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May 6, 2007

Jonny 290 posted:

my favorite dumb time travel thing is the set of questions posed by:

people A and B are in a relationship. married, loving, whatever

person B travels back in time from the future to the present day and attempts to bang person A while present day person B is out at work

is it cheating? is it ageism? is it everything above?

Charlie Stross wrote a novella called Palimpsest that wasn't explicitly about time travelers' banging but the protagonist did experience his relationship with his girlfriend non-linearly

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SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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stross is loving lame

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

I read cat's cradle recently and it was good

GOod book

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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star trek should have been cancelled after credits rolled on "in the pale moonlight"

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
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shit wizard dad

I usually don't like Time Travel films but Predestination was fun just for the time-twists. If you haven't seen it I recommend it but you absolutely have to watch it unspoiled. I would even avoid the trailer.

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

Amethyst posted:

star trek should have been cancelled after credits rolled on "in the pale moonlight"

holky gently caress a chance to quote amethyst

NoneMoreNegative posted:

I usually don't like Time Travel films but Predestination was fun just for the time-twists. If you haven't seen it I recommend it but you absolutely have to watch it unspoiled. I would even avoid the trailer.

also this, unrelated

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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NoneMoreNegative posted:

I usually don't like Time Travel films but Predestination was fun just for the time-twists. If you haven't seen it I recommend it but you absolutely have to watch it unspoiled. I would even avoid the trailer.

based on a robert heinlein short story which is really loving weird. I was shocked when I heard they were adapting it and even more shocked when it turned out great

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

Amethyst posted:

star trek should have been cancelled after credits rolled on "in the pale moonlight"

Avery Brooks is so goddamned good and Sisko is the best captain

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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disagree. he's a bad actor with delivery on par with william shatner

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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Amethyst posted:

disagree. he's a bad actor with delivery on par with william shatner

I tried watching deep space 9 and sisko is super indecisive all the time and the writing is inconsistent

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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patrick stewart is the only actual good actor who played a ST captain

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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Amethyst posted:

patrick stewart is the only actual good actor who played a ST captain

he has a really really good speaking voice

ol qwerty bastard
Dec 13, 2005

If you want something done, do it yourself!
oh cool we're to the point again in the sci-fi thread where no matter what someone wants to talk about, someone else immediately comes in to say it sucks

fun while it lasted i guess, see y'all in the next one

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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avery brooks is a more entertaining actor to watch than patrick stewart

I love them both, but one must be better than the other, and my die is cast

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Mar 28, 2004

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

oh cool we're to the point again in the sci-fi thread where no matter what someone wants to talk about, someone else immediately comes in to say it sucks

fun while it lasted i guess, see y'all in the next one

shut up

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

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ol qwerty bastard posted:

oh cool we're to the point again in the sci-fi thread where no matter what someone wants to talk about, someone else immediately comes in to say it sucks

fun while it lasted i guess, see y'all in the next one

they only say that about the bad sci fi

most sci fi is bad

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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sci fi fan 1: (good naturedly) shatner can't act for poo poo! he sucks man! also star wars sucks I hate it
sci fi fan 2: (having-a-great-time voice) no man star wars is cool! you know what sucks though? DUNE!!!

(everyone goes "ohhhhhh" in a fun-loving way)

ol qwerty bastard: (killjoy, sourpuss face, stink lines visible over his body) This is NOT cool.

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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Jonny 290 posted:

my favorite dumb time travel thing is the set of questions posed by:

people A and B are in a relationship. married, loving, whatever

person B travels back in time from the future to the present day and attempts to bang person A while present day person B is out at work

is it cheating? is it ageism? is it everything above?

this is not cheating and if time travel was invented tyere would be ads for it like those facetime ads where grandparents talked to their kids

(friendly voiceover)

Remember when we were young?

(footage of young happy couple at a picnic)

Remember the good days? Despite the bad?

(footage from a hospice with the man dying, the young woman crying)

Relive the old days

(cut back to the picnic, old woman smiling while watching from behind a tree)

And have a lil fun too

(old woman approaches from behind tree. All three are overcome with joy of recognition. Then they have a three way.)

Jonny 290
May 5, 2005



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Amethyst posted:

this is not cheating and if time travel was invented tyere would be ads for it like those facetime ads where grandparents talked to their kids

(friendly voiceover)

Remember when we were young?

(footage of young happy couple at a picnic)

Remember the good days? Despite the bad?

(footage from a hospice with the man dying, the young woman crying)

Relive the old days

(cut back to the picnic, old woman smiling while watching from behind a tree)

And have a lil fun too

(old woman approaches from behind tree. All three are overcome with joy of recognition. Then they have a three way.)

hahah gently caress yeah this is what im GETTIN AT

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

but instead of sending you back in time they just plant the memories in your brain that you went back and time and 3sumed themselves and their partner, until they come across someone who actually had already done it but had their memory erased to hide how awesome it was

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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Trabisnikof posted:

but instead of sending you back in time they just plant the memories in your brain that you went back and time and 3sumed themselves and their partner, until they come across someone who actually had already done it but had their memory erased to hide how awesome it was

that's the cheap option. The rich will always value authenticity and will pay top dollar to gently caress themselves with their real flesh and blood

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


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FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
his typeface was used in a lot of computer ads and documentation in the 1980s and late 1970s



wikipedia posted:

The font is used on the cover of 1980s Stephen King novels, The Smiths album Strangeways, Here We Come, for the book covers of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, The Bitmap Brothers game The Chaos Engine, as well as in the logos of both the National Assembly of Quebec and the Melbourne Knights.[5] The typeface is featured in the main titles of the Star Trek films, Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, as well as video game Nier: Automata. Paramount's FBI warning, from 1995–present, also uses ITC Benguiat.[6] The font is also used in the logo of the American rock band Greta Van Fleet, in the logo for Netflix show Stranger Things, and in the album art for rapper Logic's album Supermarket. The font is used for the logo written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in the beginning of his films.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Trabisnikof posted:

but instead of sending you back in time they just plant the memories in your brain that you went back and time and 3sumed themselves and their partner, until they come across someone who actually had already done it but had their memory erased to hide how awesome it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6JGmEKzqL8

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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the best episode of star trek is when riker hangs out with klingons

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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there should be more humans and klingons teaming up in star trek

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

the best episode of star trek is when riker hangs out with klingons

the bit where he phones picard and tells him to stand down and surrender is very cool

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

SmokaDustbowl posted:

the thing is we're literally in the future now, not even a apocalypse would surprise us that much. we have the scientific knowledge so it's hard to think what futuristic thing could phase a currently living person if they got zapped forward in time. lol does this make any sense?

I'm sure someone in the 1900s would have said the same thing.

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
Fun Shoe

Amethyst posted:

the bit where he phones picard and tells him to stand down and surrender is very cool

the klingons really hosed with him it was great

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFX6l8FOQXQ

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

rotor posted:

I'm sure someone in the 1900s would have said the same thing.

yeah but have you tried thinking about the future on weed?

queue me and my brother discussing the best dave chapelle era

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Mar 28, 2004

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rotor posted:

I'm sure someone in the 1900s would have said the same thing.

They would have, and it would also be correct.

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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Do you really think an iPhone would freak out someone who watched steam engines go from dicky little parlor tricks to building sized behemoths in their lifetime?

Amethyst
Mar 28, 2004

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The future is old as hell, basically

SmokaDustbowl
Feb 12, 2001

by vyelkin
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Amethyst posted:

Do you really think an iPhone would freak out someone who watched steam engines go from dicky little parlor tricks to building sized behemoths in their lifetime?

it'd be weird because how do you explain wireless radio and moving paintings and poo poo

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

Amethyst posted:

Do you really think an iPhone would freak out someone who watched steam engines go from dicky little parlor tricks to building sized behemoths in their lifetime?

yeah it would

i think you’re lacking in imagination here

specifically that some 19th century person wouldn’t be able to get it

maybe if they were over 20

give mark twain and a Connecticut yankee an iPhone sure it’s a meaningless hunk of plastic so is a Star Trek PAdd without a starship

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Mar 28, 2004

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SmokaDustbowl posted:

it'd be weird because how do you explain wireless radio and moving paintings and poo poo

the same way you explained flying machines and skyscrapers

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Mar 28, 2004

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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:

yeah it would

i think you’re lacking in imagination here

specifically that some 19th century person wouldn’t be able to get it

maybe if they were over 20

give mark twain and a Connecticut yankee an iPhone sure it’s a meaningless hunk of plastic so is a Star Trek PAdd without a starship

they would be impressed but it wouldn't, like, upend their view of reality or whatever

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