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regularizer posted:I haven't been able to read anything by Pratchett since I gave up on Unseen Academicals halfway through, the Alzheimer's is just getting more and more obvious and it's really sad Unseen Academicals was a mess but I don't think it was brain related 'cause Snuff was actually pretty good.
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qntm posted:Bruce Willis' mission was successful. The scientists in the future have pinpointed the origin of the virus and ironed out all of the problems with their time machine. The woman on the plane came back in time from the future and booked the seat next to the man with the virus on purpose so that she can steal a sample of the virus during the flight. She'll take it back to the future and they'll engineer a cure, then the Earth will be repopulated. Twelve Monkeys has a happy ending and I care a lot about time travel drat, never thought of it this way and that's a surprisingly happy ending.
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:i wanted to write one but then i read downbelow station and realized that i'd been beaten to the punch by a couple of decades. I think I've said it before in this thread but Reynolds is probably one of the best sci-fi authors currently writing, Revelation Space, House of Suns or any of his Anthologies are great.
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Jan 20, 2013 09:12
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ahmeni posted:fuckin freespace2 is a fantastic open sores engine, someone just license some IP or just make some proper IP and make a fantastic space game X3 was the least fun I've ever had playing a video game
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Jan 21, 2013 03:21
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ahmeni posted:we probably gonna have to be robots to do outer space properly. bein a big watery bag of meat that expires in absolutely minute timespans in galactic scales is a hella problem Baxter's Vacuum Diagrams is cool for this kind of thing. DICKHEAD posted:6005 Camino de la Costa lol
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Jan 22, 2013 08:46
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FMguru posted:i tried to re-read raymond feist's "riftwar" novels which i remembered really liking when i was stuck riding a bus to junior high and hoo boy did those not age well. same with katherine kurtz's first "dreyni" trilogy. Niven is one of the greatest slides into awful I've seeen, even the Ringworld series just becomes abysmal
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Jan 23, 2013 09:44
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qntm posted:I guess the ringworld really is unstable
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Jan 23, 2013 19:10
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qntm posted:I'd be okay with future Bond movies being 1960s period pieces Just do this, worked fine for indiana jones Or present day alternate reality where the soviet union never fell
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Jan 25, 2013 11:11
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Heresiarch posted:Actually, it's from "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", which is why I have this avatar. I read Ficciones about nine or ten years ago and it stuck with me so well I try and go back and read it every year. Tlon, Uqbar Orbis Tertius, The Garden of Forking Paths and that other one with the infinite library are some of my favourites to this day and while they aren't explicitly scifi I bet a lot of people in here would really enjoy them. Also Fifth Element is one of those rare action movies that is simultaneously not afraid to be smart and stupid at the same time and also doesn't assume the audience is stupid which makes it one of the best, most rewatchable movies ever, up there with Lynch Dune.
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Feb 11, 2013 11:17
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syscall girl posted:Screamers had anti-radiation cigarettes, which if you think about it knowing what we know now about polonium and lung cancer is kinda funny isn't there some effect where industrial workers who stop smoking end up with higher rates of cancer because their lungs aren't coated with a protective layer of tar?
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Feb 11, 2013 20:17
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qirex posted:Sherrylin Fenn
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Feb 11, 2013 23:18
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Can-O-Raid posted:how has this not been milkied yet  e: I got a cospop after posting this 
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Feb 14, 2013 10:03
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Hashtag Nascar posted:is cloud atlas any good? Also what is it? Also wondering this, people keep recommending it and I don't want to invest 3 1/2 hours in a horrible movie.
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Feb 14, 2013 20:58
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Trig Discipline posted:started reading perdido street station last night same except 3 years ago
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Feb 16, 2013 21:31
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regularizer posted:Is there a link to this? that's interesting as hell and google isnt turning anything up that's obviously it I'm searching and can't find the drat thing, it was a very specific occupation (coal miner or rubber worker or something like that) that was studied and I'm trying various combinations but it isn't turning anything up
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Feb 16, 2013 23:42
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teh z0rg posted:i read I am legend again for the billionth time. yeah part of the problem with good scifi is that it's short and dense and makes you want to know more about the world it's built in but then if the author actually does that it ruins everything i.e. dune
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Feb 16, 2013 23:45
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theflyingexecutive posted:Yup, scifi and fantasy that give you a little slice of a well thought out world from a single character's pov in under 200 pages are brilliant, but no one really writes like that anymore stross' accelerando was a little bit like that but also filled with weirdness
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Feb 18, 2013 10:32
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Ganguro King posted:i thought i read somewhere that it is physically impossible for humans to sing it's true singing is a parlor trick performed most often by swallowing live birds
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Feb 23, 2013 11:33
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seriouspost the human larynx can change shape something like 140 times a second but it's difficult while sustaining a tone like that. there's no physical limitation it's all dependent on training
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Feb 23, 2013 11:34
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duTrieux. posted:a schwarzenegger, movie… bad? The Terminator Conan the Barbarian Predator Total Recall Terminator 2: Judgment Day True Lies
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Feb 27, 2013 02:30
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PCjr sidecar posted:so your saying if you choose a arnold movie at random you have a 1/10 shot of getting a good movie and yet everyone gives ben kingsley a pass 
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Feb 27, 2013 11:17
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ender's game is going to be soooo bad lynchdune is amazing though, if you don't really care that it has nothing to do with actual dune it's just a giant mass of crazy/awesome with a fantastic cast
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Feb 28, 2013 10:10
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Trig Discipline posted:i read the first discworld book, it was fun the watch and moist von lipwig books are pretty good i hear
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Mar 1, 2013 21:25
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Heresiarch posted:reading them in publication order isn't a bad idea because while there's different "sets" of books (the once about the city watch, the ones about Death and his granddaughter, the ones about the witches, etc)) they all sort of interrelate and reference each other, and you also get to see him improve as a writer and the world itself develop. they're also all easy reads so this doesn't take that long this is good advice and honestly unseen academicals may have been the result of over/under editing because snuff was not bad
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Mar 2, 2013 09:48
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qirex posted:Watched Looper last night, it made me angry about time travel it's not about time travel
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Mar 3, 2013 13:29
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ol qwerty bastard posted:"Going Postal" is actually about Canadian telecoms imo it's true also most of the xenophobic quebecers are over 50 and the younger generations generally don't give a poo poo so once again history is just waiting for old white people to die
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Mar 3, 2013 23:00
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ol qwerty bastard posted:People becoming horrible and racist and conservative (redundant, I know) as they age is such a constant that I'm legitimately scared that it's going to happen to me. have this but it lights up when you start badmouthing on the nice new chinese neighbors instead of when you turn 30 
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Mar 3, 2013 23:09
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just saw the first episode of black mirror  i think i'm hooked
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Heresiarch posted:is black mirror that charlie brooker thing? yeah, it's like a modern twilight zone, quite good.
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Mar 4, 2013 11:14
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the gamification one was depressing as hell
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Mar 4, 2013 13:51
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Al! posted:i cant tell is sam rockwell a good actor or a good bad actor he's really good at overacting and being weird but he can occasionally tone it down and be 'good' good.
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Mar 6, 2013 23:44
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Cold on a Cob posted:rlm is actually pretty awesome and i think he missed his calling as a proper film critic yeah the dude actually has an excellent grasp of a lot of cinematic techniques and his critique is smart and funny. don't know why he felt the need to be on camera though. the Prometheus one was kind of funny though.
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Mar 8, 2013 03:11
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Blade Runner Snipe
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Mar 8, 2013 09:41
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Amethyst posted:1st episode is good but the second is much better and the third is some of the best television I've ever seen I somehow skipped this one, watching now
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Siljmonster posted:is there a place to watch black mirror for americans? It doesn't seem so, sadly.
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syscall girl posted:yeah it seems like it was all bbc4 yeah I'm legit sad that most bbc4 shows aren't available over here because between black mirror and inside natures giants they're producing some of my favourite tv.
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Mar 12, 2013 08:17
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Heresiarch posted:isn't inside nature's giants a channel 4 thing and not a bbc4 thing? oh yeah it is, my mistake, i don't know poo poo about actual british tv stations.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:jesus christ this show is depressing and yet you keep coming back
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Mar 16, 2013 23:13
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Base Emitter posted:chasm city is right up there with house of suns IMO and the first revelation space not far behind, with redemption ark not far behind that. that's all of his stuff i've read personally. i hear mixed things about the next rev space sequel but i'll give it a try when i get time pretty much this, house of suns is probably tied for best with revelation space but absolution gap was awful as was that other steampunky thing he did. his short story collections are fantastic though and blue remembered earth is good as well.
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michael bay action sequences are almost as incomprehensible and bad as roland emmerich action sequences i.e. really bad
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