Crowdfunding.  Timur Bekmambetov.  Biting Elbows music videos.

Visual language of first person shooters. Our affection for the genre and this film by extension.

“Adventure Mask” iterative design. Camera mounting and how bets to capture first person action. VFX difficulties with Go Pros.

Surprising study results with old and young players. Motion sickness vs simulation sickness.

A Sharlto appreciation party. Remote surrogate body control.

horse, lol.

Our attempt to convince folks to read the book. Do it!

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason. It was waxing, only one day short of full. The time was 05:03:12 UTC. Later it would be designated A+0.0.0, or simply Zero.

Big old nerd. Chris expresses appreciation for his deep-dives.

Tunguska. Chelyabinsk. Measuring in five dollar footlongs and blue whales. Who knows how many fathoms?

Humans and computers are both susceptible to radiation.

Deaf parents choosing to have deaf babies. Culture.

Difficulty in producing microchips. Dan’s experience in chemicals and computing. Lost knowledge.

Thermals and ridge lifts and whatnot. Terrifying!

Shooting for the moon. Making beautiful film.

Olmec, Mayans, Aztec. Murder factories.

Particularity. Stellar nurseries.

Differing viewpoints, religious and atheist.

1984, Brazil, Farenheit 451, etc. Why do these count as scifi?

Thanks to Chris Noessel for pointing in the Facebook group the way the “badly designed” user interfaces are really incredibly well-designed, if the point is absurdism. :)

In business, objects, life, gadgets, systems. Ducts! Creepin’.

Statistics, fear of skin cancer vs shark attack. Viscerality.

Covering up reality. Making uncomfortable behaviour easier to swallow. Hiding reality.

Cracking up. Dreams. Endings.

Well, partially. Lcuky Dragon #5. Hydrogren bomb testing. Real life and movie deaths. Press censorship.

Godzilla and his ilk. The Lost World. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms.

¯\(ツ)/¯

Oppenheimer. Eyepatch guy. Suicide to save the world. Analogies.

Let them fight.

What are constructed languages? Who makes them?

Designing the language for the TV show. Designing a posteriori languages and a priori languages and difficulties of each.

A Clockwork Orange, Andrew Niccol, and other uses of slang to flesh out fictional worlds.

What is a creole, and how did Nick approach designing one for The Expanse

And the Brat Pack. Uncle Buck and Breakfast Club.

Science so unscientific, it is magic: smagic. Callbacks to pygmalion and Frankenstein.

Boy howdy. Literally using a barbie to create a living sex object. Consent. Creating sex bots. The 1950s comic on which the movie was based.

What are they? what are we? Geeks? Nerds? Both?

Adolescence sucks. Being a sexually frustrated teenage boy. Fantasies and ethical concerns.

Baby naming. Looking through a telescope with the kids and co-bff Joe. Astrology. 😒

Jupiter Jones: Because a dream is the only way any of this make sense.

“Tersies.” Seeding planets. The “prometheus problem.” Coexistence with dinosaurs??

Analogies to our treatment of animals. It can still be “affecting.”

Cyberpunk. CRISPR. Animal trait splicing. Channing Tatum with his mouth open.

Lots -isms and -igarchies and whatnot. An economy sort-of based on time reminds us of Andrew Niccol’s In Time.

What would you do if you owned whole planets?

50s and 60s techno optimism. The Iron Giant. The Incredibles.

Stages of the worlds fair. Our tech and relationship to it.

Futurism. Techno optimism. Shaping reality to fit his vision.

Disneyland. EPCOT. Disney’s vision for a designed city.

Childlike optimism. Positivity in the face of pessimism. Three wolf moon.

Visions of technology and the future  from different periods.

Johhhhhhn Cena prank call. Fox’s predilection for cancelling the most-loved shows. Viewing orders.

Joss Whedon doesn’t care about the science. Star system design without FTL. A call-in from Adrian Falcone.

From cyberpunk to westerns. Frontier living.

Language evolution on generation ships. Creoles. Joss’ poetic Rialogue.

The mythology and the more reasonable backstory. Samuel Mumby calls in to express his appreciation for the former. “Who does the dishes?”

Sci-fi treatments of religion by Whedon and others.