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    Project Hail Mary

    I saw something that was labeled as Project Hail Mary but turned out to be something totally different. Not sure that I’ve seen anything else as of last night. From a book standpoint and not film, I do agree with @Szlia though. The Martian was a much better novel and story so I was not as...
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    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    Double dipping from my Small Press thread since a lot of people probably don't care but dropping this here just in case. Red Rising went on sale today from Lit Escalates and Curious King. The Artist Edition is the only one available still and will be on sale for the next couple of weeks. $100...
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    Small Press / Fine Press Editions

    https://suntup.press/the-dragon-masters-the-last-castle/
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    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7130300/ huh IMDb isn’t unfurling.. Woman In Cabin 10 is the movie. Completely mediocre and generic and not surprising in the least. I like Keira Knightley and Guy Pearce, needed some background noise while working sick from a hotel this week. It satisfied the need...
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    Home Improvement

    Wow, ain't that some shit. We had a tree fall into our yard from our neighbor's house last year. He tried to get his home owner's insurance to cover removal and fence repair and they would not. One thing to keep in mind when it comes time for removal: I was not home when he had people come and...
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    Home Improvement

    Not recommending this one specifically, there's a AliExpress version out there for sure, just can't find it. But I have two different ones with removable bezels that different levels of sharp ends can be screwed on. I also like ones that have a "firefly" mode that just casts a very low glow that...
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    Firefly

    I’d say that’s about right for Supernatural although there were cool lore bits and characters beyond that. It was mostly that the writers went back to the “Sam and Dean hate each other this week” well about 406 too many times. We get it, brothers fight, but for literal Christ’s sake, get over it.
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    Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    He’ll be too busy with the Firefly relaunch they’re announcing tomorrow, right? 🤣
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    Small Press / Fine Press Editions

    I saw that on Instagram, glad he’s trying to do something about it. There’s such a small group of businesses that actually do these things (the printing and binding) and so many presses are plagued by delays and issues. There’s another company I buy from named Headstamp Publishing that does...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    7th Guest, Myst, Under a Killing Moon were so foundational to my PC gaming life. Similar to X-Wing or the King’s Quest series. I can remember playing Myst with my Mom and brother on the family computer in the living room 386. 7th Guest (and eventually 11th Hour) we spent ages playing late at...
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    CORDURA

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    CORDURA

    Dang I was really hoping this was a game about nylon. I don’t even think Cordura means anything? This is like naming your game Tupperware or Velcro.
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    Home buying thread

    One of our primary requirements was that the garage doesn’t face the street. I don’t even really like the fact it is viable from the side, but because of the lot and slight grade it makes more sense to put it where it is. All the other homes that were for sale tha have these huge 2-3 car garages...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah I waited to get the full set of the last kickstarter ones after the fact and basically paid same cost as it would have been. I would like to finish my set of main books to be matching, but that’s a very low priority.
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    War Machine (2026)

    did you finish the movie? No one will blame you if you didn’t, but I mean… it is kind of the last 15 minutes.
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    War Machine (2026)

    Y'all are being entirely too critical of an obviously bad movie. There was zero expectation this was anything but generic and bad and it lived up to all of that. I can’t even be mad at it. Putting more effort into it than it is worth , I will say the worst part was giving Reacher a leg injury...
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    Firefly

    If you watch Seaquest vs Farscape it is an incredible case study of what a show lead can accomplish with vs without upper management meddling. It is almost hard to believe Rockne S. O’Bannon had anything to do with DSV.
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    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    It feels like billions understates the issue by an order of magnitude. Isn’t just Highguard, Concord, and ’maybe’ Marathon almost $1B? That doesn’t include what we don’t know about that has been canceled. Even if not all of it is explicitly due to DEI, the poor management and leadership...
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    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    I only know what bongo cat is because they do K-pop Demon Hunter covers and my 2 year old asks for it constantly.
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    Highlander

    Oh I’ve done both of those. Last year or the year before when our middle son was born and I needed late night baby feeding/rocking TV. I actually thought they held up fairly well and enjoyed pretty much the whole run of if I remember correctly. Some other thread has my thoughts on Andromeda and...
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    Highlander

    I’ve been doing a rewatch of the Highlander series and boy it is pure 90s amazing cheese. Duncan is knocked unconscious like every episode and luckily there are no other Highlanders around to lop his head off. Sword fights that swap to grainy black and white, slo mo, synth soundtrack. Just...
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    hah exactly the same here. I started watching it before scrolling down to the comment and description and thought for sure someone had just ripped it off.
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    All things Brandon Sanderson

    AI getting crazy… Some of the details are wrong but it is funny I recognized the scene immediately and haven’t read Way of Kings since it was first released.
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    What did you just read?

    Awesome, glad it helped. I gave up my monthly subscription because the quality of those prints just weren’t worth the $53/book after exchange shipping. The one offs though seemed to use slightly better paper and signed, so that’s always cool.
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    What did you just read?

    If anyone is interested in decent-ish shelf copies of books, The Broken Binding just went live with their hardcover edition of this today: https://thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/between-two-fires Should be open to order for anyone. Never heard of the book and no idea so kind of passed over...
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    Returnal (PS5) (April 30th)

    Oh dang, whoops. Got confused somehow when it started popping up in recommendations. Thanks.
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    Returnal (PS5) (April 30th)

    Random bump instead of making a new thread. I guess Housemarque released a new game called Saros. Had no idea it was coming out but I loved Returnal. Unfortunately PS5 only for now like Returnal was on release. Also 70 fucking dollars, not a chance I’m paying that these days even as great as...
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    What did you just read?

    This popped up as a recommendation and was pretty short so thought I’d give it a shot. I need to do more new / independent or smaller sci fi and branch out a bit. This book reminds me why that is difficult, though. It isn’t aggressively bad, but just never gets out of mediocrity. Surface level...
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    Small Press / Fine Press Editions

    Full details were released Friday of the Curious King and Lit Escalates editions of Red Rising. 4 states announced: Artist Edition, Numbered (1-350), Lettered (52 copies, A-ZZ), and Roman Numeral (I - X). The Artist edition is basically unlimited and is an amazing deal at $100. Three week...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    Kiddo’s grandfather thought it’d would be fun to surprise us with a Ninja Ceami, so now I get to become a fatass and perfect my soft serve game. Just inconsiderate if you ask me! We had milk on hand, granulated sugar, and vanilla paste so did a quick batch last night. Was actually pretty dang...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    You’d have to update the physics engine to support the modern Nathanya’uwbo Drake and xer diverse team swinging and hanging from everything. AI is great haha
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    Marathon - Bungie Extraction Shooter

    That’s some serious wtf.
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I don't consider anything without a static map a Metroidvania. The procedurally generated maps kind of take away a lot of the design that goes into Metroidvania type games. Progression may be locked behind certain "key" upgrades for new maps/biomes, but I don't qualify that as the sole defining...
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Metroidvania is a genre Roguelike is a genre Roguelite is a genre Faggot is a choice
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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    Glad I’m not the only one with the opinion on Windblown’s artistic choices. It is really abysmal on top of very spammy but fun gameplay.
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    Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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    General Gaming News and Discussion

    That’s interesting because Motion Twin is releasing Windblown which is in EA now. I’ve been playing it a bit here and there. Very different than Dead Cells with the 3rd person 3D perspective, gameplay has some overlap but not a huge amount. Still Roguelite. The biggest turn off is the characters...