from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
She just thinks it's un-natural. It's the same reason why she doesn't like foods with preservitives in it. Which I find strange because how could something be un-natural in the first place?
as i said above, the two genres of writing are similiar, but contain enough differences that the two are seperate. 1984 is a negative utopia, as is Brave new world, we, Player Paino, and Ferenhieght 451. Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Mad Max, Neuromancer are examples of Dystopia (as well as Cyberpunk, since that phrase has been coined, anyway)
Right, but in literary circles the genres of Negative Utopia and Dystopia are different. Dystopia being post apocalptic and cyberpunk, Negative Utopia being those like 1984, Brave new world, We, etc etc etc
"can also allow(someday) those who cannot have children "normally" and have the legitimate "selfish" desire to have a child of their own genetic makeup to do just that"
This is the sole reason I think cloning is an excellent idea, and one of the main cause of fights between me and my wife. She thinks it's unnatural, and therefore wrong. I think anything that can bring people the happiness of a family that could not have one before is a fantastic idea in all aspects.
I also think almost all of the misconceptions about cloning come from scifi novels...few people actually know what cloning is about or what it's like. people think that they can make instant hitler replicas that are full grown and evil...
the term for "1984" style books is Negative Utopia. And besides, i think 1984 wasn't really all that good of a negative utopia...it focused more on brutal police states that were becoming big at the time, but have little relevence to non-3rd world countries this day in age. Brave New World, OTOH, might be a better indication of were we are heading.
and the odler games, they were totally void of any such cases? I mean, yeah, those platformer games really went beyond good versus evil and blowing shit up. Right. Or even Ultima, or Wizards and Warriors, Might and Magic, ADVENT, etc etc and etc...it's all cliche and violence...
if anything games are involving towards more plot and less linearity.
i think the adventure game market could be huge now...if they market it correctly. I mean come on, the last few FinalFantasy's played like a washed up wanna-be King's Quest with a bad combat system....and Resident Evil is just Alone in the Dark with a gun.
i never said i went outside. you can meet people online as well...
and why do you think I posted so much in this forum today? Because I am socialite? No. I too just mumble and etc when people try to talk to me (although not about staplers....mainly because there is no such thing as a red swingline stapler...heh) at work. But then again, I hate everyone I work with.
I do have friends in the real world- but since I've gotten married I much perfer stayinh home with my wife after work than going outside.
That was really damn rude of him.
I wonder why he thinks the geek stereotype is true? Maybe it's easier to blame something outside fo your control rather than to admit that saying shit like that will drive girls away faster than rotting meat tapes to your genitals.
scaring the crap out of the two chinese girls that share an office with me. I knwo, I can claim I really love programming, and that I'm just typing really fast....
you didn't have to slam my wife. First of all- not fat, but like you would know in the first place. Of course, if you knew anything about women, you'd also know how utterly cruel of an insult this is. No matter how thin the woman is, a sentance like that could send her into extrememly deep depression.
only a real prick would say something like that off-handedly.
Joke or not, I hate these stereotypes. So far, I've met no one who fit into it. To me, it's about as bad as saying "All mexians or lazy". It's not there for a reason, other than as a self-perpuatating myth. You enjoy perpuatating it because of the positive aspects of the stereotype.
nothing beats playing super mario 3 for sexual favors either. A favorite game for me and my wife- - heh.
Fucking geek steroetypes.
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God. I have a wife. I have a copy fo MAME. I'm a hard core nerd, my day job is coding z80 ASM for ATM's, my hobby at night is making video games. Yet, I've dated a lot, had a lot of girlfriends, and don't understand this geek steroetype BECAUSE NO ONE I HAVE MET HAS EVER BEEN ONE. And I know alot of nerds.
God. You know what's unbeleivable? Somebody so stupid they actually would place their suspension of disbleif in something so bad as a stereotype. 1. It's fiction. So suspend away NONE OF IT IS REAL. 2. That would be like saying "God, this cop-buddy comedy with a black man in it isn't racist enough in it's portrayal of a subculture.".
Yes, hard core pc gamers expect the latest 3d and etc....but not everyone is a hardcore gamer. Some people don't care about graphics as long as they look good. Not spectacular and jaw dropping, just no ass-ugly.
if you look at the game industry like the movie industry, then the indie gamers *should* do what the indie movie industry does, and use the lower budget/less effects to their advantage...
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from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
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"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
from:
http://www.penguinputnam.com/Book/BookFrame/0,100
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
7 ,,00.html?id=0452262933
"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
from:
http://www.penguinputnam.com/Book/BookFrame/0,100
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
from the back of the penguin classics edition of 1984:
7 ,,00.html?id=0452262933
"Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely that ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia," that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world-"
from:
http://www.penguinputnam.com/Book/BookFrame/0,100
So the word negative utopia? See the lack of the term dystopia? Common vernacular has changed the meaning of dystopia, but that's just because ignorant fools speak before they research, and propagate mis-usage of terms and concepts.
She just thinks it's un-natural. It's the same reason why she doesn't like foods with preservitives in it. Which I find strange because how could something be un-natural in the first place?
cause that was really damn funny...i have to remember that one...
as i said above, the two genres of writing are similiar, but contain enough differences that the two are seperate. 1984 is a negative utopia, as is Brave new world, we, Player Paino, and Ferenhieght 451. Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Mad Max, Neuromancer are examples of Dystopia (as well as Cyberpunk, since that phrase has been coined, anyway)
Right, but in literary circles the genres of Negative Utopia and Dystopia are different. Dystopia being post apocalptic and cyberpunk, Negative Utopia being those like 1984, Brave new world, We, etc etc etc
"can also allow(someday) those who cannot have children "normally" and have the legitimate "selfish" desire to have a child of their own genetic makeup to do just that"
This is the sole reason I think cloning is an excellent idea, and one of the main cause of fights between me and my wife. She thinks it's unnatural, and therefore wrong. I think anything that can bring people the happiness of a family that could not have one before is a fantastic idea in all aspects.
I also think almost all of the misconceptions about cloning come from scifi novels...few people actually know what cloning is about or what it's like. people think that they can make instant hitler replicas that are full grown and evil...
the term for "1984" style books is Negative Utopia. And besides, i think 1984 wasn't really all that good of a negative utopia...it focused more on brutal police states that were becoming big at the time, but have little relevence to non-3rd world countries this day in age. Brave New World, OTOH, might be a better indication of were we are heading.
God kills a kitten.
and the odler games, they were totally void of any such cases? I mean, yeah, those platformer games really went beyond good versus evil and blowing shit up. Right. Or even Ultima, or Wizards and Warriors, Might and Magic, ADVENT, etc etc and etc...it's all cliche and violence...
if anything games are involving towards more plot and less linearity.
i think the adventure game market could be huge now...if they market it correctly. I mean come on, the last few FinalFantasy's played like a washed up wanna-be King's Quest with a bad combat system....and Resident Evil is just Alone in the Dark with a gun.
i never said i went outside. you can meet people online as well...
and why do you think I posted so much in this forum today? Because I am socialite? No. I too just mumble and etc when people try to talk to me (although not about staplers....mainly because there is no such thing as a red swingline stapler...heh) at work. But then again, I hate everyone I work with.
I do have friends in the real world- but since I've gotten married I much perfer stayinh home with my wife after work than going outside.
but i've also had very little sleep today...so i probably should have phrased it better. but I didn't.
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That was really damn rude of him. I wonder why he thinks the geek stereotype is true? Maybe it's easier to blame something outside fo your control rather than to admit that saying shit like that will drive girls away faster than rotting meat tapes to your genitals.
scaring the crap out of the two chinese girls that share an office with me. I knwo, I can claim I really love programming, and that I'm just typing really fast....
you didn't have to slam my wife. First of all- not fat, but like you would know in the first place. Of course, if you knew anything about women, you'd also know how utterly cruel of an insult this is. No matter how thin the woman is, a sentance like that could send her into extrememly deep depression.
only a real prick would say something like that off-handedly.
Joke or not, I hate these stereotypes. So far, I've met no one who fit into it. To me, it's about as bad as saying "All mexians or lazy". It's not there for a reason, other than as a self-perpuatating myth. You enjoy perpuatating it because of the positive aspects of the stereotype.
i'll remember that next time I'm typing in a response to a post that will maybe last a day or two on the internet, you shit for brains.
brings a whole new meaning to the name "space invaders".
Of course, with the PSX/2 vibrating function, it's almost as if the controller was asking for it.
so there unless my wife drops out of the sky, I think I'll be sexually frustrated until I get home from work.
nothing beats playing super mario 3 for sexual favors either. A favorite game for me and my wife- - heh.
God. I have a wife. I have a copy fo MAME. I'm a hard core nerd, my day job is coding z80 ASM for ATM's, my hobby at night is making video games. Yet, I've dated a lot, had a lot of girlfriends, and don't understand this geek steroetype BECAUSE NO ONE I HAVE MET HAS EVER BEEN ONE. And I know alot of nerds.
God. You know what's unbeleivable? Somebody so stupid they actually would place their suspension of disbleif in something so bad as a stereotype. 1. It's fiction. So suspend away NONE OF IT IS REAL. 2. That would be like saying "God, this cop-buddy comedy with a black man in it isn't racist enough in it's portrayal of a subculture.".
"But it won't sell, so it won't be published, so you're never going to hear about it."
How is selling or gettting it published the point?
Yes, hard core pc gamers expect the latest 3d and etc....but not everyone is a hardcore gamer. Some people don't care about graphics as long as they look good. Not spectacular and jaw dropping, just no ass-ugly. if you look at the game industry like the movie industry, then the indie gamers *should* do what the indie movie industry does, and use the lower budget/less effects to their advantage...