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All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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#101

I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"

Your comment does not have a license and even if it did I highly disagree with your interpretation of how it can be both available to all of humanity forever free of all obligation but also I disagree with your monetization scheme, also my partner and I on one of our many hobby vacations have long ago created the solution that sadly was lost to imposter syndrome and inappropriate recycling.

Also the back button doesn't work on your site and it does something really terrible with my scrolling.

Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)

#104
post #81

Stephen King: A character wonders if, given all the suffering recently endured over the last few hundred pages, life is nonetheless still worth living. This character is killed by an entity which, despite all appearance and reputation, is permanently and inexplicably murderous.

Also there needs to be a chapter where children run a train on a girl in the sewers

Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)

#105

I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"

Your project looks interesting... But, what's the point, when you can easily accomplish this (and much more) simply by self-hosting XYZ, wrapped by an instance of FOO, backed by a simple cluster of BAR, communicating with a BAZ? Also Rust.

Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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post #64

Jack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, including "Trial and Error" in 1933 which Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury both cited as a major influence in getting their writing careers started, had a nice description of how to plot: > Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl

Weird than "Trial and Error" is not available in Gutenberg.

Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on. Pretty brilliant, right? Right?

I would like to quote the creator of Dogecoin: > In reply to that, Mr Markus was asked whether he had considered energy usage when creating the cryptocurrency. > “i made doge in like 2 hours i didn’t consider anything,” he wrote.

I love this so much. It's like "The Emperor's New Clothes", except it's the Emperor himself yelling "I'm naked you fucking idiots!"

Re: All possible plots by major authors (2020)

#109
Because I hope that more people listen to the audiobook series Strange Company:

Nick Cole:

Log Keeper's Note: Aftermath. In those dark years of the long crossing between the world we'd cut loose of the bad contract on, and the repair facility on Hardrock, the Strange Company slept and the galaxy caught fire as we dreamed for twenty-five years of sublight. The old order of the Monarchs, mighty yet petty gods determined to burn worlds and take humanity with them down into the deep dark graves of empire, began its final collapse. Worlds fell into shadowy chaos, overrun by the cackle of automatic weapons carried by the Simia Legions, while ring stations at Oberon and Circe burned like fiery jewels. Into this madness and maelstrom rode the Strange Company.

(That’s a slightly abridged excerpt from the second audiobook of the duology, Voodoo Warfare. I call them audiobooks rather than novels because in print form they are merely quite good but very derivative examples of their genre, but as narrated by Christopher Ryan Grant, they are among the most epic and inspiring stories I have ever heard come alive.)

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