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SF posting compendium (3rd edition) 2nd edition 1st edition talk about a book you read or a film you watched or something like that. hopefully this thread will be allowed to linger on this plane for a time.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 15:51 |
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It is by will alone I set my posts in motion. It is by the Mountain of Dew that shitposts acquire bans, the pants acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my posts in motion.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 15:57 |
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his name is a posting word
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:02 |
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chapter house goon
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:08 |
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anime
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:21 |
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paul@raid.es
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:38 |
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I will watch the dune movie and it will be good. a friend convinced me to re-read the book and I'm looking forward to it, but I'm having some trouble with my eyes so I dunno if/when I'll be able to. good thing kindles can use huge text size I guess
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:39 |
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i'm optimistic about the dune movie
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:41 |
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Achmed Jones posted:I will watch the dune movie and it will be good. a friend convinced me to re-read the book and I'm looking forward to it, but I'm having some trouble with my eyes so I dunno if/when I'll be able to. good thing kindles can use huge text size I guess The Audiobook they have on Audible is e.deece, IMO?
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 16:51 |
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the movie is going to faithful to the book, meaning it’s going to be bad
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:17 |
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Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:25 |
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I miss Iain M. Banks. But I'm glad Amazon isn't adapting his work for the television anymore.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:36 |
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hell yeah ground floorquote:Gurgeh stared at the space chess. He considered moving the space king over to the space rook, but then he didn't. Instead, he moved it to the right. He nodded. The robot flew over, and said something bitchy. Gurgeh chuckled, then sighed. "Robot," he said, "please fly away." The robot made a light from his head and then he flew away.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:38 |
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The original source for that quote is this post on Metafilter.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:40 |
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more like the layer of dames
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 17:53 |
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 18:39 |
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btw never read the state of the art reads like bad fanfic and twilight zone twists
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 19:01 |
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Uptime Sinclair posted:hell yeah ground floor also crucial haveblue posted:sax stared at the mars rock. He considered examining the mars pebble next to the mars rock, but then he didn't. Instead, he examined the boulder. He nodded. ann walked over, and said something bitchy. sax chuckled, then sighed. "ann," he said, "please drive away." ann made a light from her suit and then she drove away.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 19:30 |
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PCjr sidecar posted:btw never read the state of the art is that the short story collection? I was reading from the first culture book through the last, hit the short stories, and then stopped bc they were bad. never did pick up the novels again. maybe after I go through dune again
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 20:15 |
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Achmed Jones posted:is that the short story collection? I was reading from the first culture book through the last, hit the short stories, and then stopped bc they were bad. never did pick up the novels again. maybe after I go through dune again yes that’s the one the rest of the novels are good (I haven’t read inversions)
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 20:30 |
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Uptime Sinclair posted:hell yeah ground floor same
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 21:08 |
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Achmed Jones posted:is that the short story collection? I was reading from the first culture book through the last, hit the short stories, and then stopped bc they were bad. never did pick up the novels again. maybe after I go through dune again I skipped from the Player of Games straight to the Hydrogen Sonata and had a good time
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 21:47 |
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thinking of playing metro exodus and want to warm up by finally reading roadside picnic
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 21:49 |
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PCjr sidecar posted:yes that’s the one inversions is written and presented much differently than the other novels, and it doesn't have the same "wow cool spaceship" appeal either. i liked it but it's not going to be a good fit for everyone.
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# ? Sep 12, 2020 22:01 |
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Just got done watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgC3mMahew&t=5s it was definitely the 'entertaining garbage' I was hoping for and not the 'dull garbage' a lot of low budget schlock is. Some dark humor, a few decent car wrecks and the crazy coot who goes on a rampage early in the runtime was a highlight. Slows down a bit in the last quarter and ends with an interminable no-stakes helicopter chase (ok the piloting is impressive and the Utah scenery is beautiful). I would only recommend if you like 'Best of the Worst' style cinema. edit: tbh about 90% of the action you want to see is in the trailer here. NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Sep 12, 2020 |
# ? Sep 12, 2020 23:20 |
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 03:05 |
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also yeah the audiobook for dune is good and so are the next few. i stopped after the initial trilogy and suggest you do the same or sooner
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 03:07 |
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Agile Vector posted:also yeah the audiobook for dune is good and so are the next few. i stopped after the initial trilogy and suggest you do the same or sooner children of dune didnt quite do it for me. it's when the endless Duncan Idaho begins and why does anyone care about him
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 03:19 |
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I liked children of time and might get children of ruin. super space octopi sound rad
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 03:32 |
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science fiction
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 04:31 |
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fart simpson posted:science fiction i prefer it hard
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 04:44 |
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the difference between hard and soft sci fi is literally pretending your magic poo poo isn't magic. like in the expanse where there's zombies and teleportation and electric marvel superpowers and they're like "oh we just DONT UNDERSTAND these MAGIC POWERS yet" lmao
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 04:51 |
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Glorgnole posted:inversions is written and presented much differently than the other novels, and it doesn't have the same "wow cool spaceship" appeal either. i liked it but it's not going to be a good fit for everyone. iirc it is also first-person from the perspective of the multiverse's biggest prick sincerely,
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:06 |
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oh and i tried the second episode of lucifer, and thirty seconds in he refers to himself as beelzebub, and just like that i'm out again
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:13 |
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rjmccall posted:oh and i tried the second episode of lucifer, and thirty seconds in he refers to himself as beelzebub, and just like that i'm out again I doubt your average viewer understands the reference enough to care
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:14 |
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rjmccall posted:iirc it is also first-person from the perspective of the multiverse's biggest prick lol bigger than horza there are a lot of unlikable jerks in this series i read spaceship at the end of the universe on a rec of a friend i liked it
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:15 |
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rjmccall posted:oh and i tried the second episode of lucifer, and thirty seconds in he refers to himself as beelzebub, and just like that i'm out again
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:16 |
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read a bunch of stanisław Lem this year and as a result I recommend reading stanisław Lem
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:19 |
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Beamed posted:the difference between hard and soft sci fi is literally pretending your magic poo poo isn't magic. like in the expanse where there's zombies and teleportation and electric marvel superpowers and they're like "oh we just DONT UNDERSTAND these MAGIC POWERS yet" lmao zombies I get, the other two I dont understand what you're referencing? imo it at least kinda works -- the 'magic' is limited to the dead ancient alien civilization poo poo. Human tech is very grounded. The expanse is cool because its a nice setting it gets to of humanity being a piece of poo poo on the skeleton remains of a dead alien civilization, still doing stupid human things
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:30 |
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WilWheaton posted:zombies I get, the other two I dont understand what you're referencing? ghosts that only certain characters get to see is one i forgot about, but an asteroid breaks physics to move in one scene, and then electricity, momentum, etc. are shut down in the Magic Aether Zone when they first enter the Magic Stargate i actually really like the expanse fwiw it's just super fantastical in terms of the science part
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# ? Sep 13, 2020 05:32 |