@whknott
The boats slammed against the water as the engines chewed through the choppy river. On cue the enemy voiced their displeasure in 7.62 mm. Good, they hadn't had time to setup. Their defenses should be limp. Someone on the boat addressed their concerns with a Carl gustav. 'Lula's hit! Take the engine! Shit! Brace for impact!' The boat slammed into the river bank hard. Having trained to expect the unexpected, I jumped right before the impact and landed into the mud. It's go time.
@whknott
Mr. Toad was fed up with humans and their pollution; they’d kill everything. The S.O.B.s were arrogant, thinking they were the only intelligent species on the planet. The only advantage they had was hands. So, Mr. Toad devised a devious plan. He found a sprayer tank and had his friend Mr. Moto Komodo adjust the nozzle to make it a super atomizer. Then he gathered and refined neurotoxin from his skin, and released it into the atmosphere. The fuckers were all dead within two days.
All that #scifi that had super rich business people as heros
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Maybe enough with that crap and write some stuff recognizing that democratic governments formed because super rich people screw things up not fix things
Wohoo, my replacement Firefly Blurays arrived. The first set i ordered had a small defect in disc 2, making one of the episodes unreadable in one region. This one seems fine. No read errors.
Good thing I've started to check the discs in the boxsets. I've had a lot of issues with the big 41 disc Stargate boxset produces by VEI. The disc production is of mediocre quality, which is disappointing considering the steep price.
@UKFilmNerd Yeah, the FIrefly disc had a line embedded in the plastic somewhere, it wasn't a scratch. It also followed the arch of the track. It corresponded to about 100 MB of unreadable data or thereabout. That is enough to cause a lot of glitches in playback, and in a player may cause it to skip since it needs to keep up the pace with the playback.
I usually convert my discs to video files so I can stream them to the TV, which gives me a bit more time to get the data out.
@UKFilmNerd I also had a lot of issues with season one of my old Star Trek Deep Space Nine DVDs for my video upscale project. Turned out they used a form of disc encryption that made blocks on the disc unreadable. I installed the correct Linux library for it, and suddenly they were fine. The rest of the season did not have this.
The upscale turned out fantastic by the way. About to finish watching season two. 😊
Floating, waking, floating. Dreaming, I guess. A party. A goat man. A disease. I guess. Or I drank something. Brain fog and swirling cloth. Did I leave the window open? The door? Did I lock the door? I can't rise to see. Eyes heavy. Limbs ache. Is it day? Am I awake? Where did the goat man go? Was he in a dream or was he?
A breeze swirls the cloth. A door has opened somewhere. Time passes.
Oh. A face. At the end of the white tunnel. A goat face.
a #SciFi story where the global X.500 directory happened, but eventually splintered across competing space communities/corporations who each claim the "global" directory.
the challenges of changing alliances and losing/gaining entries, getting X.400 messages to people in other communities through shady PRMDs.
@waarismijnhoofd For things I enjoy, definitely check out the site. These are just birthday posts and as I do them year after year after year, I change up the art, etc. and it does not reflect my personal tastes.
#lecture
J'ai lu Quantika de Laurence Suhner, dans la douleur !
De très bonnes idées, mais c'est bourré de poncifs ! Elle a poncé toute la SF ! Trois gros volumes à supporter son style, qui peut passer du lyrique au désuet entre deux vulgaritées. Pesant aussi les flash-back à répétition qui sont parfois des répétitions des précédents....
Et c'est téléphoné, tu saisis le truc 5 chapitres avant la "révélation" voir avant le tome suivant !
Et c'est gavé de stéréotypes sexistes... #SciFi#SF
@brunus j'ai essayé comme ça, mais quand je rajoute de l'eau, je trouve que le fond a beaucoup trop infusé, et avec la plupart des thés il a mauvais goût, même dilué.
Comme quoi, il y a plus d'une manière de boire du thé 🙂
@matthieu Les feuiiles vertes que tu vois dans ma tasse c'est du thé au jasmin assez parfumé, celui là ça ne me gène pas de le boir limite amère losqu'il a trop infusé. J'en ai de bien plus léger dont j'apprécie le goût subtile.
Et j'adore voir les feuilles de thé dans ma tasse...c'est très chinois ça aussi. 🙏
@metaphase Unlike them, I do not use social media as my primary location for analysis and discussion -- that would be my website. I wish they had a foot in another well. They put everything on Twitter.
@metaphase Which is all to say, feel free to join the great community on my website if you haven't already! I've been around for more than a decade analyzing SF, curating art, and participating in a fantastic (and engaged) community there: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
It’s a good thing Netflix recently added Dune: Part One to their library (at least in my region) so that I could rewatch it before seeing Part Two in the cinema! 🤩