I didn't know what a "dump stat" was until I asked around, but everything else was really easy to understand. Maybe that's part of her point? That you have to speak to her culture in gamer-specific code, because if regular people can understand...
Which, really, fuck off. It's *English*. I don't see why English speakers should need things made *more* complicated so they can understand. Still, the ultimate goal is increasing comprehension, so I guess-knot yourself up into tangles, if that's what it takes to change a mind or turn on a light bulb.
But, fuck, that's kinda dumb.
Need some help here, folks: Am I interpreting this totally the wrong way round or have I only just noticed the really nasty violence-against-women in Gaiman's "Murder Mysteries"?
As Gaiman (basically) says in the introduction, there's a reason the title is plural.
I need some book recs for a high school senior boy who loved Fear and Loathing by Hunter S. Thompson and Confederacy of Dunces.
What else is dark and snarky and anti-authoritarian?
Good suggestions.
I'm leaning towards Katherine Dunn's Geek Love, but I'll compile a list of possibilities.
Anything by Flannery O'Connor? (Granted, practicing Catholic and thus not exactly anti-authoritarian in a, well, catholic sense, but she does give the general stink-eye to human authority; the more one of her characters thinks s/he knows it all and has gamed the system, the more spectacular the cosmic bitchslap)
Oh, that's a good one, too.
Elmore Leonard.
You know I'd go there, though.
Carl Hiassen
Geek Love was good, though.
Catch-22,
and I second the Vonnegut rec too.
