nik9000

joined 2 years ago
[–] nik9000 1 points 3 weeks ago

I tell myself Stardust turned out this way. It sure doesn't start that way. And it's Neil Gaiman which... Feh. I want to remember it as a movie where everyone respects everyone else in the end.

[–] nik9000 14 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Looks like it's mostly a UK, Australia, and New Zealand thing.

[–] nik9000 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's in mph. 240 kph. Article says: "this article lists all the systems and lines that support speeds over 200 km/h (120 mph) regardless of their statuses of upgraded or newly built."

[–] nik9000 5 points 2 months ago

I liked the third half. But it's quite a shift

[–] nik9000 2 points 2 months ago

In projects I work on we use NOCOMMIT for these blockers and they'll fail the build. It's honestly lovely to have something to leave yourself a note that the build catches for you.

[–] nik9000 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

PKD is special somehow. He's the one author where, I think, the movies are better than the books pretty consistently. Maybe it's luck or my flawed opinion.

[–] nik9000 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've not read them all but that sort of feels like how the culture novels are.

[–] nik9000 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not super involved, but I believe it's possible to engage with Wikipedia ethically and well as a PR firm or the like. But being honest is part one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PR_Professionals_%26_Editing

[–] nik9000 6 points 3 months ago

I love Porco Rosso. It's animated and set in the real world with real just pre-WW2 stuff happening in the background. But the main character is a pig who flies a sea plane. Someone mentions a curse once. No one treats this as weird. No one else is an animal. I love it.

[–] nik9000 7 points 3 months ago

Zero cost abstractions are a hell of a thing.

[–] nik9000 9 points 3 months ago

Everything the mutant spice baby guild thing says is beyond perfect. I love them. And the emperor just stands there reading terrible exposition terribly. I love it.

I did not say this. I am not here.

[–] nik9000 2 points 3 months ago
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sffjazz top 100 (scifilists.sffjazz.com)
 

I've always loved this list of sci-fi books. The 2000s web design compells me.

A while ago I tried to read the ones I hadn't. It was a lovely tour. My biggest surprise was enjoying Childhood's End.

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