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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Cantrell wrote Rooster.
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    Dune (2020)

    Just hit me that we're only about a year out from this, fucking stoked! That cast.... is it going to be possible for this to meet expectations? I mean I fucking loooooved BR2049, it was a 10/10, and my expectations are that this movie will exceed it.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    No it isn't. Streaming will be fine for some games, not fine for others. Stadia is probably a non-starter, but there's no reason X-Box and PlayStation can't have some success with it. I don't know if it'll ever be the primary play method, but it obviously wouldn't happen for a while. For now...
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    Terminator (2019)

    Saw the movie, it was whatever. Thread is just making me want to go back and watch The Sarah Conner Chronicles. I was just randomly reminded of one of the terminators in that show who was sent back to the 20's or something, started a construction company?, sealed himself in the walls of one...
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    NBA 2019-2020 Season: Kawhi Saved Us

    This season for the Warriors is now all about trying to find a couple of the young guys that will be able to contribute when everybody is back healthy next season (hopefully). Eric Paschall is giving some early hope on that front at least. 34/13 last night in a win against the Blazers for the...
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    Civilization VI

    Civ 6 needs stacks.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    If only they could somehow fire Rian Johnson from the trilogy they promised him, and replace him with Villeneuve, we might have A New Hope...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Disney should pay Lucas another 4 billion to write them something worth a damn. Complain all you want about the prequels, but they didn't ruin the original trilogy. These last 3 are a soulless abomination. Took everything that was good about the original trilogy and just absofuckinglutely...
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    What is Quantum Computing..

    I remember giving a presentation in my college speech class some ~20ish years ago on quantum computing based on an IEEE article I had read at the time. At a heavy engineering school, but I think there weren't a lot of engineers in that particular class. The other students in the class were...
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    No, been a long time since quantum mechanics classes but pretty sure your ship experiences the mass increase. You would need infinite energy to accelerate to c. E=mc^2. m is actually M, the relativistic mass where the rest mass is multiplied by the Lorentz factor. Relativistic mass is...
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    It depends what % of c we're talking about. Below 0.9c or so yes, time and slowing down are the biggest problems AFTER the possibility of running into almost anything larger than a rock. If you want to start traveling much greater than 0.9c or so, that's where mass (and thus energy) start to...
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    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    But the point they are making is that traveling at relativistic speeds is a giant question mark. Based on what we know now, there's a good chance we'll never be able to.
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    Cause she is Anakin. She's his clone. The Emperor made her, and its time for him to return to collect his new apprentice.
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Melvin is right, I was talking about signal degradation, which I thought i was pretty clear about. I'm not talking about L in the Drake equation at all, only you are. I'm saying even if photons from a radio signal emanating from an alien planet are hitting earth right now, there's some range...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Its the detection part. Not sure we have a good idea about what it'd really take to be able to detect radio signals at this distance. When we try to run fourier analysis on radio signals from an interstellar body, at this distance and considering how power drops at a rate of 1/d^2, are the...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Except we don't know how reasonable the Drake equation is, or whether the Fermi "paradox" really has to be a paradox. There could be many reasons why alien civilizations would not want to be seen or haven't been. You seem pretty sure that we'd be fucked due to some theories based on our...
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    Ad Astra (2019)

    5.5/10 Some of the visuals are awesome, but as somebody said above there's a lot of pointless plot in this. Also a lot of plot that I think doesn't make much sense. I can appreciate the point they were making, but I feel like they could have cut out some of the useless plot points to enhance...
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    Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

    After The Force Awakens I thought that if Rey was a clone of Anakin it would explain a lot of things. Palpatine coming back in some form maybe opens up that possibility again. That could save this S*&tshow for me, maybe...
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    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    I love how the dude standing behind him doesn't try to help soften the fall at all, in fact moves further away, allowing that slow roll into a straight up head plant. What a pal. Are we in pre-alpha 8 yet?
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    The Astronomy Thread

    Gotta keep Blue Origin in the mix because this is going to be a long journey, and long term that company has better odds of staying afloat due to Bezos' money bin size. Great to have competition for SpaceX.
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    I don't like it, but they were pretty short on options here. Once Durant was heading to Brooklyn S&T was about the only way to add a decent sized contract. DLO kind of became the player they'd get by default. Klay is going to be out for much of the season, so he and Curry could play together...
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    What are the right goals? Does this fit somewhere in with the right goals? Why will bitcoin not be threatened by new coins? You don't know this for a fact. There's nothing that has to be unique about it except that it was first. Maybe that's enough, but you can't be sure.
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    Bitcoins/Litecoins/Virtual Currencies

    Dropped $1750 in 15 minutes? Lol
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Probably gone, but he was going to opt out regardless of whether he stays or not so this isn't news. Opting in would be a terrible decision after that injury when he knows that there are teams out there today that will give him a 4 year max. If he stays he can get a 5-year max that nobody else...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Read the rest and comment or shut up.
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Let me explain what I meant.. firstly, I'm obviously only talking about offense. Secondly, I'm talking about his ability to create runs for his team in a way that nobody has ever been able to before. Yes, there have been many guys in the past you'd rather give the ball to for a bucket. Durant...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    I'd take this year's team at full health against any team in NBA history. Any team. Assuming today's rules. They were just never really fully healthy all year. Iggy and Green missed a lot of key free throws too in this one, Iggy was 1 for 5, Green just 0 for 2 but anytime you miss back to...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Fucking refs did everything they could to help Toronto get across the finish line and it wasn't enough. Hearts of champs.
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    Chernobyl

    Binged this over the weekend and finished tonight. The word a couple others here used that I'd most agree with to describe it is sobering. Fantastic series, but wow its sobering how close this came to destroying a sizeable chunk of Europe. Yeah I was amazed a couple of the divers are still...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Warriors didn't play that well and still scored 109 (although that was bolstered by a lot of free throws.) Giving up 118 to the Raptors is the bigger concern from yesterday. Double teamed when not needed, left too many shooters open, had little help presence in the paint when guys penetrated...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Stop doubling Kawhi please, and play Bogut over Boogie. Boogie had a couple nice passes but gives zero lane presence on D, need that more.
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    The only reason I'm not more angry about this is that Endgame delivered pretty well. We had two chances to get epic endings in the same month, one of those chances hit so it appeased me to some extent. But yeah, have to agree with that all. Its on par with The Last Jedi on the disappointment...
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    Avengers: Endgame (2019)

    Stun opponents with her hotness? Yeah, its funny how in the top picture she's like full on running near the front like she's going to do something. Saw this for a 3rd time. I don't think its too long, didn't get bored or anything on the 3rd watch. I could have done without the comedy bit...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    I picture Bran as going more towards God Emperor of Westeros than Dr. Strange. He'll live for a 1000 years as he becomes one with a Weirwood in King's Landing while getting rid of winter forever by carefully sculpting the future. The North will eventually rebel, and to get their precious...
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    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Did the Unsullied and Dothraki get rezzed after the battle with the dead? I mean it seemed very much like they were decimated from that battle, but come episodes 5 and 6 they were seemingly thousands strong again... Especially the Dothraki. We seem them all charge into the army of the dead at...
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Finals start May 30th regardless, so they definitely want to close it out asap.
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    6 years a more realistic timeframe. They'll still be a lottery team for the next 2-3.
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    2018-2019 NBA Thread

    Bucks could be where the Warriors were in 2015. Had some very talented young players including an MVP candidate, then replaced a poor coach with a good one and suddenly they're a 60 win team. Legit. Went nuts watching that game yesterday. Watching the Splash brothers eliminate the Flop...