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Absurd Alhazred posted:What do y'all think about The Man in the High Castle? not a fan
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Its dumb popcorn entertainment tbh
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Jan 14, 2017 23:42
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jacobin is okay if you indulge in it sparingly
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Absurd Alhazred posted:What do y'all think about The Man in the High Castle? Not Wolfenstein-y enough.
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I mean, it's not like it was as good as Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul or Manhattan or Halt and Catch Fire or many other recent TV serials, but I thought it captures the Philip K. Dickish surrealism with social commentary well. I feel really uncultured, though, I've never read the book and pretty much everyone I've talked to about it has. 
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Jan 14, 2017 23:44
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Halt and Catch Fire became a much better show after the first season after they stopped trying to be mad men but in the 80s
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kustomkarkommando posted:its alrite the purity of american liberty and justice is powerful enough to convert the Nazis Absurd Alhazred posted:I mean, it's not like it was as good as Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul or Manhattan or Halt and Catch Fire or many other recent TV serials, but I thought it captures the Philip K. Dickish surrealism with social commentary well. they're probably lying op
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kustomkarkommando posted:Halt and Catch Fire became a much better show after the first season after they stopped trying to be mad men but in the 80s I liked both seasons. GhostofJohnMuir posted:they're probably lying op My Mommy would never lie to me.
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Tesseraction posted:symphogear owns Yeah the first season was fantastic.
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Jan 14, 2017 23:48
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phillip k dick isnt really a great read anyways so you're not missing much
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Absurd Alhazred posted:My Mommy would never lie to me. hooooo boy, got some sad news for you
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Berke Negri posted:phillip k dick isnt really a great read anyways so you're not missing much having read two of his anthologies, this is very true
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:the purity of american liberty and justice is powerful enough to convert the Nazis They went out of the way in the second season to say the American head of the SS was a decorated veteran of the American army in the pacific theatre who personally witnessed the Nuclear bombing of Washington who seems to value order and stability and peace. The whole fact he was actively involved in the Holocaust as explained in the first season didn't really get another mention
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hooooo boy, got some sad news for you chelb..... you are the father.
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Berke Negri posted:phillip k dick isnt really a great read anyways so you're not missing much Days of Perky Pat offers an interesting speculation into post-Trumpian America, though.
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Jan 14, 2017 23:50
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You know what anime does that's great but American TV never does? Play the opening theme song during the big final fight.
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Jan 14, 2017 23:51
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Furnaceface posted:chelb..... you are the father. is this shipping
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Guy Goodbody posted:You know what anime does that's great but American TV never does? Play the opening theme song during the big final fight. isn't c-spam back the way you came weird pedo guy
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:hooooo boy, got some sad news for you Don't you go after an Israeli's mother, that's a  you do not want to open.
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Guy Goodbody posted:You know what anime does that's great but American TV never does? Play the opening theme song during the big final fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezrbyf6t9mY
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Guy Goodbody posted:Yeah the first season was fantastic. G is even better.
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Also, Castle Wolfenstein is not something to aspire to due to geographical inaccuracies. In real life it is more of a highland than mountaneous terrain. 
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Jan 14, 2017 23:53
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Randler do you even know how to have fun?
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Furnaceface posted:Randler do you even know how to have fun? I feel like you should already know the answer to that one.
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Jan 14, 2017 23:59
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Majorian posted:I feel like you should already know the answer to that one. Im from Canada its kind of our thing to always give someone the benefit of the doubt. I also apologize to furniture when I bump into it.
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Jan 15, 2017 00:00
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asimov is a better read than philip k. dick
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
The novel was less about "what if the nazis won" and more about "what is real and does it matter?" At one point the characters even have a discussion about whether or not alternate history can be classified as science fiction Majorian posted:I feel like you should already know the answer to that one. The fact that he's german should be answer enough.
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Randler is a German jurist, when he wants to have fun he fills out an application for Fun Allotment in triplicate and waits the required two to three weeks for processing.
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Chelb posted:asimov is a better read than philip k. dick too much weird boning r. daneel olivaw and his tumescent at will robo dong
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Chelb posted:asimov is a better read than philip k. dick Asimov was way too "tell, not show" in many of his novels. I think Heinlein was better before he completely lost it. Alhazred posted:The novel was less about "what if the nazis won" and more about "what is real and does it matter?" At one point the characters even have a discussion about whether or not alternate history can be classified as science fiction I can't fault Amazon for not focusing entirely on that; a straight adaptation would have had way less of an audience.
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stone cold posted:too much weird boning yeah it was real weird to go through the robot series and finish the first two books written in the 50s, which is this mildly fun robot detective stuff with a teen character that says "aw shucks" and "aw golly" and then start reading the third one without knowing it was written thirty years later and get a woman philosophizing about using a robot as a sex companion
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Pretty certain this was her policy for a while now.
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Chelb posted:yeah all i know was that poo poo was messed up
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i maintain that asimov became more tedious in his later years anyway, we all know the only sci fi author anyone really needs is ursula k le guin
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Furnaceface posted:Randler do you even know how to have fun? Of course. That is when you're blood pressure craters to a degree that you black out and enter oblivion's tender embrace, right?
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no no i'm sure they will calm down and not do anything rash
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Maybe I can get a job being a border guard
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Chelb posted:i maintain that asimov became more tedious in his later years I just got around to The Left Hand of Darkness a few months ago, and that was just amazing.
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no one ever mentions bova 
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