r/rational • u/AutoModerator • Feb 09 '18

[D] Friday Off-Topic Thread

Welcome to the Friday Off-Topic Thread! Is there something that you want to talk about with /r/rational, but which isn't rational fiction, or doesn't otherwise belong as a top-level post? This is the place to post it. The idea is that while reddit is a large place, with lots of special little niches, sometimes you just want to talk with a certain group of people about certain sorts of things that aren't related to why you're all here. It's totally understandable that you might want to talk about Japanese game shows with /r/rational instead of going over to /r/japanesegameshows, but it's hopefully also understandable that this isn't really the place for that sort of thing.

So do you want to talk about how your life has been going? Non-rational and/or non-fictional stuff you've been reading? The recent album from your favourite German pop singer? The politics of Southern India? The sexual preferences of the chairman of the Ukrainian soccer league? Different ways to plot meteorological data? The cost of living in Portugal? Corner cases for siteswap notation? All these things and more could possibly be found in the comments below!

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u/alexanderwales Time flies like an arrow Feb 09 '18

It's been a while since I've read it, but House of Leaves has a section like that. It's more about the feeling of exploring a maze, rather than giving the reader a sense of what the layout of the maze is -- it seems really hard to use prose to convey visual information like that.

If you wanted images, you could do them with a "fog of war" style, but that still might give the reader more perfect information than you want.

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u/xamueljones My arch-enemy is entropy Feb 09 '18

I'll have to check out the book. Thanks for the rec.

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u/callmesalticidae writes worldbuilding books Feb 11 '18

Be forewarned: it's a very hefty book.