Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip
on 24 Sep 19:38
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I’m fairly certain you’re right, I just can’t remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.
Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.
there’s probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that’s to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.
bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus’s cum that gets summoned from Set’s body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum
there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
on 25 Sep 05:28
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Look it doesn’t matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Sep 20:23
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Best show <3
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 24 Sep 22:28
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Meh, imo compared to most of Star Trek or Babylon 5 it was kinda mid (even Star Wars - The Clone War was better). Just basically American mil-prop but in space.
Let me remind you of the original premise: A conspiracy theorist nutjobeccentric professor (thinks aliens build the pyramids, but is somehow still allowed to lecture at an university) is hired by the military to help them explore an unknown world where they have to save uncivilised savageshelpless slaves (using, you’ve guessed it: guns) from an evil dictatorall powerfull god (who still needs slaves tho).
The more I think about it, it’s not even mid, it’s crap. It has no wonder for what’s beyond the stars, just a constant psychotic fear of anything that could even remotely be considered a danger to AmericaEarth. And the only solution to it is shoot at it.
cybervseas@lemmy.world
on 24 Sep 23:09
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If you watch too many episodes at once you realize they all end in shootouts, and then you feel sad.
That was because we like shootouts. It’s sad yes, but also fun.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social
on 25 Sep 21:10
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“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode”
Jesus_666@lemmy.world
on 25 Sep 00:02
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They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 25 Sep 03:30
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Instructions unclear: Revolt, enjoy your new dictator, and ignore the CIA agents out back unloading cocaine.
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 25 Sep 05:34
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They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there.
That’s why they are always sending armed soliders first?
Milprop is often like that: Oh no we’re the diplomatic good guys forced to fight. Why are they making us do this? We could’ve been friends, if you just allowed us to install our puppetsigned our trade agreement. Now we unfortunately have to raze your cities and salt your fields. I hope you’re sorry :'(
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Sep 17:57
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I mean, that argument can be applied against Star Trek too, they always send an armed warship to make first contact.
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 25 Sep 19:39
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They don’t go in with guns/phasers ready, heck most of the times they don’t even raise shields beforehand.
And they have a whole protocol and rules for this:
Before engaging alien species in battle, any and all attempts to make first contact and achieve non-military resolution must be made
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 25 Sep 22:10
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Which is the same thing SG-1 did, make peaceful contact with weapons for defense.
Even with shields down a federation starship is still a very capable warship.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
on 26 Sep 08:31
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the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
on 05 Oct 12:12
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it also, uh, kinda repeatedly pointed out how the military kinda sucks as a structure and how a lot of the time individuals have to ignore orders and rules in order to do do the humane thing.
SGC was good because it was filled with good people, hammond had a powerful conscience which motivated him to let things slide and to do what he could to prevent other parts of the military and government from ruining the good work people were doing.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Sep 01:07
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It’s okay to be wrong =p
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 25 Sep 05:16
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I know, I don’t hold it against you :D
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Sep 04:01
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Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 25 Sep 05:17
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Ah, okay my bad. Whatched that movie 10+ years ago and that’s how I’ve remembered it.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de
on 25 Sep 17:07
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you certainly have very strong opinions about something you can’t exactly remember. It’s ok to be wrong though we won’t hold it against you :-)
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org
on 25 Sep 19:33
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Oh absolutely, and I’ll happily admit it. I know almost nothing about SG, but then again I have some strong opinions about christianity without having read the work of fiction they base their whole lives around.
I just remember that your mother should stone you to death, if you wear clothing woven from two types of fabric or sth along those lines. Who cares about details of a mediocre work of fiction?
And the military not even consulting a real scientist makes its antiinterlectualism worse lol
The big sci fi win in stargate is how highly they rated internal consistency and having a scientific basis where possible. Apparently that was mostly because the actress playing Carter absolutely refused to tell bullshit gobbledegook and forced the writers to do it properly.
It’s subtle, and not always perfectly followed, but if you take the episode where they gate to the black hole, they have significant screen time justifying why the time dilation is so strong when the gravitational effects are so weak. It shouldn’t work that way and they acknowledge that explicitly, but obviously they wanted a fun time dilation story so they call it out and explain it as an unexpected side effect of the gate wormhole. So sure, they sometimes make science do what they need it to do for the story, but they try hard to justify it.
Star Trek meanwhile barely follows its own rules most of the time, let alone actually acknowledging real physics
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
on 26 Sep 08:28
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it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
on 25 Sep 07:38
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they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social
on 25 Sep 11:34
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Carter did blow up a sun…
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
on 25 Sep 21:03
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IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
Now Rodney who fired up that unstable energy chamber again after it had already fried one guy on the other hand…
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
on 24 Sep 21:15
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That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird things like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
smiletolerantly@awful.systems
on 25 Sep 12:30
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I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?
No. The show is cancelled before they wrap up anything.
Personally, I’d still watch it anyway because the show is so goddamn weird you can’t find anything like it anywhere else.
For anyone reading who hasn’t seen it, I would describe it as the most metal (🤘) show I’ve ever seen.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems
on 25 Sep 16:04
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ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.
Could anyone please name the show? Ppl in the know keep referring to it as the show but could the oblivious ones get into the inner circle as well, please?
It’s called Raised By Wolves. It was on HBO Max before Zaslov took over. He scrapped it completely and pulled it off the platform. I think it’s on one of those free ad-supported channels now.
It’s quite hard to describe. At its core, it’s a sci-fi series focused on a couple of androids who are sent to raise human kids on another planet when Earth is destroyed by a religious war.
Beyond that, it’s like someone took LSD before writing the weirdest sci-fi shit they could think of. I mean like:
Tap for spoiler
androids giving birth to flying snakes, acid aliens storing babies in their chest cavity, and people turning into trees
I don’t even know how to describe it without spoilers because it’s so wild. I absolutely loved it.
Okay I think I might have watched the first episode or I watch at least the preview for it and it was one of those shows that I wanted to watch but I’ve got so many that it just hasn’t gone to that point yet. Guess I’m going to have to dig that out here soon.
I had watched the first half of the first episode and then got called away for something and didnt go back until about a year later when people recommended it. I restarted the episode and almost stopped again but then the ending just went off the rails and I got much more interested
As someone who did watch it on acid, fully agreed. I had to rewatch it sober because I thought the whole show had been a fever dream. It was even trippier sober.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Sep 16:00
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I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like “no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that’s crimson shepherd’s crooks, not sunbursts”
That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns
The moon is super important because it shines during the night when it’s dark, while the sun is only ever in the sky during the day when it’s bright outside, so it’s much less important.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
on 25 Sep 12:31
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Not to me they’re not, I think we should stop giving tides so much attention. Ocean goes up, ocean goes down, blah blah blah, such a neat trick. Ridiculous.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
on 24 Sep 20:11
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Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
Support_Depot@sh.itjust.works
on 24 Sep 21:21
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threaded - newest
One of the rockets sprays water at the sun.
This is to see what would happen, but is also an attempt at extinguishing the sun.
This reminds me of: youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
Didn’t Cyclops convince a Sentinel to do something similar?
Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.
Ya know what happened to Apep(the deity)?
He got his fucking ass kicked by Ra. Hell, if I remember right, he also gets his ass kicked by Horus at least once.
Basically, don’t fuck with the sun. It’s got hands. And a beak.
Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
I’m fairly certain you’re right, I just can’t remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.
Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.
there’s probably a version of the myth for each. you know how the Greeks kinda had an established canon for their mythology? Egyptians did not lmao, there are very few (if any at all tbf) constants in their religion and the 3000 years of an Empire has produces many different versions of the state standard, and that’s to not even mention the stuff nobody wrote down.
bonus fun fact! in some versions of the infamous cum salad myth Thoth creates a solar disk made out of Horus’s cum that gets summoned from Set’s body at the trial. next time you look at Thoth know that his hat is made of cum
there is also a goddess who is a brick, she has a human face and the rest is a brick :)
Look it doesn’t matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
<img alt="" src="https://leminal.space/pictrs/image/e326ec32-644e-4e95-bda7-a2b29beda7ed.jpeg">
We stand for Sol
<img alt="The team of SG-1" src="https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/cf216498-4847-4876-83f4-f660840c25a5.webp">
We stand against false gods.
Best show <3
Meh, imo compared to most of Star Trek or Babylon 5 it was kinda mid (even Star Wars - The Clone War was better). Just basically American mil-prop but in space.
Let me remind you of the original premise: A
conspiracy theorist nutjobeccentric professor (thinks aliens build the pyramids, but is somehow still allowed to lecture at an university) is hired by the military to help them explore an unknown world where they have to saveuncivilised savageshelpless slaves (using, you’ve guessed it: guns) from anevil dictatorall powerfull god (who still needs slaves tho).The more I think about it, it’s not even mid, it’s crap. It has no wonder for what’s beyond the stars, just a constant psychotic fear of anything that could even remotely be considered a danger to
AmericaEarth. And the only solution to it is shoot at it.If you watch too many episodes at once you realize they all end in shootouts, and then you feel sad.
That was because we like shootouts. It’s sad yes, but also fun.
“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode”
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
Instructions unclear: Revolt, enjoy your new dictator, and ignore the CIA agents out back unloading cocaine.
That’s why they are always sending armed soliders first?
Milprop is often like that: Oh no we’re the diplomatic good guys forced to fight. Why are they making us do this? We could’ve been friends, if you just
allowed us to install our puppetsigned our trade agreement. Now we unfortunately have to raze your cities and salt your fields. I hope you’re sorry :'(They’re sending a robot with a camera first.
Then it’s two soldiers + two scientists.
isn’t daniel like, technically a civilian all the way through?
No, citizenship doesn’t apply to ascended beings.
I mean, that argument can be applied against Star Trek too, they always send an armed warship to make first contact.
They don’t go in with guns/phasers ready, heck most of the times they don’t even raise shields beforehand.
And they have a whole protocol and rules for this:
Which is the same thing SG-1 did, make peaceful contact with weapons for defense.
Even with shields down a federation starship is still a very capable warship.
the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.
it also, uh, kinda repeatedly pointed out how the military kinda sucks as a structure and how a lot of the time individuals have to ignore orders and rules in order to do do the humane thing.
SGC was good because it was filled with good people, hammond had a powerful conscience which motivated him to let things slide and to do what he could to prevent other parts of the military and government from ruining the good work people were doing.
It’s okay to be wrong =p
I know, I don’t hold it against you :D
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
Ah, okay my bad. Whatched that movie 10+ years ago and that’s how I’ve remembered it.
you certainly have very strong opinions about something you can’t exactly remember. It’s ok to be wrong though we won’t hold it against you :-)
Oh absolutely, and I’ll happily admit it. I know almost nothing about SG, but then again I have some strong opinions about christianity without having read the work of fiction they base their whole lives around.
I just remember that your mother should stone you to death, if you wear clothing woven from two types of fabric or sth along those lines. Who cares about details of a mediocre work of fiction?
And the military not even consulting a real scientist makes its antiinterlectualism worse lol
.
Boo.
Haters gonna hate Gaters gonna gate
The big sci fi win in stargate is how highly they rated internal consistency and having a scientific basis where possible. Apparently that was mostly because the actress playing Carter absolutely refused to tell bullshit gobbledegook and forced the writers to do it properly.
It’s subtle, and not always perfectly followed, but if you take the episode where they gate to the black hole, they have significant screen time justifying why the time dilation is so strong when the gravitational effects are so weak. It shouldn’t work that way and they acknowledge that explicitly, but obviously they wanted a fun time dilation story so they call it out and explain it as an unexpected side effect of the gate wormhole. So sure, they sometimes make science do what they need it to do for the story, but they try hard to justify it.
Star Trek meanwhile barely follows its own rules most of the time, let alone actually acknowledging real physics
it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.
they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.
Carter did blow up a sun…
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
Now Rodney who fired up that unstable energy chamber again after it had already fried one guy on the other hand…
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird things like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
Raised by wolfs
Appreciate it, thanks! :D
I think this is from Raised by Wolves, which is a wacky ass scifi thing.
Much appreciated! Have always loved wacky ass sci-fi things! :D
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
I’m still upset that this was canceled.
I liked the first 80% of the first season, and stopped watching halfway into S02E01. Is it worth continuing? Do we get any answers? Are they satisfying?
No. The show is cancelled before they wrap up anything.
Personally, I’d still watch it anyway because the show is so goddamn weird you can’t find anything like it anywhere else.
For anyone reading who hasn’t seen it, I would describe it as the most metal (🤘) show I’ve ever seen.
ALright, thanks for the recommendation :) And yeah, “weird” and “metal” are good descriptions. Additionally, the backstory we got in S1 was definitely “fire”.
Could anyone please name the show? Ppl in the know keep referring to it as the show but could the oblivious ones get into the inner circle as well, please?
Raised By Wolves
Thank you
What is this show?
It’s called Raised By Wolves. It was on HBO Max before Zaslov took over. He scrapped it completely and pulled it off the platform. I think it’s on one of those free ad-supported channels now.
The show is produced by Ridley Scott and his production company Scott Free Productions .
It’s quite hard to describe. At its core, it’s a sci-fi series focused on a couple of androids who are sent to raise human kids on another planet when Earth is destroyed by a religious war.
Beyond that, it’s like someone took LSD before writing the weirdest sci-fi shit they could think of. I mean like:
Tap for spoiler
androids giving birth to flying snakes, acid aliens storing babies in their chest cavity, and people turning into trees
I don’t even know how to describe it without spoilers because it’s so wild. I absolutely loved it.
Okay I think I might have watched the first episode or I watch at least the preview for it and it was one of those shows that I wanted to watch but I’ve got so many that it just hasn’t gone to that point yet. Guess I’m going to have to dig that out here soon.
Do give it a watch but don’t rush. They cancelled the show before ending it so it’s very unsatisfying.
I had watched the first half of the first episode and then got called away for something and didnt go back until about a year later when people recommended it. I restarted the episode and almost stopped again but then the ending just went off the rails and I got much more interested
As someone who did watch it on acid, fully agreed. I had to rewatch it sober because I thought the whole show had been a fever dream. It was even trippier sober.
I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like “no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that’s crimson shepherd’s crooks, not sunbursts”
That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns
the Romans knew the sun as Sol Invictus, or “The Unconquerable Sun”. Ever hear the story about the man who conquered the sun?
Me either
Mao. Why do you think the East is Red?
Wouldn’t they hit the moon instead?
Yea extinguish that mf. Dude causes way too much light pollution already
The moon is super important because it shines during the night when it’s dark, while the sun is only ever in the sky during the day when it’s bright outside, so it’s much less important.
Thank you Terry.
I think tides might be important too
Not to me they’re not, I think we should stop giving tides so much attention. Ocean goes up, ocean goes down, blah blah blah, such a neat trick. Ridiculous.
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
So he shot at the sun with a gun
Sounds like fun.
But it weighed a ton and then some.
A prop of your such on the night’s bun wouldn’t matter despite the weight needed when done.
Apep… I mean… I get why they’d want to extinguish the sun, I can’t imagine they had a good time in grade school with a name like “Apep…”
NASA has a huge history of nerdy names with mythological references, allegedly rituals too
Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn’t expect anything less
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Founded JPL and Aerojet He was also a Thelemite occultist
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
The stache really sells it 😄
I think Thanos sells it. Mostly because he a gave fuck about Mani. Totally.
The tv show strange angel is about him and its wild.
Oh wow! I just learned about this dude yesterday lmao
Atrocity Guide just posted a video about him recently, wild shit
He also got scammed by Elron Hubbard out of his mansion and fortune which Hubbard basically used to found scientology
NO.
c/whatadamnmin
A word for this is ‘backronym’
Don’t piss off Aten
Literally the plot of American Gods