Well, rightly so, I'd say. He found it while on active duty.
#Riddick:
"You keep what you kill!"
(04:55 min.)
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HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 09:47:22 JST 
HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴
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Exotaur (exotaur@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 02:44:28 JST 
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although i disagree with the contention that neoliberal globalization is equivalent to Wells’ vision for the future this is nonetheless a fair-minded and informative essay. #HGWells #DamienWalters #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SF #Socialism
The dark utopias of H.G.Wells
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Kamikaze (kamikaze@comics.town)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 11:47:35 JST 
Kamikaze
Throwback Thursday to when we released a 13-minute long animated short based on our comic series!
Kamikaze started off as a pitch for an animated series, so bringing it to life on the screen was a huge milestone for us.
Watch it for free on the YubTubs!
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on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 20:52:18 JST 
on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
> My novel Proud Pink Sky is cyberpunk #scifi set in the world's first #gay state – complete with #queer slums and #trans ghettos.
> lives in Berlin
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 03:18:29 JST 
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"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl" will be the second game, I guess, that I'll purchase at full-price and not at some discount. And it's not that I like these tedious tinker-and-resources-gathering/crafting/managing games. If I want chores, I'll clean my bathroom.
But like 20 years ago with "Half-Life 2", I'm a tourist who loves to wade through absurdly overdone landscapes, with weather effects and atmospheres so ridiculously overblown that you wouldn't even on drugs encounter them in real life. I just love strolling around looking, watching, gazing.. until I get shot by some AI generated villain.
("Half-Life Alyx" is another gorgeous visual experience with so many details and consistent "world building". It's just wonderful wandering around there and studying the debris, the fauna, the extraterrestrial impacts on the Odesa-styled City 17...)
Sadly, today's progress in computing powers (both for the CPU as the graphics cards) invites the industry to either remake old titels (to "freshen" them up visually) or publish new titles primarily with the emphasis on graphics and visual effects. Otherwise these titles have become pretty boring (with regard to story telling, game mechanics, loot system and such).
Not to mention the absurd length of such games. Remember when games like "Half Life, "Half Life 2" and others took about four hours for a decent playthrough? Now you can waste up to 60 hours to get only through tzhe main story line and various side quests. Ridiculous. Who has that kind of free time any more?
Anyway. I'm looking forward to "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl". Although to be released today, I'll give it two more months until the main bugs are fixed. And spend my time until then with "Tomb Raider" (the first game of the relaunch trilogy) which is still an amazingly consistent self-contained game; with "Half-Life: Alyx" (the PC mod version); and some others like "Far Cry 5" (very nice landscape), "Callisto Protocol" or "Dead Space", or the original "F.E.A.R." series
As an afterthought: I tried "Black Mesa" and "Black Mesa Blue Shift". Awful games. Look like Playmobil in overdrive. Shiny plastic surfaces, and the XEN world is such a terrible visualisation of somebody's bad mushroom trip... They overblew it on all accounts. Both games show in their "extraterrestrial" environment the deep influence "Dear Esther" seems to have had on game developing. But while the latter Indie game is a gem that too my knowledge first successfully used a "walking simulator" to engange the player in a trance like state (stunning graphics), the kids of the "Black Mesa" Remake teams took the visual ideas of "Dear Esther" and streched them all for the sake of mere bombast. Shock and Awe. (Never thought that Donald Rumsfeld would win even one battle.)
As a second afterthought and thereby returning to "S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl": There is a whole genre of games built around the concept of a "zone" of some unknown influence through which "stalkers" move carefully in order to garner riches and avoid "anomalies". These idea rest on two templates.
One is the 1971 sci fi novel "Roadside Picnic" by the Soviet authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979 based his movie "Stalker" losely on that novel). Here the the topoi of the "zone" and the lone scout (called "stalker" after the Tarkovsky movie, I guess) were first introduced.
The other template has been the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 with its subsequent evacuation of the entire population due to radiation, the abandonment of the aerea, and the rewilding henceforth, with radiation givin the the rewilding its specific drift into the unexpected.
Both templates are ruminated again and again. And in their combination, the specifically otherworldly character of "Roadside Picnic", the strangeness of the aliens' visit and what it might mean what they left behind, is substituded with the survivalist theme of the nuclear power plant catastrophe of 1986. I'd love to see games in which the more miraculous aspect of "Roadside Picnic" plays a decisive role. Wonderment and fascination not because of sneaking skills and visual traumatisation of the player but because of the bafflement and wonder created by the story. A shock and awe not of Rumsfeldian liking.
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Teryl's Tales of Whim~ (teryl_pacieco@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 15:02:31 JST 
Teryl's Tales of Whim~
"More trees than buildings... Wild trees, taller than the solar-snare windmills!" said the ranger.
Greenery was not a foreign concept to the children; most buildings had bushy roofs, every block had a community garden, and shady trees, never too tall, sheltered and fed the populace along most roads and paths.
The Unstructured growth of a feral forest was terrifying yet engrossing.
"And the canopy is so dense you need your own light-source!"
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MaxTheFox (maxthefox@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 02:12:49 JST 
MaxTheFox
Can someone recommend me some hard or semi-hard transhumanist #scifi (preferably prose or webcomic form) that does *not* have a faux-rationalist eugenicsy vibe to it and has a more laid-back and creative attitude regarding posthuman enhancements and so on, while also *not* having a technophobic, conservative attitude that treats the human body and mind as something sacred and untouchable like a lot of sci-fi that touches on these topics?
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Silver Spook Games (silverspookgames@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 20:22:23 JST 
Silver Spook Games
Crapitalism & baloneyalism gettin' terminated by the Revolutionators -- A Neofeud 2 visualization! Grab Neofeud 1 and help me finish this!
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
http://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/ #neofeud #indiedev #indiegame #cyberpunk #visualnovel #cyberpunkgame #scifi #sciencefiction #retrogaming #steam -
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Alien 👽 Max | 🇺🇦 gamedev (maxim@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 19:35:55 JST 
Alien 👽 Max | 🇺🇦 gamedev
Physics is not easy, but I am beginning to understand it better. The classic gameplay of cables as in Half-Life 2
#gamedev #UnrealEngine #scifi #games #indiedev #HashtagGames #videogames
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br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 08:57:34 JST 
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Saga's Brian K. Vaughan Is Reviving Sci-Fi Classic Forbidden Planet
#ComicBooks #Screenwriting #BrianKVaughan #SciFi #ClassicRevival
https://gizmodo.com/forbidden-planet-reboot-brian-k-vaughan-warner-bros-2000525122
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Musi (forameus@mastorol.es)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 06:00:36 JST 
Musi
Hola, mastodontes. Estoy viendo que llega mucha gente nueva, así que actualizo mi #Introduccion
:d20: Jugadora acérrima de rol. Una vez mastereé D&D 5e pero la ansiedad es una cosa. Juego pícaros hasta cuando juego druidas.
🎨 Ilustradora digital, desarrollando un cómic y abierta a encargos!
📖 Me encanta la literatura fantástica y #scifi. Ursula K. Le Guin es mi señora y salvadora. No leo tanto como me gustaría, pero yo lo intento.
:ManaA: :ManaB: :ManaN: :ManaR: :ManaV: Juego a #MagicThe Gathering de forma casual, principalmente EDH pero también Pauper (y algo de Estándar en el Arena). Construyo mazos por encima de mis posibilidades.
:heart_bisexual: Bastante roja, bastante queer.
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Inkican (inkican@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 10:05:29 JST 
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Your daily dose of scifi
#startrek #trekkie #scifi #startrekdiscovery #spock #startrektng #startrektos #Borg #Resistanceisfutile #Preparetobeassimilated
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br00t4c (br00t4c@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 09:20:06 JST
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▶ JWST Images of Iconic Star Vega Reveal Unexplained Missing Features
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Readbean (readbean@pixelfed.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 04:17:08 JST 
Readbean
Luna Escapade by H. B. Fyfe
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40961
#books #reading #bookstodon #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #retro #retrofuturism #pulpfiction #pulp #bookart #bookcovers #coverart -
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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 00:39:28 JST 
13 barn owls in a trenchcoat
Bonus retrofuturist #SciFi song for #TuneTuesday , partly because @dani posted In the Year 2525, which this track nods to.
Ghost - The Future Is A Foreign Land
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sola (sol2070@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 21:05:23 JST 
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#books #scifi #anarchism
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FunHouse Radio (funhouseradio@mastodon.world)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 03:09:15 JST 
FunHouse Radio
► https://FunHouseRadio.com <-- TUNE IN
Like this meme? Try the stream. :)
#startrek #klingon #eighties #mashup #glory #scifi #nerdcore #weird #memes -
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Jan Bartosik (janbartosik@witter.cz)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 17:37:31 JST 
Jan Bartosik
The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton
NIGHT'S DAWN #1No idea how this series has been eluding me until now.
A most enjoyable read. There's vast space, sentient spaceships, nano-boosted people, empire of man, religion, science, military, aliens... Simply, every bit you'd expect to make a solid grand scale scifi narrative.#books #amreading #reading #kindle #literature #bookwyrm #booktoot #book #knihy #scifi #sciencefiction @bookstodon @scifi @knihy @knihycetba
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MastodonBooks - m:books (mastodonbooks@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Nov-2024 07:12:05 JST 
MastodonBooks - m:books
What will the second Trump term mean for Education and Libraries?
The School Library Journal (SLJ) outlines some of the 'Project 2025' policies. Warning: Disturbing content.
#mastodon #author #library #books #fiction #scifi #horror #trump #election #reading #education #tolerance #racism
@mastodonbooks@a.gup.pe
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 08-Nov-2024 19:10:33 JST 
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
Ok I just gave up with the currently airing #Cdramas now so have gone to the past to look for something to watch. Stumbled on a little known sci-fi drama of 12 episodes called "Pandora's Box" (天目危机).
I have to admit Liu Xueyi starring in a minor role got me really interested heheh. (One thing I admire about him is that he always takes on diverse roles.)
Basically it involves time travel and the powers of the mind. Curious to see what the drama is about.
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