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    BTW I love how this show continues to hold its own today. I started rewatching it a couple weeks ago, and my wife stopped behind the couch one day and now I am not allowed to watch a second of it unless she’s there to enjoy it too.

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    I always like to tell my BSG story.

    1. Watch mini series, it’s good
    2. Don’t get into the rest, forget about it
    3. Come home one day to flat mate watching it on DVD, just as the Galactica jumps into the atmosphere on New Caprica and jumps out again.
    4. Me: “I need to watch this from the start”
    5. Flat mate ejects the disc right then and there and inserts the first disc of the first season.
    6. We watch it every night until the end

    Best TV ever made.

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      The overall story really flailed around as the later seasons went on (IIRC during a writers’ strike is when there was a lot of issues), but ‘33’- the first episode of the first season is so fantastic I still remember it distinctly.

      The style, tone, and acting of BSG really kept the show intriguing even if the plot went in circles sometimes.

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      I’m a little sad that the first re-exposure was pretty much the pinnacle badass moment of the series. It’s a great show, but that might have still set the expectations a bit high.

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        That scene was the singular best piece of television in history.

        May be with the Galactica jumping into and ramming the Cylon colony later on a close second.

        I can weather the weaker parts of a story for the stong parts to shine beside. It’s all good.

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          one of my absolute favs. it’s a co-op where one player is randomly, secretly a cylon, sabotaging the groups efforts.

          you can toss people in the brig. theyll protest “Im not the cylon!!!” and if youre wrong (youre often wrong), the group suffers by losing the jailed character’s special ability, while trying to fight off an attack until managing to jump.

          best part? half way through, you draw new loyalty cards. sleeper cylon activated!!!

          its genuinely hard not to run out of food, or water, or just get overrun by a boarding party. some of the best fun losing Ive ever had

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            Truly it’s a hard game even if there were no cylons. Humans rarely win in my games. Alas, it’s out of print 😭. Its spiritual successor Unfathomable seems good as well, though I’ve only played it once

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    “That’s right- landlines. I want corded phones fucking everywhere that don’t talk to anything but each other.”

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      In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

      In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.

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        Just to clarify a point of the show, it isn’t too old to be networked. They had that ability then. They had just previously fought a war with the Cylons, in which the Galactica was built for and fought in, so not networking was standard protocall then. The military decided, after a long peace, they should have networked ships, assuming the Cylon threat was gone. This cause nearly all modern military vessels to be open to exploit, except the Galactica and few remaining older vessels.

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          I forget, did Pegasus end up disabling their networking after they made their initial escape? I don’t remember it being mentioned, but it makes for quite a plot hole if they continued on as normal.

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        Thanks for this article describing the actual computer system update crisis … but still, i do not know what this photograph of some guy means in your post …
        Edit : never mind someone else explained it to me here

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    It’s funny that I am rewatching the series right now. Thankfully it is still as good as I remember it