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Most of the recent non-bookmark referal hits are coming from search engines. One in paticular stands out, http://www.mirago.co.uk . A new search engine that specializes in British websites and resources.
1) Babylon 5
2) Reboot
3) Babylon 5: Crusade
4) Space: Above and Beyond
5) Sliders
6) Futurama
7) Outer Limits (new)
8 ) Stargate SG-1
9) Star Trek: Deep Space 9Trippring the Rift (when it [i]finally[/i] airs) will also find its place somewhere on this list.
[quote=”SadGeezer”]How should we determine what show is worthy of inclusion or indeed, how could we define Cult TV Sci Fi.[/quote]
K.I.S.S. Answer:
[b]What is worthy of inclusion:[/b]
Any scifi/fantasy form of entertainment (book, show, movie, game, mini-series etc) that has one or more fans who are willing to spend many hours of their own free time to develope an entire sadguide (fansite).If someone is willing to give up their weekends for a month to build a guide, then there must be others out there willing to spend their own free time to learn more about that program.
Should a medium of entertainment satisfy these statements, then it shall be determined to have a cult following. The true test is time. If someone is willing to do a fansite 5 years after the programs’ release, and people are still willing to read about it, then it has a surviving cult, and shall be truly classified as Cult Sci Fi entertainment.
Thanks everyone. This last birthday was the big 21. So you [b]know[/b] I was having a good time. I went to Atlantic City, with a mental “Things to do now that you’re 21” checklist. I think I took care of everything 8) 😈 8)
I have noticed the site get slower recently. But I thought it had more to do with allthe search engines checking our new html pages. For those who haven’t noticed, all of the php pages have been converted to html. This allows the search engines to serach the entire site.
If we had to nix certain sections of the main page I’d remove: calender (it’s so congested with reminders, its somewhat impotent), sadhoo recent links, site progress, news archives (by months), polls, who’s online, and possibly limit the number of new news articles displayed.
The main menu, and sg guides blocks MUST stay.
While the site does seem slower, its not that bad relative to other websites upon initial loading. My homepage comcast.net and previous msn.com both take similar amoutns of time to load as sadgeezer.com. I’ve noticed some websites ebay, google load quickly; but lets not forget that these are HIGHLY commercial websites, whit much better servers then ours.
I’ve also updated the links for the banner ads. Can you believe we’ve been refeering people back to the old site for the last 7 months!
I’ve split up this topic into other threads, to preserve continuity, and start other larger discussions
[quote=”LexxLurker”]Otheym was not a part of the conspiracy I think. He probably thought he was, but like many conspiracies there’s only 1-2 people who know the truth, and everyone else THINKS they are a part of it, but they are told different things entirely, and are really tools for the real masterminds. Think JFK and Ruby/Oswald.[/quote]
He most likely thought he was part of the fremen conspiracy, on the side of Muad’Dib. I doubt he ever realized that he was part of the larger imperium coalition. In the end, he was little more then a tool, and he never realized it.
You do bring up a good point about him not liking the office. I believe that Otheym knew what was happening to the Fremen as a whole. He saw the corruption and perversion of their old ways. But out of his faith to his muadi, he remained silent.
This brings up a larger point. In Messiah, we hear for the first time “that every empire carries within it the seeds of its own destruction. The Oracle, Paul with Alia, saw what would destroy his empire, the Fremen. He owed his dynasty’s creation to his Fremen armies, and more importantly the Fedaykin. Not longer after his jihad ended, the Fremen began to notice the destruction of their culture and the degeneration of the latest generation. But by the time the first realized it, it was too late. Paul tamed his Fedaykin and Fremen armies under the disguise of rewards for a good military campaign. In doing so, he destroyed the force most capable of dethroning the Atreides. But at the same time, the castrated Fremen armies were still a strong enough force to protect them from outside threats.
The Fedaykin exemplifies Paul’s destruction of the Fremen culture. He took the strongest, bravest, and smartest individuals from Dune, thus depriving an entire generation their top genetic material. The regular fremen armies took most everyone else from the culture. All that was left was the weaker of the sub-species. either way, Paul succeeded in destroying the force with the largest potential to destroy the Atreides within a generation.
After Muad’Dib’s death*, Alia dispended the Fedaykin. This immediately forced the elite troops to joint he rest of the civilian population. Almost all of them went to live in Arrakeen, instead of returning to their seitches in the desert.*When Muad’Dib walked out into the desert, under the laws of Fremen culture, he cemented the loyalties of the Fremen for the next generation. He knew this would have been the last true time of the Fremen. By securing their loyalties, he allowed the opportunity for his children to mature without Fremen interference. This, of course so that they could begin the golden path of humanity. Note: having the twins born in Tabr, also added to this.
It appears now that the search engines have spidered all of our guide pages. When I looked at the HTTP referrer page, I found these two pages:
[url=http://www.google.nl/search?q=guild+highliner&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=nl&lr=]Google Search Page[/url]
[url=http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Bene+Gesserit+Litany+against+Fear%2C+paul&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-top&vm=i&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt]Yahoo search page[/url]
Both were looking for specific Dune related words. After you scroll down a few search results, you’ll notice the links to Sadgeezer.com and the newly converted webpages.A quick look at the referrer page will also show that most of the traffic is coming from search engines.
Thanks Lexxlurker. Producing the Dune Guides was a lot of work, but it was ALL worth it. Most importantly, I had lots of fun makign the guides too!
It was LexxLurker’s original [url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/Reviews+index-req-showcontent-id-125.html]Dune Messiah [/url]review that inspired the rest of the guides. His review claried a lot of fuzzy points in the Children of Dune miniseries. It also motivated me to finally read all ten of the novel in the Dune series.
[b]YOU TOO[/b] can create a review, or even an entire guide! All it takes is some paitence, and a passion for what your’re writing about. A spell checker wouldn’t hurt either 😉
I’ve heard some talk about the new [i]V[/i] series. And scifi is coming out with a [i]Battlestar Galactica [/i]miniseries this December. Maybe someone would like to make a guide for those 😉 [i]hint hint[/i]
I’ve added some pictures to the results pages. I wanted to get really pornographic with the Dune Sadgeezers profile, but I decided on keeping it TV-14. (Even though there’s a “kiddies sod-off” warning, we all known there are some children who visit.) I’ve also tweaked some of the sentences in the Manic Fanatic profile.
Alright, here’s the final list of questions:
(1)Which Atriedes henchman did NOT escape from the Harkonnen homeworld of Geidi Prime?
-Thufir Hwat (3)
-Duncan Idaho (2)
-Gurney Halleck (1)(2)Spice is:
-an analagram for oil (3)
-A geriatric substance used to prolong life and open mental awareness (2)
-talked about way the #$%^ too much in the miniseries (1)(3)How many novels are currently in the Dune series?
-one (1)
-ten (3)
-six (2)(4)The oldest human in the Dune series is:
-Leto “The Tyrant” Atriedes II (2)
-a wrinkly Bene Gesserit witch (1)
-Duncan Idaho (3)(5)This is: [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/Dune/dune_ghostbaron.jpg[/img]
-Barron Harkonnen (2)
-really cool CGI (1)
-A figment of Alia’s imagination (3)(6)A Gom Jabar is:
-A punk-rock band from Minnesota (1)
-A test used by the Bene Gesserit, used to weed out uncivilized people (animals) from true humans (2)
– A poison needle (3)(7)Caladan is:
-The watery ancestral homeworld of the Atreides Houshold (3)
– A planet known all over the imperium for its fine wines (2)
– A village in Ireland, famous for producing top-notch cricket bats (1)(8)Frank Herbert’s Dune, is set:
-In the future (3)
-On Dune (2)
-On Arakkis (1)(9)The best birthday gift you could receive this year would be?
– An ounce of Melange in a small baggy <2>
– A Bene-Tlielax Sex Slave shapeshifter (say that three times fast)<3>
– Kanly from a friend <1>(10)Crysknives are:
– A weapon used by the Fremen <2>
– The tooth of Shai-Halud <3>
– For her pleasure <1>(11)Who is Jessicas father?
– Mohium <1>
– A big red satin blimp <2>
– Vladimir Harkonnen <3>(12)What ultimatly killed Maud-Dib?:
– A really bad headache <1>
– An angry Fremen mob <3>
– Prescience <2>(13)The Spice comes from:
– The opening of a long pale wormlike thingy… <2>
– Arrakis <1>
– Shai-Halud <3>(14)This is a picture of: [img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/Dune/dune_navigator.jpg[/img]
-a really bad acid trip (1)
-Edric (2)
-A guild navigator (3)(15)At the end of CoD, all Leto II can think about is:
-Sandworms (2)
-The Golden Path (3)
-The Golden Shower (1) [/img]I’ve changed the links for all of the autolinks, as well as taken care of all the hard wired links for Dune, TTR. Unfortuantly this still leaves the links for HHG, LEXX, Red Dwarf, B5, Aeon Flux, Buffy, Firefly, and Farscape. On the plus side, fixing thses links shuold only take about an hour.
Almost all of the old webpages have been converted! All that’s left is the 61 Andromeda pages/menus, and all the Jokers stuff. Not too shabby.
[quote=”SadGeezer”] Unfortuantely, since we have hard-coded many of the urls into the site, the server will not be able to adjust these and therefore they will need to be re-entered (The reviews blocks that are on the reviews menu and the SG Guides block on the left). Any url that is dynamically generated will be translated by the server automatically.[/quote]
Aw FUCK! I was this close to having all the old webpages converted. Now I’ve gotta go back and change some of the links too. Damn it all! Good news is that most of the links were done by the autolinks admin feature. Bad news is that the menu’s still have to be redone, and that there are ~120 autolinks. Well it shouldn’t take too long. Most likley only 2-4 hours.
Since the search engine will now read the index pages. I guess this mean we don’t have to go back and modify the old html pages with a big freakin redirect banner? If this is so, then it’ll save weeks of work!
[quote=”Fatguy”]Mr. Bush may be very religious, He is more a “puppet ruler” and would never have gained power without daddy (so is not included as a world leader in this discussion, but his “handlers” are…..).[/quote]
agreed[quote]the reality may be that these are very sane likable people and not the misanthropes the press may make them out to be. [/quote]
From the vantage point of sadists perhaps. Let’s face it, some people are just sociopaths.[quote]Why does Canadian Prime Minister Chretien “vacation” with Cuba’s Fidel Castro [/quote] As far communists despots go (see your own list), he isn’t [i]that[/i] bad.
[quote]Why does France’s Chirac “hang out” with Iraq’s Saddam Hussain.[/quote] It probably has nothing do with all those big ($$) contracts, between the two countries.
[quote]Perhaps dinner with Amin would be very enlightening[/quote] Like trying a new dish?
[quote]do you really want a leader that thinks like the “masses”?[/quote] In Amin’s case, “You are what you eat”
[quote]What about Stalin, Hitler, Chairman Mao, The Emperor Of Japan (still responsible even though it was others that started hostilities), Ho Chi Minh, Mussollini, etc….. [/quote]
Do forget Pol Pot, Kahn, Nero (and most the other Roman emperors)[quote]why is Hitler “evil” and Stalin not?). [/quote]
Re: Hitler – I can give you over 12 million reasons
Re: Stalin – I don’t belive I’ve ever heard him not refereed to as evil. (Hence the “Evil Empire” (yes I know that came later, but you get the idea)) Seriously this guy let 5 million of his own people starve/freeze to death because his bureaucracy forgot to send supplies to that area of the country![quote]The people of Iraq consider Bush to be evil….. [/quote] As do many western people, myself included!
You do have a point with the PR and spin doctors. It a long political tradition, and its inescapable. Any good ruler must lie a little to keep the populace happy. But compare little things like “I did not have sexual relations with that women”, to things like Saddam was trying to acquire African Uranium.
Stalin had his own PR work too. he capitolized of his relationship to Lennin. He had Lennin’s body embalmed to have him appear as a symbol for the people. A symbol easily asociated with him. Stalin’s own name is anther example. “Any dictator who changes his name from Yugash Feely (sp?) to [b]MAN OF STEEL[/b] gets my vote, so to speak”As for “evilness”, which is worse lying to the world to start a war for a natural resource, causing thousands to die; or personally brutally killing a thousand in ones own torture chambers?
In our culture, the latter.
[quote=”SadGeezer”]These are great!
I can’t wait to see them all! :)[/quote]
Thanks.
How many are we supposed to have. So far I count 16. If we only need 15, ommit the one about redheaded women.
[quote=”Logan”]The WYSIWYG editor isn’t coming up anymore. 🙁 I submitted the media to the Prisoner file you created — many thanks. At first I just tried uploading it to the site from my ‘puter, and it seemed to work until I tried using another computer (I know this wasn’t the way to do it). Don’t know if the pics showed up for you before?[/quote]
I just checked the administration panel, and it says its working. A quick test, showed that it is, so either someone else fixed it or it fixed itself.
I approved the Prisoner pics a few hours ago.
[quote=”LexxLurker”]Didn’t Thufir die on Arrakis shortly before Paul fought Fey’d? For some reason I have it in my head that he died much like Oedisius dog. He came up to Paul and apologized then fell over dead.[/quote]
Yes. Thufir, was supposed to shake Paul’s hand, with a poison dart hidden in his palm, thus killing Paul. However Hwat only defected to the Harkonnens because he felt that he could best bring down the Harkonnen’s from the inside. Since he noticed that the Atriedes had won, it was no longer necessary to keep up the sharade of bring the Harkonnen lap dog.[/quote]I’m glad you added in the petroleum fact. Back in the day (looong before we were born) it was obvious, but now in the present I doubt very many know that Dune was almost a straight up allagory. Great question.[/quote]
Thanks, I wanted to throw in a political question in there. Most people don’t see that CHOAM=OPEC, Spice=Oil, Arrakis=Iraq, and that the various noble houses are corparations.Okay this should finish it up:
Spice is:
an analagram for oil (3)
A geriatric substance used to prolong life and open mental awareness (2)
talked about way the #$%^ too much in the miniseries (1)How many novels are currently in the Dune series?
one (1)
ten (3)
six (2)The oldest human in the Dune series is:
Leto “The Tyrant” Atriedes II (2)
a wrinkly Bene Gesserit witch (1)
Duncan Idaho (3)Which Atriedes henchman did NOT escape from the Harkonnen homeworld of Geidi Prime?
Thufir Hwat (3)
Duncan Idaho (2)
Gurney Halleck (1)Most women in the novels are:
Blondes (1)
Evil (2)
Redheads (3)[quote=”Logan”]Well, it may be a bit long, the formatting needs work, I need more pics etc., but my first review is up. Hope it’s okay (formatting aside): [url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=238]Prisoner review[/url]
Hopefully i won’t have to keep on taking it down each time I want to edit it (like to edit it with the WYSIWYG thing). No problems, the WYSiWYG editor is coming up now.. Sweet![/quote]
Looks, great! I fogot to create a directory a few days ago for the Prisoner pics, so I did it a few min ago. You should now be able to upload the pictures into a convienent. Did you find the decoder yet? If not try drivers.com. Or let me know what decoder your looking for. I’ve got some friends who know where to look fo warez.
No need to take down the review everytime you want to edit. Just let me know if the WYSIWYG editor isn’t coming up and I’ll fix it for you, hopefully soon.
[quote=”#7″]Just one thing, a stone burner was not a planet killing weapon.[/quote] Frank Herbert mentions what the stone burner does rather quickly. In Dune Messiah (the chapter was Arrakeen is stone burned (nuked?) he writes:
[quote][i]Paul remained silent, thinking what this weapon implied. Too much fuel in it and it’d cut its way into the planet’s core. Dune’s molten level lay deep, but the more dangerous for that. Such pressures released and out of control might split a planet, scattering lifeless bits and pieces through space[/i][/quote]
Its also mentioned in [i]Dune: House Harkonnen [/i]that a Stone Burner is a planet buster. (I don’t have a copy in front of me to quote) When Earl Vernius is setting up the stone burner, to kill the invading Sardikar (as well as him and his men), he set it for a small detonation, rather then its full (planet killer) power. He did this because he didn’t want the innocent people of Dune to die too.[quote]Othyem set off blew, it would have made a short series of Dune. 😥 [/quote]
True, but he only wanted to blind Paul. The stone burner was the most efficient means possible. Othyem et al, had no intentions of destroying their own sacred world.[quote]Other than that tho, keep up the good work. This is a great site!!![/quote]
Thanks-you ❗Just to fill eveyone in. The menus, technology section, CoD reviews are complete. Dune Pt1 is uploaded, as well as most of the cultures guides, and a handful of the character guides.
What’s left to upload:
Jessica
Paul
Stilgar
Leto II
Alia
Gurney
Chani
Shaddam
Duncan
Spacing Guild
Dune Pt 2,3Whoa! 😯 Where’d those last two posts come from? My email must’ve been down when those were posted. 🙁
This is:[img]http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/Dune/dune_ghostbaron.jpg[/img]
-Barron Harkonnen (2)
-really cool CGI (1)
-A figment of Alia’s imagination (3)A Gom Jabar is:
-A punk-rock band from Minnesota (1)
-A test used by the Bene Gesserit, used to weed out uncivilized people (animals) from true humans (2)
– A poison needle (3)(easy one)Caladan is:
-The watery ancestral homeworld of the Atreides Houshold (3)
– A planet known all over the imperium for its fine wines (2)
– A village in Ireland, famous for producing top-notch cricket bats (1)(hard one) Frank Herbert’s Dune, is set:
-In the future (3)
-On Dune (2)
-On Arakkis (1)
explanation: Dune, et al, takes place on various planets in the imperium, not just one. “the future” applies to the whole story. Furthmore any real fan would think of the planet as Dune, rather then Arakkis.Here’s what I’ve uploaded so far:
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=232]Dune Pt. 1[/url]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=230]Leto Atreides[/url]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=229]House Harkonnen[/url]
[url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=231]Baron Vladimir Harkonnen[/url]I’ll be adding a few more tonight, as well as setting up the menus.
[quote=”Headgehog”]If I don’t, can all of the mods, please email me demanding that I get off my tail and start working! That should definitely get me moving ;)[/quote]
On second thought, please don’t. The imaging process is taking longer then expected. But I have gotten a few new items up tonight. And I’ll be adding a few more within a few hours.
[quote=”LexxLurker”]Going to take me a bit longer than expected, one hell of a week around here, sorry HH. :?[/quote]
I know the feeling 😥
Class is over, and school’s out for summer ❗ I’ll be devoting my entire night tomorrow to the Dune Guide. I’ve completed all the necessary text, but the hard part now is formatting and grabbing the pictures off the DVD’s.I should have the green items and Dune Pt 1 uploaded by 1am EST (6/27). If I don’t, can all of the mods, please email me demanding that I get off my tail and start working! That should definitely get me moving 😉
[quote=”thefrey”]Could I get an email for Mr. Dudelove? He is begining to get on my last nerve. His inane posting and the casual insults are just not working for me.[/quote]
The email I found listed was kissarerocknroll75_559@hotmail.com
Who knows if its his/her real email.[quote=”LexxLurker”]Grr I guess my email outbox is broken. Sorry HH, thought the mail went through =)
I’ll do the final CoD review this weekend, and we can split up the original Dune anyway you want depending on how much time you currently have.[/quote]
I got the email, three times over a 2 days period. I just haven’t had a chance to write back. We can probably just converse about the guides in this thread, instead of dealing with email hassles.
I’ll take Dune Pt 1, my favorite part of the three. If it doesn’t take too much time I’ll do pt 3.
[quote=”SadGeezer”]Headge and LexxLurker – Excellent work on the Dune Guide 🙂
Very impressive.
I’ve taken the liberty of doing this with the cutures and bios just to let you see what it’s like.
Very cool reviews guys![/quote]Thank-you 8)
[quote]you can adjust the ‘spacing’ around the picture. I usually space pics 5 pixels horizontally and vertically.[/quote]
I didn’t know about that, I’ll be sure to add a border in the future.
Thanks[quote=”LexxLurker”]Thanks for the help! I’m going through this week and figuring out what I still need to write, and what’s already been done. We should have a nice full Dune section done shortly =) [/quote]
CoolSummer Semester is winding down, so I’ll be able to spend more time on it now, then I could the last two weeks.
here’s a quick run down of what’s uploaded/what I have:
[color=blue]Completed:
technology: completely done.
for cultures: House Attreidies and the Bene Gesserit and Tleilax.
For people: Scytale, Fey’d, Preacher, Fenring.
reviews: CoD Pt 1,2[/color][color=green]The text is done for:
Cultures: House Harkonnen
People: Duke Leto, Paul, Jessica, Alia, Baron Harkonnen, Duncan, Gurney, Chani, Stilgar, Shaddam
These will be uploaded once I get the pictuers taken care of. [/color][color=orange][size=18]What needs to be done:[/size][/color]
Cultures: [color=orange]Spacing Guild [/color], possibly the Fremen <– I’ll take these two, we can add more cultures later after the guide is made public
People: [color=orange]Leto II the Tyrant[/color], we can add more people later. If you have text for any other characters, we can put it up now
[color=orange][size=18]reviews: CoD Pt 3, Dune Pt 1,2,3[/size][/color] let me know, if you want me to do all the reviews, or how you want to split them up
Purity Test questions: I’ll create another thread for this soonTony, if you’d like, could you please add the signiture “If you were to meet XYZ in a bar they would be…, and they’d be drinking a…” to whatever character(s) or culture(s) of your choice.
[quote=”Chameleoin”]and then got three major assignments hanging over my head… hmmm, no, maybe I still don’t have a life… :D[/quote]
That’d be my excuse too. I’ve had a lot of school work this past week. Darn engineering courses crammed into a short six weeks! I’ve hardly had a chance to do any non-school web surfing.
[quote=”LexxLurker”]I personally think it’s directly connected to the utter lack of Sci-Fi on TV these days[/quote]
That’s probably a big reason the calm recently. At least new eps SG-1 are back. And it looks like this season won’t suck![quote=”Logan”]Are there certain additional criteria, other than being a moderator, like create a guide before I can be accepted, or…[/quote]
JumpingJedi once asked a similar question [url=http://www.sadgeezer.com/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2432&sid=502303b4933118029408de2be3187a58]here:[/url]
This was my answer
[quote=”Headgehog”]It’s a little bit of both and them some. Y’see first you need to send £354.29 to the following address:Some Sad-dude
123 Main St
Springfield
Centari PrimePut the following as your return address:
-your name-
-your email-
potent mod
<s>Earth 2</s> Planet BobBut it has to be recieved on a lunar eclipse of Nebari’s 2nd moon. If it’s not recieved on that day, your money will be taken but you will not be contacted further. Now the next part is tricky, so stay with me. “They” contact you via carrier pidgeon on the 2nd tuesday of the month, You have to go to Ruhma on the 4th Wednesday of the following month. Once there you need to get on your knees, and well you get the idea, right? If not I’ll give you a hint, it requires a chicken and a rabbi. [/quote]
😉
[quote]As to the Prisoner Guide sections, I’d like various sadgeezer “Villagers” to participate in writing it (several people have offered their services) — I’d set it up of course. Have other people done their guides this way?[/quote]
All registered user are allowed and encourage to submit guides and reviews. However drastically few have ever done so. LexxLurker and I are presently collaborating on the SadGeezers’ Guide to Dune. So to answer your question; yes.When making the guide, just do the actual reviews/guides. An admin will set up the menu pages for you. Menu’s require administrative access.
[quote] how would people feel about a [color=orange][size=18]Sadgeezer Sci-fi Chat Convention[/size][/color] in Pub Chat at a set time/times?[/quote]
Sounds great. Finding a time may become difficult though. Our readers are all over the globe. With most in North America and UK. But we do have some in Australia and Malaysia. A weekend is probably best.[/code]I’m just stabbing in the dark but here goes:
The League of Nobles will be undergoing a series of planet hopping. Liberating/nuking one machine planet at a time in their quest to destroy the thinking machines. Rescuing whatever slaves they can in the process. The campaign will stall because the machines will prepare for invasions after seeing the ships enroute weeks in advance.
Erasmus and Agamemnon either independently or together will begin to undermine Omnious, and try to gain more freedoms from him/it. Onmious will slowly continue its genocide against the enslaved humans.
Holtzman will slay Norma after she (shows him up) creates a fold space engine. As usual he will take full credit for this great new invention. (side note: who’s less human Tio or Erasmus?) However repeated trials of trying to navigate foldspace
will fail, either in destruction or getting utterly lost.Cut to Arrakis. Either Keedar of the Tlulaxa or Aurelias Venport will overdose on spice and begin a transformation into a navigator. My guess the later, because he’s been trying for psychic abilities to impress his love. Holtzman will hear of this transformation and will tap the navigator to fly the ship through fold space safely. This will enabel the leauge to surpise attack the machines, and bring the jihad to a near end.
Selim Wormrider will begin teaching the Fremen how to ride the sandworms and plant the seeds for the Freemen culture/religion we see later in the Dune novels. A Bene Gesserit missionary sent hundred of years alter will complete the cultural transformation.
The mail sever is case sensitive so one has to be careful.
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llurkernote: previously the L’s were capitalized in account name.
I just tired that information and I was able to log in without any problems.
[quote=”SadGeezer”]Load up the phpadmin and find the rocess nuke_sessions_info (it’s in the left hand column). [b]Once you find [/b]the process click on it[/quote]
I’m having trouble finding it. 😳 🙁
I’m assuming I use the Administration link on the left side of the page to take me to the administrative menu. Then click on phpBB2, When I do this I don’t see any option on the left that has anything to do with nuke-sessions. Can someone please point in the right direction or send me a link to what page I have to go to.
I’ll say this much. Sci Fi announced a follow up to Dune before the first mini-series even aired its last episode. Sci Fi has barely acknowledged CoD’s existance since its airing.
Furthermore, there doesn’t seem to be a large following of people who demand another miniseries. Last I checked, only 125 names were on the GEoD online petition. 😕 😥 Sci Fi Channel wouldn’t listen to thousands of Farscape fans, do you really expect them to listen to a couple hundred? It’s part of there new stradegy called “F@#% the Fans”, but I digress.
[quote=”LexxLurker”]
As “Children of Dune” did not do anywhere near as good as “Dune” I don’t think it’s going to happen tho.[/quote]Interestingly enough, Dune averaged 4.4, whereas CoD averaged a 2.4. While this does seem like a huge loss, in terms of percent share of audience, it is not a big change in the number of viewers. Both mini-series averaged around 2.8-2.9 million viewers per episode. However, CoD had a larger cumulative audience than it predecessor (because of multiple showings). Because Sci-Fi has expanded the number homes it is now available to, since 2000, it has a larger audience. Therefore if about the same number tune in each time, but with the second time having a larger group of viewers. Then obviously the ratings share will drop. This is unfortunatly what the executives look at, because its so closely related to the $$. To comppund matters, CoD had a larger budget then Dune. In other words, Sci Fi didn’t make as much as they wanted to.
[quote]Hopefully CoD will do well enough on DvD for them to do the final mini series.[/quote]
The week CoD was aired, pre-sales for the CoD DVDs were either ranked #1 or #2 for that week, for Sci Fi DVDs . With the other top slot being for the original Dune series. This is the rankings for CoD’s first week out for scifi DVDs: (last week)
1. The Two Towers
2. Star Trek Nemesis
3. Die Another Day
4. Buffy Season Four
5. The Animatrix
6. Chamber of Secrets
7. The Matrix
[b]8. Children of Dune[/b]
9. Buffy Season One
10. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea[quote=”SadGeezer”] He is currently engaged in some major work in the site[/quote]
Just to let everyone know, for the last month I’ve been working on converting all of the old sadguides in to the new database format. This inevitably causes the WYSIWYG Editor to shut off every so often. So if you find its not working, oops sorry. 😥 Let me know and i’ll turn it back on.
[quote=thefrey]Now we will have someone to bug when the UK crew has already bedded down for the night! [/quote]
The joys of being an insomniac!Also during the last week, Lexxlurker and I have been compiling a Sadgeezers’ Guide to Dune. Already we already have two (rough draft) reviews up, as well as lexxlurkers original Dune Messisah review.
Welcome to the fray! 8)
Don’t worry about feeling overwhelmed. Soon enuogh you’ll get used to all the assorted menus, commands, functions…. To quote Cypher from the Matrix “I don’t even see the code any more, all I see is blonde, brunnette, redhead…”. Serioulsy it’s much easier then it looks.
[quote=”Logan”] I must say, I’ve been wondering what sort of strange and twisted dealings go on in here ever since I joined. [/quote]
You have no idea! 😆 When you have the chance go through some of the older posts in this forum, and bring popcorn. 😉
[quote=”SadGeezer”]Just saw the last buffy Episode ‘Chosen’[/quote]
❓ 😯 ❓ I thought it doesn’t air for another 24 hours? How’d you see it already?[quote=”SadGeezer”]In fact – HAS anyone downloaded it from sadgeezer.net yet? Did it take more than 4 hours?[/quote]
I downloaded part two yesterday. I don’t know exactly how long it took, but it was somewhere around 12-13 hours. It started off well enough but toward the end I was getting a dl rate of ~6 kb/s. 😕 😥
I have a similar cable connection to you Tony, should you need that information.
[quote=”Bekka”] that james masters would be going onto angel, so it wont be spike.[/quote]
One would think so. I can’t understand why many people feel that it would be Spike, even though he will be back next season. But the funny thing about scifi/fantasy is that death is rarely permanent.
I’m trying to download it now too. It’s telling me about 8 hours. I may be wrong, but the long time could be because its coming from his own computer with limited bandwidth. If other people are try to download stuff, then we’d all have to share the bandwidth? Plus the across the ocean thing may have a small effect.
Its a very cool thing you’re doing Tony. I’m usually pretty stingy with my bandwidth. As soon as Kazaa starts slowing my webpage viewing, I close it immediately. Speaking of which I’ve had a few people download part one of Kin Dza Dza form me on Kazaa the over the last few days
[quote=”Flamegrape”]Should I be using a newsgroup program other than Outlook Express?[/quote]
Oops, I completely forgot I could use Outlook to check newsgroups. Thanks!
[quote=”FX”]but i will say i was a little surprised at the matrix moves
…what did you guys think?[/quote]
Personally I thought I could’ve only watched the last five minutes of this episode and not missed a thing. For the third week in a row I feel cheated. The story arc hasn’t moved much at all. One could argue that the episodes have all been focusing on character growth, but I feel that they’re not getting as much as they put in.
The matrix moves were nice, but it seemed tacked on. If Buffy could’ve done this all along, why are we seeing it now? And is she couldn’t, wouldn’t she have had to have practiced it first?
[quote=”Sadgeezer”]I honestly can’t get used to seeing Captain Mal as a sanctimonious baddie. He’s much better as a sanctimonious goodie.[/quote]
I prefer him this way. Nathan Fillion is really good at being wholly evil. And I’m sure Capt. Mal has had his moments of being a sadistic bastard.[quote=”LexxLurker”]If anyone is interested here’s how the folks over at Sci-fi.com voted:
… Who do you want staked? [/quote]
That poll loosely inspired this one. I’ve been meaning to ask this for the last week, but have only gotten around to it now because finals are over. The scifi poll asks who do you want killed, this poll is asking who do you think Joss Weadon will kill?
“Who am I, I am Susan Ivanova, commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophi Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart, I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me!”
– Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors.”
– Ambassador Londo mollari, Babylon 5“I apologize. I’m .. sorry. I’m sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I’m sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I’m sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell. .. As with everything else, it’s the thought that counts.”
– Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5“I don’t hold a grudge, I have no surviving enemies”
– Galen, Crusade[quote=”The Invisible Lunatic”]Not really. I saw it being used in the exapansion for the game [i]Starcraft[/i], namely [i]Brood Wars[/i].[/quote]
Well in that case, here’s another one from Starscraft’s Jim Raynor, “I’m POSITIVE I heard that wrong!”
[quote=”SadGeezer”]
[url]http://213.232.90.94/kdd/kin-dza-dza-01-DivX.avi[/url]
(456Mb file)[/quote]Is anyone else having trouble with this link?
[quote=”Praxilla”]I just saw the episode with Nathan Fillion first appearing.
It seems like Buffy is taking itself FAR too seriously of late. [/quote]
Its certainly hasn’t been the lighthearted show it once was. IMO though, a show can’t stay in ‘season 1’ mode if it wants to become great. A series needs to evolve and grow, in Buffy’s case, become more mature, and realistic (dark).
Nathan Fillion’s character is just evil. There is no way around around it. From just this one episode it appears that he’s one of the nastiest, most sadistic creatures t.v. has seen in a while. For a show that’s spent most of its time portraying the big bads as sadistic bullies at best and incompetent doofs at worst, having an enemy which is ultra (and true) evil ends the show on a more serious and mature note. [i]How ridiculous would the finale be if the uber-enemy were some little girl in pigtails, with an oversized lollypop, who makes people explode just by looking at them?[/i]
I will agree with you though. The show is at times getting a bit too dark to enjoy. Much like S3 of LEXX or a couple episodes of Taken. However when re-watching the show later, I’ll, and I hope you’ll, appreciate how good it really is.[/i]
[quote=”SadGeezer”] I’ve just completed transferring all the LEXX webpages to the database [/quote]
What is involved in transferring the guides to the database? Is it just creating a review with the same content and layout as the previous webpage? If so, I can give you a hand with that in two weeks after my semester is (FINALLY!) over.[quote=”Sadgeezer”]I’ll probably post a link of the DivX encoded version when the first part is done (next couple of days or so). I’m not sure what to do with it once it’s complete. I guess I would be grateful for you guys to advise.[/quote]
Is this because of the bandwidth issue? If so, does the site use up that much bandwidth from normal page views, or is it mostly from people downloading large media files?
Thanks for all your continued hard work!
I’ve already printed what I know:
[quote]•Stargate: Atlantis. This series centers on a new team in the Stargate SG-1 universe. A secret base left by the originators of the Stargate is found in the most unlikely of places: on Earth, buried within the ruins of the legendary civilization of Atlantis. A new team travels to a distant universe, where they find a primitive human civilization threatened by a sinister new enemy.[/quote]
I’m looking forward to it. Although I’m not sure how close the show will remain to its SG-1 roots. It sounds like is may take a whole new spin on the franchise. Also I hope the quality is better then this last season of sg-1.
Of course this may all be moot. Since SG-1 is now Sci fi’s number 2 shows (Tremors is doing better in the ratings), the gerbils may drop the franchise in favor of its new favored child. They’ve done it twice beofre already, they don’t care about contracts (there’s always a loophole) or fans!
