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Dameius posted:My friend group saw the first Michael Bay Transformers in theater and when we walked out after it finished a guy who I wasn't clicking with said it was the greatest movie ever made and I knew from there that he wasn't going to last in the group. Transformers as a franchise lost it's soul when they renamed the Dinobot "Slag" into Slug' 
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BrigadierSensible posted:Transformers as a franchise lost it's soul when they renamed the Dinobot "Slag" into Slug' ...They did WHAT?
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mercenarynuker posted:I had a co worker who once tried to claim that Jurassic Park was the greatest trilogy of all time It is. You just watch it three times in a row.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Never forget that the director of Lifeforce is also the same guy that gave us The Texas Chan Saw Massacre. Uwu, I hope Texas-Chan notices me.
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Coward posted:...They did WHAT?
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Android Apocalypse posted:Never forget that the director of Lifeforce is also the same guy that gave us The Texas Chan Saw Massacre. Bloody Hedgehog posted:Uwu, I hope Texas-Chan notices me. I was thinking more it'd be a 4 Chan version which would be... uhhh I'm not sure I want to think about it any more
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sick of Applebees posted:I was thinking more it'd be a 4 Chan version which would be... uhhh I'm not sure I want to think about it any more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan
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Subjunctive posted:Read a good space-vampire book now: Blindsight The vampires in Blindsight are awesome. Turns out that the myth that they can be warded off by crosses is because they undergo violent, fatal seizures when faced with right angles, and they all basically went extinct once humans started building houses. Now they've been brought back to life by scientists because it turns out that they are excellent interpreters between regular humans and the hyper-intelligent but severely autistic AIs they've built to pilot spaceships.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:The vampires in Blindsight are awesome. Turns out that the myth that they can be warded off by crosses is because they undergo violent, fatal seizures when faced with right angles, and they all basically went extinct once humans started building houses. Now they've been brought back to life by scientists because it turns out that they are excellent interpreters between regular humans and the hyper-intelligent but severely autistic AIs they've built to pilot spaceships. I'm exceedingly annoyed there isn't a movie on this.
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Captain Invictus posted:slag is a british slang term for loose women, they undoubtedly initially named him that for the term for industrial metal waste, but the slang term made them change it I was well-aware of the other meaning of slag, which as a child lent the Dinobot a delightful charm. I am beyond baffled that was legitimately the reason for the name change, as I was sure American children would have no way of coming across the term.
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Lol that they boast it's the oldest language in Europe and then list a bunch of words that have cognates in English and/or come from Latin (plat/plate, castell/castle, llaith/milk, pysgody/fish, afal/apple, baner/flag, caws/cheese, etc.)
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Coward posted:I was well-aware of the other meaning of slag, which as a child lent the Dinobot a delightful charm. I am beyond baffled that was legitimately the reason for the name change, as I was sure American children would have no way of coming across the term. They license US TV shows to all sorts of countries and have done for longer than the Transformers cartoon has existed. It's not exactly a wild concept that they'd want to rename a rude character in a large English speaking market they'd want to sell to.
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80's SciFi movie talk has reminded me of the existence of 1987's Nightflyers where a spaceship inhabited by the personality of a powerful psychic and piloted by her intergender clone/son/lover starts murdering its passengers(which is apparently on YouTube in its entirety having never been even released on DVD) and boy oh boy was that ever some trash garbage. I wonder if whoever wrote that story ever amounted to anything...
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Breetai posted:a spaceship inhabited by the personality of a powerful psychic and piloted by her intergender clone/son/lover No joke, this is a George R. R. Martin book/film.
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Zesty posted:No joke, this is a George R. R. Martin book/film. Never wouldve guessed GRRM would make a weird incest sex story. Next you’ll probably try to convince me it has sexual violence too.
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Captain Invictus posted:slag is a british slang term for loose women, they undoubtedly initially named him that for the term for industrial metal waste, but the slang term made them change it If this was the real reason for the name change then they would have changed the dinobot Cumdumpster's name a long time ago.
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Mr. Sunshine posted:The vampires in Blindsight are awesome. Turns out that the myth that they can be warded off by crosses is because they undergo violent, fatal seizures when faced with right angles, and they all basically went extinct once humans started building houses. Now they've been brought back to life by scientists because it turns out that they are excellent interpreters between regular humans and the hyper-intelligent but severely autistic AIs they've built to pilot spaceships. oh drat, this is going on my reading list.
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the author makes it available on his website for anyone interested
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Aug 21, 2023 13:42
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i think i have the omnibus version of Blindsight and its sequel that i havent read for multiple years, im going to have to find it and add it to the reading pile now
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:the author makes it available on his website for anyone interested since it's free there's also a much more readable pdf that can be easily found.
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It's also great for how hard it shits on how current-day society treats people it labels as neurodivergent. Here's a picture: 
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whoda thunkit posted:If this was the real reason for the name change then they would have changed the dinobot Cumdumpster's name a long time ago. They did change its name though since it was a weird name for a transformer. Now it’s Cumdumptruck and it looks like your mother.
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His name is Benedict Cumberbatch, it's honestly not that hard guys.
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Humphreys posted:I'm exceedingly annoyed there isn't a movie on this. not a full movie but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM anyway yeah blindsight freakin owns. the sequel echopraxia isn't as good but still quite enjoyable. peter watts is good https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf
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loved blindsight, echopraxia was cool too. Watts behemoth series was ok but there was uncomfortable sex stuff
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Mr. Sunshine posted:The vampires in Blindsight are awesome. Turns out that the myth that they can be warded off by crosses is because they undergo violent, fatal seizures when faced with right angles, and they all basically went extinct once humans started building houses. Now they've been brought back to life by scientists because it turns out that they are excellent interpreters between regular humans and the hyper-intelligent but severely autistic AIs they've built to pilot spaceships. do right angles not exist in nature? mesas have to be pretty close.
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snergle posted:do right angles not exist in nature? mesas have to be pretty close. stop spoiling the book
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snergle posted:do right angles not exist in nature? mesas have to be pretty close. reading this in a Jar-Jar Binks voice because my brain is bad
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snergle posted:do right angles not exist in nature? mesas have to be pretty close. Well there was that time I went to the zoo and the chimp looked at me with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead.
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Captain Invictus posted:slag is a british slang term for loose women, they undoubtedly initially named him that for the term for industrial metal waste, but the slang term made them change it The 90s Beast Wars cartoon used "slag" as a cuss word in the goofy science fiction manner - slag off, slag you, shut your slaggin' mouth etc. In the sense of metal waste, it's a pretty great choice for a bunch of robot people if you're gonna write that way. Of course, this means that retroactively the dinosaur guy from 1985's name would be like being called "poo poo Fuckasaurus", but he was characterized as such an ornery rear end in a top hat that he probably would have approved.
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Lobok posted:Well there was that time I went to the zoo and the chimp looked at me with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead. I’ve asked you repeatedly to stop calling me “the chimp”
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Lobok posted:Well there was that time I went to the zoo and the chimp looked at me with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an "L" on her forehead. Was she looking kind of dumb?
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Phy posted:The 90s Beast Wars cartoon used "slag" as a cuss word in the goofy science fiction manner - slag off, slag you, shut your slaggin' mouth etc. In the sense of metal waste, it's a pretty great choice for a bunch of robot people if you're gonna write that way. Really wish I could have watched Beast Wars the way British kids did like it was an episode of Drag Race. "So I told that Decepticunt she could slut the hell up because we could all see where she tucked her trunk -- she was not More Than Meets the Eye."
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LifeSunDeath posted:stop spoiling the book im actually curious because every time i try to think of one i cant ive never seen a tree branch or something in a perfect 90degree and even the joke answer making an L with your fingers doesnt work because of the skin flap smoothing the corner out. and i google'd a bunch of mesa pictures and they arent even close. i think right angles might be an abomination against nature you guys. edit: crystals form them apparently. especially salt crystals. vampires arent allergic to garlic their allergic to salt
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snergle posted:im actually curious because every time i try to think of one i cant ive never seen a tree branch or something in a perfect 90degree and even the joke answer making an L with your fingers doesnt work because of the skin flap smoothing the corner out. and i google'd a bunch of mesa pictures and they arent even close. i think right angles might be an abomination against nature you guys. Was about to post bismuth when I saw your edit: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1291575638/massive-bismuth-crystal-specimen I will purchase this to keep myself safe from vampires, a sound financial decision.
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Helsing chucking a Himalayan salt lamp at a vampire: "dodge this"
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Paladinus posted:Lol that they boast it's the oldest language in Europe and then list a bunch of words that have cognates in English and/or come from Latin (plat/plate, castell/castle, llaith/milk, pysgody/fish, afal/apple, baner/flag, caws/cheese, etc.) Also the concept of one particular language being the oldest is nonsensical
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