Hey boss did you forget about me in Morris's shed?

Not suicide, I hope?   I've heard dentists have one of the highest rates of any profession. One's conscience can only handle so many acts of torture, I guess?

Happy New Year, all!   Hard to believe it's soon to be 2023!  That's a higher number than some sci-fi I've watched or read.    2001 is now the distant past.

And we still haven’t found that damn monolith. My heart is broken.

Hey Skynet was supposed to have killed us all in 1987

Dr Who stopped it...

 The Monolith is on Europa \o/
 Goodbye Dave.
 Hey does anyone know how they got the name for the computer HAL?

I will post answer in a bit.

The adjacent letters to HAL are IBN

IBM yes very good \o/

wasn't it popping up here on Earth this spring.summer?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_monolith
This message was last edited by the player at 23:29, Sat 31 Dec 2022.

I was going to mention that..we  asked  Roy about that, then it  popped up around the world, and a couple different states.

Different construction methods.  Dads a huge Odyssey fan.  Still Trying to get his computer to say “I’m sorry Lanny I can’t do that” every time he does something wrong.

I heard of someone who programmed their Alexa to answer to “Computer” in the style of Next Gen Star Trek

In reply to Isobel Sakura (msg # 925):

Epic.  It would Be fun to have some pre-programmed responses in the voice of the original computer system from the original Star Trek

I have a new map of the 'known' Black... tried to get the pages  to work and  added in the Delta's  and Zolth.

 its a bit messed up, but i'm don messing with it..family New years party starting soon, i have to  make  beef stick in sweet and sours  sauce...bunch of cheeses, and hotdogs  and Kielbasa in saurgraur, sodas and such,  one daughter is greening  Veggie platter...once it  starts   i'll be  off until they leave, and  the ones staying her go to bed..

 Happy Newy year!!

Happy New Year to you all

In reply to Isobel Sakura (msg # 928):

Happy New Year’s to you East Coast friends. It has been great gaming with you over the years.

  Take the night off Boss.  We’re just glad to be here with you

Wrong construction materials (they never figured out what the ones in 2001 were made from, but it wasn't stainless steel) and wrong dimensional ratios (the 2001 monoliths were 1x4x9...the squares of 1, 2, & 3).

And there was some guy who claimed he was one of the people who put them up, but his evidence was a time-lapse video clip that didn't show much of anything very clearly.

Yes, Hal, the monoliths, etc. 2001 is a classic!  I had no idea anyone was building their own monoliths.   It's good to have a hobby, I guess!

The sequel was nowhere near as good (so few are), but almost worth it just for when they transform Jupiter into a star at the end.    Give me a lush isle on Europa, I'd bail Earth and move there!

 I  had  trouble  staying  with 2001.  I was looking for , more   exciting  SCI-FI, Never did  watch the 2nd one.,

 I like combat and  alien bad guys, that aren't  'too hard" to kill, Lets face it , anyone who who can come  to Earth,  can  beat us up. Just like Humans  did  with  'colonies' in Jungeles  and  far away lands.

 One thing,  is..yes? they should be hard to kill, since they, most likely, had the same  way of  growing up, as we did.

 bowing to gods, getting mad at people who didn't  believe, fighting over resources and treasures, ect ect.

  But?.. as Roy is wont to say. very little  stops  a hard ammo  slug.. Heavy Baording  aromor, mecs  ect, can stave off some  hits, , but Higer cal  wapons will  begin to wear down armor, and   should have  little trouble  busting through  flesh, scales or chitin .. though? the latter two might  take an extra  round or  two.

 anyway... for me? Sci-Fi should be  exciting, and have  combat, tensions  and all of that.I can get 'thought inducing' from books.
(( as you see in this game? there is  combat and  bad stuff, with good  guys  doing good stuff...( or bad stuff to bad guys))

In reply to Admiral Hack (msg # 933):

I can understand that point of view, but while I saw both the first and second movies before reading the series, I still think of it as a book series.  For me the best sci-fi on the purest level is the sci-fi that holds up a mirror so we can see ourselves non-objectively.  Contact did a good job of this.

I did not care for any of the Space Odessey series.  Not sure why other than did not care about HAL's voice or such... it was too calm and even.  like to want to put me to sleep.  but like all things it's personal choice.  did not care for Godfather 2 & 3, or Avatar, Top Gun, and a few others (trust me unless dragged not seeing Way of water or Maverick).  but there are other things I do like.  did watch one of my favorite TV shows last night, the original Kolchak: the Nightstalker.  not the best episode, but a good program none the less.

Klochak was great. however, i always  hated  the trope of ' no one believes  the hero' thing.

 I remember the  1st  Blob  movie. the Biker   guy hitting on the police chief's daughter ( another trope of the bad boy and good family  thing) I always  watched that as a kid  and said, " hey? if they would have listened to him..."

    Again, while the original “2001 space odyssey” was written first as a screen play, they were all a lot better as books.  Indeed, Arther C Clark, is generally believed to number among the three fathers of “modern” sci-fi, along with Robert E Heinlein (Starship troopers, stranger in a strange world, and a free man in the galaxy) And Isaac Asimov (bicentennial man, and I robot).

Indeed Isaac had a very profound statement about Science Fiction that was both ironically and poignantly stated by a person playing a fictional character modeled after Tilk in the SG1 universe.

https://youtu.be/2cjmDE5aFdY

I liked top gun, some of the songs i use  for  'Shadows' playlist.... I lost favor with Tom Cruise  with  his  whole , goofy religion thing, and how he treats people on the set.

 I'll see the  movie on Netflix or something down the road. I liked Avatar, and looked forward  to this one, until i found out the bad guy gets  to  get uploaded into a avatar, because of a gene bank?  really?

 One of the reasons,, for my 'good guy' being  as harsh as the bad  guys, is the whole 'why did you let him go before?' thing.

 who many people died because superman, batman ect were whips and let   Luthier, Joker  ect .

 Now, Spiderman, the  origin, he is trying to help out his  aunt and uncle, gets screwed over  by the wrestling guy, then laughs at  the guy when he  shouted to  Parker to stop the thief. Me? I would have done the same thing.

 now, the guy who stole the money, kills  uncle Ben, Spider man tracks the guy  down, but just turns  him in..he should have ended him. if you are brining bad  guys back, they better have been  SEEN...escaping, or SEEN giving them self up to someone who will take them in..other wise, heroes  got to  snuff out bad guys.

 My take on such things is, if a hero  lets  a bad guy go, everyone  that gets  killed or suffers from that bad  guy, after that point, are on the hero , who didn't have  the guts to end the bad guy.

there was a Comic  where  The Thing, Crushed Doc  Dooms   gauntlets , with  the bad guy still wearing them, but he didn't finish the  job..

so, after all that, brining the bad  guy back aver  having a 'gene bank', isn't cool. you are fiction writers? come up with a new bad guy!!!