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Phanatic posted:Also, if you come to the conscious decision that it's impossible to have a kid and protect it as it grows, then what's the point of anything you're doing? You're surviving, but you're literally doomed, all you're doing is prolonging the inevitable. Fun? People who are sterile still find joy in life dude. I dunno why you'd care so much. Like it sucks, but not really for you? If you die, you're dead. Who cares if there aren't other people living on after you, you're already dead. Protecting human existence is noble but hardly integral to the happiness of an individual. Every one of us is gonna die. Prolonging the inevitable is all there ever was. You're kidding yourself.
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Zaphod42 posted:I'll take "how does thermodynamics work?" For 200, Alex. They eat rear end. Are you really surprised they have silly ideas about what food Is?;p
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Zaphod42 posted:I'll take "how does thermodynamics work?" For 200, Alex. Sorry, I've been watching too many idiotic horror movies, it honestly makes more sense than some of the plots they've come up with. I'm on like page 20+ of my kodi streaming thing of horror movies so it's getting real deep into the lovely stuff (which I love - I like getting irritated at bad movies almost more than I do enjoying a movie).
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Zaphod42 posted:Fun? People who are sterile still find joy in life dude. Ah, yes, the fun of never being able to do anything that makes noise or else you die painfully. I guess if you’re a monk that might be your idea of a good time.
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Jul 19, 2018 20:37
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Phanatic posted:Ah, yes, the fun of never being able to do anything that makes noise or else you die painfully. I haven't seen the film yet but IDK, build a bunker? Go find a bunker and seal it off? Maybe they can hear through walls IDK haven't seen it. Read some books 
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Alhazred posted:Counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War That article was much funnier when it had a proper "conflict" infobox which listed "dignity" under the Australian casualties.
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I just assumed the couple in A Quiet Place were religious. They're a rural farming family in Iowa. They probably think missionary is kinky and can't imagine birth control.
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Zaphod42 posted:I haven't seen the film yet but IDK, build a bunker? Go find a bunker and seal it off? They live on a farm that is perfect for all of their needs(remember, they have young kids), and there's no guarantee that if they set out looking for a bunker that they'd ever find one. They take expeditions for supplies but just walking off in some random direction hoping to find a soundproof building is just not practical. They have systems set up for catching and cooking food, and for tracking the creatures in the area. They've got a huge grain silo at their disposal, and a whole network of lights set up as a silent alarm. It makes sense that the parents are looking at what they have and not wanting to risk that for a chance at stumbling on something better.
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i just kept looking at all that corn and thinking "that is gonna be a bitch and a half to shuck, silk and store"
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FreudianSlippers posted:I just assumed the couple in A Quiet Place were religious. They're a rural farming family in Iowa. They probably think missionary is kinky and can't imagine birth control. What's wrong with missionary?
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Gaunab posted:What's wrong with missionary? Is this is a serious question or a joke that I just don't understand? He was being ironic...
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The Beach is a pretty horrible film when you take into account the movie's backstage drama and real-life ecological damage, but the film itself takes a giant poo poo when Leonardo DiCaprio imagines he's inside an N64 game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMHINpgFO3I
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Jul 20, 2018 01:17
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The Beach is good.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The Beach is a pretty horrible film when you take into account the movie's backstage drama and real-life ecological damage, but the film itself takes a giant poo poo when Leonardo DiCaprio imagines he's inside an N64 game. Wow  I've seen the movie and I forgot how bad that wasIts like that one red hot chili peppers music video (was it californication? think so) with the really bad 90s CG, but its even worse! I love how it cuts between the video game view and the jungle like they're supposed to be sync'd but DiCaprio is doing 2 completely different things the whole time.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The Beach is a pretty horrible film when you take into account the movie's backstage drama and real-life ecological damage, but the film itself takes a giant poo poo when Leonardo DiCaprio imagines he's inside an N64 game. What kind of drama and eco-damage was there?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Yes, its a good film and only 90 minutes. How many scenes are there of a character making some slight noise and Jim reacting by putting his finger on his lips slowly as he looks around
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Leavemywife posted:What kind of drama and eco-damage was there? I googled it cuz WTF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_(film)#Damage_to_filming_location Wikipedia posted:The production altered some sand dunes and cleared some coconut trees and grass to widen the beach. Fox set aside a fund to reconstruct and return the beach to its natural state; however, lawsuits were filed by environmentalists who believed the damage to the ecosystem was permanent and restoration attempts had failed.
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2014 Godzilla a fantastic movie, but it gives me the shits when the navy guys tell serizawa that the nuke they plan to use is bigger than the ones they used in the 50s. Bitch the castle bravo shot was like 15 megatons, nothing in the current us arsenal scratches that.
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Calaveron posted:How many scenes are there of a character making some slight noise and Jim reacting by putting his finger on his lips slowly as he looks around Like 2 or 3?
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Ant-Man And The Wasp. The armor on a Cold War warhead is so tight, it the only gaps between plates are sub-atomic? Really? Also, this movie made me realize how annoyingly common it is in films to have parents refer to a child character only by a cutesy diminutive nickname because it had both Jellybean and Peanut.
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Jul 20, 2018 14:34
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wizzardstaff posted:Ant-Man And The Wasp.
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Yeah it's a one button normal size/ant size thing with the suits. The magic science behind it can do all kinds of levels in between the two (played for laughs in Ant-Man and the Wasp) but Hank made his suits with just a toggle.
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Whoops, I guess I will retract my IIMM then and wear the Fake Geek Boy badge of shame. But as long as I’m showing off my ignorance of the Marvel universe I’d also like to say that I don’t get why commanding ants is also part of the Ant-Man power suite. It seems like a totally different scientific specialty than quantum physics. (Yeah, I know there’s probably a wiki explanation I could look up that would justify it all for me.)
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Jul 20, 2018 15:21
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wizzardstaff posted:Whoops, I guess I will retract my IIMM then and wear the Fake Geek Boy badge of shame. Nah, it's pretty much a Comic Book Science (tm) handwave. In the comics, Hank Pym was the creator of Ultron, because a guy who specialises in shrinking things and also controlling ants an obvious build robots too, he's A Comic Book Scientist. There is a recurring theme with the Marvel stuff mostly that further advances in science and technology allow more precision and control over their crazy physics defying poo poo. (Of course, also means you get untested prototypes that go on and off randomly for Shenanigans)
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In the films, they have regulators. Both the original Wasp and Ant-Man have to break the regulators to go smaller than intended (and they keep shrinking until they're quantum). Civil War he goes too large, so I guess at that point he upgraded the suit (I think that's when he has a touch panel on his wrist that he uses instead of just the button on the glove). EDIT: "Shrinking between the molecules" for the missile is dumb. My best guess for a plausible meaning is that the regulators would only let them get so small on the missile. So the original Wasp had to break the regulator to go small enough to shrink between the panels of the missile, but there was no way to stop there, or reverse it. My complaint about the first one is the first time he shrinks he falls through the floor. In that scene he falls and hits a vinyl record. It skips. However, not 20 seconds later he falls out of the building onto a car, and that dents the roof. How did the record not break? I wish they said something about the suit will let you decide on when your mass is relative or not. That way you could have your weight turn off when you're running across someone's gun, but then turn it on when you throw your punch. Just one line to say "you choose when your mass has mass" and that would have dispelled those problems. IUG has a new favorite as of 17:56 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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wizzardstaff posted:Whoops, I guess I will retract my IIMM then and wear the Fake Geek Boy badge of shame. The 'pym particle' is actually a magic potion, and the ant control is done through a ritual contract with the queen of all ants. The technology is all for show.
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IUG posted:My complaint about the first one is the first time he shrinks he falls through the floor. In that scene he falls and hits a vinyl record. It skips. However, not 20 seconds later he falls out of the building onto a car, and that dents the roof. How did the record not break? I wish they said something about the suit will let you decide on when your mass is relative or not. That way you could have your weight turn off when you're running across someone's gun, but then turn it on when you throw your punch. Just one line to say "you choose when your mass has mass" and that would have dispelled those problems.
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CordlessPen posted:Yeah, they even make a point in the movie to tell you that objects keep their mass, but also have a guy carry a tank in his pocket. I think this is kinda the nature of big projects like movies or games versus small projects like books or comics where one person can write everything. Somebody wrote the 'objects have mass' stuff and then someone else came along and said "hey, we can shrink things? He should carry a tank in his pocket! How cool is that?" and the guy who wrote the mass stuff wasn't there to say "no, that doesn't loving work" Star Wars even went to having a "lore guru" or "canon guru" guy who would check everything was okay, but it didn't really work because he's still beholden to the director saying "Oh man I'm gonna do this thing its gonna be super cool". Rian Johnson had to admit in an interview that the Holdo Maneuver is probably going to have to be retconned. He knew it and did it anyways, didn't give a poo poo.
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Ant-Man's mass stuff kind of went out the window the first time he climbed on an ant and flew away.
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CordlessPen posted:Yeah, they even make a point in the movie to tell you that objects keep their mass, but also have a guy carry a tank in his pocket. They say a few iffy things, but what looks accurate is that their momentum is somehow conserved even though their mass isn't. It still doesn't work, but it works better
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More than most, Pym particles are "it's just a show, I should really just relax" concentrate. He can control size and mass arbitrarily.
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marshmallow creep posted:More than most, Pym particles are "it's just a show, I should really just relax" concentrate. He can control size and mass arbitrarily. The problem with that is then Pym should be an unstoppable god.
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The Bloop posted:They say a few iffy things, but what looks accurate is that their momentum is somehow conserved even though their mass isn't. Yeah in the first one in the training scene they say he needs to be careful about how he punches because it can either hit like a bullet or nothing at all.
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IUG posted:In the films, they have regulators. Both the original Wasp and Ant-Man have to break the regulators to go smaller than intended (and they keep shrinking until they're quantum). Civil War he goes too large, so I guess at that point he upgraded the suit (I think that's when he has a touch panel on his wrist that he uses instead of just the button on the glove). The movie shows it. She passes right through the metal panel. But then she’s large enough inside to tear away at parts of a Cold War era circuit board, which while small is not microscopic.
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Rolo posted:I think about this every time I see that scene and force myself not to think about it because it really looks like they scare/hurt the dogs to get them to flip out and bite at the cage wire. If it makes you feel better, the wire is fake (obviously) and the dogs can be seen looking back at the handler for cues. The distressed sounds are all ADR. I forget where I read it but the dog trainer/handler on set was allegedly one of the best in the world. No one else could get a husky to act so alien. It's exquisite craftsmanship.
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Aphrodite posted:The movie shows it. She passes right through the metal panel. Her suit had blasters
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Much like the Flash is basically a speed-themed wizard, Hank Pym is a size-themed wizard.
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Zaphod42 posted:The problem with that is then Pym should be an unstoppable god. He is, he's just too stupid to realize it and most everyone else takes what he says at face value because he invented the things. 
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Snowpiercer: the source of the protein bars was the best imaginable. Bunch of whiners.
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Icochet posted:Snowpiercer: the source of the protein bars was the best imaginable. Bunch of whiners. Dude eats babies but is suddenly recoiled by the idea of eating bugs which a lot of people already do
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