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echo4titan
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Posted - 2010.10.05 10:14:00 -
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Great story. I like reading these stories, it gives more depth to EVE.
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Adumel Wyrd
Gallente
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Posted - 2010.10.05 10:30:00 -
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Originally by: CCP Fallout Sometimes only a uniquely talented individual can do the needed repairs
Very, very nice!
Thank you
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Miss Connolly
Public Relations Corp
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Posted - 2010.10.05 11:56:00 -
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Edited by: Miss Connolly on 05/10/2010 11:59:22 Interesting story. Well written as always.
However, I do find it a little bit to "esoteric" for my liking. In a world dominated by technology I can't imagine any modern person (least of all an engineer who knows how things work on a physical/scientific level) seriously believing that inanimate objects can convey any information that is not physically measurable. Thus I would put down this "skill" to simple mental problems (hearing voices isn't so uncommon for people with mental illnesses).
The human body is equipped with certain sensors - some to process visual stimuli, others for tactile, again others for auditory stimuli and so on and so forth. However, it's still only possible to detect physically existing signals. And it's simply not conceivable that a piece of metal (or other equipment) could somehow "save" information in it that could then be processed by a human sensory system and translated into something such as voices of the previous owners etc. And if it were possible for our (the human bodys) very limited sensors to detect this kind of thing then someone would have invented a tool long ago that would be able to detect this information in a far more efficient way (without all the "hocus pocus" of touching the ships hull etc).
The human body is a simple biological machine and does not possess any characteristics that an equally well-designed technological machine could not also master.
I simply don't believe in magic and other things that don't have a basis in the physical world. They are all just hallucinations, over-active imaginations or simply wishful thinking of people that can not accept that we live in a physical world without magic and "wonder" (though our physical world is full of wonder - just that this wonder has a basis in the physical not not mystical world).
Therefore I interpret this story as the story of a person with a mental illness that causes them to hear voices where there are none (and with much luck or sub-concious processes manages to repair ship parts that others can't repair).
Still found it a fun read even if it did go way to much in the direction of magic/esoterics for my taste. ___________________ "It was mentioned by CCP that the data does not seem to support that polished quality sells better than new features."
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Gnulpie
Minmatar Miner Tech
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Posted - 2010.10.05 12:21:00 -
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Phew
What a dark story!
A pretty nice masterpiece, well done. |
SteelGunman
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Posted - 2010.10.05 15:14:00 -
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and so as i return to my night shift tonight, i'll be finding myself talking to the very same rusty old machines touched with a thousand used parts by as many different people.
still, it beats listening to the dorks i work with
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Femerov
Minmatar Brutor Gearheads and Grease Monkeys
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Posted - 2010.10.05 16:21:00 -
[36]
a very cool and interesting story :)
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GregoriusAtlas
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Posted - 2010.10.05 18:18:00 -
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Originally by: Miss Connolly Edited by: Miss Connolly on 05/10/2010 12:14:13 Edited by: Miss Connolly on 05/10/2010 12:12:26 Interesting story. Well written as always.
However, I do find it a little bit to "esoteric" for my liking. In a world dominated by technology I can't imagine any modern person (least of all an engineer who knows how things work on a physical/scientific level) seriously believing that inanimate objects can convey any information that is not physically measurable. Thus I would put down this "skill" to simple mental problems (hearing voices isn't so uncommon for people with mental illnesses).
The human body is equipped with certain sensors - some to process visual stimuli, others for tactile, again others for auditory stimuli and so on and so forth. However, it's still only possible to detect physically existing signals. And it's simply not conceivable that a piece of metal (or other equipment) could somehow "save" information in it that could then be processed by a human sensory system and translated into something such as voices of the previous owners etc. And if it were possible for our (the human bodys) very limited sensors to detect this kind of thing then someone would have invented a tool long ago that would be able to detect this information in a far more efficient way (without all the "hocus pocus" of touching the ships hull etc).
The human body is a simple biological machine and does not possess any characteristics that an equally well-designed technological machine could not also master.
I simply don't believe in magic and other things that don't have a basis in the physical world. They are all just hallucinations, over-active imaginations or simply wishful thinking of people that can not accept that we live in a physical world without magic and "wonder" (though our physical world is full of wonder - just that this wonder has a basis in the physical not not mystical world).
Therefore I interpret this story as the story of a person with a mental illness that causes them to hear voices where there are none (and with much luck or sub-concious processes manages to repair ship parts that others can't repair).
Still found it a fun read even if it did go way to much in the direction of magic/esoterics for my taste. .
Miss Cannolly , don't worry you will have ample proof of the supernatural when you end up in hell . Feel free to consider yourself a biological machine and lie to yourself about the existence of the soul and the world beyond . In the end it will catch up with you .
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Andre Coeurl
Gallente TOHA Heavy Industries TOHA Conglomerate
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Posted - 2010.10.05 19:21:00 -
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Honestly, a great short story. This is real literature, and helps me to feel "inside" New Eden as much as an improvement in the graphic engine or a new feature in game would do. I'm looking forward for more stories like this, and even if some think it was a bit esotheric I think that high technology doesn't imply we know all about the misterious forces of the universe... a travel by airplane, or a cure with laser, would look like magic to a person who lived 200 years ago, yet they're real now. And the creepy atmosphere further adds to the effect, since thinking about what moves in the bowels of our powerful is something we as capsuleers should do... Let's just hope no rust will creep inside our pods anyway... But, thinking about it, what could float into our amniotic fluid if the pod would malfunction... or if someone managed to sabotage it after all? Maybe an idea for another cronicle, Abraxas?
Kudos to you in the meanwhile! o7 --- --- ---
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Lucian Atreides
Caldari Clinically Insane Carebears
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Posted - 2010.10.05 21:12:00 -
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One of your Best!
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Arnulf Ogunkoya
Minmatar The Causality Electus Matari
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Posted - 2010.10.06 00:11:00 -
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Originally by: Jagga Spikes
Originally by: Arnulf Ogunkoya ...
As to psychic skills in game?
Psi isn't an unusual element of science fiction settings so it wouldn't bother me at all.
problem is: all players would get it asap, and then it wouldn't be special at all
nice story tho.
I agree. Which is why any psychics should be NPC baseline humans with no cyber to speak of. Regards,
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Emperor Cheney
Celebrity Sex Tape
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Posted - 2010.10.06 01:27:00 -
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There's no in-story proof the guy is psychic and it's not just a bunch of sea-tales. Er, space-tales. That's how I read it. This is a textbook unreliable narrator.
Great story as always, I really look forward to the chronicles, and especially the ones that flavor the non-capsuleer society.
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Hevia Bane
Gallente JotunHeim Hird The Well of Uror
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Posted - 2010.10.06 06:55:00 -
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Very nice story. Hope more will come like this one. Your a good story teller
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Ghorrn Kranthil
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Posted - 2010.10.06 11:01:00 -
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Very nice read, both a bit emotionally moving and though... creepy :-D atmospheric, personal. Nice idea to include also the lifespan and decay of people, ships, colonies,... the forthcoming of age and... everything's fate. mysterious, but interesting. Thanks for this one! *thumbsup*
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Paknac Queltel
Swords Horses and Heavy Metal
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Posted - 2010.10.06 12:10:00 -
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Tall tales for space sailors! This chron is awesome.
Originally by: Miss Connolly Stuff
You know that sense of unease that you get when you're working on something and it's not quite right, but you can't put your finger on it? Yeah, that's the thing talking to you. Or, more accurately, your subconcious properly interpreting whatever you're missing. It's quite often dead wrong, too, but that's what we have confirmation bias for. The unreliable narrator in this story turned it into magic. - Paknac Queltel
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Ifly Uwalk
Caldari Empire Tax Collection Agency
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Posted - 2010.10.06 13:32:00 -
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Quote: "Instead I signed on to a colony in safe space..."
Safe space is a spoon. Surely even the pedestrians know that.
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Nikita Alterana
Risen Angels
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Posted - 2010.10.07 13:52:00 -
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that was just plain awesome Rust creeps and the ship creaks and we're going into empty space...
Crazy doesn't even start to cover it |
Thorian Crystal
Amarr
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Posted - 2010.10.07 16:45:00 -
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I have not much shipped cargo anywhere. Just the usual, fight mobs, find ancient artifacts, eat, ...
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CCP Abraxas
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Posted - 2010.10.08 11:39:00 -
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Originally by: Tobin Shalim
Originally by: Esrevid Nekkeg I knew a man like Eren once. He could feel what was wrong with machines, talked to them, listened to them and repair them too. Always making them work again. A machine wizard he was. Never good around people though.
This story brought back good memories and tears to my eyes. I thank you for that Abraxas.
People have always said that I was insane for being able to "listen" to a computer and know on an instinctual level what was wrong and how to repair it. Thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only one out there like this.
Abraxas, as you can guess, this one hit a little close to home for me. Ty for that.
FWIW, he was based on someone I knew, a person I saw do amazing things with brokedown tech. The same person was the focus, as it were, of the first chapter of The Burning Life.
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Gavinton
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Posted - 2010.10.14 19:11:00 -
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Miss Connolly, The human body is much more than a simple biological machine. We know from scientific study that only 10% of our brain is used. (much less for some people i'm afraid...) If you believe in any of the typical religions, then we were created for a purpose and our creator designed us the way we are for a reason, including 90% of unused capacity/capabilities in our little brains.
If you instead believe in pure evolution, our brains evolved the way they did to serve a purpose, the more flexible and efficient designs being selected over the more cumbersome. (at least till we (d)evolved to the point of developing social programs to support those that would be selected for removal from the gene pool.)
In either event, we have a lot of untapped power of some sort sitting in that 90% by design just waiting for the right flip of a switch to enable those subsystems.
If our brains were as simple as you suggest, why is it that true AI has not been developed? (other than the terminator/matrix/hal9000/wargames side effects of the enslavement /annihilation of our technologically inferior species.) Pure logic can be hard coded, simple analysis and learned behaviors can be programmed. But simple emotions and "Human" interaction can't be programmed in because of the soul. They could be simulated, but not created.
Additionally.... This was fiction.. (FIK - Shun)- n. : something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story |
Razipo
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Posted - 2010.10.14 20:11:00 -
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Quote: I couldn't help it. "So Minmatar ships..."
"...can go right to hell," Eren replied with a grin.
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lololololololol
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Shepard Book
Imperial Academy
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Posted - 2010.10.15 21:21:00 -
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I like. It reminds me of Kaylee.
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ViolenTUK
Gallente Demolition Men
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Posted - 2010.10.16 11:08:00 -
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Rust creeps between CCP Developer Ears.
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Shandulf
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Posted - 2010.10.16 19:25:00 -
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Great story, helped pass the time during a long freight run
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Arnold Predator
Special Situations
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Posted - 2010.10.17 07:32:00 -
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Very good story. As a mechanic I can tell you that there are people out there like that. There loaners and don't get along with people but when there is a problem with a car that you have spent days trying to find and they come over and with in minutes know what the problem is (with out you telling them), where it is, and how to fix it its kind of scary. The person Im reminded of will put his hand on part of the car and just sit there for a minute then get to work.
Its creepy some times.
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Pyroksilin
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Posted - 2010.10.17 14:50:00 -
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Вы временно лишены прав отправки сообщений. Дата и время возобновления ваших прав ù 24.10.2010, 18:42.
I have a story how one man cruthed allianses.
CHRIBA ? who is dis man ?
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Ratatriel
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Posted - 2011.01.03 04:12:00 -
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Edited by: Ratatriel on 03/01/2011 04:12:42 Has no one replied to the ending? It's a stretch, and a risk (as the writer, I mean) to say something like "I hear something beyond.." and end the story that way. However, (and this may be a glass or two of pinot noir talking) I don't think it can work any other way. It's a nice work, and encapsulates the old-tech-making-way-for-new-tech in a very sad way. Great Stuff.
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