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Centripetal Horse posted:I sold a car to a Polish guy who told me he was buying it for his younger brother. I said, "Your younger brother can drive a manual?" He said, "In Poland, no one has automatics." That kind of blew my mind. I'm a shade under 40, and even in my age bracket, at least 75% of my acquaintances cannot drive stick. Pretty sure most European cars are manual. Automatic transmission is mostly a North American and China/Japan thing. Not sure about South America or the rest of Eurasia
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Sep 14, 2015 08:35
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South America and sub-Saharan Africa are practically 100% stick, and Australia is probably 60% with 80% of people knowing how to drive one.
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Sep 14, 2015 08:50
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In the UK you can have an automatic-only license and bouncers won't let you into clubs if you use it as id ftw
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Sep 14, 2015 09:52
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Simply Simon posted:No German will be caught dead driving automatic. Unless they drive a Mercedes. I think the biggest you can get with a manual is the C-class, and even then it's only with the smaller engines. Everything E-class and above is auto-only.
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Sep 14, 2015 10:04
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Automatics are more a luxury option here in Europe, or for old people. They get a bad rap for being slow, inefficient, expensive and hard to maintain compared to a manual gearbox; but this hasn't been true for basically two decades now.
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Sep 14, 2015 10:26
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sassassin posted:In the UK you can have an automatic-only license and bouncers won't let you into clubs if you use it as id ftw Seems pretty cunty though, surely the automatic licence has all the necessary info on it? Maybe you were wearing the wrong kind of trainers
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Sep 14, 2015 10:31
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In the first Thor movie, it opens with a shot of Tønsberg, Norway ca 900 AD where we were apparently invaded by frost giants until Odin and his crew showed up. Immediately after this we are shown Thor and Loki as children, so they were not a part of Odins gang at the start. But Thor and Loki have by that point been established as norse gods for well over a thousand years  my immersion!
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Sep 14, 2015 11:16
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KozmoNaut posted:Unless they drive a Mercedes. You can get the C-Class and the E-Class with the 184 HP engine and a manual. Its the smallest engine on the E-Class and the third smallest on the C-Class. But yeah, nobody under 60 is driving automatic over here. I prefer manual too, but i gotta admit that my dads automatic Merc was pretty nice when i was stuck in heavy traffic. But that might've also been the case cause its a Mercedes and not a loving Peugeot.
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Sep 14, 2015 12:33
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Biplane posted:In the first Thor movie, it opens with a shot of Tønsberg, Norway ca 900 AD where we were apparently invaded by frost giants until Odin and his crew showed up. Immediately after this we are shown Thor and Loki as children, so they were not a part of Odins gang at the start. But Thor and Loki have by that point been established as norse gods for well over a thousand years Also it happened in 900AD so we should definitely have records of Frost Giants and Gods on Earth
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Sep 14, 2015 13:07
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Biplane posted:In the first Thor movie, it opens with a shot of Tønsberg, Norway ca 900 AD where we were apparently invaded by frost giants until Odin and his crew showed up. Immediately after this we are shown Thor and Loki as children, so they were not a part of Odins gang at the start. But Thor and Loki have by that point been established as norse gods for well over a thousand years Odin heard about those myths and thought "Hey those are neat names, I'll name my son and foster son that! What harm could it possibly do?"
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Sep 14, 2015 14:10
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That was only the first 900 AD.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:43
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Biplane posted:In the first Thor movie, it opens with a shot of Tønsberg, Norway ca 900 AD where we were apparently invaded by frost giants until Odin and his crew showed up. Immediately after this we are shown Thor and Loki as children, so they were not a part of Odins gang at the start. But Thor and Loki have by that point been established as norse gods for well over a thousand years Obviously in Asgard there are an extremely limited roster of approved names and they have been cycling through them for a while.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:51
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Simply Simon posted:No German will be caught dead driving automatic. Except, you know, all the Porsches, Mercs, BMWs, Audis, and VWs that have double-clutch automatics. Which Porsche has helpfully abbreviated from 'doppelkupplungsgetriebe' to 'PDK.'
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Sep 14, 2015 15:03
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Ego-bot posted:Like Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind for the Tigger Movie. Tigger is totally a tweaker so it works just fine.
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Sep 14, 2015 15:12
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Phanatic posted:doppelkupplungsgetriebe is only four letters longer than "double-clutch gearbox".
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Sep 14, 2015 15:17
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Phanatic posted:Except, you know, all the Porsches, Mercs, BMWs, Audis, and VWs that have double-clutch automatics. Which Porsche has helpfully abbreviated from 'doppelkupplungsgetriebe' to 'PDK.' Eh, as long as you don't have a torque converter it still kinda counts as manual.  Once you're spending enough money to get paddle shifters the distinction blurs.
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Sep 14, 2015 15:23
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More of a TV thing than movies, but it irritates me when characters are named after the actor/actress playing them. It's all pretend anyway, just make up a name for crying out loud.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:17
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It seems Jackie Chan is called Jackie in every one of his dubbed films.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:24
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The Zombie Guy posted:More of a TV thing than movies, but it irritates me when characters are named after the actor/actress playing them. Apparently Tony Danza couldn't be relied on to respond to anything other than Tony.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:27
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sharktamer posted:It seems Jackie Chan is called Jackie in every one of his dubbed films. Thats because all his movies are based on his real life adventures.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:33
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I've always assumed one of the trickiest bits of acting must be getting used to reacting to a fake name.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:38
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Novum posted:Thats because all his movies are based on his real life adventures. the real jackie chan died like 11 years ago, since then we've had his twin from Twin Dragons
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Sep 14, 2015 17:40
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EmmyOk posted:Also it happened in 900AD so we should definitely have records of Frost Giants and Gods on Earth In the MCU, to be fair, such records exist.
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Sep 14, 2015 17:43
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Finally saw Pacific Rim last night. Eight helicopters would not be able to lift a Jaeger. Also, at the end: "I can't find a pulse!" No poo poo, Dumbass, you're wearing gloves.
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Sep 14, 2015 18:22
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Lincoln posted:Finally saw Pacific Rim last night. Eight helicopters would not be able to lift a Jaeger. Jaeger's weigh 3000 tons (maybe less) meaning each helo needs to lift only 375 tons at the most.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:02
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Panfilo posted:Jaeger's weigh 3000 tons (maybe less) meaning each helo needs to lift only 375 tons at the most. Yeah, that's what he said. A quick google search and I couldn't find a direct answer on what the max payload for the "strongest" helo is but the few answers I did find are nowhere near 375 tons. 375 tons is a LOT of weight. That's 125 tons short of a million pounds.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:46
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Panfilo posted:Jaeger's weigh 3000 tons (maybe less) meaning each helo needs to lift only 375 tons at the most. Which is still fa(aaaaaaaaaaaaaa)r and away above the payload of a heavy lift chopper.
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Sep 14, 2015 19:46
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I think he was making a 
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Sep 14, 2015 20:08
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It's annoying when a character is holding someone at gun point and they are standing really close together so they are both in the same shot. So close that the person just grabs the gun away. Stop taking advantage of the blocking. That's like a character hiding behind the camera man in a gun fight.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:25
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Lincoln posted:Finally saw Pacific Rim last night. Eight helicopters would not be able to lift a Jaeger. Of course the helis can lift the Jaegers, it happens several times in the film. They're special Jaeger-Helicopters.
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Sep 14, 2015 20:33
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The rotors use alien tech to increase their... carborators...
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Sep 14, 2015 21:20
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Lincoln posted:Finally saw Pacific Rim last night. Eight helicopters would not be able to lift a Jaeger. It's a world where humanity designed giant bipedal robots to fight sea monsters. Making super choppers is probably baby town frolics.
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Sep 15, 2015 00:16
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EmmyOk posted:I've always assumed one of the trickiest bits of acting must be getting used to reacting to a fake name. Seems like that would be the easiest part. "Now in this scene you just found out your wife is dead." "Ok" "So you're going to have an emotional breakdown. I want to see real tears. " "No problem." "Then you spot the killer and go into a complicated fight sequence." "Right." "Oh and he's going to call you Jim because that's the character's name." "WTF There's no actor that could pull off responding to another name!"
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Sep 15, 2015 03:06
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EmmyOk posted:Also it happened in 900AD so we should definitely have records of Frost Giants and Gods on Earth The Catholic Church covered it up 
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Sep 15, 2015 10:38
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Len posted:It's a world where humanity designed giant bipedal robots to fight sea monsters. Making super choppers is probably baby town frolics. They should have just used those choppers to lift the monsters out of the sea and drop them into a volcano.
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Sep 15, 2015 11:36
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Grendels Dad posted:They should have just used those choppers to lift the monsters out of the sea and drop them into a volcano. Fool, that's how we got thetan infestations!
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Sep 15, 2015 17:00
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Behind the scenes, but it annoys me when a director/actor describes another actor as "fearless". He threw himself into the character, it takes a lot courage to do that. Heath ledger really got into the role of the joker, he's a fearless actor. You're being paid 15 million to make a movie for 3 months gently caress off.
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Sep 16, 2015 03:33
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oldpainless posted:Behind the scenes, but it annoys me when a director/actor describes another actor as "fearless". He threw himself into the character, it takes a lot courage to do that. Heath ledger really got into the role of the joker, he's a fearless actor. You're being paid 15 million to make a movie for 3 months gently caress off. Heath Ledger is an exceptional instance of this. Immersing himself in the role of the joker was sooo taxing he OD'd. The stress of being a big deal may have led to him popping more pills, but the role itself wasn't anymore taxing than being a pop-punk knight or a Wyoming sheep rancher. Not dissing him, or River Phoenix, or Chris Farley but he liked getting high and making bank can give you the means to totally self destruct. There are plenty of living actors like Chevy Chase or Michael Madsen who can attest to getting paid and not quite killing themselves.
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oldpainless posted:Behind the scenes, but it annoys me when a director/actor describes another actor as "fearless". He threw himself into the character, it takes a lot courage to do that. Heath ledger really got into the role of the joker, he's a fearless actor. You're being paid 15 million to make a movie for 3 months gently caress off. Do you work in the film industry? I'm curious because you said "behind the scenes." Have you ever been the focus of attention for 500, or 1,000, or more people while you're supposed to be bawling your eyes out, or professing deep love or passion for someone or something? Forget live theater, or public audiences, just try it in front of a director, and a handful of camera men and sound guys. If you've never done it, you might be shocked. It actually takes significant courage. I think it's totally fair to use the word "fearless" to describe an actor tackling a difficult part.
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