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PA Comic: Wednesday, February 22nd- The Flashpoint
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They made a movie out of that which I am pretty sure bombed, but it's actually fairly enjoyable in a B-movie kind of way.
AND! It had an awesome video game spinoff that was around an hour long! I was really happy to have spent the last of my lifeguarding money from the previous summer on it.
Also, I'm not sure why people (at least two on the first page of this thread) seem to think Tycho wrote today's newspost. He told us on Monday that there was going to be a guest poster today, he introduces the author in italicized text today, the writing is nothing like Tycho's distinctive mess, and the post isn't signed "(CW)TB out."
Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip.
http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory
(This is a great little story about exactly that, in the form of a log book of the International association of time travelers.)
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
3clipse: The key to any successful marriage is a good mid-game transition.
That short story is hilarious. I am going to share it with everyone.
And, they are all wrong, because, a wizard did it.
We were discussing Time Travel stories and media in Steam Chat earlier, and how nearly all of them have irony or paradoxes as their central conceit. The only examples that I came up with at the time that didn't have loads of irony or a time paradox were some episodes of Quantum Leap (where it would get pretty old if they kept going back to that formula) and nearly the entire run of the terrible UPN show Time Trax (basically: Time Cop, the series).
And "To Say Nothing of the Dog" by Connie Willis should be required reading for time travel fiction. Loads of humor and great writing.
Gross!
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
John Varley had a pretty fun one, Millenium, in which the last surviving humans from a polluted and dying Earth use a time machine to kidnap people from disasters such as midair collisions and replace them with clones, to put them in stasis for repopulating. In that one, they can't open a time gate to any point in time at which a time gate is already open. Apparently the also made a movie of it.
But Time Trax predated UPN by two years.
Yeah, it probably predates UPN, but UPN was the network where those shows go to die. Lots of those crazy shows appeared like Tekwar when they went into syndication. Either that, or that was just my local cable company.
My wife borrowed an October '11 back issue of the New Yorker from the library the other day.
I found this cartoon inside:
It's not the similarity of the jokes that gets me, but that despite the months between them I read them only hours apart. :o
Makes sense, it's the Oedipus/prophecy thing. Prophet prophesizes, subject takes action to avoid the prophecy which ends up causing the event to happen. I like that too.
Well technically Harry's parents would have to stay in hiding such that nobody knew they were alive until the day the time turner was used, and then have a huge party.
What they would have to do is go back to the past, waylay voldemort such that he never got to the house, dress up as Voldemort, use Avada Kadavra on some fleas or something and have Harry's parent's play dead, cast "cause scar" on Harry, and then blow up the house, taking his parents with them. It turns out Voldemort just took credit for the scar cause it seemed badass instead of telling people how he got ganged up on by like 10 of the strongest wizards they could find and got his body killed (it's not murder if the wizard has 25 horacruxes!).
...wow I'm such a geek. I'm going to go hide now.
Also, this is an awesome comic- not so much because it's awesome on it's own, but because of the fodder it gives to the comic edit people. Check out the awesome posts forum, you'll thank me later.
I read a series of books by an Australian author, I don't recall how far foward it was set but it was I think maybe twenty or thirty years from now. It sort of extrapolates on events that have happened so far, the whole War on Terror has basically snowballed worldwide but it's focused on a UN taskforce that's heading down to Indonesia to try and quell the muslim uprising that is ongoing there before it spreads further north or south. A civilian vessel that was tinkering around with physics experiments (providing the excuse for the plot) has a test go wrong, throwing the fleet back to 1942 smack in the middle of the US taskforce headed for Midway. They wipe out most of the contempory fleet and throw time hell of out of whack.
It's interesting because it's dealing with a large population of people who get shoved through time and their effects on the past's society where most time travel books tend to be one or a handful of people. So you've got the good, fun, pulpy stuff as they try to repair some of the damage they've done, but with so many people information gets out. Hitler and Stalin both find out about plots (or even rumours) of events that originally happened and instigate huge purges.
The part I enjoyed most was all the social side of things. You have women and blacks who are used to having the same rights as any other member of society that are now discriminated against. One of the submarine captains is a lesbian, the Admiral in charge of the fleet is of German ancestry and the people living at the base on Pearl Harbour don't have a whole lot of love for the Japanese members of the fleet. Who should have the rights to all the media they brought back with them? Does Elvis get to own his works before he even creates them? The Russians aren't exactly big fans of the direction that their country takes after the war originally finished either. And you've got the obvious one of what happens when everyone is aware of nuclear bombs.
If you're into that sort of alternate history it's worth giving it a try.
Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham.
It's a very lady book, though, so dudes may be a little turned off of it.
Gargoyles did this.
A lot.
As far as I'm concerned it's pretty much the only way time travel can work unless each trip creates a new parallel universe.
Really, it's the only way it works out. And Gargoyles even flatly stated it too (when the Arch-Mage saves, uh, himself, and is showing his past self what to do and how to do it, he mentions that the Grimoire has to remain in play in history). Also on that note with Gargoyles, apparently there were comics and the Phoenix Gate trapped Brooklyn in some sort of solo adventure? That would've been crazy to see in the show if Disney let it run its course naturally.
I have a time machine that only goes forwards. It's called my bed.
To the my non quantum physics educated brain backwards time travel is clearly guff. Forwards timetravel as a perception thing due to relativity, fine, but really then what's the point?
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