I somehow got into this argument and the other guy just kinda stopped so please allow me to tell you why domes are betterโฆ
Old Man Ted, the bakery shop owner, lies in the square dead, with two bullet holes in his temple.
There's this show I watched as a kid in the early 2000s that I cannot find anywhere. It was on VHS and I remember having 2 tapes(/2 parts) of it, so it either only had a few episodes or was a two part movie. The cover was mostly purple I believe. I lived in Australia when I watched it, buts it's possible it's from the USA. Edit: it was also animated/cartoon and in colour, and the language was English.
What I remember of the show was there was a sailor boy (possibly had a pet animal? Monkey?? Really not sure about that). He was sailing on a ship and drops his sextant in the water and later he (and maybe the ship too?) get sucked into a whirlpool and he ends up in an underwater city, which had massive domes around it I believe. It was basically Atlantis, though I don't know for sure that's what they called it. It's not Disney's Atlantis, despite what every Google search tries to tell me but sadly mentioning Atlantis with a kids show always circles back to that.
Does anyone know what this was called? My mum threw out my VHS tapes and I really wanted to watch this again if I can find it. Thank you for any help in advance!
I borrowed this from my UK secondary school library (so it was deemed suitable for 11-16 year olds) some time in the early 90s.
I can't remember much about it other than one particular scene, but I'll list the things I do remember:
It was a sci fi novel set in an enclosed domed city in a world where the atmosphere outside was poisonous. At one point the protagonist is exiled from the city, and thinks they're going to die. The bit I remember is them breathing the air and it being excruciatingly painful, but then after a while the pain subsides and it turns out it's breathable after all. This is a huge surprise: the entire culture of the city is based on the idea that it's impossible to survive outside.
I think the protagonist might have been a young girl? But I'm not certain.
I'm fairly sure the cover was a mostly single colour picture of the domed city surrounded by a barren wasteland. A hot colour: Red or orange or yellow.
I also think maybe it was part of a trilogy? Possibly the other two books had similar covers but with different colours. Not sure, I might have invented that part.
Any suggestions would be very welcome! I've tried to find this a few times over the years, but there are a million sci fi novels based around domed cities and I've had no luck so far.
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It's a fiction book in which the main character lives in a city with climate and government controlled by an AI system, in which there is a facility that houses the deceased in cryostasis for when technology comes along that can revive them. The MC's grandparent I believe had previously been frozen there. I remember a specific paragraph where it described an experiment about freezing and reconstituting eels to prove that the science was possible.
The MC (I don't remember their gender) was accused of a crime and sentenced by an AI judge incapable of understanding emotion or intent to be frozen. They manage to escape the pod and end up wandering the facility, and meet a group of 3 or 4 girls who the facility's direction had revived, though they were ice burned and depended on spoiled food to survive, and were described as being birdlike from their burns. I don't think that was the full plot, but it's what I remember best.
It was set in the near-future, I'd guess around the 2040s or so, and I believe it was written some time between 2008-2012. I don't recall the exact time I read it, only that I was not particularly young. It seemed to be young adult demographic. I'm fairly sure I read it from a school library, but I wouldn't say so confidently.
The cover was primarily a pale bluish-gray background, and I think the text was similarly pale and a little hard to read. I don't recall any details but I think I remember some smudge like a mountain?
Hopefully this is enough.
Does anyone else feels unhappy with how PB managed these dispute quest lines?
It was one of my favorite quest lines, I was really pumped up for its consequences. But damn that conclusion ruined everything. Why they had to make it so black and white without flavor.
I believe Clerics had the moral high ground in this dispute so I supported them in almost every quest. Weapons delivered to Alois, dome fixed without being altered, communication relay restored without being bugged, Elex supply delivered to Hort, outlaws suppressed etc...
But in the end, it was still a massacre. Why? Outlaws/Separatists didnโt have the means nor the motives to rebel.
In my opinion this dispute shouldโve had at least 4 amounts of outcomes:
First, you give full support to clerics and its status quo, nobody gets hurt. Maybe an execution for Paige and Nyra for plotting against the regime. (Nyra because of her note stating that she will further the separatist cause)
Second, you give weapons to outlaws, donโt suppress them, donโt exile separatists etc and itโs our standard massacre.
Third, you give weapons to outlaws, donโt suppress them, bug the relay therefore revealing Hortโs influence in Abessa and the shipment of mechs, but donโt alter dome. Maybe give Elex package to Paige or separatists. Conclusion should be a revolution of outlaws/separatists with berserkersโ support since they know about Clerics plan - reverse scenario of the massacre. Alois is replaced by a new council of Abessa - Paige, Fenk(or Nyra) and Caleb.
Fourth, altering the dome guarantees an alb attack and the city gets destroyed disregarding your actions in the city. Maybe giving outlaws weapons and not exiling separatists reduces the alb population aftermath since they also fought against them.
What are your thoughts? I was just sooo disappointed with only two black and white conclusions that I had to get it out of my chest lol.
I wanna join Clerics and I wodner if I should go to them now or if I should go to Tavar before? I did all I had to do in Edan and Domed city region (Abessa?) for now (also visited Origin) and I'm free to go to the next region. I'm wodnering if I should go to Clerics now, joining them earlier would make my time in Tavar and anywhere easier as I quite struggle with a lot of enemies still. I got best non faction armor so far and got a gun with 42 dmg and a bow with 45 dmg. And melee sword with sth like 33 dmg I think. Can't equip any better. Wanna focus on Cleric guns anyway.
Deliverat flout covid rules? Park where you like? That is, in you get. Off to Swindon with you.
Yeah so Iโm losing my mind trying to find this movie or show.
Pretty sure it was American. Came out in the 80โs or early to mid 90โs.
Hereโs what I remember. There were still people living outside the city but they were barely surviving. Those in the city would explore in these armored vehicles.
One of the women that explores has a teenage son. He uses a vr headset. One time heโs using it and heโs talking to a woman and asks her to take off her top. When she tries she stops and explains his mom put a โchild lockโ on her top.
The other time heโs using it him mom comes home and sees him and puts on her headset to see secretly see what heโs doing. Turns out heโs fishing with his dead dad and talking.
Thatโs all I can remember.
Thanks Iโm advance!
Platform(s): PlayStation 2
Genre: RPG
Estimated year of release: Early 2000's
Graphics/art style: Maybe a bit like Final Fantasy 7 but top down
Notable characters: n/a
Notable gameplay mechanics: I think it was a turn based or action RPG and there was some walking around like in Final Fantasy 7 but top down. There was definitely a combat element to the game
Other details: You play as some character in a kind of futuristic utopia type society. I remember it took place in a futuristic domed city but I don't think anyone was aware until near the end of the game you break out of the dome into some desolate area to fight the last boss. I remember really not seeing the breaking out of the dome part coming and that's what sticks out in my memory the most.
I'm leaning more towards the combat having been turn based but its possible that it was free flowing as well
Thanks for the help!
So, been trying to find this book for ages but having no luck.
What I remember: Female narrator. Book is at least 10 years old, fairly confident it had a blue cover with a faded image of the domed city in the background. YA section.
The story is that the earth is flooding, and in order to save people there were giant domed cities built on giant poles that are above the estimated eventual sea level. There is something weird about the cities but I can't remember what it is.
One thing that stands out is, the main character is talking to someone about why her grandparent and all the elders aren't going to move into the domed cities, and the reply she is given is that they're sacrificing themselves for the younger generations. So they don't take up limited spaces maybe?
Thats all I can remember. But if anyone has an idea I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you Happy Christmas ๐
Sort of like we didn't get flying cars, we also didn't get the domed cities envisioned by futurists of the past.
So, what advances in materials, architecture, urban planning, etc., might be moving us forward towards building very large enclosed spaces?
This is the closest artwork to what I am thinking about.
I'm not necessarily talking about super high domes, or active climate control. But, imagine how much cooler a large area could be under a high roof that mostly reflects the heat from the sun, but allows some ventilation and light. It could be open at the edges to allow the breeze to enter. I'm guessing this would be prohibitively expensive, since few such structures have been built. The closest things seem to be sports stadiums and airports. Is there some construction method that could make these more feasible?
My family received this game for free with our Gateway family computer. Youโre a police pilot that flew missions in cities that are interconnected domes. Your aircraft looked like an attack helicopter in shape but there were no blades and it flew around like a hover Craft.
I went against the outlaws in my choices,
I supported the separatists and the clerics 100%.
I did NOT take Riliey's modifier.
After the dispute quest ended I see blood all over the city, and a pile of dead outlaws right next to the teleport.
Some of the NPC's tell me that the albs attacked but they fended them off with great casualties, thanks to the dome failing due to Riliey's modifier (which i did NOT take or install), which is annoying.
Some tell me that the city is now taken and occupied by albs (which it is NOT).
Paige literally tells me that she's gonna stay "here" because she doesn't know where to go now due to the dome city being "no more" (???).
The even more bugged part is that now all key-figure NPC's ( Paige, Riley, Nyra, Darrel and Cooper) are standing in a bugged out line next to the fort, they look like prisoners on a shooting range waiting for execution with all the blood out there.
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Unfortunately my save is ages ago, and I did try reloading it once without any difference,
Is there any other way of fixing it? Will it at least fix itself later on? (I mean the blood and the NPC line)
Imagine its the United States (or some variant) and its 100 or so years in the future. The government or some crazy trillionaire like Elon Musk III decides to build a massive dome that will be big enough to hold an entire city.
How big could such a dome reasonably be? I figure it would be twice as wide as it is tall. I'm thinking anything over 20 miles tall, 40 miles wide would be a stretch.
What do you think the challenges would be of maintaining a mega structure like this? What effect do you think it would have on weather and wildlife inside the dome?
The domed cities come in three settings. One is amid green hills or mountains, as if on a normal Earth. Another is underwater, the domed cities on the seafloor. A third I can't quite remember, it was either amidst an Earth-like desert, or a Mars-like more overtly extraterrestrial desert. All three of the settings had their three cities under domes, even though the domes seem unnecessary for the Earth-like green setting (meaning, to keep out water or an extraterrestrial atmosphere), aside from protection from alien attacks. In all three, you could see a horizon, but the ground or seafloor and the sky or upper ocean.
The words were yellow at the start. As you'd type them out, the letters would turn red. Once all letters were red, the word would be neutralized. I can't remember if the words simply disappear once they're typed out, or if missiles come from the bottom of the screen and blow them up.
I may be mistaken when it comes to the bonus UFOs. It's possible they would attack by dropping words too. I can't remember if all words were dropped by alien crafts, or if most just came from above the top of the screen.
Perhaps I'm also mistaken when it comes to the domes; maybe only one or two of the environments includes domes over the cities.
You get a game-over once all three cities are destroyed. The damage depicted is a series of gradually-changing images. First the domes are cracked and destroyed, then the futuristic skyscrapers are chipped away by explosions.
e: There is no need to point out the irony of me mistyping it as "A***n*** typing-practice game."
A classic trope of science fiction, the domed city has always intrigued me. The idea keeps coming back every decade or so, and Iโm curious what the SFIA crowd thinks of them. I would be surprised if they do make sense, but I wonโt let that stop me from pondering them.
If you had excellent climate control and filtration systems (perhaps on a geodesic dome, with the framework also serving as the piping for air), you could use this as a way to handle climate control for the whole city all at once, rather than in each building. Of course, in the winter, a dome could serve as a passive heating system like a greenhouse. In the summer, perhaps some diffuse arrangement of mirrors (or a more sophisticated radiative cooling system that allows only visible light through, while reflecting heat) could mediate the greenhouse effect on the dome.
For industrial cities (or just cities with bad air pollution due to other reasons), you could rely on the domeโs system to not only filter the air for the benefit of the inhabitants, but also to keep such pollution from the atmosphere as a whole.
Hi! So I watched this anime while it was still on-going a long time ago and now I forgot the title. It's all about the main girl who lost her memories and her love interest has plant powers. (like seriously he can grow a tree in a snap of a finger) And in their group of friends there is a traitor. They all have superpowers but the main girl does not know hers yet. :( I think they are being protected and there is a spy inside of the city because in episode 1 or 2, they have been attacked on their weakest spot of the dome.
Hereโs what Iโve got:
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This was either a trilogy or a series of four books, all of which I read, I think. Title mightโve been something like โNightlark.โ
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Once people reached a certain age, they were stripped of their innate magic to contribute to their cityโs background magic. Protagonist did this unusually late.
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Protagonist was the subject of an experiment to see if people who stole other peopleโs magic or regenerated it or something could be artificially created, which kind of worked.
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There were people who naturally regenerated their magic living outside the cities, because they could survive out there, and the cities wanted to capture them to use as batteries for their background magic generation.
Need a moon base. Whatcha got?
