Amazon has reportedly killed its planned new Stargate series despite giving it a series order in 2025. According to Variety, studio executives were worried it would only appeal to longtime fans. ScreenRant reports: Reports of what became Gero's Stargate series started in 2022, after Amazon acquired MGM Studios. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the 1994 Stargate movie with Emmerich, was another executive…
De wetten van commercie zeggen dat een boek een bepaalde dikte moet hebben. En dat schept je verwachtingen. Dus toen ik To be taught, if fortunate van Becky Chambers van het schap pakte dacht ik: dun boekje. Prettig dun boekje!
We komen ergens in de 22e eeuw. Op aarde is het nog steeds een zooitje maar ondertussen is interstellaire ruimtevaart wel uitgevonden en worden exoplaneten in de nabije…
Fist my bump! Project Hail Mary is destined to be a modern science fiction classic. It represents the genre at its most hopeful. Humanity faces a clear, oncoming cataclysm and, rather than squabbling and wilting, they rally together and launch an appropriately named mission to save themselves. Amaze amaze amaze What feels most impossible here is that humanity actually pulls together to even…
The Pentagon has begun releasing new UFO/UAP files through a newly launched public website, starting with 162 documents from agencies including the FBI, State Department, NASA, and others. Officials say more files will be released on a rolling basis. The Associated Press reports: The Pentagon has begun releasing new files on UFOs, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions on…
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The Cronenberg family has made some of the most grotesque movies I've ever watched. To their credit, they're never needlessly grotesque. Crimes of the Future exists solidly within body horror, which is a subsection of horror I'm often repulsed by but can't look away from. It's eerie, atmospheric, minimally scored and bleak in its outlook. Society appears to be teetering — government offices are…
J. Allen Hynek started as an Air Force consultant brought in to help explain away early UFO reports, but over time he grew frustrated with what he saw as the government's effort to minimize unexplained cases rather than seriously investigate them. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares an article from Popular Mechanics, in collaboration with Biography.com, that argues Hynek's shift from skeptic…
Avatar: Fire and Ash is mediocre in the way all Avatar movies are. The colonizer versus the colonized dynamic is a story that bears being told and retold because it's a wrong that can never really be righted, it can be fought against, turned back but never reversed. But it's the same story across three very different movies. The characters are the same, the conflicts and dynamics persist, battles…
47 days of training and all I got was this stupid debt peonage.
Project Hail Mary has now grossed $300.8 million globally after earning another $54.1 million this weekend from 86 markets, reports Variety, noting that after just nine days it's now Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever. And last weekend it had the best opening for a "non-franchise" movie in three years, adds the Associated Press — the best since 2023's Oppenheimer: Project Hail Mary, which…
I have been watching Andor as of late and I was reminded of how good I think CAPERS is of a system do do star wars in. So I made a modified version of the lifepath system found in the expanded book to be more suitable to star wars.
You can find it here.
My contribution to the Iphigenia at Midnight Lancer supplement.
Iphigenia at Midnight
Theres a lot of artists who have been long time community members showcased in here to really help tie together a fantastic module
Originally Published May 9th 2022
In the space fairing, future humanity was faced with one massive problem humans evolved on earth. While we may be able to create artificial gravity in empty space making an artificial gravity field large enough to encapsulate a planet is far beyond what is possible with current power generation technology. We soon used our mastery of the genome to create humans…
Originally Published October 23rd 2021
As someone who collects patches, I love the random patch generator. I decided to think up 400 more to have an even more varied set of outcomes for character creation. These compiled with the ones from the core book can make a d500 Chart for patches.
Originally Published February 11th 2021
When exploring the galaxy a new place to investigate, visit, or lie low.
Olympia 1 The Moon of Plenty
Mining isn't the most glamorous job in the world but you cannot deny the money starts rolling in with the opening of the mine. Olympia 1 is a moon of the gas giant Olympia. Olympia 1 has some of the most plentiful Aether and Trembium mines ever…
Originally Published January 22nd 2021
This started out as a thing I used for scum and villainy where I played a mystic that was obsessed with figuring out the way via the use of mind-altering substances. Expect more of these as more sci fi drugs get invented.
Airlock Glue
One of the cheapest and possibly one of the worst drugs out there, it’s the bare minimum of getting you high. Huffing the…
Thirty years after the alleged 1996 "ET of Varginha" encounter, debate continues to rage over the events that happened in Brazil's self-styled UFO capital. An anonymous reader quotes an excerpt from the Guardian: The skies over this far-flung coffee-growing hub went charcoal black, the heavens opened and one of Brazil's greatest mysteries was born. "It really was something unique," recalls Marco…
It was 60 years ago when William Shatner — born in 1931 — portrayed Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek. Shatner turns 95 today — and celebrated by posting a picture of himself smoking a cigar. "At 95, I'm still smokin'!" Shatner joked, adding that in life he'd learned two things. "Never waste a good cigar. Never trust anyone who says you should 'act your age.'" For more celebrations,…
Yearning for youth and despising his ailing body, the Emperor accepts a deal with a hive mind.
Alan Ritchson is great in these roles — particularly Reacher . There's nothing new, nothing novel, nothing terribly admirable about War Machine . 81 (Ritchson) loses his brother, he becomes an army ranger to honor his brother and encounters a killer robot in the process. He almost saved his brother and failing to do so haunts him. But he saves 7, his brother in arms, and maybe that won't haunt…
It is a safe bet that nearly all Hackaday readers like to at least imagine what it would be like to build and live in an orbital station, on the …read more
Peter F. Hamilton has quickly become one of my favorite authors, having found his work via Exodus (which I realize is not the recommended starting point). There are concepts that cut across Exodus , Pandora's Star and now this entrance into the Void phase of the same universe. As I've read through this series I've come to realize I prefer this particular path of far future human development that…
An animated reboot of Firefly is in early development at 20th Television Animation with Nathan Fillion involved. The project has Joss Whedon's blessing and will be run by writers Tara Butters and Marc Guggenheim, with early concept art already underway. According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The series would be set in the timeline between the original, 11-episode TV run in 2002 and the 2005…
Quick Dr Who fans which episode is this?
Random encounters have been part of RPGs ever since the beginning. Every dungeon had its carefully designed rooms, but the real threats were the rolls on the wandering monsters table that could disrupt a party’s rest or surprise players at a bad time. Random encounters fell away from roleplaying for many years, but have surged […]
The post Can Random Encounters Make an Adventure? Railgun Road…
According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would be "news to me." White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt continued: "I'll have to check in with our speech writing team. Uh, and that would be of great interest to me personally, and I'm sure all of you in this room and apparently former…
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To survive the apocalypse in Europe, all you need to do is ask for help. How do you know you're in Europe? Post-apocalyptic European infrastructure is better than pre-apocalyptic American infrastructure. This is a perfectly acceptable sequel to Greenland which was, itself, a perfectly acceptable disaster movie. It stays well within the bounds you'd expect for the genre, the characters are likable…
A list of books I'm reading this year.
I just finished up listening to the audiobook version of There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm. Can safely say that I really enjoyed it and would highly recommend. That said, I loved This Is How You Lose The Time War, loaned it to a few people and don't think any of them finished it....