Evening Reading
No, I'm not talking about tonight's Battlestar Galactica premiere, but rather the gaming industry following yesterday's 2008 sales results.
After years of sitting at the bottom of the home console pile, Nintendo has risen once again to absolutely dominate the competition--something that hasn't been seen since the days of R.O.B. and the Zapper. And yet, I haven't actually played my Wii in months. What a confounding, conflicting era for Nintendo fans.
The news today:
- New Fuel screenshots, trailer
- Burnout Paradise Ultimate Box coming to PC
- FEAR 2 demo coming Jan 22
- Retail PC sales drop 14% in 2008
- Rock Band DLC: Steve Miller, Rob Zombie
- Nintendo claims responsibility for 99% of industry growth
- See the $90 Resident Evil 5 collector's edition
- SOE joins Steam with Everquest, more
- Circuit City is no more
- House of the Dead: Overkill media
- Resistance: Retribution demo for pre-orderers
- Deadly Creatures pictured in many screenshots
- Microsoft denies peddling add-ons
- Dragon Quest 5 DS remake screens
- Battlefront 3 tech lost to dev switch?
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Lunatic Angelic
replyCylons port side!
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set it for 5mins extra!
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(they announced it'll run a little long)
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fuuuuck it's so close. so close.
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Question. When the Resurrection Hub was destroyed, were all the other Cylon models destroyed as well? Because we haven't seen them at all since the episode.
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Odds are they are being careful since death now means death for them which, despite their being all about revenge is probably enough to convince them to not want to run into the combined forces of the fleet and rebels
I'm guessing they'll show up soon enough, but I'd imagine they'll take awhile to stumble upon the super secret locations that the mystical signal had led to
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There's Klingons on the starboard bow.
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and Tribbles in the pantry =(
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Who is the higher power?!?!?!
The 5th Cylon?
The Cylon God?
Pythia?
Vince McMahon?
All will be revealed!-
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the current Starbuck has bigger balls then the original
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I can almost taste it
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So much hype. How can. Possibly live up to it?
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To be fair, they only know the place they went to is the source of the transmission, the assumption was it must be earth, but that's really just them guessing
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oh fuck me for forgetting that, well there goes that =(
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Baltar
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I really really really really hope not =(
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well yes, if Billy shows up now it does prove he's a cylon. as in, the actor playing him is one =(
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I'm going for Starbuck's mom, Pythia or Zak, in that order of likelihood, though an Adama parent wouldn't be too bad of a choice either
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unless we're staring at an overdone time travel plot, i think that cylons have been around alooooong time, which uh... i think was just shown on the screen actually
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shhh it's on
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crushed alongside the hopes and dreams of the combined colonial and rebel cylon fleets
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yeah they've already been beating "everything has happened before/it will happen again" so many times that time travel just seems like an easy out =(
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no. the fifth wasnt in the fleet. unless they were talking about Kara-1 and not Kara-2 which we seem to be looking at
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^^^this
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I'm waiting for talking Apes to ambush those searching the planet
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He's a pepper, she's a pepper, you can be a pepper too! Except cylon =[
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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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how... anti-climatic
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oh shit
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Lou Ashby in space!!
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Too much market saturation by then. Teens With Superpowers and In Love! will be out by then too.
The Valentine's weekend only has so much teen drawing power to tap. -
Because Friday the 13th is.
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uhh its on right now even on the west coast im pretty sure
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maybe not, i dont understand tv
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I'm watching it right now in Vegas.
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It is, sort of, our Sci-Fi HD feed is east coast, our standard Sci-Fi feed is not though.
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her wig may catch on fire at this rate
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snape kills dumbledore
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IT'S HIS SLED
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Is this when the Ewoks sing?
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bsg already hit "Lost" levels of not making sense and making stuff up, and now it is hitting "Lost" levels of garbage unreal actions? Kara makes one of the biggest scientific discoveries in the history the human race, and rather than telling anyone or showing anyone, she rolls it up and gives it a fire burial
REST IN PEACE ALTERNATE KARA, I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE BUT IM NOT GOING TO TRY TO FIND OUT, ILL BURN YOU INSTEAD! BYE
this is like arriving at earth and finding it nuked, and nuking it again rather than searching it for stuff-
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hahaha IAWTP 100000%
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Starbuck hates Cylons and now that the seed of doubt has been planted in her that she is a cyclon she wants to get rid of all evidence.
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yeah I can rationalize it like that too. And I can also tell myself that Kara is stupid so she would do something stupid. And I can also say she and everyone else walks around with unguarded cylons every day, and everyone except a handful of people already assume she is a cylon, and her biggest fear right now is leading humanity to its end, and everyone is wondering what is going on, and she just covered up something that could explain what is going on, and they only wrote her doing that because it causes interesting conflict and strings you along to watch more episodes at the expense of making sense. yeah there are a couple different options here, good point
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Luminair post
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Kara wanting the body studyied would totally be against her character though. Kara doing anything that isn't selfish/dumb without some crazy anagnorisis occurring beforehand or in response to making up for something stupid she did, likely while drunk is also against her character =(
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WHOA WHAT THE FUCK
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ahhhhhhhh
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!!!
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the shooter is already in the house!
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HOLY SHIT
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You've lost that loving feeling! Now it's gone... gone... gone...
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Hahaha Bill is the new Tigh
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ole bill adama hittin the bottle again
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he's out for blood!
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OH SHIT THIS IS GONNA BE GOOD
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whoa whats he up to now?!?!
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Who would win in a drinking contest?
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we may just find out!
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considering adama's already fucking trashed, i think tigh
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Fact: Tigh is known for having a drinking problem.
Fact: Adama has kept his a closely guarded secret.
Adama can handle his liquor better.
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No. It's gun OR flashlight. Not both.
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fucking shit, this show is back in superb form.
i hope lost starts this strong.
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Seriously. This is incredible stuff, but I don't know if I would call it enjoyable.
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what do you mean?
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i dunno...BSG has always been dark, but this is just depressing and it's making me feel all sorts of uncomfortable. But again, it's amazing drama. Just a little more bleak than I was expecting.
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Go checkout the remake of "on the beach". Its an Australian movie about a global nuclear war, where australia is the last to be effected by radiation. It focuses on different people coming to terms with dying...its so fucking depressing.
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the last scene will be each major character left alive abusing, drop kicking and shooting puppies while Anders strums out slow Hendrix tunes just to drive the sadness home
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All Along the Watchtower is Dylan.
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Catch the frack up http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewTVSeason?i=300690225&id=300613896&s=143441
So I haven't watched this show since Season one. I just watched this 12 min recap of season 1-4 and I'm pretty sure that I hate what I saw. I grew up on the original show as a kid. this stuff is an abomination :( -
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oh man i want a full size viper. ill put it in my parking spot.
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anywhere online I can watch this? (aside from torrents)
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YES!!!!!
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so. totally. worth it.
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what the fuck she's dead
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So you are made to think! BUM BUM BUMMMMMMMMMM *dramatic reverb*
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which is why Deanna didn't ask for her back
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well we know they can resurrect.
so i guess we know what's in the opera house
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beats starbuck
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What are the odds! What a twist =P
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wat.
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yes
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Sci-Fi HD
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Some places. :(
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i hope not :(
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I highly doubt it.
The one anomaly remaining is the opera house. I'm assuming that's where the final five are reborn, because that's what makes the most sense right now. It's not unreasonable to assume that the final five took Starbuck, cloned her, rebuilt the ship to detail, and launched her to bring humanity (cylonity?) to them.
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What is Starbuck? best answer I can think of: still an interesting character.
for so long we've heard about how Starbuck is special and something unique, making her the fifth would just erase all of that
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well for one thing, the total number of cylons is information that came from the cylons we know about, and those same cylons have already proven to be fallible. If you asked them one episode ago how many centurion models there were, they would have listed a number one less than the new one they just dug up.
Feel me here? There doesn't have to be only one "final cylon model" because there could be 20 more that they just don't know about.
Within the rules we have now, Kara and Ellen and Tigh could all be the same kind of cylon. Writing explanations for why we have more information about some than others, and why some heard music and others didn't, would both be easier than explaining how warp drive works.-
Kara is probably the Cylon god (or a constant of some sort) who is re-created to bring about the near-extinction of the human-cylon race so that they all meet up together at Kobol till the nuclear wastelands subside then, split up, and repeat the 2000 years of history where they all meet up again on Earth and then repeat the cycle yet again. Kara is the anti-Neo. She went into the storm which she had repeatedly dreamed about - programmed to find then time traveled or whatever and destroyed and nuked the cylons on Earth. She was recreated, met up again with Galactica and led them all to Earth so that the cycle could continue. Why... is the only question, but I bet that's how it goes.
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El. Oh. Fracking. El.
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Starbuck also has a bunch of potential people as her father we never heard about, or as older versions of her mother
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They fight like a couple.
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Not going to say Battlestar is a bad show or poorly written or whatever, but I think my disappointment with the show the last couple seasons is due to the poor choices they've made. Tonight's episode was a good episode, but the big 'twist' (i.e., the final cylon) was fucking retarded. Out of everyone, that was probably the worst choice and frankly one that I think they only made because... "hey guys, who haven't the fans guessed".
This show, very much in retrospect, had so much potential, I feel they blew it by not having "a plan".
Also... KFC wants me to buy a "frak pak". Do they realize that "frak" is a synonym for "fuck"? I mean, am I getting condoms and a little packet of KY with this too?-
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we're all lesbians
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here's a simple pickle I've been putting on my cucumber: lee saw kara's viper explode in a storm on some planet. kara found her exploded viper pieces on another planet far away, apparently having fallen from the sky.
how did the exploded viper debris get from the sky of one planet to the sky of another?
That is a pretty simple thing and I'm wondering where the writers could possibly go with that.
Assuming what I said above holds up, the only reasonable explanation I see is that either there is a device hidden in the storm that teleports shit from A to B, or there is a star trek space/time phenomenon there that teleports shit from A to B. The unreasonable explanation being "magic" -
One thing is not clicking for me.
Baltar says that from analysis, the skeletons they found were Cylon. Now if everyone was a Cylon, wouldn't he see nothing but normal 'human' physiology? Unless humans are a completely different creation by the Cylons? And what purpose do the seven models serve? They are limited in emotional capacity, unlike the Five, they seem completely outdated and useless.-
yeah none of what you just said is explained well. they matter-of-factly said they checked the bones and they were cylon. so while the old cylon detector didn't work, now they apparently have a new one that nobody mentioned until now. which means they can now check fleet members, or at worst dead fleet member bodies, to see if they are cylons. oops this is zig zagging off into not making sense ahhhhhhhh kaput.
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They seemed to hint at the idea that the final five Cylons invented the resurrection technology knowing that Earth would eventually be destroyed. For all we know the Earth cylons could have been extremely close to regular people -- able to reproduce and do everything else humans can do, just with a Cylon twist. If that's the case, then it could easily be that the skinjob cylons were experiments some of the final five were conducting to resurrect their destroyed civilization, and the cylon experiments in breeding were toward this goal (even if they didn't actually know it).
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Ah shit, it all snapped into place. Earth cylons were simply humans. They were tinkering with creating life, thus the machine --> humanoid cylon ---> natural human progression, others on the planet didn't agree (the twelve colonies), and left in the wake of massive civil war. By this time they had access to immortality, or certain ones did. Perhaps it being that the final five worked in the place where Ellen and Saul apparently did, some place that created the ability...
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is there anywhere to watch it online yet?
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Is it in HD this season?
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Dude i actually think your the closest anyone has come in this thread so far. Its simple enough yet still a mind blowing story that could happen.
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Which also means we still don't know who the real fifth is.
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But that was seen as the base ship in one episode.
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