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Derek C. F. Pegritz
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I enjoyed the film greatly. Shyamalamadingdong is really not a bad director when he sticks to his strength: character-driven rather than plot-driven stories.

I expect a dingo.

The film was rubbish, but OMG SEQUEL?! Or sidequel? Either way, I’m sold. Ophiocordyceps zombies are the best to a mycophile like myself.

I can tell you exactly what this is about: the couple have a child being raised in a pod. But because raising a child in an exowomb produces series social and cognitive deficits through lack of sensory encoding with the mother’s heartbeat and voice, the baby’s wired into a virtscape generator that effectively provides

This is literally the stupidest concept for a programme I’ve ever seen. If the kid was, say, blind or disabled in some fashion and had some cyberware implanted in his brain in a functional manner it would make sense—but a smartphone accident? I couldn’t even play that for laughs. It’s that stupid.

Oh, gods, Fire in the Sky still traumatizes me to this day.

I saw this months and was very unimpressed. GREAT concept. Piss-poor execution.

The ethics of time-travel and the constant “how can we trust the data we’ve got?” vibe of the show is what really made it.

ABSO-FREAKIN’-LUTELY! Gods, I love the Xenogenesis books. I want to have an oankali morph when I grow up.

ABSO-FREAKIN’-LUTELY! Gods, I love the Xenogenesis books. I want to have an oankali morph when I grow up.

I loves this so much I can’t even begin to describe it.

Galactic engineering? Of course, that galaxy is so damn old that the Engineers are either long gone to another universe or...actually, they could very well still be there, occupying a googleplex of Googleplexes running an infinite-but-bounded number of simulations. One of which may be us.

Godawful film. Completely ruined the novel. Skip this piece of garbage and read the book, which is 100% Bad-Assed in every way!

If I get thawed early on some starship I’m going through the entire crew manifest to find the person that I might have the most interesting conversations with and thawing him/her. I ain’t spending the rest of my life alone, and if I have to doom someone else, so be it. The final colony ain’t gonna miss two bodies.

I will absolutely own that book the second I can afford it.

Shit. Looks like the 27,000th hour has finally arrived. Now we all gotta ask ourselves: are we things, too, and just don’t know it?!

I generally dislike anime in general—with the exception of all the Ghost in the Shell stuff, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Akira. Those are literally the only anime films/series I’ve ever been able to watch and enjoy. I know a good bit about anime, though, because my friends all love it and often force me to watch it.

I purchased it when it was in early access, and was sorely disappointed in the quality of the game. Now, I fully understand that the game was only about 25% finished at that point, but as it evolved over the next six months...nothing got better. Not got more interesting. Though visuals are not vital to a game like

Dark Matter was very enjoyable, though Crouch has the prose capacity of a third-grader—but despite the terrible prose, the story was so good! I kept thinking was a superb film this would be, since the novel read like a terrible novelization of a film script. Well, apparently the result is true! But I’m not sure

I suspect the girl will either be an eigenself from another parallel causality path or everyone’s living in a simulation in the computronium guts of Jupiter and her character profile got screwed up so the admins are now struggling to keep the narrative in check.

I will be That Guy who tries to talk the AI into destroying humanity.