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Fortunately for everyone, gypsies don't face any inherent danger in the US. The only 'gypsy' I know of over here is a great grandparent of my wife's. At least that's what the immigration certificate said. Is the robot from another country where it has some meaning?
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I watched 'Man of Iron' tonight, a Polish film about the rise of Solidarity in the early 80s . It has one of the coolest posters I've seen in a long time. What is it about Poland and great poster design anyway?
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Ariza posted:Fortunately for everyone, gypsies don't face any inherent danger in the US. The only 'gypsy' I know of over here is a great grandparent of my wife's. At least that's what the immigration certificate said. Is the robot from another country where it has some meaning? Someone in the Pacific Rim thread did point out that Gipsy Danger's name is based on a plane from WW2 or something. I remember the robot even has a WW2-style cheesecake decal on it. The other robots are Coyote Tango (Japan), Crimson Typhoon (China), Cherno Alpha (Russia), and Striker Eureka (Australia), with others like Tacit Ronin, Romeo Blue and Diablo Intercept.
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Jul 2, 2013 23:42
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More Pacific Rim.  Also, Jobs  I don't get the psychedelic scheme. and a re-release for Wizard of Oz, this time in 3D.  It looks more like a DVD cover.
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Jul 2, 2013 23:59
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Vagabundo posted:Also, Jobs
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Jul 3, 2013 00:04
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Vagabundo posted:Also, Jobs I think it's mostly to confound expectations and get people riled up to see what they've already read in the biography.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:08
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Could I care less about fil-? Oh it's Ashton Kutcher...
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Jul 3, 2013 00:08
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tliil posted:It was the only way they could get Ashton Kutcher to look like Steve Jobs. He seems to have a reasonable resemblance to Jobs. That's Kutcher in make-up as a middle-aged Jobs on the left and Jobs on the right. 
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Jul 3, 2013 00:15
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Improbable Lobster posted:Robot names have always been retarded. I dare you to find even one robot with a name that isn't dumb as hell. The Terminator and Robocop. Also PR looks kinda cool.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:20
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Vagabundo posted:More Pacific Rim. Say hello to the counter to the 'all giant robot names are really stupid' hypothesis, because Striker Eureka is loving awesome and thematically perfect for the nation it's representing. Although I'd argue that it's perhaps not a great idea to be naming your defensive action robot after a curbstomp as bad as the Eureka Stockade.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:23
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Cleretic posted:Say hello to the counter to the 'all giant robot names are really stupid' hypothesis, because Striker Eureka is loving awesome and thematically perfect for the nation it's representing. IRL, this mech would be rejected American hardware and used to sink refugee boats.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:42
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Ashton Kutcher jobs? To whom? I'd long for a scene where suddenly we hear "IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!" and suddenly he is beaten and buried by Triple H.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:49
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Vagabundo posted:I don't get the psychedelic scheme. It's like the early Apple logo, where it's rainbow coloured.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:49
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I watched 'Man of Iron' tonight, a Polish film about the rise of Solidarity in the early 80s . It has one of the coolest posters I've seen in a long time. Yeah, you'll never see an American movie poster of a guy with a busted nut on his face.
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Jul 3, 2013 00:52
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I like the Pacific Rim poster, but I don't think it's awesome enough. I kinda felt the same way about the trailer. Not enough badassery 
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Jul 3, 2013 01:20
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I don't think Robby is a stupid name for a robot. 
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Jul 3, 2013 01:35
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The B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot is the robot I think of when someone says robot. danger danger *flails duct arms*
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I sometimes get shocked that a person can manage to hold a certain opinion. Today my shock was that people don't like the robot names in Pacific Rim. Gipsy DANGERRRRRRRR. STRIKER EUREKA! I mean are you kidding. These names are incredible. What do you want to call your giant robots? Bob? Steve? Oh thank goodness, Bob and Steve are here.
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Supreme Allah posted:What do you want to call your giant robots? Bob? Steve? Oh thank goodness, Bob and Steve are here. Something that appropriately informs the country or people that created it and use it to defend themselves, which is entirely reasonable. Gaming example: in the game Freelancer, colony ships were launched. The Liberty, the Rhineland, the Kusari, the Bretonia, and the Hispania. If you have two brain cells to bang together, you can reasonably guess which counties made which colony ship. The folks developing PR gave the robots names that, generally speaking, could have been randomized, for how much they reflect the creator's countries. It might not be a world-ending failure, but it is a failure. And to tie it into a previous discussion: I think that naming the robots so randomly for no reason than "Well, anime uses silly, strange names" does a disservice to attempting to market or interest audiences in the film who think silly and strange names are unappealing. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 03:31
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Supreme Allah posted:I sometimes get shocked that a person can manage to hold a certain opinion. Today my shock was that people don't like the robot names in Pacific Rim. No word of a lie, that is precisely what I want.
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Bob and Steve are great Robot names  MisterBibs posted:Something that appropriately informs the country or people that created it and use it to defend themselves, which is entirely reasonable. Really only Coyote Tango and Gipsy Danger fail to tell you the country Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon should be pretty obvious EDIT: They should've gone with Mammoth Apostle for America Peruser fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 03:35
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Peruser posted:Striker Eureka, Cherno Alpha, and Crimson Typhoon should be pretty obvious I agree. Eureka is a term with a Greek origin, so Greek. And Typhoon is what Japan calls a hurricane, so that's the Japanese one. Did I win? Only the Russian one makes sense, because everyone remembers Chernobyl. Even if my predictive typing can't spell it. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Jul 3, 2013 |
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Jul 3, 2013 03:47
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Eureka makes total sense from an Australian perspective, because the Eureka Stockade is a distinct point in Australian history that's at the heart of Australian public consciousness. It was also a defense, so given that the robots are being made for defensive purposes, that makes total sense. It was also the result of a strike, so you can read that into 'Striker', but that could also just be a descriptor of the robot's role. That's actually a pretty cool thing to me, they didn't design Striker Eureka for other countries to know it was the Australian robot. They designed him in a way that Australians would design him. The historical reference in the name would probably be lost on other countries, but if Australia was making a giant robot they totally wouldn't care about that. I still think naming your defensive robot after a complete and utter misery of a failure to defend a position is perhaps not a good idea, though.
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Gatts posted:Ashton Kutcher jobs? To whom? I'd long for a scene where suddenly we hear "IT'S TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!" and suddenly he is beaten and buried by Triple H. Yes. Vagabundo posted:More Pacific Rim. "That's not a knife"
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MisterBibs posted:Something that appropriately informs the country or people that created it and use it to defend themselves, which is entirely reasonable. I imagined it as more a global program than each country building it's own personal defender. If Japan is about to be crushed, are Striker Eureka and Gipsy Danger just expected to stand around and watch? All the names are just two cool sounding words slapped together. Maybe you shimmy in a connection to the nation that built it but this didn't seem like a competition between nations so much as a collaboration. I haven't seen the movie so I could be wrong.
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Cleretic posted:Eureka makes total sense from an Australian perspective, because the Eureka Stockade is a distinct point in Australian history that's at the heart of Australian public consciousness. It was also a defense, so given that the robots are being made for defensive purposes, that makes total sense. It was also the result of a strike, so you can read that into 'Striker', but that could also just be a descriptor of the robot's role. Yeah this. It's a well thought out name. Also whoever said Data was a bad name can 
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MisterBibs posted:I agree. Eureka is a term with a Greek origin, so Greek. And Typhoon is what Japan calls a hurricane, so that's the Japanese one. Did I win? No, no. Crimson Typhoon = Red Storm = Russia.
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Byzantine posted:No, no. Crimson Typhoon = Red Storm = Russia. and Cherno Alpha = Black One = Ethiopia
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Full disclosure, I'm sorry for the PR derail: half the time I post here, I've forgotten it's not the PR thread.
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Yeah, if you look to actual examples of real military people naming real military machines instead of half-baked on-the-nose video game lore, you see that these names tend to have some personal significance or are based on in-jokes or military culture. By "MUST BE NATIONALIST" standards, Pink Lady, Next Objective, and Enola Gay would be horrible names for war machines.
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Darthemed posted:How has Dan Aykroyd lived that one down? 
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Yeah, if you look to actual examples of real military people naming real military machines instead of half-baked on-the-nose video game lore, you see that these names tend to have some personal significance or are based on in-jokes or military culture. By "MUST BE NATIONALIST" standards, Pink Lady, Next Objective, and Enola Gay would be horrible names for war machines. Hey now, don't forget Bock's Car. Now that you mention it, Gipsy Danger sounds like an atomic test. It would fit in with such names as Buster-Jangle, Tumbler-Snapper, Ivy Mike, or Plumbob Smoky.
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So here's a Finnish poster for Despicable me 2. I guess the original poster had "Back 2 work" on it and some Finnish ad dude was required to have that 2 in there somewhere. The thing is that doesn't make any goddamn sense. Basically that be something like "B2ck to work" in English.
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More descriptive names for the bots that really let you know where they're from would've been better. HFCS Double-Down Wodka Czar Hikimori Panty-Zero Union Jackbot El Torero Grenouille De Homophobique Poutine Beta Chairman POW TIA Djiboutimech Outback B.R.U.C.E.
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Mr. Flunchy posted:What is it about Poland and great poster design anyway? If you're up for some history, have a summary with examples.
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Pingiivi posted:So here's a Finnish poster for Despicable me 2. I've seen this poo poo on a lot of posters recently, which makes me think maybe it's one dumbass ad agency doing it all. Then again the language standards for advertising are so loving low it's crazy. Nobody gives a poo poo about compound words or anything anymore.
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Der Shovel posted:Nobody gives a poo poo about compound words or anything anymore. I really love this sentence. Nobody gives a poo poo about compound words... or anything anymore. You go from frustrated middle school English teacher to complete nihilist in one sentence.
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Peruser posted:and Cherno Alpha = Black One = Ethiopia The robot names all sound like they came out of some sort of generator site. Enter your favorite character from Airplane! ________ Enter the word your wife screams during orgasm _______ Your Jager's name is: STRIKER EUREKA. I haven't quite figured out what the algorithm is yet though.
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ThatPazuzu posted:I really love this sentence. Nobody gives a poo poo about compound words... or anything anymore. You go from frustrated middle school English teacher to complete nihilist in one sentence. Finnish is a synonym for nihilist.
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Vagabundo posted:
I swear I read a quote about Steve Jobs where he said he couldn't respect a man who didn't do acid at least once in his life. He purportedly credited LSD trips with expanding his imagination. It's been years since I read that quote though, so I don't actually know if it's bullshit or not. Still, it would help explain the color scheme and it could be an interesting turn if the movie has/had scenes of Jobs doing drugs for inspiration.
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