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Today's weather forecast (Melbourne CBD, 3000): min - 16°C, max - 23°C. 25% chance of at least 1mm rain

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I've been android since the beginning but I might cross to the dark side this year.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I too, would like to welcome you. I am a dual user though. I can’t stand Android.

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Genuine question: What is it that you like about Sci-fi and fantasy?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The fiction i read is mostly sci fi. I love it because most of the time, if written well, they are allegorical stories set in a unique world and setting.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Can I answer that question?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just for balance, is there anyone who's not into sci-fi? What's your preferred genre? I enjoy history, true crime or the occasional fiction.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I go through fads. I will read nearly any genre.

Right now I'm reading a lot of non fiction biographies by explorers, archeology books and art history and art technique books. I'm listening to sci-fi and fantasy and science and history of philosophy books.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I wouldn’t say it’s something I’m ‘in to’ specifically. I do read/watch sci-fi, but it’s not the dominant or only genre for me. I happily enjoy literature, crime, non-fiction, general fiction, biography. Sci-fi is so broad, it’s not just spaceships and laser beams. Just like any other genre, there’s unreadable junk and then also brilliant works that leave you thinking long after you’ve read them. I like the same things about it that I do in other genres, eg human struggles, mysteries to solve, comedy, redemption, action, discovery, drama etc. I mostly read the softer stuff where the sci-fi is not really the point of the story, just happens to allow a ‘what if’ scenario that our current reality doesn’t.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Absolutely splattered with bug guts in the way back this evening.

I thought about absolutely nothing on the way home. The realisation was almost euphoric.

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