Episode 6

April 3, 2008 on 5:35 pm | In Podcast |

 

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And I know we don’t usually do this sort of thing, but here are some show notes just to keep you on your toes:

• I’m ill, so I sound husky and quiet and try to avoid talking. I fail miserably.
• Tauhid is once again absent, most likely due to our irregular recording time this week.
• I go over my experiences of the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing, which I attended on the 22nd.
• Scifi sub-genres.
• The deus ex machina: Does it exist? And are any of us capable of pronouncing it properly?
• The fine line between parody, homage and plagiarism.
• Keeping track of your comic’s continuity.
• Talking about Tauhid behind his back.

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1. I really enjoy your podcast but I disagree wiht the whole technobable argument. As much as you will be horrified real engineers do speak like they are out of an episode of Star Trek. In fact there has been one time where the technobable actually made sense from a science prospective. I forget which episode it was but I do know it was in the first season of DS9. It was a really cool solution but the problem was that only three other people on the face of the earth would have understood the science.

   Comment by Adam Y. — April 4, 2008 #

2. [...] We respond to Adam Y’s comment concerning Technobabble. [...]

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3. Whether it’s accurate or not, I think technobabble gets in the way of the story development. If it’s actually meant to mean something, that’s one thing. If it’s just stringing random buzzwords together, that’s a waste of airtime.

   But then, I should probably listen to episode 7 before I comment any more on that.

   (And admittedly, as an engineering student, I’m probably as bad about technobabble as any Star Trek character ever was.)

   Comment by Entity325 — April 8, 2008 #

4. Technobabble is bad when it does not ring true to a character or situation (IE, when something is described in excessive detail or too precisely under stress, etc), and when it undermines suspension of disbelief (good rule of thumb: be vague about how it works unless there’s no way to avoid it).

   Technobabble is acceptable when it is authentic to a character or situation.

   Comment by Anonymous — May 7, 2008 #

5. [...] another Technobabble response, this time to a comment left by an anonymous stranger, lurking in the shadows of our [...]

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