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NienNunb posted:DS9 Best Trek You can't just make objective claims about subjective opinions, dude. God that just makes me so mad, some people are so presump-.... oh wait, you said DS9 was best Trek. Nevermind, you're 100% objectively right 
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Big Huski Boi posted:I haven't seen any of Discovery but people were complaining about Picard being too dark and it made me wonder if everyone just forgot about DS9. DS9 was a deadly serious show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-pSg1PbPa8
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Dimebags Brain posted:DS9 was a deadly serious show Yeah this one thing I enjoyed about TNG and DS9, it wasn’t always high space dramatics, you pretty much lived with the characters. Disco is a much tighter story that rarely leaves the action. It doesn’t really let cool actors do things you’ve never seen them do.
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coconono posted:Yeah this one thing I enjoyed about TNG and DS9, it wasn’t always high space dramatics, you pretty much lived with the characters. Disco is a much tighter story that rarely leaves the action. It doesn’t really let cool actors do things you’ve never seen them do. Some of my favorite DS9 episodes, like Rom Starts a Union or Sisko & Co. Become 1950's sci-fi writers, just couldn't exist in the current drama heavy Star Trek and it's a shame that every show has to be Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones and you can't take a week off from advancing the plot to just have the characters do fun and goofy stuff. Dimebags Brain fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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I think my favorite "fun" episode was when out of nowhere they have an episode about Quark's family trying to pull off a hostage exchange/rescue where they accidentally kill their hostage and literally remote control him through the handover. It ends with the dead hostage (who to be fair, was a monster) slamming repeatedly into the side of a wall while Quark is yelling at his brother to shut it down, and his brother is going,"I CAN'T! I CAN'T!" and you can tell both the actors are about 0.5 of a second away from corpsing. It's the best  This was right in the middle of a super-serious war arc about religion too, which made it even better.
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Feb 15, 2020 09:45
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Jerusalem posted:I think my favorite "fun" episode was when out of nowhere they have an episode about Quark's family trying to pull off a hostage exchange/rescue where they accidentally kill their hostage and literally remote control him through the handover. It ends with the dead hostage (who to be fair, was a monster) slamming repeatedly into the side of a wall while Quark is yelling at his brother to shut it down, and his brother is going,"I CAN'T! I CAN'T!" and you can tell both the actors are about 0.5 of a second away from corpsing. It's the best If I remember, they walk away from a big shootout and the vorta is still just running into the wall over and over again after they jerry-rigged a device to fire impulses into its brain to Weekend At Bernies it because Nog (an Engineering Ensign with zero medical knowledge) said "The body is basically just a machine." It owned. Armin Shimerman & Max Grodénchik are great at portraying bickering brothers. I remember as a kid I wrote down all of the Rules of Acquisition lines and would say them whenever I could link it to something my dad (who got me into Star Trek) said until he eventually took my notebook with the Rules in it and tossed it into his office and said "We're done with this." Edit - Also a great DS9 episode was Who Mourns for Morn as it was pretty much just silly crime comedy. Mekchu fucked around with this message at 12:12 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 12:07
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Dimebags Brain posted:DS9 was a deadly serious show There's nothing funny about any of this. That baseball game was important.
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Feb 15, 2020 13:19
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Mekchu posted:
I could watch YouTube compilations of Morn quotes all day.
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Feb 15, 2020 14:29
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DS9 felt the most realistic and felt like it gave you a taste of what life is like in the universe. I'm also a sucker for stories that take place just outside of the perfect Utopia and show what it takes to make sure the Utopia survives.
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Feb 15, 2020 16:26
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coconono posted:a squirrel taught me all the cuss words so they are ok in my book. A squirrel taught me what bees do to flowers.
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Feb 15, 2020 17:06
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Gumball Gumption posted:DS9 felt the most realistic and felt like it gave you a taste of what life is like in the universe. I'm also a sucker for stories that take place just outside of the perfect Utopia and show what it takes to make sure the Utopia survives. Yeah. I’ve been combing literature and TV for years looking for answers on how to arrive at utopia and keep it going. So far everyone’s conceit is that we’ll fall in line to an infallible decision maker and it’ll be ok. Which we keep trying IRL and it never works.
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Feb 15, 2020 17:43
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I feel like fiction invariably has a fascist bent because you have to have a protagonist
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Feb 15, 2020 19:37
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Captain Magic posted:I feel like fiction invariably has a fascist bent because you have to have a protagonist https://twitter.com/philgreaves01/status/942709261347500032?lang=en
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Feb 15, 2020 20:11
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you could read poo poo that isn’t genre fiction
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Feb 15, 2020 21:49
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I read Masters of Doom and John Carmack did a fascism that nearly tanked the company! Then he went on to build rockets.
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WatermelonGun posted:you could read poo poo that isn’t genre fiction Thats where all the shiny things are tho
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Feb 15, 2020 21:53
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Spiderdrake posted:I read Masters of Doom and John Carmack did a fascism that nearly tanked the company! I have that book on my list but haven't gotten around to it, can you explain what Mr. Carmack did?
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Feb 15, 2020 21:58
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Yeah it is a good thing we all engage with entertainment produced by good, leftist media empires here at *checks what subforum I am in and animorphs into Pheobe Buffay* oh no
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Big Huski Boi posted:I have that book on my list but haven't gotten around to it, can you explain what Mr. Carmack did? The storyline of the book is basically that Carmack is the most important person at Id, so he slowly becomes a dictator and sucks all the life out of the company, which results in worse and worse products. He's also dogshit at micromanaging and not willing to delegate to his own personal suffering. It's actually a pretty depressing book. They had it all and Carmack pissed it away before going off to build rockets and ... Oculus rift or something?
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Spiderdrake posted:They had it all and Carmack pissed it away before going off to build rockets and ... Oculus rift or something? There's like 20+ years between Doom and Oculus, id soft still exists and still makes good games, and Carmack is megarich and works for Facebook. Doesn't sound like anyone pissed anything away but I don't really know much about Carmack's family life or other stuff that may have suffered. Spiderdrake posted:So the best games Id ever made under him are Doom and Quake, right? With Doom being the best? Also Quake3/Arena was both a better and more important game than anything that's ever come out named Doom. 
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John Carmac is a libertarian bitch who defends crunch and ordered so much Pizza Hut during the making of Wolfenstein that they just knew to deliver to him every day without him calling. John Romero said Trans Rights.
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Also Romero released a real good level pack for the original Doom semi recently with music done by Buckethead.
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Brut posted:Also Quake3/Arena was both a better and more important game than anything that's ever come out named Doom. NienNunb posted:John Carmac is a libertarian bitch who defends crunch He's an absolute genius though.
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the most important game is mr driller 2
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NienNunb posted:ordered so much Pizza Hut during the making of Wolfenstein that they just knew to deliver to him every day without him calling. This sounds real cool. Like, there are worse ways to die than arteries clogged with Pizza Hut
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Was at my friend’s birthday party. My oldest friend, we’ve been friends since we were 7. He’s just turning 30. He got massively drunk (ok I did too) and demanded we book flights to Berlin this summer and that I’d be his tour guide. So we did. It’s gonna be great
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Carmack is an ok billionaire. Which means you should rob him at every given moment. Now Cliffy B, that’s a real rear end in a top hat.
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the best game designer is Yasuhito Nagaoka
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Current best game designer is Hugo Martin, who worked on Pacific Rim and also laughed at people dying to monsters while doing press duty. I mean, in his game, not like laughing at people dying to monsters while the press talks to him. Though maybe he's a horrible monster, I haven't read much. coconono posted:Carmack is an ok billionaire. Which means you should rob him at every given moment. I'm kinda blown away that the estimate on Gabe Newell's net worth is in the billions. Guess Steam scammed a lot more people with Early Access than I thought.
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Video Games are a lot of work and anyone that gets one to market went through some poo poo.
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gently caress Gabe. Dude decides to release the new Half-Life three days after Animal Crossing. I'm not made of time, guy.
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And the new Doom, to bring us full circle.
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Spiderdrake posted:
He's principle owner of Valve (since his co-founder left in 2000) so all of the profits from Half-Life made him rich before Steam even existed. There are no corporate or VC interests AFAIK so all of the profits go straight into his bank account, or else those of employees with stock options. But he owns more than 50% of all stock as well.
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Big Huski Boi posted:gently caress Gabe. Dude decides to release the new Half-Life three days after Animal Crossing. I'm not made of time, guy. I know it's been a while since one came so I'd like to remind you that Half-Life games are like 15ish hours long and not 40+ or whatever like Ubisoft games or something, and this one is a VR game so it's likely to be even shorter. Also didn't Animal Crossing change it's release date at least once?
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Kvantum posted:He's principle owner of Valve (since his co-founder left in 2000) so all of the profits from Half-Life made him rich before Steam even existed. There are no corporate or VC interests AFAIK so all of the profits go straight into his bank account, or else those of employees with stock options. But he owns more than 50% of all stock as well. no VC? holy poo poo that dude should run a class at a university.
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coconono posted:no VC? holy poo poo that dude should run a class at a university. I'm really sad I never got to tour Valve when I was in Seattle in 2018 but my friend was ill that weekend. And then he released Artifact. Oof.
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I get the impression Valve is really poorly run these days but are also too big to fail. They got in at the right time and with the right product in stream that they strangled all the competition in the crib and as long as they can keep the lights on they will print money.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I get the impression Valve is really poorly run these days but are also too big to fail. They got in at the right time and with the right product in stream that they strangled all the competition in the crib and as long as they can keep the lights on they will print money. The Steam side of things is overall fine, it's their game development side that is a complete mess
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drrockso20 posted:The Steam side of things is overall fine, it's their game development side that is a complete mess Although I don't think Valve is ever malicious, just hard I indolent.
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what movie should i watch tonight
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