Well, I'm not going to pretend there's not parts of the larger EPU output I can't enjoy any more. (And I wish I did; there's a lot of the first Symphony I really enjoyed the first time through.) I'm just hoping that the poster above won't do what I did, then come back and look over the thread ten years later and regret that the Internet doesn't forget.

And, yet, even with a fairly big chunk of text I can't really enjoy at all, I'm still here, because there's also large parts I do enjoy, a lot. I mean, I can't stand to watch any of the CSI shows, because despite the reasonably solid writing and such, I can't suspend my disbelief about their portrayal of either forensics or police procedure. But, because CSI: New Avalon is set in a future where the tech they use is perfectly mundane, and they work for a police agency that clearly tend towards the unorthodox (by comparison to real-world police agencies), I don't have the same problem.

To the prior poster: take a deep breath. I'm sure you have many other hobbies. If you feel the burning urge to throw down some vitriol about a rather small bit of worldbuilding, step away, go read a book or watch a movie or play a video game or spend some time with your S.O. or something, and then come back, and figure out if it's really worth it.

It probably isn't.

"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding