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KomradeX posted:Idk, I think I'd rather watch Infernal Affairs than the Departed ugh goddamn everybody knows okay
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Clip-On Fedora posted:The departed is pretty good though! It never really clicked with me
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Tonight on Netflix I watched Operation Odessa, which was a documentary about the time the Cali Cartel tried to get a Russian submarine in the mid 90s. I wax laughing my rear end off at it because I could only describe the people involved as Chapo characters.
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get drunk and say "i'm not a cop" in a boston accent and you'll have the full departed experience
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gonna x-post this from ADTRW 'cause it ruled and the 5th Season of The Expanse just wrapped:https://thespool.net/features/the-expanse-mobile-suit-gundam/ - The whole thing is a must-read but I'll pull some bits for the lazy:“The Expanse” and “Mobile Suit Gundam”: two sides of the sci-fi coin" posted:Fans of each franchise recognize the similarities in the other, and there are even some Easter Eggs that seems intentional. The first of the Free Navy’s meteorites to strike the Earth destroyed Dakar, the home of the Earth Federation congress in 1985’s Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam. That series also originated the repeated maxim that Earth’s souls are “weighed down by gravity”, a line paralleled in Commander Thorsen’s interrogation of Bobbie Draper: “[Gravity]’s different when you’re there. This oppressive pull-down. It pulls the spirits down with it”. That scene was set on the MCRN Scirocco, possibly named for Zeta Gundam’s final antagonist, Paptimus Scirocco, a man changed by his years spent orbiting Jupiter. But the parallels aren’t a list of click-bait references, they’re the undergirding assumptions on how science fiction should reflect the world. And the recs are all fantastic, of course - big ups to dropping Gundam Thunderbolt in there.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:ugh goddamn everybody knows okay it was wild finding out the “most pretty women are cops” scene was word for word from IA
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I just finished watching this and it fuckin' rules, it's C-SPAM as gently caress and heavy on the class war themes, as well as a healthy bit of internationalist optimism. also the robot says trans rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WYnJF1Pwo really good filler if you got bummed that The Expanse just wrapped up season 5 Taintrunner has issued a correction as of 10:25 on Feb 8, 2021 |
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Feb 8, 2021 10:17
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i rather hated space sweepers personally too much exposition to the point that it simultaneously hits you over the head with the class war stuff but also contradicts it frequently partially because the villain isnt technically a capitalist but also because the story goes out of its way to emphasize that its characters chose to be space pirates having rejected other life choices
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Feb 8, 2021 10:49
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It looks like planetes combined with the jetsons in other words complete dogshit
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Feb 8, 2021 11:05
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i was hoping for planetes personally but the entire space junk thing is dumped really fast despite it being the alleged job of the spaceship crew and also the foundation of the main characters backstory
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Feb 8, 2021 11:37
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Dune (1984) is a wild, good, bad, gross, engrossing movie.
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Taintrunner posted:gonna x-post this from ADTRW 'cause it ruled and the 5th Season of The Expanse just wrapped:https://thespool.net/features/the-expanse-mobile-suit-gundam/ - The whole thing is a must-read but I'll pull some bits for the lazy: give bobbie a gundam, got it.
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gradenko_2000 posted:
there's no way this could work, their relative velocities would be (lol) astronomical
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Feb 8, 2021 23:10
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wasnt that basically the climax of the martian though which ive been told is SCIENCE the movie it wouldnt surprise me to learn that the away people just lifted that from the martian assuming it was correct and didnt bother to actually crunch the numbers themselves
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Feb 9, 2021 05:36
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My coworker left the browser signed into Amazon Prime; which show do I watch first?
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Feb 9, 2021 06:18
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the expanse duh
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Feb 9, 2021 06:19
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Okie dokie. Will my fractal crackpinging inhibit my enjoyment of it at all? Edit: Accidentally turned audio to "descriptive" and was so confused. "...illuminates a small sliver of the moon. Credits appear." Me: Wow, this sure is meta, but okay, Tubgoat has issued a correction as of 06:24 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Feb 9, 2021 06:22
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oh the show is absolutely designed for the crack pinged
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Feb 9, 2021 06:27
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Don't forget to slip a couple weird products into his search suggestions
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Feb 9, 2021 06:39
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Lib and let die posted:Don't forget to slip a couple weird products into his search suggestions
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Away season ender: Lu, the taikonaut, is supposed to be the first one to step off the spaceship after it lands on Mars. She's supposed to take mankind's first step on Martian soil, and is intended to take the first photo taken from Mars, showing herself. It's heavily implied that China managed to negotiate all of this in exchange for their support in the program. At the very last minute, the Chinese space program administrators issue instructions for Lu to keep her reflective visor down when she takes her picture. So they won't see that a woman is in the suit, but they will see the suit with its Chinese flag stitched onto the shoulders. Again, the show hammers on the idea that China is just so sexist that they'd be willing to erase Lu's identity from the picture, and also that China is so collectivist-nationalist that Lu is supposed to take this on the chin because that's what "the motherland" is asking for her, and that the motherland is more important than herself as an individual. She tries to bargain by saying that she'll abide by those orders if they reinstate her lover back into Mission Control, but China's response makes it clear that they're not going to budge on the issue. She eventually gets convinced, by the Russian of all people, that "borders don't exist" and "the motherland doesn't care about you", and so the series ends with her taking a picture of the entire team on Mars, rather than just her with the visor down, as a big ol' gently caress-you to her orders. Ultimately this did not sit well with me. The writers just can't resist trying to make China the bad guy, and for Lu to become increasingly more "Americanized" as she resists the micromanagement of her leadership by expressing more of her individuality. It's such a sharp contrast to other movies, where even when China is portrayed as a secretive nation, it's usually for something good, such as a second satellite to help The Martian that NASA did not know about, or that China gets to build all of the big Ark ships in 2012 (although in that latter example, there's still the implication that the construction was done at the expense of Tibetans).
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it's been said in the past, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the expanse is a documentary, but at this point it seems like a wildly optimistic view of our future.
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Laterite posted:it's been said in the past, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the expanse is a documentary, but at this point it seems like a wildly optimistic view of our future.
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Feb 9, 2021 06:53
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idk how you'd build solidarity between largely unemployed Earthers and the Belters. seems like it'd be a nightmare
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Feb 9, 2021 06:55
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are last minute changes even a thing in space programs i was under the impression that resources are such a big concern you cant even like waste time handing the camera to another person or else something ridiculous might happen like the ship exploding
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Feb 9, 2021 06:56
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nah something like taking a Mars selfie isn't micromanaged to that degree, remember they were golfing and joyriding at one point on the Moon
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Feb 9, 2021 06:59
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indigi posted:idk how you'd build solidarity between largely unemployed Earthers and the Belters. seems like it'd be a nightmare It makes a certain mathematical sense then that the privileged require considerably less loss in order to notice something is horrifically wrong and to start to piece it together.
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Laterite posted:it's been said in the past, somewhat tongue in cheek, that the expanse is a documentary, but at this point it seems like a wildly optimistic view of our future. in that sense it’s sort of the bizarre successor to Star Trek TNG of all things, in that it does have a sense of optimism running just under the hood. if not optimism, then at the very least a hope that these sorts of problems are solvable, if we’re willing to work together
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Feb 9, 2021 07:04
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Mr Hootington posted:Dune (1984) is a wild, good, bad, gross, engrossing movie. Pretty much. It's my go to movie for kinda not really paying attention to while being high on painkillers and weed. Really helps get into the constant inner-monologues and xanax fueled pace/acting.
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Feb 9, 2021 07:42
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I'm watching Tomorrow Never Dies and holy loving lmao it kicks off with an insane billionaire media mogul tries to engineer a world war. gee whiz a little ahead of our time here fellas oh and Jonathan Pryce calling up an illuminati zoom call and one guy immediately rattles off "our new software is ready to release, full of bugs as you requested, so people will be forced to upgrade for years" yowzers!!!
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Taintrunner posted:I'm watching Tomorrow Never Dies and holy loving lmao it kicks off with an insane billionaire media mogul tries to engineer a world war. gee whiz a little ahead of our time here fellas Tomorrow Never Dies extremely owns in the post-escalator era.
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Feb 9, 2021 09:14
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Yeah but for some reason MI6 is trying to stop him?
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Feb 9, 2021 09:56
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Yeah but for some reason MI6 is trying to stop him? Vice cops trying to arrest each other for buying/selling drugs.
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Feb 9, 2021 10:02
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I know they won't do it but they should really bring Brosnan back for the IOI 007 game, his era of Bond movies are beautifully silly in a way that totally fits with the Hitman formula
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Feb 9, 2021 10:04
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still wondering why the chinese government decided to send a lesbian astronaut to mars if they hate lesbians so much youd think a country of a billion people could find a qualified astronaut whos not a lesbian if they were that hellbent on being bigoted assholes but apparently not
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Some Guy TT posted:are last minute changes even a thing in space programs i was under the impression that resources are such a big concern you cant even like waste time handing the camera to another person or else something ridiculous might happen like the ship exploding space programs are a weird mix of everything being tightly regulated because small mistakes can be fatal when you're in hard vacuum a million miles from earth and everything being overengineered to keep people safe so astronauts can be loving around throwing poo poo at each other and it's fine it is possible to change space missions on the fly, often because of the overengineering meaning the actual pieces of technology end up being capable of more than the mission requires, like how virtually every unmanned space exploration mission ends up getting extended for years or decades because they complete the mission and then go "oh yeah it turns out the spaceship still has ten years of battery life, we might as well do a slingshot around Mars and fly it past these other planets to take pictures of them when it gets there in six years, since it's already out there" Some Guy TT posted:wasnt that basically the climax of the martian though which ive been told is SCIENCE the movie it's been a while since I watched the Martian, but I think a key difference is that in the Martian they slighshotted around Earth and then caught up with the supply ship that was headed to Mars, so at least they were going the same direction which makes it a little more plausible it sounds like in Away they wanted to do the opposite, slingshot around Mars and catch up with a supply ship headed from Mars to Earth, which is way more impossible because the relative velocity difference is way bigger since the two ships are traveling different directions instead of the same direction
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Yeah but for some reason MI6 is trying to stop him? The CIA did hate Trump
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https://mobile.twitter.com/scribblesscript/status/1358679076408496130 Oh boy!
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it's also gotquote:Wyatt Russell as John F. Walker: A militaristic successor to Captain America created by the U.S. government predicting that the "anarchists" eventually team up with the heroes to take down fascist Captain America. We learn that the truth was somewhere in the middle all along.
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Weren't the "Flag Smashers" in the comics ultimately led by Literally Hitler?
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