Would someone please explain to me why anyone is resisting what I see as Wikipedia's inevitable ascent to Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel)) status?
I was mostly too young to have any clue what it was when Next Gen was around, but I've liked what I've seen since. I watched DS9 fairly consistently beginning a few seasons in, and I watched large chunks of Voyager. Then Star Trek disappeared for a while. Enterprise appeared: I watched the first few episodes. Then there was some terrible episode in which someone has a fistfight with a guy in face-paint on a desert planet that is indistinguishable from a sound stage with sand on the floor and a rock made of Styrofoam and painted brown. I stopped watching it at that point. I flipped past the end of an episode some time later, and caught a couple minutes of alien reptile Nazis in 20th century Hawaii. What the fuck were they thinking?
That's actually a serious question. Can anyone explain why they did that stupid time-traveling lizard-Nazis thing?
To change the topic slightly, what is it with time travel? Why do people still think it's clever when they keep doing it the same way H.G. Wells did well over a century ago, only he did it better even then (especially in the excised chapter)? Time travel can be interesting; but shit like Timeline, in which Crichton didn't even seem to stop to think about his idiocy once he'd pulled the bullshit parallel-universes card and then forgotten about it, really needs to stop. Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, sequel to Wells' Time Machine, was great. Baxter, as he always does, thought about it; the repercussions echoed throughout eons, and completely screwed up history, and yet stayed much in the style that Wells had established. It helps that he's heavily into math and engineering, but that isn't really necessary. Anyone thinking more than one level beyond idiot-simple time-travel can conceptualize these things.
You're not serious, are you? You didn't read his post. All seven of those points were lies. It was supposed to be funny. Harlan Ellis's beard has a foyer?
"game where all of his 'accomplishments' are ultimately meaningless"
Don't make me get nihilist on your ass. If your life is just as filled with ultimately meaningless accomplishments-- which, if you're suitably nihilist, yours is-- it doesn't really matter which particular meaningless things you do, does it?
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Actually, I always used 99654, Juneau, AK. Looked that up in seventh grade and I just keep using it...
Yeah, seriously. To me that sounds like a nigh-infinite amount of entertainment.
Would someone please explain to me why anyone is resisting what I see as Wikipedia's inevitable ascent to Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel)) status?
I actually compared it to the population of the entire population of the Chicagoland area, as that's a bit closer to home, and /that's/ terrifying.
Sorry about the lack of paragraph breaks, I haven't done much posting on Slashdot and wasn't aware I needed to manually insert BRs.
I was mostly too young to have any clue what it was when Next Gen was around, but I've liked what I've seen since. I watched DS9 fairly consistently beginning a few seasons in, and I watched large chunks of Voyager. Then Star Trek disappeared for a while. Enterprise appeared: I watched the first few episodes. Then there was some terrible episode in which someone has a fistfight with a guy in face-paint on a desert planet that is indistinguishable from a sound stage with sand on the floor and a rock made of Styrofoam and painted brown. I stopped watching it at that point. I flipped past the end of an episode some time later, and caught a couple minutes of alien reptile Nazis in 20th century Hawaii. What the fuck were they thinking? That's actually a serious question. Can anyone explain why they did that stupid time-traveling lizard-Nazis thing? To change the topic slightly, what is it with time travel? Why do people still think it's clever when they keep doing it the same way H.G. Wells did well over a century ago, only he did it better even then (especially in the excised chapter)? Time travel can be interesting; but shit like Timeline, in which Crichton didn't even seem to stop to think about his idiocy once he'd pulled the bullshit parallel-universes card and then forgotten about it, really needs to stop. Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, sequel to Wells' Time Machine, was great. Baxter, as he always does, thought about it; the repercussions echoed throughout eons, and completely screwed up history, and yet stayed much in the style that Wells had established. It helps that he's heavily into math and engineering, but that isn't really necessary. Anyone thinking more than one level beyond idiot-simple time-travel can conceptualize these things.
You're not serious, are you? You didn't read his post. All seven of those points were lies. It was supposed to be funny. Harlan Ellis's beard has a foyer?
"game where all of his 'accomplishments' are ultimately meaningless" Don't make me get nihilist on your ass. If your life is just as filled with ultimately meaningless accomplishments-- which, if you're suitably nihilist, yours is-- it doesn't really matter which particular meaningless things you do, does it?
I, for one, welcome our new expandable masters.
The hell is this doing on Slashdot? It's in my freaking anthro textbook, fer chrissakes. My textbook.