 November 9, 2014 - 9:32pm | I would call this movie Saving Private Ryan without the stupidity. Its a simple story intending to show the life and brutality of being a tank crew in WW2. One thing I found myself asking was where did they get the vintage tanks but it turns out there were 10 shermans available and even the last operational Tiger 1. I rather liked the military genuis of training a clerk to type 60 words per minute and then assigning him as a replacement assistant driver for a tank. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 9, 2014 - 3:22pm | I liked Gamma World with all it's crazy wacky campy stuff. One critter I always liked was the Centisteed which appears to have survived through the various changes the game went through: "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
November 9, 2014 - 6:48am | How would you use the classic themes of Sci Fi in your campaigns/adventures? Wikipedia list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 November 8, 2014 - 10:14pm | My wife and I just watched the new movie, Interstellar. Has anyone else seen it? What are your opinions? |
 November 7, 2014 - 4:46pm | Two peices of equipment which often interchangable in Sci-fi stories, the scanner and sensor. Here is my attempt to clarify the difference between the two. |
November 4, 2014 - 8:25pm | Okay when people immigrate today (and in the past immigrated) often names are changed... there are a lot of people with names that have nothing to do with their family history, or what their name meant in another language. These name changes can be pretty arbitrary, and some peoples spellings were changed to something close in English but sometimes not at all & for many of us it is the whim of the paper pusher it seems if your name has anything to do with your ancestor's name (or you lucked out and someone moved pre-Immigration paper pushers)... "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
November 2, 2014 - 8:28pm | Okay, re-watching old sci-fi movies I have and I forgot how much I liked Sunshine. I enjoyed the story, including the unloved "slasher" part. I think the last guy standing actually killed everyone... but others no. That is a good twist if the audience is unsure what really happened as the crew slowly gets whacked. Not sure how you could pull this off as a suspense adventure without killing all the PCs. Unless it was written for one PC in which case gradually the crew gets killed, the PC thinks it is the crazy guy, but in the end it is really him... "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
November 2, 2014 - 1:45pm | Wild, Wild Planet is a real B-rate film but has potential... Lots of what I call classic sci-fi set elements that work with SF. Space cars, fashions, and model city sets. Some plot elements: Bio-medicine funded by "the corporations", is growing organs of humans in space on Gamma 1 space station, they also can miniaturize these organs. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
October 30, 2014 - 11:58am | Okay today a co-worker and I spent part of our shift correcting what the children where taught in class, based on their comments, questions and answers to our follow up questions we determined they are being taught a geocentric system for our solar system and had no idea the planet is a globe... they where very clear that they are being taught Earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around it... "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
October 29, 2014 - 8:18pm | This is an idea from sci-fi that might be a challenge and place of interest: "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
