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StashAugustine posted:On the subject of mid 00s shows that went off the rails by the ending is battlestar galactica worth watching if you've had the ending spoiled I still enjoyed the ride even after I was spoiled halfway through.
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Zvahl posted:I'm not entirely through A Little Hatred yet, but yes, it depends on the former books enough that I'd say I would want to read them first. How is Joe as a writer these days? The OG trilogy was a little shakey craft wise but it feels like each of the 3 standalone was better written than the last. I havent read his YA fiction or more recent short story collection.
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The Platform on netflix was a great rec, thanks. The plot does give way to the metaphor by the end but I loved the ride. Our Don Quixote stand in has gone mad on his quest of course. But how was his message received by the administration? I think it was all futile because in a scene out of order in the middle of the film shows the head chef inspecting a cake and seeing if his servants let a hair fall into it. If that was the cake from the end was the boss trying to blame his workers to prevent solidarity between them and the people in the Pit?
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Does anyone know the name of the althistory book were John Brown won and IIRC the US becomes socialist? Google isnt helping.
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Tubgoat posted:Chess is boring as poo poo. Have they invented a chess variant where you can abuse RNG and information asymmetry? Yes, there is fog o war chess where you can't see your opponents pieces until one of your own can attack it along the file or diagonal and there are various Fischer chess variations where the back rank layout is random but balanced. Im a big fan of fairy chess on a 8x10 board.
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Yes! I loved El Hoyo (the Platform) when it came out and was surprised to not see it get more buzz on cspam. What did you think of the ending when the main character starts his revolution and ends up on level 666? I get the film was trying to parallel Don Quixote's descent into madness during his quest but I couldn't quite untangle what the metaphor meant.
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Forceholy posted:Wasn't it supposed to be an analogy to the Comedian's descent into despair? I thought it was a restatement on how Adrian was damned for killing people in an attempt to "save" them. The more personal nature of the story stripped the liberal idealism Adrian uses to justify himself and allows to reader to be repulsed by the murder at the end.
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indigi posted:Kim Stanley Robinson just did an episode of RevLeft Radio about his new book (The Ministry for the Future) and it's pretty darn good, I'm definitely gonna pick up that book I'm a big fan of Robinison's books so this isn't an attempt to run a taint but after listening to that and other interviews I've notice he as well as other older comfortable leftists tend to univeralize their personal, I don't want to call it selling out, but temporalizing? Resignation? Acceptance that they were as radical as could be and won all that they could in their time. William Van Spronsen didn't feel that way as he grew older nor did Parenti. But just contrast the left-liberal response between Parenti and Chomsky. One is trotted out every 4 years to remind us the Dems are as good as our choices on the ballots get and the other toils in obscurity.
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Subjunctive posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3954648&perpage=40&noseen=1&pagenumber=56#post512574224 Lmao I cant even take a few days off this forum to prepare for Snowmageddon without some juicy drama being dropped. Also how is there an active helldump thread in that forum? Are the new admins ready to admit closing helldump was a mistake and we need it to keep goons in check? Conversely if helldump brought about too toxic behavior its time to do the goose as they did the gander. Edit: Forceholy posted:The funniest thing about the prequels is that Hayden Christiansen and Natalie Portman were hooking up IRL and they couldn't translate that into their romance scenes
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Feb 18, 2021 11:37
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He's off beat like a white girl shoulder dance.
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Mar 24, 2021 08:44
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gradenko_2000 posted:Age of Sigmar is better Bait taken; gently caress you.
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Twitter is an utter morass to search. Anyone have the 'virgin Atwood vs chad Le Guin' meme made in response to this?
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Serf posted:paul literally blinds himself and walks into the desert because he can't countenance walking the golden path lol. the fact that leto ii carries it out isn't celebrated. paul literally compares himself to hitler at one point. people really want dune to be something it isn't I loved that scene in Dune Messiah: Paul is talking about historical conquers from history and mentions to his buddy Stilgar the warlord Hitler killed millions with similar methods as Paul did and his toady high priest jumps in and says Hilter was a chump, just think of the tens of billions you killed m'lord.
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Blood Boils posted:Also Dunc Where are the hot Dune takes at? Im craving that discourse.
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YaketySass posted:Mostly these two: Lame. Pretty standard failure to realize depiction doesn't equal endorsement. I was hoping for something out there like "Hollywood is white-washing the Fremen unless they cast only Taureg or Bedouin actors." Or a book fan screaming they ruined the Baron by not making him some mincing queen.
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StashAugustine posted:The GBS thread did have one guy who complained it wasn't formulaic enough in his experience as a scriptwriter (had several rejected scripts for american dad) I was there for that live, they tried to cite "Save the Cat" to support their arguments for more formulaic plot beats in Dune lmao.
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Femur posted:Re:dune , someone once summarized the dune series to me as: humans won the robot wars with eugenics, but it turns out, we were from a dream of an interdimensional god? Is that in incorrect belief? Not really. I can see how the telephone game got to that summary tho.
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Some Guy TT posted:oh god has this guy ever actually played a video game in his life Ocarina of Time.
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smarxist posted:make a first law TV series you loving cowards Book of the New Sun imo. If we are wishing for impossible fantasy adaptations.
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zegermans posted:finally finished my Red Mars audiobook. Gotta say, it was interesting but I don't get all the fuss about it. Sometimes the trilogy does spend too much time inside the head of flawed (insufferable) characters but I really enjoyed how the background of environmental changes and revolutionary changes constrained the path those characters can take. "Men make history but not as they please" and all that. Imo Green Mars is the best of the trilogy and Blue the worst. Do you think you will continue on with the series?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Watching Dune in IMAX on a dose of edibles that would incapacitate a lusty horse in May was one of the greatest cinema experiences I've had in my life. I was laughing, I was crying, I was curled into a fetal position at the everythingness of everything Same but LSD, I was peaking during the desert visions scenes, couldnt have timed it better if I had tried.
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Xaris posted:i dunno i thought it was really bad and felt very cheaply done. it was missing the massive sweeping visual stimulus of the first and set in like 1 generic not-vancouver forest, and like 1 generic cluttered cramped warehouse; it overall felt very cramped and very cheap-generic in the sets and shots. it was also missing the more socialist and existential sci-fi themes from the first season. also mackey wasn't nearly as fun as kinneman and just looked obscenely angry and constipated the whole time. but yeah, thanks netflix. One thing I miss from Netflix cheaping out on S2 of Altered Carbon then cancelling it was I was looking forward to exploring Kovacs revolutionary maoish past and his subsequent disaffection from the Quellist project. There were enough hints in the first two books and the third really got into it. Shame.
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Blood Boils posted:drat I love Ash but now I'm seriously reconsidering her as my fantasy girlfriend As a proper Communist she is just upset her boyfriend is reading anarchist adjacent writers like Le Guin and Melville. Completely understandable.
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Filthy Hans posted:"please give us another chance" Few things will be funnier those two rushing to finish GoT with a wet fart so they could helm their Stars Wars project only for Dinsey to rescind the offer admist the backlash to the last season.
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Job is the best book of the bible hands down. Ecclesiastes can give it a run for its money though.
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indigi posted:does anyone know why the Comanche drew their bow like that I haven't seen the movie but are you talking about the three fingered pinch grip the historical comanche used?
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Atrocious Joe posted:I'm in favor of banning YA books from schools.  8 & 9 yr olds can keep HP but once they age up into the double digits its time to smack the Rowling books out of their hands and pass out some Ursula Le Guin.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:youre dumb Put down the burger.
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Communist Thoughts posted:Shame about killer mike Black Americans already being a nation trapped within a nation and thus their struggle for self-determination should include efforts for a state within the state was the standard line for the Communist Party of America before the leadership cycled out during the second Red Scare. That was also the period of the cpusa's highest membership rates for black people. So even though the idea sounds out there to a modern ears I'm not sure it can be dismissed so blithely. If I'm living in PA now I'm still allowed to cross the state line to get a lunch in Buffalo right?
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:tonight I watched The Forever Purge which asks the question: what if people didn't stop doing the purge when the designated purge time is over? The Purge series has alot of little gems like that. I especially enjoyed the contrast in the First Purge of the regular working class neighborhood just throwing a huge block party and the government has to bring in the Klan and other right-wing militias to get the killing started.
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Rogue One is the only good Star Wars movie Disney has made (ok maybe only the best of a bad bunch). Which one do you think is better? Solo? Lmao. TFA? Maybe. TLJ? Absolutely not.
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Find out what?
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Sure is "funny" he never wrote anything as radical as the reparations piece that got him the bag in the first place.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:do you need to have read children to get god emperor? I read the first 2 last year but stayed away from 3 tho have remained curious about 4 Not really. It's set over a thousand years in the future. All you need to know going in is that Leto, Paul's son, has fused with a sandworm to become immortal and boost his prescience far beyond his father's.
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KomradeX posted:I thought the puppies were horrible because they were reactionary assholes They still are. Who's been rehabbing them? Dolan's guest on War Nerd Radio's sci-fi and facism episode had some choice quotes from their founders. As for the rule bending, even among sci-fi geeks who the hell likes procedure nerds?
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indigi posted:the end of sphere really makes no sense iirc doesn't it just decide to go away after they forget about it that's dumb. also just make a better wish you fuckin idiots Jesus Christ Did the movie end different from the book? I can't remember. In the book the viewpoint character goes along and forgets, but I thought it was explicit that he got rooked and the other two survivors kept the knowledge/power.
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This multi-day argument convinced me to try watching the first two episodes of Ted lasso with my partner. We had fun heckling it, but LMAO if you're entertained by watching this show straight. If you did, here's another show I think you might enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNK4VKeoBM
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Not yet but I will, it's been on a bit of an upswing since the nadir of season 4, but nothing new has hit the heights of 15 Million Credits or White Christmas.
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This is the map apparently. https://imgur.io/V8YTjzJ Edit: cant embed, enjoy the link instead.
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wolfs posted:what is camera hooliganism? This: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYZ5847FiI
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