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UnnDunn

I'm open for change, but as it stands, this is the plan: Ender's Game Ender's Shadow War of Gifts (First time read) Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant (First time read) Ender in Exile (First time read) Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Shadows in Flight (First...

UnnDunn

At least the Giants are in, so I have someone to root for next weekend.

UnnDunn

Has anyone read Ready Player One? I read a description of it yesterday and I'm dying to read it. I've read it and it's fantastic. Such an indulgent mix of 80s geek culture and future-generation MMO gaming. No muss, no fuss, no real complexity or nuance, just a fun, fun read. You'll be glad you read...

UnnDunn

There is no way the Jets are making it into the postseason, not with the way they are playing today. And that makes me sad face.

UnnDunn

I found PWEB because it was in one of the acknowledgements. I can't remember which specific book though.

UnnDunn

I've been going through all the Ender books over the past couple weeks, in publication order. I just finished Shadow of the Giant. Gonna read AWoG then EiE. And then SiF when it's released.

After that, however, I'll go back to Game of Thrones and plow through that series.

UnnDunn

I love White Collar and Royal Pains , though the latter has started to get a little too soap-opera for my taste. I love Coupling . I don't care what anyone says, the Brits make the best sitcoms. I'll always have a soft spot for Chuck , though they've started to make the jump from "tastefully ri...

UnnDunn

Has anyone read Ready Player One? I read a description of it yesterday and I'm dying to read it. I've read it and it's fantastic. Such an indulgent mix of 80s geek culture and future-generation MMO gaming. No muss, no fuss, no real complexity or nuance, just a fun, fun read. You'll be glad you read...

UnnDunn

I used to play Skyrim for hours on end, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

By that I mean my GPU started overheating whenever I played it.

UnnDunn

Both NY teams are still mathematically in the hunt for playoff contention, so I'm not entirely disappointed yet. Pessimistic, but not without hope. As for my fantasy team, unless Drew Brees can get 35 fantasy points on Monday, it looks like I'm going to win the championship game! Given that I joined...

UnnDunn

I buy absolutely everything I can on Kindle these days. If I can't read it on my phone, I'm not interested. It's all about convenience.

UnnDunn

So after reading Xenocide again, I think you were right zeroguy. The buggers were using the Fantasy Game to try to communicate with Ender, because he spent so much time examining the Second Invasion videos in the Battle School, trying to figure out how the buggers thought, that he was creating bugge...

UnnDunn

I can't wait to see how Hollywood will ruin this movie.

UnnDunn

I don't get this argument. From the second Ender got Novinha's call to go to Lusitania, it was clear they were going to marry (at least, to me.) The saga with the piggies was as much an elaborate courtship between Ender and Novinha as it was anything else. I mean, Ender left Valentine, the closest p...

UnnDunn

Heh, my championship game opponent has also lost only two games this season. That said, my average scores have not been that far behind his, so I'm cautiously optimistic. At this point, I'm relegated to hoping one NY team makes the playoffs. Though I nurture no delusion that either team has a hope i...

UnnDunn

The biggest advantage to eBooks for me? I can read them in bed with the lights off (on my phone), and when I inevitably doze into sleep, the phone will fall from my hand and I won't lose my place. My phone has a Super AMOLED screen and I read using white-on-black, so in the nearly pitch-black room, ...

UnnDunn

Jets and Giants had a horrible day. Neither team showed up to play. So it goes.

At least my Fantasy team won its playoff game. On to the Championship next Saturday. Hoping Santa brings me a Fantasy League Championship under the tree!

UnnDunn

Hi all. Dunno if you all remember me; I spent a few months here in 2008, but then my ADD got the better of me and I moved on to other online hangouts. Odds are I will move on again. But not before Shadows In Flight releases. So yeah, just found out SiF is finally set to drop in a couple of months, s...

UnnDunn

You may or may not have heard that Chair Entertainment was making a videogame adaptation of Ender's Game, based on the zero-G wargames in the Battle School. Well, that game has been placed on indefinite hold , meaning that it is essentially dead, unless another studio picks it up. Chair Entertainmen...

UnnDunn

The game is really really good, probably one of the best Xbox Live Arcade games yet. It has high production values and very solid and well-designed gameplay. Still, I'm worried for the EG game. Chair Entertainment (the developers of both Shadow Complex and Ender's Game ) have announced that the EG g...

UnnDunn

So I just downloaded Shadow Complex on Xbox Live. The game is set in OSC's Empire universe and is built by the dev team currently working on the Ender's Game game. I must admit to not having read Empire yet, but Shadow Complex is making a strong case that maybe I should. Is anyone else playing it?

UnnDunn

I think people are putting Hegemon, Hive-Queen, Human, Jane onto too high a pedestal. Their so-called magic wasn't due to some amazing literary prowess on Ender's part. It was due to them simply providing an accurate, believable and new perspective on events. For example, I take the NYC subway every...

UnnDunn

Or because she was desperate and guilty. Either way. Definitely agree with you regarding SftD being a superior book to EG. Although, I'm going to go on a little rant here about something that bothers me about it. ~~~~~~~~~ This is something that bothered me a little bit the first time I read it and...

UnnDunn

I just finished EiE, and I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I enjoyed reading it. Despite all the flaws mentioned or about-to-be-mentioned (by me), OSC is still a great storyteller, and his skills continue to be evident in this novel. But this book is largely empty. When you take away ...

UnnDunn

Got my copy from Amazon last night. I tried to read it some but fell asleep (through no fault of the book.)

But I will be putting some serious reading time into it this weekend.

Meanwhile, forgive me if I avoid PWeb for fear of spoilers.

UnnDunn

*Shadow of the Giant Spoilers* Bean and the children that share his condition are traveling at relativistic speeds, and they'll presumably be doing that for 3000 years. Yes, of course, but there's more to it than that. It would require some really deft retconning to explain if Bean were suddenly to...

UnnDunn

Yes, eventually. The same book that will reveal the fate of a certain giant and his offspring.

Wait, what? Is there something I'm missing, or has OSC already said how this book will explain the 3000-year time gap?

UnnDunn

Okra soup. Many who see it will claim it looks like vomit. To me, it's the ambrosia of the gods.

UnnDunn

Religion to me is a way for us to find some sort of deep meaning for our lives, and help us be able to sleep well at night. If everyone knew/believed that there was nothing after life, then who truthfully would be "moral". Following such a catastrophic event would be chaos, and no amount ...

UnnDunn

I listened to the first episode of Audible.com's METAtropolis series, In the Forests of the Night by Jay Lake, read by Michael Hogan.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it sucked. Hard.

Thankfully it was free.

UnnDunn

Sure. But then so could several other "future histories" penned by other authors as prolific as OSC. That's what makes the genre so compelling.

UnnDunn

Here's a more comprehensive guide on how to change the User Short Name and/or Home Folder in Mac OS X Leopard.

UnnDunn

I have an external going and have been backing up my computer ever since the hard drive went.

If you're using Time Machine, then you should be good to go. Time Machine automatically does a full-disk incremental backup every hour.

UnnDunn

Okay, but if I go to Finder, under Places there is "Desktop" "test" "Applications" and "Documents". Is there any way to change that place? Oh, that's your Home folder (and, I presume, your account user name.) Go to System Preferences , then Accounts . Under &...

UnnDunn

So I bought it and read it. I don't know whether it's just the nature of comics, or whether I've been spoiled for having read the book, or whether I'm just being overly critical, but the pacing of the comic was way, way too fast. I know they had to take away some things, but I think they took away t...

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Wow, this place is still here!

"Ender's Game" videogame placed on indefinite hold

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