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- Mon Dec 17, 2018 11:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 730
- Views: 417861
Re: Official Movie Review Thread
It was amazing, at the very least on par of The Incredibles and The Lego Movie, and in a way having elements of both - Incredibles' heart and reverence for the superhero genre, and Lego Movie's ridiculousness and playful meta-ness/intertextuality. And it goes further than these in talking about how ...
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:09 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Official Movie Review Thread
- Replies: 730
- Views: 417861
Re: Official Movie Review Thread
Watching Spiderverse tomorrow. Can't wait!
- Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:26 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
The tiered system of lower-tech peasants beneath the technobilities in their hyperkremlins and floating cities and Elysiums could've been the basis for how in the Byzonist Empire the peripheral worlds have to use internal combustion engines whereas the core worlds and Bragule have war-moons and cybr...
- Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:37 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Hrlgtuhe against the Apexai probably clashed against Apexai-friendly Brag powers with appointed Keepers. So these Hrlgs probably supported anti-Apexai Brags that clashed with the pro-Apexai Brags. Among these would've been early folk hero revolutionary Byzon. And, well, that investment paid dividen...
- Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:42 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
And there's a lot to explore with the pre-Byzonic Bragulans and their long-time presence in the K-Zone. Were the bears already there when the humans arrived?! I'd say Bragspace's current borders with K-Zone's Wild Space was former Hrlgtuhe territory and Apexai territory so while the Brags were in t...
- Wed Dec 05, 2018 3:30 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
The Apexai "commonwealth authorities" that managed the Keepers probably cared enough to rubber stamp the proto-Solarians' Crossing, but these guys were probably on the lower end of the Invisible Imperium's pecking order and the real movers and shakers had become apathetic. Perhaps the Ape...
- Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:56 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Wonder why they didn't give the humans the same treatment though, since the Apexai must on some level be aware of their passing through the veil and into the K-Zone since their Keeper let them through. Did they already stop uplifting new Keepers at that point, which was substantially before the Rei...
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 6:14 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
Idea: Apexai DNA, or the physical code governing their existence, isn't just amino acids and stuff... their genes extend beyond physical-chemical composition and into the psychospheric. So the Apexai Hybrid shenenigans with Solarian humans (and the Byzonic propagandas of ancient Apexai meddling of B...
- Sun Nov 25, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 8 - "Death Count"
- Replies: 80
- Views: 43107
Re: nUF Origins: S1 - Episode 3 - "Case Armageddon"
Imra is a total boss.
- Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:18 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Nice, really really nice. And jeez it was really shocking, so much so that I can get how after all this time Robert wasn't able to react to it since it was so quick and he was a total wreck already.
- Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:14 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Julie's going like Snake in the prison escape scene of Metal Gear Solid 3!
- Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Coincidentally we recently talked IRL about how the show's sequels would be set even further into the future. Cyberpunk, space opera...
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:06 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
LOL what a jam-packed episode. Killing Nazzies which is always good, and Solarian CYBORG NINJAs, and then AVALONIANS, and then Space Avatar-verse!
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 7:31 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Dayum Siege, what's up with Scirocco?!
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 4:47 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
- Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:14 am
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
It might be akin to the vodou strangeness in Count Zero. The Datasphere, even sans psion influence, could as you said through sheer density start "glitching" in ways that are attuned to the collective subconscious of the population... CI and cyberspace algorithms are programmed to expand a...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 4:25 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
I approve of the kneecap-smashing kicks here.
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 3:58 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
I wonder if there are paranoiac rules in even saner Fracture states in which esper congregations can't exceed... certain magnitudes of astropathic puissance... lest it be seen as an impromptu neuromonger-like thing warranting sanction. So a big Magi temple in the Grandeur or wherever can't just get ...
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:49 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
The strange ass pseudo-Sith, Cylon and Fassbinder's clique alliance make their move!
Though I wonder what the Neanderthal's role in this is.
Though I wonder what the Neanderthal's role in this is.
- Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:48 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
The Apexai definitely do still have functioning transpsionic communications, either puissant psions who can reach out, or systems/networks that utilize amplifying components but on a smaller scale than the bygone Oversoul (the Zedath-Kaleshi probably have Oversoul components that still work, albeit ...
- Sun Nov 04, 2018 6:05 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 4:48 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Nice off-ship intrigue and spy stuff. Goodu!
And I loved the previous episode's stuff with Hawk and Becca.
And I loved the previous episode's stuff with Hawk and Becca.
- Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:43 pm
- Forum: Worldbuilding General Topics
- Topic: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
- Replies: 979
- Views: 518014
Re: Sovereigns of the Stars Supreme, revisited
I'd presume the Brags have *some* fast-movers here and there, either the not-stealth but hotrod gunskimmers or Kerbal-like paleocruisers in which each one has a fallen sister-ship's recovered engines bolted on to make the thing resemble a deranged Vostok, including ridiculities like one way trips in...
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 4:17 pm
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
The Aurigans are too busy re-enacting Dune amongst themselves whereas NEUROM's origins, both in this fic and in SOTS canon, are more tied into the meta of the Fracture (and the All-Father and Sophia angle)... which Steve's repurposed for his fic.
- Tue Oct 30, 2018 11:01 am
- Forum: Literature & RPGs
- Topic: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
- Replies: 256
- Views: 135546
Re: "The Coming Storm" - "Undiscovered Frontier" Season 3 (Multiverse Space Opera Crossover)
Well, earlier pre-sagely Robert's holier than thou shtick would've made this whole "these guys who I thought were bad were actually trying to survive" revelation and rebuttal of his judgmental ways all the more delicious. Eh, Hawk is kinda Robert-ish so at least we get that. If Robert was ...