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Thanks for LPing this, Blarghalt. It's been pretty hilarious how incompetent the RDA has been so far and it's a miracle they're even doing half this well. So as someone who never watched Avatar, what are the humans even doing in this planet anyway? Attempting to colonize it, or trying to find a rare resource? Because it seems like a complete waste of time and money to even do anything in a planet where everything kills you.
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Isn't it some sort of antigravity metal that's only found on this moon and Earth is 100% dependent on?
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May 7, 2018 19:50
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Fish Noise posted:Isn't it some sort of antigravity metal that's only found on this moon and Earth is 100% dependent on? Yeah, it's a metal that's a superconductor at room temperature, when even now the "high-temperature" superconductors we know of still have to be nearly two hundred degrees below zero to work.
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May 7, 2018 19:55
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Steam says I played this for 13 hours. I had forgotten all about it, but this LP is bringing some of it back. It was... not very memorable, obviously, but kinda okay? I do remember being weirdly upset at how short the ponytail/brainstem things were in the game compared to movie, considering how important of a biological mcguffin they were. Maybe they hadn't figured out how to make those develop properly when Ryder's avatar was being grown... or they just didn't have time to get the hair physics working properly and cut it. 
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May 8, 2018 00:33
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Blarghalt posted:Yeah, it's a metal that's a superconductor at room temperature, when even now the "high-temperature" superconductors we know of still have to be nearly two hundred degrees below zero to work. Also it's called unobtaimum. Really.
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Egadsman posted:Steam says I played this for 13 hours. I had forgotten all about it, but this LP is bringing some of it back. It was... not very memorable, obviously, but kinda okay? I do remember being weirdly upset at how short the ponytail/brainstem things were in the game compared to movie, considering how important of a biological mcguffin they were. Maybe they hadn't figured out how to make those develop properly when Ryder's avatar was being grown... or they just didn't have time to get the hair physics working properly and cut it. From my understanding, the latter reason is the reason for the ponytails not being like the movie. Too much work to animate.
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May 8, 2018 06:41
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Played the first hour or so of this one and the pistols were my favorite weapon because of the reload animation. Your image commentary is as hilarious as your videos are appropriately devoid. Great time so far
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While I understand, especially in the hypothetical world where this is a failed MMO, the reasons behind putting you in Na'vi clothing once you join them, I can't help but feel like keeping the RDA Avatar outfit would have been a better choice. Or at least as an option. Certainly it would have been much more visually unique.
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May 8, 2018 09:12
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I remember there was a line where someone calls the main character "meals on wheels," but other than that, there's not much else I can remember about the film.
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May 8, 2018 17:35
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I don't remember any specific lines, but I vaguely recall there being a lot of weirdly flaccid machismo about how extreme and dangerous Pandora is, and it's just vague enough that I don't know if it was actually that way, or if this is a false memory generated by the dialogue we see here in the game. Anyways, have this. 
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May 9, 2018 04:12
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Beautiful.
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May 16, 2018 01:13
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David D. Davidson posted:Also it's called unobtaimum. Really. Why wouldn’t nerd scientists call a real-world example of unobtainium ‘unobtainium’? E: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium Pvt.Scott fucked around with this message at 01:43 on May 16, 2018 |
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May 16, 2018 01:40
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Fish Noise posted:I vaguely recall there being a lot of weirdly flaccid machismo about how extreme and dangerous Pandora is, and it's just vague enough that I don't know if it was actually that way, or if this is a false memory generated by the dialogue we see here in the game. "You're not in Kansas anymore; you're on Pandora."
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May 16, 2018 01:48
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Pvt.Scott posted:Why wouldn’t nerd scientists call a real-world example of unobtainium ‘unobtainium’? Because you'd stop calling it 'unobtainium' once you've 'obtained' a large source of it?
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Angry Salami posted:Because you'd stop calling it 'unobtainium' once you've 'obtained' a large source of it? Dysprosium, an actual element, comes from the Greek dysprositos, which means “hard to get.” The guy who named it had to try a bunch of times to isolate it. The name has not changed, despite it becoming quite a bit easier to get, eventually. Unobtanium has also broadened in meaning from from its original meaning to also include the meaning of “very hard to get.” I just thought it was a funny nerd joke in a mediocre movie, but I do realize that pretty much everyone else that saw the movie hated the name. Different strokes.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:"You're not in Kansas anymore; you're on Pandora."  but I guess with those parts of the dialogue, that's the entire point? Pvt.Scott posted:I just thought it was a funny nerd joke in a mediocre movie, but I do realize that pretty much everyone else that saw the movie hated the name. Different strokes. With Avatar, I could not fully articulate my distaste for the joke on initial contact with it, but I think there were some vague notions along the lines of "what sort of corporate meme hell future is this?" and "you took a thing from nerds and pushed it mainstream." Of course, now being more aware of our corporate meme hell present, and reflecting upon the joke, I see that the first notion was in fact stopping just shy of the truth, and that the great error of the second notion is that it was incomplete and directed at the writers. So now I adjust my reaction. I appreciate the writing of the joke while simultaneously hating it even more, but this time entirely within the story, because "you took a thing from nerds and pushed it mainstream," and it loving worked, exactly the same as what happens around us all the goddamn time.
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Fish Noise posted:Anyways, have this.  This is glorious. This is it, this is what Rabies McFutz actually looks like. (Way back in the Major/Minor thread, I had all good intentions of doing a nice full portrait of Rabies by searching for "Closed Species" on DA and drawing his beautiful face on the most ridiculous result. I never got around to it [I gave up around the scene where the maid cafe obsessed lovely Blue Squirrel turns out to be an imposter or something ] and... now I never do.  )
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May 19, 2018 23:02
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Rahonavis posted:
I’d watch James Cameron’s Major/Minor. It’s not like he could make the story any worse.
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Pvt.Scott posted:I’d watch James Cameron’s Major/Minor. It’s not like he could make the story any worse. Given rumors and stories, Cameron would chokeslam Major/Minor's writer if he starts getting too mouthy so win/win.
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May 23, 2018 17:30
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Redeye Flight posted:While I understand, especially in the hypothetical world where this is a failed MMO, the reasons behind putting you in Na'vi clothing once you join them, I can't help but feel like keeping the RDA Avatar outfit would have been a better choice. Or at least as an option. Certainly it would have been much more visually unique. You actually have the option to put the RDA outfit back on, but it gives zero bonuses and isn't worth wearing.
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May 24, 2018 13:23
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Of course.
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Hey, the third video doesn't seem to be working at all- I'm getting a blank youtube page when I use the link. Also- wow, this whole plot is incredibly.... fast-paced. I feel like I missed an hour of building up to the Dramatic Choosing Of Sides.
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Well, hey. At least we're... actually alive, somehow? Good job on the big blue thing, scientists!
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Hello, I have made for you a thing. (Tsahik's drawn-from-memory face matches mine right now.  )
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Rahonavis posted:Hello, I have made for you a thing. I'm never going to escape the sins I committed LPing M\M, am I.
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Rahonavis posted:Hello, I have made for you a thing.
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