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clash_bowley
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Well, then you should be happy! Or... is that me doing that 'logic thing' again? :D
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Weighted voting is simply voting ordinally - i.e. nominate 3 books, each voter ranks them first, second, and third. First gets three points, second gets two points, and third gets one point. Most points is the one selected. What it tends to do is ma…
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I'd be up for nomination-and-election thing. Maybe using a weighted vote.
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By the way Magitechnology is the subject of one of the games I released last month. I approach it differently.
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I'm right now playing in a game set along the Silk Road in Central Asia, so this is excellent grist for the setting mill! I could definitely see someone using the village as a setting there!
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Central Asia is an interest of mine, and from what I could see, the author did their homework. Since Central Asia is invisible to the USA - even after Afghanistan - we have little grasp of it. I thought the author tried hard to set this in a realist…
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I really liked the buried ethnicity - that felt so true. There should have been far more about it. Otherwise, again, I agree too much with both Richard and Chris above to bother repeating them. Again! :D
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Again, I can't add anything to the two previous replies. I agree totally with both.
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I did not like Chung Mae. I don't think we were supposed to like her. The other characters and their relationships were very well done. Convincing and real - and likeable. She was not. She was a vehicle for the magic.
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I pretty much agree with both Richard and Apocryphal here. it's a story of the effects of a magi-technological singularity on a small village. If any such village would survive such a revolution. It's optimism is unfounded.
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Aside from the fact that the technology in the book was not technological at all, the sweeping changes it brought rings true. The fracturing of the village was painful, but inevitable. It would have been destroyed and not rebuilt in the real world. …
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I'm not sure what the author was attempting, so I'm not sure if they succeeded. I would not say the read was enjoyable, but it was interesting. I always have problems with Magical Realism like this, because the people and relationships seem gritty, …
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I'm done!
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Questions are up!
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Working on them!
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This is my take as well.
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(Quote) :D
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(Quote) I think yes.
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You're right Neil... I let my visceral disgust twist my thoughts. It is Authoritarian without being specifically Fascist.
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Nothing stood out for me for gaming use.
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(Quote) I agree entirely with Neil's view here.
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None of that rang true for me. It all just seemed like something designed to showcase the Fueher Principle. For me it read more like propaganda than anything.
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Not Canadian nor British. Also not my experience. The response I saw was based greatly on helping and cooperation. Now different parts of the US were hit differently, but we in New England got through it all with a few temporary common-sense restric…
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All the characters are caricatures spouting deep meaningful bullshit excusing them from the need to be human. Even the ones who spout the reverse are just there to show how ineffective they are.
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It's Lord of the Flies with adults. The means are really immaterial. It's just an excuse to plunge the world into barbarism and highlight Christopher's frankly fascist ideals.
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(Quote) Excellent! Thank you!
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(Quote) Got it!
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Sure! If Barner doesn't reply!
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Also my next book will be Signal Lost by Onyx Sullivan
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(Quote) Done