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- 2024-04-02 04:28pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: Richard Dawkins: I'm a Cultural Christian
- Replies: 3
- Views: 364
Richard Dawkins: I'm a Cultural Christian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COHgEFUFWyg I must say I was slightly horrified to hear that Ramadan is being promoted instead- I do think that we we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I'm not a believer, but there's a distinction between being a believing Christ...
- 2022-11-14 04:00pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: We need to talk about Andor
- Replies: 78
- Views: 24931
Re: We need to talk about Andor
Ep 10 solidifies that Andor is the best Star Wars series in years if not decades.
- 2022-09-16 08:20pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Has anyone read HandOfThrawn45's stories?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5567
Re: Has anyone read HandOfThrawn45's stories?
It's quite good, imo. They do a lot of justice to the Legacy characters, as well as bring an innovative new conflict to the standard Star Wars formula. And there's a nice unintentional echo of the real-world global trauma of the past two years.
- 2021-12-09 02:51am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now? (2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6252
- 2021-09-08 09:13pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now? (2021)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6252
How realistic is "Global Peak" series now? (2021)
Global Peak was a fictional universe created by Duchess of Zeon back in 2007-2009, a vivid post-apocalyptic world after Peak Oil. I made a thread in December 2015 soliciting opinions about it. I remember back in 2008 I found the whole project to be vividly appalling about the breakdown of the U.S. ...
- 2019-12-26 05:44pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Making the prequels fit with the EU
- Replies: 44
- Views: 30278
Re:
And why should he cater to fanservice? Because the books sold well to the minority of the fanbase? And your ideas being a good one? Given some of the statements is not indicative of such, thus you have to go further to demonstrate your idea is fucking good idea. And you can demonstrate he's going t...
- 2019-09-22 01:14pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12943
The Four Horsemen review - whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’?
The Guardian: Dawkins, Hitchens, Dennett, Harris ... were the apostles of atheism as fearless as they thought? Whatever happened to “New Atheism”? It was born in the febrile aftermath of 9/11, when belief in a deity – or, let’s be honest, specifically in Allah – seemed to some people a newly urgent...
- 2017-10-17 11:42pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: New Atheism’s Idiot Heirs
- Replies: 82
- Views: 45182
New Atheism’s Idiot Heirs
https://thebaffler.com/latest/new-atheisms-idiot-heirs-nichols An irritating rhetoric meets the dumbest possible ideology IN THE HEYDAY OF THE INTERNET MESSAGE BOARD, let’s say in the 1990s, a certain species of idiot materialized. He was male, aggressively pedantic, self-professedly logical, commit...
- 2016-12-27 08:11pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Shadows of the Empire or The Force Unleashed?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5478
Shadows of the Empire or The Force Unleashed?
Which of the two multimedia projects dealing with events that happened around the time of the original trilogy do you favor? Why? I prefer Shadows, because it retains the classic feel more, but also the direction it explored (bounty hunters and organized crime) was preferable to yet another iteratio...
- 2016-12-22 02:50am
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Any fan backlash against Rogue One anywhere yet? [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 187
- Views: 61087
Re: Any fan backlash against Rogue One anywhere yet? [SPOILERS]
The thing is, Jyn, like all of the characters in Rogue One, are barely written, because the true star of that show is the actual battle itself.
- 2016-12-18 04:17pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Any fan backlash against Rogue One anywhere yet? [SPOILERS]
- Replies: 187
- Views: 61087
Any fan backlash against Rogue One anywhere yet? [SPOILERS]
I'm curious to see if there are any hardcore Warsie detractors against R1 yet. Has anyone come across any on any sites?
- 2016-11-10 02:20am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: 2016 US ELECTION: Official Results Thread
- Replies: 1306
- Views: 256225
Re: 2016 US ELECTION: Official Results Thread
So, some time ago I made a thread critiquing "Global Peak" for having an unrealistic storyline. Its hyping of peak oil aside, I apologize. As it turns out, you could have Western nations descend into nativist near-fascism again. Mea culpa and I hope Duchess revisits that series and creates...
- 2016-11-10 02:16am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: Global counter-reaction to the rise of far-right in the West?
- Replies: 82
- Views: 11452
Re: Global counter-reaction to the rise of far-right in the West?
Modi in India, Abe in Japan, Duterte in the Philippines, whoever replaces Park Geun-hye in South Korea, Netanyahu, Erdogan... the far-right is marching everywhere. There's no continent without nationalists coming to power, except Oceania and Antarctica. It's not just in the West.
- 2016-01-15 02:44pm
- Forum: Science, Logic, And Morality
- Topic: "The Happiness Code" A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16220
"The Happiness Code" A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality.
The Happiness Code A new approach to self-improvement is taking off in Silicon Valley: cold, hard rationality. By JENNIFER KAHN JAN. 14, 2016 Last summer, three dozen people, mostly programmers in their 20s, gathered in a rented house in San Leandro, Calif., a sleepy suburb of San Francisco, for a ...
- 2015-12-21 08:36pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
- Replies: 1584
- Views: 319714
Re: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
I'm still waiting for Wong's review.
- 2015-12-21 04:29pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Weirdly, none of this previous conversation mentions the concept of basic income.
- 2015-12-21 04:27pm
- Forum: Pure Star Wars
- Topic: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
- Replies: 1584
- Views: 319714
Re: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
I thought the movie had a good amount of storytelling minimalism, not in the Saxton Star Wars sense, which is why they barely explained a bunch of things. On the other hand, the opening scene had a bunch of maximalism mixed with the minimalism, in that there's a quick bunch of exposition from a char...
- 2015-12-19 11:23pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
By art, I mean all of entertainment. How much training do YouTube Partners have? Twitch streaming champs? Fanfic writers like Erika Mitchell or Stephenie Meyer? Internet meme celebrities?
- 2015-12-18 04:29pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Here's a question: self-employed doing what? Back before industrialization, that could mean something like taking unused and (hopefully) unclaimed land and turning it into a farm, maybe be employed as a farmhand until you manage to do that. Or taking a trade like becoming a trapper/hunter or becomi...
- 2015-12-14 06:10pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Well, locally speaking, it'd be interesting to see what the 2015 SD.net equivalent to this 2007 series would be.K. A. Pital wrote:The lack of vision itself is a cause for concern. The failure of a particular vision to become reality is not.
- 2015-12-14 04:37pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Does anyone thing nuclear fission using existing tech might become politically feasible in America within a generation? Especially if it's touted as a solution to energy production that causes climate change?
- 2015-12-13 08:54pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
So I suppose Surlethe's "Global Mean Temperature" ended up being the more plausible story? I suppose "Global Peak" teaches us that prognostication is hard, especially about the near future.
- 2015-12-11 05:08pm
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
Re: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Has anyone read those stories and remember them? At the time, they seemed more like peak Bush-era paranoia. Now- well they seem somewhat more realistic, but they failed to predict Tesla and Trump, to pick two random signs of the times.
- 2015-12-07 01:12am
- Forum: News and Politics
- Topic: How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12822
How realistic is "Global Peak" series now?
Global Peak was a really well-written story series by The Duchess of Zeon and others depicting the dystopia that results from the aftermath of peak oil. The U.S. breaks apart between an authoritarian emergency federal government and highly regressive far right governments. Much of Europe goes neo-f...
- 2015-11-24 05:23pm
- Forum: Gaming, Electronics and Computers
- Topic: Android malware drops Banker from PNG file
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1451
Android malware drops Banker from PNG file
This blog post provides a really interesting explanation of how an Android malware uses base64-encoded code embedded in an image file to drop malicious code that installs an APK for a banker that can steal Android user credentials. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u-8TQXAlvRg/VlM3-amCEBI/AAAAAAAAAXg/17W8t1...