Originally by: Xrak

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Originally by: Gierling

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Edited by: Gierling on 06/03/2006 23:51:00
Am I the only one who think that he comes off as a smug, self-fulfilled douche in that blog?

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Maybe I should add that its the particular bit about how many humans there are and how we are woefully responsible for all sorts of havoc on the environment. I'm sorry but this is an unsustainable predisposition to have both in the philosophical and empiricle sense.

In the philosophical sense, one can make the valid argument that everything great and meek lives and dies for a reason and mere passing be it of a species or of a man is to an extent justified within the greater framework of deontological existence.

In the empiricle sense I'll side with Heinlen in saying that every species does its best to continue surviving, regardless of the adverse impact on other species. That this is a nuetral factor on the implicit understanding that a a beaver dam built for a beavers purposes is no different from a Human's dam built to serve Human purposes.

It's only by both elevating the natural world to some sord of sacrosanct position while simultanously demoting man to be an unnatural existor that one could sustain any form of outrage towards our existence and our means of ensuring it.

Which I frankly get a bad taste off of when a developer in Eve espouses, ESPECIALLY after some of the earlier faux pa's made that are symmetric to such a view (A most notable one being the decision to make it clear that the Amarr are Catholics).

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Are you american?

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Originally by: Gierling

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Edited by: Gierling on 06/03/2006 23:51:00
Am I the only one who think that he comes off as a smug, self-fulfilled douche in that blog?

Edit:

Maybe I should add that its the particular bit about how many humans there are and how we are woefully responsible for all sorts of havoc on the environment. I'm sorry but this is an unsustainable predisposition to have both in the philosophical and empiricle sense.

In the philosophical sense, one can make the valid argument that everything great and meek lives and dies for a reason and mere passing be it of a species or of a man is to an extent justified within the greater framework of deontological existence.

In the empiricle sense I'll side with Heinlen in saying that every species does its best to continue surviving, regardless of the adverse impact on other species. That this is a nuetral factor on the implicit understanding that a a beaver dam built for a beavers purposes is no different from a Human's dam built to serve Human purposes.

It's only by both elevating the natural world to some sord of sacrosanct position while simultanously demoting man to be an unnatural existor that one could sustain any form of outrage towards our existence and our means of ensuring it.

Which I frankly get a bad taste off of when a developer in Eve espouses, ESPECIALLY after some of the earlier faux pa's made that are symmetric to such a view (A most notable one being the decision to make it clear that the Amarr are Catholics).

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Originally by: Telemicus Thrace

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Wow, a novel. Now that, going by the novellas to date, will be awesome. I am so excited at the prospect I can't even form a sentence sufficient enough to fully do justice to how excited I am.

w00t!!1!!!1!eleven!!!

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Originally by: Seleene

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Originally by: Xrak

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Originally by: Gierling

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Edited by: Gierling on 06/03/2006 23:51:00snip

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Are you american?

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Why do you ask? Because he expressed an opinion different from everyone else? OMG, the horror! Every time I see this kind of **** I feel like the community as a whole takes a step down.

Congrats, Tony. I've loved your work from the first word. I will buy two copies of the book - one for me to read and one to show the grandkids.

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Originally by: Maya Rkell

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And yet by comparison, Eve is relatively restrained for a far-future Space Opera setting.

There is no large-scale use of nanotech visible to pilots, neutral rigs are possible only inside sealed pods, and so on. And its science is based - even loosely - on currently established theories (such as the casimir effect for warp drives).

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Originally by: TG

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Choose your allegiances wisely, and above all else, make no assumptions: EVE is not a static universe. That much is certain.
Let there be no doubt in your mind that the best for EVE is yet to come.

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Originally by: Aridia Parker

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Is it possible that you put them ALL in pdf format including the chronicles? Actually the coolest thing would be one big pdf with all of them in it.

Is that possible by any chance?

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Will a hard copy version of the novel be available and when?

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Originally by: kieron

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Originally by: Aridia Parker

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Is it possible that you put them ALL in pdf format including the chronicles? Actually the coolest thing would be one big pdf with all of them in it.

Is that possible by any chance?

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I'll look into having Theodicy and Ruthless turned into a pdf. A pdf of all the Chronicles has been assembled by a player, just a few minor details to work out before the Chronicles pdf is online and available.

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