Testing Chat Episode VI: Return of the Chat

[Darth Tedious]

I recently rewatched all 3 (haven't seen the new one yet)
One of my buddies was really blown out by it, he'd totally forgotten how ultraviolent it was
Esp. Robo's bloodbath when he stabs Boddiker (sp?)

[Big Orangutan]

There have been TV edits of Robocop where the extreme violence is edited out for more of a 12/15 rating and swearing hilariously dubbed over.

[Darth Tedious]

Yeah, Australian TV is (or used to be) pretty big on edits
So it's likely he never actually saw the whole film before

Last week I realised just how much of Terminator I missed out on as a kid (eg. In the TV edit, Ginger gets shot once and falls, we then see her dead, no crawling across the floor and getting shot like 4 more times)

[Jung]

Hey, stupid math question.

Say I have a sphere with a radius of 10 (inches, miles, whatever).

Now I draw a square 4 (inches, miles, whatev) on a side on that sphere

Now say I have a sphere with a radius of 5

It will have 1/4 the surface area of the first sphere

And I draw a 2 X 2 square on it.

The square on the smaller sphere should have 1/4 the surface area of the square on the bigger sphere, right?

And this should be generalizeable to shapes of different kinds (triangles, polygons etc.) drawn on spheres, right?

I'm trying to work out geography on a fictional planet with ~.9X Earth's radius. I figure I could just take terrestrial continents like (e.g.) South America and knock about 20% off its area while keeping the latitudinal and longitudinal extent relative to the planet the same and work from there. That's geometrically/mathematically correct, right?

[adr]

yea i think ur right

[Oxymoron]

Back from watching the new Robocop movie.

I recommend it. Different from the original, it stands well on its own.

And I agree with 'Soup that the opening scene is very cool, and I'll add that it is very effective at introducing the movie's tone and setting.

[Gands]

Yeah, Australian TV is (or used to be) pretty big on edits
So it's likely he never actually saw the whole film before

Interestingly, Channel 9 (who had the rights to Robocop) used to be really good at showing unedited stuff after 9:30 or so. Channel Seven was like a butcher shop.

[adr]

I just swapped mattresses from top to bottom bunk for the first time in at least five years. (if you're horrified that i've had the same mattress for over five years, get ready for a big shock: i've had these same mattresses for about /twenty/-five years)

it is kinda weird. this one is like more than half an inch thick!

[Darth Tedious]

Yeah, Australian TV is (or used to be) pretty big on edits
So it's likely he never actually saw the whole film before

Interestingly, Channel 9 (who had the rights to Robocop) used to be really good at showing unedited stuff after 9:30 or so. Channel Seven was like a butcher shop.

Thinking back on it, I only really remember language being cut out, not gore
I think my buddy just forgot how brutal Robocop was

I know for sure that there was no usage of the word fuck in the TV edit (still have Robocop 2 from TV on VHS)

[evilsoup]

my dogs have recently started eating poo
worse than that, dog poo
does anyone have any ideas how to deal with this

[adr]

a friend's dog was eating poop (and pooping all over the house!) when she had a worm infection and treating that solved the whole thing

tbh i'm not sure if the got the infection from eating poop or the other way around; when they got her, she was living on a farm and was already infected. prolly got it from some other animal in the first place

but regardless you might wanna take a stool sample to the vet and have them take a look at it



the internet tells me too that sometimes eating poop is actually normal especially if they are young so maybe nothing to really worry about

[evilsoup]

nah, one's 11 and the other's 5, and they've both started doing it in the last few months, so it's probably an infection or a parasite or something

[adr]

so i've been meaning to finish reading redimp's voyager caretaker rewrite for like a year and a half now and finally decided to do it tonight (though now iti spast bed time so i might not finish it)

but this is amusing. some good science stuff. good star trek stuff. and some lol SDN moments. "lacked a trigger guard" and "BALLS" said the kazon

hahahaha

oh fanservice

but it doesn't detract from the actual story! redimp rox

[adr]

oh no i did finish tonight

but the story didn't finish me

that's ok i'll fanfic the fanfic here's my ending

voyager beams an away team on to the caretaker

they tech tech tech the tech with a little tech thanks to tech

and all live happily ever after in the alpha quadrent OR it doesn't work and they have a series. depends on if UPN decides to pick up the pilot.

the end

[Oxymoron]

Spontaneous question:

What horror movies do you know that feature absolutely no paranormal or supernatural elements, where the only enemy of man is man itself?

At a guess, I'm thinking about the SAW series of movies, and other "serial killer" movies.


Because I was wondering about how you could make an horror movie in a completely realistic setting. I was thinking that having everything be realistic to the T could make the experience even more horrific for the viewer...

[evilsoup]

I'm tempted to say The Road, but I guess it doesn't really count as a horror movie

[Oxymoron]

Still need to see that movie...

[evilsoup]

play the last of us instead

[Flagg]

I'm tempted to say The Road, but I guess it doesn't really count as a horror movie

A basement full of amputees used as food. Sounds like horror to me.

[evilsoup]

yeah I guess
but I mean it doesn't really feel the same as what I would normally call horror movies
with a typical horror movie you have a single antagonist (the serial killer, the monster, the evil army dudes, whatever) who drives the story, but The Road is just a trek through a landscape of despair. I'm not going to object to calling it a horror movie, but I'm just ambivalent as to whether it belongs in that genre.

[Flagg]

yeah I guess
but I mean it doesn't really feel the same as what I would normally call horror movies
with a typical horror movie you have a single antagonist (the serial killer, the monster, the evil army dudes, whatever) who drives the story, but The Road is just a trek through a landscape of despair. I'm not going to object to calling it a horror movie, but I'm just ambivalent as to whether it belongs in that genre.

It's a subgenre called survival/horror.

[evilsoup]

maybe
horror isn't really my bag so I'll defer to you on that

[Flagg]

maybe
horror isn't really my bag so I'll defer to you on that

There's are so many sub genres of horror it's not even funny. The most common until a decade ago was slasher/horror. But really Scream put the nail in that shit-coffin.

[Agent Bert Macklin]

Torture porn is the best!

You all should be watching Insidious, the Conjuring, Sinister, etc. Throw in You're Next for a good bit of fun.

[Bounty]

Horror may be the only mainstream genre I consciously avoid.