I need names

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052436)

but I do recommend cosmic horror titles by H.P. Lovecraft, Forever War, Dune and Dune Messiah, and the lesser known stuff like Man After Man or tv shows/vidya like The Expanse (terrible dialogue and filler stories in between but probably the most 'realistic' or practical depiction of space combat) and Homeworld series

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052545)

Neuromancer I think is underrated. It has some silly elements but it's also like literature. It's got some poetic lines and amazing themes even if it's not the most tightly wound thriller. It gave us so much lore that influenced other IP kind of like how Nirvana launched Grunge.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052557)

Nothing is shiny, new or 'Cyberpunk' anymore, because nothing else is new under the Sun in the future. It's all been done already. Technology is either a legend/myth or considered something completely 'mundane' because its so ubiquitous.

And for the rest of society (or humanity, and what's left of it), 'technology' is just so used up and busted to the point that it's no longer even salvageable because the technical knowledge is a "black box" (so over-specialized and technical that it's virtually only understood by the gestalt few) in other words, to them it looks no different than magic.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052573)

My pushback on Warhammer is that I've always felt it was too cartoonish to be cool. There's an element of over the top ness to the style that's unserious. The pieces make me think of Gwar or like Kristi Noem's husband's boobs. It's like the bimboification of sci fi. I want it dark and gritty.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052599)

the actual real grimdark stuff is so ponderous and tedious

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052601)

i like some of it like asimov or willis

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052611)

There's nothing wrong with Warhammer it's just not that deep. Like what you like but I am never painting those figurines.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052624)

it's a fun game tho

gibson is 1893283298328932894990

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052627)

Random Q. Where do you rank Pynchon? DFW?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052633)

Pynchon is sort of like Herzog.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50053869)

As a result, the commercial reality shapes the lore's 'reality'. You get absurd scenarios where ancient spacefaring civilizations invade planets via orbital drops just to fight hand-to-hand on the surface. Or still using chemically-propelled firearms like 'bolters' that are basically just explained as: 'BIG BOOLETS but wait, it's also an explosive Rocket too so it's different.' The setting then offers explanations—advanced armor, shields, any type of exotic/supposedly indestructible alloys & metallurgy, restrictions on AI (obviously like from Dune), limitations of any projectile-based weapons in general — but strategically, many factions could simply bombard the planet, use nukes, or deploy some black-hole, antimatter, or bioweapon and end the conflict immediately (which is what they end up doing anyway i.e. 'Exterminatus').

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052650)

Someone should really buy all of Gibson's IP when he dies and turn it all into movies spinoffs TCGs and video games. It sounds crazy but it's got to be worth hundreds of millions if not billions in gross if someone were to just be shameless about it.

Edit Holy shit it's coming to Apple TV. Black female lead yasss kween.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052676)

I listen to this before every poast

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052464)

3 years ago

Games in the 90s having better soundtrack than today’s movies

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5890538&forum_id=2#50052837)