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Snow Cone Capone posted:a thing I've noticed in the past is that for as prescient as his novels are, Gibson can be hilariously inept about technology sometimes, to the point where I'd say First Person Shooter makes just as much sense coming from him as Kill Switch did I am pretty sure William Gibson said he actively avoids reading about tech or learning it so he doesn't get influenced by it. So yeah all his tech stuff is all technobabble and wrong.
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There is a pivotal scene in Neuromancer where a bunch of cynical teen hackers help the main character by using pay phones as part of some sci-fi phone phreak thing.
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I AM GRANDO posted:There is a pivotal scene in Neuromancer where a bunch of cynical teen hackers help the main character by using pay phones as part of some sci-fi phone phreak thing. IIRC this scene also speaks to the sort of dissolution of "subcultures" into transient microcultures constsntly usurping each other because of the immense amount if information flying around. Gibsons a cool guy.
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Watched Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man tonight. Such a fun episode. Payback's a bitch, Ivan.
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What I don't want to see is the Bills winning a Super Bowl. As long as I'm alive, that doesn't happen.
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Zesty posted:NWS just to be safe. It's David Duchovny with the tea cup. That link is dead now but I just came across this photo I've never seen before 
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i've been watching x files for the first time, my main takeaways are that it's one of the best comedies ever made, and that mark snow got paid more to aimlessly noodle around on a keyboard for a few years than you'll make in your entire life
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Pac and Cheese posted:i've been watching x files for the first time, my main takeaways are that it's one of the best comedies ever made, and that mark snow got paid more to aimlessly noodle around on a keyboard for a few years than you'll make in your entire life It perfectly balanced tension and character-based comedy for maybe four seasons and then they leaned too far into humor and upset the balance. It’s really something to enjoy.
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Pac and Cheese posted:i've been watching x files for the first time, my main takeaways are that it's one of the best comedies ever made, and that mark snow got paid more to aimlessly noodle around on a keyboard for a few years than you'll make in your entire life Hey, that's bullshit. He'd also crack out the pan pipes whenever a native American was on screen.
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And that lone oboe of comedy.
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come on the racial episodes are great. loved the one about the albino black guy who has to suck the black out of other black guys or he'll die
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According to Mulder, there's a whole tribe of them! Just sucking and sucking away in the Saharan desert.
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Pac and Cheese posted:come on the racial episodes are great. loved the one about the albino black guy who has to suck the black out of other black guys or he'll die They all come out of nowhere in fairly rapid succession.
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I'm the Indian guy on the little scooter with some gross power I can't remember. I think he crawls inside you through your butt?
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mobby_6kl posted:That link is dead now but I just came across this photo I've never seen before Is this art?
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Pac and Cheese posted:i've been watching x files for the first time, my main takeaways are that it's one of the best comedies ever made, and that mark snow got paid more to aimlessly noodle around on a keyboard for a few years than you'll make in your entire life At the time drama shows had no soundtrack and, to me anyway, the cheesy-ness of it reminded me of low budget horror movies which just made it all better. It was different at the time and pretty soon just became part of the show. But I can totally see watching it in 2024 for the first time where it likely sounds worse than than the soundtrack on CW shows.
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steinrokkan posted:I'm the Indian guy on the little scooter with some gross power I can't remember. I think he crawls inside you through your butt? I'm one of the Florida swamp people
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Weebly posted:I’m a few episodes into season 2 and it hits. 11/12 hits so far. Do keep updates going on. Im thinking of rewatching most of the episodes but I want to skip the ones I remember too well or that werent banging, list like this helps a lot with that.
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I AM GRANDO posted:And that lone oboe of comedy. I personally like the romantic music that plays whenever mysterious blonde mystery woman from Season 4 (whose name I don’t care to remember) shows up near Mulder. As far as I know, that never went anywhere.
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Bonzo posted:Marita Covarrubias? YES her
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My kids pointed out that she has the same hair as Scully. (TBF, it was the 90s, so everyone had that hair)
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Bonzo posted:Marita Covarrubias? when I was in university a friend and I watched through the entirey of X-Files and could never remember her name, so she was known as "the immovable hair lady"
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newts posted:My kids pointed out that she has the same hair as Scully. (TBF, it was the 90s, so everyone had that hair) Tell them it was a government issued hairstyle.
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The HOA tulpa monster episode was really good. It's one of like the four, possibly five episodes without Darren McGavin that I can distinctly remember. The others are the cannibal that ate fat girls he met through online dating, the one with the time traveling ocean liner, and the one where Bryan Cranston's head explodes. And I think there was a two-parter bodyswap deal where a frog got fused into a rock that might've involved Area 51.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The HOA tulpa monster episode was really good. It's one of like the four, possibly five episodes without Darren McGavin that I can distinctly remember. The others are the cannibal that ate fat girls he met through online dating, the one with the time traveling ocean liner, and the one where Bryan Cranston's head explodes. And I think there was a two-parter bodyswap deal where a frog got fused into a rock that might've involved Area 51. That was Dreamland
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I remember the "fat" ladies were like 90s fat.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I remember the "fat" ladies were like 90s fat. Lmao the parasite dude who was feeding on big ladies and shes just presented as like the fattest person to ever exist and looks like shed be on the skinny side in the midwest in TYOOL 2024.
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Bonzo posted:Marita Covarrubias? They called the mystery woman Coveruppius.
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Covarubius is a weird and bad character and my wife pointes out that she talks through her bottom teeth and now I cant unsee it.
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I mainly watch xfiles for the 90s FBI motor pool vehicles at this point
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So there's a reboot in the works? wtf https://www.darkhorizons.com/x-files-creator-on-reboot-conspiracies/
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isaboo posted:So there's a reboot in the works? wtf I would be shocked if this actually comes out, but this quote kind of blew my mind: "" posted:Carter also spoke about how Fox executives weren’t fans of his casting choices in the early 1990s, with the studio wanting someone else for Scully with studio executives asking him “where’s the sex appeal” when he cast Gillian Anderson. Like I know the 90s had some really hosed up ideas about beauty and sex appeal but those executives were insane.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I would be shocked if this actually comes out, but this quote kind of blew my mind: On the one hand, the way they had her dressed was kind of dowdy. On the other hand, they made her do a strip tease in the pilot. I wonder if that scene was to placate the executives.
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A Fancy Hat posted:I would be shocked if this actually comes out, but this quote kind of blew my mind: Her hair was up and she was wearing glasses, it was an easy mistake
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