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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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"yeah..." :slick: "...yeah"

-pi derpy's contribution to kashmir
















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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FORTRANsvestite posted:

spoilers don't work right with 219.css so sorry if you haven't seen the x-files i guess


i really like how the x-files went from "mulder is crazy" to "aliens are real and you see them sometimes" to "there is a full-on alien war going on and men in suits talk about it all the time".

i don't get how that show went from the 'monster of the week' format to stupid roswell grey alien conspiracy bullshit as the focus

with the exception of that ep where jesse l. martin played a negro league slugger who was also an alien on the lam from a bounty hunter, that was all right

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FEMA summer camp posted:

I kinda stopped watching a bit after they introduced him, did they ever give him any funny episodes? because for me the funny episodes were a decent chunk of the appeal of that show.

the christmas episode with ed asner and lily tomlin as murder-suicide ghosts was the best

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FEMA summer camp posted:

i thought that one was a pre-dogget episode?

yeah, i sort of quoted you and ignored the point of what you were saying

the giant mushroom episode was also kick-rear end and was pre-dogget as well

robert patrick is pretty cool though

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Amethyst posted:

I subscribe to asimov's science fiction monthly.

every steampunk story is total poo poo

i seem to remember it (teamspunk) looking really cool in heavy metal but that was years ago

and the stories were total poo poo i just like pictures of zeppelins

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Coffee Quack posted:

did you like moon

moon owns because it brings up the #1 best hypothetical in scifi

would you?

with yourself? :heysexy:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FEMA summer camp posted:




someone requested this get giffed in the tviv trek thread so i made it



enjoy?

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Sniep posted:

why didn't he die there

q q qqq qq

:ughh:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NINbuntu 64 posted:

oh right i forgot they added the borg queen in first contact and pussied up the borg in voyager.

im talking classic borg where its just the 100%

:respek:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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arrogant bastard

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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FMguru posted:

at the time, ringworld (and niven's known space work in general) was considered cutting-edge hard sf, and that was one of its appeals. forty years of developments in actual science has rendered his hard sf awfully soft and faintly ridiculous. the interstellar medium isn't dense enough to allow bussard ramships to function, dolphins are not as bright as humans, the ringworld itself needs to made of material that's stronger than the strong nuclear force to hold it together, psionics is not a rapidly developing science, humans are not descended from alien space colonists, you can't breed genes for luck, and so on

that's where its charm comes from. known space as a whole (read his short story collections esp. N-Space and Playgrounds of the Mind) is sprawling and full of cool stuff and him using the puppeteers to fix stuff that he got wrong with behind the scenes machinations. also the man-kzin wars have been being written for quite a while and still are, afaik so they try and keep things up to date for the old geezer.

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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LP97S posted:

Sci-Fi, that episode of DS9 where Worf, Dax, Bashir, Leeta, and Quark go to Risa and Worf is mad about relaxing is one of the worst episodes made.

there is an annual tradition, with voting no less, wherein goon trekkies* pick the worst of the worst star tracks and this episode seems to make the cut more often than not





*this might be redundant

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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toby posted:

see. look at all these dumbass things. the human body is retarded except for attractive lady parts and then those are awesome

this is sci-fi relevant, this is the kind of poo poo that drives weird author dudes to imagine an alien race that is more cleverly put together but still comes with T&A

that's just boris vallejo and frank frazzeta making that sweet illustrator chedda

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Woz My Neg rear end posted:

and james cameron putting huge amounts of work into coming up with a complete integrated alien ecosystem based on fundamentally different biology and then going "oh yeah and give them sweet rear end racks cause that's awesome"

well yeah, it should have died out in the 60s or 70s (80s?) but boobs!

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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theflyingexecutive posted:

it's the disney effect

flashy blue-white teeth are the ultimate in sex appeal

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Trig Discipline posted:

that's true, but he is frequently the one good character in whatever lovely movie it is

death and the maiden was not scific but drat did sigourney weaver play it to the nines, kingsely was good in this as well

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lord funk posted:

somebody post the 'o'brien must suffer' trek boxset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u2PqLV7Fkg

teh key search term is "shoulder"

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Trig Discipline posted:

although i hope they put it back in for the porn parody as tom bombadildo

hopefully they can get rachel dratch to play frodo so i won't feel so conflicted about all of these feelings

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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william gibson and timothy leary shooting the poo poo about the sprawl trilogy

http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/12/gibson-leary-audio-mondo-2000-history-project/

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Dear RMS posted:

I read a lot of hardy boys (the NEW ones tyvm) as a kid, I will not pick one up now and shatter my rose colored glasses.

They probably weren't that great though.

i read a lot of the stainless steel rat series when i was young and i spent a lot of time at used bookstores buying up pretty much the whole collection :unsmigghh:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lifeboat was pretty good but certainly wasn't in the last ten years

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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lol

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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cowboy bebop was good

a lot of miyazaki's stuff was good

hating on the animation of an entire culture (however hosed said culture may appear to be) based on horrifying fans and even more horrifying pedophiliac shows/movies is like saying you can't enjoy An American Tale because ponytards exist

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Amethyst posted:

Miyazaki's movies are incredibly good.

Cowboy bebop, however, is standard anime poo poo, complete with creepy upskirt shots and pointless rape scenes

i have a lot of fond memories of hanging out with a friend watching it on adult swim, smoking a weed, playing starcraft on the LAN and admiring faye's boobs

i disremember rapes, are you talking about the movie?

searching for "cowboy bebop rape" just lead me to the fact that there's some creeper poo poo in the movie and that keanu reeves is "raping teh franchise"

and i shouldn't equate miyazaki with bebop, but they both have great music v:downs:v

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Kirk posted:

watch up til season 3

then kill yourself

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Woz My Neg rear end posted:

watch all of bsg and then decide for yourself if overall it owns or not




(hint: it does)

don't forget razor :tipshat:

but seriously get ready for disappointment if you don't like deus ex machina silliness towards the end

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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don't compare that goofball poo poo to pegasus :colbert:

and keep your chins up you scoliotic bastard

mad about these frakes

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NINbuntu 64 posted:

but a ghost got troi pregnant in that one episode

no, a ghost mind-raped her in to being a ghost robot for the polar ghosts until they used the bdsm ray to re-rape the federation philosophy into her betazed hotbrains... pbffff

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NINbuntu 64 posted:

i was talking about a real episode

i was just being hyperbolic about an episode i liked when i was a kid

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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NINbuntu 64 posted:

i remember watching that episode after learning about the xenu thing in scientology a couple years ago and just being confused as poo poo

it's all true

if you want the full experience man up and sign on with Sea Org

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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duTrieux posted:

the way i figure is that everyone is actually just suspended in air by a system of tractors/repulsors, with the holodeck moving people around and providing feedback as needed.

like, if one dude runs away from the other, they'll both still be ~10 feet from each other but be seeing and experiencing entirely different things.


it's fun, shut up. :mad:

which is why the holosuites at quarks made more sense but for some reason voyager regressed to the holodeck model and introduced (i think) the separate power system that allowed dumb janeway to mate with irishmen when they were supposed to be conserving power

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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duTrieux posted:

what the christ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1giVzxyoclE#t=03m07s

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Trig Discipline posted:

not when i'm in the theater

the jean-michel cousteau imax cetacean show is no place to be whipping it out

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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:swoon:

the only bluray player i have is in my craptop but i will rectify this

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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coaxmetal posted:

I liked his first uplift trilogy. I even liked parts of the second.

i still have all of these but i smoked a lot of pot while reading them and thought maybe i was remembering it wrong/retarded because sundiver had nothing to do with the second and third books and the first three had nothing to do with the second trilogy

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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coaxmetal posted:

Actually don't really remember much of anything about the 2 books after sundiver, except there were dolphins. They could have sucked, I recall enjoying them tho.

multiple cetaceans, iirc

it was fun before i became aware of people who think they are/dress like animals and the whole "uplift" idea became very very disturbing

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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especially the parts with pink chimp asses

in retrospect :barf:

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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Wilhelm_Scream.wav posted:

dangit someone tell me how to do this

zalgo

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

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atomicthumbs posted:

is there a better first episode of TNG to show someone than encounter at farpoint

because it's kinda bad

the royale?



it's mid season 2 but kinda fun

or you could just go with 'the naked now' which comes right after farpoint

:roboluv:

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Nov 7, 2009

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LP97S posted:

That's not too hard when Geordi had a hardon for engineering.

you'd think that would show in those ridiculous uniforms

gotta pity wesley/wil wheaton going through puberty in a unitard

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