peto (he/him)

I know this is the common advice but I started with Consider Phlebas and it is far from unapproachable. There are some benefits of the PoV character being outside The Culture I think. As much as I liked The Player of Games, I much preferred the second half of the book.

Round Disc confirmed?

Mildly?

That 2000 IQ king sacrifice gambit.

Are we entirely sure it’s not just an ornament? I’ve got all kinds of things that aren’t even ritual objects.

And as AI monsters go, it’s far from the worst. Barely even a monster.

No wonder he was the captain of the Black Perl…

As if they consider women people.

You have to use it a lot. From what I can tell that’s their problem, they priced unlimited access low based on some numbers they pulled out their arse and then were all shocked Pikachu face when people used it and unlimited amount.

Male chicks are largely considered a waste-product of the poultry industry, you don’t need many males to maintain the population. It’s cheaper and easier to identify them once they hatch, at which point they have no economic value and so are killed.

I sometimes suspect that the push for decimalisation was in part to avoid having to teach computers the old system.

Well, he’s clearly not talking about small people like say, me or you compared to Trump or Musk. And let me be clear, he is probably wrong about that as well. If Trump is anti-google that is likely nothing more than a negotiating position.

It’s probably just a language thing. When he says small people he means sub-mega corporations. Actual humans probably pass beneath his notice.

True, the clue is the samurai sword.

Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.

Dealing with Microsoft’s bullshit has always been one of the most pursuasive arguments for Linux.

Or at least develop chronic backpain.

Fixed penalties just become the cost of doing business. Like actors, we need to start asking for percentage of gross.

What even is an assassination? It is entirely likely that this is based in a personal grievance. The guy did wrong by a lot of people. Might even have been a tyrannicide.

Shootings must be rare in NYC given how much attention this one is getting.