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I feel guilty that I didn't like it more
Renewed for Season 5 + a spinoff
Hipster horror
ruined a generation
Putin trolls ‘soft’ Tucker Carlson
looks like...
even dumber than I remember it
woke
BOOOM! The teaser dropped
Fuck up of the year
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Nah, this one I didn't like much. I don't even remember why. Probably it has to do something with making sacrifices for the wider audience and the studio's big money.
ARQ is another one that looks like an "Outer Limits" episode (similar to "Extracted", which I commented earlier), but it is fun. This is the problem with these indie sci-fi movies - they try to make them small in scope but clever and the end result typically is a prolonged "Outer Limits" episode. With ARQ they succeeded not to bore us. Personally I prefer the 80s and 90s crappy rip-offs of blockbusters like Aliens and such. They lack this "Outer Limits" "clever" attitude and are not trying to be anything more than cheap but fun romps. It is rare these days.
I liked it too. It is always a transition from "Yet another time loop/travel movie" to "Yeah, another time loop/travel movie!". The trope never gets old.
It looks like too much CGI, like the VW jumping off the cliff. But it could that the blue screen and the post-processing are making it look artificial.
I'm toward the end of the book and I will pass the show, because... well, the book is lame and even dumb. There are a couple of cool ideas, but apparently the author was not fully aware or not able to develop them properly.
But about your question - their travel time is 400 years, because they travel at fraction of the speed of light. The aliens themselves are situated in Alpha Centauri system, which is 4 light years away. This is accounted for in the book.
Speaking of Alpha Centauri, there are three stars there, but in stable and predictable orbits, and one of them is too far from the other two, so you certainly won't see three suns in the sky of any planet there. Apparently when he researched the book, the author didn't bother going beyond the first few lines of the relevant Wikipedia entry. But the factual errors are the least problem. It is just that everybody is dumb and makes no sense, including the aliens.
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But likely you will have more success in Fallout 2 with such build.
Did we watch the same show? Because it was quite tongue-in-cheek and packed with over the top violence. Even Tim Cain was impressed by how well it captures the spirit of the game.
She always looked empty and sleepy to me. I never grasped the hype.
My understanding is that they were seeing the people of Shady Sands as a sort of barbarians and also not fitting to the plans of Vault-Tec. It is really a half-baked thing put there for political reasons and I prefer to ignore this aspect of the otherwise great show.
That doesn't make to me sense also. It was dumb. They were making huge profits from the conflict. It was a clear leftie insert for me - the rich hates us, blah-blah - and the recent trend of rich people building bomb shelters or something.
Shady Sands bombing was explained in the context of this. They didn't like that civilization survived and bombed it. Still stupid. But Tim Cain says that it is ok for him and doesn't necessary ruin the lore.
I was listening to Tim Cain (the creator of the original Fallout game). He doesn't think that the company started the war, because otherwise Coop and his kid wouldn't be at that birthday party. Likely they were all surprised that a nuclear war broke out (rejoice, the lore is intact). Coop was disgraced for some unclear reason. So maybe he prevented the plot and lost his wife and his career in the process.
Maybe his wife is in Vault 31?
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