walking through walls scene from The Raid: Redemption.
According to some lazy googling, the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus) are ranked third in the world, behind the SAS and the IDF.
Read moreAnd now, a message from Station Management… Just in case you’re wondering who the audience really is for Multiverse TV Somewhere around and a bit past Type 3, you are essentially talking about all-powerful, multi-dimensional beings of pure light. And given the relatively brief timescales involved, the Kardashev Scale actually provides a neat solve for The […]
Read morewalking through walls scene from The Raid: Redemption.
According to some lazy googling, the Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus) are ranked third in the world, behind the SAS and the IDF.
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Indeed, whether or not one particular country is slightly misplaced isn’t really the point. It’s that when we look back 300 million years into our geological history, it seems absurd to think that we somehow ended up where we are today–not from the standpoint of nature but from the standpoint of human nature. And once faced with that absurdity, I actually find the effect quite hopeful. The Political Pangea can be both our history and our ideal future.
“All of the distances that drive policies of fear and mistrust crumble down,” Pietrobon says. “The world is united.”
Read moreThe 100 trailer.
This ought to be a pure scrapheap space program/ruin porn/deep ecology apocalypse teen drama. Lord of the Flies meets Fallout.
At the very least it’ll be a space to think about that. And I’m kinda hoping it turns out hairshirt greens nuked earth.
But as plots go it needs moar extropianism (as in, some), and I wanna watch Earth 2 now.
Read moreCan we talk about how cop shows in all their forms are dramatisations of the immune system of the empire?

But how they also portray the search for truth.


But how procedural cop shows reinforce the delusion that every question has a ready, if surprising answer. that no crime, no mystery too whacky can’t be reduced to a flash back montage and with knowing knowing narration.
And how crimes themselves have become just another infotainment fodder.
How the nightmare of the poor and working poor.
Feeds the delusions of the middle class.
And the psychopathy of the elite.

Designed so that at the end of the day, the good citizens of Amerika and its colonies can go safely to sleep, because everything is UNDER CONTROL and there are no mysteries the machine can’t solve. Or at least answer.
