flavor.flv posted:

Empty Sandwich posted:

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

Before the first movie came out, part of the multimedia push for The Marrix was to screen the film for a bunch of prominent sci fi authors and have then write a short story for the official website. Only authors I remember were Gaimen and Harlan Ellison, but .out of the stories eventually went with the lie being better than life. I wonder if you can still find the stories since they all went wildly divergent from where the series ended up

Lodin posted:

bike tory posted:

But 0 K and 0°R and 0°Ra are all the same thing? Also °R and °Ra are literally the same scale? This meme is bad. Here's the good version:

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Clarence Williams III died

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Clarence Williams III died

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Clarence Williams III died

A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:

Clarence Williams III died

Hihohe posted:

https://twitter.com/RetroFirearms/status/1398442753625935872?s=20

Scholtz posted:

So, despite the thwomp clearly being in Whomp's Fortress, the following clip takes place in Bob-omb Battlefield. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic skateboard or something? Boy, I really hope someone gets banned over that blunder.

Scholtz posted:

bike tory posted:

But 0 K and 0°R and 0°Ra are all the same thing? Also °R and °Ra are literally the same scale? This meme is bad. Here's the good version:

MisterOblivious posted:

The book version was a lot more wild and Rimmer was even more pathetic than usual.

"Rimmer gave himself money, fame, and a stunningly beautiful wife - who was abusive and humiliatingly unfaithful. He then placed himself in a scenario where all his stocks abruptly crashed, he lost all of his money, his body was repossessed, and he was forced to occupy a female prostitute's body, then dragged into hiding from the law, experiencing verbal, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of violent criminals, and finally pimped out by them, as well as coming to realise that his idea of the perfect woman - the woman he was in fact engaged to - was the spitting image of his own mother. "

Lodin posted:

I wonder if they asked Grant Morrison to provide a story. Oh wait, he already did with The Invisibles.

How! posted:

The invisibles is the best comic nobody has ever heard of and it makes me so mad.

It actually might be my favorite book ever. Reading them all at once was so fun.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

A pretty regular theme with Rimmer is that he's an absolutely miserable person whose disastrous social skills and bloated ego are a cover for and result of crippling anxiety, self-loathing and inadequacy as a result of a horribly abusive childhood. IIRC, it's implied at one point that his supposedly more successful siblings aren't actually any better, they're all just lying to the rest of the family to keep up to unrealistic expectations.

The episode with the time-travelling judge who determines whether people are worthy to exist by their own standards is an interesting one, I feel. Lister and Kryten fail for basically wasting their potential by their own standards, while the Cat is quite happy with who he is and what he contributes to the world, while Rimmer just lays out his backstory and how it messed him up, and the Judge in his form seems to sympathise- that if anything, it's surprising Rimmer is as remotely functional as he is.

Platystemon posted:

The best temperature scale is Delisle because water boils at zero degrees and freezes at one hundred and fifty, and no, I did not misspeak.

Aluminum melts at negative eight hundred and forty degrees.

Bug Squash posted:

This man's only crime is being Arnold J. Rimmer. That is his crime, it is also his punishment.

Scholtz posted:

So, despite the thwomp clearly being in Whomp's Fortress, the following clip takes place in Bob-omb Battlefield. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic skateboard or something? Boy, I really hope someone gets banned over that blunder.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Eh, the first version of the Celsius scale had the boiling point of water at 0 and the freezing point at 100C. Some friend of his convinced Celsius to flip it around.

Humphreys posted:

Tell this to a mate who is incredibly high and watch their brain completely fold in on itself trying to justify why hot = up and cold = down. And why it matters. My experience with that is like trying to explain to my mother that North is not UP.

Humphreys posted:

Tell this to a mate who is incredibly high and watch their brain completely fold in on itself trying to justify why hot = up and cold = down. And why it matters. My experience with that is like trying to explain to my mother that North is not UP.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

Turn your map on end.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

A pretty regular theme with Rimmer is that he's an absolutely miserable person whose disastrous social skills and bloated ego are a cover for and result of crippling anxiety, self-loathing and inadequacy as a result of a horribly abusive childhood. IIRC, it's implied at one point that his supposedly more successful siblings aren't actually any better, they're all just lying to the rest of the family to keep up to unrealistic expectations.

The episode with the time-travelling judge who determines whether people are worthy to exist by their own standards is an interesting one, I feel. Lister and Kryten fail for basically wasting their potential by their own standards, while the Cat is quite happy with who he is and what he contributes to the world, while Rimmer just lays out his backstory and how it messed him up, and the Judge in his form seems to sympathise- that if anything, it's surprising Rimmer is as remotely functional as he is.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Eh, the first version of the Celsius scale had the boiling point of water at 0 and the freezing point at 100C. Some friend of his convinced Celsius to flip it around.

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/GetGianni/status/1401719935236296704?s=19