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vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I like it, as a person who doesn’t really pay attention to most names in fiction, and primarily focuses on the story it’s trying to tell.

  Don’t make it too obvious like “Busty LoveInterest” and “Villain McMustashface”.

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  • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Die Hardman Heartman Fragile Revolver Ocelott Snake Eater

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    Kojima you beautiful bastard

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    • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha you know I’m a kojima fan!!

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    • degen@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You guys ever heard of JoJo’s?

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you like techno-fantasy I highly recommend snowcrash. For years I’ve wanted a game of the first chapter, basically a guy is delivering pizza but gas is really expensive so all he has is a skateboard and a harpoon gun with an electromagnet. He basically shoots the harpoon at cars and gave them pull him towards the destination, it sounds like a cool video game like a race but you don’t control speed only which car you are connected to.

    Don’t worry that didn’t spoil anything. The book goes into a totally different direction with technology and science.

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The guy in the car getting harpooned is delivering the pizza, the skateboarder is just hitching a free ride.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Wait, are you correcting me or giving social commentary? I thought the guy on the skateboard was delivering pizzas but it has been over a decade since I read it so I may be wrong

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    • SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I vaguely remember a skateboarding game from the 90s where the character could grab onto cars. But it was probably on something like Sega Mega and pretty primitive. Might’ve been one of the Simpsons games.

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      • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skitchin'

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    • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve said that before too, like I would love a novel that’s just about the pizza delivery side of things, he crammed so much fascinating backstory into that one chapter, then the book completely changes direction and never looks back. That whole sequence with all the crazy technology and just the tone in general was just so badass.

      Don’t get me wrong, the rest of the book is pretty awesome too, but that first chapter is wild just on its own.

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      • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Completely agree.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The difference is that’s trying to be stupid and funny. Rowling is just, I don’t know, lazy, or uncreative, or racist. One, or multiple, of those at least.

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  • VitoRobles@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cho Chang. is so fucking wild that her editor didn’t go, “Wtf?”

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was the age of “if you point out racism, you’re the real racist”.

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s not a direct connection to Rowling but I was just pointing out another example.

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• 4am@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  snowcraah

  The way I imagined this being said Image

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry, it’s snowcrash and I corrected the original comment.

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• SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Snowcrash is a satire. That name is supposed to be funny

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could be, I may be wrong but still an awesome book

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• k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The protagonist from one of the mortal Kombat was Shujinko. Which means protagonist.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I just looked that up and it says Shujinko was fooled by someone named Damashi, which means trick.

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Pretty much all anime names are stupid as hell too. Dragon Ball famously names all characters around foods (and sometimes other themes like underwear, for example). In other anime, every character has a name that just so happens to be related to their special ability or personality. Yusuke Urameshi from Yuyuhakusho basically is “Boo Ghost-boy”.

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      • Jomega@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In Dragon Ball’s case, this is because Akira Toriyama would always write before dinner, so he would always have food on the brain. He was kinda quirky like that.

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• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fantastic book, line a comics but in text.

  He also invented “the metaverse” that moron zuckerberg just stole, poured billions into just to get legs to the avatars.

  BTW The Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon are masterpieces too IMO.

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bought this book minutes before reading this comment. The AI-captured advernet is here, and they have played me like a fiddle

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nope, I’m not an Ai advert. I read the book and still have it. I hope you like the book. I also recommend a diamond age, also known as a primer for young girls.

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    • A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The secondary title is; Or, A Young Ladies Illustrated Primer. The Diamond Age is one of my favorite Stephenson books.

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