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Hughlander posted:That was something in my mind when reading the books. Imagine a side reality where Holden didn't interfere. The war kicks off the unknown protomocule is allowed to do its thing on Eros. It launches to earth. Lands there and... Out pops a billboard, "Interstellar travel getting you down? Eat at Xovos! Home of our galaxy famous Qicdiz!" As Protogen realizes they destroyed any hope of the future for an interstellar ad. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7054/full/4361206a.html
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counterfeitsaint posted:Cause the OP said so. Did he abuse his position of trust? Are these claims of a new episode tomorrow just alternative facts? Weird, some source I originally found said that there was a split and tonight would be no new ep. Apparently that's wrong. Yay? edit: OP added to reflect new dates and revealed titles. Somnambulist means sleepwalker, I think, btw. It also looks like MAYBE there's a week gap now before episode 10 and the final 3 hours? Dunno for sure. AlternateAccount fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Anybody know what rpg they actually played
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Phi230 posted:Anybody know what rpg they actually played I'd guess Traveller or d20 modern. Maybe a no-magic Shadowrun?
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Phi230 posted:Anybody know what rpg they actually played I heard it was a forum based game, so it may well not have had a system at all. I'm also going to suspect that it's a lot more "loosely" based on an RPG that we'd like to suspect. Not that it wouldn't be cool to see the rpg notes just the same.
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OB_Juan posted:I'd guess Traveller or d20 modern. Maybe a no-magic Shadowrun? I'd guess Eclipse Phase. Lends itself really easily to the subject matter and it's even the right timeframe. quote:Earth is subsequently abandoned, and existing colonies throughout the Solar System are expanded to accommodate the refugees. The setting explores a spectrum of socioeconomic systems in each of these colonies:
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Oh, so they actually played one. Everything I read said they were trying to pitch an MMO, but got no takers. Id love to see the ruleset they used to play.
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flosofl posted:Oh, so they actually played one. If I recall, it went MMO Pitch > MMO Rejected > "Hey I still have this huge elaborate setting I crafted!" > Forum RPG > "That was neat, you should write a book" > Book
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Ty said it was d20 modern with a bunch of house rules.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:04
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Orange Red Bull posted:for a second i thought that was will wheaton Same. I kept thinking, "wow his voice got different" until I got a good look at his face.
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Mar 2, 2017 04:04
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The gently caress do you mean 137 years ago
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Hahahaha, that's awesome. Low tech FTW EDIT: Aww... I was hoping it was giant wire mesh to block the signal to what missiles they could intercept. Fred Johnson as Bond villain. Spoilered, because I'm not sure what schedules are like. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Haha when the girl goes over to Amos, Amos is totally into it for a moment before he realizes he'd be cock blocking Alex.
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im guessing the molecule finds a new host
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insider posted:That ending... I noticed during the show as the UN Marines were coming toward MRC Marines, it *really* looked like they were firing in the direction they came from.
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I can't help but suspect we've reached the raw deal that hits Bobbi and makes her awesome
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flosofl posted:I noticed during the show as the UN Marines were coming toward them, it *really* looked like the were firing in the direction they came from. yeah they were being chased by something
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flosofl posted:I noticed during the show as the UN Marines were coming toward MRC Marines, it *really* looked like they were firing in the direction they came from. One of these Marines is not like the others.
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Reminds me of an old front page article. https://www.somethingawful.com/news/science-fiction-summary/
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Orange Red Bull posted:for a second i thought that was will wheaton That was my first thought too. I definitely recognized him, and it was difficult to figure out because he went uncredited in the episode. He is actor Sam Huntington. Sam Huntington of Tim Allen's Jungle 2 Jungle fame. Nihonniboku fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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For a show that prides its scientific accuracy, I found the proximity and size of the other Galilean moons in the sky over Ganymede triggering. unless I'm wrong, but they appeared way too big to my eyes.  EDIT: The wikipedia article on extraterrestrial skies (a cool article in itself) seems to imply that'd be wrong. If you were "standing" on Jupiter (or in the upper atmosphere), Io appears the same size as the moon and the rest of the Gallilean moons get smaller from there. Snuffman fucked around with this message at 06:18 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Amos always brings us the very best violence.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:What was Amos doing to the Mards flag that pissed the guy off so much? Instead of two moons he was putting the debris field from the destroyed one in the orbit.
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Party Plane Jones posted:Instead of two moons he was putting the debris field from the destroyed one in the orbit. That's cold, and funny.
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I didn't get the "Is this your way of apologizing?" comment.
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counterfeitsaint posted:I didn't get the "Is this your way of apologizing?" comment. Amos was giving Alex an excuse to hit him for emasculating Alex at the bar.
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Ohh, that makes sense, in a very Amos sort of way.
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Poor alex has some serious confidence and self worth issues after washing out of the mars military or what ever, or not being good enough to fly the fancy ships.
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Baronjutter posted:Poor alex has some serious confidence and self worth issues after washing out of the mars military or what ever, or not being good enough to fly the fancy ships. That, and there’s also his marriage. I don’t remember if season one went into that.
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Baronjutter posted:Poor alex has some serious confidence and self worth issues after washing out of the mars military or what ever, or not being good enough to fly the fancy ships. Alex is probably the most normal crew member since he's not really a fuckup or anything, he just feels like one because he didn't make the cut for the exciting piloting jobs and has some disappointing but totally mundane issues with his personal life. The characters in the books in general are older and less dashing, but we were never gonna get a bunch of paunchy middle aged heroes on-screen, and that's ok.
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I don't get what happened to Epstein, if he died and his ship eventually went ballistic. Maybe i zoned out.
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His ship maintained a constant acceleration over 4g's for several weeks. 4g's means he weighs 4 times what he does on Earth and since he was Martian born he was already used to a lower gravity so he wasn't able to move. This was a first because the Epstein drive was able to maintain acceleration for weeks or even months at a time when humans were still using chemical drives to do short burns in order to transit between worlds. He died on the ship and it's still out there, going far beyond the solar system. Earth had a fleet in transit to blow up Mars at the time over a resource conflict and Mars bought peace by giving Earth the drive technology so they also had access to the near infinite wealth of the Solar system and the cold war has persisted until the shows timeline.
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Solomon Epstein’s life was explained in the short story “Drive”. It’s free online and like seven pages long. In the first page of Leviathan Wakes it’s stated that his ship eventually reaches 5% of the speed of light. Technically, I think pre‐Epstein drives were fusion‐based as well, but they were really lovely compared to Epstein’s refinement.
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https://giant.gfycat.com/BlissfulForkedHarpyeagle.mp4 https://fat.gfycat.com/AstonishingFrailBighorn.mp4 https://fat.gfycat.com/MasculineTintedAfricanharrierhawk.mp4 https://fat.gfycat.com/MaleUnrealisticJumpingbean.mp4 https://fat.gfycat.com/CommonNegligibleConch.mp4 https://zippy.gfycat.com/GrayDisguisedGoat.mp4 https://zippy.gfycat.com/AdmirableScarceAmericanrobin.mp4 https://fat.gfycat.com/OffensiveSmartGorilla.mp4 https://zippy.gfycat.com/ImperturbableDifficultHylaeosaurus.mp4 e: Missiles getting caught in the net is double the size of any of the other videos, and I don’t think it’s as visually impressive, so instead of embedding it at 560p, here is a 720p link. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Mar 2, 2017 |
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Show continues to be great, but I felt nothing about that ending in terms of those characters. Could have just introduced Bobbie, given her room to breathe and let the other ones be Communist Marine mooks ala Lopez and the Donnager Marines for all the emotional impact it had. That's a very minor complaint though to how overall great it is getting some very solid near-future hard sci-fi. loving love it.
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Demiurge4 posted:His ship maintained a constant acceleration over 4g's for several weeks. 4g's means he weighs 4 times what he does on Earth and since he was Martian born he was already used to a lower gravity so he wasn't able to move. This was a first because the Epstein drive was able to maintain acceleration for weeks or even months at a time when humans were still using chemical drives to do short burns in order to transit between worlds. Cheers, i know how it works, just didn't see a resolution to what happened
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“A hundred and fifty years before, when the parochial disagreements between Earth and Mars had been on the verge of war, the Belt had been a far horizon of tremendous mineral wealth beyond viable economic reach, and the outer planets had been beyond even the most unrealistic corporate dream. Then Solomon Epstein had built his little modified fusion drive, popped it on the back of his three-man yacht, and turned it on. With a good scope, you could still see his ship going at a marginal percentage of the speed of light, heading out into the big empty. The best, longest funeral in the history of mankind. Fortunately, he’d left the plans on his home computer. The Epstein Drive hadn’t given humanity the stars, but it had delivered the planets.” In the past episode, Epstein’s ship speeds past Jupiter, the drive till it appears to be just another star. That’s what that represents: the best, longest funeral in the history of mankind.
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