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people succeeding without overcoming themselves or whatever is boring e:shameful snipe
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the headless horseman made lanterns out of the heads of some masons on this weeks sleepy hollow.
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Nov 14, 2013 01:57
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Shaggar posted:the headless horseman made lanterns out of the heads of some masons on this weeks sleepy hollow. lol I have a few eps of this to catch up on, but its all been fun so far. latest ep of SHIELD was another small notch better than the last, whoever said it should be more spy and less superhero was on the right track.
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Nov 14, 2013 02:24
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speaking of superhero who else has read Worm i'm partway through it and it's pretty neat; sort of like chronicle meets kick-rear end meets dr. horrible http://parahumans.wordpress.com/
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Nov 14, 2013 02:28
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just watched the worst episode of tos called And the Children Will Lead holy craaaap that was the longest 45 minutes of my life how could anyone look at that script and be like yeah that'll work
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Nov 14, 2013 03:53
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a lot of tos episodes were like that imo
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Nov 14, 2013 04:24
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your original series is a piece of poo poo
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Nov 14, 2013 04:56
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Dr. Mint posted:just watched the worst episode of tos called And the Children Will Lead holy craaaap that was the longest 45 minutes of my life how could anyone look at that script and be like yeah that'll work wait until spock's brain
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Nov 14, 2013 05:08
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i just read te first chapter of accelerando is it supposed to be dumb as heck? manfred is insufferable and theres been a weird sex scene already
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Nov 14, 2013 05:29
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kim stanley robinson's accelerando was better
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Nov 14, 2013 05:36
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Carthag posted:i just read te first chapter of accelerando the first part of accelerando is basically what would happen if someone used breathless gizmodo speculative-tech articles as the sole basis for their neo-cyberpunk setting. it gets better i guess, i don't really know because i took a break halfway and haven't picked it up again. it has interesting ideas though, like space imams. look forward with quivering anticipation to a whole bunch more weird future sex.
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Nov 14, 2013 05:44
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Carthag posted:i just read te first chapter of accelerando Yes, its absurd and gets dumber as it goes on. Pretty amusingly silly though, esp when manfred becomes a flock of birds
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Nov 14, 2013 05:45
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isn't manfred one of the possible names from the kerbal name generator
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Nov 14, 2013 05:47
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prolly the best place toask this kindle paperwhite good? is there better thinking xmas
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Nov 14, 2013 07:09
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postin so i can click on my post history and cp my accelerando post
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Nov 14, 2013 07:14
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lol thrird post in the thread:theflyingexecutive posted:skip everything that looks like its going to become a sex scene and thank me later
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Nov 14, 2013 07:19
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im having fun reading my old posststheflyingexecutive posted:The puzzles were all cool and fun, but the whole time I was thinking "man, I'll need to remember this for the harder version of it later" and the harder version never came thats what she said
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Nov 14, 2013 07:23
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angry_keebler posted:i mean it's a staple of the genre but maybe one time there could be a genre movie about smart competent heroes versus difficult but clearly surrmountable challenges instead of glossy melodramatic morality plays that movie was Apollo 13
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Nov 14, 2013 07:39
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a retrospective of me posting itt: -firefly was ok, so was oblivion -i slob on jack vance's knob like corn on the cob -i give at least 3 distinct warnings to not read charlie stross' sex scenes -i loving hate damon lindelof and wont let anyone forget it -sting in dune is the man -lol doctor who sucks scifi rec list movies/tv/books: canticle for liebowitz fringe utopia blindsight the pilot for lexx black mirror children of men jack vance, esp eyes of the overworld/dying earth series moon M.O.O.N. apollo 13 12 monkeys primer primer primer
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Nov 14, 2013 07:55
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dont look up any plot summary for primer, just watch it blind
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Nov 14, 2013 07:56
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ok i'll do that. thanks.
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Nov 14, 2013 07:57
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lol people were actually displeased by some mild religious/spiritual stuff in gravity internet atheism ruins everything
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Dr. Mint posted:just watched the worst episode of tos called And the Children Will Lead holy craaaap that was the longest 45 minutes of my life how could anyone look at that script and be like yeah that'll work they were probably just really desperate for material to shoot. star trek was always scrambling to get scripts produced in time (there was one episode in first season where gene roddenberry was literally on site furiously writing material to be shot that day) and nobody wanted to get tied to a dying show, and gene roddenberry had already checked out and basically quit the show And The Children Shall Lead was probably just "gently caress, we're out of time, we've gotta start working on this episode if we're gonna make our airdate" it's been argued that spock's brain was gene coon (lee cronin was his pen name) basically flipping off gene roddenberry. rodedenberry didn't care for the more light-hearted tone that coon tended to take trek towards (roddenberry hated the tribbles episode), and also probably felt really insecure that coon was having a big impact on the show (i mean it was gene coon who invented the fuckin' klingons!), and they apparently fought over it before coon left as producer. roddenberry put out a bullshit memo saying "you know what guys kirk's a little too jokey. we need to run a tighter ship here and get our poo poo under control" right before coon left. so it's been suggested that gene coon, knowing that star trek was desperate for scripts, and knowing that the producers were not going to turn down a script from a guy who could actually write the characters correctly, deliberately wrote the most goofball episode he could think of just to tweak off gene "star trek is serious business" roddenberry.
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Nov 14, 2013 08:25
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i remember reading a deal where nimoy? said that spock's brain was written as a protest to the network because season 3's budget was slashed so the network execs were gonna see it and be all drat i guess we're brainless spock we'd better pay more per episode they sure trolled us
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Nov 14, 2013 09:31
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i watched primer blind based on teh coal pic on netflix n i liked it, it was coal
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Nov 14, 2013 09:31
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angry_keebler posted:it just shows that hollywood can't have an intelligent character with their poo poo together doing the right thing at the right time how to properly assemble a combat insertion team
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Nov 14, 2013 09:56
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Smythe posted:i watched primer blind based on teh coal pic on netflix n i liked it, it was coal coal as in cool or coal as in what you're getting for christmas this year?
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i started primer and i thought 'whoa i need to be sober for this' and i havent had a chance to wtch it since
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Nov 14, 2013 09:57
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axolotl farmer posted:that movie was Apollo 13 not really a scifi or genre show but still a good example of people doing science and overcoming adversity one of my very favorite movies is the dish with sam neill which is also btw mandatory viewing if you haven't seen it yet
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Nov 14, 2013 10:32
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Stymie posted:lol people were actually displeased by some mild religious/spiritual stuff in gravity there was religious stuff in it?
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Nov 14, 2013 18:52
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no. there was a lady contemplating whether she had anything worth living for and it turns out George Clooney is worth living for.
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Nov 14, 2013 18:54
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Gus Hobbleton posted:there was religious stuff in it? The Coptic icon in the Soyuz and the Budai in the Shenzhou are the most blatant examples.
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Nov 14, 2013 18:57
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oh yeah poo poo i forgot about those okay yeah i can go with that religion is all poison and nobody should ever be allowed to display religious imagry anywhere the creators of gravity should be executed for daring to bring their stupid sky wizards into serious business movies
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Nov 14, 2013 18:58
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Shaggar posted:no. there was a lady contemplating whether she had anything worth living for and it turns out George Clooney is worth living for. drat right he is
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Nov 14, 2013 18:59
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reminder that gravity got ok press but the biggest movie that nobody will shut up about in the past few months is about an emotionless teenage girl killing other teenagers but its ok because its to feed her state or something
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Nov 14, 2013 19:02
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aka the libertarian dream: an underaged violent girl fighting the big mean government
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Nov 14, 2013 19:04
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the religious stuff in gravity was bad because it was terribly executed garbage shoehorned in to give the movie 'meaning' they basically had a big awesome movie and were like 'hey well this movie needs to be deep or something' and threw in a bunch of religious poo poo and stupid imagery. but if atheists are mad because religion is in it then lol
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Nov 14, 2013 19:07
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didnt we just decide that no, it wasnt religious imagery, it was oxygen-deprived-brain imagery
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Dead Inside Darwin posted:didnt we just decide that no, it wasnt religious imagery, it was oxygen-deprived-brain imagery it was obviously intended to be up to the viewers interpretation like he told her a bunch of stuff that she probably didnt really know. she could have remembered it or it could have been a message from god
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