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I think it makes perfect sense tbh for the goofy scientists stuff. The only reason I’d become a biologist would be to touch all those things. Lemme touch all the weird animals. Gonna touch that snake, squeeze that sea pig, poke the alien worm. Don’t care, I’m a biologist which basically translates to official animal toucher
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The alien is not a bear/moose/bison; it’s significantly smaller, for starters, and resembles a snake or worm. Yeah I mean, he's in a full body suit designed to survive on alien planets. If it were an actual real life snake, even a very venomous and aggressive variety of snake, he would be a-ok. Come And See posted:Too much talk about science and realism and not enough about nihilistic freudian pervert sex. They're not really extricable. The guy has, very realistically, a crush on someone, which motivates his behavior. Alas for him, he lives in sex pervert black goo hell dimension and gets melted and his crush turns into a werewolf
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Kvlt! posted:Some popular misconceptions/facts!! Great post, really interesting look into your profession.
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davidspackage posted:This all really interesting, thanks for sharing. Do you guys do like, surgical work to cut organs loose before they're removed? The trocar is basically a little spear/vacuum, so we make a small incision near the naval, insert it, then itll pierce/suck everything out etc. Theres no need to cut anything out because its strong so will just suck everything out on its own. It doesnt get everything, but its mostly trying to get anything liquid out, so if theres some solid organ matter left thats less important.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Is there a good explanation for why Weylund wouldn't weed out the goofy idiots when charting his super important all-or-nothing space trip? I feel like he'd filter out the unprofessional scientists. Weyland doesn't care about the scientists beyond the very surface level. His one and only goal is to communicate with his creator and ask them to save him from death. David is the only person necessary to complete that goal, he needs David to learn their language and to act as his eyes and ears while he's in cryosleep. He brings scientists along because hey sure this is a really important scientific discovery so what the hell, invite some scientists along. But he offloads that work to Vickers because in the end he really doesn't give a poo poo about anything beyond getting there and meeting his maker(s). Vickers cares even less than he does. This is all treated as a sorta twist at the end when Weyland wakes up but in the chaos of Shaw's impromptu surgery you really only get that quick scene of Weyland dropping the facade and it's easy to not really absorb what he's saying.
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Kvlt! posted:Some popular misconceptions/facts!! Thank you
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alf_pogs posted:the COVID pandemic really put into context that people make dumb decisions against their own health and safety interests all the time, and that scientists aren't immune from this. This ended it for good for me. There's no way you could even float some of these arguments now, especially when you consider that it's a mission chartered and paid for entirely by a quadrillionaire.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This ended it for good for me. There's no way you could even float some of these arguments now, especially when you consider that it's a mission chartered and paid for entirely by a quadrillionaire. so that's why they called it the quadrilogy
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Kvlt! posted:Some popular misconceptions/facts!! This was dope cause I’m in forensics and genuinely have no idea what yall do after we ship out our autopsies other than make em presentable
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I would fool around with one of the other camp counselors. when she hears a noise I’ll tease her, check it out, come back and say “see?”
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:This ended it for good for me. There's no way you could even float some of these arguments now, especially when you consider that it's a mission chartered and paid for entirely by a quadrillionaire. In the early stages of the zombie outbreak being disgusted at cannibalism would be deemed "woke"
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TheKingslayer posted:In the early stages of the zombie outbreak being disgusted at cannibalism would be deemed "woke" I had always found the start of Dawn of the Dead a little unbelievable going “The dead are eating people, there’s no way people would hide dead bodies from clean up efforts the zombies would be put down so fast!” but after COCID now it seems like even that seems is tame for a large segment of people  you’d have TikTok conspiracy moms recording themselves running up to a zombie to get bitten while ranting about natural immunity
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Screaming "my body, my choice" as they slather themselves in barbecue sauce.
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Romero 100% predicted how people reacted during the first months of covid. Most people just trying to survive, some gun nuts deciding to go completely insane, and a government that just kind of gave up any semblance of functioning. Land of the Dead isn't my favorite of his movies but a group of rich assholes isolating themselves from the world, charging people tons of money to get in, and then acting like everything's totally fine is totally on point.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Is there a good explanation for why Weylund wouldn't weed out the goofy idiots when charting his super important all-or-nothing space trip? I feel like he'd filter out the unprofessional scientists. i know a lot about techbros like steve jobs and elon musk is this is 100% what would happen in real life because the one thing they hate more than anything is being told no so naturally he wouldn't hire anyone on his big dangerous trip that would correct him
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steve jobs got the rare cureable pancreatic cancer and refused treatment in favor of eating fruit and you think weyland is unrealistic??? lol
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weekly font posted:This was dope cause I’m in forensics and genuinely have no idea what yall do after we ship out our autopsies other than make em presentable are my local medical examiners just wicked lazy or is there a reason yall barely close your Y incisions at all stg there must be a nationwide thread shortage
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A Fancy Hat posted:Romero 100% predicted how people reacted during the first months of covid. Most people just trying to survive, some gun nuts deciding to go completely insane, and a government that just kind of gave up any semblance of functioning. Romero was there with the broad strokes. I just don't think he predicted how loving stupid it would actually look.
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Kvlt! posted:are my local medical examiners just wicked lazy or is there a reason yall barely close your Y incisions at all stg there must be a nationwide thread shortage I'm guessing medical examiners vs. funeral directors is like a classic rivalry like how different law enforcement agencies all hate each other and fight over turf.
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TheKingslayer posted:Romero was there with the broad strokes. I just don't think he predicted how loving stupid it would actually look. As they say, truth is stranger than fiction because people expect fiction to be logically consistent.
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"You're not running a talk show here, Mr. Berman! You can forget pitching an audience the moral bullshit they want to hear!!"
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:"You're not running a talk show here, Mr. Berman! You can forget pitching an audience the moral bullshit they want to hear!!" "DUMMIES!!! DUMMIES!!!"
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TheKingslayer posted:Romero was there with the broad strokes. I just don't think he predicted how loving stupid it would actually look. There's that guy in Dawn of the Dead who sticks his arm in the blood pressure cuff as the zombies are overtaking the mall and everything's going to hell. That dude would have been at Sturgis in 2020.
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A Fancy Hat posted:There's that guy in Dawn of the Dead who sticks his arm in the blood pressure cuff as the zombies are overtaking the mall and everything's going to hell. that dude kicked rear end
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i want to know the lore of the eyepatch guy in dawn of the dead...
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i mean those blood pressure things are fun, i find that dude very relatable
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if you think someone does something stupid in a horror movie then there is someone in real life who has been in similar situations and done something even stupider. dont judge
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Hollismason posted:If a zombie outbreak happened today people would be claiming that taking colloidal silver would prevent the disease how do we know it doesn't?
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"How come we stick these lowlifes in these fancy rear end hotels, anyway? poo poo, man, this is better than I got!"
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David luring that dude into his creepy basement to look in the egg ruled
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Doltos posted:Ok so I understand people act stupid and irrational, especially people who think they're in a comfortable situation. But at what point does it become unbelievably frustrating to watch? Alien Covenant's cast is the biggest group of dopes possible. Whenever the gently caress you feel like? The problem isn't having a preference or an internal level of "believability" or "verisimilitude" or whatever. It's about ignorantly thinking it's some objective standard rather than your bullshit tummy-feels.
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Doltos posted:Ok so I understand people act stupid and irrational, especially people who think they're in a comfortable situation. But at what point does it become unbelievably frustrating to watch? Alien Covenant's cast is the biggest group of dopes possible. I'm fine with movies about a bunch of dumbasses if they're interesting dumbasses. I just rewatched Blood Simple, a movie where at every opportunity everyone makes exactly the wrong decision, which I think is a strong example of this (and is at least horror-adjacent)
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I would simply get on a bus out of the town of Camp Crystal Lake as soon as the murders started.
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MacheteZombie posted:David luring that dude into his creepy basement to look in the egg ruled that's right
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if david asked me if i wanted to see a cool alien egg i'd go hell yeah let me see that poo poo
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I'm fine with movies about a bunch of dumbasses if they're interesting dumbasses. I just rewatched Blood Simple, a movie where at every opportunity everyone makes exactly the wrong decision, which I think is a strong example of this (and is at least horror-adjacent) A SIMPLE PLAN probably the best example here.
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