Night-Hawk07
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Star Trek Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru. After that, not sure. Probably going to start on that TOR novel, Fatal Alliance, to get ready for the game. Then go back to Beneath the Raptor's Wing if I can actually find a "regular" paperback version of it (as opposed to the larger PB version I keep seeing everywhere).
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Didn't see this here, but did see ads for it while watching the 'Boys play tonight. It's a new superhero TV series coming to NBC on Jan 9. Just curious if anyone else has seen anything about it, and what y'all's opinions are. I haven't seen much so I'm kind of on the fence about it atm.
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Wow. ME3's already going to be out next Christmas? That seems rather quick; hope it doesn't suffer for it.
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Quote:In a way, I could see it as a "no one can pick on my brother/sister except for me". I think too that nerds have a stronger sense of right and wrong than the average person (at least in 2010). Partially due to their stereotypical love of superheroes I'm sure, but mostly because they spent so many years being picked on and such they know how people would feel if they wronged someone later on down the road and know quite well how it feels to be wronged. Stuff like this to things as "ridiculous" as those real-life superheroes show that.Originally Posted by QuiJon
I find it funny. Not the story i think that is absolutely great and touching. But its funny that we as a "nerd" community argue amongst ourselves about just about everything. Be it from bay transformers v. G1, prequels v. original trilogy, seriously you name it there is an internet arguement raging somewhere about it.
And yet as a whole, I would say that the geek community has some of the most spectacular people in it. its one of the reason i continue to come to these boards daily. As much as we might argue and ***** and moan about our own fandom, we have likely all been exactly where Katie is at one point or another in our lives.
Im 40 years old. I grew up with star wars and as a kid being male especially didnt have to justify that to anyone, almost every kid i knew loved it. But it also means that by the time i was in highschool i was smack in the middle of the drought of Star Wars. After Jedi and before the EU books renewed intrest in the franchise. But i fell into other things, like star trek, computers, gaming etc. But no bones about it by those standard in that day, i was a geek. The cool kids were into sports, and cars, music etc. So i can feel katies pains for sure.
But what we see now when one of our own gets attacked like this is a main stream surge of support. Those geeks from years past that we all loved to make fun of watching the original star trek or doctor who, laid the foundations that brought iconic media and franchises to the main stream and in such has not only made it much more acceptable, but now with social media has provided such a support structure that when you read a story like this, it makes it all worthwhile.
Everytime i read an article about some kid being bullied to suicide or bashed on facebook i have thought to myself what our society is coming to and are all these new tools and fads a good or bad thing. But when you read this article about how the social geeks can band together by the thousands to support a 7 year old girl being teased, it gives me just a glimmer of hope that it is worth it. That one day we just might get so numb by way of exposure to others, that it wont matter if a girl wants a star wars water bottle or a little boy like dora the explorer anymore. We can collectively all just sit back and finally say "eh, different strokes."
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Quote:Uhh....it's in one of the novels or TPBs that takes place just before the 1st TF movie roughly when they show up. Or at least Bumblebee. We know Prime, Ironhide, Ratchet, and Jazz all show up in 2007 cause we see them come in that movie.Originally Posted by PowerStream
Thanks for the timeline it does help! BUT did the Autobots show up in 2007 or in 1969 on the Nemesis?
I wasn't sure. I was thinking I was seeing Unicron (Bay's take on Unicron anyway) due to the "mustache" and all*, and thus why I thought it could be Nemesis.Quote:Originally Posted by Lastjustice
The Nemesis is crash landed somewhere else in revenge of the fallen. Where isn't exactly clear. The ship in the trailer likely had an autobot aboard it from looks of it, so it's likely another vessel.
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Quote:Well, Bugs is from Brooklyn. Or as Cowman said, he took a wrong toin at Albaqoikee.Originally Posted by Furio
And why is Fudd hunting rabbits in an ally?
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Quote:That's the best part of this one; no Megan Fox.Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
This teaser has filled me with questions:
How plastic will the Megan Fox stand-in look while staring into the distance, backed by lens flare? Megan Fox-level plastic, +1, or -1
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Quote:Timeline (new stuff is bolded):Originally Posted by PowerStream
QuiJon - I was thinking the same thing. The first movie, Megatron was discovered in what the 1800s in ice(am I remembering correctly?). Then in the second an entire group of Decepticons were stuck on Mars(right?) and were reawakened. Now we have transformers found in the '60s and what? We left them there? AND they didn't bother waking up when all of the above transformers did?
17,000 B.C. - The Primes land on Earth looking to use the sun as a power source; Primes discover early humans, decide against it; Fallen gets pissed, starts a war, but is eventually sealed within his ship which is hidden away under the Egyptian pyramids.
19th century-early 20th century - Megatron is discovered by Captain Archibald Witwicky; years later Sector 7 discovers the All Spark and builds Hoover Dam to conceal it.
1969 - NASA astronauts discover what appears to be Nemesis on the Moon.
2007 - Mars rover catches a glimpse of a Decepticon on the Red Planet; Autobots and Decepticons land on Earth and search for the All Spark; Megatron is reawakened.
2009 - Megatron discovers The Fallen who is eventually released from his "cage" and attempts to blow up the Sun.
I don't see this so much as a form of retconning or anything all that confusing, but just that we keep bumping into stuff/long classified material is suddenly coming to light. All the stuff that happens before 2007 is just classified/hidden information coming out in the open, because of what's going on in present day; for the audiences' sake.
But as someone else said, if all movies/TV shows/books/comics/games followed perfect logic, there wouldn't be a story for those things. How many horror films would we have if the victims just vaporized, torched, blew up, or shot the guy trying to kill them? If Batman had just shot the Joker after their first encounter, or Superman melted Luthor's brain, how long would those stories have lasted?
EDIT: Also as far as the "weird" title name: I thought I'd remind everyone that Optimus Prime is a semi-truck.
EDIT 2: Alpha-One nailed it. -
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Pretty much just Red Robin #18. 'Tis a slow week for me.
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I've pretty much about had it with Hollywood. I don't remember the last movie I went to go see. There's just nothing good and original out anymore. I think I'll resort to writing nasty letters if they ever try an Abbot and Costello movie.
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And this is why I love these forums.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Aww man, now I'm TOTALLY bummed! I'm too po' to donate!
Maybe we should start a lop-sided butt awareness campaign on the boards! I could get behind that!
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I know this is a bit old, but wanted to add my name to the list. Tried respecing my Praetorian blaster with a freespec to get the inherent fitness deal; lost the respec and unslotted enhancements, but no power changes. Tried it again, did the same thing. Now, I had leveled up but hadn't talked to the trainer yet. Could that cause a failure, cause I'm "in limbo" between levels? I've only got one respec left and don't want to level up, then respec, and still have it fail on me.
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That was awesome!
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Quote:Same here. I just encountered a new one last night and there was actually a decent amount of lag. I get some lag issues in Praetoria as well, though. They are nice, however.Originally Posted by DarkGob
They certainly look nice, but I've already encountered one or two rooms that crashed my framerate. That was pretty disappointing given that I don't have this kind of trouble in Praetoria.
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So prove it. Show me photos, show me a little black blob, show me something "concrete." You can believe gravity cause it's actually affecting you, the physical evidence is happening this very second. Galaxies moving in ways we don't expect isn't "proof".
As I said before, it could very well be our understanding of such phenomena is incorrect; see: recent revelation on bacteria replacing phosphorous with arsenic. We just knew phosphorous was a requirement for life, and yet we were just proven wrong. Don't forget, there was a time when we thought the world was flat too. I'm more inclined to believe that humanity doesn't know everything about how the universe works, rather than the universe isn't doing what we think it should be doing.
If it really makes up 90% of all matter in the universe, there has to be a way to detect it besides "that galaxy is going left instead of right like I think it should." Every scientist I've ever known wants concrete evidence of something before they accept it, which is why this wide-spread acceptance of dark matter by the scientific community baffles me.
I should probably start here though, as debating with Durakkan is like debating something with a tree. Doesn't matter what I say, I'm not gonna win.
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Quote:1) And even then, the scientists said those two pings "kinda sorta maybe could have been" dark matter. That isn't even a "most likely", which would've been more convincing than what they did say.Originally Posted by Lothic
Two quick points:
A) According to the expectations of those Dark Matter experiments you mentioned the scientists involved actually expected they'd only get 2 or 3 detections given the amount of time they were taking samples, and the ones they got fell within the expected thresholds that would rule them out as any other known type of matter.
B) Many respected physicists around the world either accept or at least don't strongly refute the theories of Dark Matter/Energy based on several decades of worth of work. Now obviously at some point in the future new theories might be devised that better reflect the nature of the observed universe, but until that happens it's hard to dismiss out of hand the combined knowledge and acceptance of the world's top cosmologists. I don't know what YOUR background is to be more credible in your beliefs than they are, but I'm willing to give the experts the benefit of the doubt here.
2) I'm a backyard/armchair astronomer, thank you very much.
However, next fall I'll be going for my physics/astronomy degree, so I can have a piece of paper to back up my knowledge.
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Quote:That last one actually does sound familiar, now that you mention it. However, I've yet to see sufficient evidence to convince me that dark matter/energy exists, or at least is as described. I stopped giving it much credit when I saw an article saying that scientists believed that DM was similar to a neutrino in that it passed through us and the Earth all the time with no noticeable effect.Originally Posted by Durakken
Ummm dark matter, dark energy, and warp all exist...
Dark Energy is the energy that exists everywhere that drives the expansion of the universe
Dark Matter is the matter that we have thus far not "seen" but have seen the gavitational effects of it and can map where it is on the galactic scale.
Warp has been done to a very small degree... I don't have the source of where I heard this but it has already been done on a very small scale.
They then attempted to detect it by embedding sensors in the ground that were designed to "not detect the things we already know", so if they were pinged it would either be 1) dark matter or 2) something we don't know about yet (tachyon, graviton, etc). So far, they've only been pinged twice.
So you mean to tell me that some particle that's supposed to make up 90% of the matter in the universe, passes through us every second without any noticeable effect, pings sensors designed to detect it only twice, is capable of moving galaxies? Forgive me if I'm not so quick to jump on that bandwagon. At this point, I'm more inclined to believe someone fudged up their calculations and doesn't want to admit it. People need to take a step down and realize that the universe is much bigger than us, and that it won't conform to our puny equations. Our equations have to conform to it.
I will gladly admit it if/when I'm proven wrong, however.
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Looks like fun.
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Quote:Yep. The problem is no one's concerned about that because they all know that's ~5 billion years away. Knowing humanity, should it exist that long on Earth, they won't worry about it until 4.999 billion years from now. Anything else that could end us sooner is a "maybe" and so everyone sees it as "maybe it won't happen while I'm alive". Cause we all know, time in the outside world stops when you're dead....Originally Posted by Nericus
True. Still until there is a definite profit to be shown for exploring space, I don't see governments or businesses accelerating our space tech development. Sad too since the main profit would be the continuation of the human race by colonizing other planets.
A season 1 episode of Babylon 5 said it best that one day our sun will be gone and it will take Earth and every human living and that ever lived or will live unless we go to the stars. -
Quote:Yeah, I know. I would imagine any warp-capable ships we ever build wouldn't be desigined with landing in mind and need to use shuttlecraft of some type to land on other planets. Could be a good use for this thing being tested by the Air Force. As far as weapons, I don't think this would work in space, but I'm sure in the near future we could have something similar that would.Originally Posted by Nericus
Long ways to go
Now for the rest of that, I don't have an answer...yet, lol. We're closer than we were 50-60 years ago though.
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Quote:I don't think it's said exactly what Tholians are based on. Here's the Memory Alpha article.Originally Posted by Nericus
Yes but Kirk and Spock wounded the Horta and McCoy had to use a silcon based mix they use for emergency shelters as a bandage for it since the Horta was rock/silcon based life.
All I remember from the Tholians was that we saw them on the viewscreen when they communicated with the Enterprise while Kirk was fading in and out of our dimension and the crew was slowly going cookoo crazy due to that region of space. Maybe the Tholians were indeed crystalline/silcon based, but the Horta definitely was. Also there was the rock creature on that planet in the episode when they came across Abe Lincoln in space......(just exactly WHAT was the writer on when they thought of THAT?....please share cause it must have been some good stuff) -
Quote:Scientifically, warp drives are actually possible. One guy's already come up with the formula. What we lack is the technology to "make it so".Originally Posted by Lothic
The fact that we see fundamental rules of science are "redefinable" gives me hope that other nagging rules like "can't go faster than the speed of light" will also be overcome at some point. We simply need to build engines that run on Dark Energy/Matter.
Also, to my knowledge, it's not possible to to make anything work using mythical elements.