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Anyone play Barotrauma? I was told it's kind of like SS13 in a submarine and that sounds hilarious.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Anyone play Barotrauma? I was told it's kind of like SS13 in a submarine and that sounds hilarious. Haven't played it but it looks hilarious, and this review is pretty  
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May 19, 2021 01:08
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Barotrauma just went on sale for $13.49. https://store.steampowered.com/app/602960/Barotrauma/
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May 21, 2021 16:30
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anyone mentioned Deep Star Six yet? loved that lovely movie. used to watch it on late night move channels. the depressurization scene scared the poo poo out of me as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pouTM3jqZCM
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May 23, 2021 06:21
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Blindsided Sally posted:anyone mentioned Deep Star Six yet? loved that lovely movie. used to watch it on late night move channels. the depressurization scene scared the poo poo out of me as a kid. Ooooh, an entry into the genre of late 80s-early 90s Abyssploitation, when James Cameron was working on The Abyss and everyone assumed it would be "like Aliens but underwater" and were rushing to make their own cheap knockoff underwater monster action movies to ride the wave of popularity.
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May 23, 2021 23:14
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Asterite34 posted:Ooooh, an entry into the genre of late 80s-early 90s Abyssploitation, when James Cameron was working on The Abyss and everyone assumed it would be "like Aliens but underwater" and were rushing to make their own cheap knockoff underwater monster action movies to ride the wave of popularity. Yes, and I dearly love all of those I've seen: Deep Star Six Leviathan The Rift I still need to get around to watching Lords of the Deep to collect the full set, I think.
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May 23, 2021 23:24
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A suggestion, gentlemen (or however you self-identify): Screencap these movies for the thread So apparently the "breathing liquid" thing like they do to the rat at the start of The Abyss is real; and when you do it apparently the first thing that happens is that you exhale a film of gunk formerly sitting on your lungs My dreams of a chain of health spas was dashed, however. Apparently this is only used on people with breathing problems in induced comas. That's because doing it to someone while awake would be incredibly traumatic, as it's like being eternally waterboarded
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May 24, 2021 01:29
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Nebakenezzer posted:
i'll get some pics and video links tonight Hannibal Rex posted:
maaaaaaaaan, this has been on my "to watch" list for decades. i kept meaning to rent the VHS of it at my old Blockbuster back in the day
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May 24, 2021 01:56
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Nebakenezzer posted:Apparently this is only used on people with breathing problems in induced comas. That's because doing it to someone while awake would be incredibly traumatic, as it's like being eternally waterboarded Well that's horrifying.
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May 24, 2021 02:19
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Asterite34 posted:the genre of late 80s-early 90s Abyssploitation Obviously not quite riding the same pre-Abyss wave, but 2020 saw a fitting entry to the genre with Underwater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCFWEzIVILc Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 03:23 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 03:18
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Alehkhs posted:Obviously not quite riding the same pre-Abyss wave, but 2020 saw a fitting entry to the genre with Underwater. This triggers me. First because I want to know if it is a remake of Underwater! (1955), and second because goddamnit, if you are on the bottom of the sea, poo poo does not "leak". A pinhole leak causes an implosion so fast your brain wouldn't even register what's happening. And third, so something called the Abyssal plain isn't scary enough, you need *mermen* snatching people?
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May 25, 2021 17:57
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Nebakenezzer posted:A suggestion, gentlemen (or however you self-identify): I understand the rat in The Abyss was put in real liquid breathing medium, so what you see on film is actually a rat breathing liquid. Needless to say this was not a popular decision with the SPCA. Apparently with people there's an issue where it takes too much effort to move the liquid through your lungs compared to air, so you would need to be intubated with a pump to get it moving in and out well enough to work. So probably another reason it won't be terribly popular with conscious moving people.
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May 26, 2021 23:13
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Nebakenezzer posted:This triggers me. First because I want to know if it is a remake of Underwater! (1955), and second because goddamnit, if you are on the bottom of the sea, poo poo does not "leak". A pinhole leak causes an implosion so fast your brain wouldn't even register what's happening. And third, so something called the Abyssal plain isn't scary enough, you need *mermen* snatching people? It is not a remake of Underwater! It is secretly a Chtulhu Mythos story
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May 27, 2021 22:20
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Polaron posted:It is not a remake of Underwater! Oh, so you mean it was inspired by and hits the same themes as...? Oh. No. Straight up literally a suprise Cthulhu movie
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May 28, 2021 00:10
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MadDogMike posted:I understand the rat in The Abyss was put in real liquid breathing medium, so what you see on film is actually a rat breathing liquid. Needless to say this was not a popular decision with the SPCA. Apparently with people there's an issue where it takes too much effort to move the liquid through your lungs compared to air, so you would need to be intubated with a pump to get it moving in and out well enough to work. So probably another reason it won't be terribly popular with conscious moving people. And as we've all found out over the last year-ish, they have to put you under just for normal breathing machines. Imagine how much worse it must be for a machine pumping a liquid instead?
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Jun 5, 2021 10:43
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MikeJF posted:Oh, so you mean it was inspired by and hits the same themes as...? Yeah. I'm not convinced by the quality of the final film but it was ballsy that they even tried it.
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Jun 7, 2021 04:10
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Arise What's dumber than scifi? Things Cold War defense companies briefly considered building! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLOXv3yN3A A video on Convair's manned nuclear ramjet submarine aircraft...thing. Also: Convair looked at building a flying submarine elsewhere, so I guess for real hypothetical projects, there's at least one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_Submersible_Seaplane
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MadDogMike posted:I understand the rat in The Abyss was put in real liquid breathing medium, so what you see on film is actually a rat breathing liquid. Needless to say this was not a popular decision with the SPCA. Apparently with people there's an issue where it takes too much effort to move the liquid through your lungs compared to air, so you would need to be intubated with a pump to get it moving in and out well enough to work. So probably another reason it won't be terribly popular with conscious moving people. There have been times, though, when I had pneumonia, that it sounded amazing
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Kesper North posted:There have been times, though, when I had pneumonia, that it sounded amazing It certainly wouldn't surprise me if they're still researching those kinds of medical applications (hell, somebody could probably market it to the Covid nut crowd as is and make a fortune). It just probably won't work for ridiculous depth diving suits though.
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MadDogMike posted:It certainly wouldn't surprise me if they're still researching those kinds of medical applications (hell, somebody could probably market it to the Covid nut crowd as is and make a fortune). It just probably won't work for ridiculous depth diving suits though. February 2020: "Total liquid ventilation (TLV) of the lungs could provide radically new benefits in critically ill patients requiring lung lavage or ultra-fast cooling after cardiac arrest. It consists in an initial filling of the lungs with perfluorocarbons and subsequent tidal ventilation using a dedicated liquid ventilator. Here, we propose a new paradigm for a lung-conservative TLV using pulmonary volumes of perfluorocarbons below functional residual capacity (FRC)." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396419305481 You could probably fit it into SF as necessary for transition to cryosleep, with the "ultra-fast cooling" thing. While I was searching for that I also came across a paper where someone treated heatstroke in sheep with it.
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Sep 3, 2021 06:48
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Groke posted:Gotta mention Peter Watts' Rifters trilogy. Cybernetically modified workers on deep sea-floor stations. Shiny happy stories they are not. Minor correction, the title is Demon-4, and thanks for the tip I'm currently reading a copy I borrow via archive.org and it's the sort of techno-thriller pulp I love.
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Sep 5, 2021 18:30
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There's an old anime called Mars Daybreak (Kenran Butou Sai) thats set in the oceans of a terraformed mars and features submarine pirates, undersea mecha battles and a beluga whale in a mech suit (He's also a pirate). 
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Sep 6, 2021 17:23
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Scut posted:Minor correction, the title is Demon-4, and thanks for the tip I'm currently reading a copy I borrow via archive.org and it's the sort of techno-thriller pulp I love. Yes, sorry. Also, same author's Fire Lance which also belongs in that specific and very 80s subgenre somewhere between SF and technothriller, the near-future nuclear war story. I was old enough to read a crapload of this type of book back then, just recently read this one and it's certainly one of the very finest of its type. Written in the mid-80s and set sometime around the year 1999 or 2000 or something like that; it's been a few weeks since the big war happened, most of the population of the northern hemisphere is already dead, all the worst projections of nuclear winter have come true and the very biological survival of the human race seems doubtful. It is June but the entire northern hemisphere is cloaked in the stratospheric ashes of burnt cities, farmlands and forests, to the point where it is dark and freezing everywhere. But enough of the strategic deterrent assets on both sides still exist, and remains of the command structures survive, to maintain an informal sort of ceasefire, under the threat of making things even worse. So the story follows one of the last remaining mobile strategic assets on the US side, a huge futuristic warship built to maximize survival chances and durability, and loaded with an enormous arsenal of strategic nuclear-capable cruise missiles. From a relatively safe position in the South Atlantic, far from land and far from any surviving hostiles, new orders come in that send them into the North, into the darkness and more immediate danger, towards a position from where they could attack again.
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Sep 24, 2021 09:46
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I don't understand why this movie ended up not being a hit. 
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Nov 4, 2021 20:41
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OK, I'm confused, what movie is that
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Nov 4, 2021 21:19
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire
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Nebakenezzer posted:OK, I'm confused, what movie is that Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)  e:fb
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Nov 5, 2021 12:08
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't understand why this movie ended up not being a hit. Because the cool robot lobster was in the movie for like 90 seconds, and then it went back to being a Steampunk rewrite of Stargate, OP
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Nov 5, 2021 17:05
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Yeah because Steampunk Stargate sounds like such a terrible thing.
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Nov 6, 2021 06:56
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The movie's kind of a mess despite its incredibly cool aesthetics. Between that and Treasure Planet, I feel like Disney doesn't really know how how to do nautical sci-fi stuff very well. ...which would explain a shitload about their Star Wars, actually.
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Nov 6, 2021 10:39
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It's a good thing the Atlanteans are generally incurious about the world around them, otherwise they wouldn't have needed a white nerd to come show them how to use their own technology.
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Nov 6, 2021 12:49
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PoptartsNinja posted:It's a good thing the Atlanteans are generally incurious about the world around them, otherwise they wouldn't have needed a white nerd to come show them how to use their own technology. At least in Stargate they had the excuse that their alien god-king outlawed literacy on pain of death. The Atlanteans just sorta... forgot. Not even over the course of generations, they're all several thousand years old, most of them were THERE when their civilization fell. It's literally like forgetting how to ride a bike.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't understand why this movie ended up not being a hit. "Fewer Songs, More Explosions"
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Nov 7, 2021 20:18
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I think Atlantis, despite its problems, is what really sold me on nautical scifi. It's just so cool. I'm gonna start posting screencaps from my Fallen London game if that's okay. It'll be a few weeks before that bc I have grad school stuff but I just wanted to give a heads up so this thread doesn't die.
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Nov 8, 2021 00:59
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The Atlantis parts of Aquaman with the whole Abyss-meets-Blade-Runner aesthetic and the water-based technology was real freakin' cool, as was the giant war scene at the end with the troops riding giant sea creatures interrupted by Aquaman on a kaiju.
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A gem from my youth: 
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^ hell yeah Don't sleep on either of these post-WWIII novels; well-written, plausible, clear-eyed, and terrifying in their own ways. Plus top tier cover art from Chris Foss and John Berkey.
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Polikarpov posted:There's an old anime called Mars Daybreak (Kenran Butou Sai) thats set in the oceans of a terraformed mars and features submarine pirates, undersea mecha battles and a beluga whale in a mech suit (He's also a pirate). Belugas in space!  
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Prolonged Panorama posted:^ hell yeah Feel pretty sure we've mentioned them already, but once more can't hurt. Good poo poo.
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Prolonged Panorama posted:^ hell yeah i feel like that working mat is the perfect background for those books (i've never read them, i'm just going by the covers)
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