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indigi posted:what's this about, the Amazon description is far too vague for me to consider buying it hp hovercraft fuckin sucks why would you even bother to look it up
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indigi posted:the aliens are deffo pseudo p zombies, the other poster was claiming it was the vampires i mean, both aren't? the whole point of a p-zombie is that it is indistinguishable by any means from a "regular" person. the only difference is the lack of qualia. watts' actual "zombies" (surgically modified humans usually used as warm bodies for combat) aren't p-zombies; they are lacking consciousness but people have no trouble spotting them the vampires aren't p-zombies; they're conscious but severely sociopathic and goal-oriented (by human standards. well, probably by anyone's standards). humans get the willies just being in the same room with one. the aliens are, well, alien. they get pegged pretty much the moment they actually start communicating, iirc. Oneiros fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Jan 31, 2021 |
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Oneiros posted:the vampires aren't p-zombies; they're conscious but severely sociopathic and goal-oriented (by human standards. well, probably by anyone's standards). humans get the willies just being in the same room with one. the vampires are like sapient AIs that's why they have poo poo that'll set them into a seizure
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SmokaDustbowl posted:the vampires are like sapient AIs that's why they have poo poo that'll set them into a seizure i did like the in-universe explanation that the whole "crucifix-glitch" was just evolution doing a little fucky wucky that the humans decided to just, you know, leave in when they revived the species
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SmokaDustbowl posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYYZGQZKXUg thor became the best marvel character once they realized chris hemsworth is a fantastic comedic actor.
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Oneiros posted:i did like the in-universe explanation that the whole "crucifix-glitch" was just evolution doing a little fucky wucky that the humans decided to just, you know, leave in when they revived the species yeah it's good techno babble for the investors with moral issues
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Oneiros posted:the aliens are, well, alien. they get pegged pretty much the moment they actually start communicating, iirc. yeah it only takes a few rounds of back and forth before the language specialist concludes the aliens did the equivalent of feeding the past few decades of human radio signals into gpt-2 and are using it to respond to questions without any real comprehension Oneiros posted:i did like the in-universe explanation that the whole "crucifix-glitch" was just evolution doing a little fucky wucky that the humans decided to just, you know, leave in when they revived the species IIRC in echopraxia this is retconned to be specifically introduced by the revivers as a control mechanism
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:have you read Soon I Will Be Invincible should i?
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haveblue posted:IIRC in echopraxia this is retconned to be specifically introduced by the revivers as a control mechanism lol yeah
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the vampires are like colin laney from the william gibson birdge books
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indigi posted:what's this about, the Amazon description is far too vague for me to consider buying it multiverse alternate reality people invading our own. also there's people who are p-zombies that underpin our society, kinda like that dumbass npc meme but for like workaday people i liked it ok, it's more of a thriller than modern-day scifi or anything
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Casual Encountess posted:should i? it satirizes superhero stuff, including all the pithy dialogue and whatnot, and with an eye to how society would be with superpowered people running around kinda like The Boys in that way (when this was published that was still just a comic) also one of the POV characters is a supervillain
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Casual Encountess posted:should i? it’s alright
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somehow i binged the entire first season of winx. it was alright. the villains are the weakest links, and the season sets them up to take a lot of screen time, which makes it hard to want to stick with it speaking of supernatural teen dramas, there’s a new season of sabrina. i think the last season wrapped up the characters well enough for me to be satisfied, though i don’t fully understand what drives me to watch these things
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Oneiros posted:i did like the in-universe explanation that the whole "crucifix-glitch" was just evolution doing a little fucky wucky that the humans decided to just, you know, leave in when they revived the species but it doesn’t matter because they can magic their way out of the glitch anyway
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haveblue posted:yeah it only takes a few rounds of back and forth before the language specialist concludes the aliens did the equivalent of feeding the past few decades of human radio signals into gpt-2 and are using it to respond to questions without any real comprehension iirc the crucifix glitch is why they died out in the first place and the gene designers amplified it along with their territoriality to reduce the threat Blindsight was a really good haunted house in space thriller with a smattering of pop philosophy, Echopraxia went way too hard with "oooh this thing is so much smarter than humans can even imagine, be afraaaaaiiiiddd"
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at least they had some agency and fun stuff to do in Echopraxia, in Blindsight they literally turned out to be a cipher for the AI which was really boring and stupid
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rjmccall posted:somehow i binged the entire first season of winx ew
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pseudorandom name posted:iirc the crucifix glitch is why they died out in the first place and the gene designers amplified it along with their territoriality to reduce the threat that was bullshit corporate lies, see my earlier posts lol
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faint praise alert: it was way better than sabrina, which i watched for three full seasons
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now go watch The Magicians so you can understand how good this kind of bullshit can actually be
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is winx a tv show
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pseudorandom name posted:now go watch The Magicians so you can understand how good this kind of bullshit can actually be that’s the “okay the entire first two seasons are dogshit but eventually they stop taking the source material so seriously and it gets good” one, right?
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the magicians is the cum drinking one
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rjmccall posted:that’s the “okay the entire first two seasons are dogshit but eventually they stop taking the source material so seriously and it gets good” one, right? no, it’s the first season is kind of lame because they’re following the source material and then they just go for it
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the magicians is the cum drinking one magacims FEMDOM cei HYPNOSIS [ASMR]
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indigi posted:is winx a tv show
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erm, winx original target audience was 8-12 girls, why the hell are you guys making such a fuss about it.
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SlowBloke posted:erm, winx original target audience was 8-12 girls, why the hell are you guys making such a fuss about it.
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rjmccall posted:i don’t fully understand what drives me to watch these things yer a pervert, harry
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infernal machines posted:yer a pervert, harry 
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we were talking about the new netflix series fate: the winx saga, which i started calling winx because it was funny. it is not directed at 8-to-12-year-old girls
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PCjr sidecar posted:not to be confused to the yosposter who caught a perma admitting they masturbated to topless ladies in schindlers list wtf
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PCjr sidecar posted:that was syscall girl and careless cums what the gently caress that’s just a less funny version of the seinfeld bit
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rjmccall posted:we were talking about the new netflix series fate: the winx saga, which i started calling winx because it was funny. it is not directed at 8-to-12-year-old girls It's a live adaptation version of Winx Club, which is young adult at best, no sane teenager over 13 would touch that. I have suffered that poo poo for too much time (it was plastered everywhere in the 2005-2010 and hoped that when the broadcaster killed in 2019, i would have never to hear that word again in my life).
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Me and my ex had to ban it from the house because of its absolutely awful mean girl vibe and I suffered through all sorts of awful children's programming with minimal complaint (excepting dragon ball z, which I complained about a lot)
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infernal machines posted:yer a pervert, harry
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bump_fn posted:what the gently caress that’s just a less funny version of the seinfeld bit i don't remember the seinfeld bit but i do remember someone posting something like "when i went to see it in theaters the ticket lady told me that i'd need lots of tissues, but the whole time i didn't feel like masturbating once"
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SlowBloke posted:It's a live adaptation version of Winx Club, which is young adult at best, no sane teenager over 13 would touch that. yah we covered all this. the live action show is clearly intended for at least a teen audience, people swear in it. probably directed partly at grown-up fans of the original
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I watched two episodes while doing other stuff and it's totally inoffensive but it feels extremely derivative and the writing seems very lazy, like it's a copy of a copy of a cw show. If you're bored and want to watch something similar on netflix in the background, The Order is also... not good but it has the advantage of being way wackier at least.
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