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| 00:33:15 [nathanbp] | Hey |
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| 00:33:20 [nathanbp] | how was HaCha? :D |
| 00:33:22 [Cassian] | Hey |
| 00:33:27 [Cassian] | Pretty dumb |
| 00:36:33 [nathanbp] | I guess Yen Press is really getting serious about light novels |
| 00:36:56 [Cassian] | Yeah |
| 00:36:57 [nathanbp] | I wonder how much of Index they committed to publish... |
| 00:37:12 [Cassian] | They licensed some other one I haven't heard of |
| 00:37:58 [nathanbp] | Yeah I saw on ANN |
| 00:38:10 [nathanbp] | surprising to see them pick something up that doesn't have an anime |
| 00:38:18 [Cassian] | I'm guessing at least the first arc of Index. I have no idea how many novels that is |
| 00:38:20 [Cassian] | Yeah... |
| 00:38:27 [Cassian] | Unless maybe it's getting one soon |
| 00:39:35 [nathanbp] | Maybe |
| 00:40:09 [nathanbp] | I'm not actually going to buy them, I assume enough other people will >_> |
| 00:40:30 [Cassian] | Let's hope so we can get something better <_<; |
| 00:43:34 [nathanbp] | I'm kinda curious to see what Aniplex is planning for SAO II events |
| 00:43:41 [Cassian] | Dark Horse licensed a Kuroneko Oreimo spin-off |
| 00:43:44 [Cassian] | Oh boy |
| 00:43:53 [nathanbp] | although I assume that by US they mean just LA :( |
| 00:44:00 [Cassian] | Yeah |
| 00:44:11 [Cassian] | Probably for AX |
| 00:44:53 [nathanbp] | Well they're apparently doing events in the US, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan |
| 00:45:00 [nathanbp] | so maybe they'll do one in NYC as well as LA |
| 00:48:39 [Cassian] | Ah. |
| 00:48:58 [Cassian] | i can't think of where they'd do it in NYC |
| 00:50:12 [Cassian] | Apparently Yen still has more announcements for their LN imprint coming |
| 00:50:38 [nathanbp] | This just makes me feel even more lazy about going back to studying Japanese >_> |
| 00:50:47 [Cassian] | Lol |
| 00:51:13 [Cassian] | Good job, guys https://twitter.com/minase_iorin/status/457676771144372224 |
| 00:51:15 [Sacchi] | Twitter / minase_iorin: TOEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ... |
| 00:51:53 [nathanbp] | wtf? |
| 00:52:00 [Cassian] | It's from this wallpaper http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/precure/images/wallpaper/03_l.php |
| 00:52:01 [Sacchi] | ハピネスチャージプリキュア!壁紙３回(Lサイズ) |
| 00:52:25 [nathanbp] | Toei..... |
| 00:52:50 [Cassian] | They really need someone that speaks English to approve these things beforehand... |
| 00:53:38 [nathanbp] | Maybe they use the same QC team as Funi? |
| 00:53:59 [Cassian] | LMAO |
| 01:28:49 [nathanbp] | No Captain Earth yet (and still no Sidonia...) |
| 01:29:16 [Cassian] | Sidonia delayed by typesetting... |
| 01:38:18 [nathanbp] | yep... |
| 02:31:32 [Cassian] | Brb |
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| 03:05:43 [nathanbp] | welcome back |
| 03:05:58 [nathanbp] | how are you liking In the Night Garden? |
| 05:25:13 [Cassian] | Opps, I forgot to tab back |
| 05:25:43 [Cassian] | I'm enjoying it aside from almost everyone having to go into a story or two when they're introduced |
| 05:54:07 [nathanbp] | lol. that's the theme though :D |
| 05:54:22 [Cassian] | I know DX |
| 05:54:32 [nathanbp] | Ugh I'm glad Shipstar didn't end with a "to be continued" |
| 05:54:50 [Cassian] | Is that a book? |
| 05:55:50 [nathanbp] | yeah |
| 05:56:54 [nathanbp] | It's the 2nd in a 2 book series by Niven (and Greg Benford) about a giant object |
| 05:57:06 [nathanbp] | This time instead of ringworld it's a giant bowl around a star |
| 05:57:49 [Cassian] | Ohh. I think I saw those at the library |
| 05:59:03 [nathanbp] | They might have been better with some stricter editing instead of just blathering on >_> |
| 05:59:15 [Cassian] | DX |
| 05:59:36 [Cassian] | So are the other Ringworld books like the later Ender books? |
| 06:01:23 [nathanbp] | not quite |
| 06:01:58 [nathanbp] | well, maybe... |
| 06:02:06 [Cassian] | Oh.... |
| 06:02:17 [Cassian] | Are they overly complicated messes... |
| 06:02:45 [nathanbp] | the second one was about as good, the third one a little less so, and the last one is kinda a mess |
| 06:02:57 [Cassian] | Yikes D: |
| 06:03:11 [nathanbp] | Niven also wrote a lot of other books in the same setting (Known Space) |
| 06:03:22 [Cassian] | Ah |
| 06:03:37 [nathanbp] | mostly short stories |
| 06:03:52 [Cassian] | Oh, okay |
| 06:05:35 [nathanbp] | mostly in the 60s and 70s |
| 06:06:10 [Cassian] | Figures |
| 06:06:26 [nathanbp] | then recently he co-wrote a series that tied EVERYTHING he'd ever written for known space together and was kinda dumb |
| 06:06:51 [Cassian] | I think I saw those in the wiki article and went nope |
| 06:08:39 [nathanbp] | Probably smart... |
| 06:09:34 [Cassian] | Most of the spin-offs of older books written in the 70s and 80s seem like a good sign to stay away |
| 06:09:48 [Cassian] | Of the spin-offs/sequels I mean |
| 06:09:55 [nathanbp] | The first Ringworld sequel was written in part to fix a problem with the physics of the Ringworld (it's unstable to a thrust in the plane towards the star) |
| 06:10:07 [Cassian] | Ohh |
| 06:10:24 [Cassian] | So after that it went down hill? |
| 06:10:37 [nathanbp] | Yeah |
| 06:10:51 [Cassian] | Bah |
| 06:10:58 [nathanbp] | Most of the rest of his known space stuff from the 60s/70s is pretty good, IMO |
| 06:12:00 [Cassian] | That seems like the case for the majority of the older Sci-Fi writers |
| 06:13:40 [nathanbp] | Yeah... |
| 06:25:25 [nathanbp] | fortunately there do seem to be a fair number of new sci-fi writers to take their place >_> |
| 06:25:37 [Cassian] | Yeah <_< |
| 06:26:03 [Cassian] | I sure hope they all don't write 1000+ page series |
| 06:27:07 [nathanbp] | That seems to be limited to fantasy authors so far... |
| 06:27:14 [Cassian] | Good |
| 06:27:36 [Cassian] | 500 pages per book is pushing it >_>;; |
| 06:29:11 [nathanbp] | speaking of modern sci-fi, you should add Blindsight by Peter Watts to your list >_> |
| 06:30:40 [nathanbp] | It is a very bizarre alien first contact story |
| 06:31:57 [Cassian] | Huh, less than 400 pages |
| 06:33:58 [nathanbp] | Yeah, it's not that long |
| 06:36:20 [nathanbp] | I'm off to sleep, 'night |
| 06:36:30 [Cassian] | Good night! |
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| 23:32:37 [nathanbp] | hey |
| 23:33:03 [nathanbp] | I watched ep 3 of Captain Earth |
| 23:33:45 [nathanbp] | at 52 meters per second it would take almost 3 months to get from the Moon to Earth >_>;; |
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