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LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Pram posted:



lol what the hell is this. civ 4: the novel

lmao I remember seeing this in a bookstore in Dallas when I was 12 and just finished reading it, god what a pile of war porn wanking crap. It stuck with me because Texas...Israel...wtf? How would those two places end up in a war? guess what, they don't (texas seceds and kindaps the president and some conspiracy against the vp send in Israeli mercenaries to rescue him) it's just an excuse for the author to go on really weird fundie geopolitical fantasies in between talking about tanks and soldiers sighing at how horrible war is even though they're like never gonna stop killing and I dunno

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LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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mr_jim posted:

so are the texans supposed to be the good guys, or the israelis?

the israelis are mercenaries working for both sides, the "war" is really the US vs. texas

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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rotor posted:

*wages war on texas*

woohoo! victory! now we own texas!

*looks up 'pyrric' in the dictionary*

not even close man, it was waaaaaaaaay worse than that

also who bought the banner ad, cuz it's way too weird a coincidence that I just read this steaming piece of poo poo

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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mr_jim posted:

i found the cover online

how

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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well ain't that the damndest thing

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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http://www.amazon.com/Chain-Attack-Star-Trek-No/dp/0671666584/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310907799&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/FINAL-NEXUS-STAR-TREK-43/dp/0671741489/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310907813&sr=1-1

the two best "star trek" novels, srsly go read them

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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too drat bad this one's out of stock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227515

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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the last season of lost would have been so much better if they'd really driven home the "alt timeline" thing instead of making this whole other whacky boring adventures of characters we already know, like if they hadn't stuffed in retarded poo poo like tits mcgee being the tattoo doc's ex and poo poo and just played it like it was a three year timespan and have Desmond round everyone up and take them to the airport and then they walk on the plane and BAM PSYCHE ITS A loving CHURCH

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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CHARONS BOAT RIDER posted:

so did it turn out they were in Limbo the whole time like everyone guessed after episode 2 in season one?

no, they were only in limbo in the "sideways" world of the final season

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I mean, I can dig wanting to do "flash-sideways" after flashbacks and flashforwards, but they totally loving made a mess out of it

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I used to know a guy named John Carter, he was a young earth creationist

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Action Jacktion posted:

PYF crazy bigoted conservative SF:



Apparently at the end the Texas Rangers defeat the Mexicans and then go on to take on the Muslims.

that synopsis sounds kinda like the texas-israeli war, as far as bullshit geopolitical crackpot prophecies go

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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haveblue posted:

Shaggar was right

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Brace posted:

cloverfield preview fukken owned, so did the movie

if I wanted to watch a bunch of douchebags running around new york I'd watch cash cab

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Brace posted:

Moon was the poo poo.

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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You Am I posted:

suicide is painless
a bitter man it changes

misunderstood lyrics or irony? hell I don't know anymore

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I like that line better anyway

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Trig Discipline posted:

is piers anthony actually creepy?

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Pram posted:



I loved the shockwave rider, kinda eery how well he nailed the post-dilbert meaninglessness of the individual in the workplace

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I wanna get paid for liking things or not like that chick in p recognition, that'd be a p sweet gig

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Bad rear end Boutique posted:

fifth element is dumb as poo poo in all the right ways

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Jonny 290 posted:

but enough about the eighties

ummm, that's the sixties you're complaining about

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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johnny, why do you hate sex and drugs

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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LP97S posted:

Stylistically it's Flash Gordon meets a Spaghetti western with the script for the first movie extensively copying Kurosawa's "Hidden Fortress".

not quite, it's only the middle (rescuing the princess) that's a ripoff of Kurosawa. The attack on the death star is a shot by shot remake of the Dam Busters

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I read Hunters and Sandworms, and they weren't TOO bad until the end of Sandworms which was a complete clusterfuck of I'm guessing Frank's notes on "which of these should I use for an ending" except KJA and Brian used them all

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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I thought a wizard of earthsea was kinda meh

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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law abiding rapist posted:

mirror universe eps own, it sucks there was never one during tng all the other series got one and they were all great

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Mirror-Star-Trek-Generation/dp/0671794388/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1317902154&sr=8-5

not a bad book, but kinda deprecated by the DS9 mirror eps

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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qirex posted:

what the hell mirror universe copies have to have goatees

why does everyone think this

srsly, name me one other mirror universe person besides Spock who had a goatee, how the gently caress did that become the defining characteristic

also, I sat at the controls of a space shuttle once :smug:

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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haveblue posted:

do not read foundation and earth or robots and empire

too late, from experience don't read anything beyond the original trilogy

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

wasn't everything past the original trilogy basically just asimov cashing in on the name?

p much, yeah

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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BUSINESS CATTE 2.0 posted:

have been trying to find this on the internet for months

scrub

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Shaggar posted:

ds9 because its good like bsg

watched the man from earth today, and it was p good but wtf it's not science fiction

neither is star wars god dammit

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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HYMEN.SYS posted:

40+ crowd loves the poo poo out of big bang theory

I'm over 40 and gently caress that show

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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HYMEN.SYS posted:

why would you even watch the second episode of that joss whedon shitfest

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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and I say that as someone who liked firefly

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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kentucky meth house would probably look a lot like squidbillies

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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sticky wizard posted:



"His fire control systems don't appear to be working!"

this pic makes me think of Sunshine which makes me remember how loving retarded going into orbit around something in order to "slingshot" is :rant:

LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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Rose Byrne is hella cute tho' :swoon:

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LooseChanj
Feb 17, 2006

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InferiorWang posted:

if you were to create a new star trak tv series what would you do and in what time period and would you ignore the new movie timeline???? DISCUSS

I'd set it 100 years after TNG and make it really ambiguous as to whether it's in the new movie's timeline or the original

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