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Al! posted:what percentage of the book would you say are clearly just the author's sexual fantasies probably under 5%. there's one or two indulgent scenes per book.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:if you're gonna jerk off on a page over a scifi novel, ubik is a real good choice I haven't read it yet tbh. I feel like I'm saving it for a special occasion because I've blown through most of his stuff already, but I should probably get around to it. maybe before 2016. Amethyst posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhvxJZDqzU this reminded me: has anyone else watched Marco Polo on Netflix? I thought the Mongolian actors were all really good (my favorite part of The Martian was when Kublai Khan showed up as head of the JPL). there's a lot of the HBO style "hey this ain't basic cable baby, check out these TITS" but what are you gonna do. a lot of the plot was really boilerplate but I enjoyed the show's aesthetic - it was a nice change of pace seeing a show where everyone from protagonists to background actors were Chinese and Central Asian. something as simple as that can make a by-the-numbers show seem fresh and enjoyable. the fight between the blind monk and the Chinese vizier where they're both doing Southern Mantis style is awesome
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indigi posted:I'm reading the Cyberiad and it's good. I really have no idea how Lem's sense of silliness translates so well from Russian, from the cold war era, or from the USSR. he's like a jolly Soviet Philip K Dick. they're all really fun, and have titles like "How Trurl Built a Femfatalatron to Save Prince Pantagoon from the Pangs of Love, and How Later He Resorted to a Cannonade of Babies" Lem was Polish and wrote in Polish Czech your privilege 
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indigi posted:this reminded me: has anyone else watched Marco Polo on Netflix? I thought the Mongolian actors were all really good (my favorite part of The Martian was when Kublai Khan showed up as head of the JPL). there's a lot of the HBO style "hey this ain't basic cable baby, check out these TITS" but what are you gonna do. a lot of the plot was really boilerplate but I enjoyed the show's aesthetic - it was a nice change of pace seeing a show where everyone from protagonists to background actors were Chinese and Central Asian. something as simple as that can make a by-the-numbers show seem fresh and enjoyable. the fight between the blind monk and the Chinese vizier where they're both doing Southern Mantis style is awesome i watched a bunch of episodes while drunk once. being drunk didn't help, it comes across as a soap opera attempting to be dark and edgy. the show definitely looked good, but the plot was just banal and the pacing didn't help any infernal machines fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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axolotl farmer posted:Lem was Polish and wrote in Polish it's all russian to me comrade. except when it's german, i guess
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infernal machines posted:i watched a bunch of episodes while drunk once. being drunk didn't help, it comes across as a soap opera attempting to be dark and edgy. Yeah it looked cool at first but the plot was banal and it was hard to care about a lot of the characters, including the protagonist. The foot binding scene was pretty gnarly though.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaa i want this so bad but why is spike tv doing it
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current prefect status: the cop who is a literal pig does some trivial sql queries. the newby cj makes a house call to a furry dorm, may have just been pressganged into a fur pile. find out next chapter
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Gus Hobbleton posted:current prefect status: the cop who is a literal pig does some trivial sql queries. the newby cj makes a house call to a furry dorm, may have just been pressganged into a fur pile. find out next chapter talia's got a few more patches to install so unfortunately she can't stay, on to the steampunk orbital. also, a reminder that this exists: 
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Tanith posted:talia's got a few more patches to install so unfortunately she can't stay, on to the steampunk orbital. probably some prog metal band since there cant be any rhythm
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DiggityDoink posted:probably some prog metal band since there cant be any rhythm toto cover band, actually
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Amethyst posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdhvxJZDqzU the music choice is terrible and drags down what could be a rad trailer i really want this to work
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I don't. Crouching tiger does not need a sequel. Also a sequel to a Chinese movie written and produced by Americans in english is tacky.
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ol qwerty bastard posted:aaaaaaaaaaaaa i want this so bad but why is spike tv doing it special guest jon taffer
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Amethyst posted:I don't. Crouching tiger does not need a sequel. Also a sequel to a Chinese movie written and produced by Americans in english is tacky. i want to see an asian women in her 50s as an action star in a movie, that's bad rear end
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also, a generic 50-year old asian woman is a much more plausible action hero than a generic 50-year old white man. just sayin'.
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Amethyst posted:http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/12/science-fictional-shibboleths.html ah, see, here's your problem. tap tap you've got a load of good ideas here, and some verifiable fact, but see these little sarcastic rhetorical questions? the use of "hint" followed by a colon? that science-fetishy smell - you'd think it's just XKCD corrosion, think it'll wipe off with a damp cloth, but nah, you've got a full-fledged Stross going here. real bastard to shift. i'll give you two fifty for it for parts, and that's because i like you
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duTrieux. posted:i want to see an asian women in her 50s as an action star in a movie, that's bad rear end yeah I just want to see cool fights and a middle aged Asian lady kick all sorts of buttocks
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Amethyst posted:I also disliked The Forever War in that case I have some Piers Anthony books I think you'll enjoy
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Davethulhu posted:in that case I have some Peter F. Hamilton books I think you'll enjoy
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Gus Hobbleton posted:current prefect status: the cop who is a literal pig does some trivial sql queries. the newby cj makes a house call to a furry dorm, may have just been pressganged into a fur pile. find out next chapter What exactly are you reading here, best of furaffinity?
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SynthOrange posted:What exactly are you reading here, best of furaffinity? the fascist orbital, futurama heads-in-jars orbital, the furry orbital and the steampunk orbital all get loving torn to shreds by robots 
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duTrieux. posted:i want to see an asian women in her 50s as an action star in a movie, that's bad rear end do this but w/ an elderly inuit woman using a shitknife to rescue her babies from a residential school and i will personally watch it 10 times
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SynthOrange posted:What exactly are you reading here, best of furaffinity? Gus Hobbleton posted:prefect
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Amethyst posted:I don't. Crouching tiger does not need a sequel. Also a sequel to a Chinese movie written and produced by Americans in english is tacky. The original movie was an adaptation of book 3 of a five book series.
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I think I made it to the chapter where the one villain was explaining the plan to the other villain and then stopped reading The Prefect because it was so bad.
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is Philip K Dick the best? I don't know that I'd number any of his novels among my absolute favorites, but when it comes to sheer volume of top-quality output I think he's peerless. I've never read a PKD short or novel that I didn't thoroughly enjoy on some level
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indigi posted:is Philip K Dick the best? I don't know that I'd number any of his novels among my absolute favorites, but when it comes to sheer volume of top-quality output I think he's peerless. I've never read a PKD short or novel that I didn't thoroughly enjoy on some level Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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because god forbid you have the temerity to enjoy a james sa corey book
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redemption ark is more immediately engaging than revelation space; so far, so good.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:i think the thread's official favorite author is iain m. banks with vonnegut as the runner-up, somehow you could switch the order on that and i'd agree but pkd is the shizz as well
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syscall girl posted:you could switch the order on that and i'd agree he gets them maybe once a month
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i did not like revelation space oh, here's this machine and it's got a computer in it that can do anything because whatever it's the future technology is just magic who cares
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rear end in a top hat space archaeologist and gently caress YOU CYBERDAD are still one of favorite character pairs. it is ok if other people do not like revelation space, I'm pretty sure the goon favorite reynolds book is house of suns anyway
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