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Man Called X said:
Okay, well some of us are content with our 16 TBs of pirated data. Would be more but I had 2 separate drives fail.
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Yeah, that's why my array looks like shit right now. Haven't bought a drive since Chia pumped prices up. Something like six months now. Bought one 12TB just before the price hike, I've kept it out of the array so I can swap it in if a drive fails. Brought my Parity 1 back into the array rather than cracking the backup.

Most of that server's storage is taken up by ROMs though. I don't nearly have that large of a movie/tv catalog.

1600 movies take up 3.37TB of space. 20K TV episodes are taking up 4.95TB. Movies and TV actually get super small once you convert everything over to h.265.
 
N7RobBob said:
Lee Pace and Jared Harris... That looks fantastic, but don't have Apple TV nor do I need another streaming service. I hope it is good, tho.
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You don't have to have an apple TV to get AppleTV+. AppleTV+ costs $4.99/month, they're killing it with their programming. Hopefully that includes Foundation, which I've been looking forward to since it was announced.
 
KI4MVP said:
You don't have to have an apple TV to get AppleTV+. AppleTV+ costs $4.99/month, they're killing it with their programming. Hopefully that includes Foundation, which I've been looking forward to since it was announced.
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I was generalizing the streaming service, not that I needed an Apple TV to use it. Thanks, tho. I may do a month once it is all released and binge it when I have the chance. Just like my wife and I do when we do HBO Max or Showtime.
 
KI4MVP said:
Coming Friday:celb (23):

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I read the Foundation Trilogy for the first time maybe 45 years ago, and was looking forward to getting Apple TV just for this. Then I read the showrunner/head writer's comments about it on the BBC website:


Indeed, Goyer was determined to make this adaptation feel as pertinent as possible, by weaving in very contemporary-feeling themes.... The first thing I said to the Asimov Estate is that Asimov crafted Foundation to be a mirror so I need to write about what's happening now. I need to write about Brexit, MeToo, the ascent of nationalism again. I need to write about climate change."

Given his expressed mindset, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he has the Mule show up urging people to Make the Galaxy Great Again. So....pass.
 
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The Human Q-Tip said:
I read the Foundation Trilogy for the first time maybe 45 years ago, and was looking forward to getting Apple TV just for this. Then I read the showrunner/head writer's comments about it on the BBC website:


Indeed, Goyer was determined to make this adaptation feel as pertinent as possible, by weaving in very contemporary-feeling themes.... The first thing I said to the Asimov Estate is that Asimov crafted Foundation to be a mirror so I need to write about what's happening now. I need to write about Brexit, MeToo, the ascent of nationalism again. I need to write about climate change."

Given his expressed mindset, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he has the Mule show up urging people to Make the Galaxy Great Again. So....pass.
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Was the Mule a giant orange asshole? If so, it tracks.

Seriously, though, I imagine it'll be far less on the nose than it sounds. That being said, never been a huge fan of Goyer, so wouldn't be surprised if he screws it up. Looking at his iMDB page, the last truly good thing he wrote was The Dark Knight, and that was thirteen years ago.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Was the Mule a giant orange asshole? If so, it tracks.

Seriously, though, I imagine it'll be far less on the nose than it sounds. That being said, never been a huge fan of Goyer, so wouldn't be surprised if he screws it up. Looking at his iMDB page, the last truly good thing he wrote was The Dark Knight, and that was thirteen years ago.
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I don't mind it when the source material has some messaging. Dune has a strong environmentalist/anticolonialist message, but that's the story as it was written. So if that stuff is in a movie or series, it's supposed to be there.

But going into a series about Galactic geopolitics written more than a half-century ago with the idea that you're going to talk about the MeToo movement is almost laughably bad.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
I don't mind it when the source material has some messaging. Dune has a strong environmentalist/anticolonialist message, but that's the story as it was written. So if that stuff is in a movie or series, it's supposed to be there.

But going into a series about Galactic geopolitics written more than a half-century ago with the idea that you're going to talk about the MeToo movement is almost laughably bad.
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If they actually call it the MeToo movement, sure, but I'd guess it's more of a situation where they'll address sexual assault/harassment/etc and the repercussions. It's been ages since I read any Asimov, but as I recall, he wasn't particularly strong at writing female characters, so it wouldn't be shocking to see them flesh out female characters more than the source material.

I'm not super enthused, because as I mentioned Goyer has been whiffing for a decade now, but I'll give it a chance. If it sucks, it sucks and I'll stop watching the same way I stopped watching any number of other shows that sucked for whatever reason.
 
Jack Brickman said:
If they actually call it the MeToo movement, sure, but I'd guess it's more of a situation where they'll address sexual assault/harassment/etc and the repercussions. It's been ages since I read any Asimov, but as I recall, he wasn't particularly strong at writing female characters, so it wouldn't be shocking to see them flesh out female characters more than the source material.

I'm not super enthused, because as I mentioned Goyer has been whiffing for a decade now, but I'll give it a chance. If it sucks, it sucks and I'll stop watching the same way I stopped watching any number of other shows that sucked for whatever reason.
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I know that they've changed a few of the male characters to female, and I'm fine with that. The sex of the characters doesn't play that large a role for the most part, so that's fine. It's the other stuff that makes it a pass for me.

I'm going to go on a Korean binge for awhile anyway.
 
First two episodes of Foundation released tonight, I won't get to watch it for a few days.
 
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