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Post by N7Pathfinder on Sept 29, 2019 16:44:09 GMT
Taking a much needed detour from the addicting song, here's a little thought I recently had.
Now first you need to understand, I LOVED Will Smith's Genie in the new movie. He was funny, charismatic, and delivered Genie in his own unique spin without feeling like a Robin Williams imitation.
But...what if Zachary Levi was cast as the Genie instead?
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Post by ArcadiaGrey on Sept 29, 2019 16:59:22 GMT
Taking a much needed detour from the addicting song, here's a little thought I recently had. Now first you need to understand, I LOVED Will Smith's Genie in the new movie. He was funny, charismatic, and delivered Genie in his own unique spin without feeling like a Robin Williams imitation. But...what if Zachary Levi was cast as the Genie instead? No white guys! *waggles finger* He may have been too obnoxious, perhaps Smith works well because he didn't overplay it?
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Sept 29, 2019 17:22:16 GMT
Taking a much needed detour from the addicting song, here's a little thought I recently had. Now first you need to understand, I LOVED Will Smith's Genie in the new movie. He was funny, charismatic, and delivered Genie in his own unique spin without feeling like a Robin Williams imitation. But...what if Zachary Levi was cast as the Genie instead? No white guys! *waggles finger* He may have been too obnoxious, perhaps Smith works well because he didn't overplay it? I haven't seen a lot of his material, but I think Zachary Levi can still work with the approach the new Aladdin went with, ie more of a cynical sarcastic Genie with some flair. Then again, now that I say that, I guess it wouldn't really matter either or because both actors work with that kind of character. Also, yes, I just realized that Will Smith would fit the Arabian setting better due to his complexion. My parents also told me that around the time Aladdin took place, black people were usually slaves and servants in Arabia, and considering the Genie is essentially a magic servant, it kind of makes sense.
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Oct 4, 2019 16:31:58 GMT
There's been something I wanted to say to the Star Wars fanbase, but I haven't figured out how to say it properly. So I'll keep it short and sweet:
FUCK YOU GUYS! Now I can't express my enjoyment of Star Wars without one of you guys bringing negativity to the franchise, and therefore I will never ever talk about Star Wars online for the rest of my life.
I hope you're happy now!
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Post by nopersdeviv on Oct 8, 2019 2:53:13 GMT
There's been something I wanted to say to the Star Wars fanbase, but I haven't figured out how to say it properly. So I'll keep it short and sweet: FUCK YOU GUYS! Now I can't express my enjoyment of Star Wars without one of you guys bringing negativity to the franchise, and therefore I will never ever talk about Star Wars online for the rest of my life. I hope you're happy now! Dude! It's never good to hold that in...ALWAYS let your freak out.
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Post by N7Pathfinder on Oct 8, 2019 4:31:29 GMT
There's been something I wanted to say to the Star Wars fanbase, but I haven't figured out how to say it properly. So I'll keep it short and sweet: FUCK YOU GUYS! Now I can't express my enjoyment of Star Wars without one of you guys bringing negativity to the franchise, and therefore I will never ever talk about Star Wars online for the rest of my life. I hope you're happy now! Dude! It's never good to hold that in...ALWAYS let your freak out. I wrote the OP at a time right after I had a huge online argument and overall bad experience on this site's Star Wars thread, so my emotions were through the roof. I pretty much just want to avoid that thread and find some other way to express Star Wars without fear of unnecessary hatred (I don't mind being judged or having a civil critical discussion, but I cannot deal with outright trash talk).
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Post by nopersdeviv on Oct 8, 2019 5:22:25 GMT
Dude! It's never good to hold that in...ALWAYS let your freak out. I wrote the OP at a time right after I had a huge online argument and overall bad experience on this site's Star Wars thread, so my emotions were through the roof. I pretty much just want to avoid that thread and find some other way to express Star Wars without fear of unnecessary hatred (I don't mind being judged or having a civil critical discussion, but I cannot deal with outright trash talk). Ah...ok...gotcha!I know how infuriating arguing online can get. I've done it once or twice. And yeah...if they won't allow you a civil discussion, best to just say to hell with it. I'm sure there's other people you can discuss it with who aren't quite as hateful. Personally, my favorite was "A New Hope"...mainly because I was 9 going on 10 when it first came out and at the time I went to see it in the theaters 11 times...but I am still a fan of the entire series. Some of the new stuff I liked and some of it I was disappointed in, but it's always great to see someone who's enthusiastic about the series...whatever episodes and characters are their favorite.
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Oct 12, 2019 3:38:34 GMT
I like Star Trek: Insurrection. It's a better Star Trek movie than Nemesis (part of it was Jonathan Frakes as the director).
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Post by Lavochkin on Oct 12, 2019 8:26:21 GMT
I like Star Trek: Insurrection. It's a better Star Trek movie than Nemesis (part of it was Johnathan Frakes as the director). (I also liked Insurrection)
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Post by Arijon van Goyen on Oct 24, 2019 9:52:45 GMT
I like how this triggers certain people
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Post by Sifr on Oct 27, 2019 22:15:58 GMT
I like Star Trek: Insurrection. It's a better Star Trek movie than Nemesis (part of it was Jonathan Frakes as the director). I like the idea of Insurrection, that of the crew disobeying orders from Starfleet that they deem to be corrupt/unethical.
It's only a shame that they end up doing so in service of saving the Ba'ku... pretentious, ungrateful Luddites that as non-native colonists have as much right to that world as anyone else, yet stubbornly refuse to allow others to settle there and share in the miraculous healing properties of the planet.
(Also Picard's speech to the Admiral comes across as hypocritical considering he was perfectly willing to carry out a similar forced relocation of Native American colonists only a few years prior to this.)
I do agree though that Frakes' directing and the cast make the movie enjoyable to watch, even if the story itself falls completely flat for me.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Oct 28, 2019 7:44:40 GMT
Electric cars is a really stupid idea. And aside from an only locally positive environmental effect, they're really the opposite of what activists and politicians believe. ...And batteries is not an energy source. There's an even more stupid idea around: Electric aircraft.
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Post by seven on Nov 6, 2019 0:52:35 GMT
Black liquorice is the only acceptable type.
Fight me.
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Post by Pounce de León on Nov 6, 2019 8:36:34 GMT
Black liquorice is the only acceptable type. Fight me. There is others?
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Post by seven on Nov 6, 2019 9:20:52 GMT
Black liquorice is the only acceptable type. Fight me. There is others? This is why we are friends !
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2019 8:08:41 GMT
If individuals or corporations own private property and only individuals (a person) are capable of actions, there is no such thing as public property. Even cities and countries are considered corporations.
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Post by Vortex13 on Nov 7, 2019 15:16:45 GMT
The backstory for Horizon: Zero Dawn, all the set up for how the robots destroyed everything, is really dumb. I mean even a ruthless capitalist, and the engineers working for him, would have realized that creating self-replicating war machines, that specifically utilize bio-mass for conversion, and have absolutely no means of asserting override control built into their foundational code would be really, really, really stupid. Really, if Farro was the cream of the crop when it came to human ingenuity and intelligence then it would have been better for our entire species to be wiped out because nothing that idiotic should be allowed to live.
But really thats, just a minor nitpick I have with how media treats AIs in general, namely why do AIs in mainstream fiction either have to be Pinocchio bots that just want to learn what it is to love and/or "be a real boy", or are mindless murderbots that want kill all humans because 'reasons'?
The depictions of AI in works such as Horizon: Zero Dawn, Detroit: Become Human, Westworld, Star Trek, etc. all are so shallow and juvenile; as if the whole theme of robots as stand ins for slaves/some discriminated minority or as scary bogeymen coming to kill everyone is some groundbreaking and profound idea. As if such an intelligence, specifically created to preform a specific task, would even have wants and needs comparable to what humans could even recognize let alone strive for. Or that an antagonistic AI would waste time and effort in uniting humanity against it's own existence by trying to exterminating them when it could just easily fly off into space and never have to bother with us ever again.
All these various depictions in mainstream media are little more than humans with "metal-face" on or scary metal monsters and its always so annoying when the critics and reviews rave about how thought-provoking or highbrow these works are. You want something original and unique? Why not explore an artificial intelligence that doesn't want to kill everyone, nor does it want to become like us; that concept alone would set one apart.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 7, 2019 16:16:05 GMT
All these various depictions in mainstream media are little more than humans with "metal-face" on or scary metal monsters and its always so annoying when the critics and reviews rave about how thought-provoking or highbrow these works are. You want something original and unique? Why not explore an artificial intelligence that doesn't want to kill everyone, nor does it want to become like us; that concept alone would set one apart. I feel the same about extraterrestrials in movies and games. They're not only always carbon based lifeforms they're also often humanoid, with human like motives and emotions which is quite lame and incredibly boring. And if they aren't chances are extremely high they're basically intelligent insects with again, human like emotions and motives. It just makes my eyes roll. A welcome exception was the movie ''Annihilation'', I don't think it was a very good movie but at least the ''Alien'' or rather ''foreign entity'' if you can even call it that, was well made and original. It was an extremely alien concept far away from what we consider lifeforms here on this planet, heck most qualities typical for lifeforms didn't even apply here, it motives, form and function were largely incomprehensible.
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Post by Sundance31us on Nov 7, 2019 16:41:44 GMT
There's always The Andromeda Strain.
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Post by Vortex13 on Nov 7, 2019 19:14:47 GMT
All these various depictions in mainstream media are little more than humans with "metal-face" on or scary metal monsters and its always so annoying when the critics and reviews rave about how thought-provoking or highbrow these works are. You want something original and unique? Why not explore an artificial intelligence that doesn't want to kill everyone, nor does it want to become like us; that concept alone would set one apart. I feel the same about extraterrestrials in movies and games. They're not only always carbon based lifeforms they're also often humanoid, with human like motives and emotions which is quite lame and incredibly boring. And if they aren't chances are extremely high they're basically intelligent insects with again, human like emotions and motives. It just makes my eyes roll. A welcome exception was the movie ''Annihilation'', I don't think it was a very good movie but at least the ''Alien'' or rather ''foreign entity'' if you can even call it that, was well made and original. It was an extremely alien concept far away from what we consider lifeforms here on this planet, heck most qualities typical for lifeforms didn't even apply here, it motives, form and function were largely incomprehensible. Agreed, and I would also add Arrival when it comes to a film that handles aliens as 'alien' even though I thought the timey-whimy shenanigans was a little much at the end. The most annoying thing about how aliens and AI are often depicted in fiction is how lazy most of them feel. Outside of intentional comedic effect, if you're just going to have what is essentially a human in a funny looking costume then why bother adding aliens or robots to your setting at all?
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 7, 2019 19:28:39 GMT
. The most annoying thing about how aliens and AI are often depicted in fiction is how lazy most of them feel. Outside of intentional comedic effect, if you're just going to have what is essentially a human in a funny looking costume then why bother adding aliens or robots to your setting at all? I agree completely, that's also one of my main gripes with Mass Effect Andromeda, the developers had the opportunity to surprise us with amazing and complacently alien lifeforms and plants we've never imagined before, but instead we got another completely humanoid race and very earth-like environments. Its just baffling. There is the possibility that there is intelligent silicone and even crystal or mercury-based lifeforms out there, or some lifeforms that are symbiosis conglomerate of several different species. I just don't get it why developers have such a hard time coming up with ALIEN aliens. And don't get me even started with AI, it always turns out vengeful and motivated by petty human emotions. Why??!?
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Post by Vortex13 on Nov 7, 2019 19:38:34 GMT
On a slightly different topic: I am a fan of mechs. Those big walking tanks bristling with weaponry are just awesome to see in a science fiction setting. Though I only like the more "realistic" take on them.
Japanese mecha, a la Power Rangers, Pacific Rim or Gundam; those settings were you have giant 50ft tall robots running around doing flips and carrying 50ft tall robot sized machine guns or swords just seems ridiculous from an immersion perspective. I mean why bother creating a vehicle that has to hold the weapons you intend it to use in its hands when every other combat vehicle we've created has either built in weaponry or openings for the passengers/pilots to fire out of. We don't make our cars look like humans so why are we suddenly doing it with mechs? Its the same reason why I find those sci-fi titles (games mostly) that have the insectoid aliens operating ships and tanks that look like giant bugs to be idiotic. Fully organic aliens like the Tyranids of WH40K make sense, but specifically making your tanks look like giant beetles for no other reason than because you are bug people is dumb. I also really don't care for the mega, ultra mecha robots out there in some settings, where you have this 500 - 1000ft tall robot stomping around, either. Surely it would be far more cost effective to build an army of 20 - 30ft robots to swarm your enemy with rather than sinking everything into a single lumbering behemoth.
Now power armor or exo-suits? Those make more sense when it comes to more japanese mecha elements. I can see an exo-suit wielding a light machine gun like an assault rifle while ducking and weaving through cover. That's why the Mech Troopers in XCOM and Tom Cruise and Co. in Edge of Tomorrow were appealing to me. Also the Battletech and Mechwarrior series are much more "grounded" to me. The titans of WH40K are also included in that level of acceptability, though the Imperial Knights and certain Tau mechs can go a bit too far into mecha for my tastes. Also the Titanfall mechs are really interesting, though I would potentially label them as power armor due to their relative size compared to the operator.
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Post by Giant Ambush Beetle on Nov 7, 2019 20:20:40 GMT
I do love power armor as well, and the small mechs. I hoped for something like that in Andromeda and suggested it heavily, but nope. One of my favorites are the heavy armors in FEAR. They were small mechs that could operate inside buildings, but they could tear down walls and lay down heavy fire.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 7, 2019 21:43:27 GMT
With modern computer graphics, the human in a rubber suit/mask seems very obsolete as SF aliens. However, I can accept it as a classical culture element in some kind of SF. Hard, serious SF? Eh, nah.
Otoh, I wouldn't really find Silicon based intelligent lifeforms credible either. It's an old SF theme (in literature) with radically different lifeforms, but frankly, I believe there are only two intelligent, tool making, building kinds of life forms in the Universe: Carbon based and 'machines', originally created by carbon based. What we know of organic chemistry seems to strongly suggest that.
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Post by B. Hieronymus Da on Nov 7, 2019 22:00:47 GMT
It's also common with SF weaponry that is far more primitive and inefficient than what already exists in reality.
One aspect of that, which I find crude, is the close fighting distances and - as Vortex already mentioned - huge size of the platforms. Is that credible? Nah, I don't think so. Looking at modern hi-tech warfare, the trend is very much that situational awareness wins. If you know where the enemy is, you can kill him very promptly. See first, shoot first.
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