hii, i wanted to ask what you didn't like about ringworld, i was going to start reading it, but now i'm wondering if i should just not lol
I didn't like.. most of it, tbh.
It's very misogynistic and has a weirdly lukewarm/probably for the best :/ stance on eugenics, the characters are either complete cartoons, or truly awful people. The protagonist is just a vile person, but in that author self-insert way where he can only be validated, Teela is written like a precocious child and cocksleeve for the protagonist (and when she disapears, a new cocksleeve immediately replaces her.))
The aliens are also really stupidly written, the carnivores are warlike meatheads and the herbivores are pathetic and cowardly. The exploration of the ringworld isn't even fun because when they get there they mostly run past all of the inhabitants because they determine theyre just stupid savages and need to keep looking until they find civilized people, which was very jarring and frustrating after finishing several of Le Guin's Hainish books.
The scale of the ringworld is cool, and they way puppeteers look is cool. That's about it.
She's just trying to pay her student loans
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me (decorated in bloody runes): man why did we ever stop worshipping golden idols this shit rules
severed bull’s head i carry with me for advice: if you mix sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter together you will become a powerful sorcerer
I love these. Also whoops on the name, I'm always bad with those.
Systins my beloved. Is it like a monkey's paw sorta deal or?
Imagine eating fibs like a Roman Emperor and going crazy from led poisoning.
The Skyrazers be giving me ultrakill vibes, like you would run around one in a level or something like that lol.
What sorta weird creatures exist in Dust to Dawn? Speeding up evolution is bound to produce something funny.
Renamed that to 'New Millennium'
Some funky critters n such ive conceptualized recently:
-Systins, mythological(?) creatures said to inhabit ancient technology and the Datasphere; they are said to grant unimaginable wishes, but only according to a set of varying nonsense rules (not spec bio realy but i wanted to mention it :3) -Fibs, a sort of asexually reproducing fig which is very sweet, because of the lead-based toxins it sequesters into its fruits (thus 'fib' bc the sweet is a lie)
-Skyrazers, living towers which walk across Medimaria (formerly 'North America'), on legs of rubble animated by synthetic muscle built by nanotechnology and micro-scale robotic self-repair units. The original walking tower was a type of experimental arcology which in the Doom sought resources to sustain its precious cargo, and so uprooted itself in search of water. It has since mitosis'd into several daughters
Of fucking course
What sick bastard doesn’t
usb drives you find lying on the ground are modern day cursed amulets
jesus *holding up loaf of bread*: This is my body. judas, who was secretly 27 ducks in a trench coat: *shuffles excitedly*
you heard him