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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Razgovory

#45420
July 02, 2020, 03:13:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 02, 2020, 03:02:08 PM
Never played the game.  What does a vague post-apocalyptic setting as imagined in the 50s look like?

Raygun Gothic.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

celedhring

#45421
July 02, 2020, 03:15:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 02, 2020, 03:02:08 PM
Never played the game.  What does a vague post-apocalyptic setting as imagined in the 50s look like?

Think 1950s sci-fi movies/artwork.

Admiral Yi

#45422
July 02, 2020, 03:20:16 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 02, 2020, 03:15:06 PM
Think 1950s sci-fi movies/artwork.

So a lot of silver jump suits and beehive hairdos.

Syt

#45423
July 02, 2020, 03:56:22 PM
It captures the 1950s optimistic outlook at everything nuclear (nuclear powered cars!), a strong belief in technological advancement (robots! ray guns!) together with strong Cold War propaganda with heavy patriotic/jingoistic bend (though WW3 was fought against China - it's set in a future of 50s nostalgia, basically).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Brain

#45424
July 02, 2020, 03:59:52 PM
The Fallout intro sums it up I guess, and is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geLiEiAiQJA
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#45425
July 02, 2020, 04:01:08 PM
Ron Perlman :wub:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#45426
July 02, 2020, 04:08:12 PM
Actually, the first Fallout game had a surprisingly good cast at a time when video game voice acting was in its infancy.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134648/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

Ron Perlman, Richard Dean Anderson, Tony Shalhoub, David Warner, Keith David, Tress MacNeille, ...
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Josephus

#45427
July 02, 2020, 04:28:37 PM
Quote from: Barrister on July 02, 2020, 03:06:34 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on July 02, 2020, 03:02:08 PM
Never played the game.  What does a vague post-apocalyptic setting as imagined in the 50s look like?

Computers are all green on black CRTs. 

As they were in the 50s
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Sheilbh

#45428
July 02, 2020, 09:32:47 PM
Eurovision - a delight. Doesn't quite make up for the lack of real Eurovision this year (:weep:) but still something.
Let's bomb Russia!

garbon

#45429
July 03, 2020, 05:25:04 PM
I just saw The Witches of Eastwick for the first time. How was that ever a popular film? :x
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josephus

#45430
July 03, 2020, 05:31:42 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 03, 2020, 05:25:04 PM
I just saw The Witches of Eastwick for the first time. How was that ever a popular film? :x

It was 1987.

it had Jack Nicholson, Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon.

There was no Netflix, Amazon Prime or Porn Hub.

Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

garbon

#45431
July 03, 2020, 05:39:36 PM
Yes, so big names in a lacklustre film.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#45432
July 03, 2020, 05:54:47 PM
I don't remember it, but I'd assume Jack could do an entertaining devil.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

viper37

#45433
July 03, 2020, 08:05:44 PM
IMDB has some picks for the summer tv season:
https://www.imdb.com/whats-on-tv/july-editors-picks/ls080347375/mediaviewer/rm1226418945

I'm interested in Curse and Warrior Nun, they seem interesting.  Will have to find time to watch.
I don't do meditation.  I drink alcohol to relax, like normal people.

If Microsoft Excel decided to stop working overnight, the world would practically end.

FunkMonk

#45434
July 05, 2020, 10:09:17 PM
Watched Hamilton over the July 4th weekend and I already feel the need to watch it again.
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
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