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I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s.

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Charles Stross
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: October 18
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I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
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I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.
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The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.
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