NinjaPirate
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Quote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9s7afoYI-M#t=01m03sOriginally Posted by starphoenix
Nope. Or at least not until all Americans are in a hover chair that does everything for them, personal entertainment systems, dress them, wash them, put food in their mouth, and deal with the resulting waste. Americans will be born in the chair and die in the chair.
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Quote:Meh. Every film in history is a re-make of one of the seven basic plotlines. Why go see any of them?Originally Posted by Comeuppance
These American remakes smack of pure laziness on the part of filmmakers here. Every other movie now is either a remake or a 3D film.
I personally don't give a rat's keister about whether something is a remake or not. I care about if it's GOOD.
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Quote:Rush also didn't say it was the WRONG solution, just that they didn't understand how to do it well enough to not blow up the ship.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
They already tried that and it almost destroyed the ship. They were lucky Rush convinced Telford it was too late and stopped the dialing sequence after Telford fled like the cowardly dog he is.
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People keep forgetting what "galactic scales" means.
"About to die" for a star is measured in the millions of years.
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The Destiny has the ability to tap directly into massive power sources that the folks back home still can't: The stars themselves.
Whatever energy levels even a naquadria planet might provide, a star probably outputs more.
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Quote:I would accept that, but the CGI bullet (that sprouted wings and such) was just the bullet, whereas the physical prop showed Deadshot clearly inscribing Clark's name on the cylinder.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Yes, geeks should know better than to presume a villain's bullets are mundane when they have clearly been shown to be otherwise.
The show's not even consistent with itself.
Yeah, the "western gunslinger" bit was jarring. Deadshot has never been that sort of persona.Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Personally, I was more disturbed that Deadshot seemed to be channeling a bit of Jonah Hex. Hawkman seeing a vision of his wife in Lois was also disconcerting, though it ultimately seemed to be a herring of the reddish sort.
Also, no mustache.
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Quote:Actually, from what they showed, the bullet never even made it past the first bend just after the muffler. Not even past the resonator. Despite Clark stating it was in the "engine block".Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
Not only that, but he's able to make bullets curve in the air. He couldn't just hit the gas tank... he had to hit the engine block through the tailpipe. >_<
The only part of the episode that was done decently was Lois and Hawkman in Egypt. Everything else was just... wrong...
Interestingly, the CGI version of the bullet was just the bullet. It was only the physical props that showed the bullets with Clark's name being inscribed on the CYLINDER.
Also the ability of the 'forensics lab' to un-crumple the squashed round into a pristine perfect pre-fired form was more than a little eye-roll worthy.
Kind of amusing was that the second round meant for Clark was clearly shown to be a revolver round, but it was somehow fired from a rifle.
More likely the prop department needed more surface area to clearly show for the camera Clark's name on the "bullet", and they thought nobody would know the difference.Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
Given that what would conventionally be considered the cartridge seemed to house technical components (as seen with the first bullet, which seemed to sprout wings/some sort of guidance system), it would be ignorant to presume Deadshot's bullets work the same as mundane gunpowder-propelled bullets. I believe Clark has stopped conventional bullets in slow-mo before which did not have the cartridge attached.
Only, this is more or less a geek show. They should know better.
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So...
Apparently Deadshot has weapons that fire not only the bullet at his targets, but the ENTIRE CARTRIDGE as well.
And here I thought most TV shows had gotten past that bit of stupid ignorance about how bullets work.
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It's close enough that we can get there in a human lifetime.
It's in an environmental niche such that we could set up an insulated survival pod and survive.
In intergalactic scales, this is damn near as near as we are EVER likely to get to "close" and "habitable".
As opposed to all the others so far that have been thousands of years of travel away and/or hot enough to melt rock/cold enough to freeze air.
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Quote:This has been... inconsistent.Originally Posted by Mandu
Or to put a large mass inside the ring which will prevent the gate from operating.
There's been a few different times where a Gate was buried, but were still able to be activated somehow, and the "backwash" was able to clear the immediate obstruction.
The time Jack was trapped on a planet for several weeks after a meteor storm buried the Gate comes to mind. A direct meteor strike buried the Gate and flash-melted the rock in the area into a solid mass. The SG team was still able to dial in somehow, and sent Teal'c through with rock-boring gear to clear the remaining obstructions.
I still think the funniest option is to just have Greer kick people back through the gate as they come in.
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Erica Cerra.
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Quote:Yeah, it seems random, like the test beaker racks suddenly having actual beakers on them.Originally Posted by Fire_Away
"The Gods Must Be Crazy"
How curious (and yet somehow typical of the past year or so).
As a mere player with a more than passing interest in the bases aspect of the game, I plead guilty to trying to analize everything said or done publicly by the devs on this subject. My goal is to try and understand the thought process behind the (very few) things that do occur with bases. My reasoning is that that will provide some kind of insight on what the devs find important and perhaps an inkling of future direction.
So far that has mostly been an exercise in futility (frustration) for me. Oftentimes, like this, the soda pop bottle just drops from the sky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy
Guess I need to just accept that and move on.
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Quote:Well, most of the "BB pack" ideas that people have presented are largely Decorative items, so that should not be an issue at all.Originally Posted by TsumijuZero
I think the issue with a base builder pack is that ONLY the SG base builder needs it for every member of the SG to benefit.
I mean, there are already a number of character personal items that can be put into bases.
If they do make it so it adds a bunch of stuff to your Personal Items list, though, I would like them to move the "Add Personal Item" button to the main editor under the "add room"/"add style"/"add item"/etc buttons, and change it so folks that don't have general base editing privileges only see that button.
It would be a pain in the kiester if you had to keep switching back and forth between the base editor and the "add personal item" editor.
Heck, while they're at it, move the Upgrade Plot button there too. Having them all as essentially separate editors is just clunky.
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Quote:Didn't read the rest of the thread, did ya?Originally Posted by Variant
Yeah, because Heroes never had super fights on screen.
I can tell you've been emotionally hurt by the off-screen fights between Sylar and Peter...because it's clearly interfering with knowledge of the show.
Heroes has had many superfights on screen.
The vast majority of those fights had people either standing there posing as CGI effects few around, or they basically had quick cut flashes of them running and then flashes of light meant to represent "stuff happening too fast to see".
There weren't really any knock down drag out fights, cars getting smashed, actors getting slammed around.
I think Heroes was afraid to put their actors in any situations where their pretty faces might get injured.
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Quote:Yeah, but they did it in one episode. Not four years.Originally Posted by Variant
My point is that, so far...in only one episode...NOF has done nothing that Heroes hasn't already done.
Which is the point. Heroes dragged out stuff for SO LONG that they lost a lot of viewers who got bored.
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Quote:When a show achieves in a single episode what people wanted, what Heroes wasn't able to do it in it's entire run, that's how.Originally Posted by Variant
Got to love the people that say "this is what I wanted heroes to be".
It's only been one episode...how the hell can you say that right now.
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You are correct, they were using a power source way, WAY more powerful than even ZPMs can achieve.
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Huh. Looks interesting.
I just finished Claymore m'self. Aside from also featuring a lot of female warriors fighting, it is... decidedly different in focus.
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Yeah, okay, I suppose it wouldn't work for Destiny.
But SG-1 and Atlantis had plenty of cases where, y'know, a great big pit in front of the Gate would have helped immensely.
But what would have worked for Destiny? Positioning guys with rifles to either side of the gate, ready to pop the Lucien Alliance guys in the head as soon as they stepped through.
Or, to save bullets, just position Greer so he can kick people back through the gate as they materialize and are still disoriented.
Maybe he lets Telford through. Dunno, Telford still seemed pretty useless even after he broke his programming.
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Quote:Okay, haven't ever run one.Originally Posted by Obsidius
Incorrect. If you plan to run a CoP trial, you'll need a raid teleporter. However, Vaults, IoP bases, and Dimensional Anchors are not currently necessary since the "IoP' is currently granted as a per-player temp power.
Edit: You also need a Mission Computer or an Oracle to run the CoP.
So that's one use.
My point is that it can't be used as a replacement for a regular telepad.
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Note that the Raid Telepad ONLY functions to teleport your team to an 'enemy' base in a PvP raid.
Since Base PvP is disabled, it has no functional use at all right now.
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"Corrected the swapped prestige costs for Small Steel Lab Tank and Steel Alembic Tank."
Really? That's all?
If nothing else, what about all the other items that are cost-swapped, like a lot of the Tech monitors?
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Why are these stargates never repositioned so they're over a pit, with drawbridge to allow normal use?
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Quote:Yeah, I caught it on Hulu as well.Originally Posted by Lastjustice
I just watched it on Hulu. Was a nice start. Good see another super human based show after heroes had been laid to rest. Hopefully this one has a much better run as the pilot was promising so far.
I also think the fluorescent water is a red herring too. Woman develops powers, and it's revealed that her boss is secretly involved with other super-powered people. That can't be coincidence.
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The only mechanical reason to even have crafted telepads is to force players to burn resources.
Ultimately, it's a time sink. Same as making folks visit locations to get the beacons.
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