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Finished it. I guess we're supposed to let everyone know. I liked it fine, not a lot seemed to happen on a grand scale, but I think that's the result of being in just two/three set locations all season. I don't know how I felt about the Bobby-joins-a-gang plot. It wasn't bad It just wasn't very interesting to me. Also can someone spoil the books for me -- is Miller gone for good? This is a great universe of characters and plots so I'm glad it didn't go kaput on sci fi.
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Dec 17, 2019 00:47
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Cojawfee posted:It's used for batteries, ceramics, lubricants and other things. 7up originally had Lithium in it.
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Dec 17, 2019 00:48
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tao of lmao posted:Drummers gonna be real sad and angry when she hears about ashford. My next season fantasy is an all-star killing team of Drummer, Amos, Bobbie, Fred, and Dawes hunting down Inaros in a wicked cool jury-rigged Belter gunship. So did I miss something, or is an open question whether or not Amos actually beat Murtry to death? Or just beat him within an inch of his life? It does seem a little out of character that Amos would actually *kill* Murtry in a provoked situation when he's a captive. Boris Galerkin posted:Episode 10 spoilers: That bothered me a little bit too, but I think you just have to consider that there are still budgetary restrictions. I'd assume Ashford would go in with at least a dozen or two dozen armed guys. As a nerd too, it made me consider the actual tactics of space boarding. I'd be willing to bet boarding teams would also employ some level of armor and ballistic shields (kinda like SWAT team shields), along with grenades, smoke, gas, flashbangs, and strobe/laser blinders. Probably taser type weapons too if they're trying to capture vs kill a target. They could have punched up that scene quite a bit, but as it is, they gave us a really cool gritty intense zero-G firefight that was moderately convincing and served the purpose of the plot. gfarrell80 fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Dec 17, 2019 00:54
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It gets mentioned in the books how insanely dangerous boarding actions are. In UN training sims, projections for the attackers' losses are around 60% at the low end.
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Dec 17, 2019 01:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:
Was it? I thought it was three teams of four -- when they show the dead soldier portraits at the memorial, there were 12 of them?
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Dec 17, 2019 01:38
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Supreme Allah posted:Was it? I thought it was three teams of four -- when they show the dead soldier portraits at the memorial, there were 12 of them? He's talking about the other raid.
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Dec 17, 2019 01:52
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Supreme Allah posted:
Unless he somehow comes back in the final book, which I find unlikely, he is gone for good. I suppose they could also change things in the show, but that would be a dramatic departure to just not have someone stay dead.
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Dec 17, 2019 01:56
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A shame. I really enjoyed abstract Miller.  Cojawfee posted:Please don't put lithium grease in your butt. New thread title please. Fabulousity fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Dec 17, 2019 |
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Dec 17, 2019 01:58
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OldMold posted:Binged the whole S4; havent read the books. Thoughts on entire S4: Lol what. If anything this season had money to burn. Yes it's me, the world's only lecturer who not only has time to make one set of slides, but ten sets, project them on all corners of the room, and also mock up some three dimensional holograms to prove my point. For my class of eight students. Doing an Arts Degree. Yes.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:14
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Boris Galerkin posted:What is the significance of lithium? The only thing I can think of is batteries but why do you need batteries if you can build fusion reactors? Ashford was hunting marco like a shark, he only had the one ship with a small crew and that Martian merked one of his pipe hitters. Getting help is a weeks maybe months long process
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Dec 17, 2019 02:21
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Open Source Idiom posted:Lol what. If anything this season had money to burn. I can't be the only one who wanted to hear more of what he was saying rather than whatever Avasarala wanted to talk about at that moment.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:21
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Cojawfee posted:Please don't put lithium grease in your butt. The Something Awful Forums › The Finer Arts › TV IV › The Expanse, Season 4: Lithium Lube For Amos' Moods
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Dec 17, 2019 02:28
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pik_d posted:Unless he somehow comes back in the final book, which I find unlikely, he is gone for good. I suppose they could also change things in the show, but that would be a dramatic departure to just not have someone stay dead. Miller and all the other people the protomolecule ate were basically trapped in hell and Miller used his brief period of autonomy to free everyone from their life of eternal torture. he wanted to be and is dead.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:29
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uber_stoat posted:Miller and all the other people the protomolecule ate were basically trapped in hell and Miller used his brief period of autonomy to free everyone from their life of eternal torture. he wanted to be and is dead. Yeah, I love Miller too but the character went out like a total baller flipping off his captors and him coming back now would just cheapen his sacrifice. Now whether the Investigator can come back, independent of Miller's template... (don't book-spoil me on this, I'd like there to be some mystery to look forward to)
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Dec 17, 2019 02:34
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Overall I think this show turned book 4, which was slower and less interesting than the books before it into an above average season. I'm pleased with it and looking forward to season 5. I've deliberately stayed one book ahead of the series, but now I'm burning through book 6 and enjoying it.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:39
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I love when Amos was talking to Holdan after he talked to Avasarala like "what was she wearing  "
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Dec 17, 2019 02:40
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So is amos the only positive depiction of a psychopath on TV? I'm thinking of 'Dexter' but he was still a fetishistic murderer, Amos is genuinely a guy who acknowledges he has a mental problem preventing him from always differentiating between good and bad but he makes an active effort to do good by latching on to moral people. I love Amos. And really it's kind of good to have a sorta positive role model for people with similar issues.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:46
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McSpanky posted:The Something Awful Forums › The Finer Arts › TV IV › The Expanse, Season 4: Lithium Lube For Amos' Moods whats with the mood thing i keep seeing it, is it new, i want in on the ground floor for once
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Dec 17, 2019 02:48
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Given all the poo poo they get into constantly, explain to me why the Roci doesn't take Bobbi on as a permanent heavy. Amos is not wholly invincible. Also, Jesus Christ, why to UN marines not have power armor?
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Dec 17, 2019 02:51
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emanresu tnuocca posted:So is amos the only positive depiction of a psychopath on TV? Amos has too much empathy to be a psychopath. Not much, but still too much.
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Dec 17, 2019 02:52
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Rocksicles posted:whats with the mood thing i keep seeing it, is it new, i want in on the ground floor for once Kinda, but I was actually using it in the traditional sense. You're looking for this stuff: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mood
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Dec 17, 2019 03:10
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Psychopath and sociopath get thrown around too casually, Amos character doesn't seem like either. Although he could benefit from psychotherapy but that's not being a psychopath. The character (and I only know the TV version) comes off to me like someone with severe PTSD. He's detached as much as he can get away with, welcoming of outbursts, a whiff of melancholy/fatalism. He's been through a lot and finds your bullshit very boring.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:19
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McSpanky posted:Kinda, but I was actually using it in the traditional sense. You're looking for this stuff: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mood 2016? why do i keep hearing in like it was invented a month ago. A number of youtubers i've watched have started saying it.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:19
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Dreylad posted:Yeah I remembered her from Altered Carbon and it's unfortunate that she hasn't gotten any better at acting. This is from a few pages back but went past unanswered. Nancy Gao's actress was not in altered carbon - who do you have her confused with?
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Dec 17, 2019 03:25
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Rocksicles posted:2016? why do i keep hearing in like it was invented a month ago. A number of youtubers i've watched have started saying it. mood Some of the Sheep posted:This is from a few pages back but went past unanswered. Nancy Gao's actress was not in altered carbon - who do you have her confused with? Dichen Lachman, surely?
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Dec 17, 2019 03:26
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Amos isn't exactly a sociopath, he's just knows he's not good at making a 'moral' choice and so he lets Naomi or Holden make those choices. He's still has emotions and stuff, he's protective of people, he's just, really direct with a lot of stuff. Be that fuckin' or killin'.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:33
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Open Source Idiom posted:Dichen Lachman, surely?
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Dec 17, 2019 03:33
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Combat Pretzel posted:They don't even look alike. I don't even need to look up a picture to know that. Yet another case of goon face blindness. Oh yeah, but I can't think of another prominent asian woman in the cast. Lachman's loving blonde ffs.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:43
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Open Source Idiom posted:Oh yeah, but I can't think of another prominent asian woman in the cast. Lachman's loving blonde ffs. She's also not Chinese.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:48
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haha I don't know how you could look at this person's face and mistake them for anyone else.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:48
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Rocksicles posted:She's also not Chinese. (Half?) Nepalese yeah? I remember when she was on Neighbours for a hot minute.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:52
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I, for one, have never mistaken one actor for another in my entire life and also find this to be completely ridiculous.
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Dec 17, 2019 03:53
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However, I think there's something everyone was missing. Murtry's leg brace was glowing blue. What else glows blue? The protomolecule. 
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Dec 17, 2019 03:55
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Boris Galerkin posted:What is the significance of lithium? The only thing I can think of is batteries but why do you need batteries if you can build fusion reactors? This is just good science consulting. In fusion reactors, a lot of the energy of the reaction is released as fast neutrons. These can't be used for electricity directly, but they can be absorbed and also catalyze the production of additional fusion fuel in a system called a neutron blanket. In theoretical fusion reactors, this neutron blanket surrounds the reactor, absorbing usable energy and breeding tritium fuel from fast neutrons. The neutron absorber material/breeder fuel is lithium. You'd need quite a bit for a reactor the size of the Rocinante's.
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Dec 17, 2019 04:00
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Open Source Idiom posted:Dichen Lachman, surely? Goon face blindness continues.
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Dec 17, 2019 04:01
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I don't know how you could mix them up. Dichen Lachman has a much more angular face.
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Dec 17, 2019 04:05
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Combat Pretzel posted:They don't even look alike. I don't even need to look up a picture to know that. Yet another case of goon face blindness. I think it was more their wooden delivery but yeah, my bad they look nothing alike. It's been a year or so since I watched Altered Carbon and I never bothered to check.
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Dec 17, 2019 04:08
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Maybe we need to see Gao’s actress fighting naked for a few minutes to be sure.
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Apparatchik Magnet posted:Maybe we need to see Gao’s actress fighting naked for a few minutes to be sure. Yes.
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