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That kit you posted reminds me of the 200-in-1 electronics kit Radio Shack use to make. It was what I cut my teeth on when i was smol and impressionable.
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Very cool - I remember those! I got my start with The American Basic Science Club[^] 
It even came with a radioactive sample to demonstrate the spinthariscope and cloud chamber! Simpler times... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Looks good.
 Meh... I'm SO tired of prequels / sequels / remakes.
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In today's world, that doesn't leave out much.
Prequels/sequels, I'll put up with. If the material is decent enough.
All-out reboots are never any good IMO. That shows a severe lack of imagination.
What I'm totally done with (and it's been the case for over two decades for me) is comic book movies.
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dandy72 wrote: What I'm totally done with (and it's been the case for over two decades for me) is comic book movies.
Agreed. It seems with each successive movie/show/book, it's less about the characters and their stories and more about the writers'/publishers' agendas. The last 2-3 years has been an order of magnitude worse.
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Then they run out of ideas and "reboot" the franchise.
Whenever something is "rebooted", I feel like it's the producers telling me to forget about anything that has happened until now, this time around, it's the story that was really, really meant to be told (and we mean it this time)...
Needless to say, that doesn't work for me. It's insulting to the audience's intelligence. If you can't tell an ongoing story that doesn't conflict with what you've established before, it's time to give it a rest.
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The first time a new story is done well is amazing - the first (yet 4th) Star Wars movie, the first Indiana Jones story. Those are the ones I enjoy. Anything after that is just milking the idea - trying to do bigger and better -- and I lose interest.
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Looks interesting, but as a series meh.
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Mike Hankey wrote: as a series meh
The 3 movies (extended) totaled 10+ hours. They could have made it into a series.
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With a movie you have a set time to tell the story; introduce the characters, tell the story and finally fold everything together for an ending. Whether it's 90 mins or 10+ hours there is closure.
With a TV series there is an ongoing story, it becomes a soap serial just drifting.
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I'd disagree, in some cases.
The Expanse as a movie would have been as cr@p as Ender's Game was: far too much cut out to fit into a couple of hours.
There are other examples: Picard, Babylon 5 (the movies were ... erm ... terrible), Game of Thrones.
Movies are generally a short story long: a TV series (done right) is a novel! Followed by Book 2 for the second season if we're lucky - I can't think of a sequel movie that wasn't just a rehash of the first with a slightly different plot.
That's not say that all TV is brilliant: most of it is tedious drivel. but it does allow more time to set the scene, introduce the characters, get the story rolling - without the need to cram that into the first ten minutes so they can get to blowing stuff up! 
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Not all movies are good, and not all TV is bad, I was just generalizing.
Well not TV TV as it's commercials with a very short story rolled in somewhere. A lot of it is just reality TV anymore.
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Mike Hankey wrote: With a movie you have a set time to tell the story; introduce the characters, tell the story and finally fold everything together for an ending.
Which is why I don't mind 3-hour movies. If you can rush all of that into a 90-minute movie - you don't have much to draw from anyway.
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If it's a good story I agree, but there's been so many that drag a 90 min movie into 3 hours of boring, unrelated crap!
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I suspect there's more good stories that have been condensed/butchered into a 90 minute movie, than there are bad stories that could have been told in 90-minute movies but stretched into 3 hours.
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OriginalGriff wrote: The Rings of Power-Main
Wow, that was quick. The guys are only just moving the sockets on the mains power rings in Sander's office today! 
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Sander's Office: Outlets of Power, the new drama series out on Amazon Prime this winter
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The title says it. My replies to threads are being identified as potential spam and quarantined pending moderation. Why?
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Because your account is fairly new, so your posts have to go through moderators. Once you reach a certain number of rep points, this will no longer happen.
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Here, have some rep points.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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So I moved to a new office back in February.
Everything's fine, except for these power outlets (that are like 10 to 20 cm high) that are on the floor in the middle of the room (which probably made sense in the 80's, when this building was built).
Multiple people, including myself, regularly (almost) trip over them, so they have to go before someone breaks their neck over them.
I asked some electricians to move them, but I get very high prices because no one is really waiting for this kind of work.
It includes some drilling in a concrete floor on the first floor (second floor if you're in America).
Today is finally the day and they drilled through a water pipe 
The boiler is in someone's office that's never locked, except today.
They're now removing the concrete floor and a plumber is on his way.
Meanwhile, the other tenants and I don't have water.
At this point I just hope they'll be fixing it today and that they won't charge me for it.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure their terms mentioned something about this 
Who knew moving some outlets is one of the harder (and more expensive) things in life? 
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