What Will You Do, When C# Arrives In Your Home?

[xenoscepter]

Would you like to know more?

Why yes, actually, I would.


I won't be playing MW5 until next year at least, if at all... I trust PGI less than EA right now, but still more than Bethesda.

[boggo2300]

Would you like to know more?

Why yes, actually, I would.


I won't be playing MW5 until next year at least, if at all... I trust PGI less than EA right now, but still more than Bethesda.

Is it wrong I love Starship Troopers and still like the film? (for vastly different reasons) I often feel I'm the only one,  it's either Heinlein or Verhoeven and never the twain shall agree it seems

[smoelf]

If I have time to play it, it will most likely be a rather generic game, just to get acclimated. Then the fun begins 

[Garfunkel]

Is it wrong I love Starship Troopers and still like the film? (for vastly different reasons) I often feel I'm the only one,  it's either Heinlein or Verhoeven and never the twain shall agree it seems

I like both because I can understand that despite the name and other superficial similarities, they are two completely different entertainment products using different mediums and having different motivations and goals.

[xenoscepter]

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-photos-evidence-life-mars-ohio.amp

--- Gentlemen.

[Deutschbag]

That... Looks like a stretch. I'll reserve judgment until confirmation comes out.

[Froggiest1982]

I honestly don't know.

It really depends on how busy I'll be playing Stellaris 3 and Crusader Kings 5.

;-)

[xenoscepter]

@Deutschbag

 --- It's fake, but I thought it was topical and funny to Starship Troopers.

[ZimRathbone]

Is it wrong I love Starship Troopers and still like the film? (for vastly different reasons) I often feel I'm the only one,  it's either Heinlein or Verhoeven and never the twain shall agree it seems

I like both because I can understand that despite the name and other superficial similarities, they are two completely different entertainment products using different mediums and having different motivations and goals.

Yeah I'm much the same.  I also have a habit of reading Starship Troopers followed by Forever War,  which kind of gives the flavour of WW2 vs Vietnam (the Old Mans War series also tickles that particular fancy)

[Garfunkel]

I 100% agree and it's only natural, the authors being from different generations. Henlein was a desk warrior in the US Navy as well so he never saw actual combat, only read and heard about it, which definitely influenced his thinking and shows clearly in his early books, whereas Haldeman served as a combat engineer in the US Army and was wounded in Vietnam. Of course, the different sociological and political discourse around WW2 and Vietnam affected both. Haldeman has gone on record saying that he didn't write Forever War as a rebuttal to Starship Troopers, he admits he was influenced by it and it definitely shows.

the Old Mans War series

Yeah, Scalzi is definitely one of my favourites.

[Dfuzzed]

I've been watching Battlestar Galactica for the 10th time.  Going to attempt another run to set up a game in the same setting.

[Deutschbag]

Such a shame the conclusion of Battlestar Galactica was such an utter disappointment.

[xenoscepter]

@Deutschbag

 - How so?

[Garfunkel]

I would assume that the quasi-religious nonsense in the final season combined with the ridiculous ending of humans being transplanted on Earth as aliens who have forgotten their real past. I know I was disappointed with that.

[Cavgunner]

The ending definitely could have been better. Ronald Moore's main issue was that he integrated fake mysteries into BSG's DNA that he never had any intention of exploring, much less explaining.