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Carthag Tuek posted:i havent seen it but apparently a lot of people did not understand that that character is a racist nazi nobody knows what Stormfront is unless they're themselves Nazis or are Extremely Online the "Oh, from Seattle?" "No, Portland" exchange when she was first introduced was great
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Jonny 290 posted:my favorite dumb time travel thing is the set of questions posed by: Charlie Stross wrote a novella called Palimpsest that wasn't explicitly about time travelers' banging but the protagonist did experience his relationship with his girlfriend non-linearly
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Interstellar is terrible, though. It is the canonical example that Christopher Nolan produces films where the sun is less than the total of its parts.
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interstellar’s story was terrible and the audio mix was literally the worst I’ve ever experience in theaters and the visuals and funny robots weren’t enough to make up for the rest of the garbage. not as bad as inception, though.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:I recently finished up umbrella academy and it was pretty decent for something based on a comic book. Has anyone read the actual comics? How are they? I hated the comics when I tried to read them. I do like the show though.
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thread necromancy (lol):H.P. Hovercraft posted:tamsyn muir really packed a lot of teen slang into a 10,000 year old society huh H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol i should not have googled "references" for these books haveblue posted:yes, it’s legit. also at the emotional climax of the whole thing somebody drops a “hi _________, I’m dad” God and his cohort are ten thousand year old Millennials/Zoomers.
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haveblue posted:the accurate barbie movie: barbie goes shopping, rides a horse for a while, suddenly g.i. joe shows up and rips off barbie's head 
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mystes posted:I didn't like The Magicians but at least it sort of seems to have some minimal self awareness of the fact that it's dumb, which I think puts it slightly ahead of Joss Whedon shows. this is why the TV show is actually good -- the books have absolutely no self awareness, they rip off Harry Potter and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe but they're edgy and dark and for adults (which means some teen girls get raped) and the author is busy patting himself on the back for copying these children's stories and making them Real Literature while ignoring the past 50 years of SF writing where much more capable authors who were actually familiar with the genre already did exactly this, but better and without all the rape meanwhile the TV show starts out as a kind of faithful adaptation of the books but starts engaging with the idea that the books are terrible towards the end of the first season and by season two all the characters are now audience proxies towards the idea of how worthless the source material is
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fart simpson posted:there was that stranger things knockoff show this year that did that. she made the bullys head explode. the show wasn’t that good though hard to be a stranger things knockoff when the comic it was based on predates stranger things also do not read the comic it is terrible
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Hogfather was good.
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Jan 3, 2021 11:31
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Excession wasn’t IRC, it was Usenet
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the hells in Surface Detail were interesting because of course religious fanatics would create their own hells if possible and of course they would outsource them to rear end in a top hat capitalists cannibal island didn’t really add anything to the story but you knew what you were in for if you’d read the wasp factory
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the robocop remake actually did something interesting from a sci-fi/philosophical perspective execution was merely adequate, but at least they tried something
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discovering the source material for wynx was almost as funny as discovering the source material for warrior nun
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Jan 30, 2021 23:21
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haveblue posted:yeah it only takes a few rounds of back and forth before the language specialist concludes the aliens did the equivalent of feeding the past few decades of human radio signals into gpt-2 and are using it to respond to questions without any real comprehension iirc the crucifix glitch is why they died out in the first place and the gene designers amplified it along with their territoriality to reduce the threat Blindsight was a really good haunted house in space thriller with a smattering of pop philosophy, Echopraxia went way too hard with "oooh this thing is so much smarter than humans can even imagine, be afraaaaaiiiiddd"
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now go watch The Magicians so you can understand how good this kind of bullshit can actually be
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rjmccall posted:that’s the “okay the entire first two seasons are dogshit but eventually they stop taking the source material so seriously and it gets good” one, right? no, it’s the first season is kind of lame because they’re following the source material and then they just go for it
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Jan 31, 2021 07:58
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are y’all talking about the prequels because of the More Civilized Age podcast or is there some other reason they’re now relevant?
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its because you're a square
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FMguru posted:eh 
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mediaphage posted:tbh i am sort of displeased at the direction he went. i thought the superhero book was dumb and what i liked about the laundry files books was their take on the classic "secret truths of the universe" thing, which doesn't work when the secrets aren't any longer. the superhero thing was neat at a conceptual level -- people explain observed phenomena based on their cultural framework, thousands of years ago this was demon position and blessings of God's power, nowadays our cultural framework is the MCU having said that, this latest isn't a proper Laundry novel, its a tangential spinoff and not the greatest
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jesus WEP posted:ugh someone writing the umbrella academy really has a thing for incest don't they technically it's not incest
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none of you quoted Klaus at me, you're all bad Umbrella Academy fans
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mystes posted:I don't think I've ever actually read a superhero comic. I don't have any theoretical objection but the way they're published seems obnoxious for casual readers. read Astro City, it's a complete work available in collected volumes
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Mar 17, 2021 07:40
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oh no Eva did a thing which makes the fans angry how horrible and not totally part of the intended experience
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Mar 29, 2021 09:22
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the real answer is a gigantic ensemble cast of stars
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mediaphage posted:i only read the first book, i didn’t even know there were others. my favourite book in middle school because of how much i identified with the main character. i used to dream of being able to teleport away. i remember him testing himself about how much mass he was able to take at one point. the second book is about his girlfriend/common-law wife, he disappears and she realizes that jumping isn't a unique ability, it is a learned skill the third is about their daughter demanding to be properly socialized in a normal high school, and then drawing the ire of the local drug dealers the fourth is about their daughter starting her own discount space program (if you can jump from the equator to the pole, you're not just changing position, you're also changing velocity; therefore you must be able to change velocity without changing position; therefore you can fly; therefore all you need is a space suit and an Iridium phone) the YouTube TV show is very loosely based on the third book and is actually pretty great
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Mormons illegally make those and sell them to other Mormons
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May 19, 2021 23:13
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*in a very shaggar voice* if I were a traumatized abuse victim I would simply murder my abuser. it's that simple.
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infernal machines posted:as god as my witness, i didn't know referring to woman as dogs was offensive cue the monarchists loudly explaining why referring to women as vaginas isn't offensive
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eating people is in the same moral ballpark as organ transplants tbh
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space jam 2 starts with lebron & son getting uploaded into the warner 3000 serververse and is therefore very yospos and you're obligated to watch it
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mystes posted:The problem with Jon Stewart? Uh, oh, did he do something bad? full blown COVID came from a Chinese lab brain worms
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Achmed Jones posted:whoa no poo poo? i hadn't heard of that at all yeah, colbert had him on the late show and stewart just dropped a deuce on live-to-tape TV, leaving colbert absolutely gobsmacked Truman Peyote posted:I used to love that show during the bush admin. wonder if it was actually good or if I was just a teenager who felt smart for watching political comedy. the show had a writing staff and lawyers, jon stewart alone is just a crank who lives in upstate new york
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Kenny Logins posted:conspicuous lack of ogier anticipating the conspicuous lack of both in the later books
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all humanoid species in the galaxy are descendants of an ur-species and have roughly the same day-night schedule and Starfleet officers only drink synthhol which doesn’t get you drunk
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rotor posted:like i'd be suspicious of undocumented file formats from a long time ago. Like idk, who in 80 years will be able to figure out a fuckin Jasc Paint Shop Pro file? poo poo like that. you’ll run a DOS/Windows 3.11 VM inside a Linux VM inside a TempleOS VM inside a whatever VM and decode it natively
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which ending? there’s three
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Truman Peyote posted:oh. pretty sure I got the first of those. but in any of them, if the guy has been hallucinating or misattributing everything that happened, how is anything he did supposed to have moral weight? he wasn't really in control of his actions, so what are we supposed to learn from them? in the good ending you kill a bunch of US soldiers
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