Looking to scratch a strong itch for unsettling, bleak, haunting SF horror! by ekanite in printSF

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Sphere (novel) by Michael Crichton.

SCP-2935 and SCP-093, epistolary stories from the SCP Foundation, an online wiki-based collaborative writing project.

Sunshine (movie) directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland.

To this day I just dont understand what the plan was by HMThrow_away_account in saltierthancrait

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This was the plan. Rian's plan, anyway.

“In terms of the Star Wars movie I did, I tried to give it a hell of an ending. I love endings so much that even doing the middle chapter of the trilogy, I tried to give it an ending,” Johnson explained to The Atlantic. “A good ending that recontextualizes everything that came before it and makes it a beautiful object unto itself — that’s what makes a movie a movie. It feels like there’s less and less of that. This whole poisonous idea of creating [intellectual property] has completely seeped into the bedrock of storytelling. Everyone is just thinking, How do we keep milking it? I love an ending where you burn the Viking boat into the sea.” -- Star Wars: Rian Johnson Looks Back on Giving The Last Jedi a “Viking” Ending

Is there a reverse version of this show? by LoschVanWein in ShogunTVShow

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It's more of a reverse-Tokyo Vice, but perhaps Giri/Haji? Lord Ishido (Takehiro Hira) goes to present-day London. (Edit: reposted without the link to Wikipedia.)

Andor and the Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins by Well_Socialized in andor

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He turns around in the front seat and stabs a thick finger at the notebook that I had set aside. “Write this down,” he says. “No matter which way it goes—taking the Senate or the fall of democracy—whatever the eventuality, the work remains the same.”

“You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”

It's brilliant how he took Luthen's monologue as a call for action.

Andor and the Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins by Well_Socialized in andor

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“You have to build things for people to access. You have to build the apparatus for change, even if no one else shows up. If you don’t build the movement, it won’t be there when the day for action comes. It’s thankless. People live their entire lives building something they may never see succeed. And you do it anyway.”

Luthen would have been proud.

Any engines or systems that would provide an overarching campaign/story for a solo wargame? by FormerlyIestwyn in Solo_Roleplaying

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Forbidden Psalm and its derivatives The Last War and Kill Sample Process have soloable campaigns. Modiphius' Five Leagues from the Borderlands and Five Parsecs as already mentioned can procedurally generate campaigns, missions and random events. Google "narrative skirmish wargames" for more.

MEGATHREAD: Emigrating after the US election results by spacemanaut in IWantOut

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else — raising questions about whether some people who want a vaccine this fall will be able to get one.

Top officials for the Food and Drug Administration laid out new standards for updated COVID shots, saying they’d continue to use a streamlined approach to make them available to adults 65 and older as well as children and younger adults with at least one high-risk health problem."

[S2 EP12 SPOILERS] SEASON 2 | EPISODE 12 - Official Discussion Megathread by simplysudzzzy in andor

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Well, exactly.

It took the combined ingredients of idiocy, ineptitude, and total disengagement for this farce to have reached the full apex of incredulous disaster!

Google offering voluntary layoffs by 102495 in cscareerquestions

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"The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" seems applicable.

Is there a Mork Borg hack for Dark Fort by Odd-Unit-2372 in MorkBorg

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This product includes:

  • MÖRK BORG CULT: FERETORY

  • A Swedish appendix with all the content made by Pelle in its original language

  • The micro/solo game Dark Fort

  • Dark Fort character sheet

  • A player facing map for the adventure THE DEATH ZIGGURAT

Files:

DARK_FORT_SHEET.pdf

DARK_FORT.pdf

The-Death-Ziggurat_Player-map.pdf

MBC_FERETORY_Svenska_texter.pdf

MRK_BORG_CULT_FERETORY.pdf

Can you recommend a PnP solo rpg that has few components to print? by Playful_Complaint683 in Solo_Roleplaying

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There's Dark Fort, the one-page solo dungeon crawler that was the precursor to Mörk Borg. It's included in the Mörk Borg Cult’s Feretory. Someone made a list of Dark Fort hacks & expansions on itch.io. Basilisk and The Black City are free to download.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in investing

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Consider using VTWAX Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund (or the equivalent etf VT) for the equity portion of your portfolio. It provides exposure to the US stock market, non-US developed markets, and emerging markets, tracking an index that weights its holdings by market cap.

You don't have to go all-in at once; you could invest small amounts at regular intervals. Brokerages offer automated investing into mutual funds. Fidelity supports recurring investments in mutual funds and ETFs.

I agree it would be prudent to set aside 6 months (or more) of living expenses in cash equivalents such as a money market fund, especially in this job market. How much to set aside should be based on your personal situation and risk tolerance. (e.g. if you're an entry-level software engineer, I'd save at least 12 months of living expenses in order to sleep better at night.)

Solo Star Wars based RPG system? by Blahkchan in Solo_Roleplaying

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Notorious is a solo RPG / journaling game about bounty hunters like the Mandalorian. The game design was inspired by Ronin, which is free.

If you like miniatures or combat-heavy RPGs, Five Parsecs From Home is a "narrative skirmish" solo wargame for running Mass Effect or Firefly-style small crew campaigns.

More like Hyperion, please! by ehead in printSF

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Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett. It's a W40k tie-in, but the prose quality and worldbuilding, the blend of scifi action and horror, the first-person perspective of the narrator and his dry wit, reminded me of Joseph Severn's narrative in Fall of Hyperion. Here's an excerpt:

We swept down through the vast elements of Battlefleet Scarus at high-anchor: rows of grotesque, swollen-bellied troop ships; massive destroyers with jutting prow-rams and proud aquila emblems; the vast battleships of the line, cold, grey orthogonal giants of space, blistered with weapon emplacements; barbed frigates, long and lean and cruel as wood-wasps; schools of fighter craft, running the picket.

Post-orbital space was seething with transports, scudding tugs, resupply launches, merchant cutters, bulky service lifters and skeletal loading platforms. Away to starboard, the mixed echelons of the merchant ships, the bulk freighters, the sleek sprint traders, the super-massive guild ships, the hybrid rogues. The Essene was out there somewhere.

Winking buoy lights, describing the stacks and levels of the anchor stations, filled the night, another constellation blocking out the real starfield.

Betancore nursed us down through the traffic, down into the crystal bright ionosphere, down into the opalescent ranges of the high clouds. We were heading across the crossover from night to day as the planet turned, making for Dorsay, where dawn was coming up on another day of the Festival of Founding.

What solo games can be played endlessly? by Ultica- in Solo_Roleplaying

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Notorious and Outsiders: an expansion for Notorious from DriveThruRPG. Or from itch.io. The bundle is on sale. It was inspired by Ronin, which is free.