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- Sun Jan 19, 2014 12:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Feedback
- Replies: 189
- Views: 464318
Re: Feedback
What happened to the emoticon of a sandworm eating KJA?
- Wed Jan 08, 2014 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Happy New Year everyone
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15048
Re: Happy New Year everyone
Happy new years!
- Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Damn.
- Tue Jul 16, 2013 11:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Glad to see you around chig! I'm just working my way through his last one right now, savouring it.
- Mon Jun 24, 2013 1:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Thankfully it looks like I have around 4 more of his Culture novels to read still, I bought his latest one in hardcover the other week but haven't had time to crack it.
- Tue Jun 11, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Couldn't have put it better.
- Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Iain M Banks is dead I just found out from Omphalos.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! No NO NO and NO again! Bahhhhhhhhhh I was looking forward to so many more years of novels from him, easily in my top 3 favourite modern SF authors, easily one of the greats. BAHUMBUG.
- Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Merry Christmas!!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22145
Re: Merry Christmas!!!
Merry whatever holiday everyone!
- Thu Dec 13, 2012 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
RIGHT, I totally forgot you have one! I love that company
- Wed Dec 12, 2012 4:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
You should check out Breedlove Guitars sometimes, they make some gorgeous mandolins, we sell their acoustics but our clientele just doesn't support us stocking high end mandolins, too niche. And man that thing looks awesome! The crazy buzzy tone is all in that fancy bridge, being a long slow slope o...
- Sat Nov 03, 2012 6:17 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Revolution
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24570
Re: Revolution
Ah, yeah it only started being any good after the first few. Haven't watched either of those yet but they do look pretty good.
- Fri Nov 02, 2012 2:13 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Revolution
- Replies: 15
- Views: 24570
Revolution
Anybody watching this? Has it's ups and downs but so far I'm enjoying it.
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:23 pm
- Forum: Kevin J. Anderson
- Topic: 20 Sept 12 Huffinton Post, kja interview by Phil Simon
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7608
Re: 20 Sept 12 Huffinton Post, kja interview by Phil Simon
Wow what a goof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteampunkSteampunk is a genre that originated during the 1980s and early 1990s
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
I loved The Road, but it's definitely questionable whether the message is "look how bloody terrible this will be, we'd better not freaking go this route", or if it's just dark for the sake of dark.
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
What I personally think is the most likely scenario is that eventually, maybe 50 years, 200, whatever, we'll pollute this rock to the point where disease and famine become extremely serious problems for the vast majority of us. What exactly our population will be reduced to I obviously have no idea,...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
Humanity has found a "solution"to every single problem it has encountered. I believe the species will find a solution to avoid extinction. I agree with this part entirely, we're pretty hard to bump off - I just think we'll come very close to extinction more than once in our future. and so...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:43 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
I personally figure we'll go through cycles of almost-extinction until we simply run out of the resources that allow us to rise to such a destructive level. We'll almost wipe ourselves out, learn the lesson for a bit, forget it and go back to our old ways, repeat, repeat. Unless we nuke the whole th...
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
I agree with that, based on what I've read of the style anyways.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Interesting Article
- Replies: 18
- Views: 19255
Re: Interesting Article
I'm no expert, but it certainly seems more "on trend" to be pessimistic in SF now than it was in the past. Obviously there have been dystopia and post-apocalyptic stories since the beginnings of the genre, but it seems to me that these are even more common now and seem even darker.
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2012 Olympics
- Replies: 42
- Views: 40529
Re: 2012 Olympics
North Korean guy lifted triple his own body weight in the clean and jerk - EPIC. 123lb guy lifting 369lbs off the ground, and above his head. World record for the weight class and apparently only the 5th guy to ever move triple his own weight in that movement.
- Fri Jul 27, 2012 11:26 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: 2012 Movies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9466
Re: 2012 Movies
If it's anything like Abe vs Zombies then it'll be... well I wasn't sure what I thought of that movie...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 10:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
- Replies: 70
- Views: 66343
Re: Dreams and Dreaming
Well, if one of them had been a zombie and eaten the other one, then the answer would be clear - I secretly desire a threesome with the both of them. :wink: But in reality I would actually prefer for that to not happen, would be the most awkward experience of my life! I'd take just sleeping with the...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
- Replies: 70
- Views: 66343
Re: Dreams and Dreaming
Haha, don't actually think she was in it - the girl I currently like got eaten though.SandChigger wrote:The ex wasn't among them, was she? OH PLEASE GODS NO!!!A Thing of Eternity wrote:Some of my friends got eaten though, which was very sad.
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2012 Olympics
- Replies: 42
- Views: 40529
Re: 2012 Olympics
Yeah these are the real ones. Unless you live in Canada, then these are the "sorta care" ones! I just want to see the people lift the heavy things and put them back down, that's really the extent of my interest in the olympics.
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:56 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
- Replies: 70
- Views: 66343
Re: Dreams and Dreaming
Last night I dreamt I was up all night doing drugs with President Obama. Man, that would probably be one of the coolest nights ever. That depends on the drug, marijuana sure, but I don't want to seem him in the depths of a meth binge. :snooty: Fair nuff. I'd love to hang out with the guy on mushroo...
- Tue Jul 10, 2012 11:42 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
- Replies: 70
- Views: 66343
Re: Dreams and Dreaming
Man, that would probably be one of the coolest nights ever.Freakzilla wrote:Last night I dreamt I was up all night doing drugs with President Obama.
I had a zombie apocalypse dream the other night, THAT was one badass dream. Some of my friends got eaten though, which was very sad.
- Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2012 Olympics
- Replies: 42
- Views: 40529
Re: 2012 Olympics
I'm stoked for the weightlifting competition in this.
Lotek - that's how I felt about the winter games in vancouver a couple years ago! What a gigantic waste of money, oh well, people seem to enjoy them.
Lotek - that's how I felt about the winter games in vancouver a couple years ago! What a gigantic waste of money, oh well, people seem to enjoy them.
- Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:23 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: John Carter
- Replies: 29
- Views: 27496
Re: John Carter
I never realized Burroughs wrote so long ago until I saw this movie. I haven't read the book(s) yet but I will when this movie fades more from my memory! I enjoyed it, it was a little rushed but not so much that it was totally ruined, and having no concept of what the story was supposed to be I wasn...
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 11:50 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2012 Hugo nominations, for those who care
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15351
Re: 2012 Hugo nominations, for those who care
We have the same thing here, but it definitely isn't shit like Wendy's and Starbucks winning!
- Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Shameless Commerce Thread
- Replies: 51
- Views: 46639
Re: Shameless Commerce Thread
Yes but my chest is all full already. Come to think of it, so are my shoulders though... do have a free calf somewhere I think...Eyes High wrote:Or a chest tatt on the right man.A Thing of Eternity wrote:…
That's make a killer upper arm/shoulder tattoo, or calf.
- Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:25 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Shameless Commerce Thread
- Replies: 51
- Views: 46639
Re: Shameless Commerce Thread
That's make a killer upper arm/shoulder tattoo, or calf.Omphalos wrote:
- Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:21 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Ah yes, the ol' hardanger/hardinger fiddle - looks like a super cool instrument but I don't think I've heard one yet. It'd be interesting to hear how those sympathetics sound compared to indian-style, because those european instruments don't have the fancy bridge that makes the strings go all zzzzzz...
- Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Test Forum Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 115833
Re: Test Forum Thread
Somehow... that made it feel even worse. :( ;) :lol: Seriously though, any time anyone mentions pretty much any language I can imagine you have comments on how it functions, etymology, etc... I have no idea how many you're fluent in but you seem to have some kind of working knowledge of a truly mas...
- Mon Dec 05, 2011 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Test Forum Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 115833
Re: Test Forum Thread
Hey, I didn't say that you DID know that many, just that you make it appear that you do!
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 2:33 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Pontypool
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8933
Re: Pontypool
Something set in Canada eh? Thanks for bringing this up, I'll definitely want to see it.
- Sun Dec 04, 2011 3:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Test Forum Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 115833
Re: Test Forum Thread
Chig seems to know about 95% of the languages on the planet...Freakzilla wrote:If some multi-lingual person wants to volunteer to be a full-time moderator we can get rid of that rule.
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Test Forum Thread
- Replies: 83
- Views: 115833
Re: Test Forum Thread
I just go with the orange one like at Jacurutu, everything looks good to me.
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 1:42 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
A guy I know was actually fairly close friends with her and her family (he did technical consulting on one book and him and his family became characters in another), I was holding out a slim hope that I might one day meet her through him.
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27780
Re: SF Survey Worth Taking
All google comes up with is discussions about whether sexuality is fixed or fluid, so I'm guessing that's a good guess.
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27780
Re: SF Survey Worth Taking
... ...Freakzilla wrote:Bisexuality is still ruling things out.
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27780
Re: SF Survey Worth Taking
I don't really understand how it's different than bisexuality, I haven't been keeping up with the modern terms for sexuality and gender as much as I should have...
- Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27780
Re: SF Survey Worth Taking
Try holding down control and clicking both? Good point though...
- Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: SF Survey Worth Taking
- Replies: 25
- Views: 27780
Re: SF Survey Worth Taking
Did you make this?
- Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Nope, what fanned frets are is about scale length and it's relationship to tone, not the fundamental frequency of each note itself. As scale length gets shorter, notes get bassier sounding, muddier - think about the 5th fret A on a guitar versus the open A - the open one has more overtones and is br...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:45 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
It's just weird, I don't get "jazz" from that clip at all, just sounds like typical techy acoustic playing but really good! I hate light jazz, I like spastic angry jazz.
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
His technique and showmanship are superb. Damn shame the result sounds like every other shit-ass new age soft/modern jazz tune out there. I hate that style of music. Really? I thought it sounded great. Different strokes for different sorts? Or maybe I just haven't been over-exposed to this kind of ...
- Wed Sep 14, 2011 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
:shock=: :? :shock: :clap: Well, the quest to see how far guitar can be taken seems to be over. Dear fucking gods. EDIT: what makes it is the extra vibrato and such, and all the tapped harmonics. EDIT2: Ok, on a second watch it's not quite as insane as I'd thought at first. It's extremely insane, it...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:27 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Dune art sells for a shit-load
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6210
Re: Dune art sells for a shit-load
Coool, not my fav of his works at all but I can still see it fetching a crazy price like that.
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:47 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Here's where it gets interesting - their system is not necessarily better than ours. It's better at SOME things, worse at others. Here's an example - in our note system, relative to A 440hz, the other notes in the A major scale are all out of tune with A, the major 3rd being a great example, it's wa...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:39 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Thing, when you say some notes (or chords etc) are out of tune, do you mean that they are out of tune compared to a pure note. Say, for example you played an F on your guitar - will it be out of tune in that it won't correspond to a pure F sine wave? I know that they don't fully correspond because ...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 11:51 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
I totally want a mando with that now! I was just getting pissed off today at one particular C note. So they aren't using some funky math to calc fret spaces? They are mapping out the right frequency/vibration (not sure that's the right term/s) for each tone? They have a guitar they use to design th...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Dude, that is totally fucked up looking. Guess you can only do one tuning on an instrument that is fretted that way? Yes. They have different versions, one is just slightly bent frets and is meant to compensate for string bend when you press down to fret, so it's our modern 12 tone equal temperamen...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:54 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
You play an accoustic electric like that? I took you for a solid body guy. Well, we wouldn't quite call that an accoustic electric, just a hollowbody electric (thin body one too) because unplugged it's not really much louder than a solid body. But, that's semantics - I don't play one currently, but...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 1:39 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Post your instrument
- Replies: 67
- Views: 71306
Re: Post your instrument
Pretty sweet, not much of a mando guy myself, but they are pretty cool!
This guy in the UK is the guy I want to build me a guitar when I have extra money to throw around:
http://www.crimsonguitars.com/paf-hollow
This guy in the UK is the guy I want to build me a guitar when I have extra money to throw around:
http://www.crimsonguitars.com/paf-hollow
- Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Hey Thing, I'm still listening to In Flames and I gotta give thanks for you turning me on to them. I found a few more Reroute songs I like -- Free Fall, Cloud Connected. And still loving the hell outta some of those Playground songs. I actually haven't even really checked out the new album yet, I n...
- Thu Sep 01, 2011 5:05 pm
- Forum: Moderator's Thread
- Topic: It's Back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8334
Re: It's Back
Yeah, the Norse religion reconstructivists or whatever they call themselves seem to be split into groups - white power asshats and sane human beings. Doesn't help that the fylfot looks so much like abloody swastika, can make the two types hard to tell apart! I'd like to know more about the relations...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favorite short stories
- Replies: 23
- Views: 24211
Re: Favorite short stories
Short stories can be some of the best stuff ever. I highly recommend the short works of both Frank Herbert and Arthur C Clarke. Clarke especially I actually think is better at short stories than novels, and Frank really nails them well. There's something about the short format that lets different ki...
- Mon Aug 29, 2011 11:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Board
- Replies: 68
- Views: 67052
Re: New Board
Congrats and thanks!
One thing I'd love to see here that has nothing to do with admin, just us all coming up with topics, is more use out of that "themes tropes etc" subforum. I love that stuff, but rarely have ideas of my own to start topics with.
One thing I'd love to see here that has nothing to do with admin, just us all coming up with topics, is more use out of that "themes tropes etc" subforum. I love that stuff, but rarely have ideas of my own to start topics with.
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
"Hardcore" vocalists can be fairly loud, and hardcore-punk style screaming (actually screaming) is loud, but yeah, the "metal" style of "screaming" dissonant singing is often very very quiet. I mean much quieter than a normal singing voice. Someone like the singer from ...
- Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
I gotta wonder how she can scream like that and still keep her vocal chords intact for her regular singing voice. Actually screaming is typically way easier on your vocal chords as long as you do it right (ie: not full volume. Most metal/hardcore dissonant singers are singing much quieter than you'...
- Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:35 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New Blade Runner Project
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9159
Re: New Blade Runner Project
Booooo. I didn't even read the articles but boooo I say! The whole awesomeness of that movie was the style it was done in, change the style and it'll be nothing I thinks.
- Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:34 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Iron Man 2
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27903
Re: Iron Man 2
Finally saw this last night, thoroughly enjoyed it. Up until now I didn't really think Scarlet was that attractive, but this movie changed my mind a wee bit!
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Quite a variety there, covers a lot of time (Colony is early-ish). There's 2 albums in particular that are my favourites, which are Reroute to Remain and Soundtrack to your Escape . Judging by the other stuff you've psoted, you might find your favourite stuff from them to be their most recent albums...
- Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:04 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Rise of the Apes
- Replies: 27
- Views: 30288
Re: Rise of the Apes
I'll see it. I seriously lower my expectations when I go to see SF films, so I'm sure I'll just enjoy all the apes smashing shit.
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Lego Alien Conquest
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9783
Re: Lego Alien Conquest
Yeah, I hate how in the last 15 years Lego has turned into "put it together as per the instructions, or the pieces won't fit". They kinda missed the point of their own product.
Lego I think is the best possible toy you can give a child, very educational.
Lego I think is the best possible toy you can give a child, very educational.
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Hmmm, having trouble finding some of the bands I used to listen to with girls singing. Here's one example (Walls of Jerico)that still sounds very much like a girl to me, but not quite as much as what I'm looking for in this conversation:
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
I like a wide range of female vocal styles, but I can't stand Angela Gossow (sorry, Cynic!). I still want them to sound feminine (not to mention human!), even if the music is very heavy or aggressive. My ideal of a female vocalist who has a powerful voice that's a good match for heavy music but sti...
- Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Check some of this shit out and see if you dig it: Hey, I dig it! The first three songs for sure, they could seriously grow on me. I'm gonna have to hit Amazon and do some mp3 shopping. That last song, the older one, doesn't fare so well against my musical sensibilities. It does get into a pretty c...
- Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:55 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Yup. They're awesome.SadisticCynic wrote:
Like Angela Gossow?
- Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
I know what you mean, that is definitely the low point of the song. I do like the 3-way vocal structure of rough male, melodic male, and female vocals, but that one part does sound a little silly. Maybe it's more the lyrics for me than the vocal style. It's the combo of the lyrics there and the voc...
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Damn, looked up more and that song is about the peak. If I could just erase the male melodic singer and make the lyrics different I'd have orders in right now for every CD they've made. Darn.
Oh well, I'll keep searching, sucks being so picky... wish I could turn it off sometimes!
Oh well, I'll keep searching, sucks being so picky... wish I could turn it off sometimes!
- Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Here's another band I discovered literally five minutes ago.... ooh yeah..... this is some good stuff.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Idb5w-L0dU&feature=related Damnit, they had me right up to that "this is who I am, this is how I feel" chorus bit, up till that I was thinking, ehy...
- Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Well. Shit!SadisticCynic wrote:I can't even begin to describe how incredible this is.
What amazes me is three drummers of that calibre playing at once, and NEVER was is too much at once or each masking each other except for those 2 crescendos at the end, which were on purpose.
- Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
Cool, it definitely all sounded like it was recorded by the same person so I had a hunch!Omphalos wrote:They do it all. Used to be a bunch of classic rockers back when we were in college.
- Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
- Replies: 198
- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
I like the one band Crom, simply because any metal that is so metal that they just accept that they're best off writing about something ridiculous like orcs, or in this case, Conan the Barbarian, gets thumbs up in my books! Also a fairly cool thrashy rock kinda band. The most rest is this odd kinda ...
- Thu Aug 04, 2011 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Those crazt Swedes
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10915
Re: Those crazt Swedes
Not really a very big deal if it was just tiny quantities, I imagine he won't really get in much trouble since he essentially reported himself!
- Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
That is AWESOME!
- Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Dave Matthews? First time I've ever heard that. I love the most recent Decemberists album. Rox in the Box is my current favorite song, but it changes pretty frequently . I know the feeling; I've given up trying to maintain a favourite song, or even a favourite album for that matter. Me too, but eve...
- Fri Jul 22, 2011 11:26 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Cowboys and Aliens
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Re: Cowboys and Aliens
I just found out about it from commercials, I'll probably see it in theatres, I like the blonde-Bond actor fellow, so it could potentially be ok.
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:28 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Wilco's a great band, I should buy some of their stuff, it's some of the rare non-metal that I might actually listen to on a regular basis. Meh. Tweedy was far better in his original band. There are a handful of excellent Wilco songs, but I much prefer Farrar's work in Uncle Tupelo. Wilco sounds li...
- Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:46 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Cutting the kicks would certainly help. Cymbals are actually not hard to record, the main problem is A: bad production, many metal producers cut all the low-mids and mids from cymbals, resulting in thin weak sound - and B: they do not take well to MP3 compression, the high frequencies get really dig...
- Fri Jul 08, 2011 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Funny faces? Can't be a drummer without a funny face! I used to even have one for playing guitar, everyone called it the upsidedownfrown, which made no sense because it was just a regular frown... Cool, so this is the "true polyrhythm" we'd discussed before, a two simultainous petterns of ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Wilco's a great band, I should buy some of their stuff, it's some of the rare non-metal that I might actually listen to on a regular basis.
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 11:07 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favorite short stories
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Re: Favorite short stories
The Machine Stops is probably the single most frighteningly prophetic story I've ever read. Forster foresaw everything that's just starting to happen in the last 10 years over a hundred years ago, the bloody telephone had barely been invented and he knew what the dangers could be down the road.
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favorite short stories
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Re: Favorite short stories
There's a Poe story I'd consider one of my favourite SF shorts, can't remember the name though. My fav is probably Clarke's story I can never remember the name of with the pilot who goes to jupiter to check out the local animals after being severely injured in a LTA crash. Oooo! Or wait, I know, tie...
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:44 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New and Newish TV and Films
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- Views: 12092
Re: New and Newish TV and Films
I watched UltraViolet the other day, was expecting a pretty fun pulp-junk movie with a barely-clad female lead, but it really was really bad... even by junk scifi standards, just horrible. Bad acting, bad cinematography, really bad choreography and execution of stunts/fights... the girl wasn''t even...
- Tue May 31, 2011 9:13 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Hyperion Film
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Re: Hyperion Film
I wasn't as fond of the second one as the first, the plot stayed good, but the crazy poetic style of writing kinda melted away. I loved the first one to death though.
The only way they could make a movie with the same vibe would be a heavily narrated movie, something like The Watchmen maybe.
The only way they could make a movie with the same vibe would be a heavily narrated movie, something like The Watchmen maybe.
- Mon May 30, 2011 3:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: My Dream House
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Re: My Dream House
I'd want lots of secret compartments and hidden passages/doors and such in my dream house. Totally want the book case that swings around a central pivot (with maybe something fancier than just a "pull on the right book" trigger) into another room, oh man, there are so many options! Also, i...
- Mon May 09, 2011 8:38 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Rise of the Apes
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Re: Rise of the Apes
OHHHHH! I had no idea the whole movie ending was changed from the real story.
- Mon May 09, 2011 5:12 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Rise of the Apes
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- Views: 30288
Re: Rise of the Apes
Oh. But then how does the whole statue of liberty thing make any sense?
- Sun May 08, 2011 4:27 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Rise of the Apes
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Re: Rise of the Apes
But the orginal movie took place on Earth right? So the Burton one makes zero sense because it takes place on some other planet.
- Thu May 05, 2011 11:48 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Rise of the Apes
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- Views: 30288
Re: Rise of the Apes
I didn't even know that one was by Burton, that's the last PotA? The twist at the end was total nonsense, I beat myself up for a long time thinking I was dumb for not getting it, then I realized it was gibberish... felt better.
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Gåte's pretty good stuff man. To my ear (fairly untrained in European folk) the folk aspect of that bears a lot of resemblence to classic Gaelic/Celtic music, even down to the way the language sounds (when sung anyways).
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
:lol=: Well, being that it's us lot doing the posting we all knew it would derail sooner or later, I'm surprised it derailed so gracefully! I think you could happily split everything after we start talking about time signatures into it's own thread called "music discussion" or something, p...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I see what you mean by compound time, in fact I use that formulation quite often, with my feet or in fills. My concept of a polyrhythm comes from this video: [youtube]snip, some crazy drummer[/youtube] This guy is pretty ridiculous, and I can't even follow most of what he does, but he plays the sor...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:25 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
A good example of how to play a 4/4 or evenovereven time sig over an oddover8 sig would be tapping your hand along with Tool's Schism. It's actually in a bunch of different alternating time sigs, but most bars are 5/8 or 7/8 so it works for our purposes. A lot of people stay away from riff written i...
- Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I will try that. So, let each of my bars be three beats. Then it will take me four bars and him three bars to get back in the same position time-wise. That is, my first bar will start on his one, then my second on the four of his first bar, then my third on the three of his second bar etc. Is that ...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I've tried to learn some simple polyrhythms before; they completely destroy me. :)= Start with this: listen to some music with an easy and steady 4/4 rhythm, like the classic drum bead: 1HAT 2HAT 3SNARE 4HAT (kick pattern varies of course). Then drum with your hands on a surface a simple 3/4 rhythm...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 4:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
(Did you notice that the drummer does some interesting things with the hi-hats? As in, he puts accents in odd places to make a kind of meta-rhythm, so to speak. Or maybe it was just that song.) "Poly rhythm" is the usual term, and no, I did not notice that, I'll have to listen for it next...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Hard to believe that there's a band that we both really dig, what with you being all heavy metal, pierced nipples and body tats and me being all professional career, baby carriages and Volvos. :D Hey, I haven't pierced my nipples! Just giant 1 inch holes through my earlobes! :lol=: I like a lot of ...
- Tue Apr 26, 2011 11:17 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Omph, man, buddy, gooooood call. I just listened to a pile of these guys while doing data entry - they're pretty seriously awesome. A lot of the recordings sound low budget, but very well done low budget (it's the drums that tip me off, the cymbals sound a bit cardboard-y on some of the tracks in a ...
- Sun Apr 17, 2011 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Trailer
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- Views: 43751
Re: Atlas Shrugged Part 1 Trailer
I used to love Goodkind's books when I was a kid, they were just decent fantasy fare, but eventually I couldn't ignore his preaching and crazy ideas, and how he gets so repetitive in trying to pound his opinions into your head. The guy's a loser, like a real grade A loser. If you thought DN was bad,...
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 10:32 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Tornado's my favourite from that album personally, but Hanger is killer too.
- Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:18 am
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
- Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
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Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
He should have known better and just stayed quiet. I get that he wants to defend his family, and hell, maybe he even likes that garbage writing KJA spews, but he shouldn't have tangled with me in a physics argument when he clearly knows literally almost nothing. The funny thing is that I don't even ...
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I found an old classic in my CD pile, Megadeth's Rust in Peace, been listening to it a lot lately. I'm got to get that itunes thingy and go buy all their old albums again, I forgot how much I loved them.
- Mon Apr 11, 2011 12:55 pm
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
LK, I like both of those.
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:11 pm
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
One of the things I'd love to do is documentary recording of various indiginous musics from around the world, stuff that's really different from what we're used to, and also in danger of being forgotten. I want to do in-depth analysis to try to understand the intonation/note systems, scales, rhythms...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Thing, your mention of non-Western music styles reminded me of something. A few months ago I watched a music documentary; I can't recall the title, but it was supposed to be about "the science of music" or about the neurological basis for our sense of music, something along those lines, e...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Found this courtesy of Things 5stringbasssitarthing, thanks, It one of the most beautiful songs i have heard in a long time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBKOTJlIy9k Thanks Inhuien, this is awesome. The music is great, and the absolutely flawless reverb on the vocals really transports it to anoth...
- Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I don't think that dissonance is coming from the accoustics, that's from his tuning, he's not in our note system, not even close, So he plays a lot with a contrast between weird dissonant beating tones, and very harmonious stuff. I was saying two different things. I didn't think the accoustics made...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:52 pm
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I don't think that dissonance is coming from the accoustics, that's from his tuning, he's not in our note system, not even close, So he plays a lot with a contrast between weird dissonant beating tones, and very harmonious stuff.
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:02 pm
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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I like both of those ones. I have a weird thing where I like a lot of really soft music and a lot of really hard music, and the stuff in the middle I don't like most of (but not all, there is plenty of just "rock" that I like). A bigger thing than hard or soft to me is faster versus slower...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:08 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I think I remember you talking about this before actually. Will certainly give it a listen, but I just got a new Bolt Thrower album, and it has my attention. Kind of like groovy death metal. Is that new avatar the thing from Hyperion? Interesting Thing. Not something I would want to have in my car'...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:10 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Ok, here's something mellow. I have this guy's CD, it's bloody incredible. This guy has rigged a 5 string upright bass with a pile of sympathetic strings (running over Jiwari bridges to make them buzz Indian style). Here's my favourite song (if you get bored fast forward it, it's amazing and it does...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
I should post some of the less weird shit I listen to, all this Dillinger and Between the Buried and Me must be making me look a little masochistic or something! At this point I have a hard time telling which is the weird and which is the 'normal'. (For my own tastes, I mean). :)= True enough... ma...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:23 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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As far as earbuds go I can tell you where it's at - get some live in-ear monitors. They have limiter protection to help guard your safety, and some of them have multiple drivers, even 3 drivers (bass/mids/highs) all somehow crammed into the bud (practically fucking nanotech!) and sound awesome. Also...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:19 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Man, I'm not going to fault anyone for not digging the heavier Dillinger, that is some seriously aquired taste (which video was the sexist one? I didn't really watch them to be honest). I've been listening to screaming/dissonantvocal metal since I was 13 and I'm only now in the last few years being ...
- Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:10 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Dillinger was a gangster and back robber back in the day. Mathcore works, but the problem to me is that "math___" (be it metal or "core") doesn't cover the noise aspect, which in my opinion does more to set Dillinger style stuff apart than their use of time signatures does. Fuck,...
- Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:39 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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It's funny you say that about BTBAM, I don't think the vocals have very much to do with hardcore vocals at all Maybe hardcore isn't the word I'm looking for, in any case whatever that style is I find it hard to listen to for long. You're gonna laugh considering what I usually listen to, but I find ...
- Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:01 pm
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
Anyone that loves headphone listening should head to a pro-audio store (NOT a "pro-sumer" audio store, a real one, that sells instruments and PAs and recording hear) and spend whatever they're comfortable spending on some studio headphones. They rock. They're big and annoying, and awesome.
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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On a different track, does anyone like any kind of electronic music? That's a broad term, I know, but take it as whatever it means to you. I came across this one on random shuffle on my mp3 player last night, hadn't heard it in a long time. I think a lot of electronic music of this type is rather c...
- Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:09 pm
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Between the Buried and Me.... cool name. Strange music. Parts of it are interesting, others not so much. Kinda reminds me of Opeth, a little (as far as I recall, it's been years), which is another band where I can appreciate what they're trying to do, while still not being able to fully integrate t...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:39 am
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Also, a band with a Dune inspired name, Shai Hulud. Not really metal, more of a hardcore band... genres get blurry. I think this album of theirs is really on the cutting edge of what heavy music can be too.
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 11:27 am
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I wish youtube didn't have such poor quality audio on most videos, but for those who haven't heard: In Flames (Swedish band, one of the main pioneers of the subgenre of Melodic Deathmetal (a genre that seems to have almost nothing to do with deathmetal oddly enough, they must have just been hanging ...
- Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:46 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Oh sure, I'm aware of all that, and I'm not trying to make any sort of objective argument because I know music is almost entirely subjective. All I can do is just be honest and say I despise rap to the core of my being, for my own subjective and no doubt biased reasons. :P There are, of course, exc...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:05 pm
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My buddy who does the minimalist music (and he's also becoming known for his new seriously groundbreaking visual/audio art, hard to explain, I'll try later though, it's amazing) are going to be doing a project together that I've had in my head for a long time. I don't consider myself a musician any ...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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Re: What are you listening to?
If the music is good but the lyrics are trash, then just give me the instrumental version of the song. I think I'm different from most people in that lyrics aren't really that important to me. I mean, sure, intelligent lyrics are always a big plus, and especially crude or ignorant lyrics will turn ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:37 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
- Topic: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
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Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Oh... I see... any there's no mention of any kind of FTL drive at all? What is wrong with these guys?
- Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:44 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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That's a starwars question?D Pope wrote:I'm still a little weak on why you go faster if you've got a trail to follow.
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:03 pm
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Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
I didn't either, and over-looking gravity on spaceships is so common in SF that it didn't occur to me very often.
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:13 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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Well, either foldspace is technobabble gibberish or it's wormhole in my opinion! I agree with you, FH left a hole with some of this. Frank knew when too much would interfere with the story. Folding space serves a purpose, the how isn't important, it is the conditions such an arrangement forces upon...
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:44 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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Re: The DN FTL debate, AKA: Byron Makes Ass of Self
Well, either foldspace is technobabble gibberish or it's wormhole in my opinion!
I agree with you, FH left a hole with some of this.
I agree with you, FH left a hole with some of this.
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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I don't know about that. Opposite magentism wouldn't really levitate things in a very controllable manner I don't think - though you can levitate non-magnetic objects with diamagnetism (such as levitating a frog with magnets, the water in the frog is repused rather than attracted by the mag feild). ...
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:06 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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I don't think we've glossed over it, I'm sure we've discussed it before. Suspensors seem to do more than just cancel gravity, I was under the impression that they actually had a repulsive force, though I could be wrong about that. FH definitely did some "glossing over" of those topics thou...
- Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:11 am
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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The fuel thing actually isn't that bad, if you wanted you could maybe run any kind of drive you wanted off gasoline or whatever, assuming it doesn't require some exotic energy (which sadly all FTL drives I'm aware of do, meaning even something amazing like anti-matter wouldn't cut it). The exhaust c...
- Sat Mar 26, 2011 3:21 pm
- Forum: Discussions from Other Boards
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:lol=: Thanks, I think that whole discussion was my finest internet moment. Trying to explain to Byron that absolutely no kind of kinetic rocket could EVER breach lightspeed was really difficult. He kept saying shit like "they thought the sound barrier was impossible to break too back in the da...
- Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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- Views: 323805
Re: What are you listening to?
I don't think it has anything at all to do with being PC, it's the same as junk fiction, junk TV, junk food. Most people want simple entertainment, not real art - supply and demand for the masses.
- Sat Mar 12, 2011 12:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
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Re: BSG Exhibition
Hey Omph, you still want to meet up to go to this? I'm busy until probably middle/late summer, but then I'm, good to roll if any time after that works for you/
- Mon Mar 07, 2011 10:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
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Re: BSG Exhibition
Gods damn it, I missed this. Does anyone have any idea whether it will be on display anywhere else? DAMNIT.
EDIT:, nope, damn it again, apparently I'm not smart enough to look at the "year" portion of the run-to date... anyways, I look forward to going to this within the next year!
EDIT:, nope, damn it again, apparently I'm not smart enough to look at the "year" portion of the run-to date... anyways, I look forward to going to this within the next year!
- Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What are you listening to?
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...Between the Buried and Me... I just listened to the first 10 minutes of Colors (Arggh!!! They spelt it wrong! :wink: ) :shock=: Why have I not heard these guys before ?!? That was exactly my reaction man, listen to that whole album end to end (since every song blends into the next one it's reall...
- Sat Mar 05, 2011 2:33 am
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- Topic: What are you listening to?
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I went through a similar thing, for years I stopped listening to all "pro" music (years), no radio, very little for CDs, I was only interested in local bands - there's just so much more passion when you know the people and see them build it themselves - note that video I just posted at Jac...
- Wed Mar 02, 2011 11:50 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Total Recall Remake
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- Views: 17302
Re: Total Recall Remake
In Bruges is EXCELLENT. Highly recommended.
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 7:47 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: SG: U
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- Views: 8591
Re: SG: U
I'm a season 2 BSG guy personally, I've got my girlfriend watching the whole show from start to finish with me right now, she actually is enjoying it which is surprising. Season 1 has really good moments, but moments of utter garbage too (like when Starbuck figures out how to fly that cylon fighter....
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 2:29 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17664
Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
I think the whole finding Earth ending was subpar too. They should have left it at the destroyed Earth, let the audience wonder about our universe's relationship to the BSG universe, and then just had them find some other planet. Though that wouldn't really have fit with the whole "this has all...
- Mon Dec 27, 2010 12:09 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17664
Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
I just started re-watching BSG from the start, doing all the commentary this time too. Man was that show great, I wish they hadn't gotten so terribly lost in the middle. I maintain that for how thoroughly they messed it up in season 3 they did a damned fine job putting it back together in the end, b...
- Wed Dec 22, 2010 5:55 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: SG: U
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8591
Re: SG: U
Tell us how you really feel!
Makes me glad I don't even have Syfy.
Makes me glad I don't even have Syfy.
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:21 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Carriers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12970
Re: Carriers
Ah, he was great in Fear and Loathing too.
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:44 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Battle: Los Angeles
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9092
Re: Battle: Los Angeles
I hate it when people have to use BS. I mean, I get it - sometimes you end up realizing way later that a key element of your story isn't rock solid, so you have a choice, either you go back and make it good, even if that means a rewrite of the entire thing, or you leave it as crap and then try to ar...
- Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:42 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Carriers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12970
Re: Carriers
Which actor? I love SVU, watch it all the time.
- Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Battle: Los Angeles
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9092
Re: Battle: Los Angeles
I love when the plot dictates that the aliens need our brains or something to eat. They can travel FTL, but they can't grow some potatoes? Gimmie a break. Anyone with that kind of tech could set up house on pretty much any planet/moon with some decent sunlight and get growing (forget terraforming, j...
- Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:20 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New Film: Skyline
- Replies: 29
- Views: 28472
Re: New Film: Skyline
I saw a review that called it an excellent demo reel for the FX company, then advised people never to watch it, even if it were on TV for free.
- Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Millennium, by Upton Sinclair
- Replies: 20
- Views: 19866
Re: The Millennium, by Upton Sinclair
Starship Troopers only ever made sense to me after Omph mentioned to look at it as a utopia piece.
- Mon Nov 01, 2010 12:12 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I can just imagine eating some mushrooms, going to see it in 3D at the theatre and bringing some good headphones and just having my mind blown to smithereens. :D Rush would also be a good choice... or wait, YES. Yes would be the choice to go with (the band, not the word). I don't think I could ever...
- Sat Oct 30, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I can just imagine eating some mushrooms, going to see it in 3D at the theatre and bringing some good headphones and just having my mind blown to smithereens. Rush would also be a good choice... or wait, YES. Yes would be the choice to go with (the band, not the word).
- Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:01 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
Same shit is cool with me, I'll just turn off the audio and listen to some Pink Floyd or something, maybe buy some mushrooms. Trust me, there will be SOME way to enjoy the sequels.
- Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:44 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
- Replies: 23
- Views: 17664
Re: New BSG series, Blood & Chrome
Yeah, I was ready for a shit storm of prequily-shittiness, but they actually managed to make a good show out of it from what I saw (only saw 3 or 4 episodes). Not BSG by any means, but better than all the other SF on TV that I've un across. Once it's on DVD I'm going to rent it all so I can watch it...
- Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15006
Re: BSG Exhibition
I think I won't be going for quite a while, I have to see when my girlfriend's reading week is in the spring semester.
- Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:25 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: The Big Bang Theory
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10778
Re: The Big Bang Theory
I love this show, it just went into syndication too so it's on every day here.
- Mon Sep 20, 2010 9:13 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15006
Re: BSG Exhibition
Thing, you and I should plan on meeting there. I go to Seattle all the time for work. That would be awesome, the only tricky thing for me timing-wise is working it around my girlfriend's school schedule, she'd kill me if I went to Seattle without her. Bring her ass along then! Really, I am up there...
- Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15006
Re: BSG Exhibition
That would be awesome, the only tricky thing for me timing-wise is working it around my girlfriend's school schedule, she'd kill me if I went to Seattle without her.Omphalos wrote:Thing, you and I should plan on meeting there. I go to Seattle all the time for work.
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: BSG Exhibition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15006
Re: BSG Exhibition
Yeah, I saw this at Worm's, I'm there for sure!
- Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: X-Prize Winners
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5155
Re: X-Prize Winners
That is certainly a good area of research. I like the tandem bike one, looks like it has wheels that stop you from falling over in a tight turn.
- Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:56 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
It sends shivers down my spine, and as a composer of sorts I'm continually blown away by his ability to meld eastern and western note systems (it should sound completely out of tune, most notes in a given scale are off by enough to sound like shit when you compare east to west, combining the two req...
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:59 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
I'll have to dig into that group, but I remember it being the composer's brother singing it or something like that, so I'll be he wrote it in collaberation with some other people, thus didn't take full cred for himself.
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 3:28 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Jonah Hex
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12080
Re: Jonah Hex
Yeah, she's not typically competing with Meryl Streep for roles. Probably would've made that Julia Child movie better though. I actually don't think she's very attractive when I've seen her in photos or on TV, but for some reason she's always looked pretty good in those Transformers movies. I agree...
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:43 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
That's exactly what I was thinking, I always to find good instrumental stuff to listen to while writing (languages I don't understand works too), this would be perfect.Robspierre wrote:I have all four season soundtracks. Lots of good stuff. Excellent writing listening.
Rob
- Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:41 pm
- Forum: Fiction Links
- Topic: Fallen Angels (Novel) by Niven, Pournelle & Flynn
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8387
Re: Fallen Angels (Novel) by Niven, Pournelle & Flynn
Were'nt we just making fun of KJA for doing that?
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 6:50 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Sweet, I found out they have sound tracks for all the series available and the movies. I'm going for the one with Watch Tower first, then I'll get the rest as time goes by. I really liked how he insisted on live musicians too, a lot of the stuff they did (mainly the drumming) could have easily been ...
- Thu Aug 12, 2010 12:56 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
I only have the first 2 seasons on DVD, there's something on him in there, but I did rent DVDs for the last seasons, there is a very extensive bit on how he works in the first disk of season 4.5, and I think a good one of him working on that cover tune in season 3. He's seriously amazing. I'm not su...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:54 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Ok, you're going further back than I was thinking. I can see that bugging you, I'll have to rewatch it though.
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:36 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
I'll agree that a lot of the end was half assed, but I think the half-assing happened during season 3 and then they were just fucked. From then on they seemed to do their best to undo the damage, with mixed results. What part of Kara's craziness bugged you? Seemed pretty reasonable to me for someone...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 1:05 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Indeed. :)= I liked season 4 more than season 3 in some ways, 3 was just too much obvious winging it with the storyline and reconning (season 4's retconning was much more sucessful IMO). I'll easily agree that the first 2 seasons were the best. I actually liked most of the last 2 seasons, I just did...
- Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:58 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
- Replies: 35
- Views: 36089
Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
What makes this movie truly amazing isn't that it's based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever, it's that the director gave up DUNE to work on a movie based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever!
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:19 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
- Replies: 158
- Views: 247239
Re: BSG Season 4 (spoilers)
Well, took me long enough but I finally finished watching my favourite show. There were some issues with it as mentioned in the last couple pages of this thread, but it did it for me. It was a better ending than I'd expected, though I would have cut the whole NY ending, WAAAAY too on-the-nose, I thi...
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:12 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Starbound, by Joe Haldeman
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7900
Re: Starbound, by Joe Haldeman
Good to know that I can't just grab a book by him at random and expect it to be great... oh well.
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:10 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Zombieland?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 30521
Re: Zombieland?
Right, translations... forgot about that. I hate overdubbing, subtitles is far better.
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:45 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Zombieland?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 30521
Re: Zombieland?
HEY! SPOILERS much?! :evil: (It's finally going to make it over here, it seems. What, just a year late? :roll: ) Why's Japan so far behind with TV and movies? Do they just have so much of their own stuff that they wait to see what does well enough over here to import? When it comes to stuff like mu...
- Mon Jul 05, 2010 8:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Questions for the British fans
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32079
Re: Questions for the British fans
In other words, you're so skinny one might be able to count your ribs. ;)= I was wondering if that's where it originally came from! :lol: But the change in pronunciation is weird, huh? You'd think it should be more like "ribby" in that case. Oh well, still beats "in depther"! :l...
- Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:36 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: I made it!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 45394
Re: I made it!
Ok. Figured best be safe!
- Fri Jul 02, 2010 10:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: I made it!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 45394
Re: I made it!
Does he know what the clubhouse is?SandChigger wrote:(Please keep in mind that this thread is outside the clubhouse! )
Lotek, look at T(A)U when you're signed in and when you are not. Note any differences.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Questions for the British fans
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32079
Re: Questions for the British fans
I hate the bastards and blame 'em for most of what's gone wrong in the world since, oh, about 1570 .... Can't blame the Brits for Texans being lard-arses. You managed that yourselves. :lol=: You're just jealous 'cause you don't have as much food. :P I've never been to the "real America", ...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:49 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Genocides, by Thomas M. Disch
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5998
Re: The Genocides, by Thomas M. Disch
Typo about halfway through, about the root being hollow, you wrote hallow.
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Feedback
- Replies: 189
- Views: 464318
Re: Feedback
Cool, how many at Jacurutu?
- Sat Jun 26, 2010 2:55 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Different latitudes maybe? Actually, as the orbital goes around its star, there would probably be seasons. The way I've shown it, though, it looks like "spring" and "fall" might be completely dark (or perpetually twilight?), with the far side in the shadow of the near. :shock: S...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:19 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:41 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:48 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Oooh... I thought it was around a planet. So it was spinning and the Centrifugal force held them to it. Centripetal, but yea. Now I'm confused again, I thought centipetal force pulled you in towards the axis, centrifugal force pushes you out, away from the axis... as in being on the inside of a spi...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:44 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:14 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I never did quite grasp the plates or whatever it was they lived on in TPoG. The ring is divided into different zones, or plates. Each plate has a unique environment. Chiark orbital was not too old, and only a few plates had been attached to the inside of the rign. They were merely different sectio...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: I made it!
- Replies: 42
- Views: 45394
Re: I made it!
Welcome, make sure to look through the archives here as well, they've got some good stuff.
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:01 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
The writting in his newer stuff like Matter is definitely stronger overall. Sometimes I'm not so sure he's being weak in his writing, I think he often just indulges his own very odd tastes. UoW was hard to follow, very vague pretty much the whole time if I remember right, but it does eventually tie ...
- Wed Jun 23, 2010 10:11 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I just started Use of Weapons last night. This is my favourite of the ones I've read so far, but I need a re-read. Hell, I needed to re-read it right after I finished it... TPoG is probably in second place after that, but Matter was very good as well. I'm glad you found Banks that you liked, Feersu...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:51 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Yeah, Feersum is very good, but not representative of Banks' SF work, really. TPoG is a much better starting point. Enjoy UoW. It was my first Banks novel, and I picked it up after a long period of not reading anything. It reminded me why I had enjoyed reading so much. HBJ That's good to hear, sinc...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:25 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
Yeah, Feersum is very good, but not representative of Banks' SF work, really. TPoG is a much better starting point. Enjoy UoW. It was my first Banks novel, and I picked it up after a long period of not reading anything. It reminded me why I had enjoyed reading so much. HBJ That's good to hear, sinc...
- Tue Jun 22, 2010 11:07 am
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Matter by Iain M. Banks
- Replies: 59
- Views: 47805
Re: Matter by Iain M. Banks
I just started Use of Weapons last night. This is my favourite of the ones I've read so far, but I need a re-read. Hell, I needed to re-read it right after I finished it... TPoG is probably in second place after that, but Matter was very good as well. I'm glad you found Banks that you liked, Feersu...
- Mon May 17, 2010 9:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The saying "hello" thread.
- Replies: 540
- Views: 1733899
Re: The saying "hello" thread.
Welcome Duke, other than a couple of people you pretty much know everyone here already.
- Fri May 07, 2010 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Questions for the British fans
- Replies: 38
- Views: 32079
Re: Questions for the British fans
Yeah, sometimes people aren't being rude, that's just the way they do things. And sometimes they're being rude.
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
I was at first too.
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Yes.Freakzilla wrote:Is it set in "The Culture"?
- Wed Apr 14, 2010 11:12 am
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Unusual item for a Dune collector
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10538
Re: Unusual item for a Dune collector
Neat, I wouldn't mind one of these...
- Wed Apr 07, 2010 11:37 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Street Legal Viper
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8764
Re: Street Legal Viper
Cool. I still have to watch the last half of the last season of BSG, I don't know how but I keep being too busy for it.
- Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Somehow forgot about that one...
- Mon Apr 05, 2010 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
His books are kind like Cohen brothers movies, sometimes they leave you sitting there thinking "what???", but they're well done.
I'd recommend use of weapons, that's a good'r.
I'd recommend use of weapons, that's a good'r.
- Sun Mar 14, 2010 1:08 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Obits
- Replies: 71
- Views: 125982
Re: Obits
Blame can be spread. Someone kills themselves with drugs, they're to blame (exceptions occur obviously), but the person handing them the "weapon" to do so shares the blame.
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Science in my Fiction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9178
Re: Science in my Fiction
That is a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Science in my Fiction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9178
Re: Science in my Fiction
Yeah, I've read most of his shorts, definitely some hard-SF in there, but I think his main impact was by far in his stories that were not hard-SF, (but not shit-science-SF) and that would have made a good example for the article - that knowing the science and putting thought into it doesn't mean you...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:33 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Aniara, by Harry Martinson
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6646
Re: Aniara, by Harry Martinson
This sounds amazing, I just added it to my list for the next amazon order I do. I didn't know books like this even existed! I have a hunch that much/most of Simmon's Hyperion was written just like that was, but then he just removed all the line breaks and tricked people into thinking it was just nic...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 12:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Science in my Fiction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9178
Re: Science in my Fiction
Herbert would have been a decent example of how you can write stories that have little or nothing to do with the science, but are still rooted in well thought out science.
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 1:14 pm
- Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Replies: 192
- Views: 559443
Re: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
My mistake, I thought you meant that they folded on the publishing deal, not folded entirely. In hind-sight, that doesn't make much sense though, no one would phrase it that way!
- Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:08 am
- Forum: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Topic: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
- Replies: 192
- Views: 559443
Re: Dune Secondary Source Bibliography
Wow, I'd love a copy of that. Did he say why it was never published?
I know how you feel, sometimes the search is more satisfying than the find.
I know how you feel, sometimes the search is more satisfying than the find.
- Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Science in my Fiction
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9178
Re: Science in my Fiction
Thanks Omph, I enjoyed that. Maybe someone should email it to the hack.
- Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Flattening an old book?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 28086
Re: Flattening an old book?
Tell me about it - the last band I was in was unfortunately called The Butcher's Hand - even more unfortunate, dispite my repeated pleas to the other members, every shirt, sticker, website, you name it - they left out the apostrophy, making us a bunch of butchers handing someone something? :? :? :? :?
- Wed Feb 24, 2010 11:14 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra. One of the many benefits of Canada's form of collective socialism. :D We're so socialized our private corperation...
- Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:45 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I keep hearing that you guys down south have to pay extra for the 3-D version? We just have it in regular theatres for normal prices, unless you want to see it in Imax, then it's extra.
- Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:52 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: New Dune Movie
- Replies: 61
- Views: 62182
Re: New Dune Movie
WTF?
- Thu Feb 11, 2010 5:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
I just started Card's Treason yesterday, I was a little hesitant because the guy is such an idiot, but he seems to be a pretty good writer so far.
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Just started Fahrenheit 451 for the first time.
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:58 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Flash Forward
- Replies: 26
- Views: 19985
Re: Flash Forward
Yeah, I actually read and enjoyed a couple of his books when I was younger, but I don't think I'd enjoy them if I read them now. To be fair to Robert, he's not even on the same planet of hackery that KJA is. Robert is simply a mediocre/sub-par writer who's had a lot of undeserved hype, which makes h...
- Mon Jan 25, 2010 5:21 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: District 9
- Replies: 56
- Views: 59864
Re: District 9
Yeah, I agree with every single one of your complaints, there are a few really serious obstacles to the suspension of disbelief in this movie. That said, I really loved it. SF has a long history of "forcing" it to make the plot work, and I don't think that this one especially stands out in...
- Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:33 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I'll bet "the making of" Avatar will be a total snoozer. "Here's a bunch of people wearing funny helmets and motion capture suits" "here's some people without funny helmets and motion capture suits in front of a green screen" "here's some nerd adding in the environ...
- Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:21 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Eugene, Oregon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8000
Re: Eugene, Oregon
It's amazing to me that places preserve stuff like this... it just seems so odd to me. Cool, but odd.
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 11:42 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I gotcha, but they did not say one damn thing about it, and the only clue that we have that unobtanium has anti-grav potential is that it floats in when its placed in that electronic plate - which by the way does nothing to say why it floats in its natural environment, but not when the humans have ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:32 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
Um ... never did catch why those fucking mountains float. I mean, it was kewl and all, but it made no sense. That's because it was not explained. Nor was the purpose of mining the metal, or the relationship between the metal and the mountains, if any, or the identity of and lack of any involvement ...
- Mon Dec 21, 2009 4:28 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
There is a fair bit of the Na'vi language, I can't tell what they were drawing fom, buch many of the accents came off as African-esque. I'm sure it will give you plenty to have fun shredding to death Chig! :wink: (I'll be looking forward to that). I saw it in 3D, which was much less cheesy than I'd ...
- Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:38 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I saw Avatar this afternoon, and it totally came out of left feild... I was expecting some okay quality pulp SF entertainment, but I got much more. Every plot hole that people pointed out in advance (including myself) is deftly filled. This was far, far beyond what I expected to get, and I can see t...
- Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Joe Haldeman named as the SFWA's 2010 Grand Master
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8387
Re: Joe Haldeman named as the SFWA's 2010 Grand Master
Cool, I've only read two of his books so far, but I loved both of them, and look forward to the rest.
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:14 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: Avatar Trailer
- Replies: 157
- Views: 123227
Re: Avatar Trailer
I'm actually starting to look forward to this. I enjoy some Science "Fantasy", because once there is one totally obsurd thing (floating mountains say) then I can let go of my hard-SF nazi mentality and just enjoy it. It's just fantasy with machinery in my mind.
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 8:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
- Replies: 50
- Views: 36018
Re: Kids say the funniest shit
I was so glad she wasn't around when he said that. From the mouths of babes... maybe she needs to hear it. I'm sure she has heard it in one way or another. I Spiff and I did get onto her yesterday about texting while she was driving. I think the punishment for that should be that when the cop pulls...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:58 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20540
Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
I think that's actually the leaves flying in the air, and it's much clearer at one point in the animation.Freakzilla wrote:
Stars spell SEX in Lion King:
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 2:32 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20540
Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
I'm amazed they get away with it in children's movies honestly.Rakis wrote:Wow...
Damn Hollywood pervs !!
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:44 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20540
Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
The best is all the sex stuff in disney movies, brings joy. Hmmm? Say again? :shifty: I can't marry her, she's my friend! ~Lion King I laugh every time I hear that one. Oh...ok... :(= Somehow, i was expecting more, in the line of that R2D2 pic... :oops=: Oh no ,this stuff is much more like the R2D2...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 1:06 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
- Replies: 21
- Views: 20540
Re: R2D2 Cameo in Star Trek
really? I love stuff like this, makes me laugh. The best is all the sex stuff in disney movies, brings joy.
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
About halfway through Haldeman's There is No Darkness right now. I really need to get my hands on more of his books.
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:06 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: 2012
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36534
Re: 2012
Saw this in the theater today. It was exactly what I thought it was: Stupid story with uninspiring characters with fantastic special effects. As soon as they started talking about " mutated neutrinos " from an overactive sun as the cause of calamity I turned my ears off and enjoyed the ri...
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 3:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
- Replies: 50
- Views: 36018
Re: Kids say the funniest shit
The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
- Replies: 50
- Views: 36018
Re: Kids say the funniest shit
The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
- Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:17 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Kids say the funniest shit
- Replies: 50
- Views: 36018
Re: Kids say the funniest shit
The sherrif just knocked on my door. Appearantly one of my kids called 911. They called back but as usual I ignored the ringing phone. I nearly had a heart attack, I thought they were looking for me for some reason. I'm going to kill somebody. :x I had that happen to me when I was a kid, my friends...
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:03 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: V: The Second Generation
- Replies: 132
- Views: 131187
Re: V: The Second Generation
As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:15 pm
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: V: The Second Generation
- Replies: 132
- Views: 131187
Re: V: The Second Generation
As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
- Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:58 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: V: The Second Generation
- Replies: 132
- Views: 131187
Re: V: The Second Generation
As malevolent as the visitors are, something tells me the real reason behind the invasion is really really dumb. "Give us all your Pez! It powers our anti-grav!" If the reason is anything physical -- water, food, minerals, land, anything like that -- then it will be stupid, because anythi...
- Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Dreams and Dreaming
- Replies: 70
- Views: 66343
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 12:29 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8827
Re: The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke
That review does paint a less than excellent picture of the book! One small critique of your review - you first mention Morgan near the end of the review, with no introduction at all to who he is, and that made the read feel a bit disjointed.
Other than that, as always I love to read your reviews!
Other than that, as always I love to read your reviews!
- Tue Oct 27, 2009 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
I'm still hunting for a copy.Freakzilla wrote:I started reading Erewhon but have gotten really bored with the journey through the mountains... I'll keep at it though.
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Weird, that's close enough to english that I actually understood what you said. Closer than German even. Weird.SandChigger wrote:Kan du inte läsa svenska?
(Jag kan, en lilla. )
And no, I can't speak it, not even a "little" like you kan.
- Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Cooooooool. Glad the translation is good, my experiences with translated poetry have not been good (Dante's Inferno for example).
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 4:07 pm
- Forum: Dune Talk
- Topic: Muad' Dib, the Musical?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5856
Re: Muad' Dib, the Musical?
Omph, you'd nail that one, go for it!
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
Hyperion was killer, the second book less so, and that's all I've read from Simmons.inhuien wrote:Just got "World War Z" out on loan from the library, I'll read that when I'm done with G-north. How is Simmons? I seen some of his books on the shelf today.
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:46 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Books in the pile
- Replies: 947
- Views: 7571440
Re: Books in the pile
I'm still wading through We , for some reason it has turned into a very slow read for me. Good book though, I love really old SF/Utopia stories, they have a ring of truth to them that I don't see much in modern books. I think it might be because the authors at that time were writing what they were t...
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 11:44 am
- Forum: Genre TV and Movies
- Topic: 2012
- Replies: 34
- Views: 36534
Re: 2012
I thought it looked pretty fake too. Special effects have come a long way, but I think move makers need to respect the limits of CGI at this time and work around them. I would give ANYTHING to see model spaceships in SF rather than GCI, it's the one thing they could do so easily with models but just...