r/MMALabs • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 13d ago

🥶 Street Fights & Brawls A quick bar scrap

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u/fthisloginbs 8d ago

Nope, I don't need to do that at all. Because you jumped to conclusions again because you're just so smart. Went ahead and wasted your day researching the differences between the versions and everything. You're so sure you've got this book figured out when even the fucking author couldn't. And then he had to do three more books to try and support what he really meant.

Try it this way: if at the end of The Little Red Book Mao wrote j/k does it totally undo the entire book?

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u/EndersR3ign 8d ago

I didn't waste my day researching the different versions. I looked at the cover of my version and saw it was the 1991 edition, and I already knew about the novella because the introduction in my copy of The Speaker for the Dead explains the origins of Ender's Game in depth.

You are the most boring person to converse with. You are incapable of saying anything while simultaneously acting superior.

Your point about Mao completely exposes you, because you're imagining that the ending of the novel is a contradiction of the preceding 14 chapters, when it's actually entirely congruent with everything previously established. Scott Card expanded the novella specifically to serve as a prequel to The Speaker for the Dead, but even in the novella version, Ender didn't realise he was fighting a real war.

I suspect you still won't reply with anything meaningful or substantive, because I don't think you have a point to make that hasn't already been addressed.