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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:since this is de facto TV thread, has anyone been watching masters of sex? only watched 2 episodes but it's really really good so far. yeah it's p good
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Dr. Mint posted:holy poo poo voyager is so loving boring im on episode 3 and watching each episode feels like the biggest chore ever and why wont janeway shut up ahuregrag I've been going through after a ds9 and half a tng run and it's pretty good for scoffing at and grumbling about while doing something else I think tonight's episode run was another attempt to get back that torez screws up by not thinking and a bland mystery that involved a secret cardassian that was revealed with the lamest result 'oh we might have to fight the kazons!' *antagonist gets away* 'nope let's just chat about it instead while we all realize how terrible we are at spotting spies all the time'
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Virion posted:I've been going through after a ds9 and half a tng run and it's pretty good for scoffing at and grumbling about while doing something else yeah basically this exactly it's still trek kinda it's just all wasted potential and bad characters
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Nov 5, 2013 09:10
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:yeah basically this exactly mlyp
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Having a lot of trouble getting through Snow Crash. Would have been the coolest poo poo if I read it any time in the 90s, now it just feels so quaint. I still love the idea of high stakes pizza delivery though. Also I love pizza.
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:Having a lot of trouble getting through Snow Crash. Would have been the coolest poo poo if I read it any time in the 90s, now it just feels so quaint. I still love the idea of high stakes pizza delivery though. Also I love pizza. it may help if you read it as a parody of cyberpunk; 'hiro protagonist' indeed
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it is a bald faced parody of cyberpunk, with a few neat ideas jammed into it here and there when you're done read diamond age too.
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Shaggar posted:sleepy hollow is still pretty good shaggar is wrong
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PCjr sidecar posted:it may help if you read it as a parody of cyberpunk; 'hiro protagonist' indeed Yeah, I mean I completely respect it for that, its just that there are parts I'm reading where its obvious this would be 'the cool part' where he is basically describing Second Life or MMO's or whatever to a early 90s audience and I feel bad because its not having the intended effect.
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infernal machines posted:when you're done read diamond age too. quote:Bud, from Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, is a classic cyberpunk protagonist. An aggressive, black-leather clad criminal loner with cybernetic body augmentations (including a neurolinked skull gun), Bud makes his living first as a drug runner’s decoy, then by terrorizing tourists for money.
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Nov 5, 2013 17:16
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snow crash is good the diamond age is even better hating on neal stephenson is a 1990s slashdot cliche. he's a huge seller because he rules. sorry if your irc knitting circle doesn't like it
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anathem is also really good. at least the first thousand pages. the ending is, like so many stephenson novels, unsatisfying
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I started watching Firefly to see what all the internet fuss was about; it's fairly inoffensive stuff but unless it ratchets up the fun I don't see the big deal?  Also, from wiki quote:In the same Special, show writer Tim Minear explained Inara's mysterious syringe, saying that it contained a drug that would cause the death of her rapists in case she were to be raped. Minear also said that if the show hadn't been cancelled, a future episode might have involved Inara being abducted and raped by numerous Reavers, all of whom are eventually found dead (due to the effects of the drug) by Mal
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snow crash is likely to be my next audible buy ringworld is actually p good so far but its so awkward when sci fi writers have sex in their books. future sci fi writers: unless you're william gibson, just don't.
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I started watching Firefly to see what all the internet fuss was about; it's fairly inoffensive stuff but unless it ratchets up the fun I don't see the big deal? joss whedon is A Feminist
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I started watching Firefly to see what all the internet fuss was about; it's fairly inoffensive stuff but unless it ratchets up the fun I don't see the big deal? wow that sucks it gets a lot more fun but it's still just okay
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it was short n coal imvho
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iirc diamond age ends with "TO BE CONTINUED??????!!!"
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I started watching Firefly to see what all the internet fuss was about; it's fairly inoffensive stuff but unless it ratchets up the fun I don't see the big deal? it was the only accessible and fun scifi on at the time but in a serious world i mean its a romantic western set in space. everyone loves to shoot and act heroic and its ok to kill these bad guys because theyre bad because they want to kill you for killing them and will inexplicably kill every single person in the universe if you make them mad so because they kill more theyre the bad guys and the main characters are the good guys also that syringe is a terrible idea that probably wouldnt have actually made it. protip 99.99% of all writers put out absolute garbage that has to be reigned in and refined by a committee who hopefully can throw something that doesnt suck against a wall more often than not
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Nov 5, 2013 21:16
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the greatest thing about firefly is nathan fillion nathan fillion owns
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ol qwerty bastard posted:the greatest thing about firefly is nathan fillion hes a character actor at best but he does that one character well
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Nov 5, 2013 21:24
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you forgot kaylee cameltoe
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:you forgot kaylee cameltoe pls be respectful to my waifu
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ol qwerty bastard posted:the greatest thing about firefly is nathan fillion yeah I like Castle but mainly bcos I want 2 marry Beckett
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:you forgot kaylee cameltoe i used to follow jewel staite on twitter and one day she posted about being in yoga class and apparently one of her tits came out of her shirt and there were hundreds of gross nerds replying to it with "PICS PLZ!!!" etc also i looked at adam baldwin's twitter feed once and he's an insane right-winger. so basically he's his character in real life.
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ive had a crush on jewel staite since i was a lil kid watching space cases and guess what i still do
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ol qwerty bastard posted:also i looked at adam baldwin's twitter feed once and he's an insane right-winger. so basically he's his character in real life. didnt he get into a twitter argument with the PR twitter for a fictional character from some show
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thanks for posting Her Name w.out a trigger warning now my heart is racing and my palms r sweating
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also never follow a twitter of a celebrity but especially a female celebrity because the @'s are horrible and depressing
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:didnt he get into a twitter argument with the PR twitter for a fictional character from some show lol that's entirely possible but yeah basically every tweet was either global warming denial or ranting about gun control
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ol qwerty bastard posted:i used to follow jewel staite on twitter and one day she posted about being in yoga class and apparently one of her tits came out of her shirt and there were hundreds of gross nerds replying to it with "PICS PLZ!!!" etc i randomly met her at dragoncon years ago and congratulated her on apparently her recent engagement due to the bigass rock on her finger eavesdropping nerds outed themselves nearby w/ disappointed sounds adam baldwin likes to drink w/ his fans at cons btw
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:wow that sucks ok I shall continue watching. Is the Firefly movie required watching to wrap plots etc up?
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yeah it wraps up the plot nicely and kills some people
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NoneMoreNegative posted:ok I shall continue watching. idk but its pretty good anyways
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Is the Firefly movie required watching to wrap plots etc up? it expounds on one of the better ideas in the show, the reavers it expounds on one of the really stupid ideas in the show, an invincible supersoldier girl it wraps on one of the characters real good so if it ever comes back welp
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:anathem is also really good. at least the first thousand pages. the ending is, like so many stephenson novels, unsatisfying his endings are underrrated. the political thrillers that actually try to have proper endings just suck at it, at least in his sf it's deliberate
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NoneMoreNegative posted:ok I shall continue watching. it wraps things up but it's bad
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:yeah it wraps up the plot nicely and kills some people heh you could say it wraps up the pilot
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Cocoa Crispies posted:heh you could say it wraps up the pilot hhehe
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