Spoilers Section 31: Control by David Mack Review Thread

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  1. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    So, a super intelligent AI, conspiracies, eye... Illuminati confirmed.
     
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  2. Mage

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    Makes the most sense, now that you digged up that little nugget. :)
     
  3. Ronald Held

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    Interesting new explanation for how Moriarty was created as a sentient. Thanks Christopher. AFAIR, Moriarty was in a body made by the Androids on Mudd's world. No idea if he does direct data downloads.
     
  4. Brefugee

    Brefugee No longer living the Irish dream. Premium Member

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    What one has to remember in these situations is even though Chris might be a writer and have a somewhat limited creative role in the stories he constructs, what he is explains something that was created by someone else, especially then, he is the same as all of us who hang out here and contribute is that it is mere fan based speculation. - Other than of course the writers of those books themselves (including Chris) who decide to attempt to explain some of their story execution (I say try, because Dave the Third still holds a mighty grudge and refuses to come back here)
     
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  5. jaime

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    Now ask yourself....is the doctor part of her? He is fed software. As is moriarty.
     
  6. Idran

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    Didn't it explicitly say in the book that the AI was named after the Egyptian symbol?
     
  7. Defcon

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    Yep. Chapter Three:

     
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  8. Christopher

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    Yeah, but like it says, it's two asps, the plural form of the name. (And it's the Greek form of the original Egyptian name.) So it's weird to have a plural name applied to a single entity.
     
  9. Ronald Held

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    Who repaired Data? Was it Lal, Laforge, or Akharin?
     
  10. Mage

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    Yes, it was. I ment that the nugget of how that symbol was pronounced, and how that pronunciation makes sense considering Yuarei's function. Should have been more clear about that. :)
     
  11. hbquikcomjamesl

    hbquikcomjamesl Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Finally cracked mine. Got through the epilogue-as-prologue, and the first chapter, and looked ahead to the first sentence or two of the second chapter.

    Is it just me, or does the epilogue-as-prologue seem a lot like the climaxes of both the last two Star Wars movies?

    Just from the beginning of the second chapter, I see a lot of parallels between the first two chapters Chapters 2 and 3. Particularly the use of Faraday cages.

    It seems I misspoke here: when I got home last night, I realized that the epilogue-as-prologue was Chapter 1, and that I'd finished through Chapter 3, and was looking ahead into Chapter 4.
     
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  12. Christopher

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    I was reminded more of Serenity, actually.
     
  13. hbquikcomjamesl

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    Never saw Serenity.

    Saw a musical comedy called Serenity Lost, though, but that's a musical that was written specifically for student and amateur productions, in the "Old West Melodrama" style.
     
  14. Kilana2

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    With Uraei operating in the background it was a dangerous time for people with multiple allergies and minor ailments, at least in case they were considered a threat.
    I'm wondering how many people actually dropped off the radar prematurely :shrug:.
     
  15. hbquikcomjamesl

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    The English language needs new tenses to deal with a time that is the past of a fictional future for which we are even further in the past.

    While the above is certainly not much of a spoiler for anybody who has read the first chapter, I'd have still put it in spoiler tags.
    But that's just me.:biggrin:
     
  16. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    In Germany we have a tense specifically desgined to talk about activities that would have happened, weren't the new airport in Berlin (that was scheduled to opened in May 2015) still under construction. I am not entirely sure how to translate it, but "I would have been flew to Mallorca next summer." is a close approximation to an example sentence given in the article.
     
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  17. Christopher

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    You invented a whole verb tense just for an airport delay? That's taking air-travel aggravation to a whole new level.
     
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  18. Jinn

    Jinn Mistress of the Chaotic Energies Rear Admiral

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    Well, not really, the article was form a satire website (I thought it was obvious, but in hindsight it really wasn't...) That airport however is the butt of a ton of jokes and fake articles like "Study: BER completition delayed every year by two years", "IS sleeper who wanted to commit a terrorist attack on BER died of old age", "Fake or real? Picture shows allegedly working builder at airport BER" and one of my favorites "Shocking study: Jokes about BER threaten to run out before construction is finished".
     
  19. hbquikcomjamesl

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    I'm actually surprised you haven't had to invent a whole bunch of verb tenses just for DTI.
     
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  20. Christopher

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    So basically BER is the Star Trek: Discovery of airports? ;)
     
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