Comments on: The RPS Electronic Wireless: Leigh Alexander!

By: Variable Gear

Variable Gear — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:15:31 +0000

As a casual RPS reader, I still got a lot of enjoyment out of this podcast. Have Leigh on the show as much as possible.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:15:22 +0000

Leigh needs to be integrated into the RPS Hivemind. She has her roots in the PC, they just need to be nurtured back into fruition.

By: M.P.

M.P. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:41:47 +0000

What did you tape this on? An 80s Walkman using a tin and string as a microphone?

j/k, I enjoyed this, but the sound quality is awful, every time either of you laughed it would be like somebody was trying to file down my skull. Invest in a mic that has a little foam padding, you can get one for a fiver.

By: Azradesh

Azradesh — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:51:21 +0000

What the heck is Snow Crash?

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:52:55 +0000

I loved the Babylonian glossolalia brain-assembly-language bit. After all, his audience has seen the results for themselves and the man behind it has already claimed to be unbelievably powerful and ruthless. What pissed me off was A. that it was written clumsily as an unbroken infodump for things I’d already figured out, B. that he was able to do this speaking teleconference while being hunted by the hordes through an aircraft carrier, and C. that Stephenson contradicts everything a few pages later by saying that the virus came from SETI – I just pretend that part doesn’t exist.

By: Ffitz

Ffitz — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:58:17 +0000

That was very, very interesting. And it made me lol like a rem on the tube into work, which is a bad thing.

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:45:14 +0000

I am saddened that there was no mention of Fate Stay Night when Leigh was defending erogames from your dastardly normal-person's-perception-ness.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:32:59 +0000

I just like using Reason on them.

By: Jae Armstrong

Jae Armstrong — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:04:34 +0000

Snow Crash was enjoyable- in a mindless way- right up to that scene where Hiro gets together with the mafia boss and the other two powerful dudes and unloads this… batshit insane spiel about brain programming and Babylonian mythology that’s actually a metaphor for sex on them.

And they accept it. Without question. Three cynical, pragmatic, highly powerful men unquestioningly fall into line with a conspiracy theory that reads like it was cut from Illuminatus! for being too ridiculous. I could hear my suspension of disbelief breaking.

Anathem nearly lost me the same way, with the Platonic realism thing. Not so much the theory in itself (I’ll accept just about any premise for the sake of a good argument) so much as the fact that Stephenson associated it with the empiricist faction in his world.

That and Orolo’s conception of consciousness comes dangerously close to assigning privileged status to the human brain.

But I must admit the Rat Things were cool.

By: qbert911

qbert911 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:09:10 +0000

*fap* *fap* *fap*

By: ale frassetti

ale frassetti — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:17:51 +0000

Still she says you can have her dignity.

By: Larington

Larington — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:18:39 +0000

Also, damn ye both for knowing what Spector is working on whislt I don’t… I mean that in the nicest but none-the-less enviousfully(?) possible way, obviously.