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Cake day: August 30th, 2023



  • Remember when Richard defeated the evils of socialism without his magic by pulling himself up by his bootstraps really really hard by (without practice or training) carving a really really good statue and all the lazy worthless slacker librulls were like dang, I love capitalism now, and then everyone looked directly into the metaphorical camera and said “Communism: Don’t let it happen to you”?


  • You didn’t make it past the first book??
    Lucky.

    DISCLAIMER: Orson Scott Card is a bad person and I have since gotten rid of my collection and tell everyone not to support him because he uses his platform to hurt marginalised groups of people for religious reasons.

    Now, I would argue that you’re skipping over a lot of interesting stuff.
    The Overseer (mind-controlling satellite robot) was built by humans to keep rewriting human brains so they would perpetually forget how to invent the wheel until they proved that they’d evolved beyond their barbaric nature and would not go on to invent the nuclear bomb. The satellite then dies of old age millions of years later because humans are just kind of shitty. The book ends with the main character’s family hopping onto an Ark rocket back to Earth aaand Hundreds of years have passed and all the characters you’ve invested in emotionally are long dead, here’s some bat furries I guess.

    Some pretty cool ideas in there, despite who it was written by.

    Now, the worst thing I have ever read was also by Orson Scott Card and I refuse to speak about it.