Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

Corsair114 · Post by **Corsair114** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:30 am

Maxus wrote:I wish they'd made it do kung fu. Missed opportunity there.

It would have been a bit weird given that GD's a giant Mazinger expy. That said, had they not Worf'd Cherno Alpha and... uh... the 3-Armed Zaku expy, the latter would have been a perfect fit for the Kung Fu action. Striker Eureka could have stood to kick just a bit more ass at the trench, for that matter.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:29 am

I also watched Pacific Rim today.

That movie was even more anime than I anticipated. Not a complaint, as is indicated by my posting in the Anime thread.

Apparently live capture missions suck just as hard for the Kaiju as they do for my Xcom troopers. Also, the Jaegers are astoundingly terrible at underwater combat. That seems like a design flaw in something designed to fight amphibious adversaries. Give them some fucking active sonar and a big screen or something, at least, even if torpedoes are out of the question

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:50 am

yeah no pacific rim is wonderful

I'm guessing the Jaegers weren't designed for underwater combat in the slightest- I'm assuming they were designed to fight Kaiju in shallow coastal waters and in coastal cities, not underwater, since (and I'm guessing here) engaging them in cities was judged preferable to close engagement underwater and a munitions-based system (submarines, guided torpedoes) was judged to be ineffective.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 1:57 pm

Whipstitch wrote:Yeah, man, you need to grade that shit on a curve. The stupid part of your lizard brain goes all baaawwww and gets confused with short haired women just as a matter of course because long shiny hair reads as healthy and therefore tells you where to put your penis. So in the long term hitting on women who shaved their head and still manage to look pretty alright anyway can pay mad dividends when they get bored of it.

All I'm saying is that I've seen her with hair, and I've seen her without hair, and that I simply prefer the former. In fact, she now looks a lot like a male gym teacher I once had.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:06 pm

I have no idea why people are treating Pacific Rim like it was Cloverfield 2. I thought it was a visually stunning flick with a silly plot and I can't remember any of the character's names, but every single thing in there looked gorgeous, right down to Ron Perlman's shoes.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:22 pm

Heh heh, Ron Perlman.

Sigil · Post by **Sigil** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 3:43 pm

Went to see Pacific Rim on my birthday, and fucking loved it.

But I have one plot gripe. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief and accept that giant robots were the best way to kill giant monsters instead of nuclear warheads because, well, it's a movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters, that's the point. What does annoy me, is that they then have the mcguffin be a nuke they have to deliver, and proceed to show a nuclear blast take out multiple kaiju at once.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:07 pm

Nitpicking/Fridge Logicing Pacific Rim is its own special drinking game at this point, and it's not even out of theaters yet.

Case in point: nuking those two huge kaiju involved the biggest nukes available and irradiated a sizable chunk of the Pacific Ocean. In the theater, I was much more bullshit about the whole analog/digital conversation with regards to humongous fucking mecha built after the dawn of personal computing. They are all digital, del Toro! But I can accept that, because a baby monster ate Ron Perlman while choking on its own umbilical cord.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:32 pm

Shrapnel wrote:
All I'm saying is that I've seen her with hair...

And all I'm saying is that women's hair is fetishized to the point that obvious post was obvious. She's handicapping herself on the conventional attractiveness scale for a movie part and it's kinda unseemly to nitpick it.

Sigil · Post by **Sigil** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 4:33 pm

The problem with both is that they're both obviously not consistent internally with the movies logic. All of the jeagers obviously have digital interfaces that the pilots interact with, had the old jaeger appeared to have an oldschool interface that didn't have any of the shiny-flashies, it would have been fine. Likewise, the problem with the nuke thing is that it shows that the kaiju are susceptible to large scale munitions. It makes sense that you wouldn't want to nuke everything, but you can build some fairly powerful conventional explosives, such as the FOAB (father of all bombs) which has a yield equivilant to a small nuke. The nuclear weapon involved at the end of the show is much larger, granted. Like I said, small gripe.

Korgan0 · Post by **Korgan0** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 5:48 pm

Well, I mean, the nuke took out one heavily wounded Kaiju, only damaged another, much bigger one, and seriously damaged a jaeger- in addition, the nuke was detonated at literally point-blank range.

Also, the nuke was mentioned as having a yield of a couple of megatons, while the yield of the FOAB is about 44 tons.

In addition, Kaiju are mobile and dextrous enough that I can see underwater munitions systems having trouble simply hitting the Kaiju, given that i'm guessing point-blank or at least very close range detonation would be required to actually damaeg a Kaiju.

edit:

To me, the major fridge logic thing was the holting of the jaeger program and the replacement of it with the wall- the fact that Jaegers aren't having the success rates they did doesn't entail scrapping the program altogether and replacing it with a wall (with no fallback system or active defenses), given that Kaiju just keep getting bigger and that, you know, walls don't actually kill things. I can imagine throttling back the jaeger program and using the wall to create chokepoints or at least delay the Kaiju to allow for response forces to be mobilized, but just having a wall strikes me as a horrible idea.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:20 pm

I think that the problem was that they couldn't build new Jagers fast enough to replace loses and didn't have the money to both continue the Jager program and full capacity and build the wall. Since the Jagers were falling faster than new ones could be constructed, and thus would eventually lose, cutting their loses and trying something different might have seemed like a good idea.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 8:36 pm

Honestly, the Wall plan was obviously doomed from first principles. Given the ease with which the Kaiju ripped through Jaeger armor and entire skyscrapers, it's pretty clear that no material available to humanity could withstand one indefinitely. At most it could pin them in place to be destroyed, but aside from the Jaegers nothing could really be expected to take out Kaiju without doing lots of damage to the wall in the process.

Besides, I don't really believe that fortifying the entire fucking pacific ocean with forty-foot thick and sixty-foot tall concrete and steel walls is a more efficient option than making more Jaegers. Now, for reasons of labor skill and material, wall construction is not completely interchangable with Jaeger construction, so the capacity to build the wall doesn't translate to being able to make thousands of Jaegers, but I think they could have made a rather larger number than they did. If loss rates were too high, they could have made a policy of sortieing four at once back when they had at least sixty between Alaska and Hong Kong.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:11 pm

Whipstitch wrote:
Shrapnel wrote:
All I'm saying is that I've seen her with hair...
And all I'm saying is that women's hair is fetishized to the point that obvious post was obvious. She's handicapping herself on the conventional attractiveness scale for a movie part and it's kinda unseemly to nitpick it.

So you have a fetish for bald chicks, and seem to be anti-hair. Okay. Not my thing, but whatever. I don't see why you seem to be upset that I'm not fawning over her lack of follicles.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:34 pm

Nah, I really like long hair.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 5:13 pm

Oh... I got the impression... Ah, who cares anymore.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:08 pm

Amanda Palmer responds to the Daily Mail's review of her tit popping out while she happened to be singing [NSFW words, nudity under a spotlight which is better than an all-concealing robe]

I don't know what the general opinion of the daily mail is outside this forum. But if you're going to respond to misogynistic shit like their non-review, I suppose this is the best way to do so.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 10:04 pm

http://www.somethingawful.com/photoshop ... -mccarthy/

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:28 am

Prak_Anima wrote:Amanda Palmer responds to the Daily Mail's review of her tit popping out while she happened to be singing [NSFW words, nudity under a spotlight which is better than an all-concealing robe]

I don't know what the general opinion of the daily mail is outside this forum. But if you're going to respond to misogynistic shit like their non-review, I suppose this is the best way to do so.

This was so fucking awesome!!!!!

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:52 pm

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 8:56 pm

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0744.html
... http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0755.html

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sat Aug 03, 2013 11:24 pm

I just got back from seeing 'The Heat'.

I laughed, and laughed, and laughed.

I also predict that you will see some misogynists getting their panties in a twist over it.

erik · Post by **erik** » Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:54 am

My wife and I both enjoyed RED 2 last weekend. I can happily recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the first RED movie.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Mon Aug 05, 2013 1:19 am

Steve: Eazy-E thinks that before you go to the Jaleco Tower you should probably get some weapons.

Zack: Kurt has his tonfas and his Bart Simpson figure, but E is probably right. It shouldn't be too hard since we're in Indiana.

Steve: I thought Chicago was in Illinois.

Zack: Chicago is in Illinois, but some of it leaked out of the diaper and into Indiana. That's East Chicago. It's like a cross between a chemical plant and that prison planet from Alien3. Their main export is cheap cigarettes and infant mortality. I'm sure Sufjan Stevens will cover it all eventually. Just give him time.

Zack: The point is, guns are legal as hell in Indiana. Kurt will look up the nearest gun shop in the phone book and call a cab to go shopping.

Steve: Okay, there is a gun shop not far from you. Buck's Guns. Buck is a big hillbilly with a beard.

Zack: E is going to buy a shotgun and saw it down to fit in his Raiders jacket.

Steve: Buck asks him if he's going to use it for gangster banging.

Zack: "Naw man I got to put my racehorse down. Broke his fetlock at the muthafuckin' Preakness."

Steve: What about Left Eye?

Zack: Do they have a flammenwerfer?

Steve: No.

Zack: We'll go next door to the liquor store and she'll make some molotov cocktails and put them in a milk crate.

Steve: To take into Jaleco Tower?

Zack: Good point. We'll also buy a baby car seat and put the molotovs in there with a blanket over them. If anybody asks why our baby smells like gasoline it's because he's got ointment on him.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 1:44 pm

I've been sort of jaded with Badass of the Week, but this one made me laugh: Adrian Carton de Wiart