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Not irrationally irritating, but smarter in hindsight. In THE THING Mac should have just cut peoples hair instead hacking up peoples thumbs with a scabby scalpel. Normal hair is just dead cells, THING hair would go loving apeshit if you took scissors to it.
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ChogsEnhour posted:Not irrationally irritating, but smarter in hindsight. In THE THING Mac should have just cut peoples hair instead hacking up peoples thumbs with a scabby scalpel. Normal hair is just dead cells, THING hair would go loving apeshit if you took scissors to it. The manga/anime Parasyte has this as a method to determine who is a human and who is an alien parasite that take over human heads.
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Oct 22, 2015 11:43
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Rewatching Heroes season 2 because I hate myself, I was reasonably pleased by a scene where a character with healing powers cuts himself to test it out, and he does it on the back of his forearm. Instead of slicing up his palm like a jackass. It's the only time anyone in that season does anything half-sensible so it stuck out.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:04
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HopperUK posted:Rewatching Heroes season 2 because I hate myself, I was reasonably pleased by a scene where a character with healing powers cuts himself to test it out, and he does it on the back of his forearm. Instead of slicing up his palm like a jackass. It's the only time anyone in that season does anything half-sensible so it stuck out. I'd say the hand is just a spectacularly bad place to do this, period. Come to think of it, cutting yourself anywhere on your body is stupid, don't cut yourself! Cut someone else!
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Oct 22, 2015 12:07
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Aleph Null posted:Catchiest horror theme song, too. This would take all the tension out of the Friday the 13th movies. Beware of Jason, he cuts, he stabs, he impales people all the time
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Oct 22, 2015 17:06
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Grendels Dad posted:I'd say the hand is just a spectacularly bad place to do this, period. Come to think of it, cutting yourself anywhere on your body is stupid, don't cut yourself! Cut someone else! Mentally ill people with a history of self harm almost never go for the palm because on some level they know they have to use that hand all the time. They only have to do normal people stuff though and not win a sword fight, use a gun, climb a building, and punch somebody all while riding their motorcycle. 
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Oct 22, 2015 17:21
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If I was some blood borne tribal chief I would cut the buttocks and have people mush those babies together for unbreakable brotherhood.
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Oct 22, 2015 18:42
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Nutsngum posted:If I was some blood borne tribal chief I would cut the buttocks and have people mush those babies together for unbreakable brotherhood. Ain't nothing more special than butt blood brothers.
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Oct 22, 2015 20:34
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Nutsngum posted:If I was some blood borne tribal chief I would cut the buttocks and have people mush those babies together for unbreakable brotherhood. 
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Oct 22, 2015 20:47
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ChogsEnhour posted:Not irrationally irritating, but smarter in hindsight. In THE THING Mac should have just cut peoples hair instead hacking up peoples thumbs with a scabby scalpel. Normal hair is just dead cells, THING hair would go loving apeshit if you took scissors to it. I never thought of that. But I thought it had to be blood to trigger the test. By your logic, why not just clip the guy's fingernails or something?
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Oct 22, 2015 20:54
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I'm watching the first season of iZombie and Liv frequently has to make excuses to the detective Clive about her behavior after taking on the personalities of the brains she eats. Nearly every episode has hijinks ensue because of this and has Liv clamoring to cover it up so Clive doesn't get suspicious of her true nature. But why not just tell him her "psychic visions" impart the personality of the person she's "seeing" onto her and nip that problem in the bud? He already believes she's a psychic, I can't imagine "personality transfer" would be where the guy draws the line. In fact, telling him it's a side-effect of her powers would've solved several misunderstandings. Like one time when she ate an alcoholic brain and her drinking gets her in deep poo poo with Clive.
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Oct 22, 2015 23:21
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Esroc posted:I'm watching the first season of iZombie and Liv frequently has to make excuses to the detective Clive about her behavior after taking on the personalities of the brains she eats. Nearly every episode has hijinks ensue because of this and has Liv clamoring to cover it up so Clive doesn't get suspicious of her true nature. I've been asking this since the show started. 
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Oct 23, 2015 02:06
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I've never seen iZombie, but I hate that the creator clearly meant the title to be a play on I, Robot, but the marketing team was too dumb to get it (or didn't care) and decided it had to be a play on iThings even though that makes no sense. Like...she's not an internet zombie or anything...is she?
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Oct 23, 2015 03:35
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On the Internet, no one knows you're a zombie.
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DrBouvenstein posted:I've never seen iZombie, but I hate that the creator clearly meant the title to be a play on I, Robot, but the marketing team was too dumb to get it (or didn't care) and decided it had to be a play on iThings even though that makes no sense. The show is loosely based on a comic of the same name though.
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Oct 23, 2015 05:03
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DrBouvenstein posted:I've never seen iZombie, but I hate that the creator clearly meant the title to be a play on I, Robot, but the marketing team was too dumb to get it (or didn't care) and decided it had to be a play on iThings even though that makes no sense. Surly this is a take on I Claudius, and I assume the programme is about the power plays between patrician members of the undead.
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Oct 23, 2015 08:38
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BiggerBoat posted:I never thought of that. But I thought it had to be blood to trigger the test. By your logic, why not just clip the guy's fingernails or something? Yeah or the fingernails. That's work too, just figured hair cutting would have been easier. Although thinking about it, they'd have to burn the hair after it was cut because if The Thing is cool with it's thumb being cut open then maybe it could be cool with its hair being cut as well. Just have a big old pile of hair and toenails and... I'm overthinking this. Ultimately though I was just trying to think of a way to avoid re-using that scummy scalpel that he cleans by wiping on his keks of all things. That's not clean!
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Oct 23, 2015 09:24
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ChogsEnhour posted:Ultimately though I was just trying to think of a way to avoid re-using that scummy scalpel that he cleans by wiping on his keks of all things. That's not clean! Given the events immediately following that scene, I think an infection is the least of their worries. Oh wait, this is the irrational things thread. My IMM: In Jurassic Park, how does Hammond get into the trailer at the start? The helicopter arrives and Hammond is already pouring champagne before the rotors have even stopped. Was the chopper arriving to pick him up and he'd been hiding in the trailer the whole time? Did he arrive on the chopper and instead of approaching Grant and Sattler just immediately run into the trailer? He's an old man with a cane, how did he get there?
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Oct 23, 2015 09:51
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nexus6 posted:Given the events immediately following that scene, I think an infection is the least of their worries. I bet there was another copter that we didn't see, or perhaps a private jet because Hammond spares no expense with his park. You know, save security, backup systems, loving employees, etc. In the Harry Potter movies, don't those house elves have pretty powerful rear end magic? Why didn't Harry's parents just live in the magic world and have a few of those fuckers around at all times, so the Big Bad V couldn't kill them?
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Oct 23, 2015 11:02
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Cowslips Warren posted:I bet there was another copter that we didn't see, or perhaps a private jet because Hammond spares no expense with his park. You know, save security, backup systems, loving employees, etc. There was a security guy and he had a shotgun what more do you want.
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Oct 23, 2015 11:31
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Cowslips Warren posted:In the Harry Potter movies, don't those house elves have pretty powerful rear end magic? Why didn't Harry's parents just live in the magic world and have a few of those fuckers around at all times, so the Big Bad V couldn't kill them? Only a "free" House Elf is capable of resisting a wizard and even then they have great difficulty in fighting their natural urges. Even after freeing him and thanking Harry for it, Dobby still finds it almost impossible to assist against his former master and other dark wizards without trying to seriously harm himself as punishment. 
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Anosmoman posted:There was a security guy and he had a shotgun what more do you want. Security guy was the anti-Crocodile Hunter. Didn't care much for the wildlife and mostly wanted to kill it, disemboweled in spectacular fashion rather than an encounter with a fish.
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In the Rick and Morty season finale Rick goes and tries to find a planet that is habitable for humans but also not under Galactic Federation jurisdiction. The "planet" he picks is only 300 yards in circumference. If it's that small it's not a planet, it's an asteroid or at best a celestial dwarf. Immersion ruined.
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Cowslips Warren posted:In the Harry Potter movies, don't those house elves have pretty powerful rear end magic? Why didn't Harry's parents just live in the magic world and have a few of those fuckers around at all times, so the Big Bad V couldn't kill them? And accidentally giving a house elf clothes counts as presenting it with clothes, therefore freeing it. So is there another enslaved race of creatures responsible for the laundry? Or other normal servant stuff like taking someone's coat? How many house elves have been freed accidentally on their first week because of these rules? My wife recently watched Fellowship of the Ring for the first time and got very upset that no one went to try to help Gandalf after the Balrog whips him down. He was holding on for a few seconds, surely someone should've at least tried to go get him as opposed to holding Frodo back. I always accepted it for dramatic reasons before but given how quick characters like Legolas are it seems odd that they just sort of watch it happen.
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What were they supposed to do against a 50' tall fire demon that just kicked a wizard's rear end?
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Who What Now posted:What were they supposed to do against a 50' tall fire demon that just kicked a wizard's rear end? If the wizard can't handle it, what are a party full of rangers, fighters and rogues meant to do? The hobbits were probably like, level one. No way they were going to manage to do a drat thing to a balrog, I bet those things were immune to critical hits anyway on account of being made of fire and shadow.
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Oct 23, 2015 20:46
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dirksteadfast posted:
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Your Gay Uncle posted:In the Rick and Morty season finale Rick goes and tries to find a planet that is habitable for humans but also not under Galactic Federation jurisdiction. The "planet" he picks is only 300 yards in circumference. If it's that small it's not a planet, it's an asteroid or at best a celestial dwarf. Immersion ruined. Nobody wanted to get Jerry started on what is and isn't a planet again.
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Oct 23, 2015 20:55
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Slime posted:If the wizard can't handle it, what are a party full of rangers, fighters and rogues meant to do? The hobbits were probably like, level one. No way they were going to manage to do a drat thing to a balrog, I bet those things were immune to critical hits anyway on account of being made of fire and shadow. Gandalf wasn't a lame-rear end D&D wizard or anything close to human, he was an ageless immortal energy being whose sole purpose for existing was to organize people to fight Sauron.
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Alhazred posted:They hold Frodo back because goblins are shooting arrows at them, making it impossible to save Gandalf. They were all protected by plot armor or storm trooper accuracy or whatever you want to call it. Gandalf should have been able to hold on for the .5 sec it takes to say "fly you fools" but Jackson was padding things out as usual.
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Oct 24, 2015 02:00
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Your Gay Uncle posted:In the Rick and Morty season finale Rick goes and tries to find a planet that is habitable for humans but also not under Galactic Federation jurisdiction. The "planet" he picks is only 300 yards in circumference. If it's that small it's not a planet, it's an asteroid or at best a celestial dwarf. Immersion ruined. What like, like the world has to make sense, you know *burp* there are planets falling apart right now Your Gay Uncle – echs is that your real name you know never mind – real planets GayUncle! Floating around and just losing themselves into the void. That's the universe GayUncle!! We fall apart and die *burp*
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Oct 24, 2015 02:58
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dirksteadfast posted:And accidentally giving a house elf clothes counts as presenting it with clothes, therefore freeing it. So is there another enslaved race of creatures responsible for the laundry? Or other normal servant stuff like taking someone's coat? How many house elves have been freed accidentally on their first week because of these rules? I think it has to be, like, directly transferred from human hand to elf hand, since Lucius Malfoy throwing Harry's sock aside and Dobby catching it was what freed him. So the wizards would just have to levitate their robes into the hamper or chuck them on the floor if they want laundry done. Coats are trickier but there's gotta be a spell for an animated coatrack to take care of that.
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Oct 24, 2015 07:42
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Alhazred posted:They hold Frodo back because goblins are shooting arrows at them, making it impossible to save Gandalf. They also did not want Frodo to go die as their entire job is to protect him.
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Oct 24, 2015 08:16
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In True Detective, Rust is a borderline chain smoker but anytime he lights up in a car he never rolls down the window.
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Oct 27, 2015 09:50
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And waste smoke? He's getting the most out of each bifter.
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Oct 27, 2015 10:45
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Esroc posted:In True Detective, Rust is a borderline chain smoker but anytime he lights up in a car he never rolls down the window. My grandma did this, and it's so that the upholstery eventually becomes a gigantic nicotine patch.
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Oct 27, 2015 13:01
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Esroc posted:In True Detective, Rust is a borderline chain smoker but anytime he lights up in a car he never rolls down the window. Chain smokers don't roll down windows. I say this as someone lightly kippered from a childhood of being driven around by a chain smoking mum.
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"Our plan will work perfectly. So long as nothing bad happens." *Next scene, something bad happens* Happened in the Martian.
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Amoeba102 posted:"Our plan will work perfectly. So long as nothing bad happens." Absolutely worst cut in the movie. Can't understand why they shot/edited it that way.
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