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Megillah Gorilla posted:The launch sequence where all the Tracy family get to their ships by just the most ridiculous means and any time Thunderbird 2 dropped its pod have been remade a million times since 1965. Hell yeah. I haven't seen Thunderbirds forever, now I want to watch model ships doing things very slowly.
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HopperUK posted:Hell yeah. I haven't seen Thunderbirds forever, now I want to watch model ships doing things very slowly. First this, and also X-Com. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2PoXfZdYVU Croccers has a new favorite as of 13:50 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Let me be whichever Tracy was in space most of the time away from all the nonsense below. John maybe? Let me be that one. Chilling in space away from my dumb family and their dumb issues.
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Mar 16, 2023 17:38
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HopperUK posted:Hell yeah. I haven't seen Thunderbirds forever, now I want to watch model ships doing things very slowly. Thunderbird 2 didn't have to go fast because the party didn't start until it arrived. "Okay Thunderbirds 1 and 3, off you go at ten times the speed of sound to put down the traffic cones and tape off the area. I'm gonna get there in my own drat time with all the useful poo poo." (bonus at 9:30 of Thunderbird 2 dropping the Thunderbird 4 pod into the ocean) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNhk_-v0SMs&t=134s Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 18:08 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Mar 16, 2023 17:56
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Guess again, Hood! TB2 can travel at 5000 mph!
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thunderbird 2 didn't have to go fast because the party didn't start until it arrived. lmao geoblocked. Really got to protect all that hot Thunderbirds footage! More fool them I can go find some on my own.
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Mar 17, 2023 00:38
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Literally the first time I've ever heard of a youtube video that works in Australia but is geoblocked elsewhere.
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Mar 17, 2023 04:01
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Croccers posted:Gerry Anderson has a lot to answer for. Wait...so Big O replaced its hilariously obvious Queen knockoff intro song with a knockoff of this?? 
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And Evangelion's intro sequence took influence from it too!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I knew about SRPG and was mostly stirring poo poo, but didn't know about the Japanese terms, that's really interesting. Did XCOM do well in Japan? I know Nintendo seemed to give a try at riffing it with Codename Steam. I return with knowledge: My Japanese friend had never heard anything of it being a real thing in Japan. So probably one of those 'cult following' things, like Twin Peaks. Mario + Rabbids was an X-COM like too, and is big, so the gameplay appeals at least.
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People say Mario & Rabbids is an XCOM but has no geoscape so it's just a turn based strategy and not really an XCOM I'll take a 4 for $4
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Mario & Rabbids gets rather Puzzlely on later levels too. If you power-game your builds you can do it differently but a lot of the time it wants you do to things in step.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thunderbird 2 didn't have to go fast because the party didn't start until it arrived. My favorite part is the palm trees flopping down to make room for the wings.
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They did a great job of making Thunderbird 2 look big, given that it's a model. The shape of it, the sound of it's engines spooling up etc. Feels beefy. Was by far my favourite when I was a kid, think I was the only one, most kids liked TB1 because it was fast. Lame.
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Roblo posted:They did a great job of making Thunderbird 2 look big, given that it's a model. The shape of it, the sound of it's engines spooling up etc. Feels beefy. Nah, TB2 was always my favourite too. Heck, I named my first hamster Virgil 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Literally the first time I've ever heard of a youtube video that works in Australia but is geoblocked elsewhere. ITV is loving weird about blocking anything they own in the UK and nowhere else.
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Roblo posted:They did a great job of making Thunderbird 2 look big, given that it's a model. The shape of it, the sound of it's engines spooling up etc. Feels beefy. This is probably my biggest complaint about the recent CGI Thunderbirds remake - Thunderbird 2 did not feel as big as it should have done as felt a lot faster than it should be. Although I will say that despite the new series setting itself up to be horrific, aside from a few characterization choices it ended up really enjoyable and a strong remake of the series.
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Croccers posted:Mario & Rabbids gets rather Puzzlely on later levels too. If you power-game your builds you can do it differently but a lot of the time it wants you do to things in step. This is my main gripe with Mario & Rabbids too. Basically the only way to complete levels is to move and use skills in the exact spot they want you too.
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That Thunderbirds stuff was cool as hell. I’ve never seen it and I always imagined something a bit more shoddily put together. But holy hell those models and the puppetry are REALLY well done. Some next level stuff. There’s serious weight to everything. Even the ocean feels like the actual ocean and not some little pool in a studio. But also lol @ 9m00 they knew exactly what they were doing.
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MokBa posted:That Thunderbirds stuff was cool as hell. I’ve never seen it and I always imagined something a bit more shoddily put together. But holy hell those models and the puppetry are REALLY well done. Some next level stuff. There’s serious weight to everything. Even the ocean feels like the actual ocean and not some little pool in a studio. It's worth seeking out the old show if you enjoyed the model work. So long as you don't mind everything being very, very slow-paced. And some weirdness due to time period. Lady Penelope is fun though.
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I hope this doesn't sound too negative but I'm so glad we're not talking about JRPGs anymore.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I hope this doesn't sound too negative but I'm so glad we're not talking about JRPGs anymore. In this essay, I will explain how suplexing trains is a metaphor for the underfunding and dismantling of train networks across the Midwest. Starting with Nobuo Uematsu's dr 1/433
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is it derogatory to go "ugh, these loving Tetsuya Nomura games" or "nah, I'm not much of a Kojima fan" when referring to games either made by them or games that were clearly inspired by them?
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Aces High posted:is it derogatory to go "ugh, these loving Tetsuya Nomura games" or "nah, I'm not much of a Kojima fan" when referring to games either made by them or games that were clearly inspired by them? It is ethical and necessary. Croccers posted:Gerry Anderson has a lot to answer for. I somehow missed absolutely everything about these British puppet shows and I feel like I've uncovered a huge missing link in tracing the cultural origins of a lot of dumb bullshit
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You can legally say "I did not care for Death Stranding." It's always acceptable, if wrong.
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mind the walrus posted:It is ethical and necessary. From the elaborate launch and transformation sequences of signature vehicles to colour-coded teams of five, you'd be surprised. It's also funny looking back at Japanese Spider-man, realising it predates Super Sentai/Power Rangers as tights-clad superheroes who can also summon giant robots... and starring teenagers who juggle everyday life in high school and extracurriculars and relationships with saving the world from dastardly villains.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:From the elaborate launch and transformation sequences of signature vehicles to colour-coded teams of five, you'd be surprised.
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mind the walrus posted:I was aware of the whole transformation and color-codes, it's the detail of things like military base fetishism that make me realize exactly where Anno and others got it from That stuff also makes for great toy commercials.
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MokBa posted:That Thunderbirds stuff was cool as hell. I’ve never seen it and I always imagined something a bit more shoddily put together. But holy hell those models and the puppetry are REALLY well done. Some next level stuff. There’s serious weight to everything. Even the ocean feels like the actual ocean and not some little pool in a studio. There's a reason it was called SUPER Marionation.
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HopperUK posted:It's worth seeking out the old show if you enjoyed the model work. So long as you don't mind everything being very, very slow-paced. Thunderbirds Are Go started with about a 10 minute scene them assembling the Zero X. The whole series was "model porn" in the best way. The whole movie is on youtube. Here's the Zero X scene, just so over the top. They knew what people were coming to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOHBf8ZUpBs&t=125s Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 07:17 on Mar 18, 2023 |
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HopperUK posted:It's worth seeking out the old show if you enjoyed the model work. So long as you don't mind everything being very, very slow-paced. And some weirdness due to time period. Lady Penelope is fun though. Lady Penelope feels like they just took all the cliches that were taken for granted back then and decided to crank them up to ridiculous awesome anyway. There's also an episode where giant mutated alligators are played by real, live baby alligators. Also apparently Gerry Anderson was pretty amused by Team America, and thought its riffing on his old stuff was more true to the spirit of it than the then current and very immediately forgotten live-action Thunderbirds movie.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Thunderbird 2 didn't have to go fast because the party didn't start until it arrived. I don't know which is my favourite, the slide that you go down head first, only for it to stop you half way so it can rotate you so you're going down feet first. Or the couch that slowly lowers into the hanger, slowly scoots across the floor and slowly rises into the rocket ship so now you have a high tech rocket ship with a really comfy couch just sitting in the middle of the cockpit. The fact that there is a standby couch waiting to replace the first one is just gold. The people putting together that stuff must have had so much fun.
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i haven't played a mortal kombat game since the 3rd one for the snes, but apparently the recent one has a character that's gay? how did the chuds somehow miss a chance to create that shitstorm?
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Mr Interweb posted:i haven't played a mortal kombat game since the 3rd one for the snes, but apparently the recent one has a character that's gay? The second to last game. The character is Kung Jin, relative of Kung Lao. But yeah, there was a tiny amount of controversy about him, not terribly much since he wasn't that popular a character anyway. There was also a little bit of whining about Mileena and Tanya being a couple, I think? I dunno, I didn't go out of my way to search for it.
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A lot of that poo poo is very easy to ignore if you don't go looking for it, or media doesn't decide to actively amplify it for some reason. As much as it's generally the nazis starting it there's definitely a horrible symbiotic relationship between the two flavours of clickbait and culture warriors.
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Mr Interweb posted:i haven't played a mortal kombat game since the 3rd one for the snes, but apparently the recent one has a character that's gay? Considering that it gives them a socially acceptable way to violently murder a homosexual, I don't think they'd be too bothered?
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Pulsarcat posted:I don't know which is my favourite, the slide that you go down head first, only for it to stop you half way so it can rotate you so you're going down feet first. I'm not sure I'd want to be just chilling in the '60's futuristic island hideaway when they're launching and landing a rocket THROUGH THE MIDDLE of it. Pretty sure that wouldn't meet OHS standards and would be hell on the aluminium siding.
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Mr Interweb posted:i haven't played a mortal kombat game since the 3rd one for the snes, but apparently the recent one has a character that's gay? They skipped over that one (mkx) and attempted to create a shitstorm in the most recent one (mk11) for a number of dumb reasons, mostly around the female side of the cast having more realistic proportions and marginally less skimpy outfits and Jax having an ending where he goes back in time, ends slavery, and literally says we have to be woke lol Despite their endless cheers of "go woke go broke" it ended up being one of the best fighting game sellers of all time only behind a few smash bros games and street fighter 2. In certain corners of the internet there are still chuds in total denial that think mk11 must have flopped due to its wokeness
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Pulsarcat posted:I don't know which is my favourite, the slide that you go down head first, only for it to stop you half way so it can rotate you so you're going down feet first. And now I'm suddenly realising what Wallace and Gromit got ideas from, too.
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