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Posted on November 26, 2008 by Marrock | Leave a CommentFiled Under Images and has these tags: Humor, nose art, sci-fi, star trek




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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Posted on November 25, 2008 by goblin0 | 25 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: keanu, movie, sci-fi, zombie




(9 votes, average: 3 out of 5)Comments(25)
Ssssliders..
Posted on November 25, 2008 by Cheebs | 20 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: GOATSE, sci-fi, Sliders, tv




(13 votes, average: 4.23 out of 5)“What if you could find brand new worlds right here on Earth, where anything is possible: same planet, different dimension? I found the gateway!”
Yes!
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purple banana — November 25, 2008 @ 9:10 am
The guy on top looks like a young James Lipton… Coincidence? I think not!
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rompSku — November 25, 2008 @ 9:17 am
This show was AWESOME!
I’ll never forget the episode where there slid into the dimension with all the nudie people. It was like a dream come true for me!
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copypaiste — November 25, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Heh, I remember that
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Jimmed — November 25, 2008 @ 10:05 am
I used to love this show when I was about 12, they used to show it on BBC2.
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suicydking — November 25, 2008 @ 10:07 am
Great show. Also, that’s Gimli up there.
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greytone — November 25, 2008 @ 10:11 am
just added to my netflix last night.
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Tyger42 — November 25, 2008 @ 10:13 am
@rompSku: It was a great show, yes. Right up until SciFi channel took it over for the last 2 seasons. The first season they did wasn’t horrible, but it did have the stupid Cromag “blanket plot” that got annoying fast. The last season they did….*gag* Losing Jerry O’Connell was bad enough, but it turned kinda soap-opera-ish, too. Seriously, though, how can you have Sliders without Quinn?
It took a hit when the Professor died, but that wasn’t near as bad as those last 2 seasons.
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WistfulD — November 25, 2008 @ 10:26 am
Another good show ruined by executive meddling, cast changes, the U.S. death of syndicated television, and the creation of UPN.
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rompSku — November 25, 2008 @ 10:39 am
@Tyger42: I was really young when I watched this, my dad had to explain a lot of the concept to me cause my little brain couldn’t really understand most of it. But this show basically opened up the whole multiple dimensions/time travel can-o-worms for me. I gave my dad many gray hairs forcing him to try explaining some of it to me. And I was like 9 or something, and refused to believe that what they did was impossible.
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Kishi — November 25, 2008 @ 11:18 am
I loved this show. The episode where Quinn finds out he’s supposed to be some famous math-athlete is pretty awesome.
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Kaze — November 25, 2008 @ 11:58 am
Growing up, I looked up to Quinn as the bad-ass-to-be for the 90’s
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pedantic — November 25, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
Why did they always encounter a Trex in that show?
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Flappycunt — November 25, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
This was awsome si-fi. the first season is a must see! Anyone remember the show jerry o’connell was in befor this where he used spray-cans to fly cause he had powers of weightlessnes???? what was it called????
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nyokki — November 25, 2008 @ 2:51 pm
This was one of those shows that had a concept I loved and I tried to watch and it just didn’t work for me. I kept taping it and not getting through the episodes. I wanted to like it, but just didn’t.
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thelotuseater725 — November 25, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
My Secret Identity
Oh man sliders was awesome. I used to watch it with my dad all the time.
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hellb0y666 — November 25, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
wait…is that luciano pavarotti??
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casemods — November 25, 2008 @ 11:56 pm
This poster looks like a bunch of people from different movies/tv shows mysteriously woke up in a room and a strange alien voice is talking to them.
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Naked — November 26, 2008 @ 2:29 am
This was one of my favorite shows, my 10 year sons Middle name came from the character Quinn, His first name is from Jarod of “The Pretender” were are such nerds. Wont even tell you where my 16 years old name “Trevor Dylan” came from.. let you hunt for it

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Steelfeather — November 26, 2008 @ 5:18 am
Ahhh, I loved this show. I want it on DVD.
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morpheus — November 26, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
I’ve been told on several occasions that I look just like Jerry O’Connell!
How do you like me now?
Michael Crichton, dead at 66
Posted on November 5, 2008 by nyokki | 39 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Author, dead, news, sci-fi




(12 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)Comments(39)
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Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
If I gave this a 5 star does that mean I’m glad?
I mean, I never forgave him for his novel->script adaptations of Lost World and Sphere… TT_TT
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suicydking — November 5, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
WHAT??!!
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LukeV1-5 — November 5, 2008 @ 3:44 pm
Finally.
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Dr.Devine — November 5, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Bummer.
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mintymadness — November 5, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Wow. Now I think I am really starting to get how my grandparents felt when icons of their time, like Sinatra died… Not that Crichton was comparable to Sinatra in anything other than defining a part of a generation’s culture.. Does that make sense? Alright, I’ll shut-up..
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Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 4:08 pm
@mintymadness:
Don’t apologize. Most of us here grew up with Congo, Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. Many others imitated his work and few came close to it. Crichton had a wonderful way of writing Science Fiction that felt real and believable in a ‘this could actually happen’ sense. For this talent, he will be missed.
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Caio — November 5, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Man that image is a mix of incredibly excellent and total crap. All over the board.
Also, I never realized how much Michael Crichton I read till just now.
Also also also Sphere the movie wasn’t as good as the book but actually I liked it and would call it underrated.
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yawn — November 5, 2008 @ 4:23 pm
Damn, November 4th was one hell of a day.
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 4:29 pm
He was a hack who wrote anti-science-fiction. Every novel was about technology going wrong and how we should fear science. Now everytime there’s a cloning story in the news, everyone panics: “O noes! Jurassic Parks! Chaos theory!”
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Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
@reboot:
He wasn’t a ‘hack’ because he wrote something outside of the generic formula. Science Fiction is simply a work of fiction written within the bounds of known science (laws of physics etc) and not including things like dragons, unicorns or magic elves. The fact that science CAN fail and have negative results in the real world, makes his work a different type of sci-fi, one that borders on dystopian fiction.If you want to read ‘hack’ sci fi, start with L. Ron Hubbard and… well.. anything he wrote. I recommend Dianetics. It’s a fantastic comedy and definitely a rip-off and insult to everything ever published before 1950. Just saying.
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Theo11 — November 5, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Great Train Robbery was just awesome. I don’t think there was much about technology in that one. However, Prey scared the shit out of me. I probably shouldn’t have read it as a 10 yr old.
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
@Catherine Longfellow: I’m a big fan of science-fiction, so when I say he was a hack, it’s a a criticism of the genre. He had a very generic formula which went something like this:
1)Pick a “hot” topic in current science
2)Make up a scenario where it goes wrong
3)Pad it out to novel length
4)Deus ex machina ending
5)Sell the movie rights
It says a lot that all of the movies based on his novels were better than the books themselves. That’s because nothing is lost be cutting them down to 90 minutes. There’s no depth, there’s no philosophy, there’s no heart.
Science does “fail” and there is a place for cautionary tales. But you can only rewrite Frankenstein so many times before the recipe goes stale.
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 4:55 pm
Edit: its *not* a criticism of the genre
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storminator — November 5, 2008 @ 4:56 pm
one of my favorite writers. bummer.
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Professor Cramulus — November 5, 2008 @ 5:07 pm
I’ll miss Crichton. But not for long - they’ve got some of his blood from a mosquito and will be cloning him.
Eventually he’ll lose it and go on a rampage, but it’s all in the name of SCIENCE
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Puulaahi — November 5, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Noooooooooooooo!
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suicydking — November 5, 2008 @ 5:42 pm
@reboot: Chricton is the popcorn movie of sci-fi writing. Sometimes it’s fun to just sit back and appreciate a good explosion or gunfight. I know I really enjoyed reading about Nedry holding his own intestines during his encounter with dilophasaurus in JP…
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Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
I’m just chalking this one up to differing tastes then. In my view, most novels follow a “formula” if one author pumps out enough of them (Steven King, Dean Koontz, Dickens, hell even Shakespeare and Homer get ‘familiar’ when you read their other works). I liked Crichton’s books MORE than the film adaptations with only 3 exceptions. So no one can convince me that the chameleon velociraptors from the novel version of The Lost World were worth cutting from the film.
Point is, I wouldn’t call him a hack. It’s a term I personally reserve for people who are “posers” or attempt to ride the success of others in a pathetic hollow mockery of what they are trying to achieve (like the writers who destroyed teh DragonLance series). TBH, I don’t care for most ‘generic’ sci-fi and can barely bring myself to take any of it seriously unless I go in expecting paranormal fiction and no real “science” to speak of.
To each their own; I will miss his work.
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Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 5:45 pm
^^^ was supposed to be to reboot. :*
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flintlocke — November 5, 2008 @ 5:46 pm
The man behind Westworld. He’ll be missed if only for that.
Looker and Runaway, not as much.
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suicydking — November 5, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
Haha. Westworld ftw.
Also, the film adaptation of Lost World was laughable. It had so little to do with the book it was ridiculous.I would like to nominate Dan Brown as the most formulaic contemporary author.
1) Maveric guy drops into unlikely situation
2) Mean guy is introduced, suggested to be villainous
3) Nice guy is introduced, is an ally throughout the novel.
4) Mean guy saves the day, nice guy is revealed to be a sociopathic madman.
5) Maveric guy gets the girl & goes home
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 5:49 pm
@suicydking: I agree with that. I even like popcorn. But I don’t get carried away thinking that popcorn is the finest food ever.
Bacon is the finest food ever :p
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suicydking — November 5, 2008 @ 5:50 pm
@reboot: Orson Scott Card is bacon.
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vutterfly — November 5, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
=(
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Caio — November 5, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
@reboot: Science always does go wrong with horrific results. Mikey was just taking the truth and changing a few details, is all. Dinosaurs are way more interesting than Eugenics and radiation poisoning.
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RSIxidor — November 5, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
Hey, aren’t even the most loved science fiction novels about technology going wrong?
Like Foundation?
Personally, one of the reasons I enjoyed the Dune series (in its original form) is that it was more about the fear of technology and the potential of man than it was about the failure of technology and man’s use of it as a crutch (except for highliners and spice harvesters)
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
@RSIxidor: No, the best science-fiction, Dune included, is about exploring the human condition using technology as a lens. Frank Herbert is a good counter example to Crichton. “The Jesus Incident” has cloning and crazy AI and spaceships, but its really about human’s struggling to find their place in the universe. Crichton never comes close to something like that.
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reboot — November 5, 2008 @ 8:19 pm
@RSIxidor: Foundation isn’t about technology going wrong, at least the first three novels. I don’t even know how you’d get that. The main theme is about rational thought overcoming the senselessness of natural human instinct.
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nyokki — November 5, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
The first book I read by Crichton was Jurassic Park and I loved it. I then read Lost World and liked it even more. So I went to a second hand bookstore and bought all his books. Somewhere around the 4th or 5th book I realized his formula, still liked to read him though. The only books I can think of off-hand that were different were 5 Patients, Great Train Robbery and Eaters of the Dead (liked the movie also)
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nyokki — November 5, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
Oh and I never thought of his writing as anti-science, the opposite in fact. The downfall was always the people and their unwillingness to really understand the science they were dealing w/ and its consequences. There always are characters who control the science that did nothing to create it.
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SumoSnipe — November 5, 2008 @ 9:03 pm
Damn.
I had gotten burned out on Mr S King and found “Eaters of The Dead”. Typical me I then ran through everything I could find of his, But “Eaters” is still my favorite. As for screen adaptations..eh. I never expect hollywood to get anywhere near as good as the books.
How about popcorn with bacon salt?
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NotJesus — November 5, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
I was so about to mention Eaters of the Dead. His best non-formulaic work. First Jurassic Park was pretty good, too, if for nothing else but the awesomeness of bringing dinosaurs back to life. And the movie, well, it was cutting edge for its time. Not much scarier than the raptor/kitchen scene. I nearly wet myself when the raptor went for Lex’s reflection in the stainless cabinetry.
Oh, and most of you probably won’t believe me, but back in ‘94, I had the pleasure of introducing Dr. Crichton to Tom Clancy.
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SumoSnipe — November 6, 2008 @ 2:44 am
All the hue and cry going on this past week, I just found out that another writer,Tony Hillerman, died last sunday. Dammit all my favorite writers are dropping off….
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Caio — November 6, 2008 @ 2:55 am
@reboot: Wait what the fuck? I haven’t read the foundation series in a while but I think you need to read the last books? Foundation was a thinly-veiled allegory about Nationalism and Nation building, specifically Greco-Roman, based on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. Aside from that it was a jab at the social sciences: Seldon makes his predictions on socio-cultural trends but he himself, an extraordinary individual, changes the course of events ironically removing the “foundation” from his own theory. You know, the observer always effects the subject, that kind of thing?
I don’t know if you noticed this (it’s in the later books, I guess) but the Foundation becomes corrupted and crumbles and when they get Seldon’s next prophecy it is completely irrelevant. Then the Foundation crumbles. Barbarians at the gate, as they say.
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Anyway, my favourite Crichton book is Sphere, and that’s not a warning about science. The ’science fiction’ comes from a magical alien ball that tells the people about themselves.
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sylvanish — November 6, 2008 @ 3:25 am
I’ve got “Next” sitting unread on my bookshelf; I’ve never read any of his books before and I’ve got like a hundred other random books on my ‘yet to read’ shelf, in your varied opinions, is it worth bumping up in the queue?
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DasMaus — November 6, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
@SumoSnipe: Incredibly sad. Crichton and Hillerman were are two of my favorite authors.
I absolutley loved Eaters of the Dead. It’s my second favorite book of all time.
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r0b0tch1ck3nz — November 7, 2008 @ 3:25 am
nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!he was my favorite author
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Phyreblade — November 7, 2008 @ 4:29 am
He will be missed…
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General X — November 9, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Wow, this was a gut punch.
A new hope
Posted on October 2, 2008 by daviest11 | 10 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: election, funny, sci-fi, Starwars




(16 votes, average: 4 out of 5)Comments(10)
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shipoopie — October 2, 2008 @ 6:10 pm
Im more oh a Han Solo person myself..
(hand solo)… poor atempt. I FAIL.
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cm3ars — October 2, 2008 @ 6:13 pm
well we voted a retard into office, so the next logical step is a whiny bitch with daddy issues. Luke is a winner to me.
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cm3ars — October 2, 2008 @ 6:14 pm
personally i think Lando would be the best choice… and still get the minority vote.
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shipoopie — October 2, 2008 @ 6:26 pm
cm3ars- “..and still get the minority vote.”
LOL- I have to agree.. at least Lando has succesfully managed SOMETHING in his life.. unlike say…? hmm
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Sarcastastic — October 2, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
That Lando’s got a winning smile too! He would run the country in style. Then he would gamble with the presidency.
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stfunow — October 2, 2008 @ 8:51 pm
I thought it was an image of Donny Osmond
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Caio — October 2, 2008 @ 9:28 pm
Is that Paul McCartney?
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omnomnom — October 3, 2008 @ 1:06 am
luke blew up the death star
he is more than qualified
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Dreth — October 3, 2008 @ 1:45 pm
Not gonna fool me.
It’s a trap!
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reptilecobra13 — October 5, 2008 @ 4:59 pm
And he’s a disabled veteran!
ReBoot
Posted on September 15, 2008 by tiki god | 16 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: Computers, sci-fi, tv, Wallpaper




(19 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5)Comments(16)
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MrDooves — September 15, 2008 @ 11:03 am
I sure did like this show. It really looks cheesy now though.
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HokieGeek — September 15, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
One of my favorite shows as a kid. But I have learned to not ruin those memories by trying to watch those shows of old again. Oh SeaQuest DSV, how you have fallen from grace!
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dekay46 — September 15, 2008 @ 2:19 pm
Tony Jay was one of the best voice actors ever.
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MrDooves — September 15, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Whoa! No kidding!, Tony Jay is the quintessential evil voice. You all need to imdb and geek out across the expanse of that mans immense voicing career.
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dekay46 — September 15, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
Elder God, ftw.
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Marrock — September 15, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
I still have a Megabyte figure sitting on top of my monitor, right next to a Terminator endoskeleton and a crash test dummy.
Megs is watching the terminator rip the dummy’s arms off…
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MrDooves — September 15, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Ha ha, I had the Hack and Slash that would explode into pieces when you press down on them. SOOOO good.
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vutterfly — September 15, 2008 @ 4:06 pm
oooooooooooh that show
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Marrock — September 15, 2008 @ 4:17 pm
All I was ever able to get were the Megabyte and Hexidecimal figures, she’s out in storage somewhere.
I think I have more toys now than I did when I was a kid.
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garbledxmission — September 15, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Megabyte was the shit. Classic suave villain style. Loved how he showed up at the end of the series when everyone thought he was dead. That virus knew how to play the long game.
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Puulaahi — September 15, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
Loved this show as a kid.
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monkeyman767 — September 15, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
didnt they bring this back in comic form recently… like officialy
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Dreth — September 15, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
Fuck this show.
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Phyreblade — September 16, 2008 @ 12:06 am
@Dreth
Lol… Whut?I loved this show, you uncivilized heathen!!
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AlecDalek — September 16, 2008 @ 8:33 am
GAY.
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deuce — September 16, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
I had such a boner for Glitch Bob… oh wait, I still do.
Futurama IRL
Posted on September 2, 2008 by garbledxmission | 5 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: cosplay, sci-fi




(11 votes, average: 4.36 out of 5)Comments(5)
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Dreth — September 2, 2008 @ 9:10 pm
OM NOM NOM
Where’s the other girl, the asian one?
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Jaypeezy — September 2, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
This is awesome! MOAR plox
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Phyreblade — September 2, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
Yep… Leela’s got it goin’ on. I, for one, would Nom, never mind she’s a one eyed sewer mutant…
And yeah, they got Kif, but they didn’t they do Amy Wong? What’s up with that?
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natedog — September 3, 2008 @ 12:33 am
is that the hypnotoALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
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njch412 — September 3, 2008 @ 9:14 am
Bender is in there too, jacking Leelas wallet.
Orc Technology
Posted on August 19, 2008 by nyokki | 5 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: fantasy, Humor, sci-fi




(11 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)Comments(5)
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Shanghai_Factor — August 19, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
WAAAAGH!!
Closed beta ftmfw.
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Seth_Dracovitch — August 19, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
I lol’d.
Nids are better.
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MikeBabaguh — August 19, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
I think my favorite is “Anti-Depressant”.
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Phyreblade — August 20, 2008 @ 9:51 pm
Orc technology is pretty badass… Srsly…
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Aimoe — October 29, 2008 @ 3:23 am
Funny.. I thought it was spelled ‘ladle’ and how the bloody heck do you use a axe as a ladle? Can someone please explain to the non Americans what ORC is? Thanks….
Eureka
Posted on August 13, 2008 by nyokki | 7 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: sci-fi, tv




(12 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)I’m so glad it’s finally back. I wasn’t thrilled w/ the season opener and I’m not sure I like “The Fixer” storyline but I’ll still keep watching. I wonder where the story is going w/ film of nuclear bomb tests in 1938.
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tiki god — August 13, 2008 @ 10:01 am
mmm I do like the show too
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EVIL ILLUMINATI — August 13, 2008 @ 10:46 am
seven pointed star?
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KFC — August 13, 2008 @ 11:21 am
1936
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nyokki — August 13, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
Was it 1936? They don’t make glasses thick enough for me I guess.
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outofocus — August 13, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
I’ve never heard of that show.
There are some great back roads I’ve ridden to get up to Eureka. Mmmm twisty.
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Krix — August 13, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
Jordan Hinson is my kinda jail bait !
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Phyreblade — August 14, 2008 @ 12:37 am
Eureka rocks… I wish I lived in an AI enhanced Fallout Shelter… After the AI gets “tweaked” a little though…

The Middleman
Posted on August 12, 2008 by nyokki | 7 CommentsFiled Under Images and has these tags: advertisement, Comic Books, sci-fi, tv




(11 votes, average: 2.45 out of 5)Comments(7)
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tiki god — August 12, 2008 @ 2:10 pm
oh gawd I do love this show, even if it is gosh darn cheesy at times.
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w0x — August 12, 2008 @ 2:13 pm
Lisa edelstein?
Without an open-cut blouse??!?!?!?!
NOT IN MY WORLD!
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flintlocke — August 12, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
Fun show. Middleman dude is perfect for the part. Lead chick is homely, yet I find her curiously attractive. Roommate chick is definitely hot.
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z0mbi3 — August 12, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
Is her head actually that big or is it a bad photoshop? Really looks like a bad photoshop to me.
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tiki god — August 12, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
eviiiil photoshop
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CMoorehead — August 12, 2008 @ 6:52 pm
“gosh darn” what are you, Mormon??
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mAgnUS BUTTfoorson — August 12, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
what in the ass fuck is ABC Family?
We only get ABC up here in Canaydia. Which I’m thankful for. No way do I need some watered down version of already overly censored TV.
Could you imagine the amount of shit those writers eat?

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suicydking — November 25, 2008 @ 10:06 am
Klatu Barada Nikto!
greytone — November 25, 2008 @ 10:10 am
“Woah!”
dieAntagonista — November 25, 2008 @ 10:11 am
Oh no. Is this a remake? I loved the original.. why can’t they leave it alone.
And I see zombie in the tags, if it has zombies, I won’t complain. Keanu Reeves is good too, but I can’t imagine how this could be good.
RSIxidor — November 25, 2008 @ 10:34 am
I saw the preview. It doesn’t actually look that bad. I was pleasantly surprised.
CathyLong — November 25, 2008 @ 10:58 am
@RSIxidor:
this. It looks ‘not bad’ as in d/l and possible DVD ownage worthy but not theatre worthy.
Paul_Is_Drunk — November 25, 2008 @ 11:14 am
I think most remakes miss the ideas that made the original great, instead focusing on the plot and modernizing it. No desire to see this.
Seriously, can anyone name one remake that is better or even worthy of the original? Someone once said Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but I’ll take an acid boat ride over Johny Depp any day.
the3g_ipwn — November 25, 2008 @ 11:19 am
I ran across a trailer for a new Star Trek movie. Impressive.
dieAntagonista — November 25, 2008 @ 11:34 am
@Paul_Is_Drunk: I agree.
But there are some good remakes. Like Night of the Living Dead. It’s definitely worthy of Romero’s original. I wouldn’t say better, but the different twist at the end makes it brilliant.
arrested — November 25, 2008 @ 11:57 am
Keanu Reeves should have quit acting after Bill and Ted.
SumoSnipe — November 25, 2008 @ 11:57 am
Is Keanu playing the robot? Seems a perfect role for him.
Do restarts count as remakes? We are on what, Punisher take 3?
I wasn’t too impressed with Night of the Living Dead, but did think that the next remake Dawn was worthy
SumoSnipe — November 25, 2008 @ 12:02 pm
Keanu Reeves was ill
the day the earth
stood still
but he told us
where we stand….
Nah doesn’t work for me. I think I’ll pass on this one.
sylvanish — November 25, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
But the new Punisher has super sexy Titus Pullo from Rome in it!! I’ll probably get arrested for public indecency for masturbating in the theater!
…time to get out my Rome DVD set again
dieAntagonista — November 25, 2008 @ 12:45 pm
@SumoSnipe: You mean Dawn of the Dead the remake or the original? I love the Dawn of the Dead 2004 version, but it’s not as meaningful as the original. Only the ending is much better. And of course the zombies are way more awesome. I never wanted to be trapped in a mall more than after seeing that movie.
RSIxidor — November 25, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
@sylvanish:
At the expense of losing TOM JANE! TOM FUCKING I’M THE PUNISHER JANE!
Fuck that Rome guy.
inkbot — November 25, 2008 @ 1:36 pm
Keanu “The One …Expression” Reeves
nyokki — November 25, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
The remake that I dislike most is Miracle on 34th Street. The original was funny, smart and creative. The remake was all about unadulterated faith and missed the whole point. The original is for all ages, the remake is for the under 7 crowd exclusively.
Marrock — November 25, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
If NYC gets leveled, I’ll watch it that far, otherwise I can’t be bothered.
This is why I only watched the first half of both ID4 and Armageddon…
Once the city got boinked I lost interest.
sylvanish — November 25, 2008 @ 6:45 pm
@RSIxidor: Okay guy… Tom Jane made the Punisher look like a wimp. They took a hardcore character and made him politically correct in the lamest way with that flick. I was far more turned on by the generic weapons he had in that movie. It had a couple good scenes and nothing else. Granted Tom Jane is hell of sexy in his own right, but Titus Pullo (I really don’t want to IMDB him) is thrice as sexy, so even if the movie sucks just as bad, it will still be three times as goood.
sylvanish — November 25, 2008 @ 6:46 pm
@inkbot: “No way”
chris_hates_freedom — November 25, 2008 @ 9:09 pm
The Day the Earth Stood Still, starring The Actor whose Portrayals Stopped Varying.
El_Chupachichis — November 25, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
YAY. Another movie about how aliens use their technology to disrupt human technology, just to tell us that we’re too mean to each other and that if we don’t stop killing each other with better technology then… They’ll kill us all… With their… Advanced. Technology.
/this movie is shit.
Hazard — November 26, 2008 @ 12:21 am
Anything with Keanu Reeves is doomed to mediocrity.
Puulaahi — November 26, 2008 @ 12:23 am
@Hazard: He is not mediocre. Far Far Far below it.
SumoSnipe — November 26, 2008 @ 1:35 am
@dieAntagonista: Sorry yes I meant Dawn of The Dead. The remake was very good with the fresh,fast zombies and Ving Rhames.’nuff said.
vandal — November 27, 2008 @ 6:40 am
seriously how many comments and not a single “Far out man”