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TheDukester

God damn , but the last three sucked. And progressively, too: 5 was okay-ish; 6 flat-out sucked; and 7 was bad on a level with Kevin J. Anderson. Combined, it was 2,000 or so pages of Stephen King administering a sloppy blow-job on himself. I sold them on eBay for pennies on the dollar and counted m...

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... what an idiot he is,was, and always will be. Although I only ever lurked over there, I'll never forget when I finally had the pure, awe-inspiring epiphany that we've all experienced at DN: "Byron Merritt isn't just an asshole and a lickspittle lackey ... he's also a real-life, honest-to-Go...

TheDukester

Wow, presentation fail on every level.

And, yes, you can't not try to look up her skirt.

I can't believe she didn't get some feedback before posting that. Or, if she did get feedback, it was useless (and likely came from the worst of the skirt-looker-uppers).

TheDukester

SandChigger wrote:Oh yeah! Tried to forget about that!

Same here; I had successfully blocked all memory of that particular ass-hattery.

Time to stop following KJA-esque links. Only bad things can come of it ...

TheDukester

More remakes?

You know, someone should make a new Dune movie one of these days ...

TheDukester

As usual, excellent background, Rob-O. I just know I had a gut-level reaction to what I saw as a bad book. I just sincerely hated it. But that's been one of my few bad experiences with Heinlein. In fact, some of his stuff ranks very highly on my personal list(s), with Starship Troopers being my favo...

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Robspierre wrote:Many consider Farnham's Freehold to be satire.

That would actually be a relief, then. Because, otherwise, it is unspeakable, KJA-esque hackwork. I threw it across the room after 50 pages.

TheDukester

I noticed that as well after I started getting into BBC America: the British model for a "season" is typically somewhere between five and eight episodes. And, generally, they do a fantastic job with it. The U.S. network model, historically, has always been for longer seasons. I'm pretty su...

TheDukester

It's comforting how little things change ...

1. Kevin is wearing his Going Out Jacket™;

2. Bobo is looking away, avoiding all eye-contact, and letting Keith handle everything. Just like the good little minion that he is.

TheDukester

When your iPad is attached, highlight it in the Devices section on the left of the iTunes screen. That row of categories you'll see now across the top of the screen — Summary, Info., Apps, Music, Movies, etc. — is where you'll go to control what flows into and out of the iPad. For instance, in your ...

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Grown Man Afraid of Airplanes wrote:It's difficult to cover my life in one paragraph.

No, really, it's not ...

TheDukester

I wrote most of the reviews and saved them as docs or rtf files. Can I view these on an iDevice? I am getting them uploaded, but then I try to open them in Pages and can't do it. How about saving the documents as PDFs, then just using iBooks to store them? iBooks is a surprisingly good PDF reader. ...

TheDukester

I'm sure your ex-wife has equally fond memories of you too, you sad fucking excuse for a human being. Holy shit, I didn't even realize that Anderhack had been previously married ... gee, how come that little tidbit gets left out of all that bio stuff you write, Keith? You fucking worm. And it's jus...

TheDukester

I'm not sure I'm following, but ... ... are you talking about just being able to add, delete, or alter some text? Like in the middle of an email, for example? If so, you just press and hold near the text in question; the magnifying glass that pops up will allow you to go to the area that needs fixin...

TheDukester

The BSG miniseries, and Seasons 1 and 2 are some of the best TV I've ever seen, regardless of genre. And then Ronald Moore started appearing on a lot of magazine covers. And then it all turned into navel-gazing bullshit. (With some exceptions, of course ... there are some great moments, here and the...

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SandChigger wrote:Seriously, though, FUCK Siffy.

Also, fuck all of the BSG "brain trust."

You know what they could have done rather than launch 11 spin-offs? They could have made the last two seasons of the core show good.

TheDukester

SandChigger wrote:... he knew FH personally.

Unlike the Dick of the Century, who never even met the man.

(Yet has no problem tarnishing his legacy for a few shekels and a doomed bid for respect).

TheDukester

Yeah, the "fast app switching" is kinda useful and lame all at the same time. It's more of a work-around than anything else. I use a lot of the stuff that Rob mentioned. Comixology is a great comics reader; iBooks is just fine for ebooks and PDFs, and Dropbox is great for file-sharing. I'm...

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Omphalos wrote:Typin at'cha from my new iPad. Why oh why the hell did I wait so long for this?

Pretty sweet, huh?

You'll be totally hooked when you see that the iTunes Store has all of the Walking Dead episodes ...

TheDukester

Now that there's a TV show, I'm actually catching up with the comic ... yeah, I know, that makes zero sense. I think I sold the comic short on my first attempt. I'm really enjoying it this time around. If I had to guess, I'd say I was too tired during the first try to enjoy anything ; my oldest son ...

TheDukester

"Show Dick some respect!"

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A lot of his fans proudly call themselves Dickheads.

(Personally, I think that's pretty damn awesome.)

TheDukester

SandRider wrote: ... will we get to see Sigorney Weaver's titties ?

This is relevant to my interests.

TheDukester

Does watching this new thing require forgiveness for Ronald Moore?

If so, I'm out.

I still hope he's under the umbrella that TheKJA is holding when the bear-shaped meteorite strikes ...

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reverendmotherQ. wrote:As long as I could have drove it home!

"Bitch stole my ride!"

Ah, back when the show was actually good ...

TheDukester

Ooooh ... nice. I've always had a soft spot for that magazine. I've even managed to collect a fair number of issues over the years. Hell, back in the days when there were these things called "magazines" that you could find at "bookstores," I'd even buy the latest issue now and th...

TheDukester

Ah, interesting. I thought that there was a group by that name that was invited to make a guest appearance. Great song, either way (you'd think it might be the cheesiest thing ever, but they really pulled it off).

TheDukester

I really, really enjoyed it. Cronin (who I'd never even heard of before) has a real smooth, conversational style that just makes the pages fly by.

I didn't want it to end; I can't think of higher praise.

TheDukester

In reality, our Dune books have garnered a great deal of critical acclaim, nominated or won many awards, received starred reviews in Publisher’s Weekly, were included on numerous Best of the Year lists, one was named as a New York Times notable book, another was picked as the Favorite Book of the Y...

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SoucheNozzle wrote:Have you read "Dune Encyclopedia" by Dr. Willis E. McNelly? What do you think of it?
No, I haven't read it.

Horse. SHIT.

TheDukester

... Keith poo-poos the idea of "other writers" doing Dune stories, because they've got Brian's concordance and Dune is so complex and vast and the less experienced would have trouble keeping facts straight and end up publishing contradictions ... The comical part: that pretty much makes K...

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(McCreary) Also, "All Along The Watchtower" is credited to a group called BT4, not the composer. I don't know anything about the group other than that. I thought that song was undoubtedly the highlight of Season 3, which is funny on two levels: 1. It occurred in literally the last three mi...

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Good catch on those. Perfect examples of Spanky and Bobo's very casual relationship with the truth. Not to mention just saying what they think people want to hear. (Sidebar: I do believe that he's read Dune multiple times. But I'll bet he's only read the last two once apiece ... and that he didn't u...

TheDukester

Seriously, Hasbro must have just laughed their asses off:

"You want to make a movie based on Battleship? And you'll give us a bunch of money? In a tough economy? Um ... okay!"

TheDukester

For the sake of my father's legacy, I couldn't select the wrong person. So what does he do ... ? Selects absolutely the wrong person. There could not possibly have been a worse choice for a co-author than Kevin J. Anderfuck. It's literally impossible. He wouldn't have been in the top 800 choices fo...

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SandChigger wrote:Does it get better?

It's ... uneven.

But some episodes are certainly good entertainment. And I'm with you: bite me, flash-sideways. Bite me hard.

TheDukester

The last year I attended, 2003, was the really the beginning of the Hollywood take over of the convention. From friends who still continued to attend, it's become harder and harder to have fun because so much focus is on shit media and having to deal with asshat studio people. My last year was 1998...

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Cricket is the one that can go for like six days, right? And the final scores are 227-188?

TheDukester

I can't see how any SF show in history or the near future has/will come even into the same league as this show. Mini-series, seasons 1 and 2 = in the top five or 10 shows ever put on television. Seasons 3, 4 = not in the top 500. Ending = insulting, nonsensical, borderline retarded. I would pay goo...

TheDukester

Yeah, you've got to go for the top with ol' Scarlet; there's no excuse for passing up an opportunity to gaze upon those bad boys.

Hopefuly, if all goes well, you can take care of the bottom string a bit later.

TheDukester

"Knothead"? :think: :lol: Yeah, pure laziness. Omph mentioned it to me a handful of times over the past few weeks/months. Finally, it reached the top of the "Shit That Should Get Done" list. Oh, and I was embarrassed about missing the whole attempted sting on Prester Idiot. Big &...

TheDukester

That right there is why I have to stop visiting authors' sites. I used to like Scalzi, but on teh internets he comes across like a complete dick. I thought OS Card was halfway decent until I ran into his hate-filled ramblings; now I can't look at his books the same way. There's other examples, too. ...

TheDukester

Greetings! I'm Duke (yes, it's a nickname ... no, I never tell anyone my given name) from lovely Reno, Nev., a strange (but mostly pretty cool) little burg on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. My interests include quality literature, cycling and other lung-busting activities, family ...

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