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by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 05:35pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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.
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 05:32pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
Replies: 80
Views: 37170

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 ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 05:00pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 04:45pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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 ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 04:23pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Replies: 87
Views: 101478

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 11:26am
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: The American haute-bourgeoisie want a leftist form of capitalism.
Replies: 80
Views: 37170

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.
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 10:10am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-10 10:02am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Replies: 87
Views: 101478

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.
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-09 10:48am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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.
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-09 10:42am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Replies: 87
Views: 101478

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-09 07:01am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Replies: 87
Views: 101478

Re: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS

Batman wrote: 2019-11-08 06:59pm Some of us (largely) like the way Wars is going you know
You’re dead to me.
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-08 08:31pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-08 07:26pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Terminator: Dark Fate (Go See It!)
Replies: 97
Views: 97443

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, ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2019-11-08 06:46pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So what did I miss in the last JESUS CHRIST SEVEN YEARS
Replies: 87
Views: 101478

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?
by Admiral Valdemar
2018-10-16 10:22am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Nostalgia
Replies: 12
Views: 11690

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 ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2018-10-16 07:58am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Nostalgia
Replies: 12
Views: 11690

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 ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2018-10-16 04:27am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Nostalgia
Replies: 12
Views: 11690

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2018-10-15 06:40pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Nostalgia
Replies: 12
Views: 11690

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-14 03:43pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-13 08:03am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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.
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-13 07:45am
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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 ...
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-12 07:35pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-11 05:36pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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...
by Admiral Valdemar
2017-01-11 02:12pm
Forum: Pure Star Wars
Topic: Rogue One (Spoilers)
Replies: 714
Views: 234464

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...