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Incidentally, I'm about halfway through "Time Enough for Love" from Heinlein. Lazarus is laughing at this man.
by gigaflop 4y ago
Incidentally, I'm about halfway through "Time Enough for Love" from Heinlein.
Lazarus is laughing at this man.
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoright, he's like why doesn't this idiot just become fictional like me?!?
- gigaflop 4y agoContext: Lazarus Long is at least 2,000 years old, has gone through multiple 'Rejuvenation' services, and seen/done just about everything in the galaxy. A quote from page 3 of my edition: "WHERE'S MY SUIDICE SWITCH?"
- Turing_Machine 4y ago> A quote from page 3 of my edition: "WHERE'S MY SUIDICE SWITCH?" I realize this was a typo, but now I'm imagining a Russian roulette-type game, but with dice.
- gigaflop 4y agoI had an idea bouncing around, and now I've got it: 2d6, passed back and forth. First to roll a 7 "wins". Chances of 1/6 chambers look similar to (2d6) = 7
- miiiiiike 4y agoThat's the line that got me to read the whole book. Shortly after there was an exchange that went something like: Person 1: "He said his suicide switch is missing?" Person 2: "Yeah, we had to remove it. He kept pressing it."