Truly, the most unrealistic thing about the entire series is that humanity would unite for the purposes of doing something to save the world, against a threat that was 400 years away.
I just finished reading Death's End last night, and I have no idea how you could possibly turn that into a TV series; but it's clear that's what they're planning. Some of the scenes in S1, with the 'paper boats dream' and Project Staircase? They're going for the whole trilogy.
Came here to say something similar.
"Why'd ya do it" appears at least four times in the series, off the top of my head. Always from different players, in the same overdramatic, out of character way.
I've always wondered if it's a reference to Fraiser, or from something else that I'm not familiar with.
Except they've just already announced that they're shutting studios and downsizing people, and today was about giving out the numbers.
The telling quote for me:
"We just tend to leave those announcements to the label, we don't tend to talk about them, so we're not trying to be cute or difficult today. It's just that we don't tend to bring those discussions into these meetings."
They're leaving the 'bad news' up to the KSP2 team, who is still not saying anything.
Which leaves is exactly where we were three weeks ago, waiting for someone to clarify things.
I'm trying to decide if I should be saving power. I've unlocked everything on the Heat and Pressure lists, and I've just unlocked the T5 Drill. Except they're massive power hogs. 10x the output of the T4, but nearly 10x the power cost.
With the heat/pressure menu's unlocked, is it worth it?
The overall Terraforming menu still has the most to do, but once you get to the insect/animal phase, is there any point to more pressure and heat, instead of focusing everything on Biomass?
Prime universe is one where it was a Supernova. Kelvin-Verse was created by a time traveler from a verse where it was the planet getting eaten.
This is why their Kirk looks like Chris Pine and not William Shatner.
What happens next is where fanfiction comes in.
EDIT: Oh, why not? (Insert shameless self-plug here): https://archiveofourown.org/series/921081
This one. I was a kid the first time I saw it. I actually skipped this episode a few times when I was a kid. Now that I'm aaaaallll grown up, I realize this is the most important part of those three episodes combined.
If we could get a remastered Infamous Trilogy, I'd be a happy gamer.
And that's not even counting B-Roll, crowd shots, etc.
The Drift Levels have the most interesting possibilities for future stories. Offhand, I don't recall if the same applies to the matter of 'restored Backups' of Bobs.
The whole 'Does Bob have a soul?' question gets thrown into a whole other gear if you can actually quantify an answer. The Drift and Lack thereof suggests that no two identical 'souls' can be online at the same time.
How they 'entangle' is an interesting question, but why they react that way is way more significant. Depending on what we find out at the Centre of the Galaxy in the next book, it's either a way to raise the stakes about Bobs 'dying', or it's the first hint in a dramatic new plotline.
Most stories are 'Man Vs' something. man Vs man, Man vs world, even Man vs Self. The conflict is where the story comes from.
AW's writing is unique in that the environments are uniformly artificial, close quarters, and open to serious manipulation by the characters.
The result in The Martian and Project Hail Mary is essentially 'Man Vs Science'.
Artemis is the weakest of his books because he's using characters to drive the plot, instead of the moon itself.
It's still an excellent book, just the lowest of his three. Bronze Medal is still a medal winner.
Russia Lady doesn't care who did it. She cares that it was done under her supervision. Certainly that's all that matters to her superiors.
In a Season Finale they wrap up whatever they want to wrap up. If they plan to string out Alieda's actions with the Goldilocks capture, then it'll play out next season. If they want to focus on a new storyline, then they've got a ten year time jump to wave the details away.
The majority of favorite moments set in space are usually combat scenes. Space Battles are exciting, but it's more about the ships than the feeling of being In Space.
So I figured I'd ask the Sub what everyone's favorite clip of being 'In Space' is.
For me? Interstellar. The shot where Endurance is passing by Saturn.
Anyone else?
If there was a Mod that did the work of KSP2's foretold 'Colonies' section, I'd be happier than I've been all week.
KSP1 has Colony Parts, but they're mostly cosmetic, or 'landable parts'. KSP2 is talking about an Editor, which means the 'flatness' of the ground is irrelevant, wherever you pick.
If there was a mod that did that, I'd feel secure.
But the High Council of the Good Place did the 'Architect' job too. That's how they got Micheal to 'put the Robe on'.
I think we met the 'High Council' of TBP. The ones that they explained the 'New System' to after Shaun agreed.
In this show, the first scene is often totally unrelated to the main plot, and is self-contained.
My favorite? The 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' riff with Bart stealing Homer's change jar.
In the first book, (Spoilers) there was a scene in 'the game' where they made a computer by having a million people in formation, to run calculations by signalling each other. Reminded me of this moment.
I remember thinking that was a uniquely 'China' way of viewing the problem/solution. And I think that 'philosophy' shows through in the way 'humanity' faces the Trisolarian threat. All the reactions to attacks, plans, preparations, etc? It's all told in terms of 'millions of people' reacting to things in the same way. Like humanity has a mass inertia that can be decided, directed, and redirected quickly.
Shitposting at the End of Time: historical documents dating from the solar system era.
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