How The Other Side Lives Mission Nine. Coping, And Other Drugs. July 0087 Bastard Plying the spacelanes between Sides had taken on a measure of paranoia for the renegade crew of the Bastard. Before that fateful day a couple months earlier, cruising through space was almost a restful experience. Mos...

Bonus stage! How The Other Side Lives Mission Supplemental. Conversations 1 Series of conversations between characters spanning different times October 31, 0083 Side 3 "Abel!" Just hearing the sound of his name was enough to snap the man in question back to reality. Sirai Bakker had caught...

Rise, my ancient thread. RISE! How The Other Side Lives Mission Eight. Widening Mysterions. June, 0087 EFS Bastard "How does she feel, sir?" "Like a dream. Flying this machine is like ballet dancing on the edge of a razor." "She's a handful, huh? You gonna be good?" &qu...

Welp. time to necro my own thread. This'll work, right? Yeah. Uh, something like that.

How The Other Side Lives Mission Six. Mutinous Bastards. April, UC 0087 Bastard Side 1's 30 Bunch colony had seen better days. Since 0085, however, each day was progressively worse. All the automated functions still worked-- to an extent. It was just that the people who lived there had not been ali...

Bah. And here I thought I picked out all the old anachronisms. Good eye. Correction time!

Phew. Okay. So this is just the beginning of clearing a backlog of work. I expanded the original scope of the "How The Other Side Lives" idea into something a bit bigger, if not more tightly focused. The first story way up at the top was written something like seven, eight years ago. When,...

How The Other Side Lives Mission Five. Endings. April, UC 0087 “Full burn now! Go! I’ll catch up but you have to go now.” ”We can’t just leave you here alone! “I said go, goddammit! Do not argue with me, Sirai. I said I’ll catch up but you are out of time. Argue later. Run now.” ”Fine, but you’re i...

How the Other Side Lives Mission Four. Just Breathe. 10 November 0083 Sea of Solomon At long last the first Earth Federation Naval Review in four years was beginning. Though his part required little more than sitting in a cramped a sweltering cockpit for hours on end, Lieutenant j.g. felt a bit ove...

How The Other Side Lives Mission Three. Unforgiven 30 November 0079 Central Austria "Nicky left." Bean swore. Then he swore again. And again. And again. "I bet that damned idiot's already been picked up by the Feds. Damnit." All around the campfire, various grumbles, grunts and ...

A sad day. Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed in a car accident this morning. There was another passenger in the car who also died. The universe has a sense of irony, it seems. Such a shame.

Super 8 is great. Watch it. I spared a few words for it on the previous page.

For those of you who are my age and remember movies like Stand By Me , E.T. , The Goonies and the rest of those coming of age movies from the 80s, Super 8 is simply the greatest homage anyone has ever done. The film is amazing, all special effects aside. Superbly acted and paced, you simply need to ...

Bio-lasers!

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Actor Jeff Conaway died yesterday from complications from pneumonia and sepsis. While he had numerous parts in numerous films and tv shows (Grease, for example), I remember him from the tv show Babylon 5 where he played security chief Zac Allen. Sadness.

The Anakin v Obi Wan fight was awesome until it turned into a rave.

Yeah, but that lightsaber duel with Darth Maul in Episode I was the greatest. Admit it.

Then there's the Zakus killing Type 61s (in open fields) because they're attacking from above. Just so happens that tank armor is heaviest on the front glacis plate slope and the front of the turret while the rear and upper turret sport much thinner armor. That and plot necessity explains away the Z...

BK, you were always were the brave one. G.com was a cesspit.

Yeah, but Jamil was great and Caris Nautilus was a badass.