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incandescent bulbs have lovely color I am glad I'm living in this energy efficient future
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Robert A. Heinlein posted:“I grok he might. But, Mike—listen, dear. You promised you wouldn’t do anything of that sort except in utter emergency. If you hear me scream, and reach into my mind and I’m in real trouble, that’s another matter. But I was coping with wolves when you were still on Mars. Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it’s partly her fault. So don’t be hasty.”
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Aug 19, 2013 04:28
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i really only liked starship troopers and even then because mechas = top tier poo poo
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Aug 19, 2013 04:29
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I got two cfls behind lampshades dont really notice. Newer ones don't take forever to lime power up or w/e like old ones
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Aug 19, 2013 04:31
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an excellent book. Everything else I've read from heinlein has either been tiresomely juvenile or completely revolting.
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Aug 19, 2013 04:31
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nigga crab pollock posted:incandescent bulbs have lovely color I am glad I'm living in this energy efficient future i actually really like the colour temp of incandescents a lot
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Aug 19, 2013 04:35
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i just light a campfire in my living room i like the 'warm' lighting
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Aug 19, 2013 04:38
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i liked the movie "europa report" ne1 here c it?
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Aug 19, 2013 04:39
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so i'm continuing my ill-advised experiment in writing sci-fi stories for fun and not-profit i have a kind of neat idea for a book and i've been developing the overarching storyline and writing scenes from it and whatever but i find it difficult to write good dialogue and some parts of the story are definitely pretty dialogue-driven i want to write good characters too, not just stereotypes and a mary sue, hopefully i can figure that out the technical part of it on the other hand i can definitely do, but nobody wants to read just pages of exposition about how the artificial intelligence is built or what the alien artifact does tl;dr writing is hard but there doesn't seem to be a way to get good at it other than just doing it a lot (therefore post post post)
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Aug 19, 2013 04:42
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Smythe posted:i liked the movie "europa report" ne1 here c it? no i have not seen it yet
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Aug 19, 2013 04:42
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stranger in a strange land was interesting but it felt like what you would get if someone decided to write "dark" fan fiction about some infantile sci fi like mork and mindy or buck rogers or the like but mork came after stranger so he was still ahead of his time I guess
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Aug 19, 2013 04:43
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ol qwerty bastard posted:so i'm continuing my ill-advised experiment in writing sci-fi stories for fun and not-profit best way to write good characters is meet a lot of people, preferably interesting ones, and basically just ask them to talk about themselves (this is unsurprisingly easy) and then mix and match their stories and personality quirks enough so the legal boilerplate holds up then wait for your douchebag CFO to explain how he really did get shot out a window by ED-209 
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Aug 19, 2013 04:51
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Crasscrab posted:i really only liked starship troopers and even then because mechas = top tier poo poo  v
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Aug 19, 2013 04:54
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 reminder: the only approved light source for yospos is your monitor(light bulbs are the yospos equivalent of circumcision debates, nobody wants to see you post because your manhood is threatened because somebody questioned your light bulb choices. never post about lighting, any LF poo poo means a week+ probation)
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Aug 19, 2013 05:34
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the real yospos circumcision debate is amber or green
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Aug 19, 2013 05:38
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oh hey i forgot to tell you all i got my watch back from the watch repair dude. new hands, new gears, polished and all now i can tell time without pulling my phone out or divination or w/e owns
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Aug 19, 2013 05:44
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Aug 19, 2013 05:53
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watched 2001 last night and it will probably always be the greatest sci fi film ever made. it even makes blade runner look like scrub tier babyshits
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Aug 19, 2013 05:58
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chumpchous posted:watched 2001 last night and it will probably always be the greatest sci fi film ever made.
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Aug 19, 2013 06:00
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chumpchous posted:watched 2001 last night and it will probably always be the greatest sci fi film ever made. idunno if i'd go that far but it's definitely the best
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Aug 19, 2013 06:04
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i wish sci fi directors would stop jerkin it to their 70s animu monster killers and start jerking off to some real films
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Aug 19, 2013 06:06
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chumpchous posted:i wish sci fi directors would stop jerkin it to their 70s animu monster killers and start jerking off to some real films
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Aug 19, 2013 06:10
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chumpchous posted:watched 2001 last night and it will probably always be the greatest sci fi film ever made. I hope you mean "look" in a metaphorical level of art sense because blade runner is the best looking in the visual sense sci fi film ever made
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Aug 19, 2013 06:12
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chumpchous posted:watched 2001 last night and it will probably always be the greatest sci fi film ever made. yeah.
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Aug 19, 2013 06:32
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haveblue posted:I hope you mean "look" in a metaphorical level of art sense because blade runner is the best looking in the visual sense sci fi film ever made 2001 beats it on visuals too  supremely confident  balanced   iconic  striking  minimalist  and abstract  loving incredible
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Aug 19, 2013 06:39
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seriously look at the scope of that quick grab bag of frames. dat movie
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Aug 19, 2013 06:40
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blade runner does grab an easy second but there's literally nothing worthwhile after it except maybe alien (the first one idiots) so
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Aug 19, 2013 06:41
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i went to a museum exhibit of kubrick props last year and was super psyched when I saw the actual star child hanging from the ceiling
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Aug 19, 2013 06:44
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i was reading about it recently and found out that kubrick and arthur c. clark actually collaborated on the screenplay. the novelization didn't come out until after the movie. that's really awesome, for reasons i cant really explain.
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Aug 19, 2013 06:53
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chumpchous posted:i was reading about it recently and found out that kubrick and arthur c. clark actually collaborated on the screenplay. the novelization didn't come out until after the movie. that's really awesome, for reasons i cant really explain. two giants in their respective fields coming together and producing something genuinely special. it's rare.
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Aug 19, 2013 06:58
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Amethyst posted:two giants in their respective fields coming together and producing something genuinely special. it's rare. yeah, it's it's a masterpiece
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Aug 19, 2013 07:02
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Amethyst posted:two giants in their respective fields coming together and producing something genuinely special. it's rare. plus a screenplay is neither a film nor a book, so they worked together on this thing and then eacho took it and interpreted it in their own way
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Amethyst posted:The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an excellent book. Everything else I've read from heinlein has either been tiresomely juvenile or completely revolting. starship troopers the book is basically just military fellatio for 250 pages
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Aug 19, 2013 07:29
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I LOVE TOM CLANCY
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Aug 19, 2013 08:30
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Haters are sniped from a helo deployed sniping pod flying supersonic and located via subterranean headsens0rZ triangulated by NORAD
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Aug 19, 2013 08:31
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tom clancy did one thing that was useful, his name can now be used to describe a particular kind of idiot who doesn't know poo poo about technology, the military, or geopolitics but is absolutely convinced that he does
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Aug 19, 2013 08:35
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i feel bad 4 u if u dont read a tom clancy on the airplane so instead of having a boring ride in a steel tube ur instead having a thrilling adventure w/ a real american patriot protestant from middle america big beefy black guy heavy weapons operator sassy redhead sniper smooth talkin latino demolition expert scarred, serious, deeply patriotic but also down-to-earth cynical spec-ops general
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i knew an ex marine guy who went to stanford and was an idiot for all kinds of reasons but among them was his a book he was "writing" about marines and geopolitics and all kinds of stuff. if he talked about it it was clear he was making it up on the spot. (to a girl who liked hiking: "and there's a girl in it, who's the daughter of a general and she's an intelligence agent. she's also a lot like you she enjoys hiking"). anyhow he goes on and on and says that he has the perfect opening line, do you want to hear it? In his jamaican accent: "the marines rushed in"
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Aug 19, 2013 09:21
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ok ok im seeing it go on please im on the egde of my seat here
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u laugh but he subjected that poor girl to listening to his story for literally 2 hours as she sat there and went 'oh. wow, interesting. mmhmm.' eventually i asked 'hey does anyone want to go skinny dipping' and she said "I DO" and then we ended up having sex
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