I believe that once Sue emerges from Elisabeth, they share memories but no longer share a consciousness. I think when one wakes up, then she sees what the other has been doing by the consequences it has had, rather than remembering it.

Nice haircut

Lol Anytime someone says "can you hear me, can you see me?" I think of the part in requiem for a dream where the jail guard goes "can you see me, can you hear me? Okay for work" over and over as the most miserable montage ever is being played. That's all i think about, that movie scarred me for life

Algorithm comment for the algorithm gods 🙏

I don't understand why, you, a connoisseur of fine literature, would contribute to the war on language by using terms like 'unalive'.

I'm here to listen to someone else talk about Aniara. I thought I was the only person that had watched that movie. Going in to it all I knew is that there was a space ship on a long journey. But the way it played out was... interesting, sad, and also super realistic.

I’m sorry, but was that a Mariah Carey shirt? Perhaps a piece of “Glitter” merch? Damn, son.

Aniara, 6:00 The Substance, 21:06 Megalopolis, 33:38 Furiosa, 41:17

Damn… we so close to 1 million subscribers, I can taste it

36:30 You say: "Okay, Boomer" and pat grandpa on the head.

Aniara is gold

Almost finished with The Passage, loving it so far.

Discovering that Quinn is as big a Lovecraft fan as a Dune fan. Leads me to the curiousity, has Quinn explored the text The King in Yellow at all. Kind of a forerunner to Lovecraft dealing in eldritch horror.

Arcane Season 2 has been the sci fi fantasy escape I need and that Im glad that I have right, especially with how things are lately.

Furiosa was 10/10 I really enjoyed the whole movie

Love all of your content, thank you!! Looking forward to the replay!

I like that Death Becomes Her takes the more humorous bent.

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I just rewatched an older movie called Predetermination. It's based on Heinlein's All You Zombies. It's a time travel mindbender that shows how time travel ends up trapping the traveler into an infinite regression loop, permanently cut off from reality.

Stop Quinn from getting a tv deal. He won't write anymore. 😉

Just gonna take this moment to sing the praises of a film hardly anyone has seen called Mars Express. It is by far my favorite sci-fi film in recent years. Quinn, you MUST watch it. It's a French film so go for subs if you can. I don't know what the dubbed version is like.

Wow, super size review!😊

I enjoyed Furiosa more too. It spent more time with the character than Fury Road did.

Even Quinn couldn't explain Megalopolis

Excited to watch this!!

I'm not sure I'd enjoy The Substance, body horror tends to turn me off. Cronenberg always bugs me too.

Always a pleasant watch

Aniara has some three Body hints in it.

A ramble on the Subtance: IMO I didn't feel like the movie was tryna convice people that Demi isn't a total babe. Obviously films usually only star really attractive actors ofc, and Demi is in a privileged position to age "gracefully". But what I got from it is that no matter how conventually attractive you are, as a woman, society will treat you like absolute shit as you age. That reguardless of how well you fit into beauty standards, you can still feel insecure and be negatively affected by the things society "values" in women. Being so disgusted with your physical form that you physically harm yourself? Oof. The amount of people I know [including myself] who were hit on by grown men a ton as LITERAL CHILDREN, but as soon as you hit 20 that number drastically lowers. So much to get into but ima leave it there. Pretty sick shit lol. Loved the film, I'd give it a 4.5/5! Thank you for sharing 💚

Lovecraft’s xenophobia is some of his most endearing characteristics

Ground control to Major Quinn?

All systems are go!

Sound is good

Off topic, but is there any news on both Netflix and tencent's Three Body work?

Kudos to you about the no politics policy. Let’s just enjoy what brought us here.

Looking forward to this one. I’m really intrigued about what you’re going to say.

I always thought that when Herbert referred to the humanity-ending seeking machines, he was alluding to something that the guild’s mechanic path-seeking machines had evolved into. You know how at some point guild navigators become less important and the guild loses its monopoly on interstellar travel due to the recent perfection of machines with their own machine prescience, which were used to fill the role navigators has traditionally filled, with the help of massive melange intake. For the last couple of books in the series, there are machines that guide spaceships by using their form of machine prescience. But it’s many tiers and categories higher, it’s barely even comparable cause it’s not an improvement on certain tech, it’s scientific paradigm smashing on the level of Gods to create something that is self aware, prescient, motivated to exterminate the entire species of its creator, and operates as an intergalactic self replicating hive mind. Hence, I always figured that particular vision was about course plotting I always thought this is was Herbert meant when he wrote about seeking machines destroying humanity. It’s a v small technological jump, to make the traditional hunter seekers self repairing/replicating, to increase their weapon capacity and give them engines so they’re mobile. It would be nothing to take a beefed up hunter seeker and install an OS on it that was conscious and prescient. The tech required to program a full ting robot with basic pattern recognition and vector mapping, to program something that flies around til it finds its target then rams into the target, as occurred early in the first dune movie with Mapes present in Paul’s bedroom.

Staircase is stupid and nonsensical. Oh no aliens are coming to kill us what do we do, let's send them biological material in the form of a human brain to study and interrogate.

There’s one logical fallacy in the series when it came to how the sword holder eventually failed: It doesn’t make sense to just designate a single sword holder. It did make sense for there to initially be one, due to the nature of the wallfacer project and its needed secrecy (although even so, it’s unclear to me what the Trisolarans could have done to prevent the plan even with full knowledge of it), but once they get to the point where the sword holder’s role and task are all out in the open and they are publicly elected, a larger number of people could easily have held the position simultaneously. That would have guaranteed that, in the event of an attack, at least one of them would have activated the broadcast. Putting the choice of mutually assured (self-)destruction up for a majority vote might not work, as it would predictably lead to a choice against self-destruction, but the exact opposite would be achieved by giving the power to make that choice to each individual in a group of people, as long as no majority or consensus was required to make the choice. Say there were ten people. Even if the Trisolarans had estimated each of them to have just a 10% probability of actually pressing that button, the probability that at least one would have pressed it would still be 1-0.9^10=0.65=65%. Designate just a few suitable people, and it becomes almost a certainty at least one of them will actually behave as intended, therefore fulfilling the requirements for good deterrence. If you were afraid that giving that power to more people would increase the risk of someone needlessly pressing that button, you could reduce risks from random outliers/crazy people by requiring at least two people to activate the broadcast within a short time frame in order to take effect. Let’s say you have ten people, each of which has a 50% probability to activate the broadcast in the event of an attack. The probability that at least two people in that group will do so is 1-binomcdf(1,10,0.5)=0.989=98.9%, which would be an excellent deterrence. In that case, random acts of craziness would be very unlikely to trigger a broadcast, as would malice (in fact the risks would be far less than if it were all left up to one single person who could just unpredictably choose to broadcast at any time), unless coordinated between at least two people. The system could be made even safer by keeping the sword holders identities secret, and not informing the sword holders of who their peers are, so that they cannot communicate with each other and can only act in coordination according to their intended purpose.

I fucking love this series. It’s makes me think! 😂

The problem is that in fact you can go faster than light, it isn't a speed limit but a barrier, and I'm just talking actual velocity not tricks like wormholes or folding space actual velocity. The problem is nothing that starts below the speed of light can pass it. There are some good vids on you tube about it. I'm glad I watched the video as that being the reveal would have been lame.

Appeasing the algorithm for Quinn.

The warp- I mean unspace, sounds pretty crazy. It's cool that you can take the webway to get through it- I mean the throughways. It must be scary when you interact with the chaos gods- I mean the presence. I bet the old ones- oops I mean the originators, drew it's attention and got wiped out.