Well yes, of course sci-fi can be this bad. I agree it depends on the author - some authors produce some marvelous sci-fi. I have sci-fi books by Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein - all giants of sci-fi. Yeah... like BBP wrote, 90% of everything is crap. It's true. Soci...

1. Is science fiction still this bad? Depends on the author, the subject, the story, characters, etc. 2. They had Google in 1953? You ARE joking, right? Please tell me you're joking. You know people can upload/write whatever they want online, including documents from any era that came before the In...

Although I'm surprised these terms mean that, because don't they really mean "beautiful" (as in "beau geste" - "beautiful gesture", or "belle of the ball" - "beauty of the ball")? ;) And that's why I mentioned that the English usage of the words doesn't match up perfectly with the original French u...

... Alexander (and Alexander's beau - I forget her name), In English, "beau" is a term for "boyfriend or male admirer," so unless there's something you know about Alexander that we don't, I'll assume you meant to write "belle" when referring to Cassima. And yes, I realize both "beau" and "belle" ar...

The four albums that were defining for me are as follows: KISS - Dynasty (1979) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b6/Dynasty_%28album%29_cover.jpg/220px-Dynasty_%28album%29_cover.jpg Seeing as how I was born in 1979, I obviously didn't buy this album when it first came out. I got it ...

All right, we all know that Disney makes fairy tales. Their films are not about real people, they never were. Disney just stea-- adapts other countries' cultural heroes and heroines, and then Disneyfies them to make money. Who cares about the original source material? We'll slap on whatever message...

...whenever something goes wrong for me, I immediately yell: "Damn you, Tawmis!"

Not sure why I felt the need to share that, but whatever.

I think, perhaps, the reason TOSs's social commentary seems unoffensive to us is because the message it was trying to get across is, for lack of a better term, "no duh" for a modern viewing audience. For instance, a big issue was not just having a female bridge officer (originally Roddenberry wanted...

Star Trek had a message, yes. But it wasn't preachy. If you've seen Star Trek Discovery then you know that's no longer the case. Hell, it's hard to find a TV show nowadays that doesn't try to push some sort of agenda. Whatever happened to just watching something for fun and entertainment value? Not...

I played about as much as you did, Tawmis, so I couldn't tell you much. Still, it couldn't be worse than Moebius: Empire Rising...

Maia played Gray Matter through to the end and I believe she liked it.

The "/runWithoutUpdating" trick doesn't work. I haven't tried deleting (or renaming) GalaxyUpdater.exe, but that might work... either that or the program will crash when it tries to force an update. I didn't really like Galaxy, but it was useful for updates. Now since they've removed the Downloader,...

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Mon Feb 24, 2020 9:19 am

It's a way for them to make sure you can't restore a previous save point because you mess up or don't like something that you did.

Okay, that's even worse, but thanks for telling me. Now I know to avoid JFO entirely.

I just started Jedi Fallen Order and I'd better stop playing new games because I have 4 now I need to get through (Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, Spiderman, and now JFO). Good experience in the beginning but I feel like the controls are a little clunky. Actually I probably just need more time to ad...

I have Beneath a Steel Sky (free, as you said, from GoG), but I've actually never played it. Is it any good? No idea. I haven't played it either. I've been meaning to for a long time, but with all the distractions around (not the least of which includes a constant influx of new games), playing a 26...

No, I didn't mean Beneath a Steel Sky . That game is free on GOG. I'm talking about the sequel that's being developed (and published) by the same company that made the original. It's called Beyond a Steel Sky and it looks like it'll eventually be available on Steam . No word on whether or not it'll ...