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Skye

02:56

@dot_Sp0T I just read your message, yes I do remember the question.

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dot_Sp0T

08:06

@Skye I forgot what I asked you :/

Skye

08:25

@dot_Sp0T XD I was busy in RL sry

dot_Sp0T

@Skye that is no excuse! No jk. I just have to scroll up first, so it may take a while for me to come back to you

Skye

@dot_Sp0T it's here chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/32613650#32613650 the first one I think.

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JDługosz

11:51

Hmmmm Thinking of the phrase “simulated leather jacket”, just what would the recipient be surprised with upon realizing that it's a simulated (leather jacket), not a (simulated leather) jacket?

dot_Sp0T

what

JDługosz

@DaaaahWhoosh the browsers know that it's not wrapped at wordbreaks like you are expecting. They write without spaces and in a regular grid. That's why badly written english from a native Chinese writer will often have missing or wrong spaces etc.

TrEs-2b

12:19

Howdy

Canada won the world cup! Suck it, everyone else to ever exist!

dot_Sp0T

@TrEs-2b what worldcup?

TrEs-2b

@dot_Sp0T of hockey, what else can we win?

dot_Sp0T

@TrEs-2b idk, human decency?

TrEs-2b

We do sell asbestos to the Africans...

And then there were the residential schools

but we don't talk about that, we're like Jaden Smith, if it happened in the past and was bad, it never happened at all!

dot_Sp0T

I'm sorry Tres, I didn't even know there was a worldcup :/

TrEs-2b

12:23

dot_Sp0T

But since you're Canadian. I met this girl from Quebec area in Edinburgh some years back, Emi, do you by chance know her?

TrEs-2b

oh yeah! Me and her get coffee on tuesdays and alternating sundays

@dot_Sp0T neither did I, until someone freaked out that we won

dot_Sp0T

Splendid, I'd love to get in touch with her again

@TrEs-2b I usually only follow the Spengler Cup

TrEs-2b

@dot_Sp0T No, she's mine now dot

dot_Sp0T

@TrEs-2b I never got to say goodbye

TrEs-2b

12:27

And you never will, we're moving to Hans isle and we'll live off of monthly wine and cloth flags!

dot_Sp0T

Also for anyone that has not yet seen that Allegiant movie. There's this one scene where one of these flyers crashes, and it manages to hit the one pile of dirt in the otherwise flatter than flat plane

Journeyman Geek

ugh. Its entirely possible my former employer worked on that. And that's the sorta thing they would do

TrEs-2b

The movie is actually better than the book, which is truly unbelievable.

Journeyman Geek

So the book was terrible? ;p

TrEs-2b

It takes the award for better than the book

Bellerophon

12:34

@TrEs-2b Very few films manage that.

TrEs-2b

Yeah, the first two books are.. decent and then the author takes everything we learnt in them and threw it out, whole new cast, whole new personalities, whole new backstories, everything sucked in book 3

Journeyman Geek

ah, ok

(and eh. I haz books)

TrEs-2b

The award for worst movie adaptation is World War Z, where without the title, I wouldn't even say they're similar movies

Journeyman Geek

lol

TrEs-2b

The book is about slow zombies and details the stories of many survivors, while in the movie, brad pitt finds the cure for fighting the swarm zombies

Journeyman Geek

12:36

I used to love the starship troopers adaptation. Then I realised the director read half the book. Then got bored.

TrEs-2b

I fail to see a connection other than zombies

Journeyman Geek

@TrEs-2b I'm pretty convinced a lot of hollywood types just don't have the patience or passion to do it right

TrEs-2b

I actually loved starship troopers, but that may be my inner child talking

well, its 4 am for me, gotta go to sleep

Journeyman Geek

@TrEs-2b Its a good fun movie. The book on the other hand was thematically very different

TrEs-2b

remember me!

dot_Sp0T

12:42

The Star Ship Troopers adaptions are amazing movies

Journeyman Geek

I felt the second one was an unwatchable piece of trash

dot_Sp0T

@JourneymanGeek You need to lower your standards. The second one is amazing, great standalone mashup of all that scifi stuff

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Skye

13:58

Could someone check my question worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/57180/… on why it's too broad? No one says anything(not that they have to but...)

dot_Sp0T

14:12

@Skye the only thing I can see is that you are asking two different questions in one question: What gas mix will blow them up AND What does it mean for the world if there's burning gasbags falling from the skies (which in turn asks for a) medieval, b) modern times - thus could be interpreted as two questions again) - I would try to reduce it to just asking for the gas mix and conditions needed to have them go up in flames and then as a follow up ask for the repercussions

Journeyman Geek

14:57

@dot_Sp0T I've watched some pretty bad stuff

dot_Sp0T

@JourneymanGeek even surfing nazis?

But then again, the drops in the Starship Troopers book are just soo much better than anything that movies and videogames came up with so far; although I think Halo2 actually borrowed the droppods

Journeyman Geek

yup

the cartoon did those a lot better

and a lot of stuff that I like got inspired by it, the frontlines series for example

dot_Sp0T

Then again, reinterpretation usually ends up way better then trying to just make sth into some other medium

Journeyman Geek

Well, most people forget the political aspect of SST

but in terms of sheer 'battle armour' writing...

Well there's also streakley's armour

but streakley's wierd

he wrote VERY few books that ended up being oddly influencial

John Steakley

John William Steakley, Jr. (July 26, 1951 – November 27, 2010) was an American author, best known for his science fiction writing. He published two major novels, Armor (1984) and Vampire$ (1990); the latter was the basis for John Carpenter's Vampires movie. He published four short science fiction and fantasy stories. == Personal life == Born in Cleburne, Texas, Steakley lived most of his life in Texas, aside from brief spells in South America and Hollywood in his youth. Steakley's father owned a Chevrolet dealership in Dallas from 1962 until he sold it in 1999. Steakley attended St. Mark's School...

dot_Sp0T

15:13

I actually still have not read Armor

Journeyman Geek

heh. I was looking for a copy for ages, found it in page one, which I miss dearly

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TrEs-2b

17:59

I have returned

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dot_Sp0T

21:29