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Cody wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:42 am

Username: goats for sale?

Yeah … other alternative usernames under that IP address include

guns for sale
wood pallets for sale
French Bulldogs for sale

and - for those of us on a deadline -

goats for sale near me

Cody wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 4:55 pm

Have we passed peak space-gaming?

Totally - all the cool kids are doing grimdark roguelite kawaii hacknslash RPGs now. GRKHNSRPGs FTW!

The Space Games That Defined the Genre (Best of the Best) is a new video on from YouTuber ObsidianAnt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqPZCFd76lM It gives a quick rundown of ten influential space games from Space Invaders to the present day. Elite is number 2, chronologically - but most of the Elit...

AI has all the hallmarks of a classic pump-and-dump, starting with terminology. AI isn’t “artificial” and it’s not “intelligent.” “Machine learning” doesn’t learn. On this week’s Trashfuture podcast, they made an excellent (and profane and hilarious) case that ChatGPT is best understood as a sophis...

In Ken MacLeod's (current, ongoing) Lightspeed trilogy - Beyond the Hallowed Sky and Beyond the Reach of Earth published to date - FTL travel can, occasionally, result in inadvertent time travel, or jumping into an alternate reality, or both … in fact, it might always result in one or other (or both...

The Changelings infiltrate Star Fleet in Deep Space Nine, when the Federation finds itself at war with the Dominion.

OK, since nobody else seems to want to draw the short straw... Flight on Titan (1935) by Stanley G. Weinbaum One of Weinbaum's "planetary" series, a series of stories set in a (moderately) consistent universe of interplanetary travel. They would probably have been more consistent if Weinb...

Robert A Heinlein - Farmer in the Sky (1950) One of the Heinlein juveniles, about colonists on Ganymede. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_in_the_Sky Apart from the first few chapters set on Earth and en route, the rest of the story is set on Ganymede. That's four! One more for the brass ring …

spud42 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 12, 2023 2:10 pm

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/

Europa Report

That qualifies for number 3 … and there are several other stories set on, or involving, Europa, so have an MBP for getting the first one.

My entry for this one is SATURN 3 , a movie that should only be watched if you really like bad films. This one takes itself seriously as opposed to something along the lines of Ed Wood's PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE which has its tongue-in-cheek moments. Oh lord, I had suppressed all recollection of thi...

Just a reminder: the story doesn't have to be set entirely on a moon - just so long as some important scene/event takes place on one.

cbr wrote: ↑Sun Apr 09, 2023 1:40 pm

Pandora from the Avatar verse...

That's one!

Special, collectible, *gold-starred* MBP available if someone can come up with an answer set on a fictional moon of Earth …

Okay … can we get five stories (film, TV, book etc.) where an important part of the story takes place on a moon - EXCLUDING Luna, the Earth's moon. For clarity, by "moon" I mean any non-artificial satellite of a planet which is sufficiently large enough to land on and walk around on. The m...

I'll bite … the Pierson's Puppeteers, from Larry Niven's Known Space books.

spud42 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:22 pm

name 5 TV aliens thar were not human in form.

Pilot, from Farscape.