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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Kosciusko - Midnight Oil

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? This is England - The Clash

Re: History of Space Opera, aka Finally an io9 article that doesn't suck. I actually owned that. It was quite complicated, but the system worked quite well for epic-level adventuring - as long as you got past the 3-5 hour charcter creation process.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Somebody to Love - Queen.

Re: Early Firearms Uness you use pre-pressurized gas cylinders. Then replacing a discharged cylinder takes no longer then reloading.

Re: Ultra-Tech Punishments? The punishment of cryogenic freezing isn't the freezing - it's the cultural dislocation and shock that comes afterwards. We're seeing it in released felons today - at times greater than five years, they need time and support to reintegrate. Some of that is institutionalization, but another big part is social change. And this is in a situation where, by and large, there is some contact with the outside world. Freezing would eliminate the institutionalization problem, but the culture shock would be fierce. Think about how the world was in 2000 - now imagine being thrown from there to now. Rough, but dealable. Now consider someone from 1970. Now think of someone from 1950. Goodmness help you if you were from pre WWII...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A band that doesn't get anywhere near the respect it deserves. Currently - Cross the Border, by Icehouse.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Winding Me Up - The Alan Parsons Project

Re: Sci-Fi Webcomic: Escape From Terra! I haven't read the piece. However, in a circumstance where there is no law, vengeance does seem to me an acceptable act. That's why we establish laws. Without them, "right" and "wrong" are simply points of view, with no universal applicability. The only actual law is the law of consequences.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Monkees Theme. RIP, Davy.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? A blast from the past - Tarzan Boy by Baltimoora.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? One of my personal favourites from the entire Project. Currently: The Voice, by the Moody Blues.

Re: 7 Sci-Fi Series Ripe for Movie Reboots Not to mention that all but three of the original Seven are killed and replaced over the course of the series, and the main character gives up. Oh, and everyone you've come to care about - except the main villainess - dies at the end. "Darker and grittier"? Blake's Seven wrote the book!

Re: Cool Guns for your Games These things will be deployed. And the Secret Service is going to have conniptions...

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Last Farewell - Roger Whittaker

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships Thw Web Caster creates a serious alteration in the tactical situation. If you don't have a plan for dealing with it, it can derail you completely...but if you HAVE planned for it, you can usually mitigate the effects to the point where it's just another weapon. ISC ships are bigger and tougher than their equivalents in other fleets - an ISC Star Cruiser can take significantly more punishment than a Gorn CA, for example. They can also avoid the limitations of their bulkiness by clever use of mid-turn speed changes and their unique rear-firing plasma torpedoes.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Fortress Around your Heart - Sting, from Dream of the Blue Turtles.

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships I can usually take a Hydran apart at range with a Kzinti ship of the same points cost...but I'm really weak against Feds. OTOH, my Tholians eats feds for breakfast.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Back to School - Jon and Vangelis

Re: Cool Guns for your Games None of the above. Koch is pronounced with a sound not used in the English language, rhyming with the scottish word Loch.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I'd love to rep you for the BSG, Xavier. Unfortunately, you've been too awesome recently!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? All Tomorrow's Parties - cover by Icehouse.

Re: Terraforming Terminology Carbon sequestration. Temperature insolation. Greenhouse gas release.

Re: Religion in Science-Fiction? Which made the Ancients' unwillingness to enforce those rules all the more reprehensible.