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- 2019-11-10 05:35pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
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Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Going purely by the Cameron canon, I’d say the two excursions back are all that happened, Skynet hedging it’s bets. It makes sense that it was a Hail Mary by Skynet that the Resistance got wind of and went to quickly put the kibosh to, but arrived a tad too late.
- 2019-11-10 05:32pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 37579
Re: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
Yeah, drop a line by Ace Pace, he'll set you up. Mind you, it's mostly Straha and Fenix shooting the shit and some guys like Ace, Dartzap, Bakustra, Phongn and every now and then me and a few others sticking their heads in, but it's not a bad place to waste a few hours. Sounds positively divine. I ...
- 2019-11-10 05:00pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Now that you mention Serena... It occurs to me that Skynet's reason for sending the T-1000 back may have primarily been to mitigate any alterations in the timeline resulting from the T-800's actions in 1984. Although Skynet was confident that the T-800 would accomplish its mission, the T-1000 had t...
- 2019-11-10 04:45pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Shep, did you see this? So, they got the plasma rifle sounds right... then fucked up what the bolts looked like. Also, Aerial HKs are electric ducted fans, not afterburning anything. And more T-800 throwing a human about rather than put fist through chest stuff. I’m also getting Bethesda vibes from ...
- 2019-11-10 04:23pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 102336
Re: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
How do you mean? The general direction of the sequel trilogy is a total wasted opportunity. Literally the only Disney SW film I care for is Rogue One , and that was still compromised from being all it could be. Nothing about Rey is compelling. Nothing about the First Order is. It’s a giant nothingb...
- 2019-11-10 11:26am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
- Replies: 80
- Views: 37579
Re: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
Wait, there's a Discord for SDN?
Reminds me of the old IRC chats we had for The Other Place, back in t'day.
Reminds me of the old IRC chats we had for The Other Place, back in t'day.
- 2019-11-10 10:10am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
There does seem to be this emphasis more on fun action visuals over doing the horror and stalking slasher aspect that made T1, and to a lesser extent T2. There’s a YouTube video by a guy named Captain Midnight that brings up these issues, where the most effective play is in the unstoppable slasher a...
- 2019-11-10 10:02am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 102336
Re: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
What about what is yet to come? I’m intrigued you Episode IX in the same way as a car crash intrigued me, not through genuine live of wanting to see a finale.
- 2019-11-09 10:48am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
They basically drove the van into an already prepped C-5 and the colonel they had give them the EMP, said they had immediate clearance to taxi. There’s no way anyone was catching them, given the Rev-9 only just got there in a chopper as they were rotating out.
- 2019-11-09 10:42am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 102336
Re: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Wasn't Star Wars always profiting off the lowest common denominator? Yeah, but it had integrity in storytelling back then, even in those halcyon days of 2005. Now, not so much. It doesn’t help that today is dominated by Diznee franchises pouring into the cinema, among other studios trying to cash i...
- 2019-11-09 07:01am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 102336
- 2019-11-08 08:31pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
I’d also say that the cut scene of Uncle Bob having his CPU switched to allow learning, is in subsequent cuts of the film, notably the Skynet edition. That being the case, I’d have thought it be canon that Skynet put a limit on infiltrators, and for that matter all HKs and other units, learning irre...
- 2019-11-08 07:26pm
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
- Replies: 97
- Views: 99425
Re: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Do we have to entertain the notion of T:DF being a thing? As a stand-alone action film, sure, it was serviceable. As a part of the Termie canon? Ugh, no. I maintain that the S.M. Stirling books were the only real functional sequels to T2, even if they still contradict the central theme of T2. Hell, ...
- 2019-11-08 06:46pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
- Replies: 87
- Views: 102336
Re: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
‘Member ASVS? ‘Member big flame war debates about those two SF franchises now being run into the ground for a profit off the lowest common denominator? Valdey ‘members.
And I wish I bloody didn’t. Is there a way to undo about the last decade of existence?
And I wish I bloody didn’t. Is there a way to undo about the last decade of existence?
Re: Nostalgia
Is it gonna be like Children of Men? I actually do think about the country being that crazy as to somehow inflict Blitz spirit when the rest of the world is entirely functional. Nigel Farage would wholeheartedly have detention camps like in CoM if he was in power. It’s crazy when the government is ...
Re: Nostalgia
I miss the good old days when all we had to worry about was Peak Oil. Ha. Today it’s Brexit. Tomorrow, also Brexit. I wish it was something less mind numbing like PO or WWIII, literally anything would be better. I can show you some amazing music. I've found a ton of amazing music of that type. One ...
- 2018-10-16 05:21am
- Forum: Science Fiction
- Topic: Doctor Who Series 37 Episode 2 - "The Ghost Monument" Spoilers
- Replies: 27
- Views: 20414
Re: Doctor Who Series 37 Episode 2 - "The Ghost Monument" Spoilers
Yeah, but custard cream dispenser, people.
Re: Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a good and a bad thing. It reinforces a "things were better in the past" mentality. Sometimes that is a good thing because it allows you to have a good time to look back on and a way to improve one's current time. However, it becomes bad when it encourages stagnation. There i...
Nostalgia
I’ll be honest, I was hoping for a wee bit more activity here. Oh, but what the hell. It’s been a while since I last used this guy :banghead: or :wanker: Brings back the warm and fuzzies. Anyhoo. As I lie here, half-awake, I ponder if living in the past, thinking about what has been and can be no mo...
- 2017-01-14 03:43pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
You see a red laser start as a nucleus in the terribly-not-safe-due-to-lack-of-railing tunnel the super laser starts with. I take that to be one of the multiple focusing beams of the DS1 since the DS2 had the super laser use the central emitter. The beam itself is clearly not abnormal laser since yo...
- 2017-01-13 08:03am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Most of Scarif, if items anything like the atolls it's filmed at, will be shallows it seems. It could be it was deep ocean where the impact was, but that was tens of kilometres away at least. Where the citadel was it didn't seem to be particularly deep at all.
- 2017-01-13 07:45am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Dash Rendar will always just be a 90's Cable without 80 guns slung about him. Okay, so Death Star question: When we see the one-reactor shots kicking up seemingly an entire continent of crust, does that mean the Death Star's superlaser really is just a huge, kinetic, brute force kinda thing? If it ...
- 2017-01-12 07:35pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
I love that scene because they added a lot more details than they needed to. It were those little details that made ANH such a great movie. Things that weren't really important to the story of the movie, but indicated there's a big, living world. Things like Han mentioning the Kessel Run, Luke tell...
- 2017-01-11 05:36pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
The First Order's tech. and rank and file troops impressed me well enough. Ties with hyperdrive and ejector seats. Flamethrowers. Stormtroopers with what appears to be anti-lightsabre training and gear. And of course, Starkiller Base. Yes, their internal security is shit, but frankly so is the Empi...
- 2017-01-11 02:12pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
- Replies: 714
- Views: 236625
Re: Rogue One (Spoilers)
I'd have preferred some threat like the Vong turning up. A New Republic that has the resources of the conquered portions of the Empire, still dealing with the remnants in the less easily toppled strongholds, but otherwise dealing with internal bickering while a new threat appears. If you're only a t...