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Maybe it's only the bits of the ocean around Australia, and eventually you'd hit water again.
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WickedHate posted:Maybe it's only the bits of the ocean around Australia, and eventually you'd hit water again. The ocean around Australia is exceptionally deep. By the time sea level dropped the kilometres necessary to surround Australia with a salt flat, everywhere else would be high and dry as well. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 20:47 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Oct 17, 2016 20:44
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Waffleman_ posted:https://twitter.com/kthorjensen/status/787338776884289536 They want to slowly change the public's perceptions so they can save money by having convicts jack off in your food directly. It's the REAL Soylent Green (also note the M&M's shell color. Wake up sheeple.)
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Oct 17, 2016 21:29
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And it's the ocean. Human designations aside, the oceans are connected waterways. For the Pacific to be bone dry, that would mean there was no water left in the Atlantic, Southern, or Indian Oceans to fill in the area around Australia, and no ice left on Antarctica either. I feel like I just had this exact conversation with someone
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Oct 17, 2016 21:33
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My question is where did all the water GO?
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Oct 17, 2016 21:34
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Hardcordion posted:My question is where did all the water GO? Space. "So long, and thanks for killing all the fish. "
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Oct 17, 2016 21:43
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Away.
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Hardcordion posted:I don't know how old that theory is but it's implied in Fury Road that the ocean has been reduced to one giant salt flat. If that's the case I doubt the rest of the world would be just hunky dory. Actually George Miller stated that the entirety of Fury Road takes place in the center of the outback, and that the salt flats is just a new feature of the wasteland. One made after a lake bed dried up. Not to say that there aren't any oceans, but I don't think he's ever confirmed that there weren't.
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Hardcordion posted:My question is where did all the water GO? Does that matter to the story? It's fuckin' gone, the only water around is controlled by assholes like Immortan Joe, that's the sitch. Like with Snowpiercer and The Matrix, apocalyptic science fiction gets a free pass from the transitional phase- the sitch is what it is, the middle phase is either unimportant or the entire point. One of the two, no middle ground.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Actually George Miller stated that the entirety of Fury Road takes place in the center of the outback, and that the salt flats is just a new feature of the wasteland. One made after a lake bed dried up. Not to say that there aren't any oceans, but I don't think he's ever confirmed that there weren't. The comics (which I'm pretty sure are canon) showed the ocean around Sydney so dried up that Immortan Joe's gang was driving around boats on the sand.
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There is no real canon. Only the first film happened. The second and third are legends told about this larger than life Road Warrior. Hence why there are intentional continuity errors like him having the intrceptor again for some reason. I'd say that that likely extends to Fury Road as well. More importantly Miller didn't have much to do with the comics anyway. Scarodactyl has a new favorite as of 23:07 on Oct 17, 2016 |
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Scarodactyl posted:There is no real canon. Only the first film happened. The second and third are legends told about this larger than life Road Warrior. Hence why there are intentional continuity errors like him having the intrceptor again for some reason. I'd say that that likely extends to Fury Road as well. Actually the first film was also fictional
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All that water doesn't just go away, the Earth would be another Venus if the oceans evaporated.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:All that water doesn't just go away, the Earth would be another Venus if the oceans evaporated. It turned out that the Earth was hollow all along. The lizard lobster people in the core just pulled the cork out of the tub.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:It turned out that the Earth was hollow all along. The lizard lobster people in the core just pulled the cork out of the tub. Yeah I'm pretty sure it's in the last episode of LOST.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:All that water doesn't just go away, the Earth would be another Venus if the oceans evaporated. Why do you care
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Somfin posted:Why do you care Because it bothers me. Why do you not?
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Removing the oceans requires the equivalent of magic. Who’s to say the wizard evaporated the oceans instead of simply vanishing them?
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Yeah, basically magic. It's impossible to get all of the liquid water off of the surface, for it to be cold enough for humans to survive, and to be able see the sun. Those conditions are mutually exclusive
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:Because it bothers me. Why do you not? Because the water in the story isn't literal. It's a symbol. Do you complain about where the robotic world in The Matrix got all its greased-up metal from, too?
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something something sufficiently advanced technology indistinguishable from magic
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Somfin posted:Because the water in the story isn't literal. It's a symbol. I may be remembering wrong but I'm pretty sure that the oceans being gone is never mentioned in the movie so I don't know what point you're trying to argue here. It definitely comes up in the side stuff and every time it does it bothers me because it doesn't make any sense, but it doesn't hurt my enjoyment of the media. I can deal.
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I got really confused and thought you guys were talking about the lore of the m&m ads.
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Guys, guys, it's a film.
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All that matters with the oceans is it looks cool and results in fairly varied terrain in the PS4 game, which I liked despite the grindy nature of some of it.
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Tired Moritz posted:I got really confused and thought you guys were talking about the lore of the m&m ads. M&M stands for Max & Mad
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The Door Frame posted:Yeah, basically magic. It's impossible to get all of the liquid water off of the surface, for it to be cold enough for humans to survive, and to be able see the sun. Those conditions are mutually exclusive Obviously it just went back up to the great ice canopy surrounding the planet.
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Non Serviam posted:Guys, guys, it's a film. Yup. Just remember the MST3K mantra. It's just a show. I should relax.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yup. Just remember the MST3K mantra. It's just a show. I should relax. It's "I should really just relax", YOU HORRIBLE gently caress!!
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pienipple posted:I really want solar road technology to work out. A new video analysis came out yesterday on the performance of some solar roadways. Not good. https://youtu.be/GtkbioiQHmA
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There is a PC game called East India Company which has the most fitting yet inappropriate review snip - it says "East India Company will pick you up and refuse to let you go for countless hours". This is perfect considering that, yes, historically they did just that due to their part in the American slave trade.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/spirit-halloween-indigenous-costumes-culture-winnipeg-1.3811089 A seasonal costume company makes really racist costumes and then insists that they're not racist.
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I can't believe the same derail that kept popping up in the Fury Road thread came here of all places. Today's dumb move in marketing, and apologies for no pics as I'm phone posting: recently a new Marvel character was introduced, "Ironheart," a teen hero and Iron Man fan with her own suit. Comic books are still known for "variant" covers to get all that collector money, so they tapped an artist to draw one who is known for doing the typical "impossible sexy girl poses." If you didn't know the character was meant to be 15 you'd probably pass it over without a thought (or roll your eyes and give it a pass), it's not even especially egregious as far as those poses go. But for a company that advertises as being more and more diverse and wanting to cater to different demographics they sure keep falling back on Comic Book Creeper Guy (including the artists who insists it's not his fault for hypersexualing a 15 yo character because "that's who I was told to draw"). I like how the "fix" was to redraw her in the Iron Man suit instead of the belly shirt and yoga pants, but she's still got a broken hip pose. 
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CommonShore posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/spirit-halloween-indigenous-costumes-culture-winnipeg-1.3811089 You just know the real reason they refuse to release the sales figures - if the costumes were actually selling you know they would use the popularity as a defence, as it is they are a bad idea that isn't selling but they are doubling down for "~Tradition~"
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BioEnchanted posted:There is a PC game called East India Company which has the most fitting yet inappropriate review snip - it says "East India Company will pick you up and refuse to let you go for countless hours". Not just that but my first thought was "so this game will pick me up at a bar then rape me and lock me in a room all night?" I really don't think I could come up with something worse if I tried.
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I'll be honest it nearly worked - if it didn't look like a Civ/RTS kind of game which I hate as I am terrible at them, I may have picked it up based on tagline alone.
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BioEnchanted posted:You just know the real reason they refuse to release the sales figures - if the costumes were actually selling you know they would use the popularity as a defence, as it is they are a bad idea that isn't selling but they are doubling down for "~Tradition~" They probably just don't want to have to trash a warehouse worth of costumes that aren't selling anyway.
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Improbable Lobster posted:They probably just don't want to have to trash a warehouse worth of costumes that aren't selling anyway. Trashing them in the name of good PR is worth a shitload more than keeping them on the shelves and then trashing them after Halloween when they didn't sell and getting your company branded lovely and racist.
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Since we always talk about the idiocy of Internet marketing, I'd like to share the messages I got yesterday on Instagram. quote:
gently caress these people. It's basically the same kind of weird motivational messages (hustle) with the twist of selling you Indonesian followers. https://www.instagram.com/bolterrr/
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CommonShore posted:Trashing them in the name of good PR is worth a shitload more than keeping them on the shelves and then trashing them after Halloween when they didn't sell and getting your company branded lovely and racist. I suspect a fairly small number of people care enough for it to matter in terms of "what temporary store in an vacant supermarket am I gonna buy a last minute costume at?"
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