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finished doomsday book. i still maintain that the first 60% of it could have been way shorter and tighter, but those last two hundred pages 
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I made some stickers with Philip K. Dick's face on them and a huge banner that says "I LOVE DICK" but amazingly could not find a market for them
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Jun 20, 2012 16:36
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dick's opinion on future fashion (i'm thinking ubik here) are hilarious.
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ubik was really depressing
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Jun 20, 2012 16:52
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is there a 'happy' story in all of PKD's volume of work?
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Jun 20, 2012 17:15
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well no but what's revealed to be really going on in ubik is bleak and hopeless even by his standards
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hmm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrHfq0QWFoE
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fork bomb posted:Philip K. Dick is so great a true post.
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Amethyst posted:did roddenberry bang uhura? what do you think he is, a racist?
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Luigi Thirty posted:what do you think he is, a racist? i would seriously put money on roddenberry grudge-loving nichelle nichols just cause
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the first two episodes of season 2 of falling skies were not worse than the first season i am not saying it was good but it was tolerable and it's new scifi they did some hilarious one-line glazing of key story points though. like, i guess some of the actors didn't come back so they just had one character say "yeah we got ambushed and lost a bunch of people, including these several main characters from season one" and also one that was basically "it's too bad that the huge tactical advantage we discovered at the end of season one no longer works on the aliens!"
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Jun 20, 2012 20:54
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trying to correlate an alien occupation of earth to the revolutionary war is really tenuous i hope they focus less on that, but the main character is a loving american history teacher or whatever so i doubt they will
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Jun 20, 2012 20:55
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Jun 20, 2012 20:57
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XausF1 posted:you really don't have anything better to do with your time? you can watch television while also doing other things you don't have to be sitting on a couch shoveling nachos into your maw
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Jun 20, 2012 21:17
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Inverse Icarus posted:you don't have to be sitting on a couch shoveling nachos into your maw 
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Jun 20, 2012 21:20
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especially if you're watching falling skies
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Jun 20, 2012 21:22
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I tivoed them but will never actually watch them especially since I'll forget to record the next episode and I missed the end of last season I guess there's a new kind of alien?
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Jun 20, 2012 21:24
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qirex posted:I tivoed them but will never actually watch them especially since I'll forget to record the next episode and I missed the end of last season I guess there's a new kind of alien? yeah there are the skitters and some really tall purple thing they're doing a good job of not explaining things without it seeming totally ludicrous but then the alien was all "TRAIL OF TEARS MOTHERFUCKER! YOUR RACE IS ASSHOLES!" and my eyes rolled back so hard they're stuck
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Jun 20, 2012 22:22
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fork bomb posted:Philip K. Dick is so great agreed, idiot hell fucker
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what i mean by the not explaining stuff is that they put stuff out there, and you're thinking "oh hey that probably works like this" but they never actually tell you. like, i'm pretty sure the implants they put into kids eventually turn them into skitters entirely, and that the skitters are some genetically engineered race the purple people use as laborers. also, one of the children in the show (i hate child actors so much) pointed out that the skitters have 6 legs or whatever, but the mechs only have 2. it was a neat thing to think about before they showed GIANT PURPLE ALIEN. they painted it like skitters were the only aliens the humans had seen during the entire time of the occupation, up until like 2 episodes before s1 ended, and that was kind of neat. it's really, really hard to have a race of aliens with a completely "alien" agenda and to do it well. i think the easiest way to accomplish that is to have the aliens do things and never explain why. they did that in signs and i didn't really like that movie, but i did like how the aliens came, took people, and then left, without any reason why being made known to the viewer.
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Jun 20, 2012 22:28
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found it, not sure where the stickers themselves went
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Inverse Icarus posted:it's really, really hard to have a race of aliens with a completely "alien" agenda and to do it well. i think the easiest way to accomplish that is to have the aliens do things and never explain why. the problem is that if there's any popularity, any ambiguity gets eventually filled in by sequels and prequels and spin-offs. people aren't content with things being left as simple being that way because it is, goddammit it. this is surprisingly similar to the argument for bombadil's existence in lotr.
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Jun 20, 2012 22:44
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did they every find his missing robot head (dick's)
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dooTrieux posted:the problem is that if there's any popularity, any ambiguity gets eventually filled in by sequels and prequels and spin-offs. people aren't content with things being left as simple being that way because it is, goddammit it. i hate fans of a single thing i mean, i like futurama but it ended and you know i was at peace with it ending and if the creators want to make something new that's good no i don't want a futurama video game, especially one made by amateurs no i don't want [NEW THING IN FUTURAMA UNIVERSE], why not make a new setting you uncreative fucks
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Slumber, watcher, 'til the spheres, six and twenty thousand years have revolved, and I return to the spot where now I burn. Other stars anon shall rise to the axis of the skies; stars that soothe and stars that bless with a sweet forgetfulness: Only when my round is o'er shall the past disturb thy door. >25 years and I still remember it line for line
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BonzoESC posted:i hate fans of a single thing People like this need to be forced to watch Simpsons season 12 nonstop onwards to 26 or whatever they are up to.
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PipeRifle posted:I made some stickers with Philip K. Dick's face on them and a huge banner that says "I LOVE DICK" but amazingly could not find a market for them i'll take some of those stickers
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Jun 21, 2012 05:29
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drat, just saw your follow up post that banner is sweet
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gooby on rails posted:watching falling skies 
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Internaut! posted:Slumber, watcher, 'til the spheres, Same, but not quite as long ago and also it's the lyrics to Allstar by smashmouth
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Ronald Raiden posted:it's the lyrics to Allstar by smashmouth  I remember it because we had to pick some poetry to memorize and recite for school, and one of the other dorks already chose The Raven, it just stuck in my head forever lots of fond memories of reading those stories one summer at camp with a flashlight in my sleeping bag, I'd go back an reread them but they'd probably wither under my middle aged cynicism skeevy achievements fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Jun 21, 2012 |
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Internaut! posted:Slumber, watcher, 'til the spheres, haha drat, turns out u r a 90's kid after all 
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ahhh spiders posted:haha drat, turns out u r a 90's kid after all eh that's from an hp lovecraft story from the 20s iirc was it also featured in a pokemon episode or something
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Internaut! posted:eh that's from an hp lovecraft story from the 20s iirc drat. got any more tales from the crypt gramps? cya
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ahhh spiders posted:drat. got any more tales from the crypt gramps? cya
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hey i just started reading Spin, am i gonna regret it?
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thanks, i just got fired from starfleet
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