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Why AI has to give nearly everybody tattoos is something I'd love to know

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At the Great Texarrakis, Texas, Chainsaw Saw BBQ; Zick, the Wonder Chicken, is giving lessons on how to play poker

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Originally Posted By GiggleSmith:

OK, we got the sphere.....

Now for the pyramids, although I'm now wondering if a cone would be a better shape....
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It's a novel reference I was hoping somebody would get, The Peace War by Vernor Vinge.  They're a force field weapon called a bobble, the bad guys take over the world after inventing the bobble projector while believing that the bobbles suffocate enemy troops and last forever, but it turns out that they freeze time within and eventually collapse and release their captives.  In a sort of postapocalypse noir detective sequel Marooned in Realtime bobbles are used to skip through millions of years and to travel through space by detonating nukes behind them, and sometimes for slow murder through marooning.

I have a series based on Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep.  A human colony accidentally wakes a malevolent AI which begins possessing them, but a ship with the colony's children and a "countermeasure" escapes to a planet with medieval level technology and violent politics on which individual characters are each made up of a small pack of dog like telepaths coordinating as one person.  An aloof godlike AI who was casually watching the show is surprised and murdered by the evil AI, before it dies it crafts an artificial human envoy out of spare parts and gifts him to a scratch rescue mission which consists of a human female data librarian and two "Skroderider" aliens, who are basically sentient house plants riding electric carts.  Meanwhile numerous alien civilizations trade war information, pass false rumors, scam each other, and incite genocide on the galactic Usenet forums (the book was published in 1992 and it still sounds like today's internet, with a very low bit rate across galactic distances). There's a fleet battle and there's a variable law of nature we don't know about in our time.  I realize the brief summary sounds like a comedic Douglas Adams book, but Vinge's style is 99% dead serious.

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The Magnificent Aria-R is the Next Guest DJ for Friday Night Music, she is wearing her trademark dark blue-gray slacks and white blouse

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Bizarre render of our Founding Fathers:

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A deliriously happy Hulk is jumping up and down on a Pogo Stick he found



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