Go science!
Seriously, these type of articles make my day :)
Seriously, these type of articles make my day :)
Oh my god, this is so f'ing bad. The presenter (and everyone else) is a total unsympathetic jackass. The direction is in the hands of a sugar high, ADHD-suffering 5-year old brat and the science is non-existing. Science != blowing shit up because Discovery Channel gave us the budget for it.
Good f'ing grief, this is the worst thing I've seen in a long while. Don't watch this if you have any sort of respect for science. Unless you like a overaged brat yelling in your face that you have to be scared! and worried! and panic! unless SCIENCE! blows shit up.
Good f'ing grief, this is the worst thing I've seen in a long while. Don't watch this if you have any sort of respect for science. Unless you like a overaged brat yelling in your face that you have to be scared! and worried! and panic! unless SCIENCE! blows shit up.
I never had any trouble with getting headaches because of the 3d. The glasses are a different story. Some types are too heavy for me and tend to press down that one artery going past the bridge of your nose. Now that's giving me a headache. With a little bit of adjustment and I can enjoy my 3d without a single jab. Maybe I'm not the only one? Not many people seem to know that pressing down the artery at your nose can cause (or remove) headaches.
@ejs2000: he didnt turn, matt made him confess
Can we for once feature Obviously Jewish Jews without Nazi's being involved? It sort of seems that in American television, whenever something bad happens to a Jewish person, there must be a Nazi behind - sigh.
(that said, my other guess was "oh, is Fringe going to feature the golem now?" That would have been such a better episode.)
@fineyboy R.O.A.C.H: Ah, I don't care about ripping off as long as it provides enough new material to be surprised about. And while Mass Effect has some nice-ish ideas, it never provided anything really new or inspirational. There was simply nothing to compensate for its bad sides. Heck, it was practically Knights of the Old Republic with different texture skins.
Now don't come with 'but nothing is original' because that's simply not true.
I hardly think it has anything to do with realism or anything with the movie at all. If you'd actually read the articles you've linked to (or previous posts on this very website), the 2d version of Avatar was not pulled because of some sort of evil communist nationalist plan. If that was the case, why on earth is the 3d version still here? I'm all for criticising China, but this is quite frankly stupid.
As for any other source condemning it: It's simply popular enough to be on their agenda. If it turned out that for some reason the Hanna Montana movie grossed 1 billion+ dollars, all these people would have condemned it instead. Avatar's just a little bandwagon and they just want to jump on it. I wouldn't be surprised if these people hadn't seen the movie at all.
That said, I like Avatar, but you're starting to treat it like the second coming.
@Brett Ryans: If you only keep it on games? Little Big Adventure, Deus Ex, Anachronox, Longest Journey, Star Control 2, Beyond Good and Evil. Try one and prepared to be blown away.
"Mass Effect was among the most important science-fiction works of the past few years. "
You know what game I played during playing Mass Effect? Spot the source it ripped off from.
I found Star Wars, Star Trek, Anachronox, Deus Ex, Star Control 2, Blade Runner, Dungeons and Dragons, just to name a few.
And if you call that stuff proper writing, someone really needs to introduce you to stuff that isn't convoluted, hackneyed, ethnocentric and worst of all: boring. And the plot... don't get me started. It's evil, we don't have to explain anything? Teh F?
Yes, it had some fun moments, but it was clear that 3 of the 4 writers had no talent to speak of.
I'm more thinking it has to do with publishing culture. In the Netherlands, Scifi for adults or even young adults has no chance, despite our fantastic children's scifi lit. The publishers here rather publish some narcissistic badly written dredge than anything remotely thoughtprovoking. In genrefiction, they rather pay for the translation rights of popular scifi and fantasty from other countries than to give chance to homegrown talent. So as a Dutch science fiction writer, I find myself writing in English for more than just my proofreaders or the opportunity to gain a wider audience.
I disagree with the notion that English is perfect for Science Fiction. Yes, a lot of terms have their origin from English, but as someone pointed out before, a lot of those terms originate from shared roots in Greek and Latin. I think if it sounds cheesy in , you're probably translating it wrong.
I don't buy the 'people want to read about themselves'. Otherwise, what's a Dutch girl doing reading American Superhero comics? Should I get worried that my boyfriend's favourite comics are She-hulk and Buffy?
But I've been wondering, is this purely a American trend or do other countries have the same issues?
Now I'm pretty sure that IO9 is populated by a bunch of teenage boys. I bet you all still laugh about the word 'penis', don't you?
On a more serious note, this experiment has given us more insight into the anatomy involved. Beforehand, people had some pretty wacky theories in regards to how sex actually worked from the inside.
