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Jul 25, 2022 19:47
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old bean factory posted:Psychic powers should be visualized through explosive diarrhea This would make psychic battles far more interesting than just waving hands at each other.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:11
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I can see why the nosebleed thing is such a common signifier to be fair - it's a common enough idea that you are putting your brain through so much stress it's basically causing you an aneurism.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:15
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Just go the Akira route and have the psychic turn into a writhing mass of flesh. (yes, my monitor is turned on, thanks)
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Jul 25, 2022 20:32
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Marcade posted:Just go the Akira route and have the psychic turn into a writhing mass of flesh. (yes, my monitor is turned on, thanks) The Kaori-character just legging it any time anybody looks even remotely tense.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:42
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BioEnchanted posted:I can see why the nosebleed thing is such a common signifier to be fair - it's a common enough idea that you are putting your brain through so much stress it's basically causing you an aneurism. Plus its an easy special effect to do, not onerous on the actor, and by now its so ubiquitous a shorthand that I see why no-body changes it. Plus it can be as debilitating or not to a character as the plot demands. If you want to have it a lil nosebleed to show effort you can, if you want to have it a sign of incipient brain damage, you can do that too.
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Jul 25, 2022 21:21
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Marcade posted:Just go the Akira route and have the psychic turn into a writhing mass of flesh. (yes, my monitor is turned on, thanks) plug it in
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Jul 25, 2022 21:26
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BioEnchanted posted:I can see why the nosebleed thing is such a common signifier to be fair - it's a common enough idea that you are putting your brain through so much stress it's basically causing you an aneurism. It is a sign of exactly that in Firestarter, which was one of the earliest examples of the trope. In the final showdown in the book Andy McGee gives himself a fatal stroke by overexerting his power, and it's regularly stated that the three Lot Six subjects who gained abilities suffer headaches when they use them. The only person who doesn't is Charlie, because she was born with her abilities and they're natural to her.
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Jul 25, 2022 21:32
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Go full My Hero Academia with it and have psychics be the norm, and anyone who screws up and loses control of themselves and goes full Akira is just regarded like "What a loser, guess he didn't learn how to put the safety on." while the psychic first responders contain the situation before it kills them.
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Jul 25, 2022 21:33
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credburn posted:Psychic powers are different from movie to movie but so many of them cause the same iddy biddy widdle nose bweed. My cousin has a psychic attack whenever she moves to higher elevations too quickly. It annoys me that something magical that is portrayed differently has the same rather minor consequence of a little sinus leakage. Also can someone please figure out how to represent someone's mind being attack that doesn't involve them yelling "Get out of my head!"
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Jul 25, 2022 21:52
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Improbable Lobster posted:Also can someone please figure out how to represent someone's mind being attack that doesn't involve them yelling "Get out of my head!" Easy, they start acting erratically throughout the day, similar symptoms to dementia but mild enough at first that people don't notice, as the attack is starting to scramble their neural pathways as they try in vain to fight it off. Escalating until it becomes obvious that something is really wrong, at which point a specialist jumps in to help them. (maybe initially they are just mispronouncing people's names slightly but then by the end their sentences have lost all logic)
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Jul 25, 2022 21:59
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Even easier: Scanners head pop.
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Jul 25, 2022 22:34
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Crowetron posted:Even easier: Scanners head pop. Yeah, but mine's more fun to act.
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Jul 25, 2022 22:42
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All psychic fights should be shown by having characters stand on the spot, waving their arms, and straining loudly. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxhOiVoa7w&t=90s (I'm actually impressed at how well Fassbender sells it)
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Jul 25, 2022 23:20
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Strom Cuzewon posted:(I'm actually impressed at how well Fassbender sells it) It's Fassbender, that's his thing. He even yelled "Get in the choppah!" lmbo
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Jul 25, 2022 23:24
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I don't even need to click. That scene is hilarious because of the "Oh you extended an arm? I'll extend TWO arms!" escalation, and frankly that movie was lovely enough that it would have been excellent and hurt nothing if one of Magneto's feet slowly rose into frame also shaking from strain.
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Jul 25, 2022 23:26
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Wrong X-Men psychic battle scene. https://youtu.be/p6-9BsZ1qyA Hell, have some more from that show. They were great. https://youtu.be/84ja5ehgpCA (About two minutes in.) https://youtu.be/frf0HepcB7w
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Jul 25, 2022 23:53
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Every psychic should have Cristopher Daniels eye after using their powers.
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Jul 26, 2022 00:23
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I really like when the psychic is wearing glasses and like staring really intensely and one of the lenses just cracks out of nowhere that's a good effect they should do it more
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Jul 26, 2022 00:40
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I'm not a big anime fan, but I think the genre has nailed it for general "using powers" depictions. Hair flying up, clothes rippling like the wind is blowing, the cool invisible shockwave that radiates out, etc.
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Jul 26, 2022 00:49
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Personally I like the someone straining to think very hard then someone else head exploding in a bloody mess way of using powers. That's like the only way you every need to do it from now on I think.
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Jul 26, 2022 00:52
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Andos El Pantos posted:Stranger Things 4 finale: When the 3rd season of Umbrella Academy was released my girlfriend wanted to catch up, and since I'd never seen it we watched the whole thing together, and I have to say I get the same thing from No. 1/Luther. The other siblings say he has "super strength" but he routinely gets his rear end kicked by regular people. In the very beginning of season 2 he takes a tank shell to the torso and shrugs it off but a few episodes later he gets punched and he bleeds. I guess his actual superpower is to not fit through doors.
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Jul 26, 2022 01:49
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Have they ever tried to explain it like “yeah he’s got super strength but he spent years on the moon so it’s kind of a wash”?
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Jul 26, 2022 02:05
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IUG posted:Wrong X-Men psychic battle scene. Jason Mantzoukas and Jermaine Clement is a god-tier get-together
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Jul 26, 2022 02:07
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Kwanzaa Quickie posted:I'm not a big anime fan, but I think the genre has nailed it for general "using powers" depictions. Hair flying up, clothes rippling like the wind is blowing, the cool invisible shockwave that radiates out, etc. I was watching Princess Mononoke last week, and the gentle up-breeze that ruffles hair when magic is about to go off is a nice touch that I think Ghibli uses in most their films.
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Jul 26, 2022 02:37
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youknowthatoneguy posted:I believe Thano's hand is so hosed up is because he destroyed the gauntlet, not so much because he used it.
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Jul 26, 2022 04:10
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X-Men: The Last Stand is not a great movie, but I love the (outward) psychic battle in that one. Even though it quickly becomes rather one-sided. (begins mid scene because I couldn't find the entire sequence so quickly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODmL-eOxyk Blood-red eyes, gravity all over the place, disintegration and, most importantly, a whole lot of windmachines! John Powell's excellent theme for the movie also helps.
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Jul 26, 2022 11:16
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SiKboy posted:Plus its an easy special effect to do, not onerous on the actor, and by now its so ubiquitous a shorthand that I see why no-body changes it. Plus it can be as debilitating or not to a character as the plot demands. If you want to have it a lil nosebleed to show effort you can, if you want to have it a sign of incipient brain damage, you can do that too. Those scenes are intercut with the scenes of the new Alien bursting out of the dog/ox (depending on version) and, in my head, that implies that there's some sort of connection between Ripley and the alien burster. I guess at this point in the movie Ripley has the new Queen growing inside her, but it still seems odd that it'd give her a nosebleed like that.
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Jul 26, 2022 13:39
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It’s code for something is very wrong, like how one single cough by a character in a daytime soap is indicative of a terminal illness.
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Jul 26, 2022 13:44
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Kwanzaa Quickie posted:I'm not a big anime fan, but I think the genre has nailed it for general "using powers" depictions. Hair flying up, clothes rippling like the wind is blowing, the cool invisible shockwave that radiates out, etc. Nosebleed was already taken as a reaction to seeing a naked girl so they had to come up with something else.
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Jul 26, 2022 13:46
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Torquemada posted:It’s code for something is very wrong, like how one single cough by a character in a daytime soap is indicative of a terminal illness. Same like how if a woman is throwing up into a toilet in literally any media, she's pregnant. Edit: Without a plague/hangover plot, of course
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Jul 26, 2022 14:37
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When I was watching season 1 I thought for sure that the big twist was going to be that Luther was a werewolf and that's the real reason their lovely dad sent him to the moon, because it's the one place where he could never accidentally look up at the sky and see a full moon The flashbacks where he looked normal were further proof for this theory, because obviously the constant exposure to moonlight had caused his werewolf and human forms to merge and stabilize, "curing" him of lycanthropy at the cost of never being able to fit through doors or take a shower without having to unclog the drain afterwards I still like my idea better
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Jul 26, 2022 14:56
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Morpheus posted:Same like how if a woman is throwing up into a toilet in literally any media, she's pregnant. Zombie movies need a cut to visualizing other people as roasted meat via cartoon to indicate infection.
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Jul 26, 2022 17:59
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I get it that blood erupting from your face and spraying everywhere is like anime cartoon code for having an erection, but I don't get it.
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Jul 26, 2022 18:47
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I don't know if The Backrooms stuff counts as creepypasta, but its definitely another House of Leaves ripoff. I remember another one called Dionaea House that was similar too, hard to believe the story came out back around 06
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Jul 26, 2022 18:56
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flavor.flv posted:When I was watching season 1 I thought for sure that the big twist was going to be that Luther was a werewolf and that's the real reason their lovely dad sent him to the moon, because it's the one place where he could never accidentally look up at the sky and see a full moon I remember reading/watching something once that had the opposite idea but my googling is coming up short. An astronaut on a moon mission was secretly a werewolf and attempting to make physical contact with the moon to become a primeval chaos god werewolf. If I remember right he got kicked out the air lock and was doomed to drift through space for eternity in a cycle of exploding in the vacuum and reforming again. That was a cool story.
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Jul 26, 2022 19:13
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Hardcordion posted:I remember reading/watching something once that had the opposite idea but my googling is coming up short. An astronaut on a moon mission was secretly a werewolf and attempting to make physical contact with the moon to become a primeval chaos god werewolf. If I remember right he got kicked out the air lock and was doomed to drift through space for eternity in a cycle of exploding in the vacuum and reforming again. That was a cool story. Awww, poor werewolf Astronaut never got live out it's dream. Always hate it when stories like that have a sad ending.  On the plus side I now have a cool outline for a story I can tell my niece who's currently in a, werewolf's are really cool and good and I want to be one when I grow up phases, but I am 100% changing the ending to the werewolf astronaut living happily ever after on the moon.
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Jul 26, 2022 20:46
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Station 11: I've only seen the first two episodes so far. But at the end of episode two: Future Kirsten meets a creeper, and identifies him a creeper or something, because he mispronounces the name of a nearby island he said he went to, and because he is eating 'chicken of the woods' mushrooms he said he just harvested that she claims don't grow that far north. But she's wrong. They can absolutely grow in and around the Chicago area. But that's not my main gripe. At the end of the ep, she stabs him (I'm assuming we'll get more info on the exact reason why other then just 'he's creepy.' ) but she does an absolute piss poor job. One stab, lower left abdomen, with like a 3" blade. Now, granted, it's post-apocalyptic so there is a very good chance he'll still die from infection... in several days. But she just leaves him there. The shot of the stabbing makes it seem like they are maybe way on the outskirts of the camp, near a pond or river. But she also doesn't even bother to push him in... And I guess it's her luck he also has a high pain tolerance and isn't screaming the whole night? (Although she was given the second, hidden, knife she used to do the stabbing by a member of her traveling Shakespeare Company, so maybe they're just so ok with casual murder?) And then it's the next morning, and we see the log she stabbed him behind is like only ten feet from the center of camp! And she acts surprised that he isn't there! I get she was raised from age 8 to 28 in this horrible post-apocalyptic wasteland, but seriously, have done drat common sense! Then it cuts to a shot of his son dragging him away to presumably try and get him all fixed up somewhere. Quite honestly, one of the most piss poor murder attempts I've seen in media. DrBouvenstein has a new favorite as of 00:06 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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Jul 27, 2022 00:04
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That Italian Guy posted:That is clearly Conan's sword. It was confirmed and apparently it's heavy as gently caress
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Hardcordion posted:I remember reading/watching something once that had the opposite idea but my googling is coming up short. An astronaut on a moon mission was secretly a werewolf and attempting to make physical contact with the moon to become a primeval chaos god werewolf. If I remember right he got kicked out the air lock and was doomed to drift through space for eternity in a cycle of exploding in the vacuum and reforming again. That was a cool story. I remember that being the end of one issue of Scud: The Disposable Assassin.
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