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Glorgnole posted:there's a theoretical nuclear space weapon called a casaba howitzer that's essentially this jesus christ
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FMguru posted:i will admit a softness for david webers baen books set in the starfire universe because i had a lot of fun building spaceships and shooting pew pew lasers in the starfire boardgame back in the 1980s oh god so much time wasted we had a multiplayer game with the empire system and everything, i used all my points to build just three goddamn huge, mega-armored, firelinked capital ships that operated as a unit (long range, short range, point defense), one of the other players churned out the largest number of the cheapest disposable ships possible, literally hundreds of them first turn, i completely at random jump into his home system it took eight hours to finish that fight (i won but lost the point defense ship) and afterwards we decided we weren't going to play starfire anymore
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Heresiarch posted:oh god so much time wasted ha ha ha ha ha for those not familiar - imagine eve with all calculations done by hand
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Shaggar posted:pacific rim was unironically worse than transformers in every way gently caress I almost got shaggared
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FMguru posted:you played with the empire expansion exactly in hindsight i'm positive that our referee (or whatever you called him) was full-on autistic, we were just all pre-internet 80's nerds who could barely talk to anyone if it wasn't about spaceships so we were taking what we could get
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I watched Paycheck the other day. I thought the core conceit was pretty interesting but the worldbuilding was poo poo and it seemed railroaded as heck.
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somebody i was reading said something like, dc/wb is all worried about how they can do a wonder woman movie and make it serious like the recent batman and superman stuff, while marvel/disney says "here is a raccoon with a machinegun"
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sort of sci-fi question: is there any actual evidence of dark matter/energy outside of a need to balance equations or is it looking likely that it's this century's version of the aether
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quote:The central premise is that in 2001, humanity receives greetings from a highly advanced, peaceable Galactic Federation. However, all is not well, for a species of aggressive aliens known as the Posleen are attacking the Galactics. Since the Galactics are almost entirely unable to fight, they are appealing to the proven military abilities of humanity for aid. pfhghghghg oh john ringo computer parts posted:sort of sci-fi question: is there any actual evidence of dark matter/energy outside of a need to balance equations or is it looking likely that it's this century's version of the aether http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to_dark_matter but it's still not a slam dunk
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Grandmaster.flv posted:I watched Paycheck the other day. I thought the core conceit was pretty interesting Based on a PKD story quote:but the worldbuilding was poo poo and it seemed railroaded as heck. Directed by John Woo
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i guess i'll take hooga chaka over the fog horns
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this looks like loving garbage like tank girl or howard the duck levels of garbage
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this looks like the tor-est movie ever made
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computer parts posted:sort of sci-fi question: is there any actual evidence of dark matter/energy outside of a need to balance equations or is it looking likely that it's this century's version of the aether Dark matter never really sat right with me either. Unless I'm misunderstanding, it basically assumes that non-star material is practically negligible in mass estimates, which just seems a little too presumptuous to invent a form of matter over. With so much interstellar space, is it really crazy to think that all the non-luminous matter in between would account for the difference? Maybe I'm completely misunderstanding the issue but I'm not sure what hard data we're basing our assumptions over what a galaxy should weigh compared to what lensing suggests it actually weights upon.
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tank girl was fun garbage that said last time i watched it i was high as gently caress
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SmokaDustbowl posted:this looks like loving garbage I would say it looks more like hellboy but w/out taking itself so seriously.
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I watched Tank Girl sober and was bored to tears I turned it off during a gunfight in the 3rd act
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Theoretically it should be a fun movie but its the epitome of the super forced 90s 'punk' dying fart
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In February 2014, Gunn revealed that the film would incorporate songs from the '70s and '80s, such as "Hooked on a Feeling", on a mixtape in Quill's Walkman, which acts as a way for him to stay connected to the Earth, home and family he lost.[79] oh gently caress you
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:Theoretically it should be a fun movie but its the epitome of the super forced 90s 'punk' dying fart i read one tank girl comic in a details magazine that i bought because it had a trent reznor interview it was okay, but didn't inspire me to want to subscribe to details magazine you could get beat up for that sort of thing
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PCjr sidecar posted:Based on a PKD story I pretty much pretend Hard Boiled was John Woo's only movie.
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MANIFEST DESTINY posted:With so much interstellar space, is it really crazy to think that all the non-luminous matter in between would account for the difference? that's one of the theories but it has some pretty big problems
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quote:If one assumes that all of the dark matter in the universe consists of baryons, then there is far too much deuterium in the universe. loving duh you idiot manifest destiny
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*starts stockpiling deuterium* do they still make heavy water up at bruce nuclear? ROAD TRIP
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USSMICHELLEBACHMAN posted:there is far too much deuterium in the universe
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vOv posted:that's one of the theories but it has some pretty big problems Yeah I get what this is saying but (and this is where I just go on gut because I don't have any knowledge of the research involved) it just seems more likely that their math/their model/their observations are off than is the likelihood of there being huge amounts of matter that interacts with the detectable universe only gravitationally and in no other way. Like how they come to the numbers and efficiencies revolving around the big bang must be so heavy in postulation that it just surprises me that they're so certain its tangential models must be correct that they're inventing stuff to accommodate the discrepancies. I know occum's razor isn't the be all end all but come on. Since my wife is a scientist and I've got to know all her lab friends and how idiotic they can be and how often they'll pass off junk science to get funding/published its made me so much more distrustful of some of the big theories like this that have hung around so long in pop sci without a smidgen of truly compelling evidence. Don't get me wrong I'm the dude defending science to dumb people on facebook all the time but the reality is its pretty fallible.
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Suicide Sam E. posted:Every "future" game that has stairs in it amuses me. Splicer posted:Genuinely interested to hear you elaborate on this. Suicide Sam E. posted:A series of platforms raised at regular increments is the best anyone can do? Even now we have G-D escalators. Even ramps would be slightly better than stairs, if you're going by conservation of materials and utility. There could be those transportation tubes like in "Futurama" and "Portal". Some kind of teleport system would be more sci-fi futuristic (although Star Trek did have teleportation and an elevator, but at least not any stairs).
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 Maniac Mansion was the debut feature ... The spiral stairs in the library and the "Out of order" sign at the stairs: this comes from the Skywalker Ranch
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Glorgnole posted:gonna do it, wish me luck
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ol qwerty bastard posted:*starts stockpiling deuterium* god drat obama comin' to take away ar deuterium 
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amazing also ugh thanks for reminding me the scp foundation exists
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what kind of autistic gently caress thinks that ramps are a substitute for stairs in ANY loving reality?
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the kind of autistic gently caress who posts in the general bull poo poo scp thread
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i thought you were replying to yourself for a second there
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Glorgnole posted:i'm watching BSG now. i've already seen the end so i know it gets bad & dumb at some point. where should i stop watching and go do something else? the plot for oldBSG is p. schlocky because it's literally 1970s network television, and ABC was not above meddling in production. hence poo poo like "the towering inferno, with our heroes in space!!" and "a western gun duel, with our heroes the original TV movie was really good by the standards of the day, and the "holy poo poo our civilization got nuked by a sneak attack" thing was probably really resonant for people living through the cold war. the special effects were also about the best you could see on TV until star trek TNG came along. however those special effects also made the show murderously expensive, which was a big part of why the production struggled and it got canceled after one year. to be fair to the showrunners, they had envisioned doing BSG as a series of big event TV movies where they'd have more time to do special effects. instead, ABC insisted on it being a regular one-hour series, and so there's a huge amount of effects reuse in the show. i'd say give the original movie a watch, and if you find it charming enough, watch some more until you get bored or w/e. Glorgnole posted:also you guys really like arguing about bad pop-culture movies and tv shows for some reason. how about, you all go find and read a middling-tier sci fi book series and then you can come back to the thread and argue about it. i think a big part of it is that there's a greater chance most of the thread participants will have seen [bad movie]
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i like the marvel movies but i hate that every character quips constantly
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i'd say give the original movie a watch, and if you find it charming enough, watch some more until you get bored or w/e. of course that's like the entire last third
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Glorgnole posted:i'm watching BSG now. i've already seen the end so i know it gets bad & dumb at some point. where should i stop watching and go do something else? that always confused me. was space mutiny supposed to take place in bsg? or did they just use it because it was available/cheap?
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