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my stepdads beer posted:i just started reading the culture series starting with the first book "consider phlebas" so I'll let you know if I get that far, isn't that like book 14? i didn't bother finishing it. it was so bad. a loose series of poorly written action scenes "morrey ran around the corner, firing and he went! Seven went down before his blasts. Then, he reaised the ground was shaking! He ran back to the ship blasting as he went" etc etc turned me off the culture series right away. I should probably give them another chance because I hear it's one of the worst ones
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ten dollar bitcoin posted:Consider Phlebas isn't all that great, the next two are much better. Player of Games is seriously one of the best sci-fi novels i've ever read. Use of Weapons just kinda weirded me out with the combination of the chronology and the chair thing.
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Nov 15, 2012 13:24
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Ok, you guys are making me reconsider Ian Banks. I read Consider Phlebas and pretty much wrote him off, but I'll give him another shot. Which book should I read.
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Nov 15, 2012 15:10
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watched district 9 last night pretty good obv all about da ~race relationz~ but thats cool i liked the premise of trashy bum aliens, that was funny at first, then sad when you saw their conditions wifu got into it, she thought it was good too
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Nov 15, 2012 15:13
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Jonny 290 posted:watched district 9 last night Yeah that movie was pretty cool I really enjoyed it and can only hope for the sequel where they come back and kill all the humans.
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Nov 15, 2012 16:34
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Hard NOP Life posted:Yeah that movie was pretty cool I really enjoyed it and can only hope for the sequel where they come back and kill all the humans. Directed by Michael Bay
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Nov 15, 2012 17:31
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they said itd probably be a prequel also itd probably be pretty bad and ruin district 9 memories
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Nov 15, 2012 17:33
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Jonny 290 posted:watched district 9 last night it's a p good film but it was kinda weird how black people were mostly portrayed as alien eating violent thugs, witch doctors, and prostitutes willing to service aliens in a movie ostensibly about racism
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Nov 15, 2012 17:38
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Cold on a Cob posted:it's a p good film but it was kinda weird how black people were mostly portrayed as alien eating violent thugs, witch doctors, and prostitutes willing to service aliens in a movie ostensibly about racism a movie where race was handled in a clumsy way? what will that wacky Hollywood think up next
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Nov 15, 2012 17:41
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DuckConference posted:tbf to dune I don't think the others featured the white dude leading the tribe on a genocidal jihad because of the tyranny of prescience and his own failure to embark on the golden path
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Nov 15, 2012 18:14
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Hard NOP Life posted:Yeah that movie was pretty cool I really enjoyed it and can only hope for the sequel where they come back and kill all the humans. it's called Battle: Los Angeles starring "the thank you for smoking guy" and "the latina chika everyone justifiably hates"
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Nov 15, 2012 18:20
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FEMA summer camp posted:it's called Battle: Los Angeles starring "the thank you for smoking guy" and "the latina chika everyone justifiably hates" Uhhhh I saw that piece of poo poo, terrible
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Nov 15, 2012 18:47
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Hard NOP Life posted:Uhhhh I saw that piece of poo poo, terrible thx for your sincere opinion about my joke reply it's weird and unique because I think you're the only person who didn't like Battle: lost angeles AKA instant classic AKA five stars (ask to see my tattoo of a crashed alien ship on venice beach and underneath it says "3/11/11 never forget")
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Nov 15, 2012 18:58
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i enjoyed battle: la but that's because i went in expecting a 4/10 movie with lots of explosions and gun battles and got what i wanted mostly it was annoying how it was almost 2 hrs, if you're a lovely excuse for cool special effects you should be 80 mins, tops
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Nov 15, 2012 19:02
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michael bay owns, just fyi.
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Nov 15, 2012 19:03
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i just can't watch michael bay films even my "poo poo movie enjoying" powers aren't that strong, still haven't bothered sitting through transformers: dark side of the moon after the shitshow that was part 2 bad boys + the rock are awesome though
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Nov 15, 2012 19:06
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transformers 2 was bad, but the 3rd one had some freaking awesome action scenes that you just arent gonna see any other director attempt without them being entirely cgi. he has dudes in wingsuits w/ 3d cameras on they heads fly around a city irl.
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Nov 15, 2012 19:08
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ok maybe i will try 3 its on netflix so the only cost is my time and sanity
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Nov 15, 2012 19:13
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i don't know what everyone's talking about, there was only one transformers movie and it was great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg
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Nov 15, 2012 19:14
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Cold on a Cob posted:i just can't watch michael bay films even my "poo poo movie enjoying" powers aren't that strong, still haven't bothered sitting through transformers: dark side of the moon after the shitshow that was part 2 I love the rock. it's fun and exciting transformers 2 was physically painful to watch; constant noise and smash cuts actually gave me a migraine bay directed films: bad boys --good the rock --good armageddon --poo poo pearl harbor --poo poo badboys 2 --haven't seen it the island --poo poo transformers --poo poo transformers 2 --oh gently caress transformers 3 --haven't seen it
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Nov 15, 2012 19:17
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the best part of that movie is how there was a huge fit of boo-hoo over optimus prime dying and i guess there was a deleted scene where practically all the other gen 1 transformers got killed in a battle "if junior felt bad about optimus prime dying he was going to be devastated when his entire toy collection just bought the farm" owned kids lol
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Nov 15, 2012 19:17
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yeah the animated movie was essentially hasbro (or whoever made transformers) clearing the deck for the next generation of toys also, fun fact: transformers were two japanese lines of toys that were combined and released together stateside
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Nov 15, 2012 19:30
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the first couple episodes of the new bsg miniseries blood and chrome is up on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT79x4qM4FE&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdisGiivP9c&hd=1 havent watched it yet but there's supposedly a lot of pew pew lasers
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BANME.sh posted:the first couple episodes of the new bsg miniseries blood and chrome is up on youtube oh man i really hope this doesnt suck
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Nov 15, 2012 20:08
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Allan Assiduity posted:is blade runner a good film yes, but watch the director's cut without the voiceover
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Nov 15, 2012 20:13
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Yeah I Like Girls posted:oh man i really hope this doesnt suck seems good from the first 2 episodes at least hopefully it keeps crazy religious plot out of it this time
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Nov 15, 2012 20:28
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Phobeste posted:yes, but watch the director's cut without the voiceover this
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Nov 15, 2012 20:33
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Phobeste posted:yes, but watch the director's cut without the voiceover
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Nov 15, 2012 20:42
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SHAM BAM BAMINA posted:No, watch the Final Cut without the voiceover and with the finished special effects. i forgot about that one
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Nov 15, 2012 20:47
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foolish honkies! i've come to take sockbaby, which the one called burger holds
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Nov 15, 2012 20:49
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Is it worth going to my mom's house to dig out all the lovely Piers Anthony books that I used to read in high school? I'm feeling nostalgic but if I remember correctly most of the books weren't even fun in a pulpy way.
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Grandmaster.flv posted:Is it worth going to my mom's house to dig out all the lovely Piers Anthony books that I used to read in high school? I'm feeling nostalgic but if I remember correctly most of the books weren't even fun in a pulpy way. the color of her panties
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Grandmaster.flv posted:Is it worth going to my mom's house to dig out all the lovely Piers Anthony books that I used to read in high school? I'm feeling nostalgic but if I remember correctly most of the books weren't even fun in a pulpy way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXCK1EyP4s
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Grandmaster.flv posted:Is it worth going to my mom's house to dig out all the lovely Piers Anthony books that I used to read in high school? I'm feeling nostalgic but if I remember correctly most of the books weren't even fun in a pulpy way. no piers anthony is loving terrible, just irredeemably horrible and worthless
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piers anthony is sick http://hradzka.livejournal.com/392471.html quote:Some of you folks may recall that a while ago I mentioned that the curious thing about Piers Anthony, to me, is that while people often dump on Anthony for being weird, skeevy, disturbing, and that sort of thing, nobody doing so ever mentions the stuff that *I* find to be really disturbing. (And remember, when we say "Piers Anthony" we're talking about the guy who wrote protoplasmic sex scenes and a story with a dude boinking a mentally retarded woman who was hooked up to a milking machine.) This is odd as hell, because I remember glancing at the book when it first came out, doing a massive double-take on reading that passage, and thinking, "Holy dogshit, this'll get him run out of town on a rail." Curiously, that never happened. quote:it has been brought to my attention that this is far from the worst thing Piers Anthony has ever written. In his novel FIREFLY, Anthony wrote a detailed thrust-by-thrust (or, to be more precise, wriggle-by-wriggle) pedophilic sex scene, described by a five-year-old girl, who is depicted as quite literally asking for it. The five-year-old is being interviewed for the trial of the guy who was molesting her. She is eidetic and demonstrative, even to the point of having the (female) interviewer act out positions. At the end, the child realizes that her molester is In Major Trouble and starts crying, because she knows that telling the truth has gotten the guy sent up the river.
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even some of the xanth books had some creepy stuff in them but i don't remember any specifics and i'm not going to bother looking them up
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Nov 15, 2012 22:24
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i don't recall the precise grody boink specifics at this juncture your honour
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good lord i had no idea i just thought he was a loving terrible writer
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i read a couple of xanth books as a teenager and thought they sucked. for years people told me the incarnations books were actually good, so i finally broke down and read them a few years ago. they had a few cool ideas but they were completely buried under a steaming mound of piers anthony being a loving terrible writer
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