My PC has been working hard for over a week now up-scaling my Star Trek Deep Space Nine DVDs to full HD. Now that I've reached the better quality episodes in Season 5, they're starting to look really good after the upscale process!
I've already started to watch the new versions. I was due for another rerun anyway. 😊
I suppose I could introduce myself... that seems to be the protocol here?
I'm Emily (she/her), a 30something professional computer-toucher, although you probably won't catch me posting programming-related stuff here often. My main hobbies include #gaming (right now i'm playing #FFXVI, #FFXIV, #HonkaiStarRail, and #GenshinImpact in various amounts), #books (mainly #scifi and #fantasy), and #knitting & #crochet. Would love to have people to follow for any of these subjects ❤️
Really I'm mostly here to vibe. I'm not exactly new to the Fediverse (I made a Mastodon account back when Elon bought the birdsite) but I am relatively new to actually trying to engage with it (and social media in general TBH, until now I've never been much of a poster!). It seems like a comfy place to hang out that the corporate places never were, so I'm looking forward to meeting all of you!
i tooted out yesterday an off-hand comment about how i was enjoying #TheExpanse because they actually have to deal with things like g-forces (quite realistic compared to my usual #StarWars-style #SciFi), and it spawned a two-day long multi-branch conversation between at least a dozen people including (but not limited to) Bussard ramjets, fusion reactors, socio-economic analyses of science fiction politics, the list goes on.
Does sci-fi shape the future? Tech billionaires from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have often talked about the impact of novels they read as teens, from Neal Stephenson's "Snow Crash" to Iain M. Banks' "Culture" series. Big Think's Namir Khaliq spoke to authors including Andy Weir, Lois McMaster Bujold, @cstross and @pluralistic about how much impact they think science fiction has had, or can have.
Gibt es aktuellere (also bitte nicht Isaac Asimov hervorkramen^^) #sciencefiction#Romane die ihr empfehlen könnt, deren Setting aber grundsätzlich positiv ist?
Also ohne (Post-)Apokalypse, Klimakatastrophe, Atomtod, Cyberpunk-Internetkonzernen oder irgendeiner abgefahrenen Künstlichen Intelligenz, die alle versklaven will?
In my recent reading of the #Exapnse series (ongoing) & other #sciencefiction in my (relatively recent) return to the genre, I have noticed a general use of the term the 'gravity well' as a way of describing mostly #Earth (but occasionally other planets/objects with strong gravity)... anyone any idea who first used this term?
Arthur C. Clarke's A Fall of Moondust (1961), the closest he came to writing a sci-fi thriller. And it's a pretty decent one. The dust cruiser Selene takes tourists on jaunts across the the largest of the lunar dust seas, the Sea of Thirst.
My current home screen is inspired by the UI design featured in cowboy bebop :)
it's always evolving so parts are unfinished, but a lot of the features are designed to help me manage my circadian rhythm sleep disorder
Not sure how it'll look after compression, but I'm really proud of the design work that went into it, its pretty much all custom made with KWGT and KLWP
I've been trying to #read more #scifi lately. I'm a slow reader so it's slow going, but I've been having fun and exploring both old and new, classics and award winners, authors I know and others I don't. As you might guess, it's a mixed bag, but mostly positive as I've been sticking mainly with highly recommended works. Given this is #October, I've decided to finally read #Frankenstein. That's right, I've never read it all the way through. Maybe this time I'll finish it.
Does anyone have sci-fi book suggestions that are more sci-fi utopia and world building?
I have grown up on sci-fi dystopia and I love it but since we're currently living in one I want to read something uplifting. Collection of short stories would be awesome too!
I was listening to my own music last night, which is not unusual, I listen to my own music quite a bit. I like it. But as I listened to it last night, I began to view it for the first time as a body of work. I’m not sure what it was before that moment, but as I played through the almost-hour long collection of my original songs, I was struck with the feeling that this is… a thing, a representation of something, I’m not sure what. I’m usually good with words, but I’m finding it difficult to describe the shift I felt. I know I must continue to add to this body of work, and that the work must stay true to itself. Music for the sake of music, and tunes that I personally enjoy listening to over and over again. I’m not sure if it was because I’d just binged on Ween, or maybe had too much sugar, but it was like an epiphany, and The Dgar Project has taken a new seat in my own consciousness. I am a songwriter, and this year, I’m writing songs.
Here’s the link if you’d like to open up the #Dgar for yourself and see what’s inside.
Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.
Before I call it a night, I'm going to watch one of the better episodes of season 4 of Star Trek Deep Space Nine: the episode "Little Green Men", where Quark, Rom and Nog travel to Earth and are accidentally sent back in time to Roswell, 1947. 😁