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Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage (petapixel.com)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hey, we’re yet to discover whether Hari Seldom would become a villain! With this end of the last season, you’d never know!

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    The books, however have been out for somewhere between 70 to 30 years

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't the show unrelated to the books beyond the setting and some characters?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You may actually be right, I haven't really watched the show as I don't have Apple TV. But it annoys me to no end they'd use the namez say it's based on the books, and do something different rather than an adaptation.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    I hate that too.

    I didn't know that the "The Man in the High Castle" (supposed to be based on a novel by Philip K. Dick) show was just about the setting and they came up with their own story. I was so pissed off after watching the first episode.

    I was actually wondering why they even went with "The Man in the High Castle" since it's a strange and superficially depressing novel (even by the standards of PKD). There are much better choices for a series or a movie based on PKD's work.

    That's why I didn't bother with the Foundation series (I am a big Asimov fan). I don't mind a re-interpretation of a literary work, but it has to be creative and mind bending while conceptually (and philosophically?) engaging with the themes from the literary work.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Hey, I was a fan of Asimov’s genius when I was a kid, but that was some time ago, and I remember only The Gods Themselves. As I read it many times, that’s my favourite. Are there any others you’d recommend? I mean, of course I plan to enjoy them all. But perhaps there are some recommendations for a stranger to read this, and then that, and then something else too.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Funnily enough "The Gods Themselves" themselves is my favorite Asimov novel. It's very memorable. Doesn't feel like an Asimov novel.

    I would honestly go with "The Caves of Steel" as a "benchmark" Asimov experience, the first novel in the Robot series.

    If you want to go for something a little bit outside of the Robot / Foundation series (and you've already read or reread "The Gods Themselves"), I would go for "The End of Eternity".

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I thought about it, and I must admit I haven’t read it (yet). Yet, the TV series adaptation, it looks like the latest episode was like WTAF?! I mean, I won’t be surprised it would be a completely different adaptation.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I meant the books, which are not very detailed and focus on his genius at predicting whole societies, but not separate people, yadda-yadda, the author might have liked that specific detail, except it's wrong, a society consists of all its members, and predicting one person is still easier. I suspect that's because Foundation is actually a utopia, something showing how science and genius are always ultimately on the side of the good. IRL that's not true.

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