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Trig Discipline
Jun 3, 2008

Please leave the room if you think this might offend you.
Grimey Drawer
just hanging there, waiting to be snipped off by lawnmower shrapnel or a low flying bird

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sticky wizard
Nov 19, 2008

Trig Discipline posted:

just hanging there, waiting to be snipped off by lawnmower shrapnel or a low flying bird

wear iron pants

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer
watchin ep4 and it still fuckin owns

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

LP97S posted:

Sci-Fi, that episode of DS9 where Worf, Dax, Bashir, Leeta, and Quark go to Risa and Worf is mad about relaxing is one of the worst episodes made.

there is an annual tradition, with voting no less, wherein goon trekkies* pick the worst of the worst star tracks and this episode seems to make the cut more often than not





*this might be redundant

toby
Dec 4, 2002

rotor posted:

srsly

intelligent design, my rear end

yeah imo balls are high on the list of human anatomy-based arguments against intelligent design

also placement of the skull and brain on top of a flimsy neck stalk instead of somewhere safe, like inside the ribcage

FEMA summer camp
Jan 22, 2006

late but;

unleash the unicorn posted:

About that: Everytime I read about Banks it's all "post-scarcity" this and "planned economies are superior" that. I find that ridiculous for reasons that have no place in this thread and I'm afraid it would ruin the books for me just as much as "breeding for luck" or intelligent dolphins would. Are his books really all about extreme socialism or is that just background?

lol what an rear end in a top hat

I feel like you guys didn't make fun of this chump enough

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Luigi Thirty posted:

everyone should automatically want to join white culture because it's superior to everyone else. got it.

when did we start talking about the federation?

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

toby posted:

yeah imo balls are high on the list of human anatomy-based arguments against intelligent design

also placement of the skull and brain on top of a flimsy neck stalk instead of somewhere safe, like inside the ribcage

for me it's the knees.

they're fragile, and once you hurt 'em, they're almost impossible to heal.

and honestly, if intelligent design was a thing, wouldn't some animal have invented a way to grow metal parts? this bone poo poo is for losers.

Just-In-Timeberlake
Aug 18, 2003

rotor posted:

for me it's the knees.

they're fragile, and once you hurt 'em, they're almost impossible to heal.

and honestly, if intelligent design was a thing, wouldn't some animal have invented a way to grow metal parts? this bone poo poo is for losers.

Shoulder for me. Hey, here's this cool joint that can go in just about any direction, sorry the only thing holding it in place are some tendons

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
the way the urethra passes THROUGH the prostate is pretty much the definition of terrible design. well, that and having the tube that consumes food and water be the same tube that's used to breathe.

e: also, having the nerves carrying the signals from rods and cones travel on the surface on the retina and gathering in a blind spot, rather than passing behind the retina (like it does in squids, what up trig) is objectively terrible too.

toby
Dec 4, 2002

see. look at all these dumbass things. the human body is retarded except for attractive lady parts and then those are awesome

this is sci-fi relevant, this is the kind of poo poo that drives weird author dudes to imagine an alien race that is more cleverly put together but still comes with T&A

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

toby posted:

see. look at all these dumbass things. the human body is retarded except for attractive lady parts and then those are awesome

this is sci-fi relevant, this is the kind of poo poo that drives weird author dudes to imagine an alien race that is more cleverly put together but still comes with T&A

that's just boris vallejo and frank frazzeta making that sweet illustrator chedda

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

JustFrakkingDoIt posted:

that's just boris vallejo and frank frazzeta making that sweet illustrator chedda

and james cameron putting huge amounts of work into coming up with a complete integrated alien ecosystem based on fundamentally different biology and then going "oh yeah and give them sweet rear end racks cause that's awesome"

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome

Woz My Neg rear end posted:

and james cameron putting huge amounts of work into coming up with a complete integrated alien ecosystem based on fundamentally different biology and then going "oh yeah and give them sweet rear end racks cause that's awesome"

well it is

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Woz My Neg rear end posted:

and james cameron putting huge amounts of work into coming up with a complete integrated alien ecosystem based on fundamentally different biology and then going "oh yeah and give them sweet rear end racks cause that's awesome"

well yeah, it should have died out in the 60s or 70s (80s?) but boobs!

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

I like to paint a lil happy face on my scrotum so it looks like a 100 year old man

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

toby posted:

see. look at all these dumbass things. the human body is retarded except for attractive lady parts and then those are awesome

the "those are awesome" part is just instinct

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i like how there are gay guys that qualify their sexuality not by how much they like dudes and dicks but by how much they hate women and related parts.

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

Woz My Neg rear end posted:

and james cameron putting huge amounts of work into coming up with a complete integrated alien ecosystem based on fundamentally different biology and then going "oh yeah and give them sweet rear end racks cause that's awesome"

Didn't Cameron say somewhere that he specifically wanted the blue cat people to evoke certain emotional responses in people? And that they went through various incarnations where they figured out which designs were the most appealing to test audiences?

Or am I remembering something else and attaching it to Cameron?

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

Heresiarch posted:

Didn't Cameron say somewhere that he specifically wanted the blue cat people to evoke certain emotional responses in people? And that they went through various incarnations where they figured out which designs were the most appealing to test audiences?

Or am I remembering something else and attaching it to Cameron?

it's the disney effect

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Heresiarch posted:

Didn't Cameron say somewhere that he specifically wanted the blue cat people to evoke certain emotional responses in people? And that they went through various incarnations where they figured out which designs were the most appealing to test audiences?

Or am I remembering something else and attaching it to Cameron?

No, he actually did outright say he wanted the blue cat lady to be fuckable.

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
avatar was a real poo poo movie and if you thought it was a good film kill yourself

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Heresiarch posted:

Didn't Cameron say somewhere that he specifically wanted the blue cat people to evoke certain emotional responses in people? And that they went through various incarnations where they figured out which designs were the most appealing to test audiences?

James Cameron posted:

Right from the beginning I said, “She’s got to have tits,” even though that makes no sense because her race, the Na’vi, aren’t placental mammals.

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Remember when all those people wanted to kill themselves after seeing Avatar, because Pandora isn't real?

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

TOOT BOOT posted:

No, he actually did outright say he wanted the blue cat lady to be fuckable.

nobody would have given a poo poo about the aliens if they weren't hot

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

TOOT BOOT posted:

Remember when all those people wanted to kill themselves after seeing Avatar, because Pandora isn't real?

uncommitted little shits

syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

theflyingexecutive posted:

it's the disney effect

flashy blue-white teeth are the ultimate in sex appeal

LP97S
Apr 25, 2008

TOOT BOOT posted:

Remember when all those people wanted to kill themselves after seeing Avatar, because Pandora isn't real?

Yeah, then they didn't :smith:.

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

theflyingexecutive posted:

nobody would have given a poo poo about the aliens if they weren't hot

The entire movie was structured around making the audience emphasize with the aliens on an emotional, instead of treating it like an actual ethical quandary. It's lazy, shallow bullshit and it's not even treading any new ground.

Hell, Star Trek did this better back in the 60's with "Devil in the Dark", and when your SF isn't as intellectually rich as loving Star Trek then you've got a real problem.

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkxID5Ye-Sg

breadshaped
Apr 1, 2010


Soiled Meat

theflyingexecutive posted:

hey this lovely local company's logo looks familiar: http://www.localedge.com/



duncan jones' new "moon canon" films gonna own

stuffed crust punk
Oct 8, 2004

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

TOOT BOOT posted:

Remember when all those people wanted to kill themselves after seeing Avatar, because Pandora isn't real?

i wanted to kill myself because after a safe boring lovely too-long movie, the last shot with the crescendo of stupid tribal music lining up with the alien man opening his eyes was both something that i completely anticipated and shows how lazy you can be and make a billion dollars

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

Wilhelm_Scream.wav posted:

i wanted to kill myself because after a safe boring lovely too-long movie, the last shot with the crescendo of stupid tribal music lining up with the alien man opening his eyes was both something that i completely anticipated and shows how lazy you can be and make a billion dollars

same but then i went home and jerked off to neytiri porn

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

TOOT BOOT posted:

same but then i went home and jerked off to neytiri porn

same except without going home

toby
Dec 4, 2002

Heresiarch posted:

The entire movie was structured around making the audience emphasize with the aliens on an emotional, instead of treating it like an actual ethical quandary.
haha ethical quandary without emotional appeal and tits, he says. in an american movie



i have long said that a series of basic ethics classes should be added to the curriculum of every school system in america and required for all children, just like math and science

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
wait up wait up whoa whoa whoa just wait up a second

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

toby posted:

i have long said that a series of basic ethics classes should be added to the curriculum of every school system in america and required for all children, just like math and science

The content of said course would be decided by local school boards, so no, this is kind of a useless idea.

rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
 
 
 
 
 
 
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rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
are there people in here seriously arguing against fine-rear end titties, blue or otherwise, appearing in movies?

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rotor
Jun 11, 2001

classic case of pineapple derangement syndrome
is that seriously what's goin on in here?

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