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Timby posted:Homicide: Life on the Street, too. It's always amazing when great shows like that come out to great acclaim, when people try and copy them they always seem completely not understand what made them great and just take some surface level style stuff that doesn't work without all the rest of it. The shaky cam from the Bourne films was the worst for this I think. That ruined so many action films for at least a decade or two.
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Payndz posted:And the shutter-speed fuckery from Private Ryan and Gladiator that was ripped off by second-rate directors for half a decade. "It makes the action look realistic and immediate!" No, it makes the action look like stop-motion. I remember openly laughing at the TV when Enterprise started doing it
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Burning_Monk posted:All I remember from Boston Legal is how horribly mysogistic it was with it's very boomer views on women and all the Star Trek people running around in it. It also had a revolving door cast of people just coming and going all the time to the point where they would even do fourth wall break jokes like "Wait, when did YOU start appearing in the opening credits?" I assume the Boys Club shitshow atmosphere behind and in front of the camera contributed to a lot of actors just going "gently caress this crap, I'm out" or getting fired by David E. Kelly for not "playing ball". nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Jun 16, 2023 |
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despite their name being BOTHA DEEZ NUTS, the alien race in persistence of vision were very creepy + good, shame they never showed up again
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Many Bothans died to bring us this episode.
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I have now actually played the Star Fleet Battle Force card game and... it kinda owns? It's got a real good Fire Emblem paper-scissors-rock attack and defense mechanic that means you can counter enemy attacks by spending your own attack cards. It's pretty simple to learn and actually feels like you're playing a spaceship battle in the Star Trek universe without being overly complicated.
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Armin Shimerman - the early days Can you guess where this is from?
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dr_rat posted:The shaky cam from the Bourne films was the worst for this I think. That ruined so many action films for at least a decade or two. Oof, and that was from the second Bourne on - I remember being impressed by some shots from Bourne 1 where the camera stayed very steady during action and we saw him do things clearly that films would normally have obscured to cover up movie cheats. Then in the second they went as far as possible in the other direction.
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MikeJF posted:Oof, and that was from the second Bourne on - I remember being impressed by some shots from Bourne 1 where the camera stayed very steady during action and we saw him do things clearly that films would normally have obscured to cover up movie cheats. Then in the second they went as far as possible in the other direction. The knock-offs, though, settled for just thrashing the camera around wildly and doing 12 cuts for every action. Looking at you, Quantum of Solace.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Armin Shimerman - the early days LA Law?
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Timby posted:LA Law? Close. The show had a legal aspect.
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I’m going to rewatch TNG and DS9 and would appreciate recommendations for watch-along podcasts. I like an equal mix of “why do I enjoy this bullshit” and “Star Trek is serious business”, if that helps.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Close. The show had a legal aspect. Hill Street Blues?
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Enterprise shamelessly copied that Voyager episode where Seven is alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate with their own episode where Dr Phlox is (mostly) alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate Which is annoying because I feel like Season 3 is a step up overall over seasons 1-2
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Powered Descent posted:Hill Street Blues? lol maybe it was remington steele
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He kind of looks like Al Pacino in And Justice For All
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Powered Descent posted:Hill Street Blues? Think a LOT fewer episodes.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Enterprise shamelessly copied that Voyager episode where Seven is alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate with their own episode where Dr Phlox is (mostly) alone on the ship and starts to hallucinate To be fair that's a good Seven episode
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Mister Kingdom posted:Think a LOT fewer episodes. Cop Rock!
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Cop Rock! Bingo!
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Feldegast42 posted:To be fair that's a good Seven episode And a pretty decent Phlox episode, so...good concept, I guess.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Bingo! Hit it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbt2QdaCxA
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Will you be lost if you haven't played all infinity of the other games yet?
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Khanstant posted:Will you be lost if you haven't played all infinity of the other games yet? It's supposed to be set before TNG so you just need to have played the TOS games on the SNES.
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Khanstant posted:Will you be lost if you haven't played all infinity of the other games yet? Just 1-1.54353 × 1014 Infinite sort of just ignores a lot of plot of the games after that. Fans pretty much agree that was a wise decision, that just went off in a whole weird direction. Soft reboot was a wise choice.
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Lol, looks like you can make your own dynamic neutral zone. 
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so its a Stellaris mod?
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No you have to pay for this one.
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It's a shame games are released that aren't just Stellaris mods. 
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Burning_Monk posted:No you have to pay for this one. We call those 'DLC'
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It's basically a nicely polished Stellaris total conversion. Hey, used to be that half the licensed property games out there were just that. Honestly, sounds fine to me, means you get a cool Trek game with some mechanical depth that isn't mod-janky.
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I'm genuinely baffled that Paradox hasn't released a World Of Darkness game based off of Crusader Kings. There's a super popular mod for that and they own the WoD IP.
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Gaz-L posted:I'm genuinely baffled that Paradox hasn't released a World Of Darkness game based off of Crusader Kings. There's a super popular mod for that and they own the WoD IP. If you’re not aware basically the entire IP has been in various stages of flaming garbage pile for years ranging from “sexual abuser writes a visual novel where he attacks his critics” to “literally caused an international diplomatic incident with Chechnya”. Bloodlines 2 is on what its second? third? dev team. Paradox wants to see some eggs in that basket actually hatch before adding any more.
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I think my ideal combination would be Stellaris + Crusader Kings + Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Star Dynasties was kinda angling in that direction but I lost track of it after early access, maybe it's good, who knows
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I think something that hit me in DS9 was that it's episode with Q really shows his true colours - in other series he's more of a nuisance, a goofy imp who just shows up to do shenanigans and then go away once bored, but the episode with his Ex Vash shows him in a new, much crueler light that also shows how powerful he really is - when he reveals that after leaving the continuum, the only reason Vash survived her trip around the galaxy was that he'd been protecting her from countless diseases that she didn't even know existed. Then to make a point, he shows her what would have happened to her without his help, and suddenly most of her hair has fallen out, she's barely able to stand under her own power, and her skin has been badly ravaged by countless sores and buboes. It's a really effective scene to show how little empathy he has, that he would do that to someone just to make a stupid point.
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BioEnchanted posted:I think something that hit me in DS9 was that it's episode with Q really shows his true colours - in other series he's more of a nuisance, a goofy imp who just shows up to do shenanigans and then go away once bored, but the episode with his Ex Vash shows him in a new, much crueler light that also shows how powerful he really is - when he reveals that after leaving the continuum, the only reason Vash survived her trip around the galaxy was that he'd been protecting her from countless diseases that she didn't even know existed. Then to make a point, he shows her what would have happened to her without his help, and suddenly most of her hair has fallen out, she's barely able to stand under her own power, and her skin has been badly ravaged by countless sores and buboes. It's a really effective scene to show how little empathy he has, that he would do that to someone just to make a stupid point. i get what you mean, but since Q was just trying to prove that he was useful to her (and then "cured" her again, instantly), it kinda makes the opposite point: he's not completely without compassion and did care about her
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