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Looking at any fictional future is always hard. It is hard to make that 'amazing' leap. In '95 the Web was a slow clunky...

What is really striking to me is the lack of a single great film (again, barring Thunderbolts; maybe it will save the day). Phases 1-3...

Rewatched Past Tense this evening, the first time in nearly thirty years. And it’s held up very well - and it’s impressively prescient...

That's my main critique of Everspace 2 - it reminds me more of an MMORPG than a single-player RPG or even an ARPG, because you get into...

Oh, and... Big tech company doing Neuromancer. Not ironic at all. No siree.

Yeah, that matches my experience, the X games are a bit impenetrable and time-intensive, and X4 in particular seems to have a towering...

Seems like the dialogue in a couple of the bubbles in the top-right panel got switched around.

Thanks, good to know.

Bacterium are the least valuable, while Stratum can be the most with everything else falling in between the two. There's also the bonus...

Anyone else misreading the title to the thread "Unsolicited Duck Pic"?

Not even close. Elite Dangerous is a space sim, a reimagining of the granddaddy of space sims Elite. It supports a wide variety of...

Yeah, I'm just getting a handle on that, exploring my first couple of planets. So far only bacteria, which seems both less lucrative and...

Now that I upgraded to odyssey, exobio is a nice return on credits while listening to audio books.

I'm giving Elite Dangerous another try after almost seven years away from it. Currently doing some exploration outside settled space and...

The novel is a lot to pack into one movie, but I'll be interested to see what they pull off.