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Speaking of Star Trek, I am now about 1 hour and 20 minutes into Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I've seen it before but not since I was a kid). It's got this reputation of being a slow-paced movie that isn't very good, but I think if you watch it with an open mind today, you'll find that it's a slow-paced movie that isn't very good. It's a shame because there's a potentially great story in there (Kirk exploiting an emergency to take back the Enterprise and the actual captain being rightfully annoyed by this) but they don't really commit hard to it. And it just feels like no one involved actually wants to be there. The kid playing Decker is trying his best (and I can't believe it took me this long to make the connection between First Officer Will Decker who is sometimes at odds with the captain and who has an alien ex-girlfriend and First Officer Will Riker who etc. etc.) Some of the space shots are really pretty though, which is good BECAUSE YOU'LL BE SEEING QUITE A LOT OF THEM. I just finished up a 15-minute sequence that was 'ten seconds of Space Cloud, ten seconds of random crewmember looking surprised or frightened, repeat forever'. McCoy wandered onto the bridge like twice to just stare at the viewscreen and left again without saying anything.
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Sep 20, 2017 11:59
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i feel like it was aping a lot of the trappings of 2001 without any purpose, it was slow because 2001 was, it had spock leave the ship and fly into a monolith and have weird visions, v'ger being a human spacecraft gone rogue mirrors hal i guess and also the mission in 2010 to go check out whats up with the discovery (alas ST:TMP predates the publication of 2010 but thats not gonna stop me mentioning it) it looks gorgeous and has a great score, i especially like the klingon battle horns and the theme which i assume is slightly different to the TNG theme or something but it sounds the same to me in many ways star trek i and star trek v are the yin and yang of trek; one has gorgeous visuals and a great score and horrible fashions and the other has the warm camaraderie and three best friends eatin beans and singin a song in conclusion star trek v is the second best star trek movie after star trek vi
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Sep 20, 2017 12:18
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punchymcpunch posted:horrible fashions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Lo-d8AWL0&t=36s wtf open shirt over a medallion on a hairy chest is actually a timeless look, dumbass
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Sep 20, 2017 12:20
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docbeard posted:Speaking of Star Trek, I am now about 1 hour and 20 minutes into Star Trek: The Motion Picture (I've seen it before but not since I was a kid). It's got this reputation of being a slow-paced movie that isn't very good, but I think if you watch it with an open mind today, you'll find that it's a slow-paced movie that isn't very good. TMP is a mediocre TOS third season plot stretched out to two hours, I really despise it You do get disco Dr. McCoy, though, that's a plus
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Sep 20, 2017 14:44
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:oh yea! Andrew Robinson played Garrack, he was the villain in the first Dirty Harry film, he rules DS9 is good because secondary characters get more development than some primary characters on TNG
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Sep 20, 2017 14:46
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Nebakenezzer posted:Andrew Robinson played Garrack, he was the villain in the first Dirty Harry film, he rules scorpio in dirty harry was based on zodiac, so in a way, he played ted cruz
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Sep 20, 2017 15:09
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imo its a crime that there was never a garak + obrien focus episode called tinker tailor soldier spy
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Sep 20, 2017 15:15
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punchymcpunch posted:i feel like it was aping a lot of the trappings of 2001 without any purpose, it was slow because 2001 was, it had spock leave the ship and fly into a monolith and have weird visions, v'ger being a human spacecraft gone rogue mirrors hal i guess and also the mission in 2010 to go check out whats up with the discovery (alas ST:TMP predates the publication of 2010 but thats not gonna stop me mentioning it) Yeah, the 2001 connection certainly occurred to me. And it absolutely can't be emphasized enough how beautiful the film looks. They spent a lot of money on the visual effects and it really shows. I have a vague recollection of it having been adapted from the pilot for the ill-fated 'Star Trek Phase 2' revival series, so there's probably a good reason it feels like an exceptionally padded TV episode. I'm planning on marathoning through at least the first 6 Trek films (we'll see how well my resolve collides with Generations) and V is definitely the one I'm most curious about since I haven't seen it in forever (and it's the other one that has the particularly terrible reputation). And yeah, count me in among the DS9 Best Trek folks.
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Sep 20, 2017 15:20
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The time between the end of the original Star Trek and The Motion Picture, and the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and today is now the same
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Sep 20, 2017 16:46
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Nebakenezzer posted:The time between the end of the original Star Trek and The Motion Picture, and the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and today is now the same As indeed is the time between the beginning of The Motion Picture and the end of The Motion Picture
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Sep 20, 2017 16:48
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the best season of star trek is wrath of khan, search for spock, voyage home 
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Sep 20, 2017 16:57
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Nebakenezzer posted:The time between the end of the original Star Trek and The Motion Picture, and the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and today is now the same half life 3 is literally never going to happen im afraid
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Sep 20, 2017 17:01
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i just got a sudden powerful urge to play through silent hill 2 again, is there a working pc version yet
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Sep 20, 2017 20:53
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I am enjoying my playthrough of Half Life 2 and hope to be finished on time to play Half Life 3 upon release. Will be touch and go however.
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Sep 20, 2017 21:15
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Bilirubin posted:I am enjoying my playthrough of Half Life 2 and hope to be finished on time to play Half Life 3 upon release. Will be touch and go however. How can you play a game that engaging and only log 30 seconds a week?
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Sep 20, 2017 21:18
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Al! posted:i just got a sudden powerful urge to play through silent hill 2 again, is there a working pc version yet if you count emulators, there is
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Sep 20, 2017 22:54
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Captain_Maclaine posted:How can you play a game that engaging and only log 30 seconds a week? I'm reading a good book right now. Also stealth levels 
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Sep 20, 2017 23:27
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Bilirubin posted:I'm reading a good book right now. Oh you mean the antlions on the beach I was really confused for a sec
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Sep 21, 2017 01:28
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Nebakenezzer posted:Andrew Robinson played Garrack, he was the villain in the first Dirty Harry film, he rules absolutely! that's exactly why i liked it; you actually had the opportunity to be interested in, occassionally surprised by, and invested in the characters it was a pleasant surprise
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Sep 21, 2017 11:21
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:absolutely! lol but instead of that youre trying to kill america so we dont live to see a future!!!!  
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Sep 21, 2017 19:17
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:lol but instead of that youre trying to kill america so we dont live to see a future!!!! We're living in the Star Trek timeline we just didn't have the good fortune to be born two hundred years from now.
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Sep 21, 2017 19:22
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docbeard posted:We're living in the Star Trek timeline we just didn't have the good fortune to be born two hundred years from now. on earth right now i was a prince . . .
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Sep 21, 2017 19:25
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Heh, I just reminded myself of that two-part DS9 episode (which I last saw last year, before the election) where Sisko, Bashir, and Dax end up in the 21st century (I think the episode was set in 2024 or thereabouts) and get caught up in a riot in what's basically a Poor People Concentration Camp. And the last line as they're going back to their Luxury Automated Gay Space Communism Future is Bashir asking just how Earth could have ever let things get so bad.
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Sep 21, 2017 19:26
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Sep 21, 2017 19:48
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:absolutely! Gul Dukat best tv villian ever IMO. All the Cardassians were really complex characters really (Garack owns), made their assholery so understandable. Plus they cast Iggy
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Sep 21, 2017 19:53
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:lol but instead of that youre trying to kill america so we dont live to see a future!!!! if this shite passes nite crew linds is dead; my slow transformation from sith lord to lieutenant of satan will be complete
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Sep 21, 2017 19:58
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Bilirubin posted:Gul Dukat best tv villian ever IMO. All the Cardassians were really complex characters really (Garack owns), made their assholery so understandable. its been a while since ive seen ds9 but iirc isn't the idea that the cardassians grew up in the equivalent of weimar germany
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Sep 21, 2017 19:58
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:if this shite passes nite crew linds is dead; you were never nite crew you d c lackey 
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Sep 21, 2017 20:24
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Al! posted:its been a while since ive seen ds9 but iirc isn't the idea that the cardassians grew up in the equivalent of weimar germany I hadn't made that connection before but yeah, that's pretty much it.
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Sep 21, 2017 20:25
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:you were never nite crew you d c lackey i see what you did there and perhaps you're right
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Sep 21, 2017 22:11
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Sep 21, 2017 22:23
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:i see what you did there https://i.imgur.com/iPKfD4i.gifv
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Sep 21, 2017 23:59
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lol u feelin kinky 2nite sug
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Sep 22, 2017 00:08
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:lol u feelin kinky 2nite sug no, only nite crew gets kinky i ain't cool enough for kinks; all i got is closet space
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Sep 22, 2017 00:21
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:no, only nite crew gets kinky u kno u could leave dc and stop a little short of sc  
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Sep 22, 2017 00:54
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mrbradlymrmartin posted:u kno u could leave dc and stop a little short of sc the part of me that died knows that, but the real me? will neva' unda'stand
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Sep 22, 2017 01:52
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this is the funniest story i've ever heard of the navy trying to crack down on sodomy and I nearly died laughing https://soundcloud.com/the-dollop/56-newport-sex-scandal-1
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Sep 23, 2017 07:06
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Not listening to this at work, but what is their position on rum and/or the lash?
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Sep 25, 2017 17:35
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The Star Citizen subforum in Games rebranded to a general crowdfunding pisstake forum, if any of you want your late stage capitalism fix: https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=212
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back when they first started issuing star citizen refunds, i was playing this marvel-themed arpg with goons so i got my $20 or whatever refund and its from that shady german holding company CIG launders their money through, and since people were asking about that sorta thing in the star citizen thread, i make a brief post about it a few hours later i log in to the arpg im playing and the message of the day is "everyone please congratulate punchy on escaping a cult"
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