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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Dan Simmons used the diary bit in Hyperion with the girl who was ageing backwards. That always creeped me out.

    "See you later alligator."
    "In a while crocodile."
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Buckaroo Banzai: write it on your palm, lick your palm, slap your mentor on the forehead so he gets a copy too.
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    Gundam is only an acronym in alternative universe of Gundam Seed.

    In fact, I'm not sure of where it comes from in classic Universal Century (UC). In UC Lunar Titanium is renamed to Gundarium alloy after being used to armor the Gundam.

    ok. enough Gundam babbling from me.
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    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    OH GOD TVTROPES

    Thanks io9, for making me fail this semester!!! XD
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    12/07/09

    @techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: I freakin love tvtropes. They do such a great job.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @techgoddess: Only .002 cents per byte: Someone linked tvtropes in a comic article last week. It totally OBLITERATED my afternoon.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    the 'Method of loci' is, and always will be, the coolest way to remember things...
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @goldfarb: I've never heard of this method before. I wiki'd it, and I have decided that this method, or close to it, got me through high school and college.

    When taking a test, or writing an essay, or even verbally answering something, I would recall various pages in the text, and remember where on the page I had seen it, I.e: pg. 53, 3rd paragraph, 4th sentence. (Even where I had read the passage originally [library, bedroom, etc.]) After that, I could remember the necessary information (or quote) almost verbatim.
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    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: cool...
    sometimes it's called Cathedral Memory...because everyone knew all the different places in a church (nave, apse, altar etc) they could place items to remember is specifics spots...then just walk through their Cathedral to remember things...
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/07/09

    @goldfarb: I read a book when I was younger about a mage that recalled spells much like Cathedral memory, except it was a Manor house, with multitudes of rooms. I likened it to a real-life version of that.
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    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: and I think Sagan refers to it in Cosmos...
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    12/07/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me:
    I do somewhat of the same thing when I'm memorizing lines (especially from Shakespeare--I mean, I swear Old Bill sometimes didn't write English...) Anyway, I visualize where the line is on the page and it jogs my memory. I also learn the last line of two of someone else's speech that leads into mine. I'm finding that now I don't need to know that I know the line--the line is there, even if I can't remember it until I need it. Mostly I use something that's close to hypnosis--progressive relaxation then repeat the line in my head. just before I go to sleep.
    BTW, the guy who's credited with the "memory palace" where objects are associated with furniture, etc. was Simonides of Ceo, back in 500BC.
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    Image of Belabras Belabras
    12/07/09

    In reply to How To Jog Your Memory, The Science Fiction Hero Way
    I thought of another one, but I forgot it.
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    Image of zslane zslane
    11/17/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    A Neuromancer movie should be able to distinguish itself from The Matrix easily in terms of look and feel. The Matrix was ponderous, self-indulgent, and took itself way too seriously. Neuromancer should look like Bladerunner but feel like a cross between Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and A Clockwork Orange. Balls out action and unapologetic stylization. And they shouldn't shy away from all the cyberpunk slang that Gibson pioneered either. Done right, there's no way anyone should mistake Neuromancer for a Matrix rip-off. #neuromancer
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    What roll does Sasha Grey play in the movie? #neuromancer
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    11/17/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: "Buttered." said the fat man who smelled of Marlon Brando........ #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    The sky above the port was the color of... #neuromancer
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/17/09

    @doggo:
    ..an elevator malfunction on a tuesday morning."

    Thanks for the link. Some of the best writing I've seen in ages :)
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    Image of ClintonD ClintonD
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Hope it doesn't end up like the script that's been floating around the internet from 1990. Basically, in the script, Wintermute's aim is not to merge with Neuromancer but with a human mind, and it ends up with Molly merging with Wintermute to become Neuromancer. The name Neuromancer isn't explained, it just comes out of nowhere. The whole scene involving the infiltration of the Sense/Net building from the novel is condenced to just Armitage handing the Dixie Flatline to Case. Sense/Net now chases the heroes throughout the entire story, probably to add more action scenes I guess. A major character like Riviera comes out of nowhere. And the Finn has basically nothing more than a cameo, unlike his major role as Wintermute's avatar in the book.

    I thought the script was a pretty big disappointment, basically a cliff note's version of the novel. It's written more like a generic action film than the slow burn film-noir the novel is.

    You can read the script here. [www.scifiscripts.com] Mind you, the script is 20 years old and hopefully the film, fi it ever happens is closer to the book, though with the director's pedigree.....probably not. #neuromancer
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    Image of fyngyrz fyngyrz
    11/16/09

    @ClintonD: Don't worry. The novel will almost certainly be poorly to ridiculously poorly represented by the movie. It's how they make movies. Because they think they can create a better story flow than (in this case) William Gibson did. Which idea is both hilarious, and amazing. So far, there have almost no good movie versions of a good SF novel. I'm sure they're asking themselves, "why start now?"

    You can name them all day. Johnny Mnemonic. Soylent Green (Make Room, Make Room.) Damnation Alley. Fantastic Journey. Dune (various.) Wizard of Earthsea. 2001. 2010. I am Legend (Omega Man, various.) A Boy and his Dog. Starship Troopers...

    Yep, it's just how they make movies. That is to say, really, really badly.

    Every once in a while we get a Blade Runner class movie, but I'm sure it's an accident caused by all the Hollywood writers and execs being on retreat in a sweat lodge somewhere. #neuromancer
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    Will we get a review of Sasha Grey's Neuromancer project?

    EDIT: Just read the updates on that post. Not sure there could be much of a review with a straight reading of Neuromancer...but it still sounds pretty damn cool.
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    does he wake up in the real world? #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @Byronotron: ugh, i felt so dirty after that comment. #neuromancer
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/16/09

    @Byronotron: Actually, he wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleschette.

    Ah, ask your parents. #neuromancer
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11/16/09

    @Wookie1972: i know what newhart is. #neuromancer
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    Image of neorandomizer neorandomizer
    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    I always thought that Neuromancer was one of those un-makeable movies. Jonny Mnemonic sucked so please don’t do that again. #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: It could be a mini series but no one would want to pay the money it would take to make it any good. #neuromancer
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: there is no such thing as an unmakeable movie. honestly, what does that even mean?
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    Image of k4man k4man
    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: And yet it was so much better than the unspeakable "New Rose Hotel." How can you make a movie with Christopher Walken, William Dafoe and Asia Argenta, and have it come out like paint drying? #neuromancer
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: It means Leonardo DiCaprio needs to re-think that remake of Brave New World that he wants to do... #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: Finnegan's Wake? #neuromancer
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    @Dr.Quatermass: shouldn't be too difficult to translated a crazy, convoluted mess into film. i feel like a see a film like that opening in theaters every week.

    jokes aside, however, i still think it would be do able i just don't think anyone would be willing to fund it because, for reasons that the books lack of exposure expresses most poignantly, it wouldn't make any money. which, i guess, technically makes it unmakeable in a literal sense but not the sense i trying to express.

    @firstanointed: brave new world is a much weaker argument in to my eye. the plot sounds like exactly the kind of thing it would be easy to get funding for today and with the right people attached it could be done very well. dicaprio could even be one of them, it's not like he doesn't have acting chops.
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    Image of atrus123 atrus123
    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: I don't think Neuromancer is impossible to make, but I do worry that your average movie goer unfamiliar with the history of cyberpunk will automatically assume that Neuromancer is a rip-off of the Matrix or something like that. #neuromancer
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies Dr.Quatermass Sc.D: Purveyor of Truth, Disseminator of Lies
    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: I agree to a degree. In a purely artistic sense, any idea can be made into a movie. I guess when I say otherwise, I am really really answering the question, "Should one make X into a movie?" Which, I realize, opens a whole new can of worms, but so be it. I don't want to see a Neuromancer movie but I will be first in line when it opens. I am opinionated and the older I get the more black and white my opinions become but I am not jaded enough to not enjoy these little cinematic excursions. Lord of the Rings is the best example of this. When I saw the first teaser, I laughed and laughed. I saw wrong on all levels. Who knows Tetra, who knows... #neuromancer
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    Image of DocMossy DocMossy
    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: I think the studio had a major hand in the suck on that. Gibson actually said he'd never work with Hollywood again. I guess things change. Hopefully Gibson is in because he has more faith in this project #neuromancer
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/16/09

    @DocMossy: given his opinion on mnemonic i think gibson's mere involvement at this point says everything about this film that need be said prior to seeing it. #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: I think some of the more post-modern fiction comes pretty damn close. A movie of the Illuminatus! Trilogy would be about 24 hours long, cost about a billion and end up rated NC-17, if not outright banned. #neuromancer
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    Image of brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(
    11/16/09

    @tetracycloide: I'd like to see somebody make Flatland into a movie. We could even make it 3d to make it extra stupid. #neuromancer
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    Daveinva promoted this comment brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was starred brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there( was unstarred
    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/16/09

    @brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(: Been there, done that.

    [en.wikipedia.org] #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    @atrus123: " I do worry that your average movie goer unfamiliar with the history of cyberpunk will automatically assume that Neuromancer is a rip-off of the Matrix or something like that. " This is my biggest fear!!!! It won't be appreciated for the greatness that it is. #neuromancer
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    Image of mikesisgod mikesisgod
    11/16/09

    @neorandomizer: 10 years ago I saw Burning Chrome done as a ultra-small scale stage production at the Piven Theater in Evanston. Great sci-fi doesn't have to cost $500 million. #neuromancer
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    11/17/09

    @brentbent: C.O.C.K.R.O.A.C.H. )for all the queer super villians out there(: They *did* make a Flatland movie! As far as I know it went straight to DVD. #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    How come Kahn gets to do Neuromancer?! Why not someone who showed she can do good movies (unlike Torque...)?! It's not as if Neuromancer wasn't interesting enough for talented directors to adapt to a movie, right?
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/17/09

    @i.nalys: Yeah, it's like if they trusted Watchmen with the guy who did 300.

    *cough* #neuromancer
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    11/16/09

    In reply to Want To Know How The Neuromancer Movie Ends? So Does William Gibson
    why couldn't the ending just be one phone call between case and wintermute/neuromancer kinda / pauley where the AI says hi, asked where molly went, case asks what wintermute/neuromancer kinda /pauley is, the AI responds with some enigmatic line about the sum of all the parts, then laughs in an oddly creepy, completly inhuman way, that reminds case of pauley, which slowly fades to static while the image fades to static with it. (the movie should obviously open with pure static that gradually fades into a gray sky that looks so similar it's hard to tell when it stopped being static and became a sky). #neuromancer
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    11/17/09

    @tetracycloide: Can we make the static 3D? #neuromancer
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