not supermarkets and gas stations.This hasn’t been true for like eight years. Also Quebec always had it.
>>223918807I see the analogy utterly failed on you.
>>223918834Cute selfie anon.
>>223909516Pearls before swine; modern audiences are either too dim to grasp the concepts as written, or the concepts will have to be simplified and thus lose their potency.
Canadian leftist tards
>>223919040Fair enough, I guess. Still, I just like vampires too much to let it pass. Being a vampirefag is pure suffering. Currently keeping an eye on Flesh of the Gods.
>>223879781District 9 is the only good feature and Rakka, a short film from Youtube, is unironically better than everything else.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo>If we're neurons, the brain is in all of us. That's the whole thing: if we were part of a collective intelligence, would we necessarily know it any more than an individual neuron knows that it's part of something bigger?Title of the talk (only audio) is Hive Minds, Minds Hives.
>>223919040lol this might be true of blindsight, but ever since i finished red rising i've been checking the reddit occasionally for statements from pierce brown and let me tell you, the modern audiences are all up in that shit. it's like a perfect slice of modern america - brownoids (most likely mexicans and philipinos), gay libtards, and retarded dudebro elon-worshipping conservacucks, with maybe 5% normal people.
>>223921051Its more the coked up studio execs you have to get past. Producer meddling has ruined many a good concept by dumbing down to what they think audiences want.
>>223921908coke is good though
>>223922062Just a stupid exec thinking he know this stuff is bad enough
Canada mentioned
>>223895976What was her problem attacking for no reason?
>>223922833She likes to train her pets
there is this fake trailer thing which is pretty coolhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM
Read this book and liked how well he portrayed autists so then I read the underwater one but it turns out yhat had almost no underwater stuff at all and all the cool sea beasts are harmless and the real villian is daddy issues and corporations.
>>223881087>despite having dogshit prosehow? It's borderline schizophrenic due to the story being told by a Keeton's POV but it's very clearly high quality and intentional in its weirdness
I hardcoded a backdoor on a little script of mine where inputting The Tomb of Arimathea gives me special functions kek
>>223922832Amazing Amazing! Jai Hind!
>>223922062Coke is shit. Lasts 15 minutes, makes your heart palpitate, makes your dick not work, gives you psychosis after too many lines, and these days it’s all laced with fent and baking soda. Only good part of it is the numbies and the taste. Still not worth it tho. We need to secure our southern border and stop the flow of cocaine from those criminals and rapists.
I enjoyed Echopraxia.
>>223924515Same. It’s much harder to read and feels like a blur at some parts (especially at Icarus station) but that’s really the point since your perspective is from a “baseline” human and everything is happening at a cognitive level beyond that. It’s worth it though for all the world building and the great ending. I’m really excited for Omniscience to bring it all together. I have a feeling humanity’s kinda fucked. I also have a feeling the weird monsters alluded to in Freeze Frame Revolution are the Rorschach-ians that have taken over most of the galaxy (universe?).
>>223913389it was a very lazy and nonsensical mexican ripoff of aiens
>>223923034scripts by definition arent hardcoded script kiddy
>>223924515i found the pacing weird (watts apparently tried to make it action heavy in response to criticism on blindsight which i thought was fine) and it felt too misanthropic and cruel.to the protag who just kinda sat around the whole time. valerie was ok but it was overall meh
