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The weirding modules from Dune, like wow I can't even introduce myself without blasting a dude, thanks.
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GD_American posted:A focus-grouped piece of crap, even. (Taken to extremes in the sequel) Hey now, Robocop beat the god of time in mortal kombat! Also the opening bit of Robocop 2, probably the only good part, shows that Murphy at least was a total fluke. The remake also literally has Robocop be in-universe focus-grouped to look more badass. And well, from what I've read one of the test pilots went unresponsive in the middle of a flight, and the cockpit wouldn't open up again until the bad guys stole the prototype from mothballs, and didn't find anything in the cockpit. Also, it gave a perfectly healthy 23 year old a heart attack. GD_American posted:Thread winner in every way Hey, that's literally fully automated free health care you're looking at
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Jun 6, 2020 05:06
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Those Vulcan Pike things from Star Trek TOS seem like the most idiotic melee weapons of all time.
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Sanguinia posted:Those Vulcan Pike things from Star Trek TOS seem like the most idiotic melee weapons of all time. You mean the lirpa? That's actually based on a real thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade
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banned from Starbucks posted:Smart guns from Aliens seem cool but are extremely lovely if you need to do any of the following in a combat situation.  From my Colonial Marines Technical Manual.   Completely practical. 
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Hey, that's literally fully automated free health care you're looking at It's not free, he gets arrested for not paying his hospital bill.
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Jun 6, 2020 21:55
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Jun 6, 2020 21:58
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What a piece of absolute loving trash garbage!
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Jun 6, 2020 22:34
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3PO isn't that bad.
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She'll make point five beyond the speed of light. After that I'm just makin stuff up.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You mean the lirpa? That's actually based on a real thing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade Yeah, but the ones in TOS are goofy as hell because of how big the weight on the end is. The ones from Enterprise are better (he said, feeling the life drain from his body through his fingers as he type out the cursed words)
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Can I count the garbage camera or film that they used for the original Star Trek that couldn't get the color green right so it came out yellow?
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Funny thing is Star Trek was one of the original killer apps for colour TV.
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Slippery posted:See that's the thing, I cannot imagine the supply system you would need to keep those fuckers running. I know that's not the point of the show but gently caress me the poor bastards that have to work on those things I can't imagine how they keep them going. Can just imagine the staff meeting where some poor fucker is getting raked over the coals for not having enough giant transforming robots mission capable for the days flying One of the early episodes in the original 0079 Gundam series is centered around a Zeon supply run that gets ambushed by the Gundam and gang. If you don't have the time/energy to watch an entire Gundam show, the compilation movies do a decent job, or if you really want some purestrain Gundam condensed to a couple hours or so, go look up Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky. It's incredibly loving bleak and focused more-so on the brutality and futility of war than anything else. Near the end of the movie, the Earth Federation is bringing up kids into orbit and dumping them into tiny floating testicles to get slaughtered:  The Ball would probably win this thread by the sheer worthlessness of it.
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Taintrunner posted:One of the early episodes in the original 0079 Gundam series is centered around a Zeon supply run that gets ambushed by the Gundam and gang. Isn't this basically those suicide planes the Nazis designed to be flown by Hitler Youth?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Isn't this basically those suicide planes the Nazis designed to be flown by Hitler Youth? More like strapping a cannon onto a pickup truck. IIRC the Ball is supposed to be just a maintenance pod, then they stuck a cannon on it.
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Hunter Noventa posted:More like strapping a cannon onto a pickup truck. IIRC the Ball is supposed to be just a maintenance pod, then they stuck a cannon on it. Accurate. The Zeon equivalent is even more pathetic looking: 
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Hunter Noventa posted:More like strapping a cannon onto a pickup truck. IIRC the Ball is supposed to be just a maintenance pod, then they stuck a cannon on it. ...so, a space technical? While I'm on a drunken kick about anime dinosaur robots, let's look at something that's rather similar to the Liger Zero Panzer above, but with visual aids. So, this is your more typical Gun-Sniper:  Yes, it's a robot raptor, and yes, it might have a crotch gun. That and the arm gatling guns are actually its secondary weapons: it lives up to its name when you use it as intended by turning it around and using the heavy rifle built into its tail, which the cockpit seat flips around to a prone position for the pilot to operate almost exactly like your stereotypical sniper. For the most part it's good at exactly one thing, and Naomi 'The Red Comet' Flugel proves its worth by being an extremely good shot, when most Zoids are awful with accuracy- not too surprising when it's literally the only Zoid firearm built around a human form factor. Now, for any of you who actually read my rants- remember the guy who made the Liger Zero Panzer above? Taking a fast, melee-oriented big cat robot and giving it so much firepower it literally can't move? This is what happens when his daughter goes on a shopping spree:  Yes, the shopping basket is canon. Her teammates wonder why Leena Toros didn't throw in a couple of nuclear missiles for good measure on this thing. To her credit, the Wild Weasel Unit Total Assault pretty much wipes out any enemy dumb enough to get in its firing line, and it has enough agility to both get out of the way of return fire and to gaily skip home with the abovementioned shopping basket, but ammo and parts costs for the thing are noted to be significant, to the point where after fighting off bandits the Blitz Team has to drop out of the battle royale they came all that way for because they can't restock the ammo in time. And no, she never actually uses the sniper rifle.
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SlothfulCobra posted:The only gundam I know of that is depicted as just garbage that can't win a fight is this one. I liked it when "Kessel Run in 40 parsecs" was just something Han bullshitted out to impress a hayseed.
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I'm gonna also vote "the self destruct system " and it doesn't matter which one
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Statutory Ape posted:I'm gonna also vote "the self destruct system " and it doesn't matter which one Wish you would initiate your self-destruct sequence.
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Statutory Ape posted:I'm gonna also vote "the self destruct system " and it doesn't matter which one Self-destruct systems on massive weapons of war actually makes tactical sense. In real life when a recon/spy plane crashes, the pilots are basically ordered to smash every computer and hard drive they can before the local military shows up to take them into custody. Within that vessel could be classified info or protocols or schematics or whatever, and you don't want to risk that information falling into enemy hands by any means necessary. To bring it back into sci-fi, in the greatest sci-fi show of all time, The Expanse, a massive Martian battleship called The Donnager becomes compromised by stealth ship corporate mercenaries. The Donnager is basically a floating death fortress, considering its armaments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpElvkhw_tk quote:14 x configurable torpedo tubes, 6 fore and 8 aft; fixed missile silos capable of firing torpedoes with a variety of warheads from conventional to plasma to nuclear. That's not something you want to risk turning over to the enemy. So yeah, you'd naturally want to nuke the fuckin' thing before it gets turned against you.
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i meant their propensity for dramatic failure
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Statutory Ape posted:I'm gonna also vote "the self destruct system " and it doesn't matter which one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefHYLCEbAA
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Schadenboner posted:I liked it when "Kessel Run in 40 parsecs" was just something Han bullshitted out to impress a hayseed. I know that the EU has spent a lot of time explaining why the Falcon is the best ship but the best explanation is that Han was just throwing out impressive sounding crap.
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Darth Brooks posted:I know that the EU has spent a lot of time explaining why the Falcon is the best ship but the best explanation is that Han was just throwing out impressive sounding crap. Yes... and no? In a weird way, it's actually kinda impressive that some smuggler can throw a bunch of bullshit into a civilian freighter and turn it into a top of the line smuggler ship unlike anyone had ever seen. The elevator in my apartment went out this morning when I tried to buy some more whiskey, so I'm partially bias, buuuut - in a way, it actually fills in the "realness" of the worldspace by implying that the engineering of space travel in the world was still a very dangerous yet experimental place. It makes Luke's desires and aspirations of being a legendary starfighter pilot much more accessible and relatable, as well as giving the mechanics of this galaxy some real weight to it, and much like The Expanse, it makes the stakes feel so much more tangible.
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Statutory Ape posted:i meant their propensity for dramatic failure I think the single funniest things I ever saw in a Red Letter Media thing was when Star Trek Nemesis dramatically informs the Captain that the self-destruct is offline, ostensibly to get across just how damaged the ship is that it can't even blow itself up anymore, and suggests that Picard just take out a phaser and point it at the Warp Core. "You know, the MANUAL self-destruct." 
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Nemesis was such an aggressively stupid movie "i, the newfound ruler of the romulan star empire, have a terrible illness. i need captain picard's blood to survive." you could probably just say that and he and the feds would be like "okay cool we'll do a series of transfusions to help you out", you don't need to fuckin' vampire his rear end "oh no our phasers are worn out and we've shot all our torpedoes" oh okay cool so he didn't even need the cloaking device to beat you "oh no the transporters are out!" uhh, you've got like two or three shuttlebays full of shuttlecraft that could fly over? "oh no we can't blow up the ship any more" uhh you can't get someone to rig a timebomb together with a few phasers aimed at the antimatter pods or something?? and so many other things christ uhhhh anyway so that this isn't just a "rant about nemesis, again" post, i nominate whatever equipment Babylon 5 used to communicate with the Great Machine, because after the first time it woke up, any time they actually needed that sucker to pitch in for system defense, it was always "nuhhhh we can't get through to Draal". lol fuckin' JMS sticking a huge death laser on that thing and then having to handwave it away again and again. lol. (spoiler tagged in case someone from the thread where they're watching B5 for the first time wanders through)
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Related to the lovely Gundam robots, in Robotech/Macross, they had the transforming Varitech fighters, that were, by and large, good. But they also had non-transforming machines called Destroids that couldn't do poo poo. Like 5 models of them, some with massive lasers, others with artillery, one with nothing but a gently caress ton of missles...all useless. Oh, Zentradi attacking? Yeah let's put 50 of those pieces of poo poo out there, maybe they'll blow up 1 loving pod before all getting destroyed.
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i thought nemesis was great and set the stage perfectly for ST: Picard
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Statutory Ape posted:i thought nemesis was great and set the stage perfectly for ST: Picard please don't troll
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muscles like this! posted:Its on (US) Netflix. Thanks, appreciate the info!
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 Taintrunner posted:Yes... and no? In a weird way, it's actually kinda impressive that some smuggler can throw a bunch of bullshit into a civilian freighter and turn it into a top of the line smuggler ship unlike anyone had ever seen. The elevator in my apartment went out this morning when I tried to buy some more whiskey, so I'm partially bias, buuuut - in a way, it actually fills in the "realness" of the worldspace by implying that the engineering of space travel in the world was still a very dangerous yet experimental place. That's not the story that the EU has endorsed though. They say the words "heavily modified" a few times, but there's never actually been a story about modifying ships much, and there's a whole slew of transports throughout the EU that are armed right out the doors of the factory, so it's not clear what is actually modified about the Falcon.
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I assume stock ships don't have compartments under the floor or the Empire would have known to look there.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Related to the lovely Gundam robots, in Robotech/Macross, they had the transforming Varitech fighters, that were, by and large, good. They got a lot better when they jumped universes to the Inner Sphere.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Related to the lovely Gundam robots, in Robotech/Macross, they had the transforming Varitech fighters, that were, by and large, good. Please do not mention the accursed name of Robotech in this, my most sacred of threads. For actual thread content though, and since we're talking about Gundam:  The Zudah. A competitor to the Zaku with superior power and speed. Only one little problem: It had a tendency to overexert its engine and literally break apart, inevitably killing its pilot. Droyer fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Jun 8, 2020 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Related to the lovely Gundam robots, in Robotech/Macross, they had the transforming Varitech fighters, that were, by and large, good. I feel like you're talking poo poo about the Daedelus Attack right now.  
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