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It's a long one, I only watched up to the carjacker story before the first mid roll ad.

Yeah, I'm trying to just look at the positive stuff he did.

Yeah, his imitation of that Springfield, (MO?) guy was hilarious. I never watched too many of his videos, but I may go back and see what all he had. I mostly saw him in crossovers.

Nice! I should probably get a cooling pad for when I play games on my "not necessarily a gaming laptop, but has good enough specs to play most older 360/PS3 games" laptop. 

I've been thinking about doing that monthly fee cloud thing where you get all the cool Adobe software without outright buying it for however many thousand or close to a thousand dollars.

I could argue the first story is somewhat akin to a "soldier rebuilt" story like Robocop, only with foreigners using him for their purposes, but I will say I couldn't think of anything based on that theme that necessarily has to be related to the times in which the book was written. With Robocop, it was definitely about 80s excess and other metaphors for that decade, but I don't know about Space Wars. 

The second one sounds a bit Trekky to me, cause isn't that basically what the Enterprise does? Granted A Voyage to Arcturus is different regions of the same planet representing different philosophies, where in Trek it's different philosophies for each planet, but to me, that's mostly an aesthetic difference. I'd say that one is still someone focused on reality, just not necessarily restricted to a particular time in history, since philosophy is something that will always be around in some form. 

I'll check those out if I ever get to, they sound interesting.

I saw Tron: Legacy in IMAX 3D and thought the same thing. Too bad I'll have to watch Gravity on DVD if I do get around to seeing it. 

What sci-fi stories would you say were not really about the present in some way?

Nah, I'll just play my backlog so I don't have to choose or spend money. It's all good.

Honestly, I think most sci-fi is some form of moral tale about the culture of some time period, but it does get to be a bit too on the nose and uninsteresting. My gripe is with bland dystopian futuristic settings instead of interesting, vibrant ones.

I dig the music. 

I don't have much interest in the CGI effects or cheesiness of the Underworld or I, Frankenstein movies (I think the same people made the latter and former), but hope you have a good time.

Only in Aberdeen, WA, U.S.A., but I plan to celebrate from Texas, so I think everyone can go ahead and get their grunge on.

I feel guilty about having grocery shopped for some very basic items just now, because I'm not sure I cut as many corners as I could have, so an iPad Mini will have to wait until I get out of grad school. lol