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REAMDE started off promising then got so goddamn stupid. Why Neal. Why.
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Nov 17, 2013 23:16
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It was fun and stuff blew up or got hit with hammers and swords a lot I guess. Also haha spaceships and AA cannons in Asgard. otoh today someone called TNG 'classic Star Trek' 
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Nov 18, 2013 06:28
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The way I pictured the Butlerian Jihad was that it was basically a fatwah on computers because it made people mentally lazy and reliant on machines (lol social commentary), which fits into the whole breeding program thing the BG had going on. Interesting conceptually but you'd be hard pressed to write a space epic about space luddites. A literal war on machines is lol tho.
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Nov 21, 2013 02:46
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Penn and Teller were on a celebrity homes show once. The big gross guy had a stupid mansion and did a tour, including a 'bondage room'. Lil guy had a sweet little apt.
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Nov 26, 2013 02:32
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:no but that looks hilarious It's not Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series was it? 
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Dec 6, 2013 03:23
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Reminder that Niven also wrote: http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html
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Dec 6, 2013 04:35
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Can-O-Raid posted:no in that one the aliens have like 2050-level tech but they invade during world war 2 I came across them when I still had the terrible habit of 'must read entire series' so I went all the way from ww2 with space lizards to bacon and spice addicted space lizards in space in 1980. I think that ended up breaking that habit though.
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Dec 6, 2013 09:46
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http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/14/5209622/google-has-bought-robotics-company-boston-dynamics Guess what, your power armor is going to be used for more efficient data collection.
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Dec 15, 2013 00:51
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syscall girl posted:unleash the unicorn, stop reading banks and check that out Just keep reading banks, you'll get to the end anyway.
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Dec 16, 2013 02:42
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Can-O-Raid posted:there was some dumb webcomic that said this but its true: orwell feared that we would be destroyed by the things we hate, huxley feared we would be destroyed by the things we love Huxley was right. 
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Dec 16, 2013 09:04
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It turns out sisko was a robot
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Dec 19, 2013 12:03
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The moment we come up with a self aware AI, it'll kill itself.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:59
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The last ep of bsg owned because when's the last time you saw a starship captain rolling around in his own vomit in a back alley?
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Mar 3, 2014 10:39
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Sagebrush posted:i was under the impression that the whole place was basically inorganic though. you got 200 people, the base is made of metal, no fossil fuels cause you got a nuclear reactor. definitely doesn't seem to be enough stuff around to turn into a hive. Magic black goo
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May 5, 2014 06:03
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Does it have the opera house being trashed? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIcExdpsEcQ
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May 17, 2014 03:59
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Gus Hobbleton posted:there, finished the culture books. I'm sure he's started working on his next one.
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May 24, 2014 08:28
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Anathem was pretty good, but Reamde was pretty bad. Diamond Age is pretty enjoyable. The Baroque Cycle is pretty massive and features great great grandfathers of Shaftoe and Waterhouse doing whatever it is they're doing. YMMV with enjoyment of these ridiculously huge volumes.
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May 25, 2014 13:51
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vOv posted:if nothing else i'm really curious as to why the hell the solar system is so far away from all the other stars Comedy answer: Its a sequel to the Night's Dawn trilogy or Feersum Enjinn. Notorious b.s.d. posted:diamond age and anathem both own. as is standard for stephenson scifi, the endings are terrible bolted-on affairs. it's about a journey, not the destination. Anathem actually had a shockingly complete ending compared to his other works. Then you get to the end and it's a filler section with an appendix and a digression about teaching a sperglord how to cut up a cake.
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May 26, 2014 00:06
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Davethulhu posted:an example: one of the main characters is the developer of the most popular mmo in the world. the key to this success? realistic geology America's love of freedom and guns saves the day in the end.
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May 26, 2014 00:33
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Grandmaster.flv posted:does a book exist of a muslim in a non muslim land actually being a good guy? Ms. Marvel.
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May 26, 2014 02:55
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indigi posted:then I realized I was mistaking Gattaca and Species How do you even do that?
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May 29, 2014 09:37
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Trig Discipline posted:or maybe intelligent life is really common but communication by vision and sound are not, so the universe is full of species frantically beaming smells at us in an attempt to communicate but we just have no idea Great, someone's beaming us space-farts.
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May 31, 2014 03:18
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Heresiarch posted:my earlier post actually has me thinking about a story idea Forrest Gump meets Independence Day! It'll be a blockbuster!
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May 31, 2014 09:22
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On the plus side, the movie means only First Class ever happened. vOv
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Jun 2, 2014 09:18
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stoutfish posted:the skin around your butt hole absorbs chemicals fastest and best. Ahahahah that fukken avatar again
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Jun 6, 2014 11:05
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And its all over by the time the human crew is even aware what's going on.
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Jun 7, 2014 10:53
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Picked up the new Prophet series and I think I gave myself some kind of brain damage. It's pretty amazing. https://www.comixology.com/Prophet-Vol-1-Remission/digital-comic/28583
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Jun 15, 2014 07:43
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Sagebrush posted:and william gibson is still putting out solid stuff on a fairly regular basis Well someone's got to eat all this bran
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Jun 18, 2014 07:15
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Plus seat belts in space battles so you dont fly all over the place.
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Jun 19, 2014 03:35
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The first three movies exist, were you expecting any different? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rfup0XKx7o Also this is kind of amazing when the story beats just match exactly.
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Jun 30, 2014 07:19
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Babylon 5 didnt even know if they'd get a season 5, so they rushed to finish everything for the end of season 4. Then whoops they got renewed and basically thumb twiddled for a whole season. Just watch til the end of 4.
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Jun 30, 2014 07:31
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Nintendo Kid posted:here's a story about exactly that situation, an alien and a human meeting and the only thing they end up managing to do is have sex: I read this and all I got was a weird gross bone Synthbuttrange fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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Jul 6, 2014 13:20
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quote:12 Monkeys will premiere on SyFy in January 2015.
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Jul 17, 2014 04:08
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mooooods
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Jul 23, 2014 00:51
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The movie is pretty not great, the GITS series was much improved.
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Jul 30, 2014 06:43
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Its a pretty good investigation about the existence of cyborg nipples though.
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Jul 30, 2014 07:00
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Lol you thought popular meant it was good
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Jul 30, 2014 10:55
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Please dont tap the giant jar of piss.
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That diving bell accident was some horrifying poo poo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident
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