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088 – Bad Rack

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:07:59 +0000

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Top 5 Video Games With Bad or Low Graphics

Extraterrestrials By Kenneth Eng

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:26:24 +0000

I’m not sure if this counts as spam, so feel free to delete it if it is.

I’m Kenneth Eng, the sci fi novelist. I’d like to let everyone know about my latest novel, Extraterrestrials. It’s a story in which all of the characters are aliens. None of them look or act like humans. More importantly, it is a realistic portrayal of what real aliens would be like.

Here’s the link on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Extraterrestrials-...B006W1D2Y2

Any new fans would be appreciated.

Get Well Soon Aaron!!!

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:05:29 +0000

Aaron is going into the hospital today. I hope he gets better soon and wish him luck and my prayers. Hopefully we'll have him back podcasting soon enough!!

Star Trek The Next Level

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:03:56 +0000

Like a bunch of other here, I got the Blu-Ray sampler of Next Generation today. I've yet to watch it and am excited about watching it after reading reviews, but I bought it with a bit of trepidation. I feel like I'm being used by the Paramount and I am and so are all us fans when they re-release things or do what they are doing here. There are a few reasons why this bothered me a bit.

1) The first episode of the series was an obvious choice for this sampler, but why didn't they include anything else that would highlight the new effects like Best of Both Worlds? - Because they knew that a lot of people would want that episode and would buy this sampler and not bother with the set (s) since they will have to buy 2 seasons to get both episodes of the 2 parter.

2) They really couldn't find the 13 seconds of Sins of the Father or did they do this to highlight the greatness of the video restoration. It is obviously going to blow people's minds when it goes from those 13 seconds to a restored scene. I guarantee that scene will be "found" when the set is released.

3) While $15 isn't a bad price, this is a sampler and should have been $10, especially being that some will go out and buy the sets. For that matter, if you buy the set, shouldn't you get a discount coupon or money back if you can prove you bought the sampler???

I'm not going to buy the sets. I have a feeling they are going to be $99.95 - 149.95 in price, which is too much for me. I haven't bought TOS yet and loved what they did and LOVE the original series. I just bought the fan collective sets for $10 a piece at Big Lots, so I have 3 of the episodes on this Blu-Ray, yet I bought it anyway, because I was dying to see what they did and knew I wouldn't buy the sets for monetary reasons.

Paramount has 2 big franchises, Friday the 13th and Star Trek and they have continuously screwed fans of both with re-releases and high priced sets, yet like the others, I've come back. They released the Friday the 13th set with little extras and not with extended cuts of the films. Yet a few years later, released the first movie uncut. Since there was a Blu-Ray release, I upgraded that movie. Paramount isn't the only studio, this is becoming the standard. Release a cut rate version of a property and then release a better version later on. The fans will buy!!

Does anyone feel the same way? I know this was negative, but I really feel like fans get exploited a little too much!!

087 - Jedi Gotta Jed

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:14:41 +0000

Show Notes

Top 5 Sci-Fi Weapons

Mirrormask

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:54:48 +0000

I've just finished watching Mirrormask, I enjoyed the movie when I first saw it on DVD years ago, I recently picked up the Blu-ray and I enjoyed seeing Mirrormask once again but I was stunned at the improvement in picture quality on the Blu-ray version.

SciFiDig 304 – Supernatural Season Two pt2

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:50:40 +0000

http://www.scifidig.com/?p=1459

SciFiDig 303 - Supernatural Season Two pt1

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:08:15 +0000

http://www.scifidig.com/?p=1455

086 – Explosatory Accident

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:07:20 +0000

Show Notes

Year-End Wrapup Part 2
Top 5 Video Games
Favorite Topics We’ve Done
Voice mail

Deleted Accounts

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:36:45 +0000

I was just in the admin console and something weird happened, as you know we’ve been getting heavily spammed and I’ve been getting moderation requests from the forum software all day, I was looking at a page and it disappeared and then reappeared with with about 15 new fake accounts however the accounts that were all on the page I was looking seem to have been deleted even though nothing had been selected – these include Batwing, cardmage, crazy_nusto, Bruce R, Blaque saber, Derek Coward , Dragon 57 (?) and a couple of others who I can’t remember, it would only affect 6 - 8 accounts who's names start with A - D, it was really wierd - I'm really sorry guys but I have no idea what happened it was like the page refreshed or something updated and whatever was being viewed at the time got wiped out.

085 - Natalie Portly

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:56:05 +0000

Show Notes

Year-End Wrap-Up Part 1
Top 5 Movies of 2011
Top 5 TV Shows of 2011

SciFiDig 302 - the 2011 Discoveries show

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:33:53 +0000

http://www.scifidig.com/?p=1452

Outlander

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:01:43 +0000

This was a blind buy for me, I hadn't heard much about the movie beyond it's basic concept but when I saw the Blu-ray on sale I thought I'd take a punt and I picked it up, what a good move that turned out to be because the movie far exceeded my expectations and I really enjoyed it.

Hunter Prey

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:37:17 +0000

This weekend, I had all the Showtime offerings for free on On Demand and caught this little gem. I had read about it at some point and wanted to see it. Very cool film! A low budget scifi with impressive costumes, props, atmosphere and music. I think most Diggers would love it! It is OOP on Amazon, but there are copies out there cheap.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270291/

Superman: The Animated Series

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:42:55 +0000

I just started watching my Superman: The Complete Animated Series boxset, I missed a lot of the episodes when they were originally on TV here ( in Australia ), so far I'm enjoying the show a lot, I was disappointed to see half of the DVDs are double sided discs though.

Did you have a geeky holiday?

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:57:52 +0000

I had a Star Trek Christmas this year.

I got a vintage-looking Star Trek T-shirt from Old Navy, a book "Star Trek Vault: 40 Years from the Archives", and the game Star Trek: Fleet Captains.

Beam me up.

Nutty Debate - Geek Gifts

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:41:18 +0000

http://nimlas.org/blog/nuttybites/nutty-...eek-gifts/

Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2011

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:08:44 +0000

Diggers, it's that time of year again for "best of" lists. This one is courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle: Best scifi/fantasy books 2011. There are some very intriguing selections.

Nutty Bites 11: November

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:53:04 +0000

http://nimlas.org/blog/nuttybites/nutty-...-november/

083 - Stargate SG1 Season 6 Part 2

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:41:33 +0000

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