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Gorilla Salad posted:The 1998 BBC show Ultraviolet (with Idris Elba!) had a brilliant way around this with their church-sanctioned vampire killing squad. Their pistols fired bullets with hardened charcoal inside them. So this sounds great and I'm pissed I didn't know about it before. My GF started watching Vampire Diaries for reasons I do not understand and the vampire killing squad fires wooden bullets to kill/incapacitate. I guess I'll just have to accept it even though "hardened charcoal" makes more sense. I love vampires, that is no secret and I'd love to see a modern Gothic show where the hunters don't gently caress around one bit and use crossbows, packets of gasoline and flare guns. Buffy is like that but I want new poo poo.
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BiggerBoat posted:I woke up with a hangover this morning and it reminded me of an irrationally irritating thing: Badasses in movies (usually cowboys) who swig straight whiskey out of the bottle like it was iced tea and who down shots like they were lemonade but always seem able to shoot straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzcgyk62cHU Inzombiac posted:So this sounds great and I'm pissed I didn't know about it before. My GF started watching Vampire Diaries for reasons I do not understand and the vampire killing squad fires wooden bullets to kill/incapacitate. I guess I'll just have to accept it even though "hardened charcoal" makes more sense. I love vampires, that is no secret and I'd love to see a modern Gothic show where the hunters don't gently caress around one bit and use crossbows, packets of gasoline and flare guns. Underworld had some kinda special ultraviolet (heh) bullets that would kill vampires. They also used silver nitrate bullets against werewolves which isn't completely crazy. I'm trying to remember what it was, but something I watched recently used wooden bullets against vampires, I think it was TrueBlood actully, which... shouldn't work very well. There's no way a wooden bullet is going to have anything short of horrible ballistics. It'd probably fragment as you fired, so you'd just be blasting them with wooden shot. Then again the internet says that people have used wooden bullets before, so maybe this isn't as much of a flaw as I thought it was. Zaphod42 has a new favorite as of 19:32 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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They don't really penetrate is the issue, so unless vampires have paper skin, they won't be useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_bullet They're mostly used for crowd control, like rubber bullets.
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Good one. I though you were going to link me to a M*A*S*H episode where Hawkeye was to drunk to operate. Lap-Lem posted:My dad was in a MASH unit during the Vietnam War, yeah, that's pretty much how it worked. You take a bunch of kids send them somewhere they don't want to go to do something they don't want to do, and surround them with horror 24/7. Drinking copious amounts of alcohol is basically what happens. Alcoholics function surprisingly well while intoxicated. As a high functioning alcoholic myself, I can relate. But, for me, "functioning" means designing a magazine, an ad or posting on Something Awful, not picking shrapnel out of a dude's lungs at 3 am after a bender. Plus, the cast weren't written as "kids", in the movie or the show. They were portrayed as great doctors and surgeons at the top of their game who were thrust into a hellish situation so it always rang false for me. It bothered me irrationally one might say. What's your Dad do now? Was he drafted as a doctor? How old was he when he served? Did he operate while drunk? Did he ever gently caress up because of it?
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BiggerBoat posted:I woke up with a hangover this morning and it reminded me of an irrationally irritating thing: Badasses in movies (usually cowboys) who swig straight whiskey out of the bottle like it was iced tea and who down shots like they were lemonade but always seem able to shoot straight. Isn't there things you do better while drunk? I can't play pool or foosball for poo poo sober and play alot better while slightly drunk. Also when practicing a new thing on the drums it sometimes helps if I'm really tired or slightly drunk. Hulebr00670065006e has a new favorite as of 21:32 on Jan 28, 2015 |
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Zaphod42 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzcgyk62cHU Captain Monkey posted:They don't really penetrate is the issue, so unless vampires have paper skin, they won't be useful. I recall there was a variant of wooden bullet with actual penetration power, rarely used by Axis forces in WWII, with the potential rationale of manufacturing cost among other things. The worst being that supposedly the rounds would splinter upon entering a victim, and become extremely difficult to properly treat. If one runs on the idea that vampires were weak to wood in general and not just through staking, that seems like it'd be a valid way to mess one up.
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Midnight Raider posted:I recall there was a variant of wooden bullet with actual penetration power, rarely used by Axis forces in WWII, with the potential rationale of manufacturing cost among other things. The worst being that supposedly the rounds would splinter upon entering a victim, and become extremely difficult to properly treat. Huh I was unfamiliar with that. That's really interesting.
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Hulebr00670065006e posted:Isn't there things you do better while drunk? Certainly. But firing a gun or performing surgery aren't among those things.
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There was definitely an episode where Hawkeye was too drunk to operate and had to bolt from the OR to puke outside. He had a row with Radar about it. 'Fallen Idol' I think from season six.
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Don't want to derail, but he was a field surgeon, he is not, nor ever was an MD. So he pulled bullets, and shrapnel and sewed up wounds. He was drafted as a medic, but very fortunately was assigned as a surgeon instead, medics have a very short life span. He doesn't like to talk about it, and I don't like to pry, I do not know if he was ever actually drunk when performing, but from the stories he does tell it isn't that far fetched. He was in his mid 20's. After the war he worked in machine shops, now he's retired.
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Late to the party, but the the name "Mimic" from Edge of Tomorrow is actually a holdover from the light novel, and it has nothing to do with their appearance - in the novel, I believe they're described as kind of froggish. Anyway, the name comes from their tendency to copy certain traits of local wildlife of the planet they're invading. Also I think they're robots in the novel, sent by an alien race that is never actually shown. One big reason soldiers wear the suits is to protect them against some sort of nanobot pollution or something. Maybe I'm wrong in this, this is all hearsay.
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I'm irrationally irritated about an upcoming movie. Project Almanac seems like it's going to be kinda interesting, but at the same time I'm worried the "ripple effect" disasters are going to end up having the 9/11 attacks as a piece of proof. My reasoning? The guys are all apparently around 21-ish (look to be college age). The main dude goes back in time to his 7th birthday party which would be roughly 14 years ago, which would be 2001. The whole point of going back is apparently to "fix" never going back in time or having the machine work, and when they go do poo poo apparently "ripples" cause riots and plane crashes and various other disasters. It just strikes me as eye rollingly bad for a plot idea and also incredibly obvious, so I am really, super duper hoping they don't do that. Since the dude's dad works for DARPA there's always a chance at governmental coverup/blah blah but still, I'm looking forward to the movie as it seems like it'd be cool, but holy fucknuggets if this ends up being the main plot twist/idea for it I am gonna be so pissed. I hate lazy writing.
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EmmyOk posted:Is charocal bad for vampires? Yes it's fire and wood: 3x damage multiplier.
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The North Tower posted:Yes it's fire and wood: 3x damage multiplier. BBQ'd garlic bread must wreck their poo poo
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So I'm sitting here at my computer (literally, right now) watching Grosse Pointe Blank for the first time, and Dan Akroyd pulls out these two revolvers: ...and rapidly fires at least 26 distinct shots without reloading. Probably more, but I was counting conservatively.
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Lincoln posted:So I'm sitting here at my computer (literally, right now) watching Grosse Pointe Blank for the first time, and Dan Akroyd pulls out these two revolvers: Getting mad at a comedy?
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Nostalgia4ColdWar posted:
Would you say I was being irrational?
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if you think that civilian doctors don't operate on people drunk or drugged out of their minds.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I remember a King of the Hill episode when the creepy weedy and nutjob-conspiracy theorist Dale, whose wife had been cheating on him for pretty much every prior season (and in fact their son is biologically the other man's, John Redcorn) and just recently stopped, gets heavily flirted at by his new younger female coworker. Dale is totally oblivious to it, his wife is rightly upset to herself, but since she's cheated on him so much (and he has no idea) it's hard for her to judge. When the coworker finally makes her move, Dale isn't just shocked, he's downright insulted because he has the best drat wife ever and he only holds two vows he's ever made as sacred: his membership to the NRA and his wedding vows. And his wife is utterly relieved when he tells her about the entire thing. The funniest part is that Dale is this huge conspiracy theorist who will believe anything without any evidence whatsoever to support it, but won't believe his wife is unfaithful or Joseph isn't his son despite he and his wife both being blonde and white and Joseph obviously being Native American. At one point I wondered if Dale actually knew everything and just didn't care because he loved them both. That would have been great characterisation, but him really being that blind is better comedy. It was a good show, but I do think it had run long enough. I don't think I would have wanted to watch after Brittany Murphy died, either.
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EmmyOk posted:Dale is the best Anyway, I ordered Ultraviolet off amazon so it'd better live up to the hype in this thead. 
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Jedit posted:...I don't think I would have wanted to watch after Brittany Murphy died, either. Huh, I stopped watching years ago, and didn't know about that. Did they get a new voice actor for Luann or cut the character?
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Lincoln posted:Huh, I stopped watching years ago, and didn't know about that. Did they get a new voice actor for Luann or cut the character? The show had stopped airing like exactly afterwards. King of the Hill was funny, but it'd ran its course anyways. They had no material left.
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Zaphod42 posted:The show had stopped airing like exactly afterwards. The big reveal that Bill was Bobby's biological father probably wouldn't have played out that well but I would have liked to see them try.
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Lap-Lem posted:
Actually a lot of competitive shooters have been known to take a single shot. Steadies the nerves and takes away that ever so slight tremble.
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EmmyOk posted:BBQ'd garlic bread must wreck their poo poo Pizza works good to depending on the sauce http://youtu.be/InyNfYDybD0
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Gorilla Salad posted:All done in a way no one except the Brits could do. For about $6.50 with whatever props were lying around in the BBC's wardrobe department?
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Jedit posted:It was a good show, but I do think it had run long enough. I don't think I would have wanted to watch after Brittany Murphy died, either. The last few seasons weren't very good. Season 9 is probably where it really starts to dip in quality.
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Pilchenstein posted:Anyway, I ordered Ultraviolet off amazon so it'd better live up to the hype in this thead. I hope you ordered the TV series by Joe Ahearne and not the movie by Kurt Wimmer. Otherwise you may be disappointed.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I won't be. I'll be laughing so hard I'll probably puke. Harsh, man  Nobody deserves that. I like to think they lied to Nick Chinlund when they hired him. "Oh, yeah, you're a badass vampire guy who basically runs the whole city. And you get a sword. This movie is gonna rule. Please be in it. Oh, you want to read the whole script? Uh, I lost it. And please disregard the rumors you've heard about that hideous child actor being in this film because he's totally not"
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syscall girl posted:The big reveal that Bill was Bobby's biological father probably wouldn't have played out that well but I would have liked to see them try. That joke theory irrationally irritates me. Look at Cotton and Bobby how similar they are in appearance.
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cheerfullydrab posted:That joke theory irrationally irritates me. Look at Cotton and Bobby how similar they are in appearance. How do you know Bill isn't Cotton's son?
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Darth Freddy posted:Actually a lot of competitive shooters have been known to take a single shot. Steadies the nerves and takes away that ever so slight tremble. Yeah. They test olympic shooters for alcohol, actually, since it's considered a performance enhancer. As for people who are actually drunk "Intoxicated subjects were less accurate, slower to fire in reaction time scenarios, and quicker to fire in scenarios requiring judgement"
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Lincoln posted:So I'm sitting here at my computer (literally, right now) watching Grosse Pointe Blank for the first time, and Dan Akroyd pulls out these two revolvers: Don't watch the last episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show!
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Jedit posted:I hope you ordered the TV series by Joe Ahearne and not the movie by Kurt Wimmer. Otherwise you may be disappointed.
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Tunicate posted:Yeah. They test olympic shooters for alcohol, actually, since it's considered a performance enhancer. What you really want is some diazepam aka valium. Or some meth. 
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