To make a long story short, yeah I think I meant the Jackals. Not really got more to say on the moment other than agreeing that it was down to what the developers thought and such.ZippyDSMlee said:
Thinking about it, what is the stupidest fictional thing ever?
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To be fair, just about any human technology is going to get utterly destroyed when you have the Hulk and Thor fighting on it, as well as being attacked by conventional weapons used by people who know how to disable it and your standard operating procedures and tactics.rhizhim said:
Granted, that only explains the movie. I have no idea why they keep building them in the Ultimate universe in particular. They go through those like candy.
MmmmmFalloutJack said:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Jackal_gang_member
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fiends
I still think its the fiends.
Nice talking to you I hope I didnt melt your eyes to badly LOL
Okay, ya wanna know what's REALLY funny? I meant to type Fiends, to agree with you, but I wrote Jackals again. Maybe you DID do damage. In which case, for the love of god Montressor, WHY? Aaaaaarrrrggghhh!!!ZippyDSMlee said:
Quantum Entanglement is actually the only thing that would make it feasible. Since the other alternative is to be able to broadcast signals at 100,000's of times the speed of light, and somehow be able to discretely direct them to individual cell-phones, instead of huge comm relays that would be easy to spot.contagonist said:
But, really, if it was quantum entanglement then it only raises more questions than answers. Why not instantly communicate with Earth that that one admiral went batshit and is rolling around with a huge doomship? Maybe call up every armed ship within nearby warp distance (since I'm assuming the Klingon homeworld isn't particularly close, someone else had to be in about the same sort of range from Earth) so you can gang up on the doomship? Maybe just have Starfleet turn on whatever space-based defenses it has around Earth and the Moon to blast the Vengeance out of the black? I know they aren't a proper navy, but they can't be so incompetant as to leave Humanity's homeworld completely defenseless from space-based attacks, besides direct intervention from one of their own armed ships. Basically, it seems like there were any number of people better to call, than to dial up Scotty, ruin his night in a bar, and send him off on some hair-brained infiltration mission.
I also reiterate my point on how horrendously this ruins some of the primary themes of Star Trek, or just about any spaceship-based sci-fi in general. The vastness and scale of space. Its shores as unknown as those of the other side of the Atlantic back in antiquity. Where ships and their crews actually have to account for themselves, and make (sometimes very significant) decisions with little to no oversight or chance of help from home. Being able to dial up some dude's phone from the middle of an enemy star system makes it seem like a walk around the block. Like it's some sort of ho-hum errand to run.
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Seriously go to 1:08:30 (ish) and youll see why this is so funny. Id thoroughly recommend you watch it all, this guy is hilarious and does a few gags about being a gamer
My problem is with the premise of the hunger games. The whole thing just really bugged me. The government who spend loads of money on these televised games to keep the masses under control. Yes is get that its a parody of reality TV, yes is get that its a parody of modern capitalism but its stupid. Noone in their right mind who allow their children to take part in this never mind actively encourage it. Rather than doing all this to keep the districts under your thumb why dont you just spend the money you would have on the games making sure people have a decent standard of living. Also why dont people rise against their oppressors rather than just blindly accepting it. I wouldve liked to see insurgent attacks on the capitol or at least some sort of resistance would make sense
I agree with your points apart from this bit as that's the 3rd book is revolution. Also last civil war resulted in the nuking of a city. But yeah, the premise is pretty stupid.shootthebandit said:
OT: I'm going to say the more recent naruto manga.
So one of the main thing of the show was certain eyes having powers. madara is using his eye powers... While not having eyeballs in his head, or anywhere else. Also the friendship rasengun a few chapters back was just fucking stupid.
In fairness, you would die if you where in an environment with 70% oxygen, despite it being what we breath.KP Shadow said:
BAH WA HA HA HA HA HA Now I only have to hurt the brians of the rest of the world and I can take it over!!!FalloutJack said:
>>....sowwy...... >>
You leave those Brians alone! Go after the Antons and Adrians, but not the Brians, dammit!ZippyDSMlee said:
A genius robotic engineer that creates robots who have total and complete free will, completely ignoring the law of Robotics - then sends a tiny blue robot to go and kill the rest of the robots who are only violent because of the very free will that is given to them. Note that even while these robots rampage and destroy everything in their path the engineer continues to build robots while ignoring the law of robotics.
A giant fat bird, a hairy hobo, a hairy baby hobo that drew its own house into existence, a hairy elephant hobo,a hairy hobo with an obsession with cookies and a vampire pimp educate children about math, numbers and language with the help of numerous celebrity quests!
A powerful group of mages gather up numerous violent, insane criminals and furry midgets and less violent, still insane 'do gooders' who also have some violent and insane furry midgets and have them repetitively duke it out in a forest infested with dragons, giant worm phallic symbols, ghosts, wolves and ogres.
Also, in Iron man 2 no one thinks of shooting the woman in skin tight pantyhose leather armor but rather tries to get into melee range in which she can decimate them.
Megaman/Rockman
A giant fat bird, a hairy hobo, a hairy baby hobo that drew its own house into existence, a hairy elephant hobo,a hairy hobo with an obsession with cookies and a vampire pimp educate children about math, numbers and language with the help of numerous celebrity quests!
Sesame Street
A powerful group of mages gather up numerous violent, insane criminals and furry midgets and less violent, still insane 'do gooders' who also have some violent and insane furry midgets and have them repetitively duke it out in a forest infested with dragons, giant worm phallic symbols, ghosts, wolves and ogres.
League of Legends
Also, in Iron man 2 no one thinks of shooting the woman in skin tight pantyhose leather armor but rather tries to get into melee range in which she can decimate them.
That Voldemort had been reduced to a spirit and yet still had his wand. Massive plot hole right there!
Flashlights disguised as glorified swords whose beams of light not only behave as if solid, and can cut through just about anything, but also emit no discernible heat until they come in contact with an object. And even then, they only project that heat onto the object.
Fire arms that emit condensed "pulses" of light; pulses that resemble elongated pellets; that seemingly generate more kinetic force and heat upon impact with a target than the pulse initially left the barrel with. And, as with the example above, seemingly generate no heat until contact with an object.
A series of omniscient, omnipresent beings that have supreme knowledge and control over all of existence but leave absolutely zero evidence of their meddling.
A transportation device that "disassembles" an object or creature down to the subatomic level, gathers these subatomic particles, transmits them over vast distances (with no loss of signal), and reassembles them in the exact right position and orientation; leaving no excess particles or energy behind.
A metallic ring that creates an extra-dimensional "tunnel" between two points in space-time, creating a "short cut", yet generates two-dimensional apertures and emits virtually no energy or radiation.
NASA thinking it advisable to both turn a team of oil-drillers into astronauts and to destroy an asteroid "the size of Texas" with a single, low-yield nuke drilled only 800 feet into said asteroid.
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Really, I could go on for hours. Literally hours of typing.
But in the end, who cares? It's fiction. It is, by defintion, unreality. The only time ridiculous "things" in fiction should be of any concern is when they either break the rules of the fictional piece they're in or if the very concept of the "thing" doesn't jive with the logic of the story-verse.
Fire arms that emit condensed "pulses" of light; pulses that resemble elongated pellets; that seemingly generate more kinetic force and heat upon impact with a target than the pulse initially left the barrel with. And, as with the example above, seemingly generate no heat until contact with an object.
A series of omniscient, omnipresent beings that have supreme knowledge and control over all of existence but leave absolutely zero evidence of their meddling.
A transportation device that "disassembles" an object or creature down to the subatomic level, gathers these subatomic particles, transmits them over vast distances (with no loss of signal), and reassembles them in the exact right position and orientation; leaving no excess particles or energy behind.
A metallic ring that creates an extra-dimensional "tunnel" between two points in space-time, creating a "short cut", yet generates two-dimensional apertures and emits virtually no energy or radiation.
NASA thinking it advisable to both turn a team of oil-drillers into astronauts and to destroy an asteroid "the size of Texas" with a single, low-yield nuke drilled only 800 feet into said asteroid.
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Really, I could go on for hours. Literally hours of typing.
But in the end, who cares? It's fiction. It is, by defintion, unreality. The only time ridiculous "things" in fiction should be of any concern is when they either break the rules of the fictional piece they're in or if the very concept of the "thing" doesn't jive with the logic of the story-verse.
A demon that takes the form of a eight-to-ten foot man with a extremely pale complexion and no face, wears a suit, and rumored to appear around abandoned buildings, kidnap children that are all alone, and kill those who look for him.
...I get it, you hate children and nosy people. Not like you could have just said that outright, you know?
...I get it, you hate children and nosy people. Not like you could have just said that outright, you know?
Everything in Battlefield Earth. An entire military base full of working harriers and weaponry, with a flight simulator that still has power, a thousand years after the apocalypse. Cavemen then learn to fly and dogfight in it perfectly in less than a day. Humans who are ordered to mine gold by their alien overlords who believe that humans are too stupid to know how to pilot machinery and believe that dogs were the superior species on the planet and built everything. When the humans just go to Fort Knox, which the gold-seeking aliens completely overlooked during their conquest of the planet, and return with smelted bars at the end of the first day, the aliens do not question any of this. John Travolta still has a career somehow.
If that's the worst you've seen I'd recommend checking out the animated Titanic kids movies (all three of them) or Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.Big_Willie_Styles said: