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I have a few days off. Was planning to go out biking, but, although the weather is fine, it's still quite cold. So I did what any responsible adult would do...stayed inside and played The Witcher 3. That game is incredibly thick. you can spend hours just for a few quests. And just following the main storyline doesn't really work because you soon find yourself outlevelled, so doing the small stuff really matters. For some reason it reminds me of Gothic (before the abomination called Arcania, which wasn't really Gothic anymore), expecially with the open-ended quests. But then again , Gothic had like three possible endings, this one has perhaps a dozen or more, depending on how you branch out your choices.
Though, to my excuse, the rear hub of the bike makes a weird vibration when freewheeling and I'm too lazy to check it out or change it.
 
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Drat! gcc rejects the hashbang as a preprocessing directive. This bit of useless silliness would have been so much funnier if it had worked.
 
A friend of mine shared this with me, and I figured it'd be of interest to some folks here...
http://www.wearethemighty.com/news/classic-rock-legend-missile-expert?rebelltitem=5#rebelltitem5
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter has earned eight platinum records in a music career that started in the 1960s, and he has received numerous security clearances and contracting jobs since the 1980s as a self-taught expert on missile-defense and counterterrorism.
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The big shift came in 1994.
Inspired by a friend's work on an op-ed about NATO, Baxter sat down and punched out a five-page paper on the Aegis ship-based antiaircraft missile system, arguing it could be converted to a missile-defense system.
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So... this is the person who came up with the basic concept of Aegis Ashore.
Learn something new every day.
 
Finally got myself a treat and went to watch Alita: Battle Angel today. It was kind of a weird experience, because this and "the neverending story" are just about the only properties I have any nostalgic investment in, and the neverending story movie was already out before I even read the book as a kid (and was a pretty darn good adaptation - the first one. It's the only one that exists, no matter what you might have heard), so that one doesn't really count. In other words, this was just about the first time ever that I went into a movie with a sense of "this might be reeeeeally disapointing".

It wasn't. Oh, the movie has some huge problems... as a standalone movie. As an adaptation, it might just be one of the most brilliant things I ever saw. It takes some liberties with the plot, but almost none with the characters, and recreates the awesome scenes from the manga that I always wanted to see on the screen practically beat by beat. I love it!
There's only one big inconsistency in the film... In the end we see somebody's body parts neatly arranged in a way that is either a callback to or (hopefully) foreshadowing of the fate of Zapan in the source material, but... Who's brain is in that jar?? :P
 
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The second season of star trek discovery has some of *the* worst writing I've ever witnessed. I can't even ask "what were they smoking", because I feel if they had been smoking anything it would at least be a fun kind of terrible.
 
jedidia said:
The second season of star trek discovery has some of *the* worst writing I've ever witnessed. I can't even ask "what were they smoking", because I feel if they had been smoking anything it would at least be a fun kind of terrible.
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Dad loves it , apparently. I only saw fragments, but what I saw reminds me of Stargate episodes, not to mention overdone sci-fi cliches. and not the good ones. I grew up with Picard and Deep Space Nine. And Seven Days, some low-key time travel series. Tv sci-fi was weird in the 90s in eastern europe :lol:

I won't watch Alita anytime soon. For some reason, it just seems too cheesy. Now, if he really does his sequel to Terminator 2, that might be another thing entirely...

Edit: not the I don't like Stargate, quite the contrary. But it had some really 'cardboard' stuff sometimes
 
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But it had some really 'cardboard' stuff sometimes
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Yeah, some of the sets in early seasons were terrible when they were not shooting on "canadian forrest planet" :lol:
But the show overall had good characters, generally decent plots and a lot of heart. The characters in discovery aren't too bad but fall into the trap of being either too serious or too whiny (it reminds me a lot of various anime in that regard), but some of the plots are near-incomprehensible and just downright stupid. It's ok enough when they're doing the political stuff, but every time they try to be star trek things go absurdly wrong.
And it turns out that technobabble isn't the worst thing ever. The worst thing ever, I came to realise, is to use actually existing terminology in sentences where it makes no bloody sense at all...
 
jedidia said:
And it turns out that technobabble isn't the worst thing ever. The worst thing ever, I came to realise, is to use actually existing terminology in sentences where it makes no bloody sense at all...
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The latter is a subset of technobabble, and most technobabble includes some degree of it.
 
#throwbackthursday

About one year ago, my car was damaged at the front bumper in the companies garage. Today, it was damaged by another parking lot accident EXACTLY at the same location of the car as before.

I should really armor the port front bumper.
 
Or don't park there ever again.
 
Donamy said:
Or don't park there ever again.
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Actually, I didn't park there anymore. I wanted to leave after a short stop at my banks ATM to get this strange little German oddity called "Bargeld". Not sure if any of the youngers outside Germany have ever seen it.

The other car was two meters ahead of me and reversed suddenly (Likely to give way to another car planning to leave), with the driver overseeing me because I was half a car offset to starboard and our ultrasonic sensors had been operating on the same frequency.
 
That is why I NEVER trust the automated systems that are being added to cars. One, they make for terrible drivers who rely on those systems to be safe, and two, they make people reliant upon them for situational awareness, instead of using your own senses to do so.

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As we don't have a "general spaceflight photo thread", I'm posting this here:
[ame="https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1107759545084862464"]https://twitter.com/ExplorersClub/status/1107759545084862464[/ame]
 
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