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ChiralCondensate posted:The movie was great and I still have a huge boner for jodie foster it made zero loving sense that they'd tear down the apollo/shuttle pads to build those whatchawhozits, but w/e
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they shouldve sent a yosposter.
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What's the new hot poo poo in scifi? I need something good to warch
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ChiralCondensate posted:The movie was great and I still have a huge boner for jodie foster her legs wwere the best part of Blumpkampf's poo poo-fest Elysium
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Rexicon1 posted:What's the new hot poo poo in scifi? I need something good to warch bang your head against a wall and then start fresh on the 90s
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or maybe read a book? MaddAddam comes out soonish.
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pseudorandom name posted:or maybe read a book? can't wait for this
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hey is the uplift trilogy good?
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books two and three of the first trilogy are pretty good in a '90s sort of way, providing you can stomach a non-trivial amount of horny dolphins and chimpanzees
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pseudorandom name posted:a non-trivial amount of horny dolphins and chimpanzees mods??
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ooooookay i may skip that one
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Trig Discipline posted:hey is the uplift trilogy good? the second trilogy is complete garbage. wordy, digressive, glacially slow-moving, a zillion pages, and none of the big questions gets resolved. so bad it pretty much put me off of reading brin for good but yeah, read SR at least. it won the hugo and nebula for a reason
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rip fredrick pohl
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also yeah read startide rising, it's a bit dated (the genetically and cybernetically enhanced super spy wears a watch) but it's still very good, i reread it this year and it still holds up
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I like Pohl's gateway stuff because we're just a bunch of idiots that find spaceships we can barely operate. I was going to say it didn't suffer from heinlein-esque super protagonist, but I just re-read some of the plot summaries and I don't know that I can say that.
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Grandmaster.flv posted:Lol if you don't think the shittiest nurse is doing a better job than any computer janitor ever oh boy saving one life a day of dipshits who manage to get hurt doing unforgivably stupid things or who get sick from having genetically inferior immune systems i save the lives of thousands of people a day by keeping poo poo running, winning the war against nature
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FMguru posted:startide rising is one of my favorite sf novels of all time. uplift war was pretty good. sundiver was a bit creaky (its set up as a whodunit mystery with a thoroughly out-of-left-field resolution, and the words "refrigerator laser" make the laws of thermodynamics break down sobbing) the refrigerator laser thing doesn't bother me too much. they make it plain the ship was built with freaky alien technology. a laser is just photons all traveling on parallel vectors, right? if you choose the right frequency, so that the sun's own gasses are mostly-transparent, those photons can carry energy away from the ship. result: if you had an endothermic process to produce those directed photons, there's no reason you couldn't dump energy that way
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finally saw pacific rim analog robots lol
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Trig Discipline posted:hey is the uplift trilogy good? Notorious b.s.d. posted:almost everything david brin has ever written owns, including his short stories
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Moist von Lipwig posted:analog robots lol 
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Heresiarch posted:rip fredrick pohl I read the Space Merchants a long time ago and really like the whole satirical proto-cyberpunk thing with government just giving up against ultracapitalism and letting evil corporations run everything. and the vat grown meat factory with a secret society living inside a lump of chicken.
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Moist von Lipwig posted:finally saw pacific rim only one tho!!!
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raruler posted:I like Pohl's gateway stuff because we're just a bunch of idiots that find spaceships we can barely operate. Another missed opportunity for stargate universe to be great imo
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Another missed opportunity for stargate universe to be great imo maybe they'll make a tuf voyaging tv series now that GRRM is such hot poo poo
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I saw upstream color I liked upstream color
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Crasscrab posted:I'd like to read a short story about a hospice nurse robot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank not quite the same but I found it  . see it with your parents if you have old parents, mine loved it
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Trig Discipline posted:ooooookay i may skip that one im about 2/3 thru the second one and it's mostly just a uplifted dolphin that harrasses this lady he's all hot for and nothing has come of it e: pun not intended
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MORE CURLY FRIES posted:I saw upstream color is it easier or harder to understand than primer
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haveblue posted:is it easier or harder to understand than primer i thought it was pretty easy to understand, just pay attention.
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it's not a puzzle to solve like primer. upstream color is there to be experienced, man
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raruler posted:bunch of idiots that find spaceships we can barely operate. 
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Robert Cop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVphAuRo7Q
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rented oblivion just for the visuals. drat pretty movie, not completely terrible, but what a total copout ending. wasted potential everywhere have to convince the wife to watch upstream color with me now. (didn't even try with oblivion because it's a "guy film".) how depressing is it, anyway? she's dealing with some family issues and she's trying to stay away from sad stuff
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Heresiarch posted:rented oblivion just for the visuals. drat pretty movie, not completely terrible, but what a total copout ending. wasted potential everywhere oblivion is for anyone who missed all of scifi since the 80s. its nothing new, but its well done and that's respectable.
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