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Jet Age posted:i only read the wiki I swear 
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Jet Age posted:thats one my favourite things about star trek expanded universe crazy bullshit, they always assumed extreme competence and capability from TV characters who were basically just okay at their jobs in the show it's the same in any expanded universe bullshit, the authors figure out that nerds go EEEEEEEEEEEEE when the book is about the thing in the show (or they themselves are the nerds who go EEEEEEEEEEEEE) so everything in the show becomes the awesomest thing ever because it needs to get a whole loving intergalactic story written about it like you know that trashy cantina band in star wars? they aren't a trashy space redneck cantina band. according to the books they are the most famous band in the entire star wars universe. just playing in a redneck space truck stop and no one is noticing
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Jun 18, 2014 04:13
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"obrien was made space redundant at 55 and spent the next ten years doing some scrub tier contract work which he described to his friends as 'consulting'. he spent his last days on an NCO pension living in Thailand"
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Jun 18, 2014 04:18
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Jet Age posted:"obrien was made space redundant at 55 and spent the next ten years doing some scrub tier contract work which he described to his friends as 'consulting'. he spent his last days on an NCO pension living in Thailand" lol
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Jun 18, 2014 04:22
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Jet Age posted:i only read the wiki I swear alpha, beta, or gamma
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Jun 18, 2014 04:49
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duTrieux. posted:i wonder if it was intentional or accidental that keiko was a portrayed as an unreasonable crazy person
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Jun 18, 2014 05:42
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the federation va loses obrien's space disability claim and he has to wait six months before he can make an appointment to redo it
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Jun 18, 2014 05:43
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MancXVI posted:the federation va loses obrien's space disability claim and he has to wait six months before he can make an appointment to redo it he gets a couple hours of hazard pay for his 20 year sentence of mental brainplantation and an off-purple heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNyut2fgf5w
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Jun 18, 2014 05:46
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keiko's treatment was a dry run for audience rage over skyler. There's nothing actually wrong with her but she ends up being the stand-in wet blanket derailing the audience insert from their cool adventures. keiko is this highly regarded xeno-botanist but she follows her husband into some cardassian truck stop posting where there's nothing for her to do. despite this she sticks it out to raise their family and carves out some kind of career around a bunch of whiny bajorans. nerds don't want to see all this adult stuff involving obligations and compromise they just want more cool space adventures with obrien and bashir which to be fair was the best romance ever depicted in star trek.
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Jun 18, 2014 05:59
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Monkeyseesaw posted:keiko's treatment was a dry run for audience rage over skyler. There's nothing actually wrong with her but she ends up being the stand-in wet blanket derailing the audience insert from their cool adventures. keiko is this highly regarded xeno-botanist but she follows her husband into some cardassian truck stop posting where there's nothing for her to do. despite this she sticks it out to raise their family and carves out some kind of career around a bunch of whiny bajorans.
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Jun 18, 2014 06:02
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Sagebrush posted:it's the same in any expanded universe bullshit, the authors figure out that nerds go EEEEEEEEEEEEE when the book is about the thing in the show (or they themselves are the nerds who go EEEEEEEEEEEEE) so everything in the show becomes the awesomest thing ever because it needs to get a whole loving intergalactic story written about it the guy running around with an ice cream maker was a spy with the deathstar 2 plans! the robot bounty hunter was going to lead a robot revolution by taking over the deathstar 2! the hutts built a deathstar! star wars eu was complete garbage from start to finish
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Jun 18, 2014 06:28
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the timothy zahn books were alright airport reads. the rest of it i agree with you.
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Jun 18, 2014 06:47
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star trek loving sucks and it's funny when people talk a shitload about star trek then say anime sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2sqdudEle4
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Jun 18, 2014 06:49
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Sagebrush posted:the timothy zahn books were alright airport reads. i have a signed copy of the third one but i was 11 at the time so
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Jun 18, 2014 06:51
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SmokaDustbowl posted:star trek loving sucks and it's funny when people talk a shitload about star trek then say anime sucks we have rules about anime dustbowl, this isn't nam. startrek is just a thing that happens in the 'pos
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Jun 18, 2014 06:52
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I liked the episode in the ghost in shell TV series when Togusa was on trial for excessive force against a cyborg who turned his pain sensation off
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Jun 18, 2014 06:53
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infernal machines posted:we have rules about anime dustbowl, this isn't nam. startrek is just a thing that happens in the 'pos anime is the only medium that has really gotten into sci fi since old poo poo like issac asimov
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Jun 18, 2014 06:57
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infernal machines posted:we have rules about anime dustbowl, this isn't nam. startrek is just a thing that happens in the 'pos lighten up anime hate needs to be reserved for well, most of it now let me tell you about how wolf's rain paralleled poe's the mask of the red death
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Jun 18, 2014 07:00
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unless you wanna read cory doctorow or some garbage
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Jun 18, 2014 07:00
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SmokaDustbowl posted:unless you wanna read cory doctorow or some garbage yeah, cyberpunk is dead. googlers and anime killed it.
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Jun 18, 2014 07:02
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peter watts is releasing a sequel to blindsight my hopes are pretty low after the lovely rifters sequels though
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Jun 18, 2014 07:02
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SmokaDustbowl posted:anime is the only medium that has really gotten into sci fi since old poo poo like issac asimov there's plenty of great science fiction out there, it's just not all robots and spacemen any more b/c that particular future proved to be a lot less inevitable than everyone thought in the 50s Amethyst posted:peter watts is releasing a sequel to blindsight i was just gonna say peter watts, actually. biotech and so on are where the sf is right now and william gibson is still putting out solid stuff on a fairly regular basis
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Jun 18, 2014 07:02
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SmokaDustbowl posted:unless you wanna read cory doctorow or some garbage after we were done taking the piss out of selected doctorow writings a friend mentioned he liked some and then linked me to a free dl it's sitting there in my instapaper waiting for me to either judge it, as a cool dude, or read and somewhat enjoy it not really sure what i'm gonna do here
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Jun 18, 2014 07:03
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Sagebrush posted:it's just not all robots and spacemen any more b/c that particular future proved to be a lot less inevitable than everyone thought in the 50s i have a harcdover of Clarke's Prelude to Mars here. it's too depressing to read now
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Jun 18, 2014 07:04
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Sagebrush posted:and william gibson is still putting out solid stuff on a fairly regular basis gibson gave up on cyberpunk by 2000. now he just writes SV startup fantasies with the googlers using MMOs to take on the islamic mennace
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Jun 18, 2014 07:06
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Amethyst posted:peter watts is releasing a sequel to blindsight yeah I'm worrying it's gunna be poo poo too, but dude's been taking his loving time so
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Jun 18, 2014 07:07
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he was commissioned to write a crysis novel hahahaha did anyone read it
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Jun 18, 2014 07:08
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Sagebrush posted:and william gibson is still putting out solid stuff on a fairly regular basis Well someone's got to eat all this bran
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Jun 18, 2014 07:15
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infernal machines posted:gibson gave up on cyberpunk by 2000. now he just writes SV startup fantasies with the googlers using MMOs to take on the islamic mennace That's Neal Stephenson. Gibson did the Bridge trilogy and the Blue Ant trilogy (both very good). You're correct that Reamde (Stephenson) is loving terrible.
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Jun 18, 2014 07:33
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whoops. yeah, reamde is what i was thinking of i have the bridge trilogy, i thought the blue ant trilogy was his near-future brands as memes or whatever stuff. i have zero history and spook county but i hevn't read them yet
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Jun 18, 2014 07:36
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infernal machines posted:whoops. yeah, reamde is what i was thinking of i haven't finished blue ant either bridge and sprawl were very much my poo poo as a teenager
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Jun 18, 2014 07:40
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all tommorow's parties is one of my favorite books it sucks hbo did game of thrones instead of neuromancer
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Jun 18, 2014 07:51
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you should listen to the police when you read william gibson
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Jun 18, 2014 08:03
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SmokaDustbowl posted:you should listen to cybotron when you read william gibson
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Jun 18, 2014 08:07
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SmokaDustbowl posted:all tommorow's parties is one of my favorite books well we did get james r.r. cameron with certainly not chevette washington but instead DARK ANGEL DARK ANGEL you could get anything to work with jessica alba but c'mon reach a little bit
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Jun 18, 2014 08:08
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so a friend recommended i read "leviathan wakes"; gonna pick that up tomorrow prolly also i've realized that i have somehow missed "against a dark background" while reading through banks's stuff; this is a grave error which will be corrected asap
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Jun 18, 2014 08:10
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#mollym!ll!on$$$
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Jun 18, 2014 08:13
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Sagebrush posted:it's the same in any expanded universe bullshit, the authors figure out that nerds go EEEEEEEEEEEEE when the book is about the thing in the show (or they themselves are the nerds who go EEEEEEEEEEEEE) so everything in the show becomes the awesomest thing ever because it needs to get a whole loving intergalactic story written about it http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a7d90ea992/star-wars-jizz-a-ken-burns-documentary
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Jun 18, 2014 09:16
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worst part of Keiko O'Brien was the the actress was really bad. late night local real estate commercial bad.
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she was on par with the rest of the actors. the problem was that it was a low key mundane adult drama embedded in a show about space ships, the end
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