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https://twitter.com/immolations/status/1306237058231537664
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Sep 17, 2020 00:06
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I read cat's cradle recently and it was good GOod book
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Oct 19, 2020 02:09
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star trek should have been cancelled after credits rolled on "in the pale moonlight"
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Oct 19, 2020 02:10
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I usually don't like Time Travel films but Predestination was fun just for the time-twists. If you haven't seen it I recommend it but you absolutely have to watch it unspoiled. I would even avoid the trailer. based on a robert heinlein short story which is really loving weird. I was shocked when I heard they were adapting it and even more shocked when it turned out great
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Oct 19, 2020 02:26
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disagree. he's a bad actor with delivery on par with william shatner
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Oct 19, 2020 02:33
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patrick stewart is the only actual good actor who played a ST captain
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Oct 19, 2020 02:39
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ol qwerty bastard posted:oh cool we're to the point again in the sci-fi thread where no matter what someone wants to talk about, someone else immediately comes in to say it sucks shut up
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Oct 19, 2020 03:25
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sci fi fan 1: (good naturedly) shatner can't act for poo poo! he sucks man! also star wars sucks I hate it sci fi fan 2: (having-a-great-time voice) no man star wars is cool! you know what sucks though? DUNE!!! (everyone goes "ohhhhhh" in a fun-loving way) ol qwerty bastard: (killjoy, sourpuss face, stink lines visible over his body) This is NOT cool.
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Oct 19, 2020 03:28
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Jonny 290 posted:my favorite dumb time travel thing is the set of questions posed by: this is not cheating and if time travel was invented tyere would be ads for it like those facetime ads where grandparents talked to their kids (friendly voiceover) Remember when we were young? (footage of young happy couple at a picnic) Remember the good days? Despite the bad? (footage from a hospice with the man dying, the young woman crying) Relive the old days (cut back to the picnic, old woman smiling while watching from behind a tree) And have a lil fun too (old woman approaches from behind tree. All three are overcome with joy of recognition. Then they have a three way.)
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Oct 19, 2020 03:33
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Trabisnikof posted:but instead of sending you back in time they just plant the memories in your brain that you went back and time and 3sumed themselves and their partner, until they come across someone who actually had already done it but had their memory erased to hide how awesome it was that's the cheap option. The rich will always value authenticity and will pay top dollar to gently caress themselves with their real flesh and blood
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Oct 19, 2020 03:52
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SmokaDustbowl posted:the best episode of star trek is when riker hangs out with klingons the bit where he phones picard and tells him to stand down and surrender is very cool
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Oct 19, 2020 04:02
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rotor posted:I'm sure someone in the 1900s would have said the same thing. They would have, and it would also be correct.
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Oct 19, 2020 04:16
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Do you really think an iPhone would freak out someone who watched steam engines go from dicky little parlor tricks to building sized behemoths in their lifetime?
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Oct 19, 2020 04:18
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The future is old as hell, basically
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Oct 19, 2020 04:18
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SmokaDustbowl posted:it'd be weird because how do you explain wireless radio and moving paintings and poo poo the same way you explained flying machines and skyscrapers
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Oct 19, 2020 04:33
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:yeah it would they would be impressed but it wouldn't, like, upend their view of reality or whatever
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Oct 19, 2020 04:33
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world war 2 is an event that is so much more philosophically challenging than any computer the comparison is absurd
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Oct 19, 2020 04:34
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rotor posted:yeah. both of your last examples (moon landing, video telecommuncation) are from over 50 years ago, which kind of belies your point that futurism isn't a spent force
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Oct 19, 2020 04:41
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like you used people from the 1900s in your example for people who would have falsely claimed to be immune to future shock, but people from 1900 are pretty much just as close in time to the moon landing as we are.
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Oct 19, 2020 04:44
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rotor posted:ok cool, its been real fun having this conversation with you. have a great night. what?
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Oct 19, 2020 04:49
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can someone tell me what the hell rotor's problem is? lol. Normal low stakes conversation about future shock involving theoretical people in 1900s results in huffiness. weird dude.
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Oct 19, 2020 04:50
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SmokaDustbowl posted:when did movies get invented? like 1910 or 1920? it's weird how we're literally in the future it's a cliche but post-modernity really is a trip
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Oct 19, 2020 04:52
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SmokaDustbowl posted:cool book report it is. thank you for writing is haveblue
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Oct 19, 2020 06:11
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infernal machines posted:hmm... Every edition of this book has a hokey dated futuristic aesthetic it rules
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Oct 19, 2020 22:44
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jesus christ
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May 13, 2021 00:48
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I am reading a sci fi novel pretty kewl. has a prose style which is nice. I guess old established authors are still allowed to do that. apparently they are making a tv show
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Aug 11, 2022 04:30
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infernal machines posted:it was good, the sequel, not so much ah crap I didn't realize this was a serial. tell me the book has an ending
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Aug 11, 2022 05:17
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drat tihs cool old thread still moves pretty fast. good work posters.
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Aug 14, 2022 06:07
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I like how the central technological conceit in this novel (timeline altering portal to the past) isnt from a lab experiment or government project but is instead discovered by a rich hobbyist on a random chinese server
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