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  • Noted

    I don’t really listen to audiobooks but it’s always good to know.

    Also what’s your opinion on the rest of the trilogy that neuromancer is part of? I have the second book as well as my gf bought it but she didn’t have the courage/will to actually read it after neuromancer. Just curious

    And yes I’ll let you know how it goes :)

    We got our own book club in this thread haha (at least what I read)


  • Hey!!

    Contact is read!!

    I really liked it. In a story about ET contact, the focus is basically almost 100% on humans but I actually liked the approach. Halfway there were some chapters where it went on some tangents and it seemed weird filler but by the end it all wrapped up rather nicely.

    It was also a much easier read, having taken like 1/10 of the time Red Mars took me.

    I’ll probably read Neuromancer next, even if my gf found it a hard read.



  • At work atm so I’ll keep it succinct but definitely the giant cast of mostly uninteresting characters. The politics were actually quite ok but I usually like that sort of things.

    Also sometimes he goes on these long paragraphs were he describes all the driving instructions in mars and expecting the reader to have lived on Mars for 10 years as well XD

    He also gave as much emphasis to a teenager-like love drama as to a global scale terrorism operation which is, let’s say interesting







  • That would work

    We play it on my pc which is wired directly to the tv. We use 2 XBOX controllers but PS4 ones will work just as well.

    You will probably want to have a pretty big screen because it’s almost always split screen (except in some dialogues if that other player listens to the convo). However you can always set the fonts to a bigger size which is super helpful.

    Unfortunately it’s not like DOS 2 where the split screen merges when you are close together but that’s not the end of the world. The game has turn based combat so even if you have some streaming delays it’s not a big deal.

    Your frame rate will drop a bit on Act 3 but it gets better with every patch.

    If you have any more questions let me know.



  • The vast majority of landlords doesn’t do any of that. They just pay for it to professional people from the revenue that they get from renting the house. The only labor that they perform is maximizing rent and minimizing maintenance costs (usually at the expense of the renters) and having to find new tenants from time to time.

    The majority of the revenue is simply achieved by having the asset or capital to acquire said asset. They don’t really provide any service that wouldn’t exist without them, they are simply exploiting an asset and people that need a place to live.