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Hector Beerlioz posted:Don't forget everyone has a laptop too, but they only have one button. In the future Contextual Button Press technology has advanced leaps and bounds. There may only be one button but that button knows what you want when you press it.
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in the future, apple designs all laptops
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Jun 16, 2015 18:35
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Fetus Tree posted:in the future, apple designs all laptops *Control Panels Explode*
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Jun 16, 2015 19:08
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Fetus Tree posted:i was just remarking that while they nailed tablets they didnt at all nail their functionality, idgaf, youll find me to be one of the least likely to harp on sci fi tech crap yeesh I wasn't arguing against you
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Jun 16, 2015 19:11
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Chomp8645 posted:In the future Contextual Button Press technology has advanced leaps and bounds. There may only be one button but that button knows what you want when you press it. man this isn't that crazy. google already knows i want troi titties when i just type "tro" probably just using previous search history though
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Jun 16, 2015 19:14
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Jun 16, 2015 19:16
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Ralp posted:yeesh I wasn't arguing against you seems like you are now though
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Ralp posted:yeesh I wasn't arguing against you Fetus Tree posted:seems like you are now though 
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Don't forget everyone has a laptop too, but they only have one button. http://willyoupressthebutton.com/  IT'S HAPPENING edit: HAPPENING IN THE MIRROR UNIVERSE AS WELL Freemason Rush Week fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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Jun 16, 2015 19:29
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ambassador from the planet where they based their entire culture on a copy of the Bee Gees disography that someone from Earth left behind
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Jun 16, 2015 19:30
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I watched a couple of TNG episodes last year, and it was really weird how people were all wink-wink-nudge-nudge about having sex with holo-chicks. iirc even Picard was kind of  about it. Weird, that poo poo wouldn't fly today.
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midnightclimax posted:I watched a couple of TNG episodes last year, and it was really weird how people were all wink-wink-nudge-nudge about having sex with holo-chicks. iirc even Picard was kind of yeah we're definitely more averse to bangin fake pussy now than we were in the 80s
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Jun 16, 2015 19:44
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Fetus Tree posted:yeah we're definitely more averse to bangin fake pussy now than we were in the 80s I can't imagine telling someone at work that I 'll put on my Oculus and gently caress my fleshlight, because that's basically what it boils down to.
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Jun 16, 2015 19:59
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Pneub posted:
They know Kirk has bad eyesight so they made all the buttons large so he could use it without glasses
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Jun 16, 2015 20:04
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Ralp posted:Stuff like this is really stupid but who cares, it's just visual shorthand for portraying events on the screen in a way the viewer can relate to in order to progress the story, and I think it's easy to understand and accept that. Sci-Fi that seriously speculates how daily life would change with advanced technology is interesting but Star Trek has never ever been that, I can't think of even a single episode that does. (Maybe Barclay's holodiction, barely? There must be at least a few.) Books and movies have the freedom to explore sci fi worlds where things are actually different than they are today, but television shows don't apparently. I think people just wouldn't be able to relate to watching characters on a weekly basis living in a radically different society, or perhaps they would, but the creators of television shows lack the imagination to handle it. The star trek world is some sort of benign socialist paradise, where replicators can make anything needed and artificial intelligence exists. Even Quark's holosuites are powerful enough to create AI's, in the form of holodeck characters. Data's brain may be some sort of uncopyable new technology, but his body isn't. There would be robots everywhere doing all the physical grunt work that humans didn't want to do, and AI's doing everything else. There would be no need for humans do to any work at all, really, and the limits of any civilization in any area would be the amount of energy they had available, as energy can be converted into anything needed. Without the need for people to work, society would be radically different. Some worlds would get rid of almost all their human population, since those in power would no longer need them. Most, perhaps, would be Risa like pleasure worlds where everyone was on permanent vacation. Anyone who could possibly manage it would live inside a holodeck. Inside a holodeck, you are a god, so who would want to leave? There would be worlds (perhaps small moons) where the entire surface of the planet was converted into a holodeck, so that no one ever had to leave. What would people be like who had spent their entire lives in a holodeck, always having whatever they wanted instantly, and who had never known work? Different than today's people. In addition, genetic engineering would exist, and the idea that every species anywhere would refuse to use it is silly. Those who refused to use genetic engineering would quickly fall hopelessly behind those who did, as before long you have entire planets of beautiful geniuses with perfect bodies with lifespans in the thousands of years, with telepathic powers, immune to disease, and your planet looks pretty lovely in comparison. Wars would be fought primarily with robots, since there would be no point in wasting people when you could just replicate up lots of ships full of robot crewmembers. It wouldn't be star trek. It would be "planet of the polyamorous gods". This week's episode: Bob reengineers his body to become a pterodactyl, but learns a lesson in humility when no one will have sex with him.
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Jun 16, 2015 20:13
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Congrats, you are now Iain M Banks.
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Jun 16, 2015 20:28
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Orange Sunshine posted:This week's episode: Geordie reengineers his body to fix his eyes, but learns a lesson in humility when no one will have sex with him.
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they're always pushing buttons, even in the middle of dialogue. i guess they need something to do? i'd be pushing random LCARS buttons too if I was somehow forced to speak with troi for any length of time. hmm just pushing random buttons here, no biggie *opens airlock on deck 12, killing everyone*
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Hundreds of years and this is essentially what the Talk Boy becomes. The weirdest part about the space iPads is how they seem to have one for pretty much every single thing imaginable. Wasn't there a DS9 episode where O'broen and Bashir break into some kind of Section 13 storage thing and there's like hundreds upon hundreds of iPads? Imagine having an iPad for every app and document you have. They are like the floppy disk of the 24th century.
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Jun 16, 2015 20:39
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That was inside the section 31 guy's mind so each pad was supposed to be a memory or something.
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Orange Sunshine posted:Inside a holodeck, you are a god, so who would want to leave? I don't want to be a god. I do want a hyper-augmented genetically engineered body though. If anything I think having a body that worked properly would make me want to spend less time in virtual worlds, not more. I would like to see some more challenging TV though. I imagine that will happen as it stops being "TV" altogether.
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Jun 16, 2015 21:26
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Going from post-its to PADDs seems like a step backwards IMO.
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Lord of Pie posted:Going from post-its to PADDs seems like a step backwards IMO. tbh I feel the same way about trying to use the internet on my phone
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Mr. Horrible posted:tbh I feel the same way about trying to use the internet on my phone same sent from my phone
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Hector Beerlioz posted:Don't forget everyone has a laptop too, but they only have one button. I have one of those. 
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FuturePastNow posted:Space Glass
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Nostrum posted:they're always pushing buttons, even in the middle of dialogue. i guess they need something to do? i'd be pushing random LCARS buttons too if I was somehow forced to speak with troi for any length of time. watch how often characters drink coffee or bang about the kitchen in sitcoms, just think of george costanza always digging around seinfeld's fridge, its what tv needs. two people sat at a desk just talking has no visual impact at all.
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Mr. Horrible posted:
Read books. TV shows are vehicles for advertising segments, thats all.
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still waiting on what threads you think im stalking you in btw
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jeeze just kiss and get it over with you two
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Fetus Tree posted:still waiting on what threads you think im stalking you in btw lol brb gonna go dig through a bunch of threads and compile a dossier of evidence for the insane man who wants me to die.
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opus111 posted:lol brb gonna go dig through a bunch of threads and compile a dossier of evidence for the insane man who wants me to die. lemme know who the OP is of that thread thats posted in btw
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Wiggles Von Huggins posted:jeeze just kiss and get it over with you two wouldn't
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Entropic posted:You mean transparent aluminum. I think that's almost too good for a PADD
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FuturePastNow posted:I think that's almost too good for a PADD The screen could be made of solid diamond and it wouldn't be too good for a PADD. As long as aluminum isn't one of the materials replicators can't handle it is basically free.
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Which is why stuff like this is totally unnecessary and dangerous/stupid I suppose you could say he's being all old school French by requesting real glass but it's pretty obvious they wanted him to get pissed and break/slam something, and the ship case it was. I guess it's cooler than slamming a teacup of earl grey across the room but who can say for sure. It just wouldn't have looked as badass if his phaser rifle just bounced off of transparent aluminum. (it's my duty as a goon to point out the lack of trigger discipline) --- Oh poo poo this video shows that scene over and over and also in slow motion as well as super slow motion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Q9T1rxIZI Tyson Tomko fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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tbf the odds of anybody really being in there during a combat situation are practically zero
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I thought he broke that case so that past-lady could smugly say "You broke your little ships", driving home the Moby Dick reference. I've always wondered how anyone is able to keep their quarters so neat, since people are being thrown around the bridge every other episode. No wonder Alexander turned out such a mess and wanted to leave. Every time there was a red alert, it was basically like "The ship is probably going to shake a lot soon, go to the quarters filled with sharp jagged things on every wall. You can't leave until it's over."
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counterfeitsaint posted:I've always wondered how anyone is able to keep their quarters so neat, since people are being thrown around the bridge every other episode. No wonder Alexander turned out such a mess and wanted to leave. Every time there was a red alert, it was basically like "The ship is probably going to shake a lot soon, go to the quarters filled with sharp jagged things on every wall. You can't leave until it's over." Magnets in/on everything. Sort of like those Starcom toys of the 80s.
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I think there's one thing we're forgetting about PADDs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4H9nb03jI8
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