Getting into things! TV, movies, games, books, communities for things you've probably never heard of.
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The first episode of the Battlestar Galactica reboot that followed the miniseries. In it, the Cylons find the fleet every 33 minutes, and no one knows how. It reminds me of the initial automated jump timer in Stargate Universe and I wonder if this episode was an inspiration for that.
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This is one of those classic Trek moments. The Sheliak refuse to give the colonists enough time to leave before taking the planet, so Picard engages in a clever legal maneuver. Only, the text on the screen isn't any kind of treaty. HD and 4K remasters often reveal
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It's amazing anything on the Atari 2600 worked. This video goes into why "racing the beam" was such a challenge.
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Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Derek Jacobi, and Daniel Day-Lewis all turned down the role for Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs. I can't actually imagine any of them in the role. Anthony Hopkins was just too perfect for it. Hopkins based his interpretation of
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Something I didn't think much about until the last several years. As I get older, I think there is a secret world that we don’t acknowledge, but that it’s the opposite of that. It’s about desire. It’s about what we care about, and why.
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Terry Pratchett made mods for Skyrim and Oblivion. Pratchett was an avid video game player, and collaborated in the creation of a number of game adaptations of his books. He favoured games that are "intelligent and have some depth", citing Half-Life 2 (2004) and fan missions for Thief
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This is a cross-post from Threads. [link] * Fav movie: First Contact * Fav episode: The Drumhead * Fav show: Enterprise * Fav TOS character: Mudd * Fav DS9 character: Rom * Fav Voy character: EMH Mark II * Fav TNG character: Guinan * Fav Enterprise character: Shran * Fav New Trek character: Saru (is Discovery new trek?) * Fav
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True Lies is in that transition period from the time when every movie had to do with Russian nukes falling into the hands of terrorists by way of budget-strapped former Soviet states to every movie being about drugs, weapons, and or illicit art deals in or out of the Middle
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This is a recurring thing on social media. Someone will post a rant or goof about how cheap you can make a good movie. And they're right! I've enjoyed some little movies from little companies, or even from individuals! But that's not enough. They
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Well, not so far. If you watched the Battlestar Galactica reboot as it aired, you remember how slow each episode seemed, and how long the wait between episodes felt. The pacing works better in the world of streaming where you
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I rewatched Stargate: Atlantis for the first time since its 2004-2009 airing. I remember the furor over its cancellation in favor of Stargate: Universe. I originally defended Universe. It rode Battlestar Galactica’s coattails, but I thought it had potential. Now, rewatching Atlantis, I get the anger. Universe is fine
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As much as I would love to put photos in here, I didn’t have the awareness I do now that furry is a majority-queer community, so I wasn’t very careful about obscuring faces in the photos I took. Sonic the Hedgehog was my first crush at a young
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Brian Thompson is a character actor. A character actor essentially specializes in playing unique and memorable side characters. They're actors who find a niche rather than aim for the highest heights of stardom. * Admiral Valdore in Star Trek: Enterprise. * Shao Kahn in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. * Alien Bounty Hunter
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There was talk of turning this into a gas station on a local Facebook page. People unloaded with stories about the history of that lot. I get excited when I find something old or abandoned because it kicks my imagination into overdrive. You can roll through these little towns in
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I've taken up Eve Online. They had a sale where you could essentially spend $8 for almost 2 billion of the in-game currency. This isn't much in terms of the game's broader meta where a single endgame ship could cost billions. For me, the
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I enjoy the McElroy brothers. The other McElroys seem cool too. I first stumbled on geothebio's fan animations of the Brothers' bits, as I do most things, in a furry chat room. They've made and posted them for years, but then... One popped up on