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  • Nairn0

    Boo.

    Iain M Banks' Culture TV Series shelved.

    https://www.theguardian.com/book…

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    • Doubt they could do it justice.i_monk
    • Probably not, no - doesn't mean I'd not like to have seen it though.Nairn
    • Cross your fingers for Foundation.i_monk
    • Thinking about it this since - this should wait until we can generate in VR. Anything to do with AI/Drone inner monologues or communication needs to be *felt*..Nairn
    • ..and lived in. I can't see any way to do that usefully in a flat 2d space.
      I think I'd rather see a slightly toony, but as-comprehensively verisimilitudinous..      Nairn
    • ..as possible realisation.Nairn
    • Also, it's easy to forget when reading (at least for a basicBloke CIS like myself) - most of his characters are visually anything but 'human' as we think now.Nairn
    • They're typically modded in ways that would be, i think, hard to do en-masse.Nairn
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