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Presto posted:The Borg stopped being interesting the moment they introduced the queen. Wtg guys, you missed the entire point. They were never interesting. They shuffled around like idiots and were extremely single minded. They were constantly undone by a frankly insane order/programming to "ignore threats" that allowed the crew to repeatedly crawl around their ship guts and, surprise, become an eventual threat. Their power came exclusively from literal plot armor Hive minds are interesting IMO, but the borg are maybe the worst version of them. I guess R&M's Unity was a pretty good hivemind, because it had humanity and flaws and such, but wasn't undone by some stupid "kill the queen and the rest follow suit" contrivance. what a fukn  snipe jesus christ
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bitterandtwisted posted:Oompa Loompa doopa dee dethlab Lol
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bitterandtwisted posted:Oompa Loompa doopa dee dethlab this looks like a photo at the very end of a creepypasta from 2011
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Just got back from Dunc part 2 and it was alright. At times it felt like nothing much was happening, then it felt like months have suddenly gone by and then they were speedrunning through the third act. Of course it looks and sounds massive and epic, and it's always nice to see a good scifi moopie of this scale on the big screen. I haven't read the book(s) so some of it was a little confusing to my already stupid brain but still, I enjoyed it, especially the underlying sinister vibe running through it.
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sure okay posted:They were never interesting. They shuffled around like idiots and were extremely single minded. They were constantly undone by a frankly insane order/programming to "ignore threats" that allowed the crew to repeatedly crawl around their ship guts and, surprise, become an eventual threat. I like when rick hosed the hivemine like hell yeah
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Arc Hammer posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlr3dw2x3o Come with me and you'll be in a world of pure aggravation
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reignofevil posted:I like when rick hosed the hivemine like hell yeah I don't remember this part of walking dead but I stopped watching after season 3
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not trolled not crying posted:Just got back from Dunc part 2 and it was alright. At times it felt like nothing much was happening, then it felt like months have suddenly gone by and then they were speedrunning through the third act. Of course it looks and sounds massive and epic, and it's always nice to see a good scifi moopie of this scale on the big screen. I haven't read the book(s) so some of it was a little confusing to my already stupid brain but still, I enjoyed it, especially the underlying sinister vibe running through it. The book is the same way most of the good stuff happens before Paul and his mom get stuck in the desert.
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Gutcruncher posted:https://a.co/d/7loDZ6A there are multiple companies that release poo poo like that on bluray https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/unmasking-the-idol-vsa they also do extremely cool poo poo https://vinegarsyndrome.com/products/existenz?_pos=1&_sid=3ee3bb411&_ss=r
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Groovelord Neato posted:The book is the same way most of the good stuff happens before Paul and his mom get stuck in the desert. Of course the worm god AV would say this.
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Apparently Kevin Coster is directing a four-movie epic about American expansion west during the Civil War. Parts 1 & 2 coming out this summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYsReoZMj1k He spent $20 million of his own money on it and isn't getting paid for writing, directing or acting (I mean, he owns it, so he'll make a shitload if it does well). PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Feb 27, 2024 |
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Feb 27, 2024 22:42
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That's such a waste of costner it makes me sad. Various people can still get westerns made kevin, you're the only one who can bring baseball films into being
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No Mods No Masters posted:That's such a waste of costner it makes me sad. Various people can still get westerns made kevin, you're the only one who can bring baseball films into being It's so strange that baseball is the most boring sport ever invented (aside from maybe those cricket games that take literal days), but baseball movies are usually pretty good.
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PostNouveau posted:It's so strange that baseball is the most boring sport ever invented (aside from maybe those cricket games that take literal days), but baseball movies are usually pretty good. Give baseball another shot there’s a pitch clock now 
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Endless Trash posted:Give baseball another shot lol no, not gonna watch a sport so boring the players have to take Ritalin to be able to pay attention to it
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it's all about the game within the game. wheels within wheels, plans within plans
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PostNouveau posted:lol no, not gonna watch a sport so boring the players have to take Ritalin to be able to pay attention to it I think they were just trying to take speed and get away with it but I take your point
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I enjoy baseball 2 ways: 1) on a nice sunny day at the ballpark where the game is actually secondary 2) on a lovely rainy day when I have no kids to bug me and I don’t feel like doing anything other than sitting in a comfy chair and dozing off to something It is a pretty chill sport. Maybe they could market it as ASMR to the kids these days or something.
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Mozi posted:it's all about the game within the game. wheels within wheels, plans within plans 
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priznat posted:I enjoy baseball 2 ways: Oh I can go get drunk in the sun and ignore the game no problem. Once at a minor league game I didn't realize the home team pitcher had a no-hitter going until he blew it in the 8th inning and everyone around us started moaning about it.
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getting drunk at the ballpark rules and playoff baseball can be pretty fun, but lol at giving a poo poo about any one of the 600,000 regular season games.
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PostNouveau posted:It's so strange that baseball is the most boring sport ever invented (aside from maybe those cricket games that take literal days), but baseball movies are usually pretty good. boiling an entire season of games down to two hours makes baseball more watchable you say?
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baseball is the ultimate background sport
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There's some particular brain malfunction that turns some people into Actual baseball fans who watch 100 games a season, and I say that as a baseball fan. I can't blame anyone for thinking baseball is boring because if you're not an Actual baseball fan it must be interminable. Golf and auto racing also work this way also star trek
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baseball is one of the best sports to half watch while you do something else because it has a very steady rhythm
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Stink Billyums posted:baseball is one of the best sports to half watch while you do something else
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I love listening to a baseball game on AM radio, there's nothing quite like it.
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Lmao David Zaslav just shuttered the entire news / current / affairs / journalism wing of his New Zealand media empire. Hundreds out of jobs, little to replace it, and now weirdly enough all major NZ journalism is output through state owned networks right after we got a lovely right wing government (normal right wing, not quite American fascism poo poo).
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PostNouveau posted:It's so strange that baseball is the most boring sport ever invented (aside from maybe those cricket games that take literal days), but baseball movies are usually pretty good. I've found that most sports are boring until you bet money on the outcome and then they become very exciting.
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Lister posted:I've found that most sports are boring until you bet money on the outcome and then they become very exciting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I75DwzmIPzY even this?
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TW that poo poo, I lost 5 Gs on Simon Skelton that day
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Bowls is like one of the only interesting sports.
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Kingo Ligma posted:Lmao David Zaslav just shuttered the entire news / current / affairs / journalism wing of his New Zealand media empire. If you want to know what’s going on in New Zealand can’t you just walk outside and yell “hey what’s going on?!” and if anybody in the country has something worth talking about they’ll yell back?
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Gripweed posted:If you want to know what’s going on in New Zealand can’t you just walk outside and yell “hey what’s going on?!” and if anybody in the country has something worth talking about they’ll yell back? Not in this economy
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Gutcruncher posted:I love when people involved in the movies find their Best of the Worst episodes and comment on them. It’s fun to hear about the behind the scenes poo poo
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Groovelord Neato posted:The book is the same way most of the good stuff happens before Paul and his mom get stuck in the desert. Yeah the book is very uneven in its pacing. It goes from a tightly plotted political intrigue that happens over a few months, to skipping over literal years in its second act. The Villeneuve movies are probably the best adaption that we’ll ever get, but I would really have preferred something like an HBO miniseries instead.
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How about a sci fi channel miniseries?
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Generally the fremen half of dune is a little shoddy but I really love the last scene. I don't know why frank herbert switched to writing a play then, but it owns
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Vim Fuego posted:How about a sci fi channel miniseries? I have a soft-spot for the sci-fi channel miniseries, its heart was in the right place, it just had a hilariously low budget. The whole thing has the energy of late 90’s video game FMV cutscenes. I love how all of the desert scenes were obviously filmed on a soundstage that they just dumped a pile of sand onto. 
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Time for the boys to talk about the biggest, most relevant sci-fi event of the year Star Trek The Next Generation on Blu-Ray
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