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also yeah the audiobook for dune is good and so are the next few. i stopped after the initial trilogy and suggest you do the same or sooner
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Sep 13, 2020 03:07
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Beamed posted:children of dune didnt quite do it for me. it's when the endless Duncan Idaho begins and why does anyone care about him it felt weaker than dune and dune messiah. was that the one with the most monologues/internal monologues? i felt like once that started creeping in it felt like it dragged more the old thread adage that 'its never too soon to stop reading the dune novels' is true. i suppose the first three make a decent story arc, but it gets too goofy when leto II does the worm
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Sep 13, 2020 06:14
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:last time i re-read the dune books i actually found i liked god-emperor more than children of dune. maybe i should give it a go. the audiobooks are also decent and im at a dearth of science fiction in my audio list right now i tried starting yiddish policemens union (had snagged it a year ago) but it seems either too hard boiled for me or, as discussed in the earlier thread, too much like the culture is not written from a place of authenticity. im not a noir reader normally and also am out of my element here. i would probably be better served going with some classics
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Sep 13, 2020 15:23
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consider phlebas perhaps as an anthology adaptation would be the most viable for general appeal, but thats not really the culture material i want to see happen. pretty sure in a few years player of games could work as some sort of esports political intrigue show
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Sep 14, 2020 17:11
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Corla Plankun posted:i think you are right but both of those shows sound horrible oh, yeah, those would not be particularly great shows for several reasons and you nail it that imagery is a big one. banks could capture the imagination and i dont know if a show for a steaming service could match that even if it was done competently. just the scale and set piece shifts in those two would be a lot for a single show and capturing the detail right would either be lost or ruined in the process qirex posted:nobody seems to have a midlife crisis on star trek or is it because human lifespan is so much longer that the whole "become an insufferable ambassador and travel the galaxy annoying young people" is the equivalent? its all midlife hubris when they turn 100 and try to create super humans or brashness when theyre 20 and get stabbed in the heart in a bar brawl
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Sep 16, 2020 02:59
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becoming old in star trek means you become mark twain and harass androids
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Sep 16, 2020 03:01
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akadajet posted:anyone have that gif of picard's face on troi's body? asking for a friend. 
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Sep 16, 2020 19:00
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while im think about riker and troi
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Sep 16, 2020 19:31
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true blood werepanther season sounding accurate
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Sep 17, 2020 19:05
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:theaters with 6 ft spacing enforced by gom jabbar stillsuit required for full viewer safety
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Sep 18, 2020 21:37
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rotor posted:its so fuckin bad i mean everyone has their fandom but its like if season 3 tos became a franchise now what if spocks brain but its in a watch
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Sep 20, 2020 01:30
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for the record ive not seen much old who so i presume it was more low budget bbc fun intentionally or otherwise
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Sep 20, 2020 01:41
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Achmed Jones posted:I noped out of torchwood when the main dude and main lady were hiding from a monster and she said "i can feel your hard on" that joke worked better in jack of all trades but thats purely because that show knew the jokes were corny Shaggar posted:torchwood is dr who x 10. its really bad. torchwood is dr why
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Sep 20, 2020 02:38
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tom baker goes to 11 in a fun way and the grimdark new seasons miss a lot of that goofy energy
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Sep 20, 2020 04:49
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they missed a real opportunity to use the original book name all you need is kill
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Sep 20, 2020 05:16
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PCjr sidecar posted:the cannibal island religion bits in consider phlebas always seemed a bit off for a culture-aligned orbital the first three books in reverse published order are how i started and id likely recommend them that way. it makes the outside view of the culture in the first make more sense and player of games more cerebral as a counter to the end of use of weapons qirex posted:anyway most scifi authors suck at religion, the ancillary/radtch books probably get it close where there's a strict set of cultural norms but nearly everyone breaks them in small ways, continuously putting it that way, the books do hit close to the mark
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Sep 21, 2020 22:02
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ep 2 has been good so far. theres a lot of directions it could go in and i def look forward to them
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Sep 21, 2020 22:43
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SmokaDustbowl posted:yeah, I'm like 10 minutes into episode 2 and the costumes and sets etc are super good that medic android they carry along is really well done, and im digging the armor being somewhat regressive. a bit prelude to 40k vibe now that more cgi is accessible and becoming convincing, it sort of gives low budget a leg up to cut costs with fakes for otherwise difficult or messy practical effects. i mean it still can look somewhat unconvincing but i agree they get a pass
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Sep 22, 2020 00:23
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Stymie is the mind-killer. Stymie is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face stymie. I will permit their posts to pass over me and through me. And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see the thread. Where stymie has gone there will be nothing. Only my posts will remain.
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Sep 23, 2020 17:17
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the brown eye of sauron
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Oct 6, 2020 17:24
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soundtrack composed by gandalf's fist
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Oct 6, 2020 18:42
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kindle and audible have had low key badges and stuff for about two years hidden in some subtab of a submenu, im guessing some intern project that nobody cares about until now like apparently I had a great 36 week streak in 2018, but it doesnt check both platforms so it says i read a few books this year in one and well over a dozen in the other
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Oct 6, 2020 20:18
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:It’s scifi written by people who don’t have the patience to crack a science book. its flipper: the next generation
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Oct 6, 2020 20:20
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:The worst part about seaQuest is that I WANT it to be good, but it isn’t. this is like the finale of enterprise but worse. amazing. i think i blanked the whole show out aside from the twist season 3 as a form of self preservation infernal machines posted:oh, fair. ooo thats the right way to enjoy it honestly. it was goofy fun at times
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Oct 7, 2020 02:21
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:i like some though so i'm guilty (the orville was good and i hope they make more) it was a fine tng-like considering post tng is ds9 but also voyager and enterprise
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Oct 8, 2020 02:39
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Uptime Sinclair posted:got it for xmas and i keep meaning to start, thanks for the reminder same and same. i shamefully moved it to the shelf and it faded away in the queue
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Oct 8, 2020 18:21
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the gimmick that keeps on working https://mobile.twitter.com/realGulDukat/status/1314072753549475843
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Oct 8, 2020 23:07
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im just so tired of all these star treks
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Oct 9, 2020 06:36
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oh good ng+: the book
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Oct 9, 2020 19:15
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earnest decline
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Oct 9, 2020 19:16
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I'm about halfwya through season 3 and the best characters are the borg and deanna troi's mom heck yeah those ones are fun 
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Oct 22, 2020 05:24
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I just realised I've never heard Sacha baron cohens real voice until now
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Oct 23, 2020 21:55
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Uptime Sinclair posted:the first rule of kompromat is to make sure your kompromat is not recorded and distributed as part of a major motion picture  / v  v
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Oct 23, 2020 22:45
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we watched the new borat today and its good but his daughter really sells the film. the rudy scene was gross and lol and the cpac interruption was unexpected because it somehow went under my radar as far and weird poo poo happening goes the way the story worked the pandemic into the plot was loving clever
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Oct 25, 2020 05:34
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Jonny 290 posted:I was annoyed at first because I hate tom cruise....but then i realized that this is the PERFECT tom cruise movie if you loving hate tom cruise lmao lol literally how i told a coworker to pitch watching it with their spouse because they hate cruise too
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Oct 25, 2020 05:37
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah i heard the actor playing his daughter just sold the poo poo out of it yeah i think so, if not im good with it becoming normal. it can go the way of comedienne and fall out of use
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Oct 25, 2020 05:44
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Jonny 290 posted:i live slacked my watch of it and on the last night when i did the last two episodes people just spammed CONGRATULATIONS to me in chat, and i was like "haha ok" and then the end scene happened and i was like YOU MOTHERFUCKERs lol dang that kinda awesome
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Oct 25, 2020 05:51
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is dexter a precursor to relationship failure can confirm: yes also can confirm that my life is filled with better shows now; turns out standards matter in more than tv show choices v  v
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Oct 25, 2020 06:04
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FMguru posted:the underlying message is that if you have trouble making friends and are good at video games and solving kings quest graphic adventure puzzles then its because you are a genius and are probably the reincarnation of sun tzu and the eventual savior of the human race (much like that other picked-upon fellow, jesus christ) did ernest cline do anything original lol
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