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@purplephish20 Did you know that Fallout 3 actually has an Easter Egg based on There Will Come Soft Rains and that it is incredibly depressing.
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@ceruleanspark that story broke my heart in college last year... And no I didn't know
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@purplephish20 Yeah. You can tell the house robot to walk the dog. It finds the corpse and commits suicide. You can tell him to read a bedtime story to the children, and he'll read the poem the story is based on to a skeleton clutching a teddy.
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@rarity Bethesda is like that really kind friend of yours who never showers and always has greasy hair and lice, but he's so awesome to be with it never puts you off the great time you're having
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@ceruleanspark oh jeez... If I ever saw that in game I would have probably cried. I just don't get why we had to go through so many of ray bradburys story's in college... They were always so depressing
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@purplephish20 exactly
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@purplephish20 Oh did you study the one with the astronauts whose ship had exploded, leaving them just drifting in space?
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@ceruleanspark oh god I just watched it on YouTube...
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@ceruleanspark nope, don't recall that one
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@purplephish20 Spoilers: They all die alone and afraid.
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@purplephish20 Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done.
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@ceruleanspark I remember one about 3 old lady's knitting, only to be incinerated by the nuclear bombs dropping a minute later. I'm sure that was his work...
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@purplephish20 You won't know depressing writing until you watch any version of Les Miserables
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@ceruleanspark I always thought it was just a cross between Oliver and pride and prejudice... I should really watch it. Blood brothers, that's pretty depressing, a stage play. I saw it live in Nottingham on a school trip. One of the Nolan sisters was the leading lady though so that was fun
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@ceruleanspark @purplephish20 I never got how people find that depressing. I find it quite the opposite. Even though we might all one day die, and leave the planet uninhabited, our legacy will remain. Our creations will be there as testament to humanity's greatness. Our work will trascend our time. If anything that's inspiring.
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@nerthos everything burns, everything will one day be dust, nothing will remain. That is the inevitability of it.
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@ceruleanspark Have you read the book?
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@purplephish20 But knowing that something might remain until the sun goes supernova is comforting.
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@nerthos and depressing because it takes up space
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@rotation It is on my agenda. I find myself with a lot of time for reading of late.
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@nerthos until THIS sun goes supernova? I'm daily positive that intelligent earthbound society will exist 6 billion years from now, and will almost certainly have the resources to evacuate the planet, it's when the entire galaxy inevitably is destroyed trillions of years from now when everything is truly screwed
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@purplephish20 *fairly positive, ducking IOS Spellcheck
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@purplephish20 Who even cares? I just want to live my life, and not worry about billions of years later
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@housepaint now that's a small minded approach, there's beauty in the future, in science, in the universe. You are insignificant, the significance of a grain of sand in Japan is greater to you than how small and pointless you are in comparison to the rest of this single galaxy
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@purplephish20 As long as we keep at this "independent countries" game, that's not going to happen. Under an unified government humanity might be able to colonize space, terraform other planets, and survive the death of earth. Still, going back to the story: If a domestic robot was able to "outlive" by hundreds of years the men who built it, what about truly advanced systems and repositories of knowledge? The human genetic code might very well be stored (as a matter of fact it is, and floating in space, a very retarded idea if I may say so) in systems with the ability to replicate it, so even extinction could be just a minor setback for the species.
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@purplephish20 I know about the beauty of it, and I do apreciate it, but when I think about it, I don't really care about people who won't even know I existed
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@ceruleanspark I can never find time for a book. Took me over a month to finish The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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@housepaint if the human race survives without interruption for the next 6 billion years, by that I mean providing we don't wipe ourselves out and have to evolve again from scratch, I bet Shakespeare, the Beatles and leonado da Vinci will still be remembered
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@rotation I'm not sure anyone has time to actually sit and read Les Mis.
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@purplephish20 Then I hope I can ever get that famous, but the thing is, everything moves, faster and faster as time passes, the human mind simply wont care to learn about the past, when a computer knows everything for them
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@ceruleanspark I do, but I don't care to (not big on books atm)
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@ceruleanspark not in one go, but I imagine people who travel by train would be able to get through it in a couple of weeks.
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@rotation who travels by train?
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@housepaint A lot of middle class people.
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@purplephish20 hey phishy, how did the thing with your BF go?
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@rotation really? wow... well, around here, there is only one train station, and it's for cargo
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@housepaint England is a very different place.
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@rotation well now, that makes sense XD
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@purplephish20 Man, change the Beatles for Mozart or Wagner or something like that and then you can be sure of it.
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@mushi um.... What thing? O_O
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@nerthos I would certainly say the beatles qualify. Theyre just too important in modern culture, I'm quite sure they'll be remembered as such many MANY years down the line
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@purplephish20 you told you BF was coming over and stuff and i told you "good luck" and stuff. dont you remember?
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@mushi Oh yeahhh, yep, we went through with everything. I told my dad, some complications arose but if I wrote it here then I'd be waffling and it'd take up half the page
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@purplephish20 hahah ok then, but everything went right?
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@mushi Yep, pretty much. It's great, a real load off. And yeah my aunt helped with talks and stuff, once you come out it just calms your blood pressure, secrets aren't healthy
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@purplephish20 But they're not important musically. They're important to a short lived cultural movement. They'll be remembered only by people doing extensive study in art trends and ancient sub cultures.
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@nerthos >The Beatles >Not important musically >mfw http://ur1.ca/dd2gc
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@purplephish20 good thing everything worked
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@rarity Face it. Only maybe two of their disks were good.
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@nerthos Not important musically? Maybe not the first few albums, all that "YEAH YEAH YEAH" crap, but the later stuff, Revolver and the white album especially are some of the single greatest records ever made
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@nerthos In my opinion everything they made was good, but okay.
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@purplephish20 Depends on tastes. We don't have someone here who has done enough studies on music to say for certain.
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@rarity In my opinion everything they made was bad, but this is not about opinions.
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@nerthos Then you could probably say that their first few albums were not that musically significant. But the stuff later in their career is 100% significant.
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@rarity I'll believe it when someone with real studies on the topic says it to me.
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