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Aphrodite
Jun 27, 2006

Poops Mcgoots posted:



I'm not reading the books myself to verify whether this is a real quote though.

How small is this book that it can only fit 9 words a line?

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Beepity Boop
Nov 21, 2012

yay

Aphrodite posted:

How small is this book that it can only fit 9 words a line?

About nine words wide.



Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


Aphrodite posted:

How small is this book that it can only fit 9 words a line?

It's probably an e-reader with a high font size.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Poops Mcgoots posted:



I'm not reading the books myself to verify whether this is a real quote though.

Minor :goonsay:, but if that's for the Spartan-II's, that's absolutely not as canon as the author would like. A big part of making the Spartan-II's involved brainwashing the poo poo out of them from childhood, along with a whole lot of hormonal adjustments to make them emotionless 8-foot-tall nigh-unstoppable killing machines. The powered armor just makes them even more unstoppable.

TLDR: They don't have a libido.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
Like Space Marines?

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Minor :goonsay:, but if that's for the Spartan-II's, that's absolutely not as canon as the author would like. A big part of making the Spartan-II's involved brainwashing the poo poo out of them from childhood, along with a whole lot of hormonal adjustments to make them emotionless 8-foot-tall nigh-unstoppable killing machines. The powered armor just makes them even more unstoppable.

TLDR: They don't have a libido.

The suit was invented before the Spartan II's you absolute IDIOT. don't you remember the mjolnir tests that crippled and maimed the poor humans?!

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

bony tony posted:

Like Space Marines?

Pretty much, yeah. If you're curious, here's the other types of Spartan;

The Spartan-I project never got off the ground (it was even only named in hindsight because of the Spartan-II's). The idea was to just Captain America a bunch of regular marines into super-soldiers in order to keep the colony worlds under the thumb of the UNSC (because they are not nice people, they're just the lesser of two evils when the Covenant starts rolling into UNSC space and glassing worlds for fun). All it got was a bunch of crippled volunteers and was rightfully shelved.

When they consulted with Catherine Halsey for the Spartan-II's, she came up with the idea that the procedures, carefully refined, would actually be viable if done from childhood. The idea being they'd grow into gradual alterations through puberty. So they used colony records to abduct 300 kids (Hence the project name) from various worlds that matched her genetic requirements, and replaced them with clones who had inherent genetic defects or diseases. Ones that'd kill them long before reaching adulthood and not raise any questions. They also brainwashed the poo poo out of them to make them absolutely loyal to the UNSC and getting their assigned missions done at any cost; subjugating upstart colony worlds wanting independence and democracy instead of a military regime. Turning them against the Covenant was just coincidental timing of the Covenant suddenly turning up out of nowhere and glassing planets. Did I mention that the UNSC are not nice people?

The Spartan-III's are a knockoff project that wasn't run by Halsey, and it shows. They all have specialized skillsets instead of general proficiency in everything and are designed to work in teams as a result. Plus they're all just a wee bit emotionally off-balance in some way (the ones in Halo Reach, save for Jorge, are Spartan-III's).

The Spartan-IV's are just what the original Spartan-I's were, genetically-altered adult soldiers, only done with about thirty years of advancements and learning from the II's and III's so the project actually worked and didn't cripple all the volunteer test subjects. They don't have the lifetime of mental discipline training or indoctrination, they're "just" better marines in power armor.


GoGoGadgetChris posted:

The suit was invented before the Spartan II's you absolute IDIOT. don't you remember the mjolnir tests that crippled and maimed the poor humans?!

Oooh, yeah. iirc, I think they retconned that a little to being made alongside the Spartan-II's though. It's just that dipshit Generals kept getting their hands on prototypes and wanted to see if their darling conventional marines could handle them too and oh dear :stonk:. (Turns out when you put regular people in a suit that exaggerates muscle motion, reacting to the pain of overstretching by flinching or recoiling over-responds and then you twitch in more pain and, well, you ever seen a character model in a game flail about when physics go wrong?...)

Jamesman
Nov 19, 2004

"First off, let me start by saying curly light blond hair does not suit Hyomin at all. Furthermore,"
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/fuckamii_/status/1032843603247333376

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


It's always neat when people are able to translate the artistic styles into their costumes well.

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)

I WANT PICTURES OF SPIDER-MAN!

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Minor :goonsay:, but if that's for the Spartan-II's, that's absolutely not as canon as the author would like. A big part of making the Spartan-II's involved brainwashing the poo poo out of them from childhood, along with a whole lot of hormonal adjustments to make them emotionless 8-foot-tall nigh-unstoppable killing machines. The powered armor just makes them even more unstoppable.

TLDR: They don't have a libido.

I mean, they could have a non-existent libido but still mechanically get off in a way that releases stress-reducing hormones. That said, doing it mechanically (I'm assuming mechanical, the wording is a bit ambiguous by why have it in the crotch otherwise?) at all seems like a rather inefficient option if they've already been doped up every other way.

3 Action Economist
May 22, 2002

Educate. Agitate. Liberate.
I'm one of these:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Former DILF
Jul 13, 2017


i'm ag'in' it

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

I'd love to see that from another angle, because I'm having real trouble parsing it as a 3D object.

Neddy Seagoon
Oct 12, 2012

"Hi Everybody!"

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I'd love to see that from another angle, because I'm having real trouble parsing it as a 3D object.

I've seen it from a few angles on twitter, it really is hard to parse it as 3D from any perspective.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I'd love to see that from another angle, because I'm having real trouble parsing it as a 3D object.

https://twitter.com/GoldvesterCos/status/1032785374148546560

Here's what it looked like before she painted it:
https://twitter.com/GoldvesterCos/status/1033330192700375040

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
drat. That is good work.

Groetgaffel
Oct 30, 2011

Groetgaffel smacked the living shit out of himself doing 297 points of damage.
https://www.pcgamer.com/this-space-marine-cosplay-took-two-years-to-make/

Bert Roberge
Nov 28, 2003

RareAcumen
Dec 28, 2012




Goro Majima cosplay

https://twitter.com/Frostylva/status/1034456944600338433






It's okay. For real authenticity, there should've been one with her popping out of a trash can.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Did you post this in the wrong thread?

Philippe
Aug 9, 2013

(she/her)
It's a llama dressed up as a different llama.

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


It's actually a person doing a really good llama cosplay.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

ultrafilter posted:

It's actually a person doing a really good llama cosplay.

And a person doing a really good llama cosplay is a genuinely refreshing change because there's some absolutely horrific bad llama cosplay out there:

KILL IT WITH FIRE :stonk:


Also I'll take this opportunity to once again remind everyone that 'llama cosplay' is a delightful and rewarding google image search experience (apart from those few horrific results that will give you nightmares) because the rest of it looks like this:


Choco1980
Feb 22, 2013

I fell in love with a Video Nasty
That Bat-Llama costume's posture is all "Fine, I'll march in your stupid show, MOM. But I hate it!"

Vinylshadow
Mar 20, 2017

https://twitter.com/hosikawa_choco/status/1035028958767501312
https://twitter.com/hosikawa_choco/status/1035131613024149504
https://twitter.com/ModeratelyOkCos/status/1034687457827147776

Vinylshadow has a new favorite as of 16:51 on Aug 30, 2018

Cassius Belli
May 22, 2010

horny is prohibited

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

And a person doing a really good llama cosplay is a genuinely refreshing change because there's some absolutely horrific bad llama cosplay out there:

KILL IT WITH FIRE :stonk:

This cosplay becomes somehow even worse if you know that it's a J-F Bibeau creation and likely reeks of cat piss and questionable hygiene. Bibeau was the star of some ohgodwhatisthis threads years and years ago. I hope he's sorted his life out better (he made a trainwreck of his 30s, moved back in with his parents, and would be in his early 40s today) but somehow I doubt he has.

Technocrat
Jan 30, 2011

I always finish what I sta
https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/1035689811917586437

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right
https://i.imgur.com/FnmWtIp.gifv

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right







duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost



Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty
xavier woods is the loving best

https://twitter.com/XavierWoodsPhD/status/1036022449698164736

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

That borderlands stuff is loving with my mind

kirbysuperstar
Nov 11, 2012

Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.
https://twitter.com/FabibiWorldCosp/status/1035682258257108992

Rich Uncle Chet
Jan 20, 2005


The Law? Law is a Human Institution.


So my Girlfriend and I went to Dragon Con this weekend, and I thought I'd show off some of our costumes. We're still very much amateurs, but we had fun







Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar
The thumbnail of that last one makes it look like the angel had pulled her underpants down around her ankles.

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!



Saw this one on the TeamFourStar twitter.
I think this is the first time I've ever seen a Yajirobe cosplay, but that guy definitely did a good job on it.

GoGoGadgetChris
Mar 18, 2010

i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

Poops Mcgoots posted:



I'm not reading the books myself to verify whether this is a real quote though.

APPLE SAUCE, I say

https://kotaku.com/no-master-chiefs-suit-does-not-jerk-him-off-1828786018

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Some Numbers
Sep 28, 2006

"LET'S GET DOWN TO WORK!!"

Wait, the whole thing started from a dril tweet and people thought it was real?!

I love the internet sometimes.

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