practisevoodoo

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[–] practisevoodoo 1 points 2 days ago

Ok, maybe I'm exaggerating on the "every episode" but you're still going to need at least three actors to play the main character, plus intermediate appearances as they transform which lasts an episode or more. It's definitely a significant additional problem that you just don't have to deal with if you start with one of the other books.
The other challenge if you are thinking about doing multiple books and you start with Phlebas is that the Culture are the baddies. You spend a (most) of a series presenting them as such and then flip.

[–] practisevoodoo 4 points 3 days ago

Someone made the point previously about Disney owning Muppets now and doing live action adaptations of all the animated films when they have the opportunity to do muppet versions instead.

Although I would absolutely want more farscape.

[–] practisevoodoo 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

TV limited series adaptations of The Culture novels. Amazon obviously made a start before giving up but they picked absolutely the wrong one to start with.
Yes Consider Phlebus is the first chronologically but a TV series where you have to replace the main character every episode does not work when you are already trying to adapt a very difficult IP. Player of Games is where you want to begin. Clear storyline, no tricky time/universe/world jumps. Spends most of the time in an Earth-esque civilization. If you can successfully adapt PoG then you can try something more challenging like Phlebus or Use of Weapons.

[–] practisevoodoo 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How did the first astronauts get inside?

[–] practisevoodoo 4 points 4 weeks ago

Fast or slow zombies? WWZ hyped up Windsor castle. Some of the Dutch fortifications i.e. Fort Bourtange seem good.

[–] practisevoodoo 3 points 5 months ago

Earliest native digital images looks like 2003

[–] practisevoodoo 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've got the entire catalogue from the Royal photographic society 1870-1915 saved left over from my PhD. But the earliest of those are scans-of-sketches-of-photos because they pre-date the technology to easily duplicate photographs.

[–] practisevoodoo 2 points 6 months ago

Anyone know if anything like this is allowed in the UK?

[–] practisevoodoo 9 points 6 months ago

When you say it doesn't work in Firefox, does it not work in Firefox or does it say it doesn't work in Firefox? In the later case and sometimes in both, I have found that just changing the user agent string to something chrome based is sufficient to get it working again.

[–] practisevoodoo 4 points 7 months ago

Not the first time. 80107, if you press the bull's hole it lights up.

[–] practisevoodoo 2 points 7 months ago

Well now we're getting really speculative. But probably what we have now but with something like undember or under and duoly or duoer in the 11 and 12 month positions.

 

Look I'm excited, but one of my favourite things of HZD was the slow burn realisation of just how they "saved" life on Earth. But it's kind of heavy for a game that kids are expected to play. Omnicide is hardly family friendly but how do you change that part of the plot?

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