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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Bussamove posted:

“The entire culmination of my character arc in the last movie I was in was finding the good buried deep in someone everyone thought was lost.”

"And look how well that turned out! I'm going all-in on murder these days."

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Tenkaris posted:

But how do you predict their movements to throw it at the right place?! It's impossible!

That's what thermal detonators are for. You don't have to throw it at 'the right place' if you blow up everything.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

My theory is that Vader doesn't know poo poo about naval tactics but reflexively denigrates others competence to keep his own position secure.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

From what I recall of the book a replicant on earth was automatically an escaped slave (usually from Mars) and that was why they needed to be found and retired.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

dr_rat posted:

If your in a position you need to be resuscitated are you like by definition in a condition you can't communicate?

Maybe someone has a ouija board.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

QR Code Geass posted:

And why do the rebels wear that orange gear?

Imperials can't see orange so it helps them avoid friendly-fire while maintaining camouflage.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Embryonic development outside of a magnetosphere seems like it could be an issue too, unless she spends the entire time underground.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Dopilsya posted:

But now you have me remembering a scene that I can't place- a guy is wearing a coat, maybe a suit, has his gun out and makes to put it away. But instead he fires it back through his suit hitting someone behind him.

Deliberately or accidentally?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Kevin places a Puzzle Box in a jewelry case then hides it somewhere where the burglars will be sure to find it.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Phanatic posted:

Snipers standing right up next to open windows and sticking their gun barrel out the window to aim at their targets.

With a laser-dot.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Yeah but the police don't care about sex-workers being serially murdered.

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Yeah, arguments about Prometheus, like those about zombies, pretty much stopped a few months into COVID.

Now we complain that people in disaster movies aren't stupid enough.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Alhazred posted:

In Rebel Moon there's a swordswoman who fight a spider-lady. She fight the spider-lady for a bit and then it's revealed she can can make her swords so hot they can slice through anything. So why didn't she do that at the start of thefight?

Replacing swords all the time costs money?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

If I had an evil book I would simply give it to the shortest person I know and tell them to throw it into a volcano.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

credburn posted:

There was a guy I worked with who described an alien as "looking like that monster from Predator 2."

Hey Garry Busey’s not that bad.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

muscles like this! posted:

This is more of a book complaint but it has always kind of bugged me in Dune how Dr Yueh's betrayal is supposed to blindside everyone because he has Imperial Suk conditioning which is considered unbreakable. Except the Baron is able to defeat it through the nefarious and circuitous plan of "telling Yueh that he is holding Yueh's wife hostage and will return her if he betrays Leto."

IIRC is only works because Yueh's wife is a bene-gesserit and she's used her science-witchcraft to make him extra super in-love with her.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

credburn posted:

This is kinda irrational, but if there is nothing in the scene going on but eating, I'm fast forwarding that poo poo. I can't stand the sounds of people eating. It's especially bad if the scene is meant to show off how good the food is by just showing everyone shoving dead things into their gross mouths and nom narm nomsh nromrsmrnsrnnggmg oh hmmmm nomnomnom thats so good nnmonomnomnonomomon oh oh oh nomonnm

Can we combine this with Subtitle Chat and Walking Dead chat so when a character gets devoured alive by zombies with accompanying ghastly noises the subtitles show the zombies excitedly discussing how delicious this guy is

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

credburn posted:

BUT IF YOU DO IT IS 100% RECORDED and if you say something like this you WILL BE ARRESTED

Unless the guards are sufficiently in your pocket.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Don’t use it? Do you realise what a money spinner this could be?
We’ll have to sanitise the marketing material a bit obviously.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Rockman Reserve posted:

I recently watched Pandorum and it was a lot more fun than I was expecting, I ended up really liking it, except one thing at the climax:

The big colony ship the movie takes place in is discovered to be crash landed in the ocean of the earth like planet they were going to colonize. Okay, I can buy that a colony ship carrying literally the last vestiges of Earth life would have a pretty strong hull made of freaky space composites, I can buy it not immediately getting crushed into a tin can. Where I have far more trouble suspending my disbelief is that when the obligatory Space Madness Captain shoots his space gun in the bridge and cracks the space glass, allowing space water to stream in, they’re all just standing in it like an unpleasant shower when in reality they’d pretty much be bisected by the pressure streams.

Maybe space water isn’t as heavy as regular water?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Angry Salami posted:

I mean, even without the hit, the context was that he was trying to hold his wife prisoner so that she wouldn't expose his plan to use a killer robot to attack the Avengers and then 'save' them so they'd get off his back about him attacking an unarmed enemy who'd surrendered in a previous issue.

So regardless of what was intended, it wasn't ever an issue that painted him in a good light.

That's more of an assault-and-battery robot than a killer robot.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

If it's so easy why not just sell the cars then do some more races for more cars instead of doing the heist?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Alakazam can talk. They just don’t have anything to say to you.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Brazilianpeanutwar posted:

Bat bending technology TM

No that's what Bane uses.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

dr_rat posted:

I like the opposite of this. There's a few Scottish independent movies that have been released with subtitles due to very thick accents, colloquialisms, and slang and the subtitles clean up the swearing massively. It's great hearing what the characters say vs what the subtitles are saying they're saying.

Translating something from Scottish involving removing most of the swears sounds entirely correct actually.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Checking for changelings is easy. You shoot them, and if they don’t melt into goo you get the transporter buffer to spit out a new one.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

The best Trek was Babylon 5.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

dr_rat posted:

You can't just endanger students like that!!! There is no wavers on earth that would shield Xavier's School of Gifted Students from lawsuits if a student ended up injured fighting supervillains for extra credit.

Jesus, how has that place not been shut down already? US department of education/justice must have a file on them a mile long.

Do they have a sports team? If I know according anything about the american education system it’s that having a sports team fixes everything.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Jenna Moran posted:

Aquaman and the Wonder Twins look after the departing Boy Wonder with heavy hearts. “The world comes to an end,” says Atlantis’ King. “Not late, but soon; and what part shall I play in the end of it?”

Zan looks down. “Have you no greater art? Then make the best of it; your fish telepathy is the weapon in our hands.”

Aquaman goes to the console and brings up images of world events. “Greater art?” He laughs. “I can imagine none. There are things in the deep you know not of, that answer to my call; and powers I may wield through them that none have seen before.”

....

quote:

“Your sword is swift, giant, and it burns with a terrible heat; but my fish telepathy shall defeat you.” Golden circles fly from Aquaman’s head, and across the world, all that lives in water goes still. His mind fills with a terrible understanding; buoyed on the primitive thoughts of ten billion billion forms of life, his thoughts transcend the mortal coil, and he sees the world with new eyes.

“I know you,” he says to Surt, in a language ancient before the world was born.

Surt inclines his head, mocking. “Before this battle,” he says, “I knew of your legendary attainment; and so for generations, I have spoken to the fish. This is the measure of my triumph: the anglers of the deep, in exchange for my light, have sold your fish telepathy; and when I snap my fingers, …”

He snaps his fingers. The communion of the ocean dissolves; the terrible sword of Aquaman’s intellect breaks; and he stands, puny and unarmed, before the most terrible of beasts.

“I knew it would be so,” murmurs Aquaman, “and I have seen my death; but I have also seen beyond it. I am content.”

The sword of Surt cuts through him, and the King of Atlantis falls.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Carthag Tuek posted:

i mean our signals. we dont sound like an intelligent planet yet.

So reality TV is a form of protective camouflage?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

So how did the piss tax work? Was it a tax you had to pay to piss, or you had to pay in piss, or was it a tax on piss (when traded as a commodity).

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Elissimpark posted:

Didn't know he had a virus? Lol, what did you think he keeps in all the pouches?

Snacks.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Nextwave deals with it the best.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Transmet - when the Press mattered and politicians could still be shamed.

Yeah it’s ended up as a fairly utopian view of the future hasn’t it?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Remember the part where Spider finds a politician had sex with a porn star and that ruins his career?

Or the cops getting in trouble when Spiders writes an article about them non-lethally beating a bunch of people?

Sigh... fantasy worlds can be nice to escape to.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Android Apocalypse posted:

Oil is usually shiny & behaves relatively consistently.

Blood is… weird. It coagulates. Its color depends if it's oxygenated or not.

VFX artists can easily get a bottle of motor oil & physically observe how it acts. Asking for a gallon of blood starts having a lot of people asking questions.
Ridiculous. Why, there’s dozens of gallons of blood in this very building.

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Do money trucks have like giant dye-packs mounted in the back to drench all the notes if they hit a button in the cab?

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

Honestly it still puts them above 80% of royalty.

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The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

I kinda liked in Call of Juarez 2 (video game). The brother protagonists were confederate soldiers, and very much horrible people you should not cheer for.

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