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by Tichy
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!! :)
by Tichy
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 :)
by Tichy
Wed Oct 14, 2015 5:54 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7376
Views: 1757102

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

cbr wrote:
Fantastic planet...
Correct :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Planet
by Tichy
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
by Tichy
Wed Oct 14, 2015 1:59 pm
Forum: Outworld
Topic: Science Fiction Trivia
Replies: 7376
Views: 1757102

Re: Science Fiction Trivia

Cody wrote:
It is indeed The Shadow of the Ship - a strange novel, but well worth a read, especially the revised edition (it seems).
I didn't knew it. :)

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?"
by Tichy
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?
by Tichy
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 ...
by Tichy
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? ...
by Tichy
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 ...
by Tichy
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 :)
by Tichy
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...
by Tichy
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...
by Tichy
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...
by Tichy
Tue Oct 06, 2015 7:12 am
Forum: Expansion Pack
Topic: [Release] Station Ads
Replies: 120
Views: 79300

Re: [WIP] Station Ads

Fritz wrote:
I wonder what kind of ads you would find in [...] anarchies... :roll: .
Maybe some quote from Pierre-Joseph Proodhon, Mikail Bookunin, Murray Bookchin (and this is it's real name :D), Emma Gooldman, Piotr Kroopotkin... and so on :P
by Tichy
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? :D

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 :)