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#21

Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by The Seamstress - July 26, 2024, 08:27:04 AM

river

#22

Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Would you rather?

Last post by The Seamstress - July 26, 2024, 08:25:08 AM

Throne! Sturdy, reliable, stylish.

You're cursed to spend the rest of your life as a sentient vegetable. Would you rather be bell pepper or turnip?

#23

Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Chengdu worldcon voting fi...

Last post by Rob_Haines - July 25, 2024, 10:46:19 PM

I think that's fair. As you say, there's a degree of vulnerability to the Hugos, due to the high value vs low cost of influencing, that makes them a wide-scope target for attempts at abuse.

#24

Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Would you rather?

Last post by Jubal - July 25, 2024, 10:22:36 PM

I think I'd have to go with the sheep because at least I can see them coming better than the rats? Also, very good pseudo-Fallout concept, I feel like that has legs. Or at least will do until the explosion.

Would you rather a really fancy swivel chair or a not-super-fancy throne?

#25

Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by Jubal - July 25, 2024, 10:21:59 PM

flow

#26

Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

Last post by The Seamstress - July 25, 2024, 09:00:26 PM

current

#27

General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Funny Picture Thread

Last post by Jubal - July 25, 2024, 08:37:46 PM

Honestly if I saw a bear on no-bear island I would increase rather than decrease its star rating

#28

Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Chengdu worldcon voting fi...

Last post by Jubal - July 25, 2024, 08:36:13 PM

I'm not sure it's solely that, though I don't think you're wrong in broad terms. Partly I think there's a more awkward variance between puppyist types and people with weirder and more individual hobby-horses, but also I think there's other actors in the pool as well now, not least all the stuff that happened in Chengdu which I think is more attributable to Chinese than Western brands of reactionary politics.

#29

Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Chengdu worldcon voting fi...

Last post by Rob_Haines - July 25, 2024, 05:52:41 PM

The Hugos are also located at a culture war pivot point between a (predominantly conservative) old guard who want speculative fiction to return to the unexamined tropes of the Golden Age, and the rest of us who want the genre to be a vast, diverse exploration of the wider imagination rather than stories viewed through a single cultural lens.

Most of the Hugo meddling has been fundamentally a result of the Sad/Rabid Puppies movements, trying to drag an otherwise forward-looking con membership backwards.

#30

General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: Funny Picture Thread

Last post by The Seamstress - July 25, 2024, 05:41:27 PM

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