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I need something new to read. suggestions? -- nm - fabulous squad Jul 23, 09:39 8
- I've been trying to read Spook Country by William Gibson, but I just can't find a moment to get into it. Once I finish it, I'll start on Reamde. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 09:56
- Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle; In the Drink by Kate Christensen. -- nm - emoticripple Jul 23, 09:45
- I've been wanting to read Disclaimer by Renee Knight. -- (link) - mara Jul 23, 09:44
- The Internet For Dummies -- nm* - jangles Jul 23, 09:42
- have you read The Martian? -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:41 3
  - yes. -- nm - fabulous squad Jul 23, 09:42 2
    - Rules of Prey John Sandford, Thunder Road Chadwick Ginther, Storm Front Jim Butcher, Killing Floor Lee Child -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:43 1
      - Relic and Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:44
bummer, 3 of the people I wanted to get photo ops with at Wizard World Chicago have cancelled. - groiny Jul 23, 09:33 2
- skip it and go to their houses and get pictures with them there. -- (edited) - decline Jul 23, 09:34 1
  - So in other words be a Sheldon Cooper -- nm - eag Jul 23, 09:39
Pixels 8/43 at RT -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:31 1
- that high? -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:32
Has anyone read The Reckoners by Brandon Sanderson? any good? -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:29 2
- *outs you as a io9 reader* - ML Jul 23, 09:32
- My buddy has - he liked them (but is a huge Sanderson fan). I've read some of his other stuff and really enjoyed it - decline Jul 23, 09:31
"Electronic Sports League: Professional Gamer League to Begin Drug Testing Players" - David Jul 23, 09:19 18
- League of Legends Pro Suspended For Allegedly Levelling Accounts For Cash. -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 09:24 6
  - That's illegal? -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:26 5
    - In most games, yes. -- nm - Strongbad Jul 23, 09:36 1
      - it's astounding how much people will pay to not be mired in ELO Hell. -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 09:37
    - When they're not yours, apparently. Violates Riot's TOS. -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 09:30 2
      - Have you seen that they're playing Minecraft in movie theaters now? -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:41 1
        
        And there's an actual Minecraft movie in the works. -- nm - Shaun Jul 23, 09:42
- see, on Friday night, just drop a couple Destiny Red Bulls, and we can finish all that shit. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:23 8
  - Tell Spawn! -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:26 7
    - tell him what? - groiny Jul 23, 09:27 6
      - I'm a time zone ahead. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:37 5
        
        excuses, excuses. - groiny Jul 23, 09:37 4
        
        I'm sorry that being by far the best player isn't good enough! -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:44 3
        
        yes, you are the best at beating Crota for the 900th time. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:45 2
        
        I heard he is permantly deleted from the game if David beats him 1000 times. - Shaun Jul 23, 09:46 1
        
        It's inevitable. Signed, Master Swordbearer -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:48
- And that's the end of that league. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 09:22
- This is probably the least surprising thing I've read about gaming leagues. - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:22
Speaking of IPOs - why on earth is a movie set on Christmas Eve being released in September? -- (link) - Andie Jul 23, 09:18 2
- it's like ornaments and all that crap - they keep putting it out there earlier and earlier -- nm - decline Jul 23, 09:26 1
  - umm-hmm. -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 09:34
If you're looking for something to short, one of my films IPOs today on the other site. -- nm - LMS Jul 23, 09:12 1
- There has to be a better picture of Jim Broadbent than that one. -- nm - Roger More Jul 23, 09:20
On the phone with my mother, she's talking, stops mid-sentence and asks - ty97 Jul 23, 09:11 2
- "Joyce? Joyce, is that you?" -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:19 1
  - heh -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:23
Kepler discovers most Earth-like planet yet -- (link) - Reagen Jul 23, 09:10 18
- 1400 light-years away. Great. [eyeroll] -- nm - mud Jul 23, 09:26 2
  - I could get there in 1200. -- nm - Han Solo Jul 23, 09:34 1
    - + -- nm - emoticripple Jul 23, 09:46
- This is legitimately in the conversation for most important story of our lifetime. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:24 12
  - We don't bat much of an eyebrow when new species are discovered or eliminated on our own planet. Life on others is a flash in the pan until - Max Jul 23, 09:33 7
    - That's the wonderful part. There's a line from Sports Night from Isaac Jaffe... - David Jul 23, 09:36 6
      - A message alone will take 2800 years to get there and back. Getting some *thing* from here to there would take roughly 300,000 times as long as - Max Jul 23, 09:47 1
        
        With current technology... -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:51
      - I expect there are much better candidates if we look more - Reagen Jul 23, 09:41
      - NASA literally can't even get a man into space without help from the Russians right now. - ML Jul 23, 09:38 2
        
        It's interesting that you mock the US/Russian effort to get into space and then bemoan the lack of effort to get into space. - TWuG Jul 23, 09:55
        
        On it! -- nm - Ted Cruz Jul 23, 09:44
  - until the alien overlords realize we've noticed them and destroy the earth and everyone on it -- nm - decline Jul 23, 09:28 3
    - Even so...that would still be a pretty important frickin conversation. -- nm - Jim Jul 23, 09:28
    - active SETI is *such* a terrible idea -- nm - ML Jul 23, 09:28 1
      - Pixels is a documentary! -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:30
- Cool. -- nm - ML Jul 23, 09:14
- dammit it. I knew there'd be Grendlers -- nm - Beaker Jul 23, 09:12
Mockingjay 2 trailer -- (link) - ML Jul 23, 09:05 [youtube] 27
- (trailer and book spoils) - ML Jul 23, 09:13 25
  - Spoils - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:18 18
    - It was a crippling mistake in the book I hope they don't repeat. - David Jul 23, 09:20 9
      - The crippling mistake was the case of "deadline-itis" the writer seemed to have for rushing that ending so quickly. -- nm - MDH Jul 23, 09:41 2
        
        Yes, see below. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:42 1
        
        Heh, just noticed. -- nm - MDH Jul 23, 09:44
      - The crippling mistake was the last 50 pages...maybe they can get to the end game a different way, - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:21 5
        
        I'd hoped it would be like Watchmen and they'd come up with a tighter ending than the original author. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:26 4
        
        I dunno, good or bad, I would rather they not stray too far from the source. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:30 2
        
        I'm just not a loyalist like that. I think Watchmen is a brilliant book, but the ending is ridiculous. - David Jul 23, 09:34 1
        
        it is why 95% of Steven King movies are crap. - groiny Jul 23, 09:36
        
        Well, they've had what....5 years to come up with something better? -- nm - Jim Jul 23, 09:27
    - unfortunately, I agree with this. Hated it in the book...but I'm not sure how you get around it at this point. (spoils) - Jim Jul 23, 09:19 7
      - I think if it hadn't been rushed so badly in teh book, I might like it more. - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:20 6
        
        Yeah, she turtled under the pressure of a hard deadline and the ascending popularity of the story. - David Jul 23, 09:21 5
        
        I dunno even know why you'd rush a franchise like that one. Just get it right. - Will Hunting Jul 23, 09:23 4
        
        I just wonder if she got the idea (spoils) - Jim Jul 23, 09:25 1
        
        It's the best pop culture idea I've ever seen. That's unqualified genius to me. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:32
        
        It was really strange, too. They announced that hard date like 8 months out on Amazon. - David Jul 23, 09:25 1
        
        Rocks fall, everyone dies. -- nm - Tim Jul 23, 09:27
  - Spoilers - David Jul 23, 09:15 5
    - Why can't we have a *cheery* post-apocalyptic story for once? -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 09:19 2
      - Wouldn't a tv show about a utopia be a nice change of pace? -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:20 1
        
        We have Star Trek. -- nm - Roger More Jul 23, 09:21
    - spoilers.... - groiny Jul 23, 09:16 1
      - No and I haven't wanted to tell him. -- nm - David Jul 23, 09:18
- meh -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 09:09
Is the tech out there to make a camera lens for the phone that can shoot in landscape without having to turn the phone? - Krusty Jul 23, 08:59 4
- not without chopping out about 1/2 the image. - Reagen Jul 23, 09:04 1
  - Though they could always make the sensor bigger and still get the same resolution. -- nm - Ender Jul 23, 09:07
- I think it's the software, niot the lens that determines orientation, so, yeah, the tech exists. -- nm - TWuG Jul 23, 09:01 1
  - I suspect it's really probably the sensor inside the camera. -- nm - Ender Jul 23, 09:03
ST-SCOPE (edit: broadcast ended) -- (link*) - ML Jul 23, 08:58 3
- You seem to be holding the phone properly for horizontal video, but the page displays it as vertical and the image is sideways. -- nm - TWuG Jul 23, 09:00 2
  - that must be the issue Krusty references -- nm - ML Jul 23, 09:04 1
    - Yes. You can try and record it properly but it will still show it vertically. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 09:04
Based on this live stream, NASA has discovered a light jazz planet. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 08:57
Blood Feuders, please vote. -- (link) - ML Jul 23, 08:50
Did anyone watch The Whispers? Is it worth watching? -- nm - sycor Jul 23, 08:48 4
- I'm 3-4 episodes in and digging it so far. They've done well to keep the mystery going -- nm - decline Jul 23, 08:49 3
  - I kind of got spoiled on the mystery. And knowing that a season 2 doesn't look likely I was debating on watching it. -- nm - sycor Jul 23, 08:51 2
    - you should give it a try - the kids are all kinds of creepy -- nm - decline Jul 23, 08:53 1
      - Kids are always creepy. -- nm - sycor Jul 23, 08:55
Periscope says that vertical-only video is a bug and will be fixed. -- (link) - Krusty Jul 23, 08:46 22
- Oh, that's the classic Glove and Boots! -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 08:54 1
  - I share it often. :-) -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 08:58
- Periscope, Snapchat, Vine, Beme... they should force you to turn your phone like the YouTube recorder does. -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 08:53 1
  - I believe YouTube removed the warning and now they're actually enabling the vertical video heathens by making the videos - Krusty Jul 23, 08:57
- I have heard of Periscope for a couple of months now but I'm 40 and old and behind the times. - ty97 Jul 23, 08:47 17
  - I love me some Periscope. Only through the miracle of the Periscope could I watch the Gaga/Tony Bennett concert live on the east coast... - Jim Jul 23, 08:57 4
    - Ummmm...if I was near that person at the concert, I'm pretty sure that I would have gotten into a confrontation with them - JD Jul 23, 09:19 3
      - for me, it's the people who can't figure out why their phone camera can't take a good concert shot at night - Reagen Jul 23, 09:24 1
        
        Oh..yeah..Turn off your flash. -- (link) - JD Jul 23, 09:37
      - I'm not sure they shot the whole show...I just watched the bulk on 1 song each. -- nm - Jim Jul 23, 09:20
  - people can live broadcast from their phone, to, well, anyone who wants to watch. and people who are watching can type real-time comments. -- nm - Andie Jul 23, 08:49 4
    - Apparently Tom Green is on basically all the time. -- nm - Andie Jul 23, 08:51 2
      - And.....you just singlehandedly ruined Periscope. -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 08:52 1
        
        oh come one, you know you've been jonesing for some Tom Green pron -- nm - decline Jul 23, 08:53
    - So it's the latest and greatest porn platform (among other things) :) -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 08:51
  - It's live streaming video, nothing new really. I've only used it twice and it was to watch Glove and Boots live. -- nm - Krusty Jul 23, 08:49
  - it's the unholy spawn of Twitch and Twitter -- nm - ML Jul 23, 08:47 5
    - Wasn't that Vine? -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 08:49 4
      - Vine is short video, six seconds, that you upload. Periscope allows you to go live and I don't think there's a limit to the length. - Krusty Jul 23, 08:50
      - it's streaming vine -- nm - decline Jul 23, 08:50
      - Vine isn't live. -- nm - ML Jul 23, 08:50 1
        
        Ah, LiveVine. Okay, that I can understand. Thanks! -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 08:50
Well, I think I creeped out Sean's daughter. Mission accomplished. -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 08:44
Guys, Taylor is *gasp* fallible! -- (link) - ty97 Jul 23, 08:42 11
- Swifty's in town this weekend at Gillette Stadium for 2 shows. Wonder who will end up on her catwalk? Gisele? The cast of Ghostbusters? -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 08:54
- Girls, girls. You're *all* insipid! -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 08:46
- I just think all three should kiss and make up. - Jovian Jul 23, 08:46
- NO! -- nm - Mop Jul 23, 08:44
- Ah, to be young and insanely paranoid. -- nm - David Jul 23, 08:44 4
  - "You're so vain, you probably think this tweet is about you, don't you...." -- nm - TWuG Jul 23, 08:45
  - What's that like at your age? - Diva Jul 23, 08:45 2
    - Man, I haven't been called young in a while. -- nm - David Jul 23, 08:47 1
      - If only... -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 08:47
- good on her. (I think the blow-up of this is funny.) -- nm - Diva Jul 23, 08:43 1
  - I haven't followed it all that in-depth, but the reads I saw was that some felt - ty97 Jul 23, 08:45
So, who puts egg chunks in potato salad? - Will Hunting Jul 23, 08:40 16
- of course, otherwise you just have chopped up potatoes -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 23, 12:56
- Egg chunks are the best part. Well, second best, apart from the potatoes. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 23, 09:44
- Patriot fans -- nm - Remlik's phone Jul 23, 08:47
- Eggs in potato salad is, literally, the least of the things wrong with potato salad. -- nm - TWuG Jul 23, 08:46 1
  - Word. If anything eggs are trying to save the potato salad. -- nm - Jim Jul 23, 09:27
- Why you got to be starting stuff. - Mop Jul 23, 08:45
- Who doesn't put eggs in potato salad? -- nm - Jim Jul 23, 08:44
- Potato salad is by definition gross because mayo -- nm - ty97 Jul 23, 08:43
- I'm pretty sure that will get you kicked out of some countries, like Canada. -- nm - Baron Bing Bong Jul 23, 08:42 2
  - Or they just send you to "Moose Jaw" -- nm - spamlet, Defending Blood Feud Champion Jul 23, 08:46 1
    - oh no, we have laws against cruelty here. -- nm - Reagen Jul 23, 08:51
- uh, everyone? -- nm - decline Jul 23, 08:42 1
  - He hates eggs in general. (Although there's no problem with scrambled eggs mixed in the pad Thai take-out) -- nm - kelly Jul 23, 08:45
- I do depending on my audience. Some folks expect it. (I don't eat potato salad or devilled eggs but I make them and people always like my recipes.) -- nm* - Diva Jul 23, 08:41
- Your wife. :) -- nm - kelly Jul 23, 08:41
- usually when people make it from scratch. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 23, 08:41
Oh not sure if some of you know you can already download WOT for xbone and have it be ready when it launches next week - eag Jul 23, 08:38
It's National Hot Dog Day, everybody. Celebrate responsibly. -- nm - ML Jul 23, 08:38 1
- Thats funny thats what were having for dinner tonight ironically -- nm - eag Jul 23, 08:39

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