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movax posted:This post got me to bite on the season pass -- one, the stream from SyFy doesn't look all that great and two, I understand they have ads but the lazy fuckers just play the same ad on loop for the ad breaks, which drives me nuts. (That and the volume isn't normalized at all.)  aside from the Apple cloud shenanigans (note: the BTS did eventually appear a ~day later...classic) I've been happy with the quality & lack of ads (& knowing that I'm contributing a small bit to the show's continuation).
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Does anyone know if the SyFy app episode is available live? The xfinity broadcast is horrible quality but I know it's live so I watch that then the better quality stream a day later. If the stream is available at 10pm on Tuesday I'll just start watching that.
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movax posted:This post got me to bite on the season pass -- one, the stream from SyFy doesn't look all that great and two, I understand they have ads but the lazy fuckers just play the same ad on loop for the ad breaks, which drives me nuts. (That and the volume isn't normalized at all.) The quality seemed okay to me, but I have lovely eyesight so YMMV. I know you bought the pass already but for anyone on the fence, adblock squishes their ads into two seconds of silence so if that's your only objection give it another shot.
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Jan 9, 2016 00:08
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gohmak posted:Does anyone know if the SyFy app episode is available live? The xfinity broadcast is horrible quality but I know it's live so I watch that then the better quality stream a day later. If the stream is available at 10pm on Tuesday I'll just start watching that. Nope, it looks like it goes up the day after broadcast. I'm in a similar situation, no cable TV subscription, so I have to wait until it hits streaming sites.
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xsf421 posted:Nope, it looks like it goes up the day after broadcast. I'm in a similar situation, no cable TV subscription, so I have to wait until it hits streaming sites. Personally, that's only bothered me for live sporting events. If it's not on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon Prime, I'll get a season pass for shows I like. For sports, if it's on a broadcast network, I can use my HD Home Run that's hooked into my HD antenna. I'll truly be happy the day ESPN does a sub model like HBO is now doing. Until then... there's ways.
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xsf421 posted:Nope, it looks like it goes up the day after broadcast. I'm in a similar situation, no cable TV subscription, so I have to wait until it hits streaming sites. The website does stream live, but literally live. Not HBO style where the on demand video becomes available at airtime.
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pugnax posted:The website does stream live, but literally live. Not HBO style where the on demand video becomes available at airtime. So the app or site is live?
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I'm sort of sad that they didn't keep the longer intro. Really does a better job at visually tell the story and get psyched for the episode.
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gohmak posted:So the app or site is live? on the website, you can stream the episode as it airs on Tv. LItterally as it airs as in if you start the stream minutes after the show start then you'll miss the first five minutes. You can only do this if you log in with your cable provider login btw.
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Jan 9, 2016 02:24
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Chard posted:The quality seemed okay to me, but I have lovely eyesight so YMMV. I know you bought the pass already but for anyone on the fence, adblock squishes their ads into two seconds of silence so if that's your only objection give it another shot. Ah I was using the app on my iPad so no such like there. I'll just enjoy the season pass -- first video I've bought on iTunes, and for $25, that's like what... $2 an episode? Not too bad.
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Jan 9, 2016 02:48
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feedmegin posted:Now I know how to pronounce Rocinante! I'm the guy who would've sworn it should be "Scopul-ee" and not "Scopul-eye."
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Jan 9, 2016 04:20
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Rocinante is pretty good literary joke given Holden's personality. Similar to Don Quixote Holden is obsessed at chasing windmills, has similar messiah complex and isn't cynical enough to see how hosed the world really is.
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One thing I have to mention is that watching this in a room full of Philips Hue lights is loving awesome with the Syfy Sync app. It really brings you into the various locations. In space scenes, the lights dim and often shift to blue (especially when the engines go by). In the living areas of Ceres, the lights get nice and bright, but also at a higher color temp which really captures the sterile feature of the artificial light. Earth scenes really warm up the color temperature in the room and approximates real daylight. Sometimes the timing isn't quite right with the scene changes, but it's close enough most of the time and it really makes watching each episode an event.
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etalian posted:I'm sort of sad that they didn't keep the longer intro. Yeah, I agree. It sets the tone and gets you pumped.
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Jan 9, 2016 05:33
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Deakul posted:Yeah, I agree. Yeah I like the bit showing humanity slowly expanding throughout the solar system, showing how the show is focused on the solar system
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Jan 9, 2016 05:44
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etalian posted:I'm sort of sad that they didn't keep the longer intro. /r/TheExpanse actually has a lot of show staff, including at least one of the writers, posting reasonably often - it's one of the few good things about Reddit right now I guess. Sounds like the longer intro will be back occasionally but the ~minute it runs is considered better spent on actual content
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Jan 9, 2016 06:05
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bitprophet posted:/r/TheExpanse actually has a lot of show staff, including at least one of the writers, posting reasonably often - it's one of the few good things about Reddit right now I guess. The Game of Thrones intro a full minute and half, Vikings is a full minute. A good epic intro really does a good job at establishing the show brand, visual style and gives the viewer a almost pavlovian response to the show.
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Jan 9, 2016 06:37
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etalian posted:The Game of Thrones intro a full minute and half, Vikings is a full minute. My favorite is Black Sails followed by GOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFTcA4QLHw0 The Expanse visuals are awesome, you are right that it is a great missed opportunity to not air the full intro every episode.
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etalian posted:The Game of Thrones intro a full minute and half, Vikings is a full minute. Don't get me wrong, I agree - loved the intro and wish it was shown more often. Was just noting that the show's creators are actually out there responding to exactly that sort of question with their rationale  (It's kinda neat, I don't TV much so I'm sure other recent shows do it too, but I don't recall seeing that level of audience engagement before.)
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bitprophet posted:Don't get me wrong, I agree - loved the intro and wish it was shown more often. Was just noting that the show's creators are actually out there responding to exactly that sort of question with their rationale Just think of your favorite shows that have a really memorable intro, you'll find that most of them hit the minute to 90 sec runtime.
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Jan 9, 2016 07:20
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One of my favorite intros ever was the first season of Human Target, before it was ruined in the second season with generic butt rock. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xFMyhBYx8
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Jan 9, 2016 07:26
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etalian posted:Just think of your favorite shows that have a really memorable intro, you'll find that most of them hit the minute to 90 sec runtime. Those are the least memorable intros for me, because I invariably skip them.
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I had accidentally accumulated Audible credit and that lovely thing forces you to spend them on something before quitting. I bought all the Expanse books available (book 2 was missing) I've basically never listened to an audio book, but I spend a lot of time on podcasts while doing chores. Did I make a mistake?  Should I wait listening to them or just go ahead? I know there's a book thread but I don't want to spoil myself. Book 2 being only in print form might mean I need to read a fiction book for the first time in a decade or so 
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Jan 9, 2016 14:48
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Calibans War audiobook is amazing. Find the file.
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emanresu tnuocca posted:I do not love the way Naomi is characterized on the show cause I always felt like in the novels she was a very proud, confident and competent person who never felt the need to flaunt it or assert herself, in the show it feels like she over compensates a bit. My Head Naomi while reading the books is a taller, skinnier Zoe from Firefly: 
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I'm most of the way through Cibola Burns and I hope Elvi dies soon because her character is annoying as hell and spends most of her chapters gushing over Holden and admonishing herself for acting like a Professor Shark fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Jan 9, 2016 19:50
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Cibola Burns is by far the pulpiest of all of it. The slapstick dialogue between Holden and Amos is great and ridiculous at the same time.
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Professor Shark posted:I'm most of the way through Cibola Burns and I hope Elvi dies soon because her character is annoying as hell and spends most of her chapters gushing over Holden and admonishing herself for acting like a Don't worry, she gets hersome dick
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Cibola Burn is such a goddamn weird book. (book spoilers) Let's set a novel on a genuinely alien planet honeycombed with magnificently ancient ruins — a planet that may hold a trace of the even more enigmatic and terrifying power that killed the planet's builder. Let's establish a creepy, cool ecosystem, set up a team of scientists, and give our characters special insight into the surviving alien systems. Then let's spend the whole book throwing slugs, shoveling mud, and squabbling.
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General Battuta posted:Cibola Burn is such a goddamn weird book. (book spoilers) In other words, it is thoroughly accurate to human nature and a tour de force of colonization literature.
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General Battuta posted:Cibola Burn is such a goddamn weird book. (book spoilers) That sounds like human nature to me, tbqh
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That's one of the things I really like about the series--there is so much mass human stupidity that drives the plot, but it's all realistic stupidity.
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bull3964 posted:One thing I have to mention is that watching this in a room full of Philips Hue lights is loving awesome with the Syfy Sync app. I only just discovered this today when I was a bit late to skipping ads on my tivo and I agree, it's kind of awesome. The app sucks but once you get it set up it works reasonably well with maybe a second of lag at most. Seeing the lights go red during anderson station was such a neat vibe tweak, plus the gimmick is kind of perfect given the target audience.
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It worked reasonably with 12 Monkeys too. It was also amusing with Sharknado 3, having all the lights go red whenever someone died.
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Jan 11, 2016 06:52
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Are they going to make a app to enable zero g sex at home?
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Jan 11, 2016 07:11
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I just get really high on dabs. Same same but different.
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Jan 11, 2016 07:14
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Episode 5 hooked my mom
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General Battuta posted:Cibola Burn is such a goddamn weird book. (book spoilers) It's basically the most realistic story of space colonization ever written. Humans: we're gonna gently caress it up before we get it right.
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The idea behind it wasn't bad, but it turns out it makes a boring as gently caress book. Now to patiently wait to hear 'Doors and corners, kid'.
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