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    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    3 hours ago, joshuatxuk said:

    ^ Yeah as I watching that I thought "oh this was on ScyFy, I forgot" and the same could be said of much of the knockoff Blade Runner dystopian vibe of Ceres, aesthetic tropes that have been recycled and regurgitated to oblivion. The Belters actually reminds me a lot of those on Mars in the original Total Recall film. Either way that part is clearly serving as a part of the greater plot which I find a lot far more fascinating. 

    If it wasn't the rave reviews I've heard from friends whose tastes I trust I would have likely skipped it. I've read many compare it to the Mars Trilogy which is another great endorsement. Instead of just vague "big corporation bad / oppressed masses good" there appears to be more fleshed out parallels to class struggles and competing ideologies on Mars and Earth (I assume, only on episode 4)

    It really mirrors peak 90s SF TV in that each season improves on the previous one by several orders of magnitude. Quite frankly astonished it lasted as long as it did on SyFy but I guess they were fairly desperate for another BSG and/or a GOT-type “prestige” genre show.

     

    Of course that same network also cancelled Dark Matter, which looked like it cost about $100 per episode, so go figure. 

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    Krautrock

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    Yeah, Krautrock was one of my first ever deep dives into a specific genre/time period of music and every time I go back to revisit it there's more and more stellar stuff to be found. 

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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    8 minutes ago, Brisbot said:

    I got to top of Master league when it first came out. Then I tried playing again after the 3rd expansion and had trouble in gold league. Lol

    Man it was one stressful game. When I was in masters I had to play like 3 hours a day to just stay at the rank I was at. Otherwise my skills wouldn't be improving fast enough for it.

    Yeah it gets real ridiculous once you realize you’re getting matched against people who are sponsored to play 8+ hours per day. Given my 2 hours every couple days regimen I felt honored to make Gold and get cannon rushed every goddamn game.

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    Just now, Brisbot said:

    No, from what I understand they dropped the 2018 cutscenes and just have the old ones. Apparently Blizzard said the game was going to get all new cutscenes, and a new campaign, which never materialized. So that is a valid complaint, however it's still WC3 with decent graphics, and that's all I need so far.

    And idk if I mentioned it, but ladder and clans haven't been implemented yet. I'm assuming that will come out sooner or later, but idk if they cut the feature entirely. I hope not.

    Ladder will be up at a later date from my understanding. But I was always shit at WC3 ladder so that’s less important to me.

     

    (Not that I was ever good at SC or SC2, even in the SC2 Beta I peaked at Gold 1 which is basically the big dumb cheese league.) 

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    What TV series are you watching at moment?

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    I feel like if you expected a show that even Patrick Stewart as of several years ago swore would never happen wouldn’t cater to a little fan service, it’s not the show for you?

     

    I mean referencing Bruce Maddox in the first ep is the epitome of fan service but they set it up so it’s a throwaway unless you’re into the mythology. 

     

    Also maybe I’m biased because I’ll watch Allison Pill in anything.

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