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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Since I complained about tv before I want to add a positive. This movie does not get enough credit. And possibly the best opening sequence of almost all time. Serenity's "Landing" sequence The music, the logo becoming the ship, the way it quickly intrudes the characters so perfectly to those who don't know them. and the quotes. My god the quotes!

Quotes"This landing is gonna get pretty interesting." "Define "interesting"." "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die?"

"Well, what you plan and what takes place ain't ever exactly been similar."

"This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then - explode."

"We're robbing the place, we're not occupying it."

"You told me those entry couplings would hold for another week!" "That was six months ago, Cap'n." "My ship don't crash. If she crashes, you crashed her."

"...If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you, I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears."

"Honestly Doctor, I think we may really crash this time anyway"

Such a work of art.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Check this out.

As you know an Uncharted movie came out based on the games and I thought it was horribly miscast at the time and still do.

This was a fan project that Nathan Fillion was in before the movies came to reality.

Nathan Fillion Uncharted.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Firefly/Serenity are still among my all-time faves. Great fun storytelling.

Well 'fun' unless you're a leaf on the wind, of course... :|

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

TitleThat killed teenage me, I was devastated. Absolutely wrecked.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is one of the pieces of media where I subscribe to "the author is dead" - it's just too good

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

So I finished Umbrella Academy last night. Oh man what a disappointment. After 5 and a half episodes it was left to the final 20 minutes to explain the problem and to wrap everything up. What a dumpster fire. I mean it was never the best show, but that ending just sucked hard.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

had a busy day of using the vacuum cleaner , playing records and writing messages to mates planned but husband is home and he needs quiet

so will go and pick up some shopping instead ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Okay, seems Iโ€™m full of questions this evening.

Peeps who work in academia, plsโ€ฆ How do late penalties on assignments work? This is going to sound so stupid, but I really am confused about this. I always thought the late penalty was applied to the final mark, but it seems not. It is applied to the total possible mark? Can someone give me an example of how this is applied? (Also, is this standard across Universities?)

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Just to add. I did a quick google search and Monash and Deakin and a number of other uni have it as 5% per late day of total marks achievable.

So I hate to ask but were you a week late in submitting something?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

When I was back in uni it used to be 10% off for a day late till I think 50% then you fail.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Flinders platform 12 always smells like piss ๐Ÿคฎ

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