Quote from: SM on Jun 06, 2020, 10:59:35 AM
I wouldn't worry too much about the iPad. The co-ordinates are for Chile and Mexico. They don't appear to be references to the earlier flicks (even if that might've been the intent).
! You scooped me, sir! I just mentioned those bogus coords in another dorky thread. That's some ol' graphic's dept shenanigans, right there. Don't they know how passionate we are??
Yeah man, there's been this massive demonstration going on up here today, with explosions and honking and shouting and helicopters, I can't get the opening scene of the
Running Man out of my head. I've been super distracted just trying to keep up with events and check in on peeps, both out there demonstrating, and scared loved ones who are just freaked out, my cat included.
But overall there's been a crazy outpouring of support, love, and positivity, The incredible solidarity marches and demonstrations from out of Africa, Japan, the UK, Germany, South America, the marches in Melbourne and Sydney, the Hakas out from New Zealand, it's all been... overwhelming, but it really feels like something huge is actually happening. It's a lot for the 'ol wee little noggin to process, and transitioning off some adhd meds, damn, I feel more scattered than a blast pattern from the Hicks' Family Shotgun.
Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Jun 06, 2020, 01:25:25 PM
Quote from: SpaceKase on Jun 05, 2020, 07:32:42 PM
Okay dude, but when your excuses start getting this nuanced, you gotta start to think... Maybe you just like drinking and it's not about the predator monster after all.
Hey!!!
I resemble that remark!!!
X'D hahaha, no judgement sir, no judgement.
Quote from: lightsyder on Jun 06, 2020, 02:07:08 PM
"therapy through mapping fictional spacetimes"...I like that! Lol. It's just fun working on this kind of stuff and digging into the lore. You should see my Stargate timeline...lol
I'm working on a Predator timeline now which is what spawned these questions in the first place. I'm getting ready to read Hunters and Hunted then on to Hunting Grounds prequel.
Hell yeah I wanna see that SG timeline! Question, how do you handle the original movie in the rest of the lore? Like, is Abydos in the Kaliem Galaxy or the Milky Way? Also, did you ever get a chance read the books that are direct sequels to the Film, like a totally alternate continuity from what SG1 ended up becoming? They're very rad, as long as you can separate out the divergent universes from each other in your head. I remember loving them and feeling
totally threatened by the rise of the SG1 continuity.
Re: Hunters and Hunted, I recommend the Audio book for all those mindless chore times and stuff. Blackstone Publishing had been doing this cool thing where they've been having all the recent Predator novels read by James Patrick Cronin. He's not my
immediate favorite but he really grows on me after a while and it really makes it feel like there's a greater sense of continuity with the world of the stories, moreso than just the stories themselves.
Quote from: SM on Jun 06, 2020, 09:48:39 PM
I just started reading Hunters and Hunted myself.
I'd be interested to see what you come up with the Predator timeline when you're done.
Ha, oh man, you and me both. Its a complex and living creature! But fortunately the weird cross-section of Alien monster enthusiasts, survivalists, and history buffs lend a lot of specificity to the story telling and a lot of them end up being dated specifically which, as I'm sure you found yourself, takes a lot of the grunt work out of it, but it's a nice change of pace looking backwards sometimes instead of always forwards.
It's the most ambiguous of the stories that end up the most fun, and biggest pain in the ass. The latter half of "
If it Bleeds" ended up being a begrudging blast. But all the loose threads from the earliest comics sting the most. I really want to know more about the modern characters from
The Bloody Sands of Time! But alas, like the fabled Plateau of Leng, or the final chapters of "
Crusade" they're all lost in time, like tears in rain.
Quote from: lightsyder on Jun 06, 2020, 11:07:32 PM
Be happy to share! Your alien universe timeline is excellent by the way! Great work
Agreed! In spite of any suspicions to the contrary, I'm a huge fan of
SM's work. Like the work of Mike & Denise Okuda, Geoff Mandel and Larry Nemecek, and Jason Fry & Daniel Wallace, before him. Research and data-collating beasts, one and all.