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Sweevo posted:Lexx was a cool premise wasted on a bad sex comedy that had almost no jokes or sex in it. I kinda like the weird aesthetic of it though. It felt like someone had taken a sleazy French series, translated it into English, cut out all the good bits and filmed it in Canada. EDIT: Well, poo poo, look how close I was (I did know it was filmed in Canada) quote:Lexx is a Canadian–German science fiction television series created by Lex Gigeroff and brothers Paul and Michael Donovan. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 15:48 on Sep 29, 2021 |
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Sweevo posted:Lexx was a cool premise wasted on a bad sex comedy that had almost no jokes or sex in it. I kinda like the weird aesthetic of it though. The first 2 (?) seasons are the closest I've seen to Incal: the TV show. So there's that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:It felt like someone had taken a sleazy French series, translated it into English, cut out all the good bits and filmed it in Canada. it being Canadian-German explains everything madeintaipei posted:The first 2 (?) seasons are the closest I've seen to Incal: the TV show. So there's that. Incal, incel. What’s the difference?
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Ok Comboomer posted:Incal, incel. What’s the difference? 
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I remember liking Lexx. Had the guy that shot a like snake handcuff out of his arm, Tibe? I forget his name. Sang a lot in the singing episode. Stanley the janitor and the wisecracking robot. Of course boob lady as well.
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madeintaipei posted:The first 2 (?) seasons are the closest I've seen to Incal: the TV show. So there's that. Unrelated to both 90s and TV, but for Incal (well, Moebius) fans, Sable might be fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0evJUp7-aw
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PhotoKirk posted:Lexx was very odd. It felt like a late-night Cinemax show that had been edited for television. Ha! It showed on Channel 5 in the UK which had a reputation for being tacky and sleazy and I was too young to have experienced porn at the time, but it felt kind of dirty. I kind of bounced off all those space shows despite being an indoors kid, I start snoozing when one bobbly headed trade federation accuses another of violating the K'vallagh pact or whatever, but I'm kind of surprised at how many there were in the 90s, especially if you include borderline cases like Seaquest DSV, because the sea is just space on Earth. Kind of a golden age for them.
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Disco Pope posted:I kind of bounced off all those space shows despite being an indoors kid, I start snoozing when one bobbly headed trade federation accuses another of violating the K'vallagh pact or whatever, but I'm kind of surprised at how many there were in the 90s, especially if you include borderline cases like Seaquest DSV, because the sea is just space on Earth. Kind of a golden age for them. my dad didn't have cable when i was a kid, so a lot of my memories around these sci-fi shows are just being the background noise on a slow sunday afternoon while i did homework or whatever when he had his weekends with me. as a result, any attempt to get into things like star trek or babylon 5 or whatever just immediately hit a boredom trigger for me and i can't get into it.
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this was 99 right? just squeaks under the line. one day i will marry the grey space lady.
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I could never get into Star Trek, etc until I started smoking weed
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j.peeba posted:H.P. gave a shoutout to the KLF in the end of the song as well: ”Respect to the man in the ice-cream van” The KLF is a full on Illuminatus! reference, like Discordia and poo poo.
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DreadUnknown posted:The KLF is a full on Illuminatus! reference, like Discordia and poo poo. I read Illuminatus twice in high school and I don't think I could make it past 100 pages these days. It's a weird book and was the closest I ever felt to being high before I had easy access to weed.
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i had a brief stint of being really into the church of the Subgenius when i first started losing my mind in the back half of high school. i still have the Book and Revolution X.
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Illuminati/Discordian/Subgenius stull is a very, very specific nerd segment thing in the 90s and probably earlier. Probably the history/english/mythology nerd's who played PnP RPGs got into it, because that's what happened with me and my friends. Like we knew it was all fun bullshit, but then you kinda go "wait, maybe there are powers that pull the strings behind the scenes" and then you grow up a bit and realized they're called Rich people. I remember reading the Illuminati Trilogy and it being the first book with explicit sex scenes in it. Also the thing where at the end of the last book the characters realize they're in a book is one of those things a 15 year old thinks is super clever but with me it broke me and "look at this, isn't this clever" elicits irrational hatred from me ever since. loving Hiro Protaganist, no that's not satire, that's just self indignant showing your dick to everyone. God I hated Snowcrash.
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twistedmentat posted:Also the thing where at the end of the last book the characters realize they're in a book is one of those things a 15 year old thinks is super clever but with me it broke me and "look at this, isn't this clever" elicits irrational hatred from me ever since. Holy hell yes. I was beyond annoyed. Not to mention that (as far as I remember through a haze of hatred for that book) there are instances where plot shifts time and place within a sentence. Such a frustrating thing to read. But Principia Discordia is fun!
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Trabant posted:Holy hell yes. I was beyond annoyed. Not to mention that (as far as I remember through a haze of hatred for that book) there are instances where plot shifts time and place within a sentence. Such a frustrating thing to read. Yea, I loved that book. It was just like very wacky Monty Python/Dr Demento style humor mixed with mythology and politics, which as i said, a certain type of nerd is super primed for.
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I read Illuminatus and the sequel a few times, theres totally a bit where the protagonist fucks a giant gold apple. Books great.
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this shuffled on my phone a minute ago. i used to think it was about being horny and loving on the eve of the millenium. now i understand it to be a prophetic Cassandra siren song warning us about 9/11. sadly ignored. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GIt34tVLrg
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gently caress I learned my first French through Muzzy from those giant yellow VCR cases. I completely forgot 
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I had to look Muzzy up because I felt like French was the only language you could learn from it. That wasn’t the case, there were quite a few languages available including, curiously, Esperanto.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I had to look Muzzy up because I felt like French was the only language you could learn from it. That wasn’t the case, there were quite a few languages available including, curiously, Esperanto. forcing your kids to learn Esperanto is the most “80s New Age World Music Parent” thing I can think of
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i will raise my child as a Citizen of the World (which will never exist).
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A page from my brother+sister's high school yearbook, 1988:
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:A page from my brother+sister's high school yearbook, 1988: You laugh, but the Soviets ran Esperantists into the Gulag at a quick march (I assume the Nazis did something similar). International peace, brotherhood, and understanding met with violence, exclusion, and 10 years hard labor.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I had to look Muzzy up because I felt like French was the only language you could learn from it. That wasn’t the case, there were quite a few languages available including, curiously, Esperanto. I learnt Welsh from Muzzy….he really knew his poo poo. To be fair all I remember from GCSE Welsh is the words to the national anthem then my family moved away from Wales before I got to learn the tune….
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Just recently, the son of a family friend told me that he was learning Esperanto on Duolingo or one of those other language sites. I have no idea how you'd use that knowledge, but good for him, I guess.
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learn something useful off duolingo like klingon
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:Just recently, the son of a family friend told me that he was learning Esperanto on Duolingo or one of those other language sites. I have no idea how you'd use that knowledge, but good for him, I guess. I believe one (1) study found that learning Esperanto and then French made learning French easier than starting from scratch That's probably it tho I tried it out in high school circa 2010. There was an email correspondance course and I got paired up with a guy in Finland iirc. I wonder how he's doing, I should see if I can dig up his emails I accidentally sat beside an esperantists meeting at a coffee shop a few years ago, and it was painfully awkward to listen to
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Killingyouguy! posted:I believe one (1) study found that learning Esperanto and then French made learning French easier than starting from scratch Interestingly, this person told me that he went from French to Esperanto because he had gotten slack about keeping up the French. Maybe there is a benefit there; all I know about Esperanto is reading background signs in Red Dwarf's first season.
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dialhforhero posted:Esperanto is a perfect example of people not understanding language and its inseparable link with culture. Esperantx
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:all I know about Esperanto is reading background signs in Red Dwarf's first season. I think that’s pretty much most people’s only exposure to it. I tried it out on Duolingo, but I kinda meh’d out a few lessons in and just went back to Spanish.
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KHLAV KALASHNIKOV posted:I think that’s pretty much most people’s only exposure to it. I tried it out on Duolingo, but I kinda meh’d out a few lessons in and just went back to Spanish. When I was a kid, I devoured the entire series of Stainless Steel Rat sci-fi novels, and they were set in a future where everyone used Esperanto. In the back of one of the novels, there was an address you could write to if you wanted to start learning the language. I actually did, and got a packet back with a starter lesson and an encouraging letter from the main character of the novels. It didn't stick, because I'm the sort of person that needs guidance and interaction to learn a language (I've bounced off of Duolingo multiple times), but that was still pretty neat. e: found it 
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I kill you in the name of his shadow.
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Badmotorfinger turned THIRTY today. Pretty cool oral history of the album. I guess this is bonus points for linking to Spin! the most 90's of mainstream alt-rock zines (I was more of a B-Sides guy). Also, a reminder that Cornell was one of the best ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO18jd0bqvM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPkH8gPDps Ahhhhhhh the memories of first grade. What a sweet and innocent year that was for autistic little me. 2001. And then I watched Watership Down later that year 
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uber_stoat posted:this is only acceptable if the show has a set number of episodes and the finale is 9/11. Smells like teen failure.
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