But in turn you're asking an unreasonable subgroup to be reasonable, when hyperbolic bitching is why a lot of them are here — reading your plea to be reasonable and hyperbolically bitching at you in turn. You're completely correct, of course, but who wants to engage with that kind of person in the first place?

Don't worry — there is no basis for that statement at all.

+1.

“Ken, if I dip my toes in the river of ham, then I’m relying on you.” And he said, “Darling, you’re speaking to one who’s swam in that river, many times.”

his deadly foes and deadlier enemies

Well, just as long as you absolutely know what you're talking about.

...Implied that episodes of a television show filmed months and months ago could magically change based on the actions of a single video game player? Oh okay, cool. Sorry I didn't have the imagination at first to see how possible that is.

I assure you it was not. I understand that was what you took away from it, but that's not true. It could never have been true. That's what everyone in this thread is trying to explain to you. It's not anybody's "lack of imagination" that makes what you're saying impossible — it's the basic shit of how reality works.

True, but something that can't be done does. Until you invent time travel, your fantasies of influencing a television show by playing a video game — a feature that was never advertised and exists only in your head — will not be happening.

The only confusing thing about Cloud Atlas is how such a contrived piece of white-privilege bullshit got made in the first place. A muddled, shockingly careless mess.

I don't think it's a "Grapefruit Macarthur" situation so much as character designs being carried over. Kind of like how Kira Nerys was the Ensign Ro replacement when they were coming up with DS9 characters.

This comment has got to be the most pathetic thing I've seen all week. Get a fucking life, you rude douchebag.

Don't feed the trolls, dude.

Why yes, pointless hair-splitting does make you a better person than the rest of us. Thanks for pointing that out!

This was GREAT.

+1.

Nice.

I agree with him. He's not describing it as "a fault," he's saying if you are unsatisfied with your life, blaming any external factor is not going to change that.

Next time you don't want to be that guy: Don't. It's fairly simple.

I very much disagree about Gibson — Pattern Recognition is my favorite book of his, and I've been around since the Sprawl days — but I loved this.