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  1. In Topic: Ye Big TV Thread

    Yesterday, 08:39 PM

    Y'know what's really confusing.....?


    Watching SHOGUN and BLUE-EYED SAMURAI around the same time.

  2. In Topic: The tourist tax

    Yesterday, 08:37 PM

    View PostAzath Vitr (D, on 26 April 2024 - 07:03 PM, said:

    ... AI will give humans more time to be creative, and more options for supplementing human creativity and realizing creative ideas. And if AI eventually greatly exceeds human creativity and intelligence in all their dimensions, then the best way for humans to be creative and intelligent may be to integrate themselves with AI (with some additional bioengineered enhancements to DNA, etc.)......society should focus on what might actually save us and liberate---and enlighten---sentience on Earth.)


    Yeah, that's exactly what i would expect Skynet to order you to say.

  3. In Topic: Reading at t'moment?

    Yesterday, 08:35 PM

    View PostTraveller, on 26 April 2024 - 07:18 PM, said:

    Just finished The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman.
    Someone at work recommended it, and I've thoroughly enjoyed it - it somehow brings a fantasy rpg setting into vivid reality, in a pleasingly convincing way.

    I was listening to it on Audible too, and the author is reading it, so there's no weird discrepancies with names and places like with the malazan audiobooks, and I could (and have) listened to this guy all day....


    I'm usually wary of authors who aren't Neal Gaiman reading their own work, but Buehlman absolutely nails this.

  4. In Topic: Dune Remake

    25 April 2024 - 06:54 PM

    View Postpolishgenius, on 25 April 2024 - 06:05 PM, said:

    Part 2 has a scene where the characters sit around and tell each other their tragic backstories and motivation, and that's the character development you get.

    It's such bad writing.

    And, disappointingly, the visuals are unusually rubbish for Snyder. Like he's never been as slick as he thinks, but he's always been stylish and clear with the action, and could handle big spectacle. It's just a muddy confusing mess here for the most of it.


    It's annoying coz there's a few neat storytelling instincts but Snyder just is not good enough to carry them through.


    Is there really 30min of wheat harvesting?

  5. In Topic: The Comics Thread!

    25 April 2024 - 04:56 PM

    View PostJPK, on 25 April 2024 - 02:46 PM, said:

    View PostAbyss, on 25 April 2024 - 02:17 PM, said:

    Storyline implosion ... This is why i prefer to only return to the xbooks like twice a year.



    See, I just can't get into the Fall of X storyline at all because I just think the entire thing is dumb. They have a fantastic setup that they could build interesting storylines around for years in The Krakoa Era, but instead they're choosing to just go back to the same old status quo. It just feels like an absolute waste of Hickman's setup.


    I can live w them ending Krakoa. I agree it could have lasted longer but fine, we got five years and even Hickman always planned for it to end.
    But they're going about it so so badly. Most of it reads as the filler it probably is.


    The next phase is also weird... kudos to them for resisting the obvious 'return to the mansion', but instead we're getting Cyclops leading a team out of Alaska, which is just Morrison redux, Rogue n Gambit leading a team out of New Orleans, which is Carey or Byrne or godhelpus Claremont 2.0, take your pick, and Emma and Kate teaching a class of new mutants, which is like three middling runs i can't attribute off the top of my head. They're trying to seel this as 'new' and none of it is remotely new. The creative teams are good to potentially great, FFS they gave Gail Simone her own title, i'm in... but it's barely a veneer of 'new'. It all feels very much like an interim effort before the disparate teams all get back together and ... wait for it.... return to the mansion.

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    Tsundoku 

    11 Aug 2019 - 09:32
    Thanks for getting me to 1000. *sniff* lots of pollen around here ...
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    Savannah 

    31 Jan 2019 - 15:19
    Unbound Worlds now redirects to the PRH website, so that Top 100 fantasy link no longer works. Here's a very similar one though: https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-fantasy-series
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    Abyss 

    31 May 2016 - 03:21
    Because some mobile browsers don't resize and it makes the thread unreadable.
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    Terez 

    30 May 2016 - 18:50
    Just out of curiosity, why is it necessary to spoiler big pics on this forum? They go off the page and don't cause the text to unwrap, and they get resized in mobile browsers. I don't mind doing it; just asking.
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    Shinrei 

    27 Dec 2013 - 12:11
    Merry Nonsensicus!
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    Abyss 

    20 Sep 2013 - 13:20
    And yet you cannot tear your eyes away from it.
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    Mrs Savagely Wishy Washy 

    20 Sep 2013 - 12:23
    There is a word to describe that pic, I just found one in the depths of my convulsing brain. It's DISTURBING but in a funny way.
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    Terez 

    10 Apr 2013 - 17:44
    If you're keeping score, I think my conversation (in a WoT thread, I think) with that one noob-troll about how to get banned from Malazan is worth a few. (i.e. "I recommend telling Malaclypse he's a douchebag.")
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    Abyss 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:27
    When the new order rises, lazy posters will be among the first to be purged.
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    Whisperzzzzzzz 

    18 Dec 2012 - 19:18
    Good call with the spoilers tags. I didn't want to add them because it makes it extra work to read posts :D
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    Bantato 

    21 Nov 2012 - 17:31
    HELLO
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    Macros 

    15 Nov 2012 - 20:08
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU
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    Abyss 

    14 Jun 2012 - 17:04
    That's CAThulhu.
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    The dancing game 

    14 Jun 2012 - 16:54
    ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!!!
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    Oddball 

    30 Mar 2012 - 16:46
    Thanks for setting me up in PEN!
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