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- i_monk1
Looks paint-by-numbers, but I like the alien robot designs:
- Akagiyama3
- this is very good,Bluejam
- Guy i know designed the alien creaturescannonball1978
- They looked great!dopepope
- OATS Puts out some great stuffscarabin
- face_melter0
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http://store.steampowered.com/ap…They have made the assets available to buy via Steam, including the 3D models (woo! Alien tentacle shit in my arch-viz work?), and concept art. Going to give it a go, see what you get.
- You get some .obj's of alien body parts to 3D print and make into a figurine, weighty PDF of concept art. Haven't downloaded the video yet.face_melter
- that's pretty cooldopepope
- Wolfboy0
I'm going to go and have a look around this exhibition today as a little birthday treat: http://www.barbican.org.uk/intot…
- let us know if worth a visit, was thinking of going at the weekendBluejam
- jealous... enjoyfadein11
- It's really good, I'd recommend trying to go on a week day though, I can imagine it is a quite popular at the weekends. It's a great exhibition, split into...Wolfboy
- ...three sections: A nerd objects section taking you through the history of sci-fi, a short film and an art installation. we were there well over 2.5 hours.Wolfboy
- sonnde2
- Exactly. Fiction.monospaced
- lolsonnde
- sup yuri!moldero
- hugo and nebula award winner, must be good! ...this is a reasonable contribution to the sci fi thread. ...just sayin'...sarahfailin
- automatons only do what the program says.sonnde
- sonne you define basic, a walking stereotype of your ignorance. thank you for the entertainment.imbecile
- @sarah, I agree, that's why I gave it a +1monospaced
- I am halfway through this book, so good!atomholc
- I am further along in the book ... shit just got really weirdatomholc
- cannonball19788
I just made my first pro sale, a SciFi story that will be in F&SF someday soon.
- cannonball197821
I sold another scifi short story. Should appear on Barnes And Noble magazine racks sometime soon in F(r)iction literary mag.
- sofas0
https://web.archive.org/web/2014…
Understand
a novelette by Ted ChiangTed Chiang writes...
"The initial impulse to write "Understand" arose from an offhand remark made by my roommate in college; he was reading Sartre's Nausea at the time, whose protagonist finds only meaninglessness in everything he sees. But what would it be like, my roommate wondered, to find meaning and order in everything you saw? To me that suggested a kind of heightened perception, which in turn suggested superintelligence. I started thinking about the point at which quantitative improvements -- better memory, faster pattern recognition -- turn into a qualitative difference, a fundamentally different mode of cognition.Something else I wondered about was the possibility of truly understanding how our minds works. Some people are certain that it's impossible for us to understand our minds, offering analogies like "you can't see your face with your own eyes." I never found that persuasive. It may turn out that we can't, in fact, understand our minds (for certain values of "understand" and "mind"), but it'll take an argument much more persuasive than that to convince me."
- You really can't see your true face with your own eyes http://2.bp.blogspot…robotron3k
- i_monk3
- Cool. The original Irwin Allen series is one of my favourites and goofy space monkey aside, I enjoy the shit out of the film.face_melter
- The thing with the original is that it's Sci Fi's Brady Bunch until Dr. Smith takes over the show and makes it about turning into carrots.CyBrainX