Why would you need a trapdoor from living room to garage? Is it drug lab chic or does the house lack internal stairs?
Sternhammer
joined 2 years ago
It feels very foreign somehow. Or a Billy Joel reference FFS.
To be fair, Kojima games are primarily vehicles for cut-scene delivery. Gameplay is a bonus.
How absurd. This kind of thing could happen to anyone.
I hope Adidas cops heaps of negative publicity over its pursuit of this hapless woman.
Sorry, formatting error. Should be clear now.
I’m with you. I’m enjoying the Foundation series and, in a way, the departures from the book keep me guessing. But it’s not Asimov. When it stared I wondered how they were going to handle the constantly changing key characters but it seemed they just couldn’t so we have clones, uploads and hypersleep to keep people around for the long span of the stories. That’s disappointing but I’m still enjoying the ride.
Confession: I re-read the first three Foundation books last year but got bogged down in the fourth. The ideas are wonderful and changed science fiction with their scope but the writing is rather dated and, frankly, they are quite long-winded at times. Apologies for the sacrilege.
Have you read any Iain M Banks’ The Culture novels? Incredible writing. Most of his books have interesting twists in them, some of which will fuck you up. They are the type of books that you wish you could read again for the first time. The author died in 2013 so there are no more coming.
- Consider Phlebas
- The Player of Games
- Use of Weapons
- The State of the Art
- Excession
- Inversions
- Look to Windward
- Matter
- Surface Detail
- The Hydrogen Sonata
Other SF books by Banks:
- Against a Dark Background
- Feersum Endjinn
- The Algebraist
So many good films mentioned here.
A nice little Gerry Anderson (Thunderbirds, Space 1999, etc.) flick is Doppelgänger (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun).
No one has mentioned Star Wars (1977) (later renamed Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope) probably because it seems too obvious. It changed SF, cinema and the media landscape forever.
Indeed. I’m Australian and my partner and I did a round-the-world cruise for three months in 2018. We’re not rich, I used my long-service leave to take the time off work. It wasn’t cheap but no regrets, would do it again in a heartbeat.
It’s nice to see people not putting up with his prevarication but watching Scummo just makes my blood boil.
As an academic I’ve used it for several years to track my classes, lecture ideas, etc., and more recently keeping a record of media consumption, movies, TV series, and novels.
I’d like to get more out of the data in my vaults but I struggle to grasp many of the most interesting community plugins such as Dataview. I really enjoy using Obsidian but suspect it’s challenging if you lack a programming background.
Nice to see the SPV from Captain Scarlet, such an old school classic.