DreamWeaver

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  1. Move over, Tony Stark. There's a new superhero in red - and his team - ready to save the world. And he jingles.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPLiBxhoug0

    Loving Alec Baldwin - surprisingly bad*ss vocal performance - Hugh Jackman as his sidekick, and the snuck-in Galaxy Quest refs...
  2. Have been looking a little further into it. As well as training to physical perfection, Bruce also gained knowledge of forensics and multiple scientific analytical disciplines.

    One could circumvent this by having your Batmen (or, considering the attrition rate the theories above are incurring, perhaps we should call them "Blasters"?) trained only in evidence gathering, hooked up via video/audio links to a centralised crime lab.

    Unless you're going to go with one supergothgirlgenius on a continual caffeine drip-feed, that needs a team and a building. Rochester,NY recently installed a new crime lab for $30m plus $5m annual budget, which considering the case volume generated by,say,five to ten Batmen, would be perfectly adequate.

    So if we can't do a perfectly accurate Batman (grapnel guns, the works) IRL, what could we conceivably deck our caped crusaders out with?

    Let's start with this...

    ..combination weighted bulletproof arm glove, flashlight, laser pointer, HD camera, and 300,000 volt taser (though, to my mind, the discharge points are in the wrong place).
  3. If you just banked it as investment certificates rather than putting it near Wall Street (no point in giving money to villains),you could probably clear roughly $30m annually off that in interest alone.

    Alternatively, you pose as a Silicon Valley dotcom winner, sink the cash into military or tech based R&D-based companies with good track records, and just set the designers the odd what-if "theoretical research" project as a geek treat.

    So then you have an income, a backstory, technical consultants, and a source for all those odd spares they just never have in at Radio Shack or Tyre Pros.

    Of course, if we're looking at funding as many Batmen as possible, one parent funding company that sources/supplies gear to multiple costumed crusaders (remember the start of The Dark Knight?) would be a more efficient model. It also gives villains the unnerving idea that you really can be everywhere..
  4. Noted this morning that the US Mega Millions jackpot now stands at $476m. Typically, my first thought was "I could be a superhero with that much..."

    ...but I believe in sharing the karma. And considering that dedicated nerds have united to work out how much it would cost to build a Death Star...

    How many cities could get their own Batman for $476m?
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by RevolverMike View Post
    "Darrin Wade, Sashay away"






    ok. I need to stop now.
    Don't stop, make it pop...

    Still, at least we know what Willam was thrown off the show for now... TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

    As everyone knows, this tactic was banned on reality shows after the Great Kardashian Invasion and the Sneaky Sn00ki Substitute Scam.
  6. Craft the hell out of grenades, stun grenades, and the -Regen Envenomed Daggers (which have even proved surprisingly useful against such behemoths as Mot and Ru-Paullu. Er, Ru-Wadelu.)
  7. Hollywood being what it is, I for one look forward to a rash of thinly veiled clone teen-on-teen deathmatch movies.

    Preferably High School Musical 4: Lipsync For Your Life.
    Or Death Camp Rock.
  8. *blink*

    ...we're gonna need a bigger cheese.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Slaunyeh View Post
    Deep down, on a primal level, the most aesthetically pleasing form mankind could ever dream of achieving, is that of a... puddle.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane View Post
    IIRC, Prometheus justifies the Well being a well to us because, to primative humans, what was more inviting and appreciated than a source of cool clean water?
    Answer:


    ...now that's a tall drink o'water. :P
  10. You FIEND, Wade! No-one can steal the power of FABULOSITY!
  11. Today's biggest Twitter trend in the UK: "Otters that look like Benedict Cumberbatch."

    http://redscharlach.tumblr.com/post/...-cumberbatch-a

    This wins the internet. Clearly.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    Dollhouse deserved it.
    *prepares to savage BrandX in Whedonesque fangurl fury... then sits down, nods and agrees. Except for Alan Tudyk and Enver Gjokaj, who were both unutterably awesome.*
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Positron View Post
    My son will be crushed. This was his favorite show on TV. I agree with the sentiment that it was a terrible show, but when I saw it through my 9 year old's eyes I saw magic.

    * Dinosaurs
    * Dinosaurs
    * Dinosaurs
    * Dinosaurs
    * Dinosaurs
    ..fixed that for you.

    Having now seen more of Terra Nova, it's very very pretty - sure the concept artists had a wail of a time - but even the trailers are unnecessarily leaden on the dialogue.

    But if you liked that, have you tried Primeval? It was ITV's attempt at creating a Saturday teatime show to rival the Dr. Who revival... with some degree of success, it has to be said. The plot's rather thin and revels in its own silliness, but is nicely paced, with snappy dialogue, and has some wonderful ideas for setups. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yM96...eature=related

    Was another casualty of the 2009 ITV share price crunch that took out a lot of their better shows and even whole departments. *looks sadly at last crumbs of redundancy cheque and wanders off, muttering about incompetent morons and crushing them to fine pink powder again*
  14. *wanders into thread about show she's never seen, mumbles something about FOX, Firefly, Futurama and crushing asinine morons to fine pink powder, wanders off again*
  15. This thread needs moar love for Girl Genius.

    Also, Penny & Aggie, which is usually SFW with occasional language and mature themes, but also bloody funny.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    I thought we were talking about Star Wars themed hamburgers...
    Which happen to originate mostly in France. And if you're eating fast food in France, you're either a hitman or not nearly adventurous enough.

    However, you can't fault the French on quality of fandom - here's something a bit old school for you...

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp0...e-obscur_music
  17. If the words "From the masterminds behind Jersey Shore" don't scare you, I think some of the questions show this potential monstrosity has set phasers to "mock"...

    http://www.fandomcasting.com/

    So - engage or evasive action?
  18. I'm not a huge podcast follower, but enjoy Captain Painway's POPcast. (Blog and Twitter feed are equally funny and suit my turbonic data acquiring positronic brain). Geek culture, roller derby, fun stuff.
    http://www.captainpainway.com/tag/podcast/

    Technically my other favourite podcast's a VoDcast, but it helps stay fit, flexible and calm if I can't get to the gym or major yoga sessions. It also makes me want to calmly punch out its host on occasion, but that diverts my aggression from everything else.
    http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/yogamazing/id79497140
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Innovator View Post
    There's a saying in San Francisico, "You should never go to Chinatown if you're looking for Chinese food."
    Had a pretentious salesguy do that exact trick on me last time I was in SF... walked for sodding miles over those hills, nada.

    Went back, and I found us a brilliant one one block from our hotel. Mainly because it had a tonne of Chinese people eating there and authentically incomprehensible CCTV entertainment channel on
  20. In the eternal battle of Jedi vs Food... food won.

    Quick-burgers are pretty hideous in any case (think White Castle, minus any final vestiges of flavour), and frankly food is NOT supposed to be that unpleasant dark-blue colour. Yick.

    Oh, and if you're in France and eating burgers, even the indigenous variety... WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU THINKING?? Heave a brick and you'll at least hit two friteries and a crepe van...
  21. More sleuthering tonight as Sherlock takes on the Hounds Of Baskerville, guest starring Russell "Being Human" Tovey...
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    Originally Posted by Veritech View Post
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    (PS: The following may be relevant to your interests. Or require mindbleach. YMMV. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=wWROnCmwVhg)
  23. One of my favourite Moriarties is the Kim Newman take in Professor Moriarty: Hound of the D'Urbervilles, who is at least as smart, curious, and dispassionate as Holmes, and also a consummate long game artist - though he has something of a blind spot when it comes to outwitting Miss Adler.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by oreso View Post
    I was skeptical of Irene Adler being a dominatrix, but yes. On the whole I think it was presented well.
    Erm... *cough* without giving too much away here, it's remarkably accurate, quite sympathetic, and far more tasteful than many depictions. On a par with the early appearances of Lady Heather from CSI.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    For me it was Guy of Gisborne's sister from the Robin Hood series.
    For me, Erin, the new Section Chief from the final series of Spooks. Hoping Irene's a recurring role.

    Oh, and Lara's twitter is here: http://twitter.com/LaraPulver
  25. SPOILERS...

    ...which oddly leads me right into the episode. Because it must have taken an inhuman amount of effort for Steven Moffat not to cast Alex Kingston as Sherlock's more toothsome nemesis Irene Adler, a rather racier River Song.

    Good points:
    - The interplay between Cumberbatch, Freeman, and Lara Pulver as Miss - sorry, Mistress Irene Adler. Perfectly played to a tee, with Freeman's patented "I really don't know where the heck to look" expression used perfectly - especially when Irene demonstrates a novel way of stopping Sherlock reading you.

    - The idea of casting Adler as a Domme actually works perfectly as a translation from the Victorian intrigue that surrounded stage actresses. Naughty but high-profile and with access to the highest levels of the land...

    - Endlessly quotable wisecracks galore with Adler getting some of the best Moffat lines in history ("...mind you, he was upside-down at the time"), but Sherlock, Mycroft, Watson and even Lestrade all well-supplied throughout the show ("So, how many times DID he fall out of the window?" "It was all such a blur, I lost count.")

    - Unpredictability - you'd better be paying close attention. The Moff's trick of throwing in one or two spoilers as perfectly innocuous comments or gags is back.

    Bad points:
    - how the cliffhanger from last season gets resolved.

    - Irene Adler needing rescuing - including from her sexual preferences? Wrong. If you want to give Sherlock a little closure and satisfaction, better ways of handling it.

    - the opening sequence where we catch up on Sherlock and John's adventures is frequently hilarious but also confusing and stuffed with red herrings. Not ALL red herrings, though.

    Further reading:
    The game is evidently afoot: Watson's blog, Sherlock's website and Irene's Twitter are all live and out there, hooked to a network of other sites. BBC probably don't have Spielberg's resources to run a full Alternate Reality Game (and Cloudmaker was a hell of a lot better than AI which spawned it) but could well have some entertaining puzzles coming up.