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Cojawfee posted:What if Earth is just padding their numbers? Yeah, there's totally 30 billion people in our buildings here, don't bother coming over to check. Analyse the atmosphere to see if that checks out.
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drunkill posted:Another adam savage video, prop guns, space suits and helmets for the show: https://youtu.be/QXwe51lkJ6M Those are some cool helmets. e: Wow that backpack. 
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AlternateAccount posted:They also gave us EXPANSE CHOCOLATE BARS. I kid you not. These ought to be Milky Way bars. That is, the international version. The Milky Way and Three Musketeers brands are swapped in the U.S..
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NowonSA posted:I didn't mind Bobbie's actor, for where the character's at right now how she was represented made sense. Even if her performance doesn't turn out to be that great, she's right in the Amos tier of "Yep that's what that character should look like." It’s the writing, not the actress. She’ll have her development when she gets her rear end kicked.
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The version I watched had an Avasarala F‐bomb.
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Doctor Butts posted:There was more than one F-Bomb dropped in that episode, but both were edited out so that you only heard the 'Fff' Yeah, okay, the one I was thinking of was “I know how the fu—ing thing works”. The /k/ sound is cut, but it’s subtle enough it could be mistaken for a dropped packet.
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Frankie Adams is 6′, which is pretty tall for a woman. e: If the figures I’m looking at are right, if you take a representative one thousand American women, she’d be taller than 998 of them. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:06 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Excellent. I was also looking for some kind of primer on Belter slang because every now and then some Belter extra will say something that sounds like utter gibberish. Belter Creole 101 There’s a wiki. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eupcy0lIjsk Platystemon fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Feb 3, 2017 |
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ol qwerty bastard posted:I thought the arm wrestling scene was a good way of establishing how strong the suits are rather than how strong Bobbie is - by themselves the suits are nearly as powerful as a trained marine, so when they wear them they're doubling their strength. So it shows that these aren't invincible Iron Man suits but if you're wearing one you can punch twice as hard, run twice as fast, etc. It’s more than that. A marine with doubled strength probably couldn’t tear a steel bulkhead apart, but in power armour, an MCRN marine can.
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gohmak posted:Was that a Fedex product placement or insult? Delivering 1 out of 2 packages in all. Scopuli was a UPS freighter. 
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Eiba posted:Man, I don't get this. I love the books to death, but so far the show's been better in pretty much every way so far. Miller putting Dresden down like a dog doesn’t have the same impact without the reveal.
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Eiba posted:Miller did say that they were the type of weapon you'd find in a prison so we can assume they're basically nonlethal weapons, yeah. I think those are rhetorical questions.
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Toast Museum posted:Dresden is a very different character in the book. He's the project's coordinator, but he's not nearly as hands-on as the TV version. He's absolutely a sociopath, either naturally or thanks to shady Protogen brain surgery. He's described as an unflappable, impeccably dressed older man who sees the raid as an annoyance, but not a real threat. He presents the case for his work in a collected, practiced manner, assuming throughout that he's too important and powerful not to get his way, let alone to be personally harmed. Holden and everyone else in the room (there are several others present) are feeling something like "I hate everything he's saying, but I can't find the hole in it," and then Miller puts him down. This, and Miller’s decision weakened by, as I said, the lack of knowledge about just how much of a sociopath he is and also, in the show, Fred Johnson’s acceptance of his terms. In the book, Miller puts Dresden down while everyone is still in shock. He acts to pre‐empt anyone entertaining the offer.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:I thought Johnson was going just bluffing to have all the data unlocked. I didn't really think he meant it. Whether or not this is the truth, Johnson will loudly and immediately proclaim it.
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ZorajitZorajit posted:I used to work at Bed Bath & Beyond. We sold something very similar, but billed for brownies. The idea was to make more crusty edges, but the effect was oveclooked AND unevenly cooked brownies. But, it would save power since it heats up more quickly because the heating surface has way more surface area, which I figured was the reason for it. At least, I told myself that rather than the prop room's real reason: "It looks space-y." The energy required to run an oven is trivial for a ship with an Epstein drive. They’d waste more power accelerating that extra aluminum anyway. I assumed that Martians just prefer edge pieces of lasagna. 
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mastershakeman posted:I honestly didn't like the ship fight at the end since it seemed like the enemy ship took a nap instead of trying to get an angle on them to use a railgun In the book there were two stealth ships. That’s the thing about stealth ships. How do you know that that blob that your sensors can only barely pick up isn’t actually multiple ships?
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Subyng posted:Yeah when the Martian marines were being smug as gently caress I was just thinking "lol good luck invading Earth with your brittle rear end bones" but I guess that's why they have power armour. When MCRN ships go anywhere, they burn at 1 g for extended periods so the grunts can get some training and put on some skeletal mass.
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Azhais posted:The show made the stealth ship appear to be gigantic too, so it might just not have been able to get in there easily (or maybe to roci hurt it a lot, didn't take much to finish it off) So fly to either side of the station’s disc and ventilate the Roci from there. Using the station as cover to buy the Roci some time is a fine idea, but I think the sequence’s timing was off. Amos was in front of the camera for too long while the enemy ship was seemingly impotent.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:They mentioned if they got close enough the torpedoes wouldn't be a problem. So I guess they've got an arming distance or something. That’s how it works in the books, yeah. Eiba posted:I actually like this. It seems like a whole scene, with full context, rather than your normal teaser of random episode bits taken out of context. I assumed it would be the usual montage so I skipped it, but having gone back and watched it, I declare it A Good Scene and a pro click.
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withak posted:That is How Torpedoes Work in fiction. It’s how torpedoes work in reality, at least in the WWII era.
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Pharmaskittle posted:Plus earth has like three times their population. Seven and a half times, at the start of the series. Mars has the tech edge, but Earth would poo poo on them all day every day in a ground war or a war of attrition.
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Speaking of Epstein drives and scorching, PDCs and missiles are cool, but I want to see the Roci slag something with its main drive. 
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https://zippy.gfycat.com/AgileBasicCleanerwrasse.mp4 Can I embed this full‐res version? Let us see. e: Yes, but it breaks tables. 1080p Platystemon fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Feb 6, 2017 |
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The best effects in the episode: https://giant.gfycat.com/DisastrousQuickLamprey.mp4
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Best line in the premiere https://giant.gfycat.com/SmallGiantDugong.mp4
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https://giant.gfycat.com/DependentCorruptAuklet.mp4 Rocinante has the correct orientation, but the cutting of the scene makes no sense. Miller should be decked when the thrusters fire, not when the clamps lock. tooterfish posted:That's actually one of the biggest problems I have with Tycho. Docking at the outer edge of a spinning object like that would be very difficult, if not completely impossible. Docking like that would be easy enough if you had computer control and enough propellant.
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https://giant.gfycat.com/FamousMarvelousBlueshark.mp4 Here is the other PDC scene. Kesper North posted:I love this effect, but the particles should appear to counter-rotate opposite the ship's spin :sperg: Yeah, I think the spin is just shakeycam. Alex says “Hang on!’ as the particles drop to the floor.
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The deflection was waaaaaaay too great. A necessary concession to cool.
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FuriousxGeorge posted:Anyone have gif? https://fat.gfycat.com/EnchantingScornfulBlackfly.mp4
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Subyng posted:Does Mars have an authoritarian government? I'm getting kind of a Zeon from Gundam vibe from them. No. We don’t know much about the structure of Mars’ government, but it’s not authoritarian. e: I was going to compare it to an overgrown city‐state, but that’s just my opinion. There’s nothing hard to go on.
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“A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive.” Solomon Epstein’s yacht is traveling at 5% the speed of light, which gives it insane kinetic energy.
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Loomer posted:I dunno, bacteria seem to give it a pretty good go every so often. Bacteria kill large numbers of individual organisms, but they haven’t made much effort to kill all multicellular life, as “grey goo” scenarios posit.
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