>>I called it as I saw it: one huge echo chamber, with about zero content seeping in from outside. The website is a second derivation of the same content. Just think of this: a TV series where most of the charm comes from frequent movie quotes with absolutely none of the movies coming from outside the U(S+K) pen. And I've seen this insular POV in so many places (*) that it finally got to my nerves.
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>But all you saw was that tiny part she showed you. I assume too that you never watched the show Remington Steele or you'd know that the movie quotes were a small part of the charm of the show. He did a couple of those in a show sometimes just one - out of a 40 minute show. You're not calling them as you see them, you're calling them as you want to see them. I'm beginning to get the idea that you rant just for the sake of ranting - even when there is nothing worth ranting about. To pick on that web site for a rant is ridiculous.

If it was just that website, I wouldn't have. But it's a part of the whole. I took it as an example.

>>I don't know about the rest of the girl's life; I only saw what she posted. And, should I repeat, I'm not blaming her at all. How can she know what's outside the dome?
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>How do you know she doesn't? You dumped all over her without having the remotest idea who she is and what she is about. Like I said, ranting for the sake of ranting.

Like I said, I don't know about the rest of the girl's life. And it's not over her at all. It's just an example.

>>(*) SF anthologies by Gardner Dozois - you'd say that nobody in the world writes SF except U(S+K), with the honorable exception of the Ozzie Greg Egan, who is now too famous to skip. This guy keeps it so for 25+ years. Netflix, where there are genres like comedy, drama, action... and foreign. Other countries don't make comedies, dramas etc - they always make foreign movies.
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>You mean Stanislaw Lem, Jorge Lius Borges, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky aren't American? You could knock me over with a feather. yes, yes, I know they don't count because I didn't read them in their native languages.

Neither have I (except one or two by Strugatskys - my Polish is probably unusable for anything serious, and my Spanish just suffices to understand what they generally talk about, but not what they really say). BTW, what was wrong with Tarkovsky's Solaris?