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Non Serviam posted:The TV show Wayward Pines is alright, but the last two episodes pissed me off. It's based on a terrible book. The show is supposed to be a lot better, but the book offers a terrible explanation.
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Celery Face posted:My mom was watching Untold Stories From The ER (TV shows get brought up in this thread so I suppose it's okay) and I had to leave the room because the acting was so terrible. Perhaps an attic shall I seek.
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From the after-credits scene from Terminator: Genysis So the big reveal is that a huge Skynet CPU thing survived the destruction and is sitting happily buried under the rubble. We know it's Skynet for sure because the blue holographic Skynet persona is projected looking up at it. Why would Skynet bother to project a holographic representation of itself looking at.. itself? No-one is around to see it.
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Zaphod42 posted:Perhaps an attic shall I seek. Shoddy narration.
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Celery Face posted:My mom was watching Untold Stories From The ER (TV shows get brought up in this thread so I suppose it's okay) and I had to leave the room because the acting was so terrible.
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GWBBQ posted:Please watch a few episodes of "Sex Sent Me To The ER" and report back. That woman who couldn't stop orgasming 
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The death star trench run has got me bothered on many levels. There is the classic 'why didn't they just dive straight in?', which is usually answered with something about there being too many guns near that port, but that leaves a couple of holes: 1) How would they survive the exit? After 'almost there' guy fires his torpedo, he just pulls right up. 2) When Han Solo comes in at the last minute to save Luke, they are close to the port; why isn't the (much slower and bigger) Millennium Falcon getting torn to shreds? To add to that, 3) Darth Vader had clearly both locked on to, and started shooting at, Luke significantly before Han Solo showed up 4) The torpedo took x amount of time to travel from the surface of the death star to the core of the death star. In that same amount of time, the slower X-wings and the much slower Falcon were able to get far enough away for this shot: 
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So i just saw Jurassic world on a livestream and wow, that movie is overrated as hell. I know its supposed to be a summer blockbuster but i found myself hating all the characters except Chris Pratt's character. Normaly i dont get overly nitpicking with monster movies. gently caress i loved 2014 godzilla. but wow i was dispointed with this movie. The kids were annoying, the lady was an idiot for letting the death count go up that high before doing anything. the ceo who looks like Dorian martell is a loving retard for even making fucksaurus rex in the first place, then sending a ton of dudes off to die with loving traq guns then he finally loving dies. BD wong is just kinda there making super dinos, then he fucks off. the bad guy as lovely and dickish as he is, seems to be the only "smart" one there because other then pratt he is the only one that wants to shoot the fucksaurus and then he gets wrecked. the last fight is kinda cool but its out of focus as hell and then the fucksaurus gets fatalityed and chris pratt fucks the autistic lady. It sucks because i was actually excited for this movie and it just ended up feeling extremely shallow and unfun. i feel like they tried to go for a marvel movie feel and hosed it up. And i am into corny monster movies and poo poo too. I am sure everyone disagrees with me on this.
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ducttape posted:The death star trench run has got me bothered on many levels. There is the classic 'why didn't they just dive straight in?', which is usually answered with something about there being too many guns near that port, but that leaves a couple of holes: The gun turrets stopped shooting because Vader and his wingmates were pursuing them. They were probably given orders to hold fire while Vader finished them off. They mention the torpedo causing a 'chain reaction'. I'm taking that to assume there is explodey stuff going on inside the Death Star before it all went completely kablooey.
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In Terminator Genysis John Connor is trying to stop a school bus driven by Sarah Connor. He pulls out the brake line and they clearly show her stomping on the brakes ineffectively and the bus going out of control. Here's the thing: School buses use air pressure to operate their brakes. Unlike hydraulic brakes, air brakes have springs that force them closed- 'stopped' is their default state, it takes air pressure to pry them open and disengage them. If you tore open the air line on the brakes, they would lose pressure which would cause them to engage, causing the bus to abruptly slow down and stop (but not seize up either).
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Jul 14, 2015 04:09
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The time travel resulted in an alternate development of school bus brakes.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:So i just saw Jurassic world on a livestream and wow, that movie is overrated as hell. I know its supposed to be a summer blockbuster but i found myself hating all the characters except Chris Pratt's character. Normaly i dont get overly nitpicking with monster movies. gently caress i loved 2014 godzilla. but wow i was dispointed with this movie. The kids were annoying, the lady was an idiot for letting the death count go up that high before doing anything. the ceo who looks like Dorian martell is a loving retard for even making fucksaurus rex in the first place, then sending a ton of dudes off to die with loving traq guns then he finally loving dies. BD wong is just kinda there making super dinos, then he fucks off. the bad guy as lovely and dickish as he is, seems to be the only "smart" one there because other then pratt he is the only one that wants to shoot the fucksaurus and then he gets wrecked. the last fight is kinda cool but its out of focus as hell and then the fucksaurus gets fatalityed and chris pratt fucks the autistic lady. It sucks because i was actually excited for this movie and it just ended up feeling extremely shallow and unfun. i feel like they tried to go for a marvel movie feel and hosed it up. And i am into corny monster movies and poo poo too. I am sure everyone disagrees with me on this. The sad part is that they tried to go for a Marvel movie feel and got it right.
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ducttape posted:the (much slower and bigger) Millennium Falcon  The trench run is kind of arse though, we can fire a dustbin half way across space and hit a rock the size of a small car right now and we don't even have access to wookies. The rebel alliance clearly hosed up by putting this guy in an x-wing instead of a pornographic shirt. 
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Pilchenstein posted:But she's the fastest ship in the fleet! I have my doubts that a pornographic shirt would be a better pilot than Porkins.
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Jul 14, 2015 08:46
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Panfilo posted:In Terminator Genysis John Connor is trying to stop a school bus driven by Sarah Connor. He pulls out the brake line and they clearly show her stomping on the brakes ineffectively and the bus going out of control. Here's the thing: So why aren't all brakes like this? Seems like it would be a good safety feature for every vehicle, or do these take up way more space than hydraulics?
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Bird in a Blender posted:So why aren't all brakes like this? Seems like it would be a good safety feature for every vehicle, or do these take up way more space than hydraulics? Space concerns, complexity and cost, mostly. But they're also significantly less responsive and have no brake feel at all, which everyone who's ever had a bad or inexperienced bus driver can attest to. They press the brake pedal, but nothing happens for half a second, so they press it harder. And then all the braking comes in at once.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Shoddy narration. Just pure crap.
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Bird in a Blender posted:So why aren't all brakes like this? Seems like it would be a good safety feature for every vehicle, or do these take up way more space than hydraulics? Air brakes have a delay between pressing the brake pedal and having the brakes engage. They also require an air tank to store compressed air which is bulky (size of a water heater on school buses).
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ducttape posted:4) The torpedo took x amount of time to travel from the surface of the death star to the core of the death star. In that same amount of time, the slower X-wings and the much slower Falcon were able to get far enough away for this shot: But to answer point four specifically, "You've never heard of the Millenium Falcon?" Expanded Universe can be safely ignored now so I'm confident in saying there's no way an X-wing is faster than the Falcon. Remember, she outraces the detonation at Endor, too (and that explosion eats two TIE interceptors).
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NorgLyle posted:The real reason for most of the trench run stuff is because it was inspired by footage from a WWII air assault (like a lot of stuff in Star Wars -- including the Millenium Falcon's turrets which, in my irrationally irritating moment, are not used during the Battle of Endor). Specifically the trench run was lifted in large part or "inspired" from the great war movie Dam Busters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M
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Specifically, Operation Chastise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise They had to fly low and come in just right, because the bomb was dropped with backspin so it would skip along the surface of the water over torpedo nets, hit into a dam, then sink to the bottom and blow up to damage it. Presumably they accomplished this with the Force.
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Aphrodite posted:Specifically, Operation Chastise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise Yeah, its a fantastic story. Nobody was even sure if it'd work, and I think they finally did a successful test just like a few days before the actual mission. Then they fly in at night and they have to fly low and they're getting shot at and they have to skip this bomb across the surface of the water into the dam which they could barely even see. "Great shot kid, that was one in a million!" Lucas is a hack 
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Aphrodite posted:Specifically, Operation Chastise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise That's so god drat cool. They're faced with the issue of torpedos getting caught in nets and their response is "gently caress it, skip the bomb over the water and hit it that way". I want to believe some general was standing by a lake, trying to figure out how they were going to get past the nets when he skips a rock and gets a great idea.
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But why weren't the turrets manned for the Battle of Endor, damnit?
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NorgLyle posted:But why weren't the turrets manned for the Battle of Endor, damnit? Lando scraped off the sensor dish inside the Death Star, maybe if guys had been manning the guns and swinging them around wildly they would've been smashed into something too, probably compromising hull/air integrity? Now, before they went inside is anyone's guess..
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NorgLyle posted:But why weren't the turrets manned for the Battle of Endor, damnit? They were, just by rebel guy #1 and rebel guy#2 who weren't Lando loving Calrissian, so nobody gave a gently caress.
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NorgLyle posted:But why weren't the turrets manned for the Battle of Endor, damnit? They didn't use them in ESB either when they were running from the Empire. I think they just forgot they existed.
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muscles like this? posted:They didn't use them in ESB either when they were running from the Empire. I think they just forgot they existed.
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MindlessHavok posted:That's so god drat cool. They're faced with the issue of torpedos getting caught in nets and their response is "gently caress it, skip the bomb over the water and hit it that way". I want to believe some general was standing by a lake, trying to figure out how they were going to get past the nets when he skips a rock and gets a great idea. Someone asked Churchill what would've happened if that plan didn't work. His response was something along the lines of "then no one would ever have known it happened in the first place."
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MindlessHavok posted:That's so god drat cool. They're faced with the issue of torpedos getting caught in nets and their response is "gently caress it, skip the bomb over the water and hit it that way". I want to believe some general was standing by a lake, trying to figure out how they were going to get past the nets when he skips a rock and gets a great idea. Almost. Barnes Wallis was the designer working on the bouncing bomb, and even if he didn't get the idea that way he spent a lot of time filming himself skipping stones in a huge tank of water so he could examine their flight. He was a good engineer and it was a good plan, though not wildly successful beyond its repeated use as propaganda over the last seventy years. Without wanting to take away from the bravery and skill of everyone involved, the operation (there were three planned targets) cost them a lot of money, men and planes and didn't do nearly as much damage to the Rhine Valley industry as they had hoped for. His later work on the Tallboy and Grand Slam 'earthshaker' bombs was more successfully used against the Nazi rocket projects.
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Hey, it killed 1600 Germans. ...Civilians.
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Aphrodite posted:Hey, it killed 1600 Germans. 
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Watching Interstellar right now. gently caress you, Nolan, and your lovely sound engineering. I can't hear anybody talking, but I have to turn the sound down anytime sound effects happen.
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GWBBQ posted:Please watch a few episodes of "Sex Sent Me To The ER" and report back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7R9g8OiJHA There's this ABC Family soap opera called The Secret Life Of The American Teenager. Like everything on ABC Family (looking at you, Cyberbully), it was clearly written by a bunch of 80 year olds. All the characters ever talk about is sex or some pregnant chick at their school. Obviously, teenagers do talk about sex but not 24/7. There's even an episode where said pregnant chick's father has a vasectomy and everyone at school is talking about it.  I think the best part of the series was when the Christian girl loses her virginity and shortly afterwards, her father dies in a plane crash. Then her Down's Syndrome brother yells at her that "she killed him" and we get this amazing line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvSTLnYW_tQ Celery Face has a new favorite as of 01:28 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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Aphrodite posted:Hey, it killed 1600 Germans. Mostly Russian POWs, apparently
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ElGroucho posted:Watching Interstellar right now. gently caress you, Nolan, and your lovely sound engineering. I can't hear anybody talking, but I have to turn the sound down anytime sound effects happen. That's not an irrationally irritating thing, that's a god damned nuisance. I remember it making the papers and the main bitch point was him going "Sorry if you can't hear poo poo, guess that means your theater's sound system sucks!" No, it doesn't suck Nolan. You suck. You and your sound guy.
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A stupid thing about the Terminator Genesys is how they learn there's a new date for Judgment Day and they have to use their time machine to stop it. Can you guess how long they give themselves to stop Skynet? A year, a month or even a week? Nope, they give themselves one whole day.
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muscles like this? posted:A stupid thing about the Terminator Genesys is how they learn there's a new date for Judgment Day and they have to use their time machine to stop it. Can you guess how long they give themselves to stop Skynet? A year, a month or even a week? Nope, they give themselves one whole day. Well, you see, if they gave themselves TOO much time - Skynet could just send someone back to undo all their work. Or whatever the newest writer squeezes out before the deadline. There's very little internal consistency in the time travel rules for Terminator. First - No non-organic matter comes through. Ok, whatever, designed by humans to not be usable by Skynet. Second - Well now, non-organic material is totally cool, Skynet must have upgraded the machine in the interim - or polymimetic alloy can mimic organic material pretty drat well. Third - (Uh... Yeah, the "female" Terminator. Don't remember much, but she's metal too?) Fourth - RISE OF THE T-800! Sorta, did they do time travel in this one? Genysis - Oh for fucks sake, go shoot everyone who founded IBM. It won't matter, Judgement Day just gets pushed up a hundred years or so, because Skynet is written into the fabric of time I guess?
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Dapper_Swindler posted:So i just saw Jurassic world on a livestream and wow, that movie is overrated as hell. I know its supposed to be a summer blockbuster but i found myself hating all the characters except Chris Pratt's character. Normaly i dont get overly nitpicking with monster movies. gently caress i loved 2014 godzilla. but wow i was dispointed with this movie. The kids were annoying, the lady was an idiot for letting the death count go up that high before doing anything. the ceo who looks like Dorian martell is a loving retard for even making fucksaurus rex in the first place, then sending a ton of dudes off to die with loving traq guns then he finally loving dies. BD wong is just kinda there making super dinos, then he fucks off. the bad guy as lovely and dickish as he is, seems to be the only "smart" one there because other then pratt he is the only one that wants to shoot the fucksaurus and then he gets wrecked. the last fight is kinda cool but its out of focus as hell and then the fucksaurus gets fatalityed and chris pratt fucks the autistic lady. It sucks because i was actually excited for this movie and it just ended up feeling extremely shallow and unfun. i feel like they tried to go for a marvel movie feel and hosed it up. And i am into corny monster movies and poo poo too. I am sure everyone disagrees with me on this. Agreed that everyone bar Chris Pratt was such a complete tool that you didn't care who lived or died. But I did think that the death of the assistant was so unnecessarily cruel and drawn-out that it kind of ruined the rest of the movie. Also the fact that the only thing keeping the giant Mosasaurus from eating people off the area next to it's tank was a dinky little fence. Also every time the dinosaurs communicated with each other it was so anthromorphised they might as well have had subtitles for the conversation. And the way the dinosaurs could turn off their footsteps/breathing whenever they needed to be hiding just out of frame. And the almost comedic way they kept adding new superpowers to the big dinosaur that were never mentioned again. I keep thinking of more, that movie had a lot of irritating moments. CATTASTIC has a new favorite as of 06:24 on Jul 15, 2015 |
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ElGroucho posted:Watching Interstellar right now. gently caress you, Nolan, and your lovely sound engineering. I can't hear anybody talking, but I have to turn the sound down anytime sound effects happen. Update: I want 3 hours of my life back. Instead of quoting Dylan Thomas, they should have just quoted lines from Much Ado About Nothing.
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