Testing Chat IV: A New Hope

[uraniun235]

fiction is just bullshit

[Veef]

anime is just bullshit for nerds who can't handle life

what is anime

[RogueIce]

I just want a cool movie with Roman legions kicking ass, taking names, and wearing lorica segmentata armor regardless of whether or not the legions really wore it a lot on campaign.

Is that too much to ask? Any movies or even decently available TV shows that can do this?

Also King Arthur had an awesome soundtrack and that alone is reason enough to like it.

[RogueIce]

RE:Asiana 214:

Do you want to see some fun politics? Boeing is going to want this to be 100% pilot error, because of the profile of the 777 on their road maps. South Korea is going to demand 100% mechanical failure. *A and United will just want the whole thing to go away. I hope the NTSB was joking about including SK authorities, at least in anything more than a "bring the documents we ask for and we might allow you to read the report" role, same as Boeing's people.

No, clearly it was North Korean sabotage.

[Flagg]

RE:Asiana 214:

Do you want to see some fun politics? Boeing is going to want this to be 100% pilot error, because of the profile of the 777 on their road maps. South Korea is going to demand 100% mechanical failure. *A and United will just want the whole thing to go away. I hope the NTSB was joking about including SK authorities, at least in anything more than a "bring the documents we ask for and we might allow you to read the report" role, same as Boeing's people.

No, clearly it was North Korean sabotage.

Me Chinese
me play trick
me make jumbo jet do flip

[timmy]

Flagg that is just awful

And I will be very interested to hear the NTSB findings, because the intial eyewitness reports are trending 'too low, too fast', which could go either way(plane or human) with blame, or possibly both.

Ghastly business, that.

[Flagg]

Flagg that is just awful

Yeah but it was too funny not to post.

[Zablorg]

i don't understand

[timmy]

There was a plane crash in San Francisco earlier.

[Flagg]

Sorry, it's the new drugs I'm on. Until my body adjusts to them my brain will do funny shit like make me collapse unexpectedly and need a cane, or lower my inhibitions to the point where I post an hilarious racist joke. So if a mod wants to delete that post or save it for posterity or whatever I'm cool with it.

[RogueIce]

So I watched Marvel's The Avengers again today. God I love that movie.

[Flagg]

Puny god...

[RogueIce]

"Well, this person accused of a crime is probably going to buy a plane ticket to this non-extradition treaty country the minute he posts bail. What do we do?"

"Freedom of movement, suckas."

"Damn, we are powerless to stop him."

Unless we just kept everyone awaiting trial locked up until the verdict comes in, I suppose. Or, y'know, we restrict their ability to travel until all is said and done.

[Dooey Jo]

well it's the law you can't just change laws you know

if someone falls over and hurts their nose they can't just go "damn now i don't like the law of gravity anymore fuck it"

like yeah it sucks sometimes but what can you do the universe made this stuff for a reason

what is anime

japanese slang for american slang

[adr]

Or, y'know, we restrict their ability to travel until all is said and done.

or just drone them immediately

jesus do you people need me to do ALL the thinking here?

[RogueIce]

ur a drone lol

[adr]

he just kept talking in one incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic so that no one had a chance to interrupt it was really quite hypnotic

btw the best thing ever is from final fantasy tactics: you can get the mediator the skill "mimic [professor] daravon". it puts the enemies to sleep

LOL

[RogueIce]

I am Jack's Hellfire missile.

[adr]

incredibly unbroken sentence:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=He02Z5YdZbg

[Djinnkitty83]

Now you've done it...


http://youtube.com/watch?v=T0M9VK6x850

[RogueIce]

"Captain, Jean Luc Picard, of the USS Enterprise"

Seriously, just that part on a loop is a fucking earworm.

[adr]

hehehehe

the worf song is good too

"that's simulating, wouldn't you say?"

"no!"

[Djinnkitty83]

So I've been a longtime watcher of things like Repair Her Armor, The Hawkeye Initiative, and Escher Girls.

I stumbled across this image:



...and knew I had to give it the Hawkeye treatment:



You're all very very welcome.

[Bakustra]

I leave you people alone for one extended holiday, and look what happens. In any case, Neil Gaiman totally is one of the most overrated nerd authors of all time. Probably in the top five if we discount the Golden Age effect and restrict ourselves to prose authors. Funnily enough, I actually am starting to sour on his works for reasons I was unable to articulate until I read Catherynne Valente's Deathless, though I won't really go into details unless people really want to hear me take many words to say that most genre fiction is shallow and hollow and this really pisses me off.

Finally, WWZ-the-book sucks because it doesn't grasp the nature of the ghoul/zombie edit:or alternatively is unspeakably vile, and you know, a hikikomori and Zatoichi the Blind Gardener teaming up to slaughter zuvembies with Yamato spirit or some shit. Apparently the movie is better than the trailers equating the walking dead with Palestinians would have you believe, but I already have a robit-punching movie on my schedule so.

[Flagg]