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No no no Scotty wrote some damn decent safty standards, he over spec'ed by 3x and ran at 1/4 capacity. Its not his fault that future generations started 1:1 spec'ing every damn component.
Well, damn. Stop living in my brain!
If you did like the Aliens movies, then you might want to take the time to play Alien:Isolation. Scariest game I have ever played. It fits well with the Alien storyline, but you also get to explore a little behind the first movie if you get some of the in-game lore while screaming and trying to hide.
When I stopped reading the comic regularly there was a villain who was literally trying to turn everyone in the city into a personal computer hard drive. Including Flash.
DC has this problem with all their heroes. Batman is an awesome character. But because the writers have to keep living up to the legend they created, he is capable of doing things that should be impossible. Such as dodging an Omega Beam. Something Flash with all his stupidly ridiculous speed can't do. Yet Batman does it with ease. After an arc where the Legion of Doom managed to get their hands on Batman's plans to take down the JLA it became known that Batman is capable of taking down any hero or villain in DC, and his plans to do so are fiendishly clever. He has plans to take out the entire Justice League if they ever go rogue. Plans which had proven devastatingly effective and were only thwarted because of Batman and his immediate allies. When asked what his plan for if Batman himself ever went rogue was? He said it was the Justice League. In it's entirety. Yes, the 30+ hero strong group that his plans nearly wiped out are his contingency for if Batman ever goes evil.
I am in the process of writing the next chapter, but I thought I would share my personal opinions on the different fictional universes and my experiences with them.
Worm
The Dresden Files
Star Trek
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Stargate SG-1
Spider-Man
DC Comics
Alien
Alien: I have seen the first two Alien movies, as well as Alien vs. Predator, and I've read a number (although certainly not all) of the comics from Dark Horse. I have not and will not watch Alien 3 (although I have read some pretty detailed summaries online), because it pisses me off that they completely wiped away her accomplishments in the second movie.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: I could never catch this show consistently when it was on, as it was during a period when I didn't consistently have access to television. I binge-watched it on DVD in later years, and I think doing it that way allows you to appreciate its nature as a metaphor for growing up. Each individual episode seen in isolation was...OK. (There were a few exceptions...the episode Hush, for example, is just a great examples of successful risk-taking by a creator.)
Worm: Here is an odd thing. I've read significant portions of Worm here and there. Some parts of it stand out vividly, like the confrontation in Arcadia, or the end of Alexandria and Tagg. I've read quite a lot of Worm fanfiction. What I have never done is sit down and start Wildbow's story and read it all the way through from start to finish. It is undoubtedly a well-written and interesting take on the superhero genre
If you're looking for horrific stuff, you might like to check-out 'The Laundry Files', which I was led to by the author, Charles Stross
Before that i was just ignoring it because my only knowledge on it was based on having seen the preceeding movie
Seriously though, "metaphor" this and "metaphor" that, why can't people just enjoy something as it is? Yes i know it's official with the metaphor stuff, but i just find it to damage the media when you try to overanalyze it, or worse and far more common, people try so hard to throw in metaphors that they ruin a story while making it.
Grimdark tragedy derp does not make something better, despite how popular it has become in the last decade to apparently think so.
As I recall, Xander was just talking out his ass, and Flash was horrified at the conclusions Xander came up with...(Snip lengthy rant about The Flash)
I think the best treatment of this was in a fanfic by dogbertcarroll. To misquote Xander: "why do you think Flash's villains are so lame? So nice? Because they're the ones he allows to exist. Anyone else? Anyone who goes around, say, killing kids? He just runs back in time and distracts their parents from ever meeting. The villain never exists."
Now, he was saying this mostly to distract a couple of out-of-town villains who were robbing a bank...
But it does make a scary amount of sense.
(Snip lengthy rant about The Flash)
I think the best treatment of this was in a fanfic by dogbertcarroll. To misquote Xander: "why do you think Flash's villains are so lame? So nice? Because they're the ones he allows to exist. Anyone else? Anyone who goes around, say, killing kids? He just runs back in time and distracts their parents from ever meeting. The villain never exists."
Now, he was saying this mostly to distract a couple of out-of-town villains who were robbing a bank...
But it does make a scary amount of sense.
That said, The Flash does have a Gentleman's Agreement with the Rogues in most continuities. They stick to certain rules(Don't target kids, don't go after his family, don't kill), and he doesn't search the city for them the moment he becomes aware they're in town.
He also looks after their health and will do everything he can to help the ones who want to reform. Hell, in some continuities, he even shows up and gently reminds his rogues to take their meds if they're having a bad day. He's a super nice guy.
As far as Taylor Varga goes, I have no intention of stopping.
Ever.
Mua ha ha
So in a thousand years you'll still be writing TV, even though your body has long since decayed?
You can replace chips.So in a thousand years you'll still be writing TV, even though your body has long since decayed?
The spirit will write and heaven will read.So in a thousand years you'll still be writing TV, even though your body has long since decayed?
But - they already got the 'abandoned project' thing?
I read recently that children born right now might never die. At the very least they will live well into their second century. We are beginning to see what nanotech and genetic engineering can do and tissue printers are 20 years away at most.Of course.
Why wouldn't I? The Demons want me to, the Lizards do too, and even some people here appear to!
Not sure about the nuclear fire but the morons are guaranteed. Hopefully we can see the nuclear winter from MarsI read recently that children born right now might never die. At the very least they will live well into their second century. We are beginning to see what nanotech and genetic engineering can do and tissue printers are 20 years away at most.
In the near future (20-30 years) we might see the last person die of heart attack or cancer.
After that you will see life extension with tissue replacement for vital organs which will extend life by up to 40 years.
The next step will be genetic engineering such that cellular damage (due to oxidative stress etc.) does not accumulate but is instead fixed by the cell itself. If you are lucky and this process can be applied to adults then you will only die if you get into an accident, otherwise you will have at least have had the distinction of being among the last humans to die of old age.
It's a cool time to be alive. Unless we fuck it all up and elect even more morons to high office and the world ends in nuclear fire.