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Imagine going to a bar and having your name, relationship status, political orientation, and a list of your big mistakes floating above your head. Good times. G
by cgriswald 8y ago
Imagine going to a bar and having your name, relationship status, political orientation, and a list of your big mistakes floating above your head. Good times. Good times.
- scarecrowbob 8y agoTo be fair, that's what it is like to go anywhere in a small town you've lived in for a long time. :D
- DenisM 8y agoSo all of the downsides and none of the advantages of a closely-knit community?
- krapp 8y agoThe upside depends on your race, religion, sexual orientation and social class like anywhere else.
- pseudalopex 8y agoTo be fair, that's why some people leave small towns.
- gaius 8y agoTo be fair, that's what it is like to go anywhere in a small town you've lived in for a long time. :D That's true, but it's also true that in the next town over, you can be anonymous again. The difference with social media is the profile follows you everywhere.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoYou cannot be anonymous in the next town over, because those townfolk, like your local townfolk, know everyone and everything that belongs in their town. Your unfamiliarity means you don't belong and aren't trustworthy. You can be anonymous in a city.
- mancerayder 8y agoI've been reading this strange but fun sci-fi book by this Russian author Dan Sugralinov, about a man who's a loser/game addict who then wakes up with a mysterious implant in his brain that lets him see "stats" of people, and connects him to some mysterious network of information. "Restart" is the name of the first book. Not only does he see people's stats and standing in the world in the form of social level, but he becomes obsessed with upgrading his own stats, as if he were living an RPG game itself.
- kryogen1c 8y agoFor a nondystopian (depending on your perspective, I suppose) version of this reality, see Daniel Suarez's daemon and freedom. Highly recommend.
- dirkgently 8y agoSorry, but Daemon is one of the worst sci-fi books I have ever read.
- renke1 8y agoCan you elaborate? – A coworker is recommending that book to me. I don't want to waste my time reading it if it's really bad. I am mostly into hard science fiction.
- dirkgently 8y agoThe plot is far-fetched, but that's not the problem. It's the writing style - it feels like a cheap thriller written for teens. Too many characters and cheap tricks to 'educate' the reader about technical mumbo-jumbo. Of course, this is my very subjective opinion. But having read enough PKD and Gaiman, my expectations are different than may be majority of the readers.
- mdpopescu 8y agoYep, there's an entire fantasy genre called LitRPG, which is pretty much dominated by Russian authors.