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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 20, 2019, 07:26:09 pm »
We don't have self-check at any of the branches I'm working with :P

SF/F stuff definitely isn't among our major circulation genres, though, no. They move okay-ish for our libraries and we have a handful of patrons that request it, but it's way behind the (other) bestsellers et al, or just mystery/suspense, westerns, or christian fiction in general. though inflicting mccaffrey on someone is just mean, ahaha* also nevermind the son's contributions, probably don't direct them towards anything that isn't pern, too. Anne's just a bit behind Piers Anthony in how off some of their works get.

*Though if it works, it works.

Oi, oi, the Pern stuff is nice enough even if she has a bunch of weird fetishes crammed into everything else she wrote. It's not as if The Ship Who Sang, Crystal Singer, or gods forbid the Catteni series are even in print any more (probably). I read enough about giant grey alien dicks to satisfy any interest I might have ever had in her larger body of work even if the whole rabid anti-fanfiction attitude didn't already put me off her.

Though I'd give her a head over Anthony if only because to my recollection she always wrote the weirdness about consenting adults.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 20, 2019, 06:43:40 am »
-snip-
Oh yeah, definitely fair about regional variation, but IMO it's more that actively promoting would be more likely to catch that one patron that would make it An Issue. Since people like that are usually the sort that walk in, grab their reserves for the new Danielle Steel/Fern Michaels/James Patterson/&c. bestseller, self-check, and leave immediately, they don't tend to notice what's out there beyond the new books display.

I also wouldn't promote AO3 for a multitude of other reasons, but that's a whole different story from not promoting it because of the bad PR. Almost nobody where I live cares about SF/F beyond the gutter trash like Ready Player One anyways. Did manage to get someone into the Pern novels (and warned her away from the son's... "contributions"), but that's about it.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 19, 2019, 08:53:49 pm »
Wrong isn't the right word. It's friggin' weird, though. For one, it's utterly unlike, as near as I can tell, literally everything else that's ever been awarded a hugo in that category. It's not really an individual work, it's very nature renders it basically impossible to complete, it's not so much any particular sort of content itself so much as a container for it... it's like giving a hugo award to book binding or somethin'. So on, so forth.

For two, at least by the wiki page on the category, it wasn't published or translated within the last calendar year (AO3's been around like a decade or so). Individual works within it were, but... still.

For three, it's not really anything specifically to do with sci-fi or fantasy, either. The stuff's heavily involved, sure, but it's not nearly as closely tied as most older/other winners seem to be. It's just a really odd choice.

It's not a bad thing, exactly (and it's not even remotely like I dislike AO3, even if I probably wouldn't mention it in polite company due to how much smut is on it and how extreme it can get*). Just weird. My reaction's varyingly intense confusion with a side of disappointment I probably won't be able to get the library I work at to mention it much or at all due to all the smut on it.

* I didn't check too hard on the other ones, but this might be the first hugo winner that qualifies as child porn in some countries :P
Yeah, that decision made me lose a lot of respect for the award. You could generally trust that something (or someone) that picked up a Hugo or Nebula was pretty good SF. Now apparently we're giving 'em out to websites for hosting shitty slashfics and wish fulfillment fics that aren't even in the correct genre.

And "some countries" is pretty generous, considering that there are book-canon Sansa Stark/Sandor Clegane ASOIAF fics on AO3. Lord knows there's probably worse, but I have zero interest in finding out how bad it gets.

Addendum: as a librarian, people won't care about the smut. Most romances, urban fiction, and westerns are smutty as hell. Not to mention the actual pornography in the stacks (which usually gets hidden away in the low-800s (DDC) nonfiction with miscellaneous other prose that doesn't get cataloged as fiction for one reason or another). I recall seeing one book in the stacks of a building I used to work at that was very plainly a collection of stories about people fucking dragons from the cover alone. Pop it open and it was indeed a collection of stories about people fucking dragons. There was another that had a collection of pornographic stories, stuff like a man discovering an extreme sub kink, a high school girl cheating on her boyfriend with his father, &c.

What people will care about is you knowing what fanfiction is (good or bad -- you may also set off some old 80s-gen nerd that won't stop talking to you about it).

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Congratulations! You now never have to remember 90% of all traffic rules again!
Unless you're African American, in which case you better remember to not make wide turns and so forth if you don't want to get "randomly" stopped.

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Yeah, you can harvest stuff from those ones IIRC.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: August 17, 2019, 05:55:27 pm »
On Crunchyroll, I'm into Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba right now. Give that a go, though it may not pass your par for 'intriguing' or 'deep', those seem like debatable standards.
Thanks, I'll check these out.
Seconding KnY/Blade of Demon Destruction. It's not incredibly deep, but it's quality.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 16, 2019, 04:06:19 pm »
In the library? Isn't that noisy?
Not as much as you'd think. I know of one that has to periodically hire on extra security to root out a persistent prostitution ring.

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General Discussion / Re: Generator spam thread
« on: August 16, 2019, 04:04:42 pm »
Quote from: Senile dreadnought gets philosophical
Even in death, I still serve. It's not that I'm in the last hour of life, or even if I'm dead.

That's not it at all. What I'm trying to teach today is that the time is now, and it's no use being silent.

I have to let them speak freely.

Even though I am not a member, if they're talking to the whole world, that is because they are already too many. It's impossible to handle it one on one with the whole world.

But this time, I'm going to do it without letting them talk to the whole world!

That one was my only hope.

If I can convince them with a little power, I'm going to prove to them what's up.

Even if I cannot see it, it's already too late!

I must use power to protect them, to fight them, and finally to make them see. You can't understand how important power is.

And when they're finally dead, I'll show them my power. That's why, because I was born that way, I only hope to live on, so those who fight at that time can live on too.

――It's impossible to kill them all!

The ones who got away were them who are now dead already

Quote from: techmarines need to let him out of his box sometime
Even in death, I still serve. At least in spirit, I serve in spirit."

"There has been no answer I have been looking for, and not an example to fall back upon, as it were.

There has been no answer I have been looking at as I listen. It is always the same – all are lost. In this way, I live and die – only in the most basic and most profound ways."

Quote from: shoulda let him out, now he's getting really delusional
Even in death, I still serve. I'm trying to survive a bit by eating this soup.

And, since I'm the one who made this dish, it should be delicious.

I thought about it. This is my first time making such an old man soup. It's something I just don't understand at all.

The meat seems to have a slightly different flavour than usual but I can't be sure since it wasn't my experience with the soup.

I'll try if I find a meat that tastes nice after eating. No, for the most part it seems to have a similar flavour to other meat I have eaten.

"I wonder where the ingredients come from," I sigh at all this food.

That also seems to pull a bunch of quotes from some RWBY fanfic.

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Other Games / Re: Warframe - F2P Sci-fi L4D-like
« on: August 16, 2019, 03:52:43 pm »
In-game counter is only mission time. Steam counts all time that the game is active.

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General Discussion / Re: Generator spam thread
« on: August 16, 2019, 06:41:01 am »
What's depressing about absolute faith in the Emperor?

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Other Games / Re: Warframe - F2P Sci-fi L4D-like
« on: August 16, 2019, 06:40:00 am »
Still need someone else to do 3 rounds with while I sit around guarding the point or vice versa, pretty tough when you're this late to the nightwave thing.
It's really not. Just go into a public match with a frame that can defend the friendly point and you'll be fine as long as you don't do high-risk (since people usually only go one or two rotations there). Index is always populated at least a little bit.
Not around NZ sadly, it's usually empty aside from the occasional Rhino in high risk.
Go into gameplay settings and change your region to a more populated one. You'll probably need to increase your ping limit and play around the edges of your normal time, but it'll get the job done.

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Other Games / Re: Warframe - F2P Sci-fi L4D-like
« on: August 15, 2019, 08:59:27 pm »
Still need someone else to do 3 rounds with while I sit around guarding the point or vice versa, pretty tough when you're this late to the nightwave thing.
It's really not. Just go into a public match with a frame that can defend the friendly point and you'll be fine as long as you don't do high-risk (since people usually only go one or two rotations there). Index is always populated at least a little bit.

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General Discussion / Re: Generator spam thread
« on: August 15, 2019, 05:19:02 pm »

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: August 15, 2019, 04:40:02 pm »
New sandra brown book, Outfox. As near as I can tell from jacket blurb and reviews, its plot can be summarized as "fake fbi agent NTRs the serial killer that banged and murdered his mother, in order to get revenge".
What does NTR mean?
National Transcontinental Railway, a historic Canadian railway.

Okay, no, it's actually an acronym for 'netorare', a Japanese term for a fetish predominantly encompassing cheating but potentially including subelements like voyeurism, exhibitionism, and cuckolding.

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Other Games / Re: Warframe - F2P Sci-fi L4D-like
« on: August 15, 2019, 04:36:58 pm »
Index is easy. Just go into low-risk with Gara, drop your ring around the Tenno goal, and keep it refreshed until you finish. All you really need is one competent-ish teammate to score points.

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