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powering through revelation space now that i have it on my kinrke paperwhite really like alistaire reynolds. his treatment of physics is the most terrifying i think . Glorgnole posted:oh my god it's charles dance charles dance is my favorite surprise
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:really like alistaire reynolds. his treatment of physics is the most terrifying i think . reynolds writes good weird-physics weapons which are my guilty scifi pleasure
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Improbable Lobster posted:i have to say that big trouble in little china still holds up great ill watch anything john carpenter directed no questions asked
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vOv posted:reynolds writes good weird-physics weapons which are my guilty scifi pleasure yeah getting to the part with the cache weapons holy fuqq although they're kinda similar to the holy gently caress weapons in house of suns which are also scary
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PCjr sidecar posted:ill watch anything john carpenter directed no questions asked same
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i've literally never been disappointes by a john carpenter film
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Reynolds owns at making plausible scary weapons, it's the best. I want an ack-am cannon
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i'm hearing that "the guest" is a good movie to go and watch at the theater, can anyone c/d? and yeah revelation space ownz
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Sep 22, 2014 06:26
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i've got a stack of crap to read already, somebody describe these cool sf weapons
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well an ack-am cannon was a positron gun that carried some kind of persistent plasma or magnetic field that let it pass through most fluids and detonated only when it hit solid matter, at just barely sublight speeds other good stuff http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_Revelation_Space#Cache_Weapons http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_Revelation_Space#Hypometric_weapon fairly spoiler free
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saw the new sin city, turns out it's mostly just moodily lit slow pans across eva green's naked boobs
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speaking of, i also just watched perfect sense. drat 
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Trig Discipline posted:saw the new sin city, turns out it's mostly just moodily lit slow pans across eva green's naked boobs and Marv punching people in the teeth
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i was honestly a little disappointed that they didn't do an itano circus with the missile swarm near the end of the new captain america but then it was pretty clear they were pushing their sfx limits with the falcon anyway so oh well
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AlsoD posted:and Marv punching people in the teeth yeah. also we rewatched the original first and it's mostly dick injuries
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2 sin 2 city os alright but it ended with the "new" story which was probably the worst of them.
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I watched sin city 1 a couple weeks ago and it was a lil embarrassing, kinda how I feel about boondock saints
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like in 2040, people will see it like they see mickey rooney's character in breakfast at tiffany's now
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just finished house of suns gently caress fuuuuuuuuuuuck i'm not going to lie i expected hesperus to actually be one of the two other robots because he never used the codewords also i knew that something was up from the moment the two of them were introduced and reynolds went on for like 6 paragraphs about how ~beautiful~ and ~special~ they were i did like the ending though, both with palatial having been a complete fabrication as well as the machines going 'yeah we don't really care about revenge, let's go exploring the universe after you've grown the gently caress up' vOv fucked around with this message at 04:41 on Sep 23, 2014 |
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if any of you are any sort of mountain goats fans, john darnielle's book wolf in white van came out last week. it's not sci fi per se, but is pretty yospos overall. also, he writes so lyrically that it's really fun to read
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just finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. its really really loving good. vOv posted:i'm not going to lie i expected hesperus to actually be one of the two other robots because he never used the codewords same
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AlsoD posted:just finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. its really really loving good. yes. ancillary sword is out soon or possibly now
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pseudorandom name posted:yes. two weeks, apparently. i didn't even know it was coming out, thanks!
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airplane, a found poem by trig disciplineol qwerty bastard posted:i watched PCjr sidecar posted:probably more concerned Notorious b.s.d. posted:so theflyingexecutive posted:i didn't want to pay for MALE SHOEGAZE posted:my favorite surprise Glorgnole posted:oh my god it's Heresiarch posted:a stack of crap Trig Discipline posted:i didn't even know it was coming out
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Trig Discipline posted:airplane, a found poem by trig discipline lmfao
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Trig Discipline posted:airplane, a found poem by trig discipline this one feel more like a hip hop song
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Trig Discipline posted:airplane, a found poem by trig discipline i just started laughing out loud on the bus and the guy in front of me just switched seats
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i feel like im the only one that couldn't really get into ancillary justice. maybe i'll give it another read sometime
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Trig Discipline posted:airplane, a found poem by trig discipline had to stifle laughter in a public place, thanks trig. thrig
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i'm really straining to get it and i dont get it which just leaves me fearing the tism
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i'm really straining to get it and i dont get it which just leaves me fearing the tism don't be afraid, autists are actually much more frightened of you than you are of them
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MALE SHOEGAZE posted:i'm really straining to get it and i dont get it which just leaves me fearing the tism
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also i'm like, reading, now that i have a kindle. definitely a good $100 spent. i was down to like a book a year which is pretty depressing.
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the worst part about a kindle is that preorder titles look so similar to available titles in the store. it's a cock tease every time.
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also people can't see what you're reading which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. tbh it's pretty hard to read the title of a book that somebody else is reading anyway
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AlsoD posted:also people can't see what you're reading which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. tbh it's pretty hard to read the title of a book that somebody else is reading anyway people not being able to judge my terrible taste is the main selling point for me but honestly 10 minutes of reading on a kindle really revealed how hard normal reading is.
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AlsoD posted:also people can't see what you're reading which is sometimes good and sometimes bad. tbh it's pretty hard to read the title of a book that somebody else is reading anyway http://www.theonion.com/video/new-kindle-helps-readers-show-off-by-shouting-titl,36568/
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raruler posted:http://www.theonion.com/video/new-kindle-helps-readers-show-off-by-shouting-titl,36568/ *tab closed in disgust*
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