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After the watching the pilot for The Man in the High Castle, I'm really hopeful that the series is going to be very good. I can always use some more Dick. Especially when its confused, melancholy and otherworldly Dick.
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The movie is good and different from the book, like many adaptations of Dick
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Sham bam bamina! posted:haven't yet read a bad one but goodies are do androids dream... and the man in the high castle are among some of my favorite lucid-Dick. Also I really do enjoy we will remember it for you wholesale but its a short story.
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Sep 30, 2015 16:24
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syscall girl posted:i enjoy when good books/stories are turned into hollywood rubbish only fit for plebes for a couple of different reasons hey now the first total recall was better than that!
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Oct 2, 2015 19:28
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Gus Hobbleton posted:wasnt there some sci fi weapon that just launched a giant piece of inert metal straight down so fast that it obliterated a planet? I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill 'em all!
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Oct 13, 2015 05:14
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Moist von Lipwig posted:trick question, narnia isn't worth reading gently caress you buddy the voyage of the dawn treader rocks
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Oct 16, 2015 00:43
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Moist von Lipwig posted:this is acceptable, nostalgia is a powerful thing and i would never fault someone for it, as long as they realize it's nostalgia what's your feeling on Bradbury though?
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Oct 16, 2015 05:57
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Moist von Lipwig posted:if your point was that i'm vulnerable to nostalgia, of course i am, but lord of the rings or something would've made a better target. i'm still fond of it and it's a great book but i realize part of that is the fact that my beady little 10 year old eyes lit up when my grandmother gave me that stupid 1200 page tome and i chewed through it in a week. nah I was curious because I feel LoTR reminds me more of Azimov and Clarke...big into getting the world "right" (be it hard scifi, psychohistory, or elvish) while Lewis, Bradbury, Dick et al were way more feelz based. This is obviously not well put or thought out
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Oct 16, 2015 06:23
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gently caress OSC, I don't even care about his work. Whoop-ti-do, someone read speaker of the dead and found it deep. Now Heinlein, that's an author that I wish hadn't written such horrible (usually sexist) stuff mixed in with his scifi. Like a number of his books I couldn't complete because of it
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Oct 16, 2015 18:35
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Larry Parrish posted:i dont think the moon is a harsh mistress is a libertarian paradise really. it starts out being super, super unregulated because none of the governments really seem to own anything and then they revolt because ??? and it's the same as before but with a lot of damage. nah, they revolted so that they'd get paid for their poo poo rather than have to pay for their poo poo. that's literally what it was all about also marrying your daughter's husband
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Oct 19, 2015 04:17
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Amethyst posted:predicating what you read on their idealistic content sounds noble but it's actually just stupid. there's a difference between a book having a dumb ideology and the writer putting in the book "she then uttered a phrase too rude for a woman to say in print"
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Oct 19, 2015 04:49
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Amethyst posted:What are you referring to I can't remember which Heinlein book it was, I read too many of his shittier ones. Literally, it is a female character swearing, but instead of writing the swearword or @#&$, or just describing her reaction, he actually writes in the book that "she then made a reply that is unfit for a woman to say in print" or some poo poo like that.
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Oct 19, 2015 07:20
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yeah lewis isn't on par with homer in terms of contribution to western lit, but they both make good stories for children if you pick and choose a bit
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Oct 19, 2015 10:32
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Amethyst posted:this book is pretty good, I guess, but is it the cornerstone for an entire continent's worth of literary history spanning multiple millennia? Actually lol Yeah I was just meaning they both make good children stories even if you skip over the gore and sex Was homer the clancy of his day?
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Oct 19, 2015 10:39
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kids should be able to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still even though it has a bunch of Jesus allegory in it
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Oct 19, 2015 19:58
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JawnV6 posted:what Keanu role is he not playing jesus I had purged the memory of that remake from my mind, I need a shower
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Oct 19, 2015 20:56
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Best Keanu is in much ado about nothing
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i get it, y'all read this poo poo as kids and somehow squeezed some enjoyment out of that cold, stony ground. go back and re-read it now. that poo poo is joyless. why would you give it to a kid are you talking about The Giver?
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Oct 19, 2015 21:57
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seriously the giver is way worse to give to kids than leon the which and war drove
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Oct 19, 2015 22:36
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The Time Dissolver posted:The season 2 episode of Bojack Horseman about meat production is science fiction by any reasonable standard. they show you a world different than our own and explore the implications of that difference It also convinced me that the real soylent would sell better than the SV version.
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Oct 27, 2015 05:50
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Amethyst posted:what its magical cause they don't try to  it awayits realism cause bojack and crew don't get hung up on the fact he's a horse of course
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Oct 27, 2015 06:48
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Trig Discipline posted:other noted entries in the magical realism genre: the smurfs, the transformers, those commercials with toucan sam, and those commercials where the bottle of racist maple syrup moves around star wars
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Oct 27, 2015 06:52
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FMguru posted:Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to see the robots that disguised themselves as cars and planes and radio-cassette players. 
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Pinterest Mom posted:hey, yeah I don't think I'm going to pay $5.99 a month for it though
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ol qwerty bastard posted:yeah i'm tentatively optimistic. not that we know anything at all about what it'll be at this point Only the first episode will actually be on tv right? The rest will be streaming only on CBS's paid streaming platform I think.
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Nov 2, 2015 18:38
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Glorgnole posted:knights of sidonia did get some really impressive mileage out of exploring what happens to giant boobs in zero-g. they just stuck boob jiggles wherever they could (i.e. every character in every scene). No see they're naked because plants
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Nov 9, 2015 06:37
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Hogge Wild posted:this is also a bad thing That's as much a sign of the time when it was published than anything though. The foundation series is no martian chronicles but still thought provoking, which is a sadly high bar
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Nov 10, 2015 18:59
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oh poo poo its about to get all scifi/skiffy/spec fic itt
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Shaggar posted:Man in the High Castle on amazon is extremely mediocre so best scifi on tv? 
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Nov 23, 2015 19:14
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Rude.
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best part of jessica jones is mra redpill doctor who
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computer parts posted:because we don't talk about the star wars tie in books right this is the skiffy thread not the fantasy thread
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EDITORS PICK: The previous movies haven't been sci-fi. They've been action movies in space. That's not what Trek is about. Wrath of Khan managed to get some exciting space battles in while still getting at the morality of not one or two but THREE dilemmas brought about by science: Khan's genetically modified superhuman abilities, the potential for abuse of the Genesis Project, and not keeping an eye on the madman you left behind in an uninhabited star system. Separate from that, it dealt with the concepts of sacrifice and friendship and where they cross. I still get misty-eyed at the end, even having seen it dozens of times. When I finally did watch Into Darkness on Netflix, I felt a little sad that it would be the last I would see of Leonard Nimoy as he basically signed off. I was right, of course, but I think it may have been for the better judging by the mess that this has become. The one actor who I think is actually providing a proper homage to the original is Karl Urban. Everyone else is at best a caricature of the originals and a mockery at worst, as has been the case with Checkov and especially Scotty. I don't even know how to recover from this point. Bringing in a director that has a concept of pacing might be a good start, but I'm not sure who would be willing to do it, having to take the fragments the Trek universe has been shattered into and turn them back into something recognizable as Trek. Even then, this part might not be saved. up ( +28 | +31 / -3 ) down
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Sham bam bamina! posted:like theyre supposed to be adults who have been through The Academy or whatever and they all act like literal sixteen year olds acting like a horny teenage is a key part of tos idk what you are on about
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SmokaDustbowl posted:gently caress star trek and star wars is this from the one about space trash men who have to get naked so they can photosynthesize and can change genders because japan?
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Shaggar posted:Fantasy is the worst genre. star wars isnt so bad
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Glorgnole posted:axis & allies, but you have to do each battle on a separate table with miniatures etc would unironically play in a well organized year long game of that if it had large teams.
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Trig Discipline posted:tyvm if you include the drunken fight afterwards, i think most games of pit simulate the housing collapse pretty well
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Trig Discipline posted:i was gonna say heinlein, but both are accurate the heinlein is the reverse Mary Sue when the "female" is a dumb shallow audience surrogate who assumes she'll get to be with the author insert but he turns her down cooly in the end and maybe abandons her there
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