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DeltaEdge

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The To Aru Majutsu No Index universe. Just some of the techinical aspects of how powers, or more specifically, how power cancellation works. **Spoilers ahead** Whenever Touma uses imagine breaker to cancel magic, it's important to remember that it's only in his right hand. How on earth does stretching his right hand out to cancel magic protect his entire body from magical blasts when it's clearly shown the the imagine breaker's range is very limited. Realistically, Touma should've been scorched to death in the second episode when style filled up the entire corridor with flames, yet somehow his right hand cancelled all of it, even parts that it couldn't reach, and this doesn't always seem to work. Sometimes all of it gets cancelled, sometimes it doesn't... This just bugs me. Also bugs me that when Accelerator was battling Kihara, he acted as if reflection was his only ability. He has vector change, so at any time during the fight he could have just sent a chunk of the floor flying at Kihara and annihilated him, or, heck, he could've even thrown a freaking building at him, I mean, he actually threw a building earlier in the season! Seriously, the way he fought during that fight blatantly ignoring all his other powers besides reflection was purely to advance the plot.
Haakong said:
Psykoma said:
The only one I can think of atm is pokemon.

Basically
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=282


They're kids...
That one nails everything down about pokemon. Also, theres no "normal" animals in the pokemon world... which means they eat pokemon. All pokemon are sentient beings on (almost) same intellectual level as humans, if not higher... disturbing...
As for Pokemon, and what they eat in pokemon, I have two ideas about that. One, they have animals, they just almost never show up, or they are all enslaved in underground captivity. Or if they eat pokemon, just shows that people will still eat regardless of whether what they are eatin is sentient. Just because pokemon are sentient, it doesnt eliminate the need to eat. Just a possible grim reality of pokemon. And in the early eps, they did think about eating a magicarp. just putting that out there...
Edit: There are some normal animals in pokemon. The aquarium in the cerulean city gym in the anime in the first season had normal non-pokemon fish inside it. I'm leaning toward the idea that real animals just get no screen time and are only commercially farmed, so you won't find em in the wild, just in farms, and this is actually starting to sound to realistic to me, so I'm going to stop here.
 

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Evil Smurf said:
Josh12345 said:
Here's a basic one about Doctor Who that was actually brought up in an episode but was never really given a good explanation: If a planet was getting invaded and you don't have enough time to prepare, why doesn't the Doctor go back about 2 weeks and just warn everyone?
because he is not allowed to interfere with events that have a fixed or set timeline.
The Waters Of Mars says hello, actually nevermind, Doctor Who is one of those series that we'd be here discussing what is and what isn't a plot hole until next year.
 

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LittleThestral said:
The underaged wizard/witch Trace in Harry Potter.

Does it work based on the person's home, in which case, why does Harry not get in trouble in book 6, when Dumbledore uses magic willy-nilly to annoy the holy fuck out of the Dursleys? And why is he, Ron, and Hermione so worried about his using magic before he officially turns 17 in book 7?

Does it work based on the person him/herself? If so, why does Harry get in trouble for Dobby's (NON-WIZARD) magic when Dobby isn't even standing close to him in book 2? And why then did they say that in Wizarding homes, the parents are entrusted with ensuring their kids don't use magic during holidays?

...just a little consistency, please!
If we start pointing out plot holes, inconsistencies and things that just do not make any sence in Harry Potter we are going to be typing for a good couple of days. For example Dumbledore knew about Voldemort's soul things for how may years and did NOTHING. Voldemort was less than a ghost for 10 years why the hell did Dumbledore not trak them down and destroy them while Vlodemort was unable to stop him?
 

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Josh12345 said:
Evil Smurf said:
Josh12345 said:
Here's a basic one about Doctor Who that was actually brought up in an episode but was never really given a good explanation: If a planet was getting invaded and you don't have enough time to prepare, why doesn't the Doctor go back about 2 weeks and just warn everyone?
because he is not allowed to interfere with events that have a fixed or set timeline.
The Waters Of Mars says hello, actually nevermind, Doctor Who is one of those series that we'd be here discussing what is and what isn't a plot hole until next year.
why a year?
 

Josh123914

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Evil Smurf said:
Josh12345 said:
Evil Smurf said:
Josh12345 said:
Here's a basic one about Doctor Who that was actually brought up in an episode but was never really given a good explanation: If a planet was getting invaded and you don't have enough time to prepare, why doesn't the Doctor go back about 2 weeks and just warn everyone?
because he is not allowed to interfere with events that have a fixed or set timeline.
The Waters Of Mars says hello, actually nevermind, Doctor Who is one of those series that we'd be here discussing what is and what isn't a plot hole until next year.
why a year?
timey-wimey-wibbley-wobbley......... stuff

CAPTCHA: silence is golden.
indeed.
 

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The universe in Iron Sky is pretty retarded. They completely glossed over how people could manage to live on the moon for 70 years without any food or water, or even how they got there in the first place.
 

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Star Wars. Anakin should not be able to adjust from a desert planet to a planet that's basically a giant sponge that easily. Speaking of which, how does it make sense for Naboo to have a core that you can just swim through?
 

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Middle-Earth: There are humans, hobbits, elves and dwarves, but the ones who invent dynamite are the orks? What?

I mean, the others have gandalf. Hes lived thousand of years, surely he would know something that could help with the invention of it?
 

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First thing that came to mind is Grand Theft Auto. Now, GTA isn't that fictional, but it exaggerates a lot of things that exist in the real world. And if they're going to exaggerate, could they please exaggerate the number of motorcycles on the road? I don't want to drive a sedan, I want a motorcycle!!

^this applies to all GTA games.

Also, I love me some Harry Potter, but the magic in those stories has more holes than swiss cheese. Seems like J. K. Rowling just created spells or "rules" whenever they were convenient. And the Deathly Hallows can go bury themselves in a hole...still great books, just nitpicks...
 

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IamQ said:
Middle-Earth: There are humans, hobbits, elves and dwarves, but the ones who invent dynamite are the orks? What?

I mean, the others have gandalf. Hes lived thousand of years, surely he would know something that could help with the invention of it?
Sarumon "invented" it not the Uruk Hai. The Uruk Hai are like super Orcs anyway; more intelligent and more physically perfect.

Sarumon, like Gandalf, is not actually human they are Maiar [http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Maiar] and they are expressly commanded to "They were forbidden to dominate the peoples of Middle-earth or to match Sauron's power with power" a command which Sarumon breaks and invents (or at least creates something he already knew how to do) gunpowder.

Gandalf has previously been using gunpowder for fireworks for displays in the Shire don't forget.

For more Lord of the Rings nitpicking:

Why did Treebeard fell for the whole going South instead of West thing, when the Shire is Northwest from Fangorn Forest? How would going South help? They would have to go all the way around the outside of the forest again.

Why did Sauron's entire domain (his towers and such) fall apart when his spirit was banished by the ring being destroyed when they are actually old cities of Gondor and not some wierd tower held together by his will?
 

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Rocklobster93 said:
The universe in Iron Sky is pretty retarded. They completely glossed over how people could manage to live on the moon for 70 years without any food or water, or even how they got there in the first place.
Just throwing this out there, wasn't Iron Sky a pretty obvious parody? I'm not sure it was meant to make enough sense for nitpicks (because we could question various details like the thermal heating on the darkside of the moon, why half the Aryan's had brown hair not blond and why they apparently made no effort to monitor what was happening down on Earth to learn details about things like... well... nukes)

Dr Who question though, why do the Dalek's KEEP coming back. They've been definitely killed like 4 times since the series restarted.
 

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Patrick Buck said:
shockywatt said:
Warhammer 40k takes itself WAAAAAAAAAAY to seriously. Especially when you have ork vehicles that move faster if they are painted red.
Orks have a lot of psycic energy. They can move faster because they accidently add power to them using that, when they belive that it works. Same with their guns. They shouldn't work. But because so many orks, all belive that they do, and should, They do.

Basically, their vehicles go faster, because they belive they should. I think it's brilliant.
I know that's how it works I have a ork army, Its just kind of funny when you have this game trying to be super serious grimdark, and then have orks making ramshackle vehicles with clap your hands and believe magic. I love orks I think they are the most interesting army in 40k but the universe as a whole is a bit silly.
 

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IamQ said:
Middle-Earth: There are humans, hobbits, elves and dwarves, but the ones who invent dynamite are the orks? What?

I mean, the others have gandalf. Hes lived thousand of years, surely he would know something that could help with the invention of it?
I'm assuming you mean Uruk-hai, right? And I'm fairly certain it was stated that Sarumon was the wizard that was big on new technology like the crossbow and explosives. Only makes sense he'd research and develop something like that if he planned to go to war.
 

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Gizmo1990 said:
LittleThestral said:
The underaged wizard/witch Trace in Harry Potter.

Does it work based on the person's home, in which case, why does Harry not get in trouble in book 6, when Dumbledore uses magic willy-nilly to annoy the holy fuck out of the Dursleys? And why is he, Ron, and Hermione so worried about his using magic before he officially turns 17 in book 7?

Does it work based on the person him/herself? If so, why does Harry get in trouble for Dobby's (NON-WIZARD) magic when Dobby isn't even standing close to him in book 2? And why then did they say that in Wizarding homes, the parents are entrusted with ensuring their kids don't use magic during holidays?

...just a little consistency, please!
If we start pointing out plot holes, inconsistencies and things that just do not make any sence in Harry Potter we are going to be typing for a good couple of days. For example Dumbledore knew about Voldemort's soul things for how may years and did NOTHING. Voldemort was less than a ghost for 10 years why the hell did Dumbledore not trak them down and destroy them while Vlodemort was unable to stop him?
I know, I know. I've ranted my girlfriend's ear off about these things. I would just think that something as simple as the Trace, which is constantly foiling the kids' plans and which is evidently important for keeping the Wizarding community hidden from Muggles, would have SOME consistency.

But yeah. "Greatest Wizard ever", my ass.
 

Queen Michael

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Marvel Comics. How come the Stamford incident prompted a Civil War when nothing else ever did? Isn't that very unusual?