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- Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:09 am
- Forum: Discussion
- Topic: Anti Aliasing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11545
Re: Anti Aliasing
Oooh! Thanks! Finally I can enable AA even with the open source drivers for Ati R600!!
- Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:39 pm
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: Random Hits OXP
- Replies: 1047
- Views: 398331
Re: Random Hits OXP
Cool! Random Hits with a Scotland Yard twist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_ ... rd_game%29
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:54 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 3:15 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Not Yellow Submarine... although the movie is quite psychedelic.
Neither Battlefield Earth
Neither Battlefield Earth
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:59 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
I didn't knew it.Cody wrote:It is indeed The Shadow of the Ship - a strange novel, but well worth a read, especially the revised edition (it seems).
Maybe easy: "In which movie, adapted from a novel, men are used as pets, or exterminated if found in the wild, by giant blue aliens?"
- Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:45 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Is it The Shadow of the Ship by Robert Wilfred Franson?
- Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:17 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Where am I by Daniel Dennett Correct! :) http://www.newbanner.com/SecHumSCM/WhereAmI.html Robocop 2 (? II ?) Almost correct. It was the 2014 remake of Robocop. The scientist that rebuilds Murphy is called Dennett Norton, and there's a scene where he explains that the biologic brain of Murphy works ...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:13 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
https://youtu.be/_F_4BeK4EjY?t=30m38s (For the whole experience, watch from the beginning) Correct: the movie/documentary is Victim of the brain. ...but the name of the story is? :) For fame & glory, do you also know which recent movie reboot is partially inspired from this thought experiment? ...
- Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:49 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Strange things happens when your brain and its electronic copy are no longer aligned Is that Die-Hard guy somehow connected? Bruce Willis? No. :) The main character is the author (which is a philosopher) and looks like Santa Claus :mrgreen: Tip: In the story, he calls it's body and it's brain with ...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:37 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Another tip: Strange things happens when your brain and its electronic copy are no longer aligned
- Thu Oct 08, 2015 7:33 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Sounds *very much* like one of the thought experiments in Gödel Esher Bach... But that's hardly science fiction, more science philosophy... Not from GEB, but you are quite close :) It was a made into an episode for a dutch tv movie, and it inspired a very recent (2014) movie reboot. (Bonus point fo...
- Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:43 am
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
Avatar? :lol: :lol: :lol: (Never saw the movie) You didn't miss out on anything. Too long, too predictable. Everyone dies except the two main protagonists. Just like Nightmare on Elm Street... and every slasher horror... Oh! I just realized that Avatar is a western in space with blue indians that e...
- Wed Oct 07, 2015 10:22 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
well this one is from left field as the yanks tend to say so to keep this thread rolling post your answer... all i ask is have you heard of the author and some of his other very fine books? Ok. It was Kuldesak by Richard Cowper . This author was unknown to me. :) This one could be a bit harder: &qu...
- Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:12 am
- Forum: Expansion Pack
- Topic: [Release] Station Ads
- Replies: 120
- Views: 79300
Re: [WIP] Station Ads
Maybe some quote from Pierre-Joseph Proodhon, Mikail Bookunin, Murray Bookchin (and this is it's real name ), Emma Gooldman, Piotr Kroopotkin... and so onFritz wrote:I wonder what kind of ads you would find in [...] anarchies... .
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 12:30 pm
- Forum: Outworld
- Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
- Replies: 7376
- Views: 1757102
Re: Science Fiction Trivia
The anime Gurren Lagan?
Some tip?
EDIT: I found the title just by searching an exact phrase from the review... I won't say it. Some other could guess it by other means
Some tip?
EDIT: I found the title just by searching an exact phrase from the review... I won't say it. Some other could guess it by other means