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johnny, why do you hate sex and drugs
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cause i cant afford either 
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Sep 28, 2011 11:51
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JawnV6 posted:i think i oversaturated on van vogt The book has about the dumbest group of space explorers I've ever seen: they land on a planet and encounter the Coeurl (aka displacer beast for you D&D types), which basically looks like a tiger or other big cat. They have no idea what its intentions are, but they let it on the ship where it wanders around without supervision. Shockingly it starts killing people. The book is also filled with goofy psychology and anthropology: when another alien that they find floating in space gets aboard and starts attacking people, they start speculating about what level of cultural development it's at, and from that they're actually able to predict what it's going to do. Crazy goofy book.
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Sep 28, 2011 17:04
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who said the last two books of the black company were awesome because this poo poo starts out slowwwwwwwwwwww
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Sep 28, 2011 19:42
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I'm reading Scott Westerfeld's "Risen Empire" books again it's got some cool ideas but it really should have been one book [thanks Borders Bucks!] and the author is way more successful writing young adult steampunk fiction so I guess that's it
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Sep 28, 2011 19:55
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I thought the dune prequels were both terrible horseshit and interesting, the robot guys made a good antagonist and the war was cool. the bizzaro plotpoint of the invincible asteroid warship was crap though.
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Sep 28, 2011 20:01
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LooseChanj posted:ummm, that's the sixties you're complaining about you see, i wrote it as a synopsis of "barbarella", but he deliberately misinterpreted it as a description of the real life jane fonda and duran duran in the eighties, and then you didn't get the joke
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Sep 28, 2011 21:02
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SRQ posted:I thought the dune prequels were both terrible horseshit and interesting, the robot guys made a good antagonist and the war was cool. nearly every single plot thread petered out, dramatic developments were regularly neutered of any impact, and the characters were paper-thin caricatures of human beings. and then they write sequels that could have started with every original character just dropping dead, and it wouldn't have made any difference to how the books play out. getting mad about sandworms... that live in water!
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Sep 28, 2011 21:14
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dont sandworms die when submerged in water @____@
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Sep 28, 2011 21:29
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wait they do what what oh gently caress they ruin corrino for it don't they  Truly I was better off not knowing. I will say that the war itself was interesting enough, atleast in the first book, and the robot dudes had a cool back story that made a lot of sense.
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Sep 28, 2011 21:31
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wait, are you reading the brian herbert/kage anderson books first?
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Sep 28, 2011 21:50
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Kirk posted:dont sandworms die when submerged in water @____@ where else are you going to get ULTRASPICE 
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Sep 28, 2011 21:51
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wait i thought that's how you make the water of death
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Sep 28, 2011 22:41
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you get the water of life when you drown a worm, because water fucks their poo poo up. no, the bherb/kjand sequels literally added ocean-faring sandworms for whom water ain't no thing.
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Sep 28, 2011 23:08
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duTrieux posted:you get the water of life when you drown a worm, because water fucks their poo poo up. so did they just miss the point of the original dune or what
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Sep 28, 2011 23:11
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HYMEN.SYS posted:so did they just miss the point of the original dune or what yes
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Sep 28, 2011 23:12
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duTrieux posted:you get the water of life when you drown a worm, because water fucks their poo poo up. Not really a sandworm anymore, is it? I liked the first book of the butlerian jihad, mostly because I'm gay for prequels and backstory. Definitely got pretty stupid real quick though
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Sep 28, 2011 23:47
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i never bothered to read that one, i'll grant there may sometimes be jewels amid the turds.
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Sep 28, 2011 23:58
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quote:Star Trek: TNG  :toot::toot::toot::toot::toot::toot:
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Kirk posted:
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Sep 29, 2011 00:04
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Kirk posted:wait i thought TNG was filmed for TV (As well as animated) and there were no film level processed archives from which to do that with
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Sep 29, 2011 00:05
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they should remaster those spandex sausage casings they all wore in the first few seasons.
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Sep 29, 2011 00:06
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Sniep posted:wait i thought TNG was filmed for TV (As well as animated) and there were no film level processed archives from which to do that with i believe the effects were done on tape, not the original filming
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Sep 29, 2011 00:08
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:i believe the effects were done on tape, not the original filming ok so they are reanimating every episode? I heard that same thing, too, and that's what i guess im referring to - that it would cost way too much to re-do all of the effects in HD and that they look super crappy scaled up
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Sep 29, 2011 00:12
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it was a mix of film and tape for the first few seasons; film was used for raw footage and the ship models, while tape was used for visual effects. why do i still know that.
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Sep 29, 2011 00:12
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most of the heavy lifting is done already (ship models and major effects on film), so i imagine the rest is just fancy post-processing?
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Sep 29, 2011 00:13
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yeah all the SFX were done on tape and look like poo poo and they're ALL getting redone shits gonna be bad rear end oh god i hope DS9 gets the widescreen BD treatment oh god oh god oh god
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Sep 29, 2011 00:19
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everything mastered all of it
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Sep 29, 2011 00:20
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Kirk posted:yeah all the SFX were done on tape and look like poo poo and they're ALL getting redone ds9 already looks pretty goddamn good for 4:3 low def
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Sep 29, 2011 00:22
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lol im watching terra nova right now and its really dumb
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Sep 29, 2011 00:22
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Shaggar posted:ds9 already looks pretty goddamn good for 4:3 low def yeah but it would look BETTER
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Sep 29, 2011 00:23
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actually DS9 is probably too expensive to be worthwhile unless the CGI teams worked in widescreen (which i really doubt) DS9 was all CGI by the end
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Sep 29, 2011 00:24
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how many of you people actually slogged through 6+ KJA dune books?! I gave up on that poo poo halfway through House Atreides
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Sep 29, 2011 00:24
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i guess i hope that they stick to the original intent with the reanimation effects and dont lucas it up then
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Sep 29, 2011 00:25
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engineering scene to bridge scene *soft horizontal swipe*
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Sep 29, 2011 00:25
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Kirk posted:yeah but it would look BETTER ya thats what i mean. it would look totes awesome.
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Sep 29, 2011 00:26
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Shaggar posted:lol speaking of shows that need to be remastered
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Sep 29, 2011 00:28
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Amethyst posted:how many of you people actually slogged through 6+ KJA dune books?! I read the KJA "saga of seven suns" books, dude is a master of characters who have exactly one personality trait that governs their every reaction to everything
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I think redoing the star trek vfx is in poor taste. Kinda like colorising black and white movies. old vfx are really interesting both historically and aesthetically and painting over them with cg takes the original text out of it's time and makes it into a gaudy collage Amethyst fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Sep 29, 2011 |
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