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Oct 31, 2021 13:40
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The real first crisis for Foundation was its first season.
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Oct 31, 2021 13:52
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"Day and Dusk like mac and cheese, but I like shells and cheese."
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Oct 31, 2021 15:42
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you ever notice how brother day walks like this *imitates walk* but brother dawn walks like this??? *imitates a different walk*
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Oct 31, 2021 15:54
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Nitrousoxide posted:The real first crisis for Foundation was its first season.
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Oct 31, 2021 16:15
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:you ever notice how brother day walks like this the show would be prestige TV if a random comedian did this bit and it brought down the empire
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Oct 31, 2021 19:08
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The Empire ends up broke as it is spending money on a real Ministry of Silly Walks.
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Oct 31, 2021 19:11
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What's the deal with Empire food?
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Oct 31, 2021 19:15
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this show would be 10x better if written by kat Williams
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Oct 31, 2021 19:52
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Centrist Committee posted:Almost as good as the slapstick Oops there goes my boyfriend scene minutes earlier I'm agreeing with others and choosing to believe that it was a fakeout and he'll show up later on. Kill All Cops posted:the goon who mentioned that momentum keeps being broken by a scene switch every time a scene begins to be interesting is spot on, dont even think it can be excused by editing for binge watching. it's like the editor was the same guy who edited Liam Neeson needing 15 cuts to jump over a fence I don't usually complain about rapid fire editing, but the Salvor vs Huntress fight in episode 5 was pretty bad. Let us see the fight with shots that last more than 5 seconds... Kill All Cops posted:Brother Dawn being different with his color blindness alone would've been subtle and cool enough, but no, gotta show that he is -really- different by eating carbs over meats, left handed instead of right, wipes his butt front to back instead of back to front. Everyone knows the proper way to wipe is side to side. Tom Guycot posted:It would be kind of cute to see what a straight up rigid adaptation of one of his where everyone is smoking like its the 50's and all the sets, and ships, and planets are straight off the cover of Amazing Stories rendered in modern AAA quality would be like. People in space ships getting physical messages delivered in tubes, everyone talking about ATOMIC everything, wearing capes and printing newspapers, but not treating any of it as camp or a joke. 
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Oct 31, 2021 21:48
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Tom Guycot posted:It would be kind of cute to see what a straight up rigid adaptation of one of his where everyone is smoking like its the 50's and all the sets, and ships, and planets are straight off the cover of Amazing Stories rendered in modern AAA quality would be like. People in space ships getting physical messages delivered in tubes, everyone talking about ATOMIC everything, wearing capes and printing newspapers, but not treating any of it as camp or a joke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTrSncxwGBE
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Oct 31, 2021 22:03
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Kill All Cops posted:very bold to assume that the writers that wrote "the atmosphere is broke, we need to seal the breach and find the environmental regulator" then "here's the environmental regulator, i sealed the breach" 30 seconds later are incompetent Which makes no sense to begin with, because if the drat ship's environmental controls can just go back into normal operational mode within three keystrokes and flipping a glass PCB, it shouldn't have shut down and killed its crew to begin with. Also, I like how their sets don't match the outside scenes. The landing area of that ship had a distinct curvature, by nature of being a bunch of circles, but inside, everything's flat. That central building on Terminus didn't have that much of an edge length, but in that one episode, whoever it was, ran a considerable length along a corridor way longer than any of the building's edges. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFSwYtEDX24 Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Oct 31, 2021 |
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Oct 31, 2021 23:02
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Combat Pretzel posted:Yeah, well, the series also follows the trope that everyone's absolutely competent in their area. Ancient mythical spaceship? I have never operated this ancient tech, but beep-boop-boop everything's fixed. Reminds me of a game, I think it was Watch Dogs, where a developer posted that they did interiors of buildings but other people did exteriors and when the game was finished they didn't do a thorough job of making sure the buildings matched up at all. So they would spend a long time making a place look like a dingy dive bar on the inside while someone else did the exterior as a cute cafe or something. Wonder how much that sort of thing happens in SFX-heavy shows too that I don't end up noticing
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Nov 1, 2021 02:07
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Started this show last week and I've just caught up to episode 7. Everything to do with the clone emperors is goddamn fantastic. There's depth, there's layers, there's symbolism. It's visually stunning and of course the actors are all killing it. It's a really interesting exploration a sci-fi idea, and every time this storyline is on screen, I'm enthralled. Everything to do with Terminus and Anacreaon is goddamn garbage. It's a generic-looking sci-fi shootemup and the plot makes no sense. The actors are probably just fine but it's hard to tell, because the writers have given them nothing but poorly-thought-out crap to say and do. Everything to do with Hari and Gaal and Raych has been taking FOREVER to get wherever it's going. I like both characters, and it may yet turn out interesting, but good goddamn, get to the point already.
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Nov 1, 2021 02:52
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Rutibex posted:What about multivac? It's not a robot but it's an AI that doesn't follow the three laws at all. The "vac" in multivac was refrencing vacuum tubes. It's very much not a positronic brain. In the robot books, the big AI brains that weren't in bodies but were just used to do math and stuff were called The Brain. One of the short stories is about how the invention of hyperspace travel actually bricked the other super computer that wasn't positronic, and almost bricked The Brain.
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Nov 1, 2021 03:44
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CainFortea posted:In I, Robot Susan Calvin explains how the math of the positronic brain means that by it's very nature, any attempt at making a brain without the 3 laws means that it simply doesn't work at all. I mean, there's no hard science to explain why, but she very clearly explains that it is so. If I remember right, the explanation in The Caves of Steel went something like this. It doesn't spoil much of anything even in the book universe, but just to be safe I'll mark it as BOOK SPOILERS: The Three Laws were baked into the theory of positronic brains right from the start, and so every single advancement that was made since that time has relied upon their presence. In theory, you could make a positronic brain without the Laws, but you'd have to start totally over again, essentially with a positronic abacus, and then re-do three thousand years of improvement and development. And you'd have to do every bit of it completely from scratch; nothing at all of theory or practice would transfer over from one type of robot to the other since they were based on fundamentally different axioms. Undertaking such a project was seen as infeasible even for the combined might of all fifty Spacer worlds.
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Nov 1, 2021 04:12
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Isn't the ship that Gaal is on... you know, the one whose computer is now running a copy of Hari's brain and being controlled by him... isn't that a robit Also I just read an article about McDonalds replacing staff at their restaurants with IBM's AI. Would the Three Laws allow an AI to serve a McRib with Cheese to a customer, or is that considered harm? Really makes you think.
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Nov 1, 2021 04:34
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XboxPants posted:Isn't the ship that Gaal is on... you know, the one whose computer is now running a copy of Hari's brain and being controlled by him... isn't that a robit yah that's why it didn't let her die w/out the O2
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Nov 1, 2021 05:22
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XboxPants posted:Isn't the ship that Gaal is on... you know, the one whose computer is now running a copy of Hari's brain and being controlled by him... isn't that a robit I don't think IRL robots give a poo poo about the 3 laws.
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Nov 1, 2021 05:49
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i love how the botanist girl is apparently so well-connected in the underground that she knows where to get brother dawn's various advanced tracking tech disabled
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Nov 1, 2021 05:56
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Various thoughts of symbolism, all from the GOOD plot, the one about about the Emperors: The funeral of The three Brothers are of course facing down their distaff counterparts in the triple goddess. Meanwhile, Brother Dawn, while obviously heterosexual, is still in some respects coded as gay in the narrative. He must hide his true self, from the smallest gesture on up, lest he be discovered. Only with his secret lover can he truly
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Nov 1, 2021 06:03
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:i love how the botanist girl is apparently so well-connected in the underground that she knows where to get brother dawn's various advanced tracking tech disabled Or maybe its not that hard to find, like how back in the day you could find someone at just about any Sunday market who could do console mods.
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Nov 1, 2021 09:35
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If brother dusk had the sex spy tell him everything about what brother dawn told her, which was probably all his non-conformity baggage, then I wonder why he hasn't done the replacing already. My only thought is that he has to get brother day's approval as, technically, he is supposed to be the only one of the three "in control" of what goes on.
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Nov 1, 2021 10:38
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Maybe it will turn out all of them are colour blind and left handed but they learn to act properly. That would undermine what they're doing with Dawn though.
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Nov 1, 2021 10:45
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Institutionally gaslighting each other for hundreds of years in order to teach duplicity would be an interesting twist though.
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Nov 1, 2021 11:05
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gently caress you all - Huntress is the best, team bloody revenge forever! Rarrr!  * Just kidding, i love you all  but this show sadly is so dumb that i want the dumbest storyline to escalate forever.Everything else is just boring-bad. This at least is kinda fun-bad. Also cautiously looking forward to what botanist-lady can manage to coerce babby-Empire into through her sudden vast lineup of shady contacts though.
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Nov 1, 2021 11:28
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Patrat posted:Institutionally gaslighting each other for hundreds of years in order to teach duplicity would be an interesting twist though. I'd be shocked if some of it wasn't this. His rants about how he eats his food, how his hands rest etc all strike me as him compounding his own anxiety. All cleons have some minor variances, but he has become so obsessed with his own that it is all he sees. Like looking for a pattern in day to day numbers. If you look long enough to are bound to find it. Whether it was there or not.
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Nov 1, 2021 11:30
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"What are you trying to tell me? I can do math to predict the future?" "No, Gaal. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to."
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Nov 1, 2021 14:23
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Do you think Gaal solved that fancy math theorem because she predicted her future self solving it so she copies the solution from the future vision?
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Nov 1, 2021 14:51
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stephenthinkpad posted:Do you think Gaal solved that fancy math theorem because she predicted her future self solving it so she copies the solution from the future vision? I think she solved the fancy math by plagiarizing a scroll she stole from the Synax archive. It wasn't super clear 
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Nov 1, 2021 15:03
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So you're saying this is all time turner related Hermione fan fiction, with a very high budget.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:05
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I'm old enough to remember when this show started off with some kids trying to get laid over who would get closest to the mysterious space obelisk.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:05
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Centrist Committee posted:I'm old enough to remember when this show started off with some kids trying to get laid over who would get closest to the mysterious space obelisk. Seriously, they've completely forgotten about this space obelisk. There's like literally no way it can even impact the story now since it's lightyears away.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:08
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stephenthinkpad posted:Do you think Gaal solved that fancy math theorem because she predicted her future self solving it so she copies the solution from the future vision? No, prescience only gives you very vague and disjointed images of the future. She was able to solve the math problem because she is also a mentat. That's the truly revolutionary thing about the Kwisatz Haderach. They are not just prescient, but also a mentat. It's this specific combination that allows them to find the golden path, i.e. a way out of humanity's stagnation and eventual doom. Prescience or mentat abilities alone can't get it done.
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Nov 1, 2021 15:16
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GABA ghoul posted:No, prescience only gives you very vague and disjointed images of the future. She was able to solve the math problem because she is also a mentat. what if the vault is a Gom Jabbar
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Nov 1, 2021 15:21
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ElGroucho posted:"What are you trying to tell me? I can do math to predict the future?" lol so embarrassing
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Nov 1, 2021 17:28
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"Math is for nerds" — Hari Seldon
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Nov 1, 2021 17:33
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Nitrousoxide posted:Seriously, they've completely forgotten about this space obelisk. There's like literally no way it can even impact the story now since it's lightyears away. What a weird complaint. Terminus crew have been off world for a whole episode. You don’t have to be able to see the future to guess they’ll be back
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Nov 1, 2021 18:55
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I honestly thought that the lack of Magic Space Obelisk was a good thing.
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Nov 1, 2021 19:10
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I hope the jump ship randomly jumps to somewhere with good posts
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