practisevoodoo

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Bring back sodding intermissions for long films. Especially if want any hope of selling me snacks, which is your entire profit margin. No one wants to pay to watch some 3-hour bladder buster Vs watching it on streaming in comfort.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It is and has a Wikipedia subplot hence why I raise it. I also understand why no-one watched it in 2021. I certainly was not in the right mental space then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You been watching Station Eleven?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Motorcycle gear, much easier to get hold of. Kevlar reinforced, better mobility and riot gear isn't designed for the types of hazards that zombies pose anyway i.e. thrown objects and weapons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating on the "every episode" but you're still going to need at least three actors to play the main character, plus intermediate appearances as they transform which lasts an episode or more. It's definitely a significant additional problem that you just don't have to deal with if you start with one of the other books.
The other challenge if you are thinking about doing multiple books and you start with Phlebas is that the Culture are the baddies. You spend a (most) of a series presenting them as such and then flip.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Someone made the point previously about Disney owning Muppets now and doing live action adaptations of all the animated films when they have the opportunity to do muppet versions instead.

Although I would absolutely want more farscape.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

TV limited series adaptations of The Culture novels. Amazon obviously made a start before giving up but they picked absolutely the wrong one to start with.
Yes Consider Phlebus is the first chronologically but a TV series where you have to replace the main character every episode does not work when you are already trying to adapt a very difficult IP. Player of Games is where you want to begin. Clear storyline, no tricky time/universe/world jumps. Spends most of the time in an Earth-esque civilization. If you can successfully adapt PoG then you can try something more challenging like Phlebus or Use of Weapons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How did the first astronauts get inside?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Earliest native digital images looks like 2003

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've got the entire catalogue from the Royal photographic society 1870-1915 saved left over from my PhD. But the earliest of those are scans-of-sketches-of-photos because they pre-date the technology to easily duplicate photographs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Anyone know if anything like this is allowed in the UK?

 

Look I'm excited, but one of my favourite things of HZD was the slow burn realisation of just how they "saved" life on Earth. But it's kind of heavy for a game that kids are expected to play. Omnicide is hardly family friendly but how do you change that part of the plot?

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