Sci-Fi of the Day
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- Akagiyama3
- this is very good,Bluejam
- Guy i know designed the alien creaturescannonball1978
- They looked great!dopepope
- OATS Puts out some great stuffscarabin
- Ramanisky25
Very nice work from artist Erik Wernquist
- antimotion3
- them's some real high tops!antimotion
- YESSSS!... get away from her you sneakerhead!prophetone
- lolmoldero
- Stompers were released about three or four years ago, as mids. There were a few different colourways.face_melter
- PhanLo1
- ooOoOoo f*ck yes don't even care that I don't understand a single wordArchitectofFate
- Not a big fan of the cellshader thing, but i like the ghost in the shell vibe.ApeRobot
- Looks great. Strange we don't see more French animation, given Gobelins.i_monk
- Yeah this us cool, merciYakuZoku
- Dammn, this looks good!necromation
- Haven't been able to find it streaming anywherei_monk
- i_monk0
- Dark Souls character generator?face_melter
- Sinéad O'Connor?utopian
- No, Kes, no.
http://wate.com/2015…detritus - http://38.media.tumb…SlashPeckham
- well, she supposed to live only 7 years... gues that what happens... Al Neelix his fault...tank02
- Let's blame Neelix for everything bad we don't blame Wesley for.CyBrainX
- lol @ face meltercannonball1978
- Continuity1
- contact.futurefood
- I hope so. She was hotscarabin
- I'm pretty sure that's the Enterprise from The Motion Picture.CyBrainX
- It most certainly is. 1701 refit.Continuity
- V’Germisterhow
- cannonball19784
Got another short story coming out soon about an art store owner who is breaking up with his girlfriend and is being visited by children that versions of himself from other dimensions have fathered.
- colin_s1
i know they were both kinda panned but i went back and re-watched the two alien prequels ("prometheus" and "covenant") recently and they're goddamn good.
compared maybe to the lo-budget horror of the original they're, well just not that . but as just science fiction, it's a really great story with decent enough pacing. the only thing i think both fail at is the "final fight" scene where it all just gets a bit outlandish (especially in covenant).
anyway if you're looking for some sci-fi to pass the time with.
- Agreed. They have their flaws, but I think they were panned because most people got confused because they were unfamiliar with the canon.garbage
- Kind of like how it's never really stated that Blade Runner takes place in the Alien Universe. I'm expecting Raised by Wolves will be the same.garbage
- Scott needs to surround himself with people willing to say 'no'.i_monk
- I wish Scott had been allowed to make the Prometheus sequel he'd intended to make, rather than Covenant, which is what the studio forced him to make.MondoMorphic
- @i_monk I have some issues with Scott (he claimed that the neo-noir elements of BR were his idea and that he never bothered to read Philip K Dick, which is..garbage
- ..an outright lie). But he still is a fantastic director. Lucas would be more of the "needs less yes-men" type of director.garbage
- The universe is great visually, but the story was a big mess. Still enjoyed watching it though, so much good concept work in them both.PhanLo
- totally agree, re-watched them myself lately too and they were much better than I remembered, as opposed to the "Resurrection" one.rzu-rzu
- Also Alien 3 was quite nice, but only the director's cut, the one shown at the movies was terribly mutilatedrzu-rzu
- The problem could probably be named Lucas Syndrome or something, sure, but Scott clearly isn't getting any creative pushback to keep focus.i_monk
- thumb_screws0
- Still from enders game. Please dont fuck this up.thumb_screws
- PLEASE don't fuck this up. *fingers crossedmonospaced
- Please please dont fuck this up!!plash
- If you fuck this up, I will kill you.cannonball1978
- anything that can go wrong will go wrongdoesnotexist
- is harrison ford razer mackham or the other guy?d_rek
- Ah he is Graff! Nice. Please don't fuck this up.d_rek
- we all know its gonna be craprobotinc
- Nairn4
Hey cannonball (or indeed anyone else..) - did you bother persevering with Cixin Liu's 'Remembrance of Earth's Past' trilogy?
If so, I'm curious to know what you think - I finished the third one a few weeks back and despite the problems we both recognised in The Three Body Problem (turns out the pulp fiction dialogue wasn't a problem of poor translation), i gotta say that it was a good trip overall. Some really big sci-fi ideas. Third book was, I think, my favourite - even if the ending was a bit.. well, in case you've not read it I'll stay schtum.
- I personally hated Death's End. I think I liked Dark Forest the best.sarahfailin
- I did not.cannonball1978
- I did read Neal Stephenson's Fall, recently, which was good.cannonball1978
- i_monk5
Dune Remake Wraps Production
https://movieweb.com/dune-remake…
The last I heard about this was casting; I kind of figured it was never going to happen.
- neverscared0
Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real
Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlookScience fiction (SF) influences everything in this day and age, from the design of everyday artifacts to how we—including the current crop of 50-something Silicon Valley billionaires—work. And that’s a bad thing: it leaves us facing a future we were all warned about, courtesy of dystopian novels mistaken for instruction manuals.
Billionaires who grew up reading science-fiction classics published 30 to 50 years ago are affecting our life today in almost too many ways to list: Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Jeff Bezos prefers 1970s plans for giant orbital habitats. Peter Thiel is funding research into artificial intelligence, life extension and “seasteading.” Mark Zuckerberg has blown $10 billion trying to create the Metaverse from Neal Stephenson’s novel Snow Crash. And Marc Andreessen of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has published a “techno-optimist manifesto” promoting a bizarre accelerationist philosophy that calls for an unregulated, solely capitalist future of pure technological chaos.
These men collectively have more than half a trillion dollars to spend on their quest to realize inventions culled from the science fiction and fantasy stories that they read in their teens. But this is tremendously bad news because the past century’s science fiction and fantasy works widely come loaded with dangerous assumptions.
- Man Child Syndromeutopian
- Our future is being built by idiotsPhanLo
- We're idiots for letting others build our futureOBBTKN
- My dad never owned an emerald mine, so I'm stuck drawing pictures.
https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo - Only one competitor wins and gets the spoils of victory. The wealthy 1% won!utopian
- until one of them makes an army of Kelly Lebrocks_niko
- @ Phan... My father was a mechanic, I draw flying machinesOBBTKN
- ^nice. To be fair, becoming an artist was an anomaly in my family, really wished I'd became a joiner like my dad.PhanLo
- We all do it. They just have bigger budgets.imbecile
- i_monk4
Loving The Peripheral.
Really disappointed by 1899.
- cannonball19784
https://frictionlit.org/umbrus/
For your reading pleasure.
- Akagiyama1
After directing Dune part 2, Denis Villeneuve will direct Arthur C. Clark's Rendezvous with Rama.
The story from Clarke, the writer behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, follows a group of human space explorers who are tasked with intercepting an alien starship that is hurtling through the solar system. It is believed that the missions will lead to mankind’s first contact with alien intelligence.
- spiral erth!sted
- not every sci-fi classic needs to be adaptedspl33nidoru
- Rama isn't a particularly good story. Groundbreaking concept at the time, but not much of a story.i_monk
- I forget where was the sun? at the very end or floating in the middle?inteliboy
- Three light trenches spaced around the circumference.i_monk
- _niko0
Anyone watching or finished the 100?
Started it last week, on season 3 now, started off as a low budget firefly like show, terrible effects, terrible acting, terrible costumes, but there was something in the moral dilemmas and tough choices that they had to make that sort of kept it interesting.
season 3 feels much better production-wise but now it feels like game of T̶h̶r̶o̶n̶e̶s̶ 100
I hear season 4 and 5 are great so i might just plough through.
- Let me know when finished... because I tried I REALLY tried. Could not push through season 1 because all the main points you made above.Ramanisky2
- Watched the last episode the other day, it was alright. Went on a bit, but I needed to see it through.PhanLo
- Gave up on it in season 5 or 6.i_monk
- I started it, loved it, then later felt like i was watching a show for teens and dropped it. I actually thought the costumes were the best partscarabin
- ^ teen drama/romance vibes for sure. I started watching it with my teen daughter. It got better later onGnash
- jagara2
Oh, and for weird, ridiculous and nonsensical (but very entertaining and original), check out "The OA".
Not for everyone.
- jagara1
Sorry. Last one: Homecoming. Loved it (miniseries, 8 eps.).
- Homecoming, Sci-Fi ??Ramanisky2
- added to watchlistutopian
- I'm not sure if it's sci fi but I loved both seasons.CyBrainX
- I don’t recall anything sci-fi about itRamanisky2
- True. Maybe it¨s because it gave of slight Black Mirror vibes to me...jagara
- offjagara