Relevant Penny Arcade

That’s why I used a Romero’s pic. He’s an ally.

Serenity.

All apes are monkeys, including humans. Fuck paraphyletic groups.

It’s still hype today.

Hopefully death.

As if Twitter wasn’t a shithole even before he bought it. He arguably made it worse, but you can’t ruin a turd.

Oh hell Jimmy, I don’t care for that notion one bit.

One which it seems, was too deep for you. That’s another homonym pun.

Well…

The good ending.

Yeah. Over time it got seriously overshadowed by Half Life, but back in the day? It was mind-blowing.

Man, is there anything potatoes can’t do?

Well, I didn’t really have a problem with the unique part, more that there’s a lot of stuff happening that feels like filler. It’s been a while, but as a I remember it there’s the ancilliary, the main character, on a journey, and that is interspersed with flashbacks. Those were really interesting. The rest was mostly her being put in very dangerous situations which we knew were dangerous because the book keeps telling you just how dangerous they are, but the way the character was built up it just didn’t work for me as something to build tension. Just a constant, yeah, she’s going it be a badass and overcome it. And she does. And it didn’t feel like it pushed the story forward, but rather allowed time to pass so there could be another interesting flashback.

The ending, when things started moving and the whole deal with multiple emperors was revealed was great, but the way to get there just wasn’t doing it for me.

There was a slight annoyance with the language gender thing, since my native Czech is a gendered language, so the whole thing wasn’t completely unfamiliar or surprising to me, and the way the book had to go out of its way to explain that this is what’s going on, since English is not gendered and the mistakes had to be pointed out. It felt a bit tortured and overstaying its welcome, but not a dealbreaker by any means.

Anyway, adding your suggestion to my Pile. Sounds like a more serious take on One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which ultimately annoyed me with its tone and unlikeable protagonist.

Good. Let them fight.

You should have labeled them 2033 / 2026. It would have made you look like a prophet in 7 years, if the internet was still usable at that time.

It isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

I’ll throw your suggestion on The Pile. Looks promising.

There’s also Ancillary Justice which just barely misses the exact genre. Unfortunately I didn’t really enjoy the way it is written, though the story and universe is super interesting.

Recently my favourite genre have been “2019 lesbian sci-fi debut novels about an empire, starting a series”.

A Memory Called Empire is absolutely amazing. A very close second is Gideon the Ninth and its sequels.

Try Danish when sober. That’s nigh impossible.

Not even Danes can do it!

So what prevents a game developer from making a free game that you have to pay money for characters to even play the game? I

I think you are confused about what constitues a “completely free game” as it is called in the legiislation.