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Have any of you read J. R. R. Tolkien's work? I can't recommend it highly enough--I really--oh, it's just great, you ought to read it. I read a book a night, I just couldn't put them down.
I mean, The Hobbit was a good book, no denying that, I read it when it came out, but these Lord of the Rings stories of his are above and beyond in quality. ( Read more... )
I mean, The Hobbit was a good book, no denying that, I read it when it came out, but these Lord of the Rings stories of his are above and beyond in quality. ( Read more... )
I am afraid that I have never read the story, but... I may vaguely recognize the name.
... [Questioningly, because this is the part he latched onto the most:] Is there a reason you switch from "female" to "women" with your description? They are not the s-same identifier...
[Transgender rights: not a concept Kay is going to be familiar with. At all.]
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[At his question, she frowns at the book, completely unsure of what he means by "identifier."] No reason. She's just a great character--really strong, really well-written.
((OOC: And if you don't mind sidestepping the issue of Kay's complete and utter cluelessness regarding trans people, her character isn't at a point where she'd be able to discuss the subject without her being amazingly transphobic, and I feel like that isn't really fair to make you play through. ♥))
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[Well, the question seemed to be... more or less unanswered, but Robert blinks a few times. Well. It's not too unlikely for somebody to not understand the difference... as much of a shame as that is. Robert decides to let it go for now, though... He wants to pursue the topic, but this "Lord of the Rings" things seems fascinating.]
I am not entirely surprised that I do not recognize the series. Assuming multiversions with similar histories, most people here come from some point significantly in the past relative to myself.
... But I may have to look at this book then, at some point. It is a pity there is no way to read it via my nanocomputer... [Oh, how Robert longs for database access to Terra.]
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((OOC: Well, if/when the time comes when the conversation would have some promising long-term effects on her, you will be the person I hit up. ♥))
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A nanocomputer is a compact computing device, generally ranging in size from two to thirty centimetres across, though there are smaller and larger ones for specialty purposes. Most of them are based on quantum computing technology, though I have seen optical computers as well - quantum computing tends to be used for scientific fields, though, due to its faster processing of algorithms. The majority are solar powered, but the most powerful ones may run on hydrogen fuel cells, depending on the energy required.
[Robert pauses, curiously.] Are computers something common to your multiverse? Most people I speak to at least recognize them.
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... There are other computers that can be even smaller than the usual nanocomputer, like DNA computers, but generally they are relatively inefficient in comparison to quantum computers.
[Robert would probably be positively horrified by a picture of the ENIAC.]
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You'd think people'd lose them, computers that small. I mean, if you use electrons to power them...well, there you're talking tiny.
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There are particles and other such constituents of matter far smaller than electrons - [- he says this quite easily, still not really realizing that some people haven't heard of things like quarks, leptons, or strings -] - but they would be far harder to compute with.
... I have heard some talk of the idea, though. It may be interesting to see where it goes... assuming I ever return to Terra.
[Quietly:] Not that I would entirely want to return, without the knowledge of Luceti...
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[This is the point where it's mostly flying over Kay's head--she and Julius aren't exactly known for writing hard scifi, and there's a reason for that--but it is interesting enough. She'll have to think about tiny computers powered by bits of atoms.]
D'you like the place, too?
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[How does Kay do with gay rights? Because Robert has a partner. It's Donatello, so she'll probably find out eventually.]
... There is an exceedingly large amount of wonderful people here, I must admit. Even if some of their multiverses are strange... and all of them are violent.
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...Multi-verses? You mean the worlds everyone's from? They don't seem all that violent to me, from what I've heard so far.
((OOC: Kay's feelings on gay rights are...complicated. ^_-))
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[Robert's voice is... more than anything, almost lonely. It's such a fundamental part of his identity of a Terran, and yet it is completely foreign to everybody he has met so far, even the peaceful people he knows. Everybody he's talked to has fighting of some kind, and some people even thrive on it.]
... It seems an unfortunate constant for most of the multiversions, and hence I wonder how it came to be that my world did not do the same.
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[Sorry, kid, Kay's skeptical of the entire idea, and she sounds it.]
As long as you've got human nature, you're going to have war, even if it's only on a person-to-person level.
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... Yes, his view on war is incredibly childish. Which is why he sounds a little distressed here.]
I assure you, Terrans are quite over the whole barbaric business. There has not been a single war on Terra for over two hundred years.
[And that entire time was spent being mired in anti-violence taboos that are incredibly all-encompassing. It's pacifism to the point of bigotry.]
But I cannot blame you for having difficulty with the concept, considering the prevalence of war elsewhere.
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Barbaric, huh? I assure you, I'm acquainted with the idea of peacetime. If it's lasted that long, though, it's unlikely to hold up much longer, in my experience.
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