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Huh, I read Neuromancer a long time ago, but I forget almost everything about it. Would that make a good film?

The correct answer is District 9.

However, I find I'm often disappointed by sequels to great movies. I feel like there are far more mediocre movies that failed to fully explore the depths of a good concept, where a sequel (perhaps in a different genre) would retroactivel make the first movie better.

For that, I also choose Johnny Mnemonic.

Also, In Time, Elysium, or Chappie.

I also think now would be a great time for a Galaxy Quest sequel. There's a lot of fertile sci-fi tropes that could make for another hilarious movie. Like, after the end of the revival of the original show, there's a Next Generation spin-off that overshadows the original, plus a bunch of expanded universe content. The Thermians and other aliens keep replicating the nonsense as real technology. What remains of the OG crew has to convince the new cast and writers/showrunners to stop being so lazy in their hand-wavy rushed bullshit, because there are very real consequences to poorly executed cash grabs full of plot holes and dangling threads. Maybe there's a prequel series that creates a schism in the Thermian society, with the older generation following the Never Give Up, Never Surrender idealism, and the younger generation believing in a grittier, cynical imperialistic ideology.

I can summarize: The equation is ambiguous, because there are two equally valid ways to interpret the relationship between the 2 and the parentheses. Pre-computer written math would have assumed that the 2(x) was a unit, as the 2 could be distributed across the parenthetical expression. With the advent of calculators and computers, equations written this way are executed left to right, and so the 8 ÷ 2 would go first, and then that result would be multiplied by the result of the parentheses.

It's worth noting that both interpretations follow the PEMDAS rule, so such debates are irrelevant. It is a question of grouping terms and solving the holistic equation, vs solving step by step left to right.

Which of these guys would be interested in the OC job in Philly?

I think, since future Bill and Ted appear to the earlier Bill and Ted, and Rufus directly assists in creating his future, I think we have to assume that all of those historical figures always experienced those things, and then returned to their timelines with knowledge of the future. Napoleon rode the waterloops before Waterloo. Socrates played catch with Billy the Kid. Those are historical events, as much as Rufus and Future Bill and Ted helping present Bill and Ted pass their classes.

Yeah, it's also survivorship bias. All the successful psychopaths would make you think that a) you need to be a psychopath to succeed, and b) all psychopaths will succeed. It's wrong on both counts, but we can conclude that c) being a psychopath does not preclude success. It might even be easier to succeed, since capitalism abhors a principle, but I don't have the statistics to support that.

I mean, maybe they could, if they actually put up a resistance to Trump. But they also can't win on being Olympic medalists in downhill skiing.

OP might have massive hands.

Have you ever eaten one? I'd be surprised to learn it was mostly meat.

So the arc speed increases as the radius decreases, both in cutting and reading.

I always assumed that the initial cutting of the record accounts for the variation in speed as the needle moves towards the center. If that's the case, the information density would be relatively consisten, because the size of the bits of information would get smaller as the speed increases. Like a second of the song could be measured in radians, with the centimeters on the arc getting smaller. But I don't actually know if that's how it works.

Is he famous?

Yes, vomiting and taking laxatives to lose weight are both symptoms of eating disorders. FYI vomiting and diarrhea will make you lose water weight. You're not doing your body any favors by using those methods to "get lighter." Fitness, health, and body image are interrelated but they are not the same thing. You should talk to your doctor and be honest about what you're feeling and what you're doing.

With one linear timeline, you basically have Back to the Future rules. You can go back and change things, even if it rewrites you out of existence. Of course, there are some logical paradoxes that arise from that theory of time, so most versions rely on some delayed repair mechanism, like how the photo of Marty slowly disappears, or how The Ancient One explains the Time Stone to Professor Hulk. Time Cop, Butterfly Effect, and Looper do the same, with changes going into immediate effect like old injuries becoming later scars in real time, but erasing yourself really ought to be devastating to spacetime itself. I liked the concept in Butterfly Effect where the time traveler experiences all the memories of their new life in the altered timeline with every new change, but then they abandon the hard sci-fi aspect to get cute with stigmata. Donnie Darko probably handles it the best, where time travel itself creates a universe-ending paradox that requires the destruction of the time traveler.

Essentially, you jump from now back to another location in spacetime where you didn't exist the first time around. If you overlap with yourself, you're either going to gain a new retroactive memory, or there's some magical maguffin that erased the memory (like the Tardis does for the Doctor), or some universal force reconciles the timestream and eliminates the paradox.

The most unsettling part is that nobody seems particularly interested in standing in his way.

Val was amazing, but the problem with the new series wasn't the actors, it was the writing. It could have worked if they had better writers. In fact, I feel like you could tell when different writers and directors were responsible for the episodes or scenes. It was occasionally good, but the shitty parts ruined the show.

It didn't help that bigots were predisposed to hate the diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusiveness. I'm not one to ever complain about a show being "woke," but the terrible writing made it impossible to defend the choices made with the characters.

It depends on how you imagine time travel and causality. Is it a stable time loop? Or do you visit another version of reality with different outcomes? When you travel, are you unraveling the course of history to be redone? Or are you visiting an unyielding etching of the timespace continuum? If time is a set of dimensions, as all modern physics supports, then theoretically it wouls be possible to move through those dimensions in all directions. Special relativity confirms that movement affects how you move through time, but if you go backwards in time, you are still moving forward from your own reference point. That's the only way to retain your memories.

Yeah, if you want to lean on nostalgia by reviving an old intellectual property, you need it to be entertaining for all the reasons people originally liked it. That means appealing to the original fans, but as they are now.

I was too old for Goosebumps when the books were popular, but for me a good example was the Willow revival. Willow was like an off-brand Hobbit movie with a bit of claymation and body horror. The charm came from the contrast between the sincerity of Willow with the irreverence of Mad Martigan. The revival had none of the sincerity or charm, and tried really hard to modernize the vernacular because that's how kids talk now. It alienated people who loved the original, and did nothing to appeal to new fans.

I wanted to like it. I wanted to introduce it to my kids. But I hated it and they would have hated it.

No mirrors in the whole country.