SPACE ANGELS

That’s... seriously all the explanation that was ever given.

The moment I realised it really wasn’t ever going to be as good as people said it was (I watched the entire thing for the first time like... the year before last or something), was the episode in which Starbuck somehow magically flies a Cylon ship with stupid organic innards, despite it never having been designed with…

TNG was far more consistent, I’d say. Even with its ending. Where DS9 and Voyager had crazy “WE HAVE TO PROPERLY END THINGS GUYS!” endings that just... didn’t work, in my opinion (like, DS9 ends with Sisko becoming Space Jesus, and everyone drifting apart? Really? That’s dismal!)... TNG had one big final space mystery…

I’d have to disagree. There were too many confused moments of morality in DS9, too many bizarre moments of confused hierarchy within the Federation (despite them really playing up the whole “dark side of military organisations” thing), and they turned Sisko into some kinda ridiculous Space Jesus whose mother was…

Could we maybe stop with the header pictures on the main page of this kinda thing?

You wouldn’t post a big pair of naked boobs there. You wouldn’t post an actual picture of someone being beheaded.

Oddly enough, some of us find nature’s more violent moments upsetting or repulsive... and this idea that “It’s just nature -…

“Ultimately, I think that’s what some anti-Semites don’t like about us...”

One would be wise not to dismiss the possibility that all this “us” stuff is a big part of it. People don’t have a problem with someone in their midst doing well, being ambitious... if they’re flying the same flag. One of your own kind does…

To be fair, you’re also forgetting the money aspect. Namely, that tied closely to point 2 (about their tightly-knit and exclusive society) they also tended to gravitate towards money-lending and the like.

I’m still trying to figure out what *I* watched. I was totally into that series until its ending, at which point I threw my arms aloft and just shouted “WHAT!?” at the TV.

Ultimately, I think we’ll struggle to come up with any formal education that can actually match the kind of free discovery process young people went through back in the 80s and 90s - to this day, the most inventive game designers, for example, tend to be the kids who got into technology simply because “dad let me use…

Oh but MS Office is pretty important. You gotta learn the exact code for the exact version of excel that will open up whatever stupid secret game they hid in it!

“The vast majority of folks, including the internet generation, don’t have a clue how computers work.”

I think it’s worse than that. Younger generations actually know less and less about technology than the older ones, because of all the “user-friendly” crap being churned out by the likes of Apple, and all these smart…

Personally, I think vat-meat is the future - actual meat, grown without the animal. Because apart from anything else, Quorn is low fat... boasts it, in fact. And it never ceases to amaze me that food products are still boasting that they’re low fat, when it’s been known for a long time now that the advice to cut your…

“even if Europeans from that time would be clueless.”

Pretty sure the Europeans had understood the concept of what is essentially flat bread for thousands of years already... I mean, creating flat breads and crunchy flat things of that sort kinda predates risen bread. It’s one of the oldest bits of cooking. They might…

I think the idea of the place itself was scarier - that existing all around us, all the time, is this creepy mirror-world stuck in a state of eternal decay and endless night, and seemingly reactive to what we do/build in the real world, even as we remain unaware of it.

To be fair, I think you’re confusing the issue here. Alien *was* more grounded in reality. Oh sure, superficially it had spaceships and an alien and so on. But in terms of what was actually happening on screen and the physical reality of the film - nobody was magically out-running explosions, none of the humans had…

Arguably, in Prometheus, he made a movie about Superidiots - people with magical powers (thanks to their sci-fi technology) who just bumble through the plot getting everything disastrously wrong.

Looking at some of the non-sale prices of the big publisher titles, I think people have rather forgotten that the entire point of Steam was... no physical publishing costs, lower price tag. Why are people happily spending full physical retail price for a digital product? And, in many cases where the major publishers…

“A lot of FPS games could learn from that opening level and how the tutorial was seemlessly integrated into the early combat...”

How times change... that a “tutorial” should even feature in Doom’s vocabulary...

I still don’t understand the appeal, but I seem to be one of the few people who doesn’t see sun shining out of Doom 2016's behind - I can’t help but wonder if a big part of its success is merely that it wasn’t bad, and everyone was truly expecting it to be terrible.

Yeah, and with his expression, he kinda looks like the guys are taking a picture of him stuck, and he’s really not finding it funny, and could they please stop taking pictures and call the emergency services now, seriously guys.