Musopticon?

I just got a new apartment, 30 squaremeters and a bathroom, bayview, washing machine, great neighbourhood. Only 247 a month. Now, the trouble is that the apartment is entirely unfurnished. And I'm about the spend the weekend there, uh...

Thanks, I'll check this out. Also, Taledude, are you watching Black Lagoon, perchance? The Vision Bleak - The Charm is Done

I thought the cinematography and editing was brilliant, myself. But yeah, the location is spot on. When the camera rolls over the mansion grounds at the end with the voice over...exhilarating stuff. Also, has anyone seen Dead Birds? I've heard good things about the movie and wondered about renting the thing.

Thanks a lot.

Yeah, that is common. I tend to repair that lack of experience with ample grenades, a knack at ballistics, complete lack of self-preservation and mad rifle(preferably carbine, after shields are gone, just hit their brains out) rushes to melee distance.

I'd like to stick-gren Bokster for lols sake. If you ever decide to do something about this, throw me a yahoo(not Accept) and I'll hit it off with my pal's 360. Though you most likely have to bear us both, muhhah.

Actually, no. Otherwise Orson Scott Card's Alvin series is scifi, because it is set in an alternate timeline of American history. The dividing factor here is that fantasy doesn't aim to explain it's phenomena, like magic - it just is. Like the Force and how it can be used and why people become ugly when they wear black and telepathically strangle others. Science fiction on the other hand is just that, most often there is a scientific basis for what is happening. For instance, Dragonriders of Pern looks lot like fantasy from it's thematic elements - dragons, kingdoms, whatever. It has no relation to Earth, or is an "actual setting" in any other way. Nevertheless, it is science fiction because all the magic in the setting is explained, there may be undisclosed phenomena, but that's only because the characters have yet to verify the origins of it. The dragons are genetically modified and specially bred telepathic lizards, whom they feed sulphurous rock to make them breath fire. The great evil is a virulent fungus infestation that can spread through vacuum of space as well. Everything has a basis on laws of nature, physics even, no matter how extraordinary(or stupid, in case of dragons of Pern ) something seems. Scifi doesn't need to have it's roots on anything that happened on Earth or anything that has existed, as long as it shares the basis on science. Of course, if we add space opera, anachronistic history and Vonnegut here, things become a bit muddled. This, however, is the literary argument.

I don't understand this answer. When I play Gothic 3 it has NO loading times..? I don't care if the game takes a week to start up (or when you reload a save), I just don't want to be constantly interrupted when I'm playing because I want to go in and out of a building. I am talking about in-game loading times, of which Gothic 3 (and Gothic 2.. and Gothic) has none. How about The Witcher? To be incredibly annoying and blunt, Gothic 1 and Gothic 2 have loading times. Sieged Valley of Mines, Orc Graveyard, The Island, etc. Not that they matter in the least though, since everything else is streamed and exist in a continuum.

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The reviewer has to get out more, seriously.

You're either a sick bastard or awesome. Or both.

I still want either a Phoenix in the Sword miniseries or a Red Nails movie.

Evil Dead 1 Alien Dawn of the Dead 28 Days Later The Thing Happiness of the Katakuris Session 9

The Seatbelts - Bad dog, no biscuits

Watched a bunch of movies on my friend's LCD: Transformers, the Bay one. This was actually pretty decent. I mean, sure enough Bay can't direct his way out of a closet, but the bots were a hoot to watch and the start with the lone bot blasting the army base to smithereens with what looked like plasma lances was like a wet mecha dream. The teenage romance was ok, but it was also the point where the movie turned from watchable to stupid. Fortunately the last hour of the movie was almost non-stop city fight between steel hulks. Definetly a renter there. Sunshine, Boyle's new flick I was expecting some entirely different, more of a Supernova-like story. Instead it ended up having the philosophic vestiges of Solaris, the glorious direction of 28 Days, the cast of all of Boyle's previous movies and the art to die for. It was funny to watch how what began as a Apollo 13-variant turned into a space slasher with mystical undertows. Of humanity's reliance to sun and of cabin fever in space. Not Boyle's best, but a very good movie in any case. I was totally hooked.

I love that jab. Can I quote that?

I'd rank ME as space opera (which borderlines both fantasy and scifi ) Yeah, the approaching evil robots really do fit that genre category. And lesbian aliens.

Evil Horde - Infiltrator Babylon Whores - Sol Niger Oh shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage As a disease on all fours risen from sea Yea shine on Black Sun upon all Carthage and that which never was shall always be For what is eternity But a shoreless sea One eternal day That sees us come and move away

For further reference, poolofpoo is a known troll idiot. Don't feed him. No, really. It's his style, he always posts the same.

If they go into long discussions about telemetrics, human-machine interfaces and advanced robotics controlled by AIs, one supernatural aspect doesn't turn it into fantasy. I think Mass Effect fits the soft-scifi label pretty spot on. Now, Star Wars' main drive is the fight between good and evil, both armed with swords. Even if they've explained that X-Wings forego skimming jets when they exit atmosphere and there's actually an explanation why there's noise in space, it's thematically fantasy. Mass Effect on the other hand seems to have all the makings of a scifi instalment, though I've yet to see philosophic aspect of scifi anywhere there.

I just installed what I thought would be Chrome, an fps which demo I really liked, under perhaps a US name called "SpecForce". Well, it ended up being a fugly half-done tactical shooter. And now I have ****ing Starforce in my system.

Hey, you are at a forum where a majority of the regulars has finished BG 2 a couple of times. That asks for not only commitment, but a huge measure of fanatism. Me? I'm finishing Quake 4, don't want to leave it paused during exams. I try to generally finish anything I like even a bit, since I hate the feeling I can get during something important - that I wish I knew what happens next in that something cool.

Tim Jensen - Lithium Rose The other songs were passable, this is actually good.

Today I spent half the day watching Beck:Mongolian Chop Squad and now I'm ending it with listening to songs. Call me incredibly sentimental but I was totally hooked there for a moment, jerked a tear almost. Tomorrow, linguistics.

I found a radio station from my cell phone which seems to play the oddest crap. This sounds like Finnish crust, which is ine by me. Naturally this means I don't have to get an mp3 player. Edit: Danzig - Going down to die Dang, sounds so much like Babylon Whores.