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Chubby Henparty posted:Derek? Babylon 5's a big pile of poo poo 
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Jan 2, 2024 18:06
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I watched the first few episodes of Babylon 5 and they were indeed extremely poo poo. I'm told it gets better though.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:15
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Bobby Deluxe posted:
Not only did Voyager come out before the BSG remake, the same producer (Ronald D. Moore) worked on both. If you watch the very early Voyager episodes you can see some ideas/themes that would be in BSG. https://www.slashfilm.com/813804/the-star-trek-frustrations-that-shaped-battlestar-galactica/
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Jan 2, 2024 18:18
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Theory: you only ever hear "it gets better" because the people who think it got worse didn't stick it out long enough to be absolutely sure it doesn't get better so they don't say anything
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Jan 2, 2024 18:19
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Microplastics posted:Theory: you only ever hear "it gets better" because the people who think it got worse didn't stick it out long enough to be absolutely sure it doesn't get better so they don't say anything Counterpoint - it gets better, then it gets worse.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:21
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I like Starhunter Redux on Amazon. It's amazingly low budget and has wooden acting, but somehow rises above it. Bounty hunters working out of what used to be a luxury space liner. Set just in the solar system, not particularly hard sci-fi, but it's an endearingly grubby view of the future.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:24
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How can Kier Starmer win big this year?Angrymog posted:an endearingly grubby view of the future.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:31
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This is just loving amazing. Ignore the FPBE account https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1742218173267550233  P.S. Foundation is the best current sci-fi series, and I'll fight anyone who says different
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Jan 2, 2024 18:41
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I think we can all agree that the worst Star Trek, for a very long list of reasons, is Firefly.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:41
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So bad, didn't even get a second series.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:49
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OzyMandrill posted:1st season of Lexx I used to love Lexx - one of the first shows on Channel 5 when it started (as was Xena Warrior Princess).
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Jan 2, 2024 18:49
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Surprised no one's mentioned For All Mankind yet. The early parts at least are pretty grounded (it fast forwards like a decade every season) and some of the background alternate history stuff can be amusing. Plus  is still around (and the point of divergence is they land on the moon first), possibly relevant in the UK Marxism Thread ;p
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Jan 2, 2024 18:50
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fuctifino posted:This is just loving amazing. Ignore the FPBE account That can’t be real can it?
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Jan 2, 2024 18:53
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there's a few 'neighbour wants the wifi password' tiktoks out there
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Jan 2, 2024 18:57
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Jakabite posted:Second, it’s an actually realistic portrayal of space travel and combat - I literally don’t think I’ve ever seen that in anything else. Event Horizon has a pretty realistic portrayal of space travel.
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Jan 2, 2024 18:59
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Firefly was a pretty good cowboy bebop rip off in its time but like looking back on it now and noticing how the goodies were confederate coded losers of a civil war and literally refered to themselves as 'browncoats' it does lose a bit of its lustre yeah.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:01
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Plus the guy who made it got me too'd depending on how you feel about 'death of the author'.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:02
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Jakabite posted:That can’t be real can it? Yeah I was going to say, seems a bit fake. Maybe I'm just jaded. I'd expect to be far more annoyed as the guy talking through the doorbell. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 19:03
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Private Speech posted:Yeah I was going to say, seems a bit fake. Maybe I'm just jaded. quote:I'd expect to be far more annoyed as the guy talking through the doorbell. I want to believe the video is real. I know people as crazy as this, and I've had interactions with people as crazy as this before.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:08
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I think it is fake as the guy is wearing a poppy as if to emphasize his gammon nature. On the other hand, I bet there are people who just don't get it and do think like that! But does anyone these days paying for wifi not have a password on it, even by default?
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Jan 2, 2024 19:08
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That said I had a neighbour once who was utterly insane about the bins, to the point of dumping his rubbish on the ground next to ours because he didn't like that we kept them on a side street (taking them in would involve carrying the whole bin 2 flights of stairs down a rickety 1-person stairway). Even the binmen said it was okay when I asked. He also wrote passive aggressive letters about it he shoved under our door, hassled visitors and called the council (who said it was okay) and our landlord (by asking some tradesmen for his number when they came to fix the heating). So perhaps I'm underestimating the entitled insanity potential of rando neighbours.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:10
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Guavanaut posted:Enjoying my 0.756 bottle Wanka of champagne.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:12
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fuctifino posted:This is just loving amazing. Ignore the FPBE account The gall of it. Had something similar happen, but with 30+ leechers. A pub next door to our old house, one of the workers knocked on the door asking for wifi password so he could do his university work. Said would only be working there two weeks. It wasn't me that answered the door, was my brother, who gave him the password. A few months later, we noticed the connection was lagging and crashing a lot, so I checked out the router and found 30+ connections, mostly android phones. Changed the password, and connection goes fine again. Next day the owner comes over and asks for the password, tell him no. Few weeks later we heard that they had our wifi password pinned up somewhere so anyone there could use it. And they were streaming illegal football streams using it, probably the main reason of the lag in the first place..
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Jan 2, 2024 19:15
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Nationalized broadband but it's just your horrible neighbours leeching all your bandwidth.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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feedmegin posted:Plus the guy who made it got me too'd depending on how you feel about 'death of the author'. But yeah Joss did concieve the show as following good guy space confederates that aspect is entirely on him.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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I think it pretty much has to be a skit based on nothing more than that as far as I know pretty much every ISP ships their routers with a password by default and has done for years. Who in their right mind switches it to an open connection?
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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fuctifino posted:
The most unbelievable part is someone not having a password on their WiFi for two years
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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https://twitter.com/GBNewsSpin/status/1742243224813441086 https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1741614710066127323 lmao
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:But does anyone these days paying for wifi not have a password on it, even by default? The only way you might not is if you turned it off for convenience without wondering what purpose it might be serving (security is one area where Chesterton's Fence is true) or if you have a router with a guest wifi option, in which case you maybe can't complain if other people are using the guest wifi that you enabled.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:17
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I watched the first few episodes of Babylon 5 and they were indeed extremely poo poo. I'm told it gets better though. Your standards are absurdly high. B5 season 1 was rocky in places, but the three opening episodes are all fine. You get a great "hit the ground running" opener in Midnight on the Firing Line, then W Morgan Sheppard being creepy as gently caress in Soul Hunter, then Born to the Purple is a solid character piece.
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Jan 2, 2024 19:20
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I've just had a scan, and I can see at least two unsecured wireless hotspots near me. So my guess is people switch on guest wifi, which is often unsecured, or turn off the passwords due to convenience. So people are still this dumb in TYOL 2024
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Jan 2, 2024 19:23
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Danger - Octopus! posted:Thomas Jane's dumb-rear end hat was almost enough to make me turn off the Expanse in its own right. If I wanted to see a fedora-wearing dork, I'd obviously just turn off my monitor. Move Along Home is a great episode and only cowards skip it Microplastics posted:Seconding this, but I have to give a special shout out to the episode where the captain and the pilot hyper-evolve into salamanders and have babies. Just the absolute balls of doing that plot It won an Emmy for makeup!
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Jan 2, 2024 20:22
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Warp 10 turned me into a newt! A newt? I got better.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:25
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I watched the first few episodes of Babylon 5 and they were indeed extremely poo poo. I'm told it gets better though. Series one is quite iffy, that i won't deny but for its day it was a good groundbreaker. ---------- Only seen Foundation on YT, i think it's impressive but i worry if they will be able to carry the series through to the finish. ---------- The Expanse is great, it helps that it is based on a series of books and it also has an ending. --------- Firefly escapist fun, series + movie was good enough for me, from what i heard series two would have been dark & shite so bullet dodged.  --------- fuctifino posted:I've just had a scan, and I can see at least two unsecured wireless hotspots near me. So my guess is people switch on guest wifi, which is often unsecured, or turn off the passwords due to convenience. So people are still this dumb in TYOL 2024 No wifi in my house (never plugged that bit in), only ethernet cable. 
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Jan 2, 2024 20:26
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Just Another Lurker posted:No wifi in my house (never plugged that bit in), only ethernet cable. I'll have to check that there aren't any old Englishmen who feel entitled to that part of my internet.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:33
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Guavanaut posted:Part of mine runs outside the house, following the route of the old TV cable to get internet to my smart TV. There definitely are. They all work for the home office and/or the police.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:35
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Something something right to roaming data.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:36
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Bab 5 is the best TV show ever made
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Jan 2, 2024 20:42
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Ms Adequate posted:Babs 5 is the best TV show ever made That's a controversial opinion to have about the Jess Philips remake, but I respect it.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:46
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Babs 5 is the version where everyone is played by barbara windsor.
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Jan 2, 2024 20:50
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