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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #151 on: June 10, 2016, 05:50:10 pm »
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« Reply #152 on: June 10, 2016, 05:58:11 pm »
Is this going to have an all-lesbo cast like Ghostbusters?

If it does at least my wife won't make me go see it. (She was a big BG fangirl of the original series.)
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« Reply #153 on: June 10, 2016, 06:53:45 pm »
I've heard the ladies liked that Dirk Benedict guy.....

Oh yeah... wife wrote fan-fic that killed off Apollo and made Starbuck the hero/main character... 
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« Reply #154 on: June 11, 2016, 09:40:09 am »
(Rocket J. Squirrel)  Again????  (/Rocket J. Squirrel)


If done right.. I like both version of BSG.. Not G80...
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« Reply #155 on: June 14, 2016, 05:12:39 pm »
THE MARTIAN

It was enjoyable but I can't really say it was very original.

My first problem with it was the Hermes was far larger and more advanced than we are likely going to be able to build in that scenario. I can overlook that, though.

My second issue is that the main character was out of food, a potato every 3 days, and then the resupply rocket failed. I doubt the guy would have been so healthy and energetic in that scenario. A lot of time passed, what was the guy eating in this time period.

The Hermes crew decides to accelerate and go back to Mars to pick up their stranded friend. I saw this exact same thing happen in a different movie, although I'm not sure which one.

Nitpicking, of course.

It wasn't a bad movie at all, it was well-made and I liked it.

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« Reply #156 on: June 14, 2016, 05:25:58 pm »
THE MARTIAN

It was enjoyable but I can't really say it was very original.

My first problem with it was the Hermes was far larger and more advanced than we are likely going to be able to build in that scenario. I can overlook that, though.

My second issue is that the main character was out of food, a potato every 3 days, and then the resupply rocket failed. I doubt the guy would have been so healthy and energetic in that scenario. A lot of time passed, what was the guy eating in this time period.

The Hermes crew decides to accelerate and go back to Mars to pick up their stranded friend. I saw this exact same thing happen in a different movie, although I'm not sure which one.

Nitpicking, of course.

It wasn't a bad movie at all, it was well-made and I liked it.


I agree with you.. Also the Hermes was going to slow, plus having China helping us?? Uh no thank you.. Other than that, I enjoyed the movie.
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« Reply #157 on: June 14, 2016, 05:35:11 pm »

I agree with you.. Also the Hermes was going to slow, plus having China helping us?? Uh no thank you.. Other than that, I enjoyed the movie.

I also think I saw a woman on the treadmill in Hermes and it wasn't on the outside of the spinning part but the inside of it. I might be remembering wrong, though. I might rewatch and look for that.

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Re: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre
« Reply #158 on: June 14, 2016, 05:38:46 pm »
I also think I saw a woman on the treadmill in Hermes and it wasn't on the outside of the spinning part but the inside of it. I might be remembering wrong, though. I might rewatch and look for that.


The living quarters was inside the spinning part..
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« Reply #159 on: June 14, 2016, 05:47:23 pm »

The living quarters was inside the spinning part..

I meant that they should be walking on the ceiling from that perspective. I think they did it wrong in one scene from outside the ship. I could be wrong.

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« Reply #160 on: June 14, 2016, 05:57:10 pm »
I meant that they should be walking on the ceiling from that perspective. I think they did it wrong in one scene from outside the ship. I could be wrong.


Just a minor mistake, but it was still a good movie..
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« Reply #161 on: June 14, 2016, 05:59:57 pm »

Just a minor mistake, but it was still a good movie..

It was indeed.

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« Reply #162 on: June 17, 2016, 04:10:05 am »
In my on-going blog story, I have decided to introduce another female character. Maggie is "on the other side" and Sandy is obviously too young to serve as a love interest for Tom Grier. It's Sandy's older sister Kembra, who is also a rebel group leader (it's a family business!). At the same time I am introducing their father, Enoch, who is like the Godfather of the independence movement on Sync.

Also, this is a space opera. They are going to go into space and attack the fleet directly at some point.

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« Reply #163 on: June 20, 2016, 01:16:55 pm »
Larry Correia makes fun of New York Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman...

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Mr Kuntzman my 10 year old daughter shoots her AR-15 often and she has never shown signs of PTSD so I am assuming she is doing it wrong. Could you look at her picture below and please let us know what she is doing wrong? Is her wrist not limp enough? signed frustrated father

Dear Frustrated, the answer is simple. Your daughter does not have what it takes to be a reporter for a big New York City paper.

(Much more at the link!)
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« Reply #164 on: June 20, 2016, 06:56:17 pm »
Larry Correia makes fun of New York Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman...

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Mr Kuntzman my 10 year old daughter shoots her AR-15 often and she has never shown signs of PTSD so I am assuming she is doing it wrong. Could you look at her picture below and please let us know what she is doing wrong? Is her wrist not limp enough? signed frustrated father

Dear Frustrated, the answer is simple. Your daughter does not have what it takes to be a reporter for a big New York City paper.

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« Reply #165 on: June 22, 2016, 08:20:36 am »
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« Reply #166 on: June 22, 2016, 06:46:46 pm »
Here's a way this thread could be very useful (I think).  I don't know how all the rest of you feel, but indie self-publishing of ebooks is revolutionizing the SF world.  Writers are no longer at the mercies of (usually left-wing) publishers.  We're seeing a great increase in the available books, and a corresponding increase in viewpoints and voices.  What's a bit more difficult is knowing what you'd like to read.  Sturgeon's law, after all: 90% of anything is crap. 

If we find some ebooks by authors who aren't widely known and find that we enjoy them, we should mention that here and post reviews.  It certainly can't hurt, and might make things easier for those of us who aren't sure what to read.  I'll take a crack at it:

I've recently become aware of Charles Gannon and Michael Z. Williamson.  Gannon's Caine Riordan series and Williamson's Freehold series are quite enjoyable, and will probably resonate well with conservative/libertarian readers.  I also like Tom Kratman, although sometimes (often) his books get a bit roman-a-clefy.  His Carrera series is particularly so, although fun none-the-less.  "A State of Disobedience" pits what is obviously President Hillary against the state of Texas.
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« Reply #167 on: June 22, 2016, 07:10:15 pm »
You also cannot judge them by their covers, although that is always the maker of the first impression for those skimming through.

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« Reply #168 on: June 22, 2016, 07:33:12 pm »
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If we find some ebooks by authors who aren't widely known and find that we enjoy them, we should mention that here and post reviews.  It certainly can't hurt, and might make things easier for those of us who aren't sure what to read.  I'll take a crack at it:
(snip)

OK, I agree this is a good idea. I've actually been toying with the notion of doing the same on the Good Books thread, but since everything I read is SF/Fantasy and that other thread seems kind of moribund, maybe this would be a better place for it.

A couple of ebooks that I've read recently and really enjoyed were Acts of War by James Young and its sequel, Collisions of the Damned. The books are an Alternate History retelling of World War 2, with the difference being that Hitler was killed early on by a British bombing run, and things went downhill from there. I really enjoyed it, as I thought it made a good "what if" kind of story, plus the naval battle scenes were (I thought) top notch. They're clearly Indie, as they could both use some better editing, but the story telling I thought was great. I recommend them, if you like Military (especially Naval) Alternate History stories.
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« Reply #169 on: June 24, 2016, 05:51:22 pm »
Here is an update with regards the new Star Trek show..
http://tvweb.com/star-trek-tv-series-bryan-fuller-debunks-rumors/

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« Reply #170 on: June 24, 2016, 06:13:50 pm »
Captain - hermaphrodite
Commander - Muslim who keeps his child wife in his quarters
Navigator - lesbian
Security Chief - Furrie
Doctor - drunkard
Engineer - social promotion - doesn't know anything about his job

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These are the voyages of the USS Extruder!

The average episode has the ship coming up on a planet, sending down an away team, some sort of crisis happens, Commander is physically stopped fro strapping on an explosive vest before beaming down. The navigator is always trying to pick up a girl, or "rescue" the commanders child bride to her own quarters... usually stopped by the furrie security chief who has the hots for the navigator...
In the end the Captain usually makes mad love to himself....

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« Reply #171 on: June 24, 2016, 10:47:12 pm »
Captain - hermaphrodite
Commander - Muslim who keeps his child wife in his quarters
Navigator - lesbian
Security Chief - Furrie
Doctor - drunkard
Engineer - social promotion - doesn't know anything about his job

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These are the voyages of the USS Extruder!

The average episode has the ship coming up on a planet, sending down an away team, some sort of crisis happens, Commander is physically stopped fro strapping on an explosive vest before beaming down. The navigator is always trying to pick up a girl, or "rescue" the commanders child bride to her own quarters... usually stopped by the furrie security chief who has the hots for the navigator...
In the end the Captain usually makes mad love to himself....
ANd here I thought that ship flew under the flag of the Rainbow Alliance Planetary Empire (RAPE)
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« Reply #172 on: June 25, 2016, 04:22:14 am »
I downloaded a random spaceship generator for GIMP!! Blender! (sorry about the brain fart)

Here is the first image I made, for my ongoing blog story.

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« Reply #173 on: June 25, 2016, 07:51:27 am »
I downloaded a random spaceship generator for GIMP!!

Here is the first image I made, for my ongoing blog story.



And you didn't give us a link of where to get this generator?  For shame!
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« Reply #174 on: June 25, 2016, 02:31:13 pm »
And you didn't give us a link of where to get this generator?  For shame!

oops, let me find that

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« Reply #175 on: June 25, 2016, 02:33:47 pm »
https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator/

apparently you can tweak the settings somehow (I haven't found out how) and make them look even more alien... image at the site


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« Reply #176 on: June 25, 2016, 03:03:53 pm »
https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator/

apparently you can tweak the settings somehow (I haven't found out how) and make them look even more alien... image at the site


But when we go there, we will be the aliens...
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« Reply #177 on: June 25, 2016, 03:32:09 pm »
I still need to learn to do more than just make the block ships appear, lol


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« Reply #178 on: June 25, 2016, 05:42:46 pm »
I still need to learn to do more than just make the block ships appear, lol

Uhh, you said it was a GIMP script, but it's for Blender.  Both admirable programs, but not interchangeable.
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« Reply #179 on: June 25, 2016, 05:46:45 pm »
I meant Blender.... I have GIMP on the brain lately!

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« Reply #180 on: June 25, 2016, 08:30:58 pm »
Learning to scale, see the little baby spaceship next to mama...

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« Reply #181 on: June 26, 2016, 07:37:50 pm »
I'm holding on to a couple of short stories I wrote. One was about a small colony world becoming isolated as humans become more primitive and star travel fades, but some colony worlds have no natural salt. Yes, salt! Without salt the human body will start shutting down, hyponatremia sets in or whatever. The last refugee to end up on Dunga has a device that can produce salt, although not a huge amount.

The other was about 11 nations sending a male and female each 12-14 years old to a partially terraformed Mars (abandoned for 90 years) to learn how humans have to be genetically modified to survive there. You see, Mars cannot be fully terraformed, so it had been abandoned for nearly a century. Plants and wildlife on Mars had been genetically engineered for rapid evolution so nobody really knows what the kids should expect when they arrive.

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« Reply #182 on: June 26, 2016, 08:07:05 pm »
One of the best series of books I've read in recent memory by a current author is the so-called Aldenada Legacy, aka the Posleen Wars by John Ringo.  The Posleen invade by the millions, they call their food "thresh" and will eat anything, including one another but especially humans.  But they have a special name for humans..."thresh-kreen" or "food that bites"...

Great series that pits all kinds of hardware against the Posleen hoards and their ships....I always thought it would make an incredibly good movie or ongoing TV series.  Ringo writes parts about how uber liberals of all stripes deny that this could be happening right up to the point when they are "rendered" into thresh.  The Muslims declare jihad against the Posleen and are exterminated to near extinction, as are the Chinese who choose to fight a nuclear retreat all the way to the Himalayas.  The Germans...well, they bring back the old tankers and their big guns....

Good winter read...great five season run serial....

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« Reply #183 on: June 26, 2016, 10:11:50 pm »
John Ringo also has a very enjoyable series called Black Tide Rising, about an engineered virus that turns the great majority of the world population into a kind of zombies.  Not the supernatural kind so much as feral and violent creatures with almost no higher faculties.  The series is about the gradual clearing of certain areas and the spread of uninfected humans back onto the world's landmasses.
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« Reply #184 on: June 26, 2016, 10:19:01 pm »
I enjoyed the Aldenata Legacy very much. Ringo in general is a great author and he avoids the pitfall most series writers fall into eventually - his series stay short enough that he doesn't get stale.

I'm a huge fan of David Weber as an author, for example, but the Honor Harrington series did get samey by about book 8. (Note - the Universe books - set in the same universe but with minor characters or short story characters as a focus don't have the same problem - yet.)
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« Reply #185 on: June 27, 2016, 08:39:26 am »
Check out the final Star Trek Beyond trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBXBMkcUNo
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« Reply #186 on: June 27, 2016, 01:40:35 pm »
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« Reply #187 on: June 27, 2016, 01:43:15 pm »
Check out the final Star Trek Beyond trailer:


I might have clicked on that if I hadn't seen "Rihanna"

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« Reply #188 on: June 27, 2016, 01:49:08 pm »
I might have clicked on that if I hadn't seen "Rihanna"

I know it is a Rhianna song on the trailer, but I do have to admit it is pretty cool
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« Reply #189 on: June 27, 2016, 03:07:14 pm »
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« Reply #190 on: June 27, 2016, 03:50:57 pm »
It's a bad cut and paste but I like it...

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« Reply #191 on: June 27, 2016, 05:25:11 pm »
"Kill Command" looks very B-movie, but I'm gonna watch it.


by the way, @kevindavis  I watched Jupiter Ascending the other day.... I swear I've seen that movie before (pre-cog maybe), which didn't help it too much, lol.

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« Reply #192 on: June 27, 2016, 06:01:44 pm »
"Kill Command" looks very B-movie, but I'm gonna watch it.


by the way, @kevindavis  I watched Jupiter Ascending the other day.... I swear I've seen that movie before (pre-cog maybe), which didn't help it too much, lol.

Regarding Jupiter Ascending I thought I had read that it is based on an old anime show/movie, but I can't find any evidence for that now so I'm probably mis-remembering (perhaps I'm thinking of another Wachowski production, maybe The Matrix?).  Even though it's not directly based on anything the plot is full of cliches so perhaps that's why it seems so familiar.  :shrug:
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« Reply #193 on: June 27, 2016, 06:07:40 pm »
Even though it's not directly based on anything the plot is full of cliches so perhaps that's why it seems so familiar.  :shrug:

cleaning the toilet and bees pinged that deja vu sensation

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« Reply #194 on: June 27, 2016, 06:16:37 pm »
cleaning the toilet and bees pinged that deja vu sensation

OK, that doesn't ring any bells with me, sorry. I was thinking more along the lines of, "poor backwoods girl is secretly royalty", which is as old as Sleeping Beauty.  See here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RagsToRoyalty
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« Reply #195 on: June 27, 2016, 06:42:28 pm »
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« Reply #196 on: June 27, 2016, 06:43:13 pm »
OK, that doesn't ring any bells with me, sorry. I was thinking more along the lines of, "poor backwoods girl is secretly royalty", which is as old as Sleeping Beauty. 

lol, that has been so overdone...

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« Reply #197 on: June 27, 2016, 06:52:14 pm »
lol, that has been so overdone...

Yes, the movie didn't have much new to say on the subject, which is one reason I didn't care for it much. The other reason was, what the movie did say, it didn't say very well.   :shrug:
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« Reply #198 on: June 27, 2016, 06:57:55 pm »
Guardians of the galaxy...


1. I loved GOTG, saw it in the theater, bought it on blue ray, fun movie, can't wait for the sequel.

2. But I am not sure that I'd consider GOTG to be Sci-Fi.  While GOTG was set mostly in space, it is really a comic book movie or under the subgenre of Space Fantasy.  FWIW, and while I’m a fan, I don’t consider Star Wars to be sci-fi either – call me a purist.  :shrug:

3. I also don’t think it “kosher” (or legal) to post YouTube links here to what appears to be a pirated copy of the movie.  I don’t want TBR to get into any sort of trouble not to mention that I have an ethical problem with movie or music piracy. Fair use or short clips is one thing, but piracy of copyrighted materials is another.

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« Reply #199 on: June 27, 2016, 07:07:41 pm »
Is this a pirated copy?

Also....please remove it....and just provide a link to it if it is not pirated...
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