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Sniep posted:why A) was idiocracy disowned by fox Just watch your families home movies, nbd
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Just finished the first book of the Admiral Thrawn trilogy of Star Wars novels and it's surprisingly decent. Similar tone and reasonably close quality to the original movies, anyway. Would have made a decent sequel trilogy if it were directed by someone other than george lucas
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Jul 8, 2011 04:30
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wishing someone from this thread would die every 20 pages
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almost all fantasy novels and comic books are written by manchildren with weird sexual fantasies at least know what you're getting into when you read these things wonder woman was basically created to be a very thinly veiled bdsm fetish
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Jul 8, 2011 05:11
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rotor posted:are there any good novels in that genre that aren't tolkien or tolkein ripoffs? in particular i'm looking for something sans elfs. It's a loooooooooooot easier to find good science fiction than it is to find good fantasy
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Jul 8, 2011 05:20
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I think the only reason tolkein is good is because he just wanted to sperg out about languages and songs and myths, and then everyone that came after decided the window dressing parts (orcs and stuff) were the important bit
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Jul 8, 2011 05:35
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elric of melniboner
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Jul 8, 2011 05:35
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z0ratio fartboner posted:nah... Tolkien owns... I will never read the hobbit again tho the hobbit was intended as a child's bedtime story so it's drastically different in tone from the other stuff
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Jul 8, 2011 06:02
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star wars eu is weird because they've constructed narratives around characters that only ever had a name so they could make an action figure out of it
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Jul 8, 2011 06:05
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boy i sure am excited to read the further adventures of a character that was a nameless extra in a rubber suit
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Jul 8, 2011 06:06
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oh yeah, need to read those gene wolfe books
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Jul 8, 2011 07:12
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Stuff I read recently that was good: Ilium Olympos The Colour of Magic Discworld seems like a fantasy version of Hitchhiker's Guide that's better in every way. Speaking of TV, I was watching Star Trek on Netflix and at one point Picard whips out a tablet and it's like 3 times as thick as the iPad
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Jul 21, 2011 21:19
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haveblue posted:half of this is true Hitchhiker's Guide isn't horrible, it's just that DA had a tendency to slap you in the face with the joke, and the pacing is terrible which is why I never got past the halfway point of book 2 even though I thought they were funny.
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Jul 21, 2011 21:34
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Brace posted:I think I might go out drinking, except not actually, I'll go out pretending like I'm gonna drink, get really wasted and come home and then just post on yospos while watching 2001 a space odyssey 2011 a shitposting odyssey
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Jul 21, 2011 23:15
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mods change tom collins name to 12 monkeytails, tia
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Jul 24, 2011 07:14
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Action Jacktion posted:PYF crazy bigoted conservative SF: this retroactively reduced my enjoyment of ilium/olympos, though at least I bought them bought them used. If I read anything else of his I'll be sure to buy secondhand
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Jul 24, 2011 07:17
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i met a irl firefly fan and he was into linux
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Jul 25, 2011 03:02
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Coffee Quack posted:one of the best sci fi movies ever, you gotta be a pro to carry a 90 minute movie by yourself
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Jul 25, 2011 03:03
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arioch posted:I like how Cowboys & Aliens looks basically like an adaptation of Prey that was indians versus aliens
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Jul 25, 2011 22:16
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CHARONS BOAT RIDER posted:The worse it is the better it will be basically this is the idea behind my gimmick
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Jul 25, 2011 23:17
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Brace posted:gonna see planet of the apes, gonna own. say hi to mum and dad
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Jul 26, 2011 06:35
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she lied and says she's in love with him can't find a bitterman
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Jul 26, 2011 20:47
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atomicthumbs posted:well the answer is complicated because the Empire's laser cannons and turbolasers are empire is star wars heathen
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Dec 14, 2011 01:41
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LooseChanj posted:I am reminded of a dude whose posts I saw elsewhere who was so rabidly homosexual he claimed vaginas were filthy and that the anus was self-cleaning. I've heard this argument IRL before
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Dec 15, 2011 05:02
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What's so bad about joining the borg anyway? Sounds like a p sweet deal to me
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Dec 15, 2011 05:06
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NINbuntu 64 posted:sure, if youre like suicidal or something. you completely lose all individuality and just exist as a meat sack to carry out the will of the collective which you are now a part of It's not that different from the Singularity
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Dec 15, 2011 05:58
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LP97S posted:You used to be. Accurate. When my dad was an engineer at GE they'd all go out and have a couple drinks with lunch.
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Dec 15, 2011 08:50
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rotor posted:the hr director was drunk as gently caress and goosed me @ the company xmas party I hope you filed a sexual harassment complaint with...hr?
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Dec 15, 2011 08:55
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rotor posted:no she is a pretty azn girl a+++ would be harassed again you're trivializing all the sexual harassment men in the workplace have been fighting against for years gj rotor
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Dec 15, 2011 09:01
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My dad kind of owned, honestly...engineer, smoked a pipe, drank at work, married a woman 20 years younger than him despite being short and fat and balding
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Dec 15, 2011 09:26
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Dear RMS posted:Started reading Snow Crash for the first time. Am I supposed to think some of this is ridiculous? Do you really have to ask?
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Dec 16, 2011 02:27
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at least he writes really good endings ... neal stephenson is enjoyable, but he's not nearly clever enough to pull off the kinds of books he tries to write
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Dec 16, 2011 03:15
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I wish there was more epic sci-fi. I could really for like a 5000 page history of war with an alien species right now.
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Dec 16, 2011 07:40
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Bad rear end Boutique posted:just finished Ringworld and uhhhhhh...it wasn't really all that good I thought the same
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Dec 16, 2011 22:38
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A lot of hard sci-fi is going to have a hard time withstanding the test of time. You're going to have to deal with more speculative aspects of science to do anything interesting and there's always a chance half of it will end up being a dead end 10 years later
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Dec 18, 2011 00:14
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It's kinda dumb to stop writing SF for that reason though. It's entertainment, not a crystal ball. Neuromancer is still a great book even if was almost totally wrong about what the future would look like.
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Dec 18, 2011 00:45
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I've only read the first Ringworld book but the whole book basically boiled down to 'Explore featureless wasteland filled with nothing but small settlements of savages every couple thousand miles'
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Dec 18, 2011 00:47
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Are the Lensman books easier to find in other countries or something? It looks like most of them have been out of print for 20 years in the US.
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Dec 18, 2011 01:47
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drat, that midget's credentials are more impressive than mine brb suicide
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unleash the unicorn posted:About that: Everytime I read about Banks it's all "post-scarcity" this and "planned economies are superior" that. I find that ridiculous for reasons that have no place in this thread and I'm afraid it would ruin the books for me just as much as "breeding for luck" or intelligent dolphins would. Tell us more about Ayn Rand and your Libertarian beliefs, and how it affects your enjoyment of a good book.
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